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Smoke rises from a small fire as motorists exit through a ramp off Interstate 10, where a section of the freeway is closed due to a recent fire in Los Angeles, Tuesday, Nov. 14, 2023. It will take at least three weeks to repair the freeway damaged in an unrelated arson fire, the California governor said Tuesday, leaving the city already accustomed to soul-crushing traffic without part of a vital artery that serves hundreds of thousands of people daily. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

California program to lease land under freeways faces scrutiny after major Los Angeles fire

The state of California operates a little-known program to lease land under freeways that is now under scrutiny after this weekend’s arson fire under Interstate 10 in Los Angeles. The land under … more

By JULIE WATSON and AMY TAXIN | 11/15/23

With American and Chinese flags flying, people watch as the motorcade carrying President Joe Biden drives past Tuesday, Nov. 14, 2023, in San Francisco. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Lush, private Northern California estate is site for Xi-Biden meeting

U.S. President Joe Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping will hold their long anticipated meeting at Filoli, a historic country house and museum with lavish gardens just south of San Francisco. … more

By JANIE HAR | 11/14/23

Sgt. Gabriela Corbalan rings a bell as the names of the soldiers from the 3rd Battalion, 24th Infantry Regiment, are read during an event at the Buffalo Soldiers Museum, Monday, Nov. 13, 2023, in Houston. U.S. Army officials say they will overturn the convictions of over 100 Black soldiers accused of a mutiny at a Houston military camp a century ago in a trial that had racial undertones. (Elizabeth Conley/Houston Chronicle via AP)

US Army to overturn century-old convictions of 110 Black soldiers

U.S. Army officials say they will overturn the convictions of 110 Black soldiers for a mutiny at a Houston military camp a century ago in a trial that had racial undertones. This comes after … more

11/14/23

FILE - Zoe Staires protests against the U.S. Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade, June 24, 2022, in Tulsa, Okla. The Oklahoma Supreme Court reiterated its position on Tuesday, Nov. 14, 2023, in a 5-4 opinion that the Oklahoma Constitution guarantees a woman's right to an abortion when necessary to preserve her life, although the procedure remains illegal in virtually all other cases. (Mike Simons/Tulsa World via AP, File)

Oklahoma Supreme Court keeps anti-abortion laws on hold while challenge is pending

The Oklahoma Supreme Court is reiterating its position that the state constitution guarantees a woman’s right to an abortion when necessary to preserve her life. The court issued its 5-4 opinion … more

By SEAN MURPHY | 11/14/23

FILE - Charlie Adelson looks at jurors as his defense attorney presents closing arguments, Monday, Nov. 6, 2023, in Tallahassee, Fla. On Monday, Nov. 13, Donna Adelson, the matriarch of a South Florida family who made their fortune practicing dentistry, was arrested at Miami International Airport on charges of orchestrating the hit-man murder of her ex-son-in-law, one week after her oral surgeon son, Charlie Adelson, was convicted on the same first-degree murder charge. (Alicia Devine/Tallahassee Democrat via AP, Pool, File)

Matriarch is charged with arranging her ex-son-in-law's death, 1 week after son convicted of murder

The matriarch of a wealthy South Florida family has been arrested on charges that she arranged her ex-son-in-law's murder. Authorities say 73-year-old Donna Adelson was arrested Monday at Miami … more

By TERRY SPENCER | 11/14/23

The nation’s Catholic bishops gather for their annual fall meeting in at the Marriott Waterfront hotel in Baltimore on Tuesday, Nov. 14, 2023. On Tuesday, the Catholic leaders called for peace in a war-torn world and unity amid strife within their own clerical ranks. (AP Photo/Tiffany Stanley)

US Catholic bishops meet; leaders call for unity and peace amid internal strife and global conflict

Catholic leaders called for peace in a war-torn world and unity amid strife within their own ranks as U.S. bishops gather in Baltimore. Their annual fall meeting came soon after two actions by Pope … more

By TIFFANY STANLEY and PETER SMITH | 11/14/23

FILE - Tributes hang on the temporary fence surrounding the parking lot in front of a King Soopers grocery store in which 10 people died in a late March 2021 mass shooting, April 9, 2021, in Boulder, Colo. More than two years after police say Ahmad Al Aliwi Alissa shot and killed 10 people at the supermarket in Colorado, prosecutors are finally set to lay out their case against the mentally ill man who was deemed competent in early 2023 to stand trial. A judge is scheduled to hold a hearing Tuesday, Nov. 14, 2023, to decide if there is enough evidence for Alissa, who has schizophrenia, to go on trial. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski, File)

