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Bondi names DEA head as DC’s ’emergency police commissioner,’ but capital leaders push back

By ASHRAF KHALIL and ALANNA DURKIN RICHER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration, stepping up its crackdown on policing in the nation’s capital, on Thursday named the head of the Drug Enforcement Administration to be Washington’s “emergency police commissioner” with all the powers of the police chief — a significant move that increases

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USA Network is bringing back scripted TV. First up? John Grisham’s ‘The Rainmaker’

By ALICIA RANCILIO Associated Press Since 2021, the USA Network had stacked its lineup with reality shows and sports, entirely forgoing original, scripted programming. Fans of “Suits”, “White Collar” and “Monk” were left with only memories of those shows’ case-of-the-week storytelling. But on Friday, the network returns to scripted TV with the legal thriller “The

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Judge orders RFK Jr.’s health department to stop sharing Medicaid data with deportation officials

By AMANDA SEITZ and KIMBERLY KINDY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge ordered the nation’s health department to stop giving deportation officials access to the personal information — including home addresses — of all 79 million Medicaid enrollees. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services first handed over the personal data on

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An Israeli flag flies along a highway near the settlement of Carmel in the South Hebron Hills of the West Bank on August 4.

Israel’s West Bank settlement plan could ‘bury’ the prospect of a Palestinian state. Here’s why

By Oren Liebermann, CNN Jerusalem (CNN) — Israel said Thursday it was moving forward with controversial plans to build thousands of new housing units in the occupied West Bank, a development far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich said would “permanently bury the idea of a Palestinian state.” To the delight of the Israeli settler movement, but

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Deeds of trust for Aug. 15

Deeds of trust reported from Aug. 7 to Aug. 13 Steven Ott to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems Inc., Horn Heights LT 3 Blk 22 $115,430. Luke Scheidecker, Victoria Scheidecker to Endeavor Capital LLC, Country Squire 4th Plat LT 120 $332,315. Cheyenne Dorrell, Cheyenne Lynch, Steven Giles to Nodaway Valley Bank, Eastern Extn PT LT 21 LTS 22

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Vital statistics for Aug. 15

Marriage applications Cecil Martez Hawkins Jr., 27, and Morgan Lea Nagle, 32, both of St. Joseph. Payden Deadrick, Xavier Edwards, 22, and Mati Kay Womeldorff, 20, both of St. Joseph. Curtis Lydell Hubbard Jr., 29, and Melissa Ann Guinn, 41, both of St. Joseph. Nathan Dean Lent, 27, and Kylie Elaine Anderson, 24, both of

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Great Plains News Digest

To see stories that have already moved, please visit AP Newsroom. For text, photos, video, live and audio plans beyond the next 24 hours, please visit Coverage Plan ——————————-— IOWA ————-——————— US–Climate-Wildfire Smoke-Politics As Canada wildfires choke US with smoke, Republicans demand action. But not on climate change SUMMARY: Republican lawmakers are blaming Canada for

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Great Plains News Digest

To see stories that have already moved, please visit AP Newsroom. For text, photos, video, live and audio plans beyond the next 24 hours, please visit Coverage Plan ——————————-— IOWA ————-——————— US–Climate-Wildfire Smoke-Politics As Canada wildfires choke US with smoke, Republicans demand action. But not on climate change SUMMARY: Republican lawmakers are blaming Canada for

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Great Plains News Digest

To see stories that have already moved, please visit AP Newsroom. For text, photos, video, live and audio plans beyond the next 24 hours, please visit Coverage Plan ——————————-— IOWA ————-——————— US–Climate-Wildfire Smoke-Politics As Canada wildfires choke US with smoke, Republicans demand action. But not on climate change SUMMARY: Republican lawmakers are blaming Canada for

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Great Plains News Digest

To see stories that have already moved, please visit AP Newsroom. For text, photos, video, live and audio plans beyond the next 24 hours, please visit Coverage Plan ——————————-— IOWA ————-——————— US–Climate-Wildfire Smoke-Politics As Canada wildfires choke US with smoke, Republicans demand action. But not on climate change SUMMARY: Republican lawmakers are blaming Canada for

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3 people charged with helping suspected killer of 4 are accused of giving him shelter, phones

By ADRIAN SAINZ Associated Press TIPTONVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Three people charged with helping a Tennessee man accused of fatally shooting four people are suspected of providing him with shelter, phones and rides as he evaded authorities after the killings, a prosecutor said Thursday. Austin Robert Drummond made a brief court appearance before a judge

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