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By The Associated Press NFL Thursday FAVORITE OPEN TODAY O/U UNDERDOG at GREEN BAY 3 3½ (48½) Washington Sunday FAVORITE OPEN TODAY O/U UNDERDOG Buffalo 7½ 6½ (46½) at NY JETS at PITTSBURGH 2½ 3 (39½) Seattle San Francisco 7½ 3 (40½) at NEW ORLEANS at MIAMI 2½ 1½ (43½) New England at BALTIMORE 12½

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Michigan dismissal highlights the challenges in prosecuting cases against Trump’s 2020 fake electors

By NICHOLAS RICCARDI and ISABELLA VOLMERT Associated Press LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Before the abandoned federal attempt to prosecute Donald Trump for trying to overturn his 2020 election loss, state and local prosecutors brought cases against his fake electors. The term referred to the people who, in several of the swing states won by former

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Trump dines at a restaurant near the White House to promote his federal law enforcement surge in DC

By WILL WEISSERT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump had dinner Tuesday night at a seafood restaurant near the White House, promoting his deployment of the National Guard and federalizing the police force in an effort to crack down on crime in the nation’s capital. His motorcade made the short distance to Joe’s

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Trump is upsetting the US allies needed to counter China

By CHRIS MEGERIAN, DIDI TANG and KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s aggressive trade and immigration policies are undermining relationships that have been cornerstones of American foreign policy to counter China’s growing influence, eroding years of diplomatic investments spanning administrations. The latest fracture came Friday, when hundreds of South Korean workers

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Ethiopia inaugurates Africa’s largest hydroelectric dam as neighbors eye power imports

By EVELYNE MUSAMBI, SAMUEL GETACHEW and AMANUEL GEBREMEDHIN BIRHANE Associated Press ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) — Ethiopia on Tuesday inaugurated Africa’s largest dam to boost the economy, end frequent blackouts and support the growth of electric vehicle development in a country that has banned the importation of gasoline-powered vehicles. As reservoir waters flowed into the

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Over 350 Greenlandic women and girls forcibly given contraception by Danish officials, report says

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — More than 350 Greenlandic Indigenous women and girls, including some 12 years old and younger, reported that they were forcibly given contraception by Danish health authorities in cases that date to the 1960s, according to an independent investigation’s findings released Tuesday. The Inuit victims, many of them teenagers at the time,

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RFK Jr.’s latest ‘Make America Healthy Again’ report calls for more scrutiny of vaccines and autism

By AMANDA SEITZ Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration directed the nation’s public health and environmental agencies to prioritize investigations into vaccine injuries, prescription drug use and autism’s causes in its latest “Make America Healthy Again” report released Tuesday. The 20-page report, overseen by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.,

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Iran and nuclear watchdog sign agreement seeking path to restart cooperation

By FATMA KHALED and STEPHANIE LIECHTENSTEIN Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — Iran and the International Atomic Energy Agency signed an agreement Tuesday in Cairo to pave the way for resuming cooperation, including on ways of relaunching inspections of Iran’s nuclear facilities. The announcement followed a meeting among Egyptian Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty, his Iranian counterpart

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Supreme Court to quickly consider if President Donald Trump has power to impose sweeping tariffs

By LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court granted an unusually quick hearing on President Donald Trump’s sweeping tariffs on Tuesday, putting a policy at the center of his economic agenda squarely before the nation’s highest court. The justices will hear the case in November, a lightning-fast timetable by the Supreme Court’s

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UN chief argues that investing in fighting poverty instead of wars would make a more secure world

EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Soaring global military expenditures are reducing essential investments in health, education and job creation and don’t guarantee peace, the United Nations chief warned on Tuesday. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said the evidence is clear that heavy military spending often undermines peace by “fueling arms races, deepening mistrust

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Chief Justice Roberts keeps in place Trump funding freeze that threatens billions in foreign aid

By MARK SHERMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Chief Justice John Roberts on Tuesday temporarily kept in place the Trump administration’s decision to freeze nearly $5 billion in foreign aid. Roberts acted on the administration’s emergency appeal to the Supreme Court in a case involving billions of dollars in congressionally approved aid. President Donald Trump

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Pledge to boycott Israeli film institutions draws signatures of top Hollywood actors and directors

By The Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Some prominent Hollywood names are among the filmmakers and industry figures who’ve signed a pledge to boycott Israeli film institutions — including festivals, broadcasters and production companies — that are “implicated in genocide and apartheid against the Palestinian people,” organizers said Tuesday. The group Film Workers for

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Top US immigration official defends rule targeting ‘anti-American’ views in green card, visa process

By REBECCA SANTANA Associated Press CAMP SPRINGS, Maryland (AP) — A new rule allowing a U.S. immigration agency to scrutinize a person’s “anti-American” views when applying for a green card or other benefits isn’t designed to target political beliefs, but to identify support for terrorist activity, the organization’s director told The Associated Press. In a

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Chicagoans change routines as immigration crackdown looms. Some carry passports and avoid stores

By CHRISTINE FERNANDO, JOHN O’CONNOR and SOPHIA TAREEN Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — The streets in some of Chicago’s liveliest neighborhoods are quiet these days. Public schoolteachers want online learning for families scared to venture out. And houses of worship are urging people to carry identification everywhere they go. As the nation’s third-largest city awaits

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Missouri Republicans advance Trump-backed plan to redraw US House districts

By DAVID A. LIEB Associated Press JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Missouri’s Republican-led House turned aside Democratic objections Tuesday and passed a plan backed by President Donald Trump to redraw the state’s congressional districts so that Republicans could win an additional seat in the closely divided chamber. The rare mid-decade redistricting plan, which now heads

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Macron appoints Defense Minister Lecornu as France’s latest prime minister

By SYLVIE CORBET Associated Press PARIS (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron on Tuesday appointed Defense Minister Sébastien Lecornu as new prime minister and tasked him with immediately trying to get the country’s fractious political parties to agree on a budget for one of the world’s biggest economies. Lecornu, 39, was the youngest defense minister

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