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Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All rights reservedFILE - Harrison Li holds a photo of his father, Kai Li, as he poses for a photo, Jan. 23, 2024, in Palo Alto, Calif. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File)WASHINGTON – The families of four Americans detained in China said Wednesday that their loved ones are suffering both physically and mentally, urging the U.S. government to take action to bring them home. Appearing before […]

NationalFILE - Trees stand in wooded areas alongside Interstate 75 near Livingston, Ky., Sunday, Sept. 8, 2024, as police search for a suspect in a shooting Saturday along the Interstate. (AP Photo/Timothy D. Easley, File) (Timothy D. Easley, Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)FRANKFORT, Ky. – A body was found near the rural southeastern Kentucky site where a gunman opened fire on an interstate highway, hitting a dozen […]

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – Around the country, communities are being battered by a wave of school shooting threats, sparking emergency notifications, urgent group chats and heightened fears among parents that their child’s school could be the next Parkland or Sandy Hook or Uvalde — or any other town hit by mass shootings.On Florida's Atlantic coast, Sheriff Mike Chitwood of Volusia County said he got some of these same notifications after he […]

TechResearchers with Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi and Nova Southeastern University prepare live corals for transport at the NSU's Oceanographic Campus in Dania Beach, Fla., Sept. 18, 2024. (AP Photo/David Fischer)DANIA BEACH, Fla. – Scientists have moved about about 300 endangered sea corals from South Florida to the Texas Gulf Coast for research and restoration.Nova Southeastern University and Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi researchers packed up the corals Wednesday at the NSU's […]

WASHINGTON – A longtime CIA officer who drugged, photographed and sexually assaulted more than two dozen women in postings around the world was sentenced to 30 years in federal prison Wednesday after an emotional hearing in which victims described being deceived by a man who appeared kind, educated and part of an agency “that is supposed to protect the world from evil.”Brian Jeffrey Raymond, with a graying beard and orange […]

JERUSALEM – With Israel's defense minister announcing a “new phase” of the war and an apparent Israeli attack setting off explosions in electronic devices in Lebanon, the specter of all-out combat between Israel and Hezbollah seems closer than ever before.Hopes for a diplomatic solution to the conflict appear to be fading quickly as Israel signals a desire to change the status quo in the country's north, where it has exchanged […]

NEW YORK – Sean “Diddy” Combs is staying locked up after a judge Wednesday rejected the hip-hop mogul’s proposal that he await his sex trafficking trial in the luxury of his Florida mansion instead of a grim Brooklyn federal jail.U.S. District Judge Andrew L. Carter ruled that Combs' plan — which included a $50 million bail offer, GPS monitoring and strict limitations on visitors — was “insufficient” to ensure the […]