WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Biden administration said Tuesday that it was providing $504 million in implementation grants for a dozen "tech hubs" in Ohio, Montana, Nevada and Florida, among other locations. Read More

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Biden administration proposed a new rule Tuesday to address excessive heat in the workplace, as tens of millions of people in the U.S. are under heat advisories due to blistering temperatures. Read More

An Israeli strike has killed at least nine people in the southern Gaza city of Khan Younis

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PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) -- Ten members of a Cambodian environmental activist group that campaigned against destructive infrastructure projects and alleged corruption were each sentenced on Tuesday to six years in prison on charges of conspiring against the state. Read More

LONDON (AP) -- Millions of voters in Britain are going to the polls Thursday to choose a new House of Commons and a new government. Read More

Lawyers ask New York judge to delay sentencing while he weighs high court’s decision and how it may influence case

Donald Trump’s lawyers on Monday asked the New York judge who presided over his hush-money trial to set aside his conviction and delay his sentencing, scheduled for later this month.

The letter to Judge Juan M Merchan cited the US supreme court’s ruling earlier Monday and asked the judge to delay the former president’s sentencing while he weighs the high court’s decision and how it could influence the New York case, according to the letter obtained by the Associated Press.

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GUWAHATI, India (AP) -- Floods and landslides triggered by heavy rains have killed at least 16 people over the last two weeks in India's northeast, where more than 300,000 have been displaced from their submerged homes, authorities said on Tuesday. Read More

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) -- A 14-year-old boy dressed in military clothing was arrested after police alleged he stabbed a 22-year-old student in the neck Tuesday at the University of Sydney. Read More

UNITED NATIONS (AP) -- The United Nations General Assembly adopted a Chinese-sponsored resolution with U.S. support urging wealthy developed nations to close the widening gap with poorer developing countries and ensure that they have equal opportunities to use and benefit from artificial intelligence. Read More

DENVER (AP) -- In between shifts at Amazon to earn money she could send home to her relatives in Senegal -- working opposite times as her sister-in-law so they could care for each other's children _ Hassan Diol would call to talk to her husband several times a day. Read More

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) -- Gang violence in Haiti has displaced more than 300,000 children since March, the U.N. children's agency said Tuesday as the Caribbean country struggles to curb killings and kidnappings. Read More

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) -- California lawmakers are considering legislation that would require artificial intelligence companies to test their systems and add safety measures so they can't be potentially manipulated to wipe out the state's electric grid or help build chemical weapons -- scenarios that experts say could be possible in the future as technology evolves at warp speed. Read More

The US were eliminated from the Copa América with a 1-0 loss to Uruguay on Monday night, a defeat that will increase pressure on US Soccer to remove coach Gregg Berhalter before a World Cup on home soil in 2026.

Uruguay scored in the 66th minute when Nicolás de la Cruz swung a free-kick into the box. Matt Turner parried a header by Ronald Araújo, who jumped over defender Tim Ream, but the rebound fell to Mathías Olivera and he tapped the ball home.

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KULA, Hawaii (AP) -- Two men arrested last month on a public road within Oprah Winfrey 's property on the Hawaiian island of Maui are suspected of illegal night hunting, state officials said Monday. Read More

The Nashville Predators made a huge splash when free agency opened Monday by signing Stanley Cup champion forwards Steven Stamkos and Jonathan Marchessault in a series of moves topping $100 million that made Smashville the center of attention on a record-setting, billion-dollar day across the NHL. Read More

The United States was eliminated from the Copa America with a 1-0 loss to Uruguay on a Mathías Olivera's questionable second-half goal on Monday.

Records show the men were released pending investigation

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France’s fiercely anti-immigration National Rally and opponents of the far-right party are scrambling to capitalize on a first round of voting in high-stakes surprise legislative elections.

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MEXICO CITY (AP) -- Authorities said Monday they have found 19 bodies piled in and around a dump truck in a cartel-dominated area of southern Mexico, near the border with Guatemala. Read More

LAKE CHARLES, La. (AP) -- The Biden administration can't delay consideration of projects aimed at exporting liquefied natural gas while a legal challenge by 16 Republican-led states plays out in federal court, a Louisiana judge said Monday. Read More

The transcript of nearly 150 pages shows grand jury heard testimony of teenage girls’ rape at his Palm Beach mansion

Florida prosecutors knew the late millionaire and financier Jeffrey Epstein sexually assaulted teenage girls two years before they cut a plea deal that has long been criticized as too lenient and a missed opportunity to imprison him a decade earlier, according to transcripts released Monday.

The 2006 grand jury investigation was the first of many by law enforcement over the past two decades into Epstein’s rape and sex trafficking of teenagers – and how his ties to the rich and the powerful seem to have allowed him to avoid prison or a serious jail term for more than a decade.

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DALLAS (AP) -- Klay Thompson has taken off his Golden State jersey for the last time. And the Warriors say they're going to retire it to commemorate his time with them. Read More