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DeSantis plays up his personal side — and swipes at Trump — during campaign blitz across Iowa 05/31/2023 09:48pm • SALIX, Iowa (AP) — Ron DeSantis blitzed through Iowa during his first full day of presidential campaigning on Wednesday, aiming for the kind of personal connections with voters that critics say have long eluded him while stepping up his verbal swipes at former President Donald Trump. The Florida Former Connecticut lawmaker gets 27 months in prison for stealing over $1 million in coronavirus aid 05/31/2023 03:33pm • HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — A former Connecticut state representative was sentenced to 27 months in prison on Wednesday for stealing more than $1.2 million from the city of West Haven — most of it in federal coronavirus-related aid — and using a good chunk of it to fuel his gambling addiction. “I US Border Patrol chief is retiring after seeing through end of Title 42 immigration restrictions 05/31/2023 08:59am • WASHINGTON (AP) — The head of the U.S. Border Patrol announced that he's retiring, after seeing through a major policy shift that seeks to clamp down on illegal crossings at the U.S.-Mexico border following the end of Title 42 coronavirus pandemic restrictions. Chief Raul Ortiz said Tuesday in a n Editorial Roundup: United States 05/31/2023 07:37am • Excerpts from recent editorials in the United States and abroad: May 28 The Washington Post on the debt limit Finally, President Joe Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) have reached a deal to avert an embarrassing — and potentially disastrous — U.S. default. It’s hard to view thi Here's what's in, what's out of the debt limit bill to avert US default 05/30/2023 09:29pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy have been working the phones in an intense push to sell Congress on the 99-page bill that would suspend the nation's debt limit through 2025 to avoid a federal default while limiting government spending. The Democratic presiden UK government fights demand to hand over Boris Johnson's messages to COVID-19 inquiry 05/30/2023 03:18pm • LONDON (AP) — As Britain’s prime minister, Boris Johnson established an independent public inquiry into his government’s handling of the COVID-19 pandemic. Now the inquiry wants to see, in full, what Johnson wrote to other U.K. officials as the outbreak raged — but the government is fightin Juventus agrees to fine but won't appeal in plea bargain over salaries probe 05/30/2023 10:54am • ROME (AP) — Juventus will be fined 718,000 euros ($770,000) but will agree not to make any appeals as part of a plea bargain with the Italian soccer federation on Tuesday after the club and seven former team directors were charged with alleged fraud for the way they handled player salary cuts duri Jerusalem's redesigned Tower of David museum opens after 3-year renovation 05/29/2023 11:12am • JERUSALEM (AP) — Jerusalem’s iconic citadel has opened its revamped museum after a three-year, $50 million makeover that included a restoration of its signature minaret. The Tower of David, the ancient fortress on the western edge of the Old City, contains remnants of successive fortifications b Biden and McCarthy reach a final deal to avoid US default and now must sell it to Congress 05/28/2023 10:15pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — With days to spare before a potential first-ever government default, President Joe Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy reached final agreement Sunday on a deal to raise the nation's debt ceiling and worked to ensure enough support in Congress to pass the measure in the coming Fight still ahead for Texas' Ken Paxton after historic impeachment deepens GOP divisions 05/28/2023 09:04pm • AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The historic impeachment of Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton was just the first round of a Republican brawl over whether to banish one of their own in America’s biggest red state after years of criminal accusations. Paxton and his allies, from former President Donald Trump Modi opponents boycott opening of new Indian Parliament; PM says it breaks with colonial past 05/28/2023 05:17am • NEW DELHI (AP) — India’s major opposition parties on Sunday boycotted the inauguration of a new Parliament building by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in a rare show of unity against his Hindu nationalist ruling party, which has ruled for nine years and is seeking a third term in next year's electi Asylum-seekers say joy over end of Title 42 turns to anguish induced by new US rules 05/28/2023 02:18am • TIJUANA, Mexico (AP) — The day that President Joe Biden's administration ended a public health measure blocking many asylum-seekers at the Mexican border during the coronavirus pandemic, Teodoso Vargas was ready to show U.S. officials his scars and photos of his bullet-riddled body. Instead, he st Today in History: May 28, Dionne quintuplets are born 05/28/2023 12:00am • Today in History Today is Sunday, May 28, the 148th day of 2023. There are 217 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On May 28, 1863, the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry Regiment, made up of freed Blacks, left Boston to fight for the Union in the Civil War. On this date: GOP-controlled Texas House impeaches Republican Attorney General Ken Paxton, triggering suspension 05/27/2023 08:53pm • AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas’ Republican-led House of Representatives impeached state Attorney General Ken Paxton on Saturday on articles including bribery and abuse of public trust, a sudden, historic rebuke of a GOP official who rose to be a star of the conservative legal movement despite years Systems error affecting electronic gates leaves travelers to UK waiting for hours 05/27/2023 02:50pm • LONDON (AP) — Travelers arriving in the U.K. faced long delays Saturday after a technical problem shut electronic border gates at airports across the country for most of the day, forcing everyone to have their passports checked manually on what was expected to be one of the busiest travel weekends