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NEW YORK (AP) — Ed Dwight grew up in segregated 1930s Kansas on a farm on the edge of town. An airfield was within walking distance, and, as a boy, he’d often go to marvel at the planes and gawk at the pilots. Most were flying back from hunting trips and their cabins were messy with blood and empty beers …

ST. LOUIS (AP) — A judge ruled Friday that a former St. Louis police officer was not guilty of assault for shooting a suspected carjacker in 2018, ruling he acted in self-defense. The shooting by Matthew D. EerNisse was “objectively reasonable in light of the totality of the particular facts and circumstances confronting the officer on the scene,” Judge John …

ROME (AP) — Pope Francis on Friday blasted the “radical individualism” that he said was infecting society today, as he greeted Argentine pilgrims who are in town for this weekend’s canonization of the first female saint from his home country. Instead, Francis held up as a model the 18th century Argentine laywoman lovingly known as Mama Antula, who ministered to …

LONDON (AP) — Prince Harry said Friday that his “mission” to rein in the British media continues, after he accepted costs and damages from a tabloid publisher that invaded his privacy with phone hacking and other illegal snooping. Harry’s attorney, David Sherborne, said at a court hearing that Mirror Group Newspapers had agreed to pay all of the prince’s legal …

BATON ROUGE, Luisiana, EE.UU. (AP) — Luego de que un acuerdo de seguridad fronteriza se viniera abajo en el Congreso, el gobernador de Luisiana, Jeff Landry, anunció el jueves que enviará a miembros de la Guardia Nacional estatal a la frontera entre Estados Unidos y México en Texas. Landry anunció el plan durante una conferencia de prensa en el Capitolio …

ALPENA, Mich. (AP) — A jury convicted a man of murder in the deaths of a teenage girl and a woman in northern Michigan, including one victim whose body was buried in a backyard. Prosecutors alleged that Brad Srebnik killed 17-year-old Brynn Bills and subsequently killed his girlfriend, Abby Hill, because she knew what he did in the Alpena area …

LONDRES (AP) — La editorial de un diario británico ha acordado pagar al príncipe Enrique una suma de dinero “considerable” por los costos y daños resultantes de invadir su privacidad mediante el hackeo de su teléfono y otros métodos ilegales de intromisión, dijo el viernes el abogado de Enrique. El abogado David Sherborne dijo que la empresa Mirror Group Newspapers …

WASHINGTON (AP) — The epilogue to Republican George Santos’ short and tumultuous congressional career will be written Tuesday as voters in New York’s third congressional district decide who will complete the remaining 11 months of his unfinished term. In December, Santos became only the sixth U.S. Representative to be expelled from the chamber by his colleagues after a blistering report …

PRAGUE (AP) — The Czech Republic’s central bank cut its key interest rate for the second straight time Thursday in an effort to help the struggling economy. The cut by a half-percentage point brought the interest rate down to 6.25%. The bank also trimmed borrowing costs by a quarter-point on Dec. 21, which marked the first cut since June 22, …

MOSCÚ (AP) — La máxima autoridad electoral de Rusia vetó el jueves la presencia de un político contrario a las acciones militares de Moscú en Ucrania en la boleta para las próximas presidenciales. La ley exigía que Boris Nadezhdin, que es legislador en una localidad próxima a Moscú, reuniera al menos 100.000 firmas de apoyo a su candidatura. La Comisión …