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By JUAN A. LOZANO and BEN FINLEY Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — Just moments before rap superstar Travis Scott took the stage at the deadly 2021 Astroworld festival, a contract worker had been so worried about what might happen after seeing people getting crushed that he texted an event organizer saying, “Someone’s going to end

By MARK PRATT Associated Press The rapper G Herbo has pleaded guilty to his role in a scheme that used stolen credit card information to pay for a lavish lifestyle that included private jets, exotic car rentals, a luxury vacation rental and even expensive designer puppies. The rapper, whose real name is Herbert Wright III,

By SEAN MURPHY Associated Press OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The new prosecutor in Oklahoma’s biggest county announced Friday she’s dropping criminal charges against seven police officers in three separate fatal shootings from 2020, including one in which five officers were charged with killing a 15-year-old boy outside a convenience store. District Attorney Vicki Behenna’s predecessor

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Officials say a Kentucky woman has been sentenced to nine years in prison for mailing racist threats to her neighbors in 2020. Court documents show 55-year-old Suzanne Craft of Louisville sent multiple threatening letters through the U.S. Postal Service to an interracial family, who lived in the same neighborhood. The agency

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Five Honduran migrants are dead and another 18 are injured following the crash of the van they were riding in on Mexico’s southern Gulf coast. Mexico’s National Immigration Institute said Friday the dead included four adult women and a two-year-old child. About half of those injured are children. The type of

By FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court ruling that upended President Joe Biden’s plan to forgive student loan debt changed his budget math. As a result, the White House is modestly lowering the projected deficit for this year. It expects to pare back $259 billion in spending that otherwise would have

By KIMBERLEE KRUESI Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Gov. Bill Lee wouldn’t say whether his proposal to keep firearms away from dangerous people has enough support inside Tennessee’s Republican-dominant Statehouse to survive the upcoming special legislative session. In roughly three weeks, lawmakers are expected to be called back to Nashville to address possible changes

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Two taxi drivers have been arrested in the Mexican city of Cancun for assaulting a van carrying foreign tourists. The events in the Caribbean coast resort on Thursday were the latest in a months-long string of assaults on vehicles that medallion-cab drivers suspect of being operated by Uber. Prosecutors said Friday

By RUSS BYNUM Associated Press SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — The longtime Georgia prosecutor who called in state investigators to build a case against the men who killed Ahmaud Arbery has died. Tom Durden served as district attorney for southeast Georgia’s Atlantic Judicial Circuit for 24 years before stepping down last year. The DA’s office said

By TOM KRISHER AP Auto Writer DETROIT (AP) — The U.S. government wants to raise the fuel economy of new vehicles 18% by the 2032 model year so the fleet would average about 43.5 miles per gallon in real-world driving. The proposed numbers were released Friday by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, which eventually

By JACQUES BILLEAUD AND ANITA SNOW Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — The backup Uber driver for a self-driving vehicle that killed a pedestrian in suburban Phoenix in 2018 pleaded guilty Friday to endangerment in the first fatal collision involving a fully autonomous car. Maricopa County Superior Court Judge David Garbarino, who accepted the plea agreement,

MIDDLETOWN, Conn. (AP) — U.S. Education Secretary Miguel Cardona praised Wesleyan University’s elimination of legacy admissions on a visit Friday to discuss the administration’s response to the Supreme Court ruling that struck down affirmative action in higher education.  The administration has been considering steps it can take to protect diversity on campuses in the wake

By ZEKE MILLER AP White House Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden will host the leaders of Japan and South Korea next month for a summit at Camp David. The Aug. 18 meeting with Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol is the latest sign of warming relations between

By BRIAN WITTE Associated Press ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — A former Maryland political aide who failed to appear for his trial on federal corruption charges died after suffering two gunshot wounds — one of them self-inflicted — as FBI agents closed in on him in Tennessee. That’s according to an autopsy report made public Friday.

SAN MATEO, Calif. (AP) — Authorities say a man allegedly stabbed a woman to death in the San Francisco Bay Area and then posted a video of the slaying to Facebook. The gruesome footage helped police track down the suspect Wednesday. Mark Mechikoff was arrested about 30 miles south of where the victim was found