Colorado supermarket shooting suspect pleads not guilty by reason of insanity

The defendant in a 2021 mass shooting that killed 10 people at a Colorado supermarket has pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity. That plea came Tuesday after a judge ruled that the case can move … more

By COLLEEN SLEVIN | 11/14/23

FILE - Sergei Khadzhikurbanov, accused of the murder of journalist Anna Politkovskaya, awaits the judge's verdict in a glass cage, at the Moscow City Court, Russia, Wednesday, May 21, 2014. A lawyer for Khadzhikurbanov said Tuesday, Nov. 14, 2023, that he received a presidential pardon after doing a stint fighting in Ukraine. (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin, File)

A man convicted in the 2006 killing of a Russian journalist wins a pardon after serving in Ukraine

A lawyer for a man convicted in the 2006 killing of Russian investigative journalist Anna Politkovskaya received a presidential pardon after a stint fighting in Ukraine. Sergei Khadzhikurbanov was … more

By EMMA BURROWS | 11/14/23

Emergency responders are on the scene of a fatal accident on Interstate 70 West in Licking County, Ohio, Tuesday, Nov. 14, 2023. An emergency official says a charter bus carrying students from a high school was rear-ended by a semi-truck on the Ohio highway. (WSYX/WTTE via AP)

3 dead, 15 hospitalized when bus carrying students and truck crash on Ohio highway, officials say

An emergency official says a charter bus carrying students from a high school was rear-ended by a semi-truck on an Ohio highway, leaving three people dead and 15 others injured. Licking County … more

By JOHN SEEWER, BRUCE SHIPKOWSKI and RON TODT | 11/14/23

Guohua Power Station, a coal-fired power plant, operates in Dingzhou, Baoding, in the northern China's Hebei province, Friday, Nov. 10, 2023. The world is off track in its efforts to curb global warming, a new international report calculates Tuesday, Nov. 14. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

In fight to curb climate change, a grim report shows world is struggling to get on track

A new international report says the world is off track in its efforts to curb global warming in 41 of 42 important measurements and is even heading in the wrong direction in six crucial ways. … more

By SETH BORENSTEIN | 11/14/23

FILE - Gilda Jackson walks on a pasture on her property that she grows hay on in Paradise, Texas, Aug. 21, 2023. Revved-up climate change now permeates Americans’ daily lives with harm that is “already far-reaching and worsening across every region of the United States," a massive new government report says Tuesday, Nov. 14. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez, File)

Worsening warming is hurting people in all regions, US climate assessment shows

A massive new federal government report says revved-up climate change now permeates Americans’ daily lives with harms that are already far-reaching and worsening across every region of the United … more

By SETH BORENSTEIN and TAMMY WEBBER | 11/14/23

The Israeli military has released video of fighting in the Gaza Strip, showing troops operating in an area between Beit Hanoun and Jabalia. (AP Video/Mohammad Jahjouh)

Live updates | Biden says Gaza's largest hospital 'must be protected' as thousands flee the fighting

Fighting between Israeli forces and Palestinian militants outside Gaza’s largest hospital has prompted thousands of people to flee from the medical facility. But health officials said Monday that … more

By The Associated Press | 11/14/23

FILE - A person holds a sign and attends a rally to support stop AAPI (Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders) hate at the Logan Square Monument in Chicago, on March 20, 2021. Despite ongoing efforts to combat anti-Asian racism that arose after the pandemic, a third of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders say they have experienced an act of abuse based on their race or ethnicity in the last year. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh, File)

1 in 3 US Asians and Pacific Islanders faced racial abuse this year, AP-NORC/AAPI Data poll shows

Despite ongoing efforts to combat anti-Asian racism that arose after the pandemic, a third of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders say they have experienced an act of abuse based on their race or … more

