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Caitlyn Pratt is an avid Aldi shopper, so much so that she crosses state lines a few times a month, driving 45 minutes from her home in Heavener, Oklahoma to the nearest Aldi in neighboring Arkansas. The distance doesn’t bother her if it means she can do these three things: Stay within budget for her […]

(Reuters) -California prosecutors announced involuntary manslaughter charges against three police officers for the 2021 death of a man in their custody, reversing the outcome of a previous investigation that had cleared the officers. The officers in Alameda, California, pinned Mario Gonzalez, 26, to the ground for about five minutes before he became unresponsive during an […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Republican candidate in Wisconsin’s closely watched U.S. Senate race emphasized this week that he doesn’t oppose elderly people voting after initially saying that “almost nobody in a nursing home” is at a point in life where they are capable of voting. Eric Hovde faces Democratic Sen. Tammy Baldwin in the […]

DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — The United States is attempting to create a new military agreement with Niger that would allow it to remain in the country, weeks after the junta said its presence was no longer justified, two Western officials told The Associated Press Friday. The officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity due to […]

(Bloomberg) — European natural gas prices erased gains as Iran appeared to downplay the impact of reported Israeli strikes and the risk of an immediate response from Tehran. Most Read from Bloomberg Benchmark futures fell 4.8% after gaining as much as 4.7% earlier on Friday. Prices were little changed week-on-week. The strike came less than […]

TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — A man accused of exposing himself to women at a Florida Walmart was caught on camera getting tackled by deputies at the entrance to the store after leading them on a brief foot chase. The Lee County Sheriff’s Office responded to the Fort Myers Walmart, located at 14821 Six Mile Cypress […]

Today’s installment of campaign-related news items from across the country. * In a bit of a surprise, Republican Rep. Jake LaTurner announced that he won’t seek re-election in the fall. The 36-year-old Kansan has only served two terms, and he was unlikely to have any trouble winning a third. * Donald Trump’s political operation reportedly […]

(Bloomberg) — Lithuania said two Polish citizens had been detained over an attack on an ally of the late Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny in the Baltic nation’s capital last month. Most Read from Bloomberg Leonid Volkov was assaulted with a hammer near his home in Vilnius in what the authorities consider to be a […]

BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán on Friday painted a grim picture of a continent teetering on the edge of armed conflict in a speech opening his party’s campaign for European Union elections. He called for a changing of the guard among the bloc’s leaders. As Orbán addressed members of his Fidesz […]

Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) complained on Fox News Thursday that American infrastructure is in disrepair. But as viewers pointed out, he was one of the Republican senators who voted against a massive bipartisan infrastructure bill that passed in 2021. “It just strikes me that more and more, nothing really works in America anymore,” Hawley told […]