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Florida convenience store employee charged with fatally shooting off-duty police officer

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (AP) — A Florida convenience store employee has been arrested and charged with fatally shooting an off-duty police officer, authorities said. Eduardo Labrada Machado, 24, shot David Jewell, 45, shortly after arriving for work at the Daytona Beach-area Circle K gas station Monday afternoon, according to the Volusia County Sheriff’s Office. Labrada […]
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LA police fired over a thousand projectiles at protesters in a single day

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Los Angeles police officers fired over 1,000 projectiles at protesters on a single day in June as demonstrators pushed back against the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown and decision to deploy the National Guard to the nation’s second largest city. The police department released a state-mandated report Monday on use of force […]
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University of California students, professors and staff sue the Trump administration

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The Trump administration is using civil rights laws to wage a campaign against the University of California in an attempt to curtail academic freedom and undermine free speech, according to a lawsuit filed Tuesday by faculty, staff, student organizations and every labor union representing UC workers. The lawsuit comes weeks after […]
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House approves bills to reshape DC’s criminal justice system

WASHINGTON (AP) — The House passed legislation Tuesday that would overhaul how youth who commit crimes are prosecuted in the District of Columbia as congressional Republicans mobilized behind President Donald Trump’s efforts to crack down on crime in the nation’s capital. One of the bills, called the “DC Crimes Act,” would lower the age of […]
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Federal Reserve wrestles with how many interest rate cuts to make and how fast

WASHINGTON (AP) — With the Federal Reserve widely expected Wednesday to reduce its key interest rate by a quarter-point to about 4.1%, economists and Wall Street investors will be looking for signals about next steps: How deeply might the Fed cut in the next few months? There are typically two different approaches the central bank […]
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Brothers plead guilty in North Carolina deputy’s shooting death

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Two brothers pleaded guilty on Tuesday to murder-related counts for the shooting death of a North Carolina sheriff’s deputy three years ago when authorities said the officer approached a pickup truck late at night in a rural area. Alder Marin-Sotelo, 28, pleaded guilty to first-degree murder in Wake County court in […]
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Judge won’t release identities of two women once described as potential co-conspirators of Epstein

NEW YORK (AP) — The identities of two women once listed as potential co-conspirators of Jeffrey Epstein will remain sealed for their safety and privacy, a federal judge ruled Tuesday. In a written decision, Judge Richard M. Berman rejected an NBC News request to make their identities public after lawyers for the women and the […]
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Democratic Maine Gov. Janet Mills is taking steps to run for Senate in 2026, sources tell AP

WASHINGTON (AP) — Maine Gov. Janet Mills is taking steps toward running for the U.S. Senate in 2026, sources tell The Associated Press, adding another big-name Democrat to the list of candidates expected to vie for key Republican-held seats next year. Mills, who is term-limited next year, has made calls to prospective campaign managers, according […]
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Strip club executives charged with bribing NY official to avoid paying $8M in taxes

A company that owns strip clubs around the country and several of its executives have been charged with bribing a government official with free trips to some of the clubs and thousands of dollars in spending money to avoid paying more than $8 million in sales taxes to New York City and the state of […]
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Waymo’s robotaxi expansion will get a Lyft in Nashville next year

Robotaxi leader Waymo on Wednesday announced that its driverless vehicles will begin transporting passengers in Nashville, Tennessee, next year while heading in a new direction by teaming up with Lyft instead of its recent ride-hailing partner Uber. The Nashville plan calls for robotaxi ride requests to initially be limited to Waymo’s own mobile app before […]
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Suspect arrested in Atlanta auto break-in and theft of Beyoncé’s unreleased music, police say

ATLANTA (AP) — A suspect has been arrested in a July auto break-in that a dancer and a choreographer touring with Beyoncé′ said resulted in the theft of the singer’s unreleased music, Atlanta police said Tuesday Police identified the suspect as Kelvin Evans and said he was booked into jail on charges of entering a […]
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Pentagon says troops can only be exempt from shaving their facial hair for a year

WASHINGTON (AP) — Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered that troops who need an exemption from shaving their facial hair for longer than a year should get kicked out of the service. While commanders are still able to issue service members exemptions from shaving — a policy that has existed for decades — they will […]
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Marshall president and wife make $50M gift to university to promote eliminating student debt