By TERRY TANG and LINLEY SANDERS | 11/14/23

FILE - Former Louisville Police officer Brett Hankison talks about seeing a subject in a firing stance in the apartment as he is cross-examined in Louisville, Ky. on March 2, 2022. The former Louisville police officer who fired into Breonna Taylor’s apartment the night she was killed is going on trial in federal court this week. Hankison is charged with violating Taylor’s civil rights during the botched 2020 raid. The trial will mark a second attempt by prosecutors to convict Hankison for his actions on the night Taylor was shot to death by police. (AP Photo/Timothy D. Easley, Pool, File)

Jury in Breonna Taylor federal civil rights trial opens deliberations in case of ex-officer

A jury has begun deliberating at the federal trial of a former Louisville police officer accused of violating Breonna Taylor’s civil rights. Prosecutors say the former officer, Brett Hankison, … more

By BRUCE SCHREINER and DYLAN LOVAN | 11/13/23

New York City Mayor Eric Adams holds a news conference at Manhattan's downtown heliport, after announcing the city's support for electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft, Monday, Nov. 13, 2023, in New York. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)

New York City Mayor ducks questions on FBI investigation, but pledges to cooperate with inquiry

New York City Mayor Eric Adams has sidestepped questions for now about an FBI investigation that prompted agents to seize his phones and raid the home of his chief campaign fundraiser. Adams walked … more

11/13/23

FILE - In this Feb. 8, 2022, photo, Jennifer and James Crumbley, the parents of Ethan Crumbley, a teenager accused of killing four students in a shooting at Oxford High School, appear in court in Rochester Hills, Mich. The Michigan Supreme Court turned down an appeal Tuesday, Oct. 3, 2023, clearing the way for the parents of the Oxford High School shooter to face trial on involuntary manslaughter charges. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya, file)

Parents of Michigan school shooter will have separate trials, judge says

The parents of a Michigan school shooter will have separate trials for their alleged roles in the deaths of four students. A judge signed off on the request Monday. James Crumbley and Jennifer … more

11/13/23

FILE - Signage marks the exterior of the New Castle County Courthouse, Tuesday, Oct. 31, 2023, in Wilmington, Del. The courthouse is the scene of a trial that began Oct. 30, for Keith Gibson, an alleged serial killer suspected in the deaths of several people in Delaware and Pennsylvania. On Monday, Nov. 13, a Delaware jury began deliberating in the trial of Gibson. (AP Photo/Randall Chase, File)

Jury deliberates fate of suspected serial killer accused in six deaths in Delaware and Philadelphia

Jury deliberations are under way in the trial of a suspected serial killer accused in the deaths of six people in Delaware and Pennsylvania in 2021. A Delaware jury began deliberations Monday after … more

By RANDALL CHASE | 11/13/23

Police disperse a crowd of protesters with gas during a demonstration in opposition to a new police training center, Monday, Nov. 13, 2023, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/Mike Stewart)

Police and protesters clash at Atlanta training center site derided by opponents as 'Cop City'

Police used tear gas and flash-bang grenades to halt a march seeking to stop construction of an Atlanta-area police and firefighter training center. The clash came Monday at the end of a 2-mile … more

By R.J. RICO | 11/13/23

FILE - Federal judge Maryanne Trump Barry, older sister of Donald Trump, sits in the balcony during Trump's election night rally in New York, Nov. 9, 2016. Maryanne Trump Barry, a retired federal judge and former president Donald Trump's oldest sister, has died at age 86 at her home in New York. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson, File)

Maryanne Trump Barry, the former president's older sister and a retired federal judge, dies at 86

Maryanne Trump Barry, a retired federal judge and former president Donald Trump’s oldest sister, has died at the age of 86. She became an Assistant U.S. Attorney in 1974 and was nominated to the … more

By MARYCLAIRE DALE and KAREN MATTHEWS | 11/13/23

A Department of Homeland Security officer walks the perimeter of the Phillip Burton Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse where the federal trial of David DePape is underway in San Francisco, on Monday, Nov. 13, 2023. Prosecutors say DePape broke into former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's home and bludgeoned her husband Paul Pelosi with a hammer in October 2022. (AP Photo/Noah Berger)

FBI, Capitol police testify in the trial of the man accused of attacking Nancy Pelosi's husband

Prosecutors are bringing forward law enforcement officials to discuss video that’s at the crux of their case against the man accused of attacking former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s husband at … more

By OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ | 11/13/23