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By SYLVIA HUI Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The U.K. government says that Russia’s intelligence services have targeted high-profile British politicians, civil servants and journalists with cyberespionage and “malicious cyberactivity” as part of sustained attempts to interfere in U.K. political processes. The Foreign Office says Russia’s FSB agency was responsible for a range of cyberespionage

By LINDSEY BAHR and JAKE COYLE AP Film Writers The Associated Press’ Film Writers Lindsey Bahr and Jake Coyle’s picks for the best movies of 2023: LINDSEY BAHR 1. “Oppenheimer” Christopher Nolan has had so many major films in a relatively short time, that “ Oppenheimer ” might seem like a given, rather than the

By LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — London police have charged a deputy U.S. Marshal in the United Kingdom with entering an aircraft while drunk after he was arrested on allegations of misconduct aboard a flight from New York. The 39-year-old was arrested on Thursday upon arrival at Heathrow Airport. The flight crew had

By ADAM BEAM Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California is facing a $68 billion budget deficit, the nonpartisan Legislative Analyst’s Office said Thursday. Most of the deficit comes from lower than expected tax revenues this year, the office said. California delayed its tax filing deadline to November this year because a series of damaging

By BRETT MARTEL AP Sports Writer BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — LSU quarterback Jayden Daniels is The Associated Press college football player of the year, the school’s second winner in the past five seasons. Daniels received 35 of the 51 first-place votes and 130 total points from AP Top 25 poll voters. The Heisman Trophy

By ANNIE MA and COLLIN BINKLEY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Ivy League presidents are facing backlash over their remarks to on-campus antisemitism. The presidents of Harvard, the University of Pennsylvania and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology faced swift criticism for their responses earlier this week during a Congressional hearing on antisemitism on college campuses,

By EMMA BURROWS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Opposition activists in Russia came up with a way to get around Kremlin censorship while urging citizens to vote against President Vladimir Putin in an election next year: billboards disguised as a New Year’s greeting. The Anti-Corruption Foundation founded by imprisoned opposition leader Alexei Navalny paid for