HUNTINGTON, W.Va. (AP) — Marshall University President Brad Smith and his wife, Alys Smith, have made a $50 million gift to the university to promote a program aimed at eliminating student debt, the school said Tuesday. The gift is the largest ever given to the public research university and the largest given by any sitting […]
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North Dakota newspaper columnist whose Olive Garden review went viral dies at 99

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — Marilyn Hagerty, a North Dakota newspaper columnist whose earnest became a social media sensation, died Tuesday. She was 99. Hagerty died at a hospital in Grand Forks of complications related to a stroke she had suffered, her daughter Gail Hagerty said. She was always a journalist at heart who took the […]
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Retired 4-star Navy admiral sentenced to 6 years in prison for bribery plot

WASHINGTON (AP) — A retired four-star U.S. Navy admiral was sentenced on Tuesday to six years in prison for his conviction on corruption charges that he agreed to exchange a military contract for a lucrative postretirement job. Retired Adm. Robert P. Burke — once the second-highest uniformed officer in the Navy — was commanding its […]
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Alabama asks court to lift block on limits to absentee ballot applications

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — A judge was wrong to block part of an Alabama state law that makes it a felony to provide gifts or payments for helping with an absentee ballot application, state attorneys told an appeals court panel Tuesday. The Alabama attorney general’s office asked the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to […]
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California judge denies Menendez brothers’ petition for new trial

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A California judge has rejected a request for a new trial for Erik and Lyle Menendez, shutting down another possible path to freedom for the brothers who have served decades in prison for killing their parents in 1989 at their Beverly Hills mansion. The ruling Monday by Los Angeles Superior Court […]
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A Black student was found hanging from a tree. Police say there’s no sign of foul play

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Police on Tuesday were investigating the death of a Black college student found hanging from a tree on the campus of Delta State University in Mississippi, stirring online rumors that evoked the state’s history of Jim Crow-era racist violence even as authorities said there was no initial evidence of a crime. […]
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Sotomayor urges better civic education so people know difference between presidents and kings

NEW YORK (AP) — Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor, questioning whether Americans understand the difference between a king and a president, told a New York Law School crowd Tuesday that improved civic education across the country would help people make better decisions. Sotomayor, speaking at a panel discussion during a “Constitution and Citizenship Day Summit,” […]
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Alex Thomson holds a "Make America Great Again" hat during a vigil for Charlie Kirk on Friday, Sept...

From Utah to New York, key developments in cases of US political violence

From Utah to New York, political violence has rocked the U.S. multiple times over the past several months, culminating with the open-air killing of conservative activist Charlie Kirk, who was assassinated last week while talking to college students. The confluence on Tuesday of five different developments tied to recent acts of political violence — just […]
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Donkey recovering after being shot in latest arrow attack on wild burros in California

MORENO VALLEY, Calif. (AP) — A wild burro dubbed Cupid is recovering from surgery after being shot with an arrow in what officials say is the latest in a series of a half-dozen attacks since June on donkeys that roam semirural areas of inland Southern California. The 2-year-old female burro was spotted last Wednesday with […]
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Indiana man charged with sending online threat that caused US Naval Academy lockdown

ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — An Indiana man has been charged in federal court with making a threat across state lines related to a lockdown and shooting at the U.S. Naval Academy in Maryland last week, the U.S. attorney’s office in Indiana said Tuesday. Jackson Fleming, 23, was arrested Friday on suspicion of sending an online […]
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Robert Redford embodied an American ideal, and often lived the part, too

NEW YORK (AP) — Born during the Great Depression with sun-kissed California looks, Robert Redford never failed to epitomize something quintessential and hopeful about the American character. Redford, who died Tuesday at the age of 89, left a movie trail etched into land. He seemed to reside as much across the American landscape as he […]
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Amid bankruptcy, some Publishers Clearing House winners are facing the end of ‘forever’ prizes

NEW YORK (AP) — For decades, Publishers Clearing House doled out hefty checks on the doorsteps of hopeful consumers across the U.S., including prizes that boasted lifetime payouts. But some of those winners are now facing an end to the “forever” money they were once promised. The turmoil arrives amid PCH’s ongoing bankruptcy process. The […]
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