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Alabama man faces execution despite not pulling the trigger in auto store customer's death 02/03/2026 03:35pm • MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Charles “Sonny” Burton didn’t kill anyone. The state of Alabama could execute him anyway. Burton, 75, is facing execution for his role as an accomplice in a 1991 robbery at an auto parts store where customer Doug Battle was killed. No one disputes that another man, De New York attorney general to deploy legal observers to monitor federal immigration agents 02/03/2026 02:45pm • NEW YORK (AP) — New York's attorney general announced plans Tuesday to deploy legal observers to monitor federal immigration enforcement actions in the state. The initiative will send observers, who will wear purple safety vests, to areas of reported immigration enforcement activity to collect inf Matt Ryan, new GM Ian Cunningham bring aligned vision to Falcons front office 02/03/2026 02:32pm • ATLANTA (AP) — In the search for the Atlanta Falcons general manager, newly appointed president of football Matt Ryan set out to find someone committed to building a smart, tough and physical football team. He believes he's found that with Ian Cunningham. Cunningham was the third and final hire o What to know about the partial government shutdown 02/03/2026 02:24pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — The partial government shutdown is vastly different from the record closure in the fall. That is mostly because this shutdown, which started Saturday, does not include the whole of government and may not last long, even as it now drags into the new week. The House had hoped to pa Colombian and Ecuadorian merchants and truckers protest escalating trade war between both nations 02/03/2026 02:13pm • QUITO, Ecuador (AP) — Colombian and Ecuadorian truckers and merchants gathered at a border crossing Tuesday to protest an escalating trade war between both South American countries. Protesters called for their governments to eliminate 30% tariffs on dozens of goods, warning the levies will hurt th Inside the 'ghost student' scam that uses identity theft to steal college loans and financial aid 02/03/2026 01:57pm • (NEW YORK) -- Murat Mayor has no need for an associate's degree. The 58-year-old business analyst already has a Ph.D. But when he and his son, a high school senior, attempted last fall to apply for federal student financial aid, they learned that an account associated with both of their identities a Redistricting bill sails through House, faces troubled waters in the Senate 02/03/2026 01:56pm • The House gave final approval Monday to a bill that would redraw the state’s eight congressional districts, following an exhaustive four hours of passionate, sometimes personal debate. The House passed House Bill 488 by a vote of 99-37 that broke mostly along party lines: Del. Sheree Sample-Hug English soccer union wants fewer headers for pros, and none for kids, to protect players' brains 02/03/2026 01:30pm • BOSTON (AP) — The union representing English soccer players has created the first comprehensive protocol for preventing the brain disease CTE, expanding the heightened concern over concussions to include the damage that can be caused by the less forceful blows from heading the ball. The guidelines Tragedy off America's oldest seaport claims 7 lives as fishing boat sinks in frigid waters 02/03/2026 01:05pm • BOSTON (AP) — The seven victims of a marine disaster that devastated a storied Massachusetts fishing town included a fifth-generation fisherman, a young federal fisheries observer and a father-and-son crew duo. All died when their fishing boat, the Lily Jean, sank in waters off America’s oldest Trump's $45 billion expansion of immigrant detention sites faces pushback from communities 02/03/2026 01:03pm • With tensions high over federal immigration enforcement, some state and local officials are pushing back against the Trump administration's attempts to house thousands of detained immigrants in jails, converted warehouses and privately run facilities in their communities. Federal officials have been Betr Promo Code WTOP: Claim $210 Bonus for Nuggets-Pistons, NBA Games, SB 60 02/03/2026 12:37pm • This article contains references to products from our advertisers and/or partners, and we may receive compensation when you click on links to products and services Activate the Betr promo code WTOP in time for a massive, 10 game NBA slate tonight. 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Christian Menefee of Texas, the newest member of Congress, started the job Monday – and now has just four weeks to convince Houston voters he already deserves reelection. The candidate Menefee defeated on Saturday, Amanda Edwards, also is running again for the 18th District s FACT FOCUS: Images of NYC mayor with Jeffrey Epstein are AI-generated. Here's how we know 02/03/2026 11:44am • Multiple AI-generated photos falsely claiming to show New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani as a child and his mother, filmmaker Mira Nair, with disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein and his confidant Ghislaine Maxwell, along with other high-profile public figures, were shared widely on social media Mond