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BOSTON (AP) — An American Airlines flight attendant arrested on suspicion of trying to secretly video record a 14-year-old female passenger using an airplane bathroom last September is being held in custody pending trial. Police have also alleged that Estes Carter Thompson III, 37, of Charlotte, North Carolina, had recordings of four other minor female passengers using lavatories on an …

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — Safety failures at a West Virginia underground coal mine caused the death of a miner last year, federal regulators found. The Mine Safety and Health Administration released its report last week in the drowning death of Christopher Finley, 39, at Twin State Mining Inc.’s Mine No. 39 in McDowell County, the Charleston Gazette-Mail reported. Finley drowned …

HOUSTON (AP) — Former President George H.W. Bush’s speedboat has a new owner. The 38-foot (11.5-meter) “Fidelity V” was auctioned for $435,000 during the George and Barbara Bush Foundation’s 2024 Presidential Salute benefiting the George H.W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum, and The Bush School of Government and Public Service at Texas A&M University, a spokesperson said. The event last …

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Paul Powell, the southern Illinois political powerhouse who died and left behind $800,000 in cash in the notorious “Shoebox Scandal,” used to say, “The only thing worse than a defeated politician is a broke one.” For more than half a century, a Powell-established $250,000 trust sustained his legacy, for better or worse. But the account that …

PHOENIX (AP) — A convicted murderer who fled from a halfway house in the Phoenix metro area is back in custody, authorities say. Officials with the Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation & Reentry said Daniel Cahill was arrested Saturday afternoon by the department’s fugitive apprehension unit in partnership with the U.S. Marshals Service. They said Cahill was booked into the …

WASHINGTON (AP) — La Casa Blanca confirmó públicamente el jueves que Rusia ha desarrollado una “inquietante” arma antisatélite, pero afirmó que ésta no puede causar directamente “destrucción física” en la Tierra. John Kirby, vocero del Consejo de Seguridad Nacional de la Casa Blanca, dijo que funcionarios de inteligencia de Estados Unidos tienen información de que Rusia ha desarrollado esa capacidad, …

BOSTON (AP) — Thousands of commuters were left stranded around Boston Thursday during the morning rush hour, after power outages hit several lines of the beleaguered transit service. To help make up for the morning chaos, fare gates will be open at subway stations on all four rapid transit lines for the afternoon commute from 3 p.m. to 7 p.m. …

AUSTIN, Texas, EE.UU. (AP) — Un juez federal expresó el jueves su preocupación por una ley de Texas que daría a la policía amplia autoridad para detener a los migrantes bajo cargos de ingreso ilegal a partir de marzo, y dijo que sería una “pesadilla” si Estados Unidos se convirtiera en un mosaico de estados que aplican leyes distintas de …

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — An Ohio woman who disappeared with her 5-year-old foster son has been charged with kidnapping and child endangerment. Columbus police said Pammy Maye, 48, was last seen at her home around 3 a.m. Wednesday, around the time her husband called 911 and said Maye had told him the child was no longer alive. The husband said …

WASHINGTON (AP) — Casa Blanca: La nueva arma antisatelital rusa no puede causar “destrucción física” en la Tierra directamente.