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FILE - Students walk across 24th Street after the 24th Street dedication and ribbon cutting on the Creighton University campus in Omaha, Neb., Thursday, Sept. 24, 2020. The Nebraska Supreme Court on Friday, Aug. 12, 2022, has dismissed an appeal by a handful of Creighton University students seeking to be exempt from the school's COVID-19 vaccine mandate last year, arguing that getting the shots would violate their religious beliefs against abortion. (Lily Smith/Omaha World-Herald via AP)

Creighton students' COVID vaccine mandate appeal dismissed

The Nebraska Supreme Court has dismissed an appeal by a handful of Creighton University students seeking to be exempt from the school's COVID-19 vaccine mandate last year, arguing that getting the … more

By MARGERY A. BECK | 8/12/22

FILE - This 2014 illustration made available by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention depicts a polio virus particle. The polio virus has been found in New York City’s wastewater in another sign that the disease, which hadn’t been seen in the U.S. in a decade, is quietly spreading among unvaccinated people, health officials said Friday, Aug. 12, 2022. (Sarah Poser, Meredith Boyter Newlove/CDC via AP, File)

Polio detected in NYC's sewage, suggesting virus circulating

Health officials say the virus that causes polio has been detected in New York City’s wastewater weeks after a case of polio was identified in Rockland County north of the city. The city and New … more

8/12/22

Migrants swim next to their overturned wooden boat during a rescue operation by Spanish NGO Open Arms at south of the Italian Lampedusa island at the Mediterranean sea, Thursday, Aug. 11, 2022. Forty migrants from Eritrea and Sudan, two children and one woman, were rescued by NGO Open Arms crew members and Italian coast guard after their boat overturned and started to sink. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)

AP Week in Pictures: Europe and Africa

August 4 - 11, 2022 From the opening of the European Championships in Munich to the victory of Real Madrid’s fifth UEFA Super Cup in Helsinki, to the funerals of civilian bodies exhumed from a … more

By The Associated Press | 8/12/22

People watch a plume of smoke rise from the Matanzas supertanker base where a deadly fire started during a thunderstorm the night before in Matanzas, Cuba, Sunday, Aug. 7, 2022. The blaze forced officials to evacuate more than 4,900 people, has killed two firefighters, injured 130 people and destroyed four of the facility's eight tanks. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)

AP Week in Pictures: Latin America and Caribbean

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8/12/22

This photo provided by the Hawaii Department of Land and Natural Resources shows a large wildfire in a rural area of Hawaii's Big Island that is not threatening any homes, but high winds and extremely dry conditions are making it difficult for crews to contain the blaze. (Hawaii Department of Land and Natural Resources via AP)

Large wildfire burning amid drought on Hawaii’s Big Island

A large wildfire in a rural area of Hawaii’s Big Island is not threatening any homes, but high winds and extremely dry conditions are making it difficult for crews to contain the blaze. The fire … more

By CALEB JONES | 8/11/22

Kareim McKnight, center, talks to reporters during a press conference outside Chase Center, announcing the filing of a federal civil rights lawsuit against the San Francisco Fire and Police Departments in San Francisco, Wednesday, Aug. 10, 2022. McKnight alleges a paramedic, under the orders of a police sergeant, injected her with a sedative while she was handcuffed after protesting the Supreme Court's Roe v. Wade decision during a Golden State Warriors championship game. (AP Photo/Godofredo A. Vásquez)

Protester: San Francisco paramedic sedated her involuntarily

A protester is suing the city of San Francisco claiming that a San Francisco paramedic injected her with a sedative while she was handcuffed after being removed from a Golden State Warriors game for … more

By OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ | 8/11/22

FILE - Attorney Drew Findling makes remarks regarding his client, Clayton County Sheriff Victor Hill, during a news conference outside of the Richard B. Russell Federal building in Atlanta on April 27, 2021. Findling's firm said in a statement Thursday, Aug. 11, 2022, that it is representing former President Donald Trump along with two other attorneys. Trump has hired the prominent Atlanta criminal defense attorney to represent him in matters related to the special grand jury that is investigating whether the former president illegally tried to interfere with the 2020 election in Georgia. (Alyssa Pointer/Atlanta Journal-Constitution via AP, File)

