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Updated [hour]:[minute] [AMPM] [timezone], [monthFull] [day], [year] WASHINGTON (AP) — The Department of Government Efficiency’s remaking of the federal workforce has battered the Washington job market and put more households in the metropolitan area in financial distress, according to a report released Wednesday. The number of homes for sale in the District of Columbia, Maryland […]

By JOHN O’CONNOR and COREY WILLIAMS Updated [hour]:[minute] [AMPM] [timezone], [monthFull] [day], [year] SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — A federal judge on Friday overturned Illinois’ ban on semiautomatic weapons leaning on recent U.S. Supreme Court rulings that strictly interpret the Second Amendment right to keep and bear firearms. U.S. District Judge Stephen P. McGlynn, of the […]

By ERIC TUCKER and LARRY NEUMEISTER Updated [hour]:[minute] [AMPM] [timezone], [monthFull] [day], [year] WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department on Friday disclosed an Iranian murder-for-hire plot to kill Donald Trump charging a man who said he had been tasked by a government official before this week’s election with planning the assassination of the Republican president-elect. […]

Updated [hour]:[minute] [AMPM] [timezone], [monthFull] [day], [year] CHAMPAIGN, Ill. (AP) — Tomislav Ivisic scored 18 points and led five players into double-figure scoring as Illinois raced to a 90-58 victory over in-state rival SIU Edwardsville on Friday night to win its second straight. Ivisic dunked just seconds into the game and Tre White hit back-to-back […]

By ROD MCGUIRK Updated [hour]:[minute] [AMPM] [timezone], [monthFull] [day], [year] MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — A self-described Nazi became the first person in Australia to be sentenced to prison for performing an outlawed salute when he was ordered by a magistrate on Friday to spend one month behind bars. Jacob Hersant, 25, is also the first […]

SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — It’s Friday night in Downtown Santiago, the capital of Chile and a group of 15 people gather around a table, sharing a bottle of wine as the smell of tobacco and incense fill the air. Black candles burn on top of an altar decorated with chalices and knives. The members of […]

FILE – Marijuana plants are seen at a growing facility in Washington County, N.Y., May 12, 2023. The Health and Human Services Department has recommended removing marijuana from a category of drugs deemed to have “no currently accepted medical use and a high potential for abuse.” The agency advised moving pot from that “Schedule I”… […]

FORT PIERCE, Fla. (AP) — After a two-week trial, a jury took just two hours Tuesday to convict Ryan Routh of trying to assassinate Donald Trump on a Florida golf course last year, a plot that was undone when a Secret Service agent spotted Routh and fired a shot that sent him running. Chaos ensued […]

Updated [hour]:[minute] [AMPM] [timezone], [monthFull] [day], [year] NEW YORK (AP) — The U.S. Secret Service has found and is quietly dismantling a massive network of “SIM farms” across the New York area just as world leaders gather for meetings at the United Nations. Matt McCool, the special agent in charge of the Secret Service’s New […]

Updated [hour]:[minute] [AMPM] [timezone], [monthFull] [day], [year] MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A 12-year-old girl shot in the head during the deadly attack at a Catholic church in Minneapolis less than a month ago is making “miraculous” progress, her family said in a statement. Sophia Forchas, who was the most seriously wounded child among those who survived […]