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By BRENDAN FARRINGTON Associated Press STARKE, Fla. (AP) — A man is scheduled to die by lethal injection for killing two women during a north Florida rampage over a quartery century ago. Michael Zack III is set to be executed at 6 p.m. Tuesday. He was sentenced to death for the 1996 murder of Ravonne

By DAVID KEYTON, SETH BORENSTEIN and JOHN LEICESTER Associated Press STOCKHOLM (AP) — Three scientists won the Nobel Prize in physics on Tuesday for giving us the first split-second glimpse into the superfast world of spinning electrons, a field that could one day lead to better electronics or disease diagnoses. The award went to French-Swedish

By MICHAEL R. SISAK, BOBBY CAINA CALVAN and JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A New York judge on Tuesday took the air out of a big statute of limitations win that former President Donald Trump claimed he had scored in the first hours of his civil business fraud trial. Trump’s legal team

By MARY CLARE JALONICK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer is leading a bipartisan congressional delegation to China next week, traveling to the country amid heightened tensions and after several members of President Joe Biden’s Cabinet visited. His office says that Schumer, a Democrat, and Republican Sen. Mike Crapo of Idaho

By EVENS SANON and DÁNICA COTO Associated Press PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Foreigners with guns are met with hostility in most countries in the world. But the departure of armed soldiers and police from Haiti in 2017 after nearly two decades on the streets helped criminals seize control of much of the country. Gangs have

By MEAD GRUVER Associated Press Utah U.S. Rep. John Curtis says he will not run to succeed Mitt Romney in the Senate. The announcement leaves the race to replace Romney clear of one of Utah’s best known Republicans. Curtis is a former mayor of the city of Provo. He’s been in Congress since 2017. In

By BROOKE SCHULTZ Associated Press/Report for America HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Most Pennsylvania lawmakers want to move their state’s presidential primary election up from late April. But disagreements arose in the House on Tuesday over whether to embrace a Senate-backed plan that would shift the election to mid-March. A House committee first rejected, but later

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press MANCHESTER, England (AP) — U.K. Home Secretary Suella Braverman has railed against unauthorized migrants, human-rights laws and “woke” critics of her hardline policies at the Conservative Party’s annual conference. Braverman is trying to secure her place as the flag-bearer of the party’s law-and-order right wing. In a speech she called

By MARK SHERMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court seems likely to preserve the work of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau against a conservative-led challenge. Even some conservative justices sounded skeptical Tuesday of arguments that the agency, created after the 2008 financial crisis to regulate mortgages, car loans and other consumer finance, violates

By GIADA ZAMPANO Associated Press ROME (AP) — Hundreds of small tremors have shaken a densely populated volcanic area west of the Italian city of Naples in recent weeks, pushing the government to quickly redraft mass evacuation plans, even though experts don’t see an imminent risk of eruption. In the latest of a long string

By JINTAMAS SAKSORNCHAI and TIAN MACLEOD JI Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — Authorities in Thailand’s capital say at least two people were killed when a teenage boy with a handgun opened fire in a major shopping mall in the center of Bangkok. A police spokesperson told reporters a suspect was taken into custody after the