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FILE - In this Oct. 3, 2017 file photo, personal belongings and debris litters the Route 91 Harvest festival grounds across the street from the Mandalay Bay resort and casino in Las Vegas.Families of people killed in the Las Vegas Strip massacre in October 2017 will receive shares of almost all the $1.4 million estate of the man who unleashed the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history and killed himself before police reached him, according to a probate case that ended Thursday, April 20, 2023, in Nevada. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez, File)

Slain Vegas shooting victims' kin to split shooter's estate

Families of people killed in the Las Vegas Strip massacre in October 2017 will receive almost all of the $1.4 million estate of the man who unleashed the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. … more

By KEN RITTER | 4/20/23

FILE - The Oroville Dam, top right, holds back water at Lake Oroville on March 25, 2023, in Butte County, Calif. Regulators say California will provide 100% of the water requested by cities and farms for the first time in years thanks to winter storms that filled reservoirs and runoff from a record snowpack. (AP Photo/Noah Berger, File)

California to meet 100% of water requests thanks to storms

Regulators say California will provide 100% of the water requested by cities and farms for the first time in years thanks to winter storms that filled reservoirs and runoff from a record snowpack. … more

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FILE - This booking photo provided by the Westminster Police Department shows Jeremy Webster on June 15, 2018. A court-appointed psychologist says a man charged with killing a 13-year-old boy, wounding his mother and brother and a witness during a road rage confrontation in suburban Denver was legally sane at the time. Christina Gliser testified at the trial of Webster in the 2018 shootings on Thursday, April 20, 2023. (Westminster Police Department via AP, File)

Psychologist says man charged in road rage killing was sane

A court-appointed psychologist says a man charged with killing a 13-year-old boy, wounding his mother and brother and a witness during a road rage confrontation in suburban Denver was legally sane at … more

By COLLEEN SLEVIN | 4/20/23

FILE - Former President Donald Trump leaves Trump Tower in New York on Tuesday, April 4, 2023. Only 4 in 10 U.S. adults believe Trump acted illegally in New York, where he has been charged in connection with hush money payments made to women who alleged sexual encounters, according to a new poll by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research. More — about half — believe he broke the law in Georgia, where he is under investigation for interfering in the 2020 election vote count. (AP Photo/Bryan Woolston, File)

Judge dismissive of Trump's reasons to skip NY rape trial

A federal judge says he won't let former President Donald Trump's lawyers tell jurors next week that he wants to attend a rape trial but won't because he wants to spare New York City from the … more

By LARRY NEUMEISTER | 4/20/23

A destroyed military vehicle is seen in southern in Khartoum, Sudan, Thursday, April 20, 2023. The latest attempt at a cease-fire between the rival Sudanese forces faltered as gunfire rattled the capital of Khartoum. Through the night and into Thursday morning, gunfire could be heard almost constantly across Khartoum. (AP Photo/Marwan Ali)

Why Sudan's conflict matters to the rest of the world

Fighting in Sudan between forces loyal to two top generals has put Africa’s third-largest country at risk of collapse and could have consequences far beyond its borders. Both sides have tens of … more

By The Associated Press | 4/20/23

This illustration provided by NASA depicts the RHESSI (Reuven Ramaty High Energy Solar Spectroscopic Imager) solar observation satellite. The defunct science satellite will plummet through the atmosphere Wednesday night, April 19, 2023, according to NASA and the Defense Department. Experts tracking the spacecraft say chances are low it will pose any danger. (NASA via AP)

Old NASA satellite plunges to Earth over Sahara Desert

An old NASA satellite that studied the sun has plunged back to Earth. The space agency said Thursday the spacecraft reentered the atmosphere over the Sahara Desert. Officials say they've received no … more

By MARCIA DUNN | 4/20/23

FILE - F. Murray Abraham appears at the 80th annual Golden Globe Awards in Beverly Hills, Calif., on Jan. 10, 2023. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP, File)

F. Murray Abraham apologizes after 'Mythic Quest' exit

F. Murray Abraham is apologizing after allegations of sexual misconduct led to his departure from the Apple TV+ show “Mythic Quest.” He says it was never his intention to offend anyone and said … more

By The Associated Press | 4/20/23

FILE - Tombstones mark graves at the Lincoln Memorial Cemetery in Portsmouth, Va., Tuesday, March 23, 2021. The longstanding racial gap in U.S. stroke death rates widened dramatically during the COVID-19 pandemic, new research suggests. Stroke death rates increased for both Black and White adults in 2020 and 2021, according to a study released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Thursday, April 20, 2023. But the difference between the two groups grew about 22%, compared to the five years before the pandemic. (AP Photo/Steve Helber, File)

Racial gap in US stroke deaths widened during pandemic

The longstanding racial gap in U.S. stroke death rates widened dramatically during the COVID-19 pandemic. That's according to research published Thursday by the Centers for Disease Control and … more

By MIKE STOBBE | 4/20/23

FILE - This Feb. 19, 2021, photo provided by Oklahoma Department of Corrections shows Richard Glossip. An Oklahoma appeals court on Thursday, April 20, 2023, upheld the murder conviction of death row inmate Richard Glossip, paving the way for Glossip to be executed on May 18, despite the state attorney general’s concerns about some testimony and evidence. (Oklahoma Department of Corrections via AP, File)

Oklahoma court upholds Richard Glossip’s murder conviction

An Oklahoma appeals court has upheld the murder conviction of death row inmate Richard Glossip. The decision Thursday by the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals clears the way for Glossip to be … more

By SEAN MURPHY and KEN MILLER | 4/20/23

Kinsley White, 6, shows reporters a wound left on her face, Thursday, April 20, 2023 in Gastonia, N.C. A North Carolina man shot and wounded a 6-year-old girl and her parents after children went to retrieve a basketball that had rolled into his yard, according to neighbors and the girl's family — another in a string of recent shootings sparked by seemingly trivial reasons. (Kara Fohner/The Gaston Gazette via AP)

Neighbor: Girl, 6, and parents shot, wounded over stray ball

Authorities are searching for a man accused of shooting and wounding a 6-year-old North Carolina girl and her parents. A neighbor says the Tuesday night shooting near Gastonia happened after children … more

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Dante Simonetti, associate professor and vice chair for undergraduate education at the UCLA Samueli Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Department, explains a technology dubbed SeaChange during a news conference, Wednesday, April 12, 2023, in San Pedro, Calif. Engineering faculty the university say they have developed a technique that can remove carbon dioxide from seawater and produce hydrogen, a green energy fuel, in the process. (AP Photo/Ashley Landis)

California researchers attempt ocean climate solution

Engineering faculty at the University of California Los Angeles say they have developed a technique that can remove carbon dioxide from seawater and produce green hydrogen, a clean fuel, in the … more

By JULIE WATSON | 4/20/23

Residential properties are shown on a hill in San Francisco, Tuesday, April 18, 2023. On Thursday, the National Association of Realtors reports on sales of existing homes in March. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)

US home sales fell in March in tepid homebuying season start

Sales of previously occupied U.S. homes fell in March and prices edged lower for the second month in a row, a tepid start to the spring homebuying season as buyers contend with sharply higher … more

By ALEX VEIGA | 4/20/23

A Frontex Standing Corps member, left, and a Macedonian Border Police officer stand next to each other during the official launch of the Frontex Joint Operation in North Macedonia, at police barracks in Skopje, North Macedonia, on Thursday, April 20. 2023. (AP Photo/Boris Grdanoski)

EU border agency begins deployment in North Macedonia

The European Union’s border protection agency Frontex has begun its official deployment in North Macedonia Thursday, extending its operations outside the bloc to a fifth country. More than 100 … more

By KONSTANTIN TESTORIDES | 4/20/23

The father whose 20-year-old daughter was fatally shot after she and her friends got lost and drove to the wrong house in rural town upstate New York raged Wednesday at the man who pulled the trigger. (April 19)

Woman shot after wrong turn had hopes, dreams, father says

The father whose 20-year-old daughter was fatally shot after she and her friends got lost and drove to the wrong house in rural upstate New York raged Wednesday at the man who pulled the trigger. … more

By MICHAEL HILL | 4/19/23

With the U.S. Capitol in the background, a protester holds a sign in support of mifepristone as they march past the capitol following a Planned Parenthood rally in support of abortion access outside the Supreme Court on Saturday, April. 15, 2023, in Washington. (AP Photo/Nathan Howard)

As courts weigh abortion pill rules, patients ask: What now?

Recent legal rulings on a key drug used in medication abortions may leave many women wondering what it means for them. Various courts have ruled on mifepristone, which is used in the most common form … more

By LAURA UNGAR | 4/19/23

In this photo provided by researchers, Cornell University graduate student Brayan Vilanova Cuevas collects a swab sample from the surface of corals in St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands in September 2022. A tiny single-celled organism is to blame for a massive die-off of sea urchins in the Caribbean in 2022, researchers reported Wednesday, April 19, 2023, in the journalScience Advances. (Ian Hewson/Cornell University via AP)

Mystery solved: Scientists ID Caribbean sea urchin killer

Scientists have found the source of a mysterious outbreak that killed sea urchins across the Caribbean last year. Researchers reported Wednesday that a tiny parasite is to blame for the die-off. The … more

By MADDIE BURAKOFF | 4/19/23

Ari Aster, left, writer/director of "Beau Is Afraid," and star Joaquin Phoenix pose together at the premiere of the film, Monday, April 10, 2023, at the Directors Guild of America in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)

Q&A: Aster, Phoenix try to discuss ‘Beau is Afraid’

In Ari Aster’s new film “Beau is Afraid,” Joaquin Phoenix plays an anxious man in a rotten world who goes on a wildly weird journey, both Homeric and Oedipal, to his mother’s home. It’s … more

By LINDSEY BAHR | 4/19/23

Keri Russell evolves from silky spy to sweaty 'Diplomat'

Keri Russell is back on TV, and this time, she's on the other side. Five years after her acclaimed turn ended as cold-blooded Soviet spy Elizabeth Jennings on FX's “The Americans,” Russell plays … more

By JOCELYN NOVECK | 4/19/23

Law enforcement continues to investigate a mass shooting at Mahogany Masterpiece dance studio in Dadeville , Ala., on Sunday, April 16, 2023. (Jake Crandall/The Montgomery Advertiser via AP)

Alabama police arrest 2 teens for birthday party shooting

Alabama investigators say two teenagers have been arrested and charged with murder in connection with a shooting that killed four young people at a Sweet 16 birthday party. District Attorney Mike … more

By KIM CHANDLER | 4/19/23

This image released by Searchlight Pictures shows Kelvin Harrison Jr. in a scene from "Chevalier." (Searchlight Pictures via AP)

Review: In ‘Chevalier,’ an erased figure gets a lush biopic

Joseph Bologne, the Chevalier de Saint-Georges, was an extraordinarily accomplished man in Marie Antoinette’s France. He was a scholar, a fencer, a virtuoso violinist and a famous, sought-after … more

By LINDSEY BAHR | 4/19/23