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Ex-NFL player gets prison time in death of 5-year-old girl in Las Vegas

LAS VEGAS (AP) - A former professional football player was sentenced Tuesday to prison in the April 2019 death of his girlfriend's five-year-old daughter at his Las Vegas apartment. The sentencing cam...

Aug 13, 2024

US approves $20 billion in weapons sales to Israel amid threat of wider Middle East war

WASHINGTON (AP) - The U.S. has approved $20 billion in arms sales to Israel, including scores of fighter jets and advanced air-to-air missiles, the State Department announced Tuesday. Congress was not...

Aug 13, 2024

Russia says it thwarted a Ukrainian charge to expand its incursion. Kyiv says it won't occupy land

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) - Russia said Tuesday that its forces checked an effort by Ukrainian troops to expand a stunning weeklong incursion into the Kursk region, as a Ukrainian Foreign Ministry spokesman ...

Aug 13, 2024

Initiative to enshrine abortion rights in Missouri constitution qualifies for November ballot

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) - Missouri voters will decide in November whether to guarantee a right to abortion with a constitutional amendment that would reverse the state's near-total ban on the procedu...

Aug 13, 2024

An ex-Kansas police chief who led a raid on a newspaper is charged with obstruction of justice

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) - A former central Kansas police chief who led a raid last year on a weekly newspaper has been charged with felony obstruction of justice and is accused of persuading a potential wit...

Aug 13, 2024

Officer faces murder charge in shooting of pregnant Black woman who was accused of shoplifting

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - An Ohio police officer was indicted Tuesday on charges including murder in the shooting of Ta'Kiya Young, a 21-year-old pregnant Black mother killed by police in a grocery store ...

Aug 13, 2024

Former Colorado clerk Tina Peters, election deniers hero, found guilty in election computer breach

DENVER (AP) - Former Colorado clerk Tina Peters, a hero to election deniers, has been found guilty in a breach of her county's election computer system in a jury verdict returned Monday at trial. Pete...

Aug 12, 2024

Judge rules against RFK Jr. in fight to be on New York’s ballot, says he is not a state resident

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - A judge ruled Monday that independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. falsely claimed a New York residence on nominating petitions, invalidating the documents he needs...

Aug 12, 2024

Crews begin demolishing Texas church where gunman killed more than two dozen in 2017

SUTHERLAND SPRINGS, Texas (AP) - Crews on Monday began to tear down a Texas church where a gunman killed more than two dozen worshippers in 2017, using heavy machinery to raze the small building even ...

Aug 12, 2024

Dozens of pregnant women, some bleeding or in labor, being turned away from ERs despite federal law

WASHINGTON (AP) - Bleeding and in pain, Kyleigh Thurman didn't know her doomed pregnancy could kill her. Emergency room doctors at Ascension Seton Williamson in Texas handed her a pamphlet on miscarri...

Aug 12, 2024