Trump hires prominent Atlanta attorney for election probe

Donald Trump has hired a prominent Atlanta criminal defense attorney known for defending famous rappers to represent him in matters related to the special grand jury that’s investigating whether … more

By KATE BRUMBACK | 8/11/22

FILE - Fox News chairman and CEO Rupert Murdoch and wife Jerry Hall attend the WSJ. Magazine 2017 Innovator Awards at The Museum of Modern Art on Nov. 1, 2017, in New York. Hall filed a request in Los Angeles Superior Court on Wednesday, Aug. 10, 2022, to dismiss her original petition for divorce from Murdoch from July 1, with permission to file a new one. They have agreed to the terms of their pending divorce, Hall's attorney said Thursday, Aug. 11. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File)

Jerry Hall, Rupert Murdoch reach agreement on divorce

Model and actor Jerry Hall and media mogul Rupert Murdoch have agreed to the terms of their pending divorce. Hall filed a request in Los Angeles Superior Court on Wednesday to dismiss her original … more

8/11/22

FILE - A sign asks those getting vaccinated to keep 6 feet apart during the vaccination event, Wednesday, Jan. 27, 2021, at Nevada Union High School in Grass Valley, Calif. The CDC has again revised its COVID guidelines, further relaxing quarantine recommendations and dropping the recommendation that people stay at least 6 feet away from each other. (Elias Funez/The Union via AP, File)

CDC drops quarantine, screening recommendations for COVID-19

The nation’s top public health agency is relaxing its COVID-19 guidelines and dropping the recommendation that Americans quarantine themselves if they come into close contact with an infected … more

By MIKE STOBBE and COLLIN BINKLEY | 8/11/22

In this undated image provided by the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior, after tagging, moths are released in Konstanz, Germany, and followed in a light aircraft for up to 80 kilometers into the Alps. Scientists in Germany attached tiny trackers to giant moths looking for clues about insect migration. (Christian Ziegler/Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior via AP)

Scientists use tiny trackers, plane to follow moths on move

Scientists in Germany attached tiny trackers to giant moths looking for clues about insect migration. In a study published Thursday, researchers followed moths around in a small airplane to map out … more

By MADDIE BURAKOFF | 8/11/22

Workman with Power Shift Solar put solar panels on a house Wednesday, Aug. 10, 2022, in Salt Lake City. Congress is poised to pass a transformative climate change bill on Friday, Aug. 12. The crux of the long-delayed bill is to use incentives to accelerate the expansion of clean energy such as wind and solar power, speeding the transition away from the oil, coal and gas that largely cause climate change. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)

Big climate bill: Spending green bucks to spur green energy

Congress is poised to pass a transformative climate change fighting bill. Friday's vote would be the first major climate package in the U.S. and would include close to $375 billion in spending. Most … more

By SETH BORENSTEIN, MATTHEW DALY and MICHAEL PHILLIS | 8/11/22

Marina Ovsyannikova, a former Russian state TV journalist who quit after making an on-air protest of Russia's military operation in Ukraine, listens sitting in a court room during a hearing in Moscow, Russia, Thursday, Aug. 11, 2022. A court in Russia on Thursday ordered to place Ovsyannikova under house arrest for nearly two months pending investigation and trial on the charges of spreading false information about Russia's armed forces. If convicted, Ovsyannikova faces up to 10 years in prison under a new law that penalizes statements against the military and that was enacted shortly after Russian troops moved into Ukraine. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)

Russian reporter put under house arrest over war criticism

A court in Russia has ordered a former state TV journalist placed under house arrest for nearly two months on charges of spreading false information about Russia’s armed forces. Marina Ovsyannikova … more

By The Associated Press | 8/11/22

Two wounded Palestinian children from Gaza,14-year-old Nayef al-Awdat, left, and eight-year-old Mohammed Abu Ktaifa, right, are being treated as their family members stand by, in the intensive care unit at Mukassed hospital in east Jerusalem, Thursday, Aug. 11, 2022. Nayef was wounded in an Israeli airstrike while Mohammed was hurt in an explosion that went off near a wedding party and killed an elderly woman, with the circumstances still unclear. An 11-year-old girl who was also being treated at the hospital died of her wounds Thursday, bringing the Palestinian death toll in fighting between Israel and Gaza militants to 48. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean)

Death toll from weekend Israel-Gaza fighting rises to 48

The Palestinian death toll from last weekend’s fighting between Israel and Gaza militants has risen to 48, after an 11-year-old girl and a man died from wounds they suffered during the worst … more

By FARES AKRAM | 8/11/22

Musician Mary Gauthier poses for a portrait in New York on Feb. 8, 2018. Gauthier released her latest album “Dark Enough to See the Stars" in June. (Photo by Amy Sussman/Invision/AP, File)

Mary Gauthier uses songwriting to help people through trauma

Nashville-based musician Mary Gauthier has used songwriting to help her through the tough times in her life. Now she's using those skills to help others work through trauma. She's worked with groups … more

By DAVID BAUDER | 8/11/22

One year after a wind-fed wildfire charged across a craggy mountainside above Lone Pine, Calif., flashes of new vegetation growth can be seen emerging in this still-charred corner of the Inyo National Forest on Wednesday, July 27, 2022. The tiny, fragile flowers and patches of fresh growth against a stark mountainside and slabs of gray rock were a reminder that wildfire is part of the ecosystem in California, including the eastern Sierra Nevada where the fire took place. (AP Photo/Michael Blood)

Life gradually returns a year after fire chars Sierra Nevada

One year after a wind-whipped wildfire charred a craggy mountainside above Lone Pine, California, signs of life are slowly returning. Tiny clusters of white and purple wildflowers stand out against … more

By MICHAEL R. BLOOD | 8/11/22

Evansville Fire Department personnel examine the scene after a house explosion at 1010 N. Weinbach Avenue in Evansville, Ind., Wednesday afternoon, Aug. 10, 2022. (Denny Simmons/Evansville Courier & Press via AP)

Deputy coroner: House explosion in southern Indiana kills 3

Authorities say three people were killed when a house exploded in the southern Indiana city of Evansville. Dave Anson, chief deputy coroner for Vanderburgh County, told The Associated Press that the … more

8/10/22

Disney+ ad-free subscription cost to rise by 38% in December

Disney said it is raising prices for streaming subscribers in the U.S. who want to watch Disney+ without ads as more viewers switch to what CEO Bob Chapek described Wednesday as the “best value in … more

By MATT O'BRIEN | 8/10/22

FILE - A passenger passes by a sign for the Transportation Security Administration's TSA PreCheck line in Terminal A at Logan Airport in Boston, Monday, June 27, 2016. Air travelers are finally getting a break on fares. The government said Wednesday, Aug. 10, 2022, that the average airfare dropped nearly 8% in July compared with June, to $311. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa, File)

Travelers are starting to get a break from higher airfares

Air travelers are finally getting a break on fares. The government said Wednesday that the average airfare dropped nearly 8% in July compared with June, to $311. The bad news is, that's still almost … more

By DAVID KOENIG | 8/10/22

This image released by Paramount Pictures shows Aamir Khan in a scene from "Laal Singh Chaddha." (Paramount via AP)

Run, Laal, run: Aamir Khan stars in Indian 'Forrest Gump'

Indian actor Aamir Khan enjoyed “Forrest Gump” so much that he’s starring in a Hindi remake of the iconic film. Nearly 30 years after the original's release, Khan is taking on the role of the … more

By HILARY FOX | 8/10/22

FILE - In this image taken from a Windsor, Va., Police video, a police officer uses a spray agent on Caron Nazario, an Army lieutenant who is Black and Latino, on Dec. 20, 2020, in Windsor, Va. The traffic stop from December 2020 was captured on video and viewed by millions of people after it became public in April 2021. Nazario can proceed to trial with claims in a lawsuit of false imprisonment, assault and battery under state law, a federal judge ruled Tuesday, Aug. 9, 2022. (Windsor Police via AP, File)

Soldier's assault suit against officers can proceed to trial

A federal judge says a U.S. Army lieutenant can go to trial against police officers in Virginia whose traffic stop drew national attention and outrage. Caron Nazario was pepper-sprayed, struck and … more

By BEN FINLEY | 8/10/22