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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said Thursday that he’s fired “some” White House National Security Council officials, a move that comes a day after far-right activist Laura Loomer raised concerns directly to him about staff loyalty. Trump downplayed Loomer’s influence on the firings. But Loomer during her Oval Office conversation with Trump urged the […]

By JOHN RABY Updated [hour]:[minute] [AMPM] [timezone], [monthFull] [day], [year] CLARKSBURG, W.Va. (AP) — An inmate was sentenced to more than four years Thursday for his role in the 2018 fatal bludgeoning of notorious Boston gangster James “Whitey” Bulger in a troubled West Virginia federal prison. Massachusetts gangster Paul J. DeCologero was sentenced in federal […]

Updated [hour]:[minute] [AMPM] [timezone], [monthFull] [day], [year] CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — A Virginia-based political marketing company has agreed to pay a $40,000 fine to settle allegations that flyers it designed during the 2022 New Hampshire state primary violated the law. Forms submitted to the U.S. Postal Service identified the owner of the 189,000 mailers as […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States and Russia completed their biggest prisoner swap in post-Soviet history on Thursday, with Moscow releasing journalist Evan Gershkovich and fellow American Paul Whelan along with dissidents including Vladimir Kara-Murza in a multinational deal that set two dozen people free. Gershkovich, Whelan and Alsou Kurmasheva a journalist with dual U.S.-Russia […]

TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — One spent over 5½ years behind bars in Russia while other, higher-profile detainees were released ahead of him. Another was jailed for only a few months. They include journalists, veteran political activists and those simply opposed to the war in Ukraine. The youngest is 19, the oldest 71. Among the Russians […]

LAKE CITY, Ark. (AP) — Standing alongside the twisted steel tractors on his family farm in northeast Arkansas on Thursday, Danny Qualls looked on while friends and relatives helped him begin cleaning up. The home where he spent his childhood but no longer lives was flattened by one of many tornadoes that left behind destruction […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. government has banned American government personnel in China as well as family members and contractors with security clearances, from any romantic or sexual relationships with Chinese citizens, The Associated Press has learned. Four people with direct knowledge of the matter told the AP about the policy, which was put into […]

In the 22 days since Maryland resident Kilmar Abrego Garcia was mistakenly deported to a notoriously Violent Prison in El Salvador his young son has sought comfort in the scent of his missing father’s clothes. “He shows me how much he missed Kilmar,” Abrego Garcia’s wife, Jennifer Vasquez Sura, said in court documents. “He has […]

Updated [hour]:[minute] [AMPM] [timezone], [monthFull] [day], [year] SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A near-total abortion ban will remain on hold in Utah after the state Supreme Court ruled Thursday that the law should remain blocked until a lower court can assess its constitutionality. Democrats cheered the decision, which means that abortion will, at least for […]

By JOHN CARUCCIJune 9, 2023 GMTNEW YORK (AP) — It’s a weekday morning and Anna Sorokin is on house arrest in a New York apartment building that has been condemned as imminently perilous to life. So she’s attempting to capture outside attention and relieving her boredom in the most quotidian way: starting a podcast.“So many… […]