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Florida woman who stole nearly $3 million from Holocaust survivor gets over 4 years in prison 07/28/2023 12:37am • NEW YORK (AP) — A Florida woman who drained an 87-year-old Holocaust survivor’s life savings by posing as a love interest and then lived lavishly off the $2.8 million she got was sentenced Thursday to over four years in prison. Peaches Stergo, 36, of Champions Gate, Florida, was described by U.S AP Week in Pictures: Latin America and Caribbean 07/28/2023 12:13am • July 21 – July 27, 2023 Catholic parishioners in Paraguay don bird-like costumes and parade in the streets to honor a 16th century saint said to possess miraculous powers. Drivers and fans fight to bring car racing out of hiding in Cuba where vehicle competitions have been prohibited for six decad West Africa recorded over 1,800 terrorist attack in first six months of 2023, regional official says 07/25/2023 07:37pm • UNITED NATIONS (AP) — West Africa recorded over 1,800 terrorist attacks in the first six months of the year resulting in nearly 4,600 deaths with dire humanitarian consequences, and a top regional official said Tuesday that’s just “a snippet of the horrendous impact of insecurity.” Omar Tour Key question as Federal Reserve meets: Can the central bank pull off a difficult 'soft landing'? 07/24/2023 11:46am • WASHINGTON (AP) — When Chair Jerome Powell and other Federal Reserve officials gather this week for their latest decision on interest rates, they will do so on the cusp of achieving an elusive “soft landing” — the feat of curbing inflation without causing a deep recession. After the Fed bega Hot-hitting Bellinger homers again as Chicago Cubs beat St. Louis Cardinals 7-2 to take series 07/23/2023 06:33pm • CHICAGO (AP) — Cody Bellinger homered and drove in three runs, Jameson Taillon pitched into the sixth inning and the Chicago Cubs beat the St. Louis Cardinals 7-2 on Sunday. Dansby Swanson had two hits and Yan Gomes drove in two runs as Chicago closed out a 6-4 homestand. The Cubs won the last thr Cambodia's leader returns to Facebook weeks after an acrimonious breakup with the platform 07/20/2023 05:03pm • PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen's Facebook account was reactivated Thursday, three weeks after he announced he was forsaking the social media giant in favor of posting on Telegram, a popular messaging app that also serves as a blogging tool. Hun Sen’s return to the F 11-year-old daughter of top Kashmiri rebel leader issues rare appeal to visit father jailed in India 07/20/2023 01:42pm • ISLAMABAD (AP) — The eleven-year-old daughter of a prominent Kashmiri rebel leader who was sentenced to life in prison in neighboring India issued an emotional appeal on Thursday, urging New Delhi to allow her to meet her ailing father. Razia Sultan, the daughter of Mohammed Yasin Malik, 57, made Michigan clerk stripped of election duties after being charged for acting as fake elector in 2020 07/20/2023 12:18pm • LANSING, Mich. (AP) — A town clerk in Michigan will be barred from running any elections after being charged earlier this week by the state attorney general for acting as a fake elector in 2020 for then-President Donald Trump. On Thursday, the Michigan Bureau of Elections notified Stan Grot, a Rep Mexican volunteer searchers find 27 hacked-up bodies in northern border city 07/20/2023 10:26am • MEXICO CITY (AP) — Searchers have found 27 corpses in clandestine graves in the Mexican border city of Reynosa, across from McAllen, Texas, and many of them were hacked to pieces, volunteer searchers said Wednesday. Some of the corpses were buried so recently that bits of skin with tattoos remain Convicted fraudster who had sentence commuted by Trump is now facing new charges 07/20/2023 08:58am • TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — A New Jersey man who was twice convicted of defrauding investors out of $230 million and whose lengthy prison sentence was commuted by President Donald Trump is once again facing fraud charges, federal prosecutors in New Jersey announced Wednesday. Eliyahu “Eli” Weinstein, Jan. 6 charges against Trump would add to his mounting legal peril as he campaigns for 2024 07/19/2023 07:39pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — Hush-money payments. Classified records. And now, his efforts to overturn the 2020 election that led to the Capitol attack. Already facing criminal cases in New York and Florida, Donald Trump is in increasing legal peril as investigations into his struggle to cling to power after 4 members of a Florida family are convicted of selling a fake COVID-19 cure through online church 07/19/2023 07:33pm • MIAMI (AP) — Four members of a Florida family were convicted Wednesday of selling a toxic industrial bleach as a fake COVID-19 cure through their online church. A federal jury in Miami found Mark Grenon, 65, and his sons, 37-year-old Jonathan, 35-year-old Joseph and 29-year-old Jordan, guilty of c Trump's target letter suggests the sprawling US probe into the 2020 election is zeroing in on him 07/19/2023 03:15pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — A target letter sent to Donald Trump suggests that a sprawling Justice Department investigation into efforts to overturn the 2020 election is zeroing in on him after more than a year of interviews with top aides to the former president and state officials from across the country. Trump downplays his legal challenges on the campaign trail in Iowa after revealing new target letter 07/19/2023 07:31am • CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (AP) — Former President Donald Trump joked about his legal challenges while campaigning in eastern Iowa on Tuesday night, just hours after announcing he’d received a target letter in the Justice Department’s investigation into efforts to overturn the 2020 election. Headli DeSantis fights to reset his stagnant campaign as Trump dominates the 2024 conversation 07/19/2023 12:04am • WEST COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — For Ron DeSantis, it was supposed to be an important opportunity to help reset his stagnant Republican presidential campaign. But yet again, the moment was overshadowed by Donald Trump. The former president's new legal challenges dominated much of the day as DeSantis