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By The Associated Press NFL Sunday FAVORITE OPEN TODAY O/U UNDERDOG Seattle 4½ 4½ (45½) at NEW ENGLAND NBA Wednesday FAVORITE LINE O/U UNDERDOG at CLEVELAND 3½ (234½) LA Lakers Chicago 1½ (236½) at INDIANA at TORONTO 1½ (224½) New York at BOSTON 7½ (231½) Atlanta at MIAMI 3 (229½) Orlando Charlotte 1½ (230) at

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Trump visits Iowa trying to focus on affordability during fallout over shooting in Minneapolis

By SEUNG MIN KIM, HANNAH FINGERHUT and MICHELLE L. PRICE Associated Press CLIVE, Iowa (AP) — President Donald Trump on Tuesday made his first big pitch ahead of this year’s midterm elections on his administration’s economic performance, even as his White House remains mired in the fallout in Minneapolis over a second fatal shooting by

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Minneapolis shooting scrambles Second Amendment politics for Trump

By BILL BARROW and NICHOLAS RICCARDI Associated Press Prominent Republicans and gun rights advocates helped elicit a White House turnabout this week after bristling over the administration’s characterization of Alex Pretti, the second person killed this month by a federal officer in Minneapolis, as responsible for his own death because he lawfully possessed a weapon.

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Investigators say deadly midair collision near DC followed years of ignored warnings about traffic

By GARY FIELDS, JOSH FUNK and ED WHITE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — National Transportation Safety Board members were deeply troubled Tuesday over years of ignored warnings about helicopter traffic dangers and other problems, long before an American Airlines jet and an Army Black Hawk collided a year ago, killing 67 people near Washington, D.C.

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Fed expected to keep rates unchanged as Chair Powell pivots back to economics

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — After two weeks of intense political and legal scrutiny, the Federal Reserve will seek to make this week’s meeting about interest rates as straightforward and uneventful as possible, though President Donald Trump probably still won’t like the result. The central bank’s interest rate-setting committee is almost

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Venezuela releases dozens of prisoners in 2 days, hundreds more still detained

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuela’s leading prisoner rights organization said Monday that dozens of prisoners were released over the weekend, as the United States continues to pressure the acting government to free hundreds of dissidents jailed under ousted leader Nicolás Maduro. Alfredo Romero, president of Foro Penal, said in a post on X that 266

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At least 6,126 people killed in Iran’s crackdown on nationwide protests, activists say

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran’s bloody crackdown on nationwide protests killed at least 6,126 people while many others still are feared dead, activists said Tuesday, as a U.S. aircraft carrier group arrived in the Mideast to lead any American military response to the crisis. The arrival of the

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Carney calls Trump’s tariff threats bluster ahead of US-Canada free trade talks

By ROB GILLIES Associated Press TORONTO (AP) — Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said Monday some of U.S. President Donald Trump’s threats should be viewed as prepositioning ahead of negotiations to renew the free trade pact between the two large trading partners. Carney noted they are entering a review of the United States–Mexico–Canada Agreement this

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Lawyers accuse Mexico of breaking law in sending cartel members to US without extradition order

By MEGAN JANETSKY Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — A group of lawyers and family members of important cartel figures accused Mexico’s government on Monday of breaking the law by sending nearly a hundred Mexican citizens to the United States without an extradition order. It comes less than a week after the administration of Mexican

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Canada gives conditional approval for Marineland to export remaining belugas to the US

TORONTO (AP) — Canada’s last captive whales have received a reprieve from death after the government conditionally approved a plan Monday to export them to the United States. Fisheries Minister Joanne Thompson met Monday with officials from Marineland, the shuttered theme park and zoo in Niagara Falls, Ontario, to talk about its proposed plan to

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Certified Status Advisory

EDITORS: NEWS DIRECTORS: NOT FOR BROADCAST, PUBLICATION OR USE ONLINE Certified results from the Iowa state Senate 16 special general election are now available in The Associated Press API and AP Newsroom elections dashboard. On the API, these can be found by using resultsType=b or resultsType=c in your query. This concludes AP’s tabulation of the election. No

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What we know about the investigations into the Minneapolis shooting death of Alex Pretti

By REBECCA SANTANA Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The fatal shooting over the weekend of a Minneapolis man has prompted calls for a thorough independent investigation into the second death at the hands of federal immigration officers since the Trump administration began its large-scale operation in the city late last year. But many of the

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