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ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Democrats in the New York Legislature on Monday rejected a congressional map drawn by the state’s bipartisan redistricting commission, setting the stage for the party to craft lines that help Democrats in battleground House races that could determine control of Congress. The Democrat-dominated state Legislature will now have to submit and approve a new set of …

EDMOND, Oklahoma, EE.UU. (AP) — Diversas vigilias se llevaron a cabo en distintos puntos de Estados Unidos el viernes y el sábado en honor de un adolescente de Oklahoma que murió al día siguiente de una pelea en un baño de una escuela secundaria en la que el joven no binario aseguraba ser víctima de acoso. Nex Benedict, un estudiante …

NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. (AP) — A New Jersey man has been acquitted in a retrial in the beating death of a college student from Tennessee a decade ago. Jurors in Middlesex County deliberated for five hours before acquitting Timothy Puskas of all charges Wednesday in the 2014 death of 22-year-old former Rutgers student William McCaw of Gallatin, Tennessee. “I only …

NUEVA YORK (AP) — Wayne LaPierre, quien durante muchos años fue el director ejecutivo de la Asociación Nacional del Rifle (NRA, por sus siglas en inglés), malgastó millones de dólares de los fondos de la organización para pagar un estilo de vida extravagante que incluía escapadas exóticas y viajes en aviones privados y superyates, según determinó el viernes un jurado …

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A bill before Mississippi lawmakers might allow incarcerated people to sue jails and prisons if they encounter inmates from the opposite sex, such as those who are transgender, in restrooms or changing areas. State lawmakers advanced the proposal out of a House committee Thursday. It would require inmate restrooms, changing rooms and sleeping quarters in correctional …

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Hydeia Broadbent, the HIV/AIDS activist who came to national prominence in the 1990s as a young child for her inspirational talks to reduce the stigma surrounding the virus she was born with, has died. She was 39. Broadbent’s father announced on Facebook that she had died “after living with Aids since birth,” but did not provide …

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Police in Oklahoma say they still haven’t finished their investigation into the death of a 16-year-old nonbinary student the day after a high school fight, which has been ruled a suicide by the state medical examiner’s office. A summary autopsy report was released on Wednesday, more than a month after Nex Benedict’s Feb. 8 death, but …

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HAMMOND, Ind. (AP) — A man who led officers in northwestern Indiana on a chase died after crashing a stolen U-Haul truck into a river, police said. The incident began around 4:10 a.m. Wednesday when Hammond police were notified by its license plate recognition system of a stolen U-Haul in the city, police said. Officers on patrol spotted the vehicle …

The 88-year-old mother of Connecticut mother-of-five Jennifer Dulos testified at a murder conspiracy trial Wednesday that she has not seen or communicated with her daughter since she disappeared and was presumed by police to be murdered in 2019. Dressed in a gray suit with scarfs, Gloria Farber didn’t show much emotion as she told the jury that her daughter was …