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CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — A judge has ruled that a 5-year-old New Hampshire girl missing since 2019 is legally dead and her mother can become administrator of her estate, just weeks after the child’s father was convicted of killing her. Crystal Sorey “has carried her burden to demonstrate” that her daughter, Harmony Montgomery, was killed “as a result of some …

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Saudi oil giant Aramco on Sunday reported it made $121 billion in profit last year, down from its 2022 record due to lower energy prices. The results still marked the company’s second highest ever result, Aramco said, as members of the OPEC+ alliance continue to cut their production to try to boost global energy …

TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — A New Jersey court has denied an appeal from a high school that lost a state basketball tournament game when referees wrongly overturned a buzzer-beating basket. The state appellate division ruled late Friday that it would not grant Manasquan school officials’ petition stemming from this week’s loss to Camden. “Judges should generally ‘refrain from interfering with …

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Republicans in Iowa’s House of Representatives approved a bill Thursday that would criminalize the death of an “unborn person” — over Democrats’ concerns about how it might apply to in vitro fertilization, after an Alabama court found frozen embryos can be considered children. Iowa’s law currently outlines penalties for termination or serious injury to a …

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate passed legislation Thursday that would compensate Americans exposed to radiation by the government by renewing a law initially passed more than three decades ago. The bill by Sens. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., and Ben Ray Lujan, D-N.M., would expand the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act to include more people who believe that exposure caused their illnesses. While …

MIAMI (AP) — The Miami Seaquarium, an old-Florida style tourist attraction that was home to Lolita, the beloved Orca that died last year, is being evicted from the waterfront property it leases from Miami-Dade County. Miami-Dade County Mayor Daniella Levine Cava cited a “long and troubling history of violations” in a lease termination notice sent Thursday to the chief executive …

La viuda del dirigente opositor ruso Alexei Navalny, quien murió en una prisión en el Ártico hace tres semanas, exhortó a sus partidarios a participar en un acto de protesta contra la elección presidencial de este mes. Navalny planificó el acto poco antes de su muerte en circunstancias aún no aclaradas. Yulia Navalnaya pidió a los rusos opositores al presidente …

SAN JOSÉ LAS FLORES, El Salvador (AP) — Nestled in the mountains of northern El Salvador, near the Honduras border, San José Las Flores has been a bastion of leftist resistance for decades. Now its residents, many veterans of the country’s civil war, fret over the seemingly imminent demise of the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front, the party born of …

COPENHAGUE, Dinamarca (AP) — Un grupo de mujeres indígenas en Groenlandia ha demandado a Dinamarca por implantarles de manera forzosa dispositivos intrauterinos anticonceptivos en las décadas de 1960 y 1970, y exigieron una compensación total de casi 43 millones de coronas (6,3 millones de dólares), según reportaron medios daneses el lunes. Las 143 mujeres inuit dijeron que las autoridades de …

WASHINGTON (AP) — A small but substantial chunk of Republican primary and caucus voters say they would be so dissatisfied if Donald Trump became the party’s presidential nominee that they would not vote for him in November’s general election, according to AP VoteCast. An analysis of the data shows that many of those voters were unlikely to vote for Trump, …