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By BOBBY CAINA CALVAN and JAKE OFFENHARTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A man who sprayed a New York City subway car with bullets during rush hour, wounding 10 people and sparking a citywide manhunt, was sentenced Thursday to life in prison after several of his victims tearfully and angrily recounted their ongoing trauma.

WEST READING, Pa. (AP) — A Pennsylvania chocolate factory was fined more than $44,000 by the federal workplace safety agency on Thursday for failing to evacuate before a natural gas explosion that killed seven people. R.M. Palmer Co. did not heed warnings from employees about a natural gas leak. That is according to the U.S.

By JOHN ANTCZAK Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — A Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputy who was gunned down in what authorities described as an ambush was mourned Thursday by his family, fiancée and hundreds of law enforcement officers who filled a downtown cathedral for his funeral Mass. Deputy Ryan Clinkunbroomer, 30, was shot Sept.

By MICHAEL BALSAMO, COLLEEN LONG and MEGAN JANETSKY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration will resume deporting migrants to Venezuela as increasing numbers arrive to the U.S-Mexico border. The process is expected to begin shortly, said two U.S. officials, though they did not provide specific details on when the flights would begin taking

By STEVE LeBLANC Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — Authorities says two men will face murder charges after a pregnant woman hit by gunfire on a bus in Holyoke, Massachusetts, delivered a baby that later died. The Hampden District Attorney’s Office says Alejandro Ramos, 22, of Holyoke, was arraigned Thursday in Holyoke District Court. Officials said

By KIM CHANDLER Associated Press MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Federal judges have selected new congressional lines for Alabama ensuring a second district where Black voters comprise a substantial portion of the electorate. The judges ordered the state to use the new lines in the 2024 elections. The three-judge panel stepped in to oversee the drawing

By JAKE OFFENHARTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The ex-campaign treasurer for U.S. Rep. George Santos pleaded guilty Thursday to conspiring to defraud the U.S. government and implicated the indicted New York Republican in court with submitting bogus campaign finance reports. Nancy Marks is a veteran Long Island political operative. Marks was a campaign

By MICHAEL R. SISAK and JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Former President Donald Trump has said he never thought his yearly financial statements “would be taken very seriously.” But evidence Thursday at his New York civil fraud trial showed the statements were integral to some of his business empire’s loan deals. A

By STAN CHOE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Wall Street drifted to a quiet close Thursday as pressure from the bond market remained high due to worries about a too-hot U.S. job market. The S&P 500 slipped 5.56, or 0.1%, to 4,258.19, a day before a highly anticipated report on the job market

By MICHAEL BALSAMO, COLLEEN LONG and MEGAN JANETSKY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration is going to resume deporting migrants to Venezuela, two U.S. officials told The Associated Press on Thursday. The process is expected to begin shortly, the officials said, though they did not provide specific details on when the flights would

By KEVIN McGILL Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Salt water inching up the Mississippi River is progressing more slowly than once projected — buying time for water systems in metropolitan New Orleans that draw drinking water from the river. Officials said at a news conference in New Orleans on Thursday that an underwater sill