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A conservative podcaster who embraces former President Donald Trump’s discredited claims of a stolen 2020 election continues to push to get on the November ballot in Ohio’s secretary of state race after being declared ineligible. Terpeshore “Tore” Maras alleges more of the voter signatures she submitted as an Independent should be counted as valid, according to a court complaint filed Friday. LaRose’s office said she fell short of the 5,000 signatures needed to put her name on the ballot by dozens. In an Aug. 26 ruling, the judge who heard the challenge to the signatures that initially had qualified Maras determined that 18 of 35 challenged signatures were invalid.

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Federal authorities reviewing a Chinese company’s purchase of land in North Dakota for a wet corn milling plant say more information is needed before they can decide whether project is detrimental to national security. Fufeng Group’s planned $700 million project in Grand Forks is near a U.S. Air Force base, prompting opponents to raise the concerns about potential for espionage. The Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States told Fufeng this week that the information it's provided is “insufficient.” The company says it will comply with the government’s request for more information. The Grand Forks city administrator said Friday that infrastructure work being done for the project will be halted until the review is done.

A Kentucky city has recovered more than $3.9 million in housing funds that was taken electronically. The city of Lexington said in a news release Friday that the funds were seized from a private account and refunded to the city. The federal rent assistance and transitional housing funds were meant to be transferred to the Community Action Council. But the release says someone managed to divert the funds into a private account. Investigators have no evidence of criminal activity by employees of the city or Community Action Council. The investigation is continuing.

The Biden administration is set to announce a more than $1 billion arms sale to Taiwan as U.S.-China tensions escalate over the status of the island. The sale includes $355 million for Harpoon air-to-sea missiles and $85 million for Sidewinder air-to-air missiles. The largest portion of the sale, however, is a $655 million logistics support package for Taiwan's surveillance radar program, which provides defense warnings. This is according to American officials and a congressional aide briefed on the sale. They said the administration is to notify Congress of the sale after close of business on Friday. Acrimony and strident rhetoric between the U.S. and China over Taiwan have increased sharply since House Speaker Nancy Pelosi visited the island last month.

Gandalf would say a wizard arrives precisely when he means to but the same can't be said for Episode 1 of "The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power."

A Florida man will spend nine years in federal prison after pleading guilty to defrauding more than 30 women of more than $1.3 million by pretending to be a doctor on online dating services. U.S. Attorney Jason Cody announced the sentence Thursday. Brian Brainard Wedgeworth who formerly lived in the Florida capital city of Tallahassee and in Center Point, Alabama, used 10 different aliases as part of the scheme. The 47-year-old will also be required to pay nearly $1.2 million in restitution.

LOS ANGELES — The leader of the Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation has been accused by former colleagues of stealing more than $10 million in donations from the organization for his own personal use, according to a lawsuit filed in court this week.

The Republican candidate for governor in Wisconsin endorsed by Donald Trump is calling for people to take up “pitchforks and torches” in reaction to a story that detailed his giving to anti-abortion groups and others. Democrats and the campaign of Gov. Tony Evers say that Tim Michels is threatening violence. Michels spokesperson Anna Kelly is downplaying his remarks, saying “only political hacks and media accomplices would freak out about Tim using a figure of speech.” His comments on a conservative talk radio show come amid a strong pushback to a story published earlier this week by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel detailing his charitable giving.

President Joe Biden has brought back a veteran of past Democratic administrations to put in place the climate part of the Inflation Reduction Act. Biden on Friday put John Podesta in charge of shaping the administration's ambitious climate package, newly invigorated by $370 billion from Congress. Biden also announced the departure of his current climate adviser, Gina McCarthy. A former Environmental Protection Agency chief, McCarthy had led Biden’s domestic climate program during Democrats’ two years of struggle to get the climate financing through Congress.

A federal judge has thrown out an indictment charging a boat captain with manslaughter in the deaths of 34 scuba divers three years ago off the California coast. Judge George Wu ruled Friday that the indictment charging the captain of the dive boat Conception with seaman’s manslaughter failed to allege that Jerry Boylan acted with gross negligence. Federal prosecutors argued that the law only requires proving simple negligence. Prosecutors say