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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Who says you cannot reach for the moon? A proposed $5 billion real estate project wants to take skyscraper-studded Dubai to new heights — by bringing a symbol of the heavens down to Earth.Canadian entrepreneur Michael Henderson envisions building a 274-meter (900-foot) replica of the moon atop a 30-meter… […]

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Los Angeles Dodgers have disinvited a satirical LGBTQ+ group called the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence to the team’s annual Pride Night after opposition from conservative Catholic groups.The charity, protest and performance group was to have received the team’s Community Hero Award in a ceremony during the 10th annual event before… […]

NEW YORK (AP) — Salman Rushdie made an emotional and unexpected return to public life Thursday night, attending the annual gala of PEN America and giving the event’s final speech as he accepted a special prize, the PEN Centenary Courage Award, just nine months being after being stabbed repeatedly and hospitalized.“It’s nice to be back… […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange will plead guilty to a felony charge in a deal with the U.S. Justice Department that will allow him to walk free and resolve a long-running legal saga that spanned multiple continents and centered on the publication of a trove of classified documents . Assange left a British […]

Updated [hour]:[minute] [AMPM] [timezone], [monthFull] [day], [year] A study released Monday shows that after Texas banned abortion, the infant mortality rate increased and there were more deaths from birth defects. The Johns Hopkins University analysis is the latest to find higher infant mortality rates in states with abortion restrictions. Researchers looked at how many babies […]

By ASSOCIATED PRESS Updated [hour]:[minute] [AMPM] [timezone], [monthFull] [day], [year] The number of air travelers moving through U.S. airports hit a record Sunday, and the new mark might not last through next weekend. The Transportation Security Administration said it screened nearly 3 million people at airports Sunday, breaking a record set on May 24, the […]

By JAMIE STENGEL Updated [hour]:[minute] [AMPM] [timezone], [monthFull] [day], [year] DALLAS (AP) — A Texas woman allegedly tried to drown a 3-year-old at an apartment complex pool in suburban Dallas after making racist remarks toward the child’s mother in a case investigators are asking to be treated as a hate crime, a police spokeswoman said […]

By CORAL MURPHY MARCOS Updated [hour]:[minute] [AMPM] [timezone], [monthFull] [day], [year] SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — The private operator of Puerto Rico’s power grid confirmed Monday the deferral of $65 million worth of maintenance and improvement projects in the U.S. territory, with some repairs postponed for at least a year because of budget constraints […]

By ERIC TUCKER and ALANNA DURKIN RICHER Updated [hour]:[minute] [AMPM] [timezone], [monthFull] [day], [year] WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department said that it had fired more than a dozen employees who worked on criminal prosecutions of President Donald Trump moving rapidly to pursue retribution against lawyers involved in the investigations and signaling an early willingness […]

By VANESSA GERA Updated [hour]:[minute] [AMPM] [timezone], [monthFull] [day], [year] OSWIECIM, Poland (AP) — A U.S.-based organization is transforming the house of Auschwitz commandant Rudolf Höss into a research center devoted to fighting extremism, and is introducing it to the public on the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz on Monday . The house […]