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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 …

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Republican-controlled Wisconsin Senate voted Tuesday to reject four of Democratic Gov. Tony Evers’ appointees, including a member of the state’s natural resources policy board and a former lieutenant governor who was to serve on a hospital governing board. That brings to 13 the number of Evers appointees that the Senate has rejected, which has the …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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.

Charlotte, una raya de color pardo y del tamaño de una bandeja de servir, ha pasado buena parte de su vida nadando en los confines de un acuario en un establecimiento en los montes Apalaches de Carolina del Norte. Está a 3.700 kilómetros (2.300 millas) de su hábitat natural bajo las olas del sur de California. Y no ha compartido …

ALBANY, Nueva York, EE.UU. (AP) — Un hombre de la Ciudad de Nueva York que admitió haber contrabandeado tres pitones de Birmania, las cuales introdujo en sus pantalones para cruzar un punto fronterizo entre Estados Unidos y Canadá, fue sentenciado el miércoles a un año de libertad condicional y se le impuso una multa de 5.000 dólares, informó la fiscalía …

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, …