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Sentencing for former Indiana congressman postponed as prosecutors seek $1.4 million in restitution 07/06/2023 06:23pm • NEW YORK (AP) — Federal prosecutors say a former Indiana congressman should pay nearly $1.4 million to cover the legal bills of companies forced to incur expenses when he was prosecuted on insider trading charges. But his lawyer said Thursday it’s an exorbitant amount to demand from a man alread Florida parents charged in death of toddler left in car overnight after Fourth of July party 07/06/2023 06:05pm • LAKELAND, Fla. (AP) — A toddler died after her parents left her in a hot car overnight following a Fourth of July party in Florida, authorities said Thursday. The Polk County Sheriff’s Office said Lakeland couple Joel and Jazmine Rondon have been charged with aggravated manslaughter of a child. Wildfire in Washington state near Columbia River Gorge grows slowly, still at 5% containment 07/06/2023 06:02pm • UNDERWOOD, Wash. (AP) — Hundreds of firefighters have converged in southwest Washington along the Columbia River Gorge to fight the Tunnel 5 Fire, which ignited and grew rapidly on Sunday and remains at 5% containment. The number of people fighting the blaze has jumped from more than 160 on Monda Man driving for Lyft killed in Northeast DC 07/06/2023 05:37pm • A 31-year-old man was shot and killed while working a shift as a Lyft driver in D.C. on Monday. Police responded to a report of an unconscious person in the 400 block of 11th Street NE at 12:08 a.m. When they arrived at the scene, they discovered Nasrat Ahmad Yar, of Alexandria, Virginia, in his Railroad industry sues to block limit on crew sizes that Ohio imposed after E. Palestine derailment 07/06/2023 05:24pm • COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The railroad industry has sued to block a new minimum crew-size requirement that Ohio imposed after a fiery train derailment in East Palestine in February. The new rule was part of a $13.5 billion state transportation budget that Republican Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine signed in Ma Russian cruise missile attack on Ukraine city of Lviv kills 6 people and injures dozens 07/06/2023 05:21pm • LVIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia fired cruise missiles Thursday at a western Ukraine city far from the front line of the war, killing at least six people in an apartment building in what officials said was the heaviest attack on civilian areas of Lviv since the Kremlin’s forces invaded the country la Manuel Garcia-Rulfo settles into Mickey Haller character with return of 'The Lincoln Lawyer' 07/06/2023 05:11pm • When Manuel Garcia-Rulfo was cast to play charismatic defense attorney Mickey Haller from Michael Connelly's “The Lincoln Lawyer” novels in a new Netflix series, he couldn't help but think of Matthew McConaughey, who played the lawyer in a 2011 film. “Talk about charm,” said Manuel Garcia-Ru Missing 2-year-old girl is found dead in an overgrown Detroit alley, ending a massive search 07/06/2023 05:06pm • LANSING, Mich. (AP) — A missing 2-year-old Michigan girl who disappeared during an attack on her mother was found dead nearly 100 miles (161 kilometers) away in Detroit, three days after she vanished. Wynter Cole Smith's body was discovered Wednesday evening by FBI agents in an overgrown alley in John Berylson, owner of English soccer team Millwall, dies in car crash at age 70 07/06/2023 04:42pm • BOSTON (AP) — John Berylson, an American businessman known for his enthusiastic ownership of the English soccer team Millwall, has died. He was 70. His death, the result of a car crash in Massachusetts on Tuesday, was announced by the second-division London team, which said Berylson presided over French government paints a rosy picture for tourism despite unrest over the police killing of a teen 07/06/2023 04:34pm • PARIS (AP) — The Eiffel Tower, chateaus in the Loire Valley — and cars on fire. Tourists to France faced a new reality during an eruption of nationwide anger following the police killing of 17-year-old Nahel Merzouk. While hotel owners cite a drop in bookings in some areas, the French government Life in prison for man involved in street feud that led to woman's death and shooting of 6-year-old 07/06/2023 03:06pm • DOVER, Del. (AP) — A Delaware man was sentenced to life in prison Thursday for his role in a street feud involving a drug kingpin that resulted in the kidnapping and slaying of a woman and the shooting of a 6-year-old boy. Dion Oliver, 43, was sentenced to the mandatory life term after he was conv Andrew Tate loses appeal against house arrest in Romania as human trafficking case continues 07/06/2023 02:47pm • BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — Andrew Tate, the divisive social media personality and former professional kickboxer who is charged in Romania with rape, human trafficking, and forming a criminal gang to sexually exploit women, lost an appeal on Thursday against a court's earlier decision to keep him un 2 New Jersey firefighters died battling a blaze deep in a ship carrying 1,200 vehicles 07/06/2023 02:46pm • NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — Two firefighters were killed and five others injured battling a blaze that began deep inside a docked cargo ship carrying more than a thousand vehicles, officials said Thursday. Responding firefighters found five to seven vehicles already on fire when they reached the 10th floo Nations set to agree on shipping emissions cuts but fall short of aligning with climate goals 07/06/2023 02:03pm • Maritime nations have been finalizing a plan Thursday to slash emissions from the shipping industry to net zero by about 2050 but experts warn the deal falls well short of what's needed to prevent climate catastrophe. Negotiators at the meeting of the United Nations' International Maritime Organizat An SUV crash at a London school kills an 8-year-old girl. A woman is arrested for dangerous driving 07/06/2023 01:09pm • LONDON (AP) — An 8-year-old girl was killed and 15 people were injured Thursday when an SUV crashed into a private elementary school on a narrow road in southwest London as the children were celebrating the end of the school year. The crash wasn’t believed to be terrorism, and the driver was tak