By REGINA GARCIA CANO and GONZALO SOLANO Associated Press QUITO, Ecuador (AP) — Daniel Noboa stunned voters in 2023 when he won a snap election for a 16-month presidency after only a brief stint as a lawmaker and with no established political machinery. No longer a political neophyte, the conservative millionaire defeated the protegee of
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By SEUNG MIN KIM and MARCOS ALEMÁN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s top advisers and Nayib Bukele, the president of El Salvador, said Monday that they have no basis for the small Central American nation to return a Maryland man who was wrongly deported there last month. Bukele called the idea “preposterous”
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By COLLEEN SLEVIN Associated Press DENVER (AP) — A former Colorado sheriff’s deputy convicted of killing a 22-year-old man in distress who called 911 for help was sentenced Monday to three years in prison, the maximum sentence, by a judge who said the shooting was about power. Andrew Buen was convicted in February of criminally
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By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A jury was selected Monday to hear a retrial of Sarah Palin’s claims that The New York Times libeled her in an editorial eight years ago. Opening statements were scheduled for Tuesday as the onetime Republican vice presidential candidate and ex-governor of Alaska gets another chance
Continue Reading By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A jury was selected Monday to hear a retrial of Sarah Palin’s claims that The New York Times libeled her in an editorial eight years ago. Opening statements were scheduled for Tuesday as the onetime Republican vice presidential candidate and ex-governor of Alaska gets another chance
Continue Reading By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A jury was selected Monday to hear a retrial of Sarah Palin’s claims that The New York Times libeled her in an editorial eight years ago. Opening statements were scheduled for Tuesday as the onetime Republican vice presidential candidate and ex-governor of Alaska gets another chance
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Continue ReadingAll Times EDT EASTERN CONFERENCE GP W L OT Pts GF GA Home Away Div z-Washington 80 50 21 9 109 283 226 26-9-6 24-12-3 16-8-0 x-Toronto 80 50 26 4 104 260 228 26-13-1 24-13-3 15-8-1 x-Tampa Bay 80 46 26 8 100 289 214 28-8-4 18-18-4 10-12-3 x-Carolina 80 47 28 5 99
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By FRANKLIN BRICEÑO and CIARÁN GILES Associated Press LIMA, Peru (AP) — Peruvian author Mario Vargas Llosa, Nobel literature laureate and a giant of Latin American letters, died Sunday. He was 89. He was a prolific author and essayist with such celebrated novels as “The Time of the Hero” (La Ciudad y los Perros) and
Continue Reading By FRANKLIN BRICEÑO and CIARÁN GILES Associated Press LIMA, Peru (AP) — Peruvian author Mario Vargas Llosa, Nobel literature laureate and a giant of Latin American letters, died Sunday. He was 89. He was a prolific author and essayist with such celebrated novels as “The Time of the Hero” (La Ciudad y los Perros) and
Continue ReadingBy The Associated Press The winning numbers in Sunday’s drawing of the “Missouri Cash Pop” game were: 14 (fourteen) For more lottery results, go to Jackpot.com | Order Lottery Tickets
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By ROBERT BADENDIECK and MEHMET GUZEL Associated Press ISTANBUL (AP) — Turkey has begun a new phase in sweeping restorations of the nearly 1,500-year-old Hagia Sophia in Istanbul, focusing on preserving the monument’s historic domes from the threat of earthquakes. Officials say the project will include reinforcing Hagia Sophia’s main dome and half domes, replacing
Continue ReadingBy The Associated Press Sunday At The Strip at Las Vegas Motor Speedway Las Vegas Final Finish Order Top Fuel 1. Tony Stewart; 2. Antron Brown; 3. Justin Ashley; 4. Jasmine Salinas; 5. Steve Torrence; 6. Shawn Reed; 7. Josh Hart; 8. Doug Kalitta; 9. Clay Millican; 10. Steven Chrisman; 11. Brittany Force; 12. Scott
Continue ReadingAll Times EDT EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division W L Pct GB y-Boston 61 21 .744 — x-New York 51 31 .622 10 Toronto 30 51 .370 30½ Brooklyn 26 56 .317 35 Philadelphia 24 58 .293 37 Southeast Division W L Pct GB y-Orlando 41 41 .500 — Atlanta 40 42 .488 1 Miami 37
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By MATTHEW LEE AP Diplomatic Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — As the Christian world commemorates Holy Week leading up to Easter Sunday, the State Department has issued an appeal for its employees to report instances of alleged anti-Christian bias, including formal or informal actions due to opposition to vaccines or personal pronoun choice, that may have
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By SOPHIE BATES Associated Press KOKOMO, Miss. (AP) — Myrtle, a cherished pet tortoise, has been reunited with its family in Mississippi weeks after disappearing during a deadly tornado outbreak in March. “He’s been through a lot,” said Myrtle’s grateful owner, Tiffany Emanuel. “I know that he knows just as much as I do that
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BEIRUT (AP) — Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa made his first visit Sunday to the United Arab Emirates, whose leaders have been circumspect about the new leadership in Damascus in the four months since the fall of former President Bashar Assad in a lightning rebel offensive. The state-run Emirates News Agency, or WAM, reported that the
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By JAKE OFFENHARTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The Federal Aviation Administration said Sunday that the helicopter tour company whose sightseeing chopper broke apart in flight and crashed in New York, killing the pilot and a family of five visitors from Spain, is shutting down operations immediately. The FAA, in a statement posted on
Continue ReadingBy MARC LEVY Associated Press HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — A man scaled an iron security fence in the middle of the night, eluded police and broke into the Pennsylvania governor’s mansion where he set a fire that left significant damage and forced Gov. Josh Shapiro, his family and guests to evacuate the building, authorities said
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By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer NEW YORK (AP) — After just two weeks in theaters, “A Minecraft Movie” is already the highest grossing Hollywood release of 2025. The Warner Bros. videogame adaptation followed up its blockbuster opening with a second weekend of $80.6 million in ticket sales, according to studio estimates Sunday. Worldwide, it’s
Continue Reading By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer NEW YORK (AP) — After just two weeks in theaters, “A Minecraft Movie” is already the highest grossing Hollywood release of 2025. The Warner Bros. videogame adaptation followed up its blockbuster opening with a second weekend of $80.6 million in ticket sales, according to studio estimates Sunday. Worldwide, it’s
Continue ReadingAssociated Press MILWAUKEE (AP) — A Wisconsin teenager charged in the deaths of his parents faces wider allegations that he killed them to “obtain the financial means” to assassinate President Donald Trump and overthrow the government, according to a recently unsealed federal warrant. Nikita Casap, 17, was charged last month by Waukesha County authorities with
Continue ReadingBy JAKE OFFENHARTZ Associated Press A private plane that crashed in upstate New York over the weekend was carrying six members of a close-knit family of physicians and distinguished student-athletes on a trip to the Catskills for a birthday celebration and the Passover holiday. The twin-engine Mitsubishi MU-2B went down shortly after noon Saturday in
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