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By TRAVIS LOLLER Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Former Ambassador to Poland and longtime Republican politician Victor Ashe is suing Tennessee election officials over a state law he claims is so vague that he could be prosecuted for voting in a Republican primary. The rarely-invoked 1972 law requires primary voters to be “bona fide”

By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Martin Scorsese’s “Killers of the Flower Moon” has been named the best film of the year by the New York Film Critics Circle. It’s the third time that Scorsese has been given the best film award from his hometown’s critics, who named 1990’s “GoodFellas” their

By LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Police are searching for two people after an FBI agent was carjacked in Washington D.C., as the nation’s capital copes with a spike in carjackings. Investigators offered a reward of up to $10,000 Thursday for information leading to the arrest of the pair accused of stealing the

By MAYSOON KHAN Associated Press/Report for America ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York’s prison system unfairly punished more than 2,000 prisoners after tests of suspected contraband substances falsely tested positive for drugs according to a report released Thursday by state Inspector General Lucy Lang. Flawed testing of suspected drugs were used to put many prisoners

By ZEKE MILLER and AAMER MADHANI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is hosting Angolan President João Manuel Gonçalves Lourenço in the Oval Office as he seeks to reaffirm his commitment to Africa. Thursday’s meeting comes as two devastating wars consume much of the Biden administration’s foreign policy focus. The White House meeting

By BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The final member in a migrant smuggling ring that was responsible for the deaths of 39 Vietnamese immigrants who suffocated in a shipping container in 2019 has been sentenced by a London judge to seven years in prison. Caolan Gormley of Northern Ireland claimed he thought he

SEATTLE (AP) — In a story published Nov. 29, 2023, about dams on the Snake River in Washington state, The Associated Press erroneously reported there is no rail link to Lewiston, Idaho. The city is served by a railroad.