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ANNAPOLS, Md. — A psychiatrist at a detention centre where the man who killed five people at the Capital Gazette newspaper has been held will be limited to testifying about her personal observations and won’t be able to provide her opinion to jurors that he doesn’t suffer from autism or...

RENO, Nev. — A federal judge has given the Fish and Wildlife Service just 30 more days to make an overdue decision on whether to formally propose endangered species protection for a rare desert wildflower at the centre of a fight over a proposed lithium mine in Nevada.Conservationists say the...

The numbers used for deciding how many congressional seats each state gets can’t be released until next Monday at the earliest, according to an agreement that settles litigation between the U.S. Census Bureau and a coalition of local governments and civil rights groups.The agreement filed in court on Thursday also...

BAGHDAD — At least three rockets hit near Baghdad international airport late Thursday, the Iraqi military said.A total of eight missiles were fired and three landed near the airport complex, the statement said. It did not detail whether the attack caused casualties.The rockets struck areas known to contain Iraqi security...

BILLINGS, Mont. — President Joe Biden has nominated a longtime environmental advocate and Democratic aide to oversee the vast expanses of federally-owned land in western states — the latest political appointment raising concerns among Republicans as Biden moves to curtail energy production from public reserves.Tracy Stone-Manning of Missoula, Montana was...

LOS ANGELES - Just a few months ago, California was the epicenter of the coronavirus pandemic in the U.S. Hospitals in Los Angeles were drowning in patients, and ambulances were idling outside with people struggling to breathe, waiting for beds to open. The death count was staggering - so many...

KATHMANDU, Nepal - The coronavirus has conquered the world's highest mountain. A Norwegian climber became the first to be tested for COVID-19 in Mount Everest base camp and was flown by helicopter to Kathmandu, where he was hospitalized. Erlend Ness told The Associated Press in a message Friday that he...

N'DJAMENA, Chad - Chad's slain President Idriss Deby Itno is being buried Friday near his hometown after a state funeral in the capital, N'Djamena. The country faces an uncertain future. Both opposition leaders and the rebels accused of killing Deby say they aren't happy with what they say amounts to...

JERUSALEM - Israeli police say 44 people were arrested and 20 officers were wounded in a night of chaos in Jerusalem, where security forces separately clashed with Palestinians angry about Ramadan restrictions and Jewish extremists who held an anti-Arab march nearby. Tensions have spiked in recent days in Jerusalem, which...

PORTLAND, Ore. — Oregon health officials said Thursday that federal officials are investigating the death of a woman in her 50s who developed a rare blood clot and low platelets within two weeks of receiving the Johnson & Johnson vaccine against COVID-19.The Oregon Health Authority learned of the probe on...

CAMEROON, Cameroon — The U.N. Security Council expressed concern Thursday about humanitarian conditions and human rights in Ethiopia’s Tigray region, marking the council’s first collective comment on the conflict that has raged in the region for six months.The statement made no mention of Eritrean soldiers in Tigray, though U.N. humanitarian...

MARATHON, Fla. — Staff from the Florida Keys-based Turtle Hospital released a rehabilitated loggerhead sea turtle back to the ocean on Thursday to mark Earth Day.Nicknamed “Sparb,” the 125-pound (57-kilogram) sub-adult sea turtle was rescued in late January after being discovered floating offshore, unable to dive, with severe wounds and...

CHICAGO — Attempted murder charges have been filed against a suspect in a road-rage shooting on Chicago’s Lake Shore Drive earlier this month that critically wounded a toddler, Chicago police announced Thursday.Deandre Binion, 25, of Chicago is accused of firing shots from the SUV he was driving on April 6...

ATLANTA — A former Atlanta police officer’s attorney said Thursday that his client didn’t get a chance to defend himself before he was fired for fatally shooting Rayshard Brooks, a Black man who had been running away from two white officers after he resisted arrest and fired a stun gun...

LOS ANGELES — Just a few months ago, California was the epicenter of the coronavirus pandemic in the U.S. Hospitals in Los Angeles were drowning in patients, and ambulances were idling outside with people struggling to breathe, waiting for beds to open.The death count was staggering — so many that...

LOS ANGELES — A man who killed a Los Angeles County sheriff’s sergeant in what prosecutors called an execution-style attack five years ago pleaded guilty Thursday to first-degree murder.Trenton Lovell, 31, entered the plea for the 2016 killing of Sgt. Steve Owen, who was shot five times as he answered...

WASHINGTON — A Pentagon panel is recommending that decisions to prosecute service members for sexual assault be made by independent authorities, not commanders, in what would be a major reversal of military practice and a change long sought by Congress members, The Associated Press has learned.The recommendation by an independent...

RALEIGH, N.C. — A federal lawsuit filed by a Georgia librarian says white officers used excessive force on the Black woman during a traffic stop in North Carolina, adding they pulled her from her car by her hair and tore her rotator cuff.The suit filed Wednesday by Stephanie Bottom of...

CHICAGO — Cook County’s top prosecutor said Thursday she bears the responsibility for not viewing the footage of 13-year-old Adam Toledo’s fatal shooting or reviewing the misleading description of his killing by Chicago police before it was read by prosecutors in court.State’s Attorney Kim Foxx said during interviews with local...

LES ANGLES, France — The parents of missing California college student Kristin Smart on Thursday sued the father of the man charged with killing their daughter nearly 25 years ago.The lawsuit filed in San Luis Obispo County Superior Court said Smart’s body was buried in Ruben Flores’s backyard and he...