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Justice Department charges man with arson at New Mexico Tesla dealership and GOP headquarters

By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER and ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department has charged a man with vandalizing a Tesla dealership in New Mexico and setting fire to the headquarters of the state Republican Party, according to court records unsealed Monday. A criminal complaint charges Jamison R. Wagner, 40, with federal arson

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A Palestinian activist expecting a US citizenship interview is arrested instead by ICE in Vermont

By PATRICK WHITTLE and HOLLY RAMER Associated Press A Palestinian man who led protests against the war in Gaza as a student at Columbia University was arrested Monday at a Vermont immigration office where he expected to be interviewed about finalizing his U.S. citizenship, his attorneys said. Mohsen Mahdawi, a legal permanent resident who has

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Months after CEO’s killing, an intruder is arrested near UnitedHealthcare headquarters in Minnesota

By STEVE KARNOWSKI Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A man was arrested near UnitedHealthcare’s headquarters in Minnesota after threatening violence, months after the company’s CEO was killed, authorities said Monday. The man was spotted around 11 a.m. in a parking lot outside of the UnitedHealthcare corporate campus in the Minneapolis suburb of Minnetonka. City spokesman

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Plans to celebrate America’s 250th anniversary were underway. Then came the federal funding cuts

By CLAIRE RUSH and GARY FIELDS Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Community celebrations being planned to commemorate the nation’s 250th anniversary next year are at risk of being significantly scaled back or canceled because of federal funding cuts under President Donald Trump’s administration, according to multiple state humanities councils across the country. The councils have

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Wisconsin teen charged in parents’ deaths is accused of plotting to kill Trump

Associated Press MILWAUKEE (AP) — A Wisconsin teenager charged in the deaths of his parents faces wider allegations that he killed them to “obtain the financial means” to assassinate President Donald Trump and overthrow the government, according to a recently unsealed federal warrant. Nikita Casap, 17, was charged last month by Waukesha County authorities with

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The dead in upstate New York plane crash included 2022 NCAA woman of the year and family members

By JAKE OFFENHARTZ Associated Press A private plane that crashed in upstate New York over the weekend was carrying six members of a close-knit family of physicians and distinguished student-athletes on a trip to the Catskills for a birthday celebration and the Passover holiday. The twin-engine Mitsubishi MU-2B went down shortly after noon Saturday in

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Takeaways from AP’s report on how flat funding set stage for Texas measles outbreak, might fuel more

By LAURA UNGAR, MICHELLE R. SMITH and DEVI SHASTRI Associated Press The measles outbreak in West Texas didn’t happen just by chance. The easily preventable disease, declared eliminated in the U.S. in 2000, ripped through Texas communities in part because health departments were starved of the funding needed to run vaccine programs, officials say. Nationwide,

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Measles exploded in Texas after stagnant vaccine funding. New cuts threaten the same across the US

By LAURA UNGAR, MICHELLE R. SMITH and DEVI SHASTRI Associated Press The measles outbreak in West Texas didn’t happen just by chance. The easily preventable disease, declared eliminated in the U.S. in 2000, ripped through communities sprawling across more than 20 Texas counties in part because health departments were starved of the funding needed to

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Regulators order corrective action as Keystone Pipeline operators aim to restore service

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — Federal regulators have ordered the operator of the Keystone Pipeline to take several corrective actions after a rupture caused 147,000 gallons of oil to spill onto farmland in North Dakota, and the company said its goal is to resume deliveries to refineries on Tuesday. The Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration

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Lawyers for Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs want jurors at trial questioned about sex, drugs and violence

By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Lawyers for Sean “Diddy” Combs are urging a judge to let prospective jurors at the hip-hop mogul’s upcoming sex trafficking trial be questioned about their views regarding sex, drugs and violence. The lawyers raised the subject as they submitted a proposed questionnaire to be filled out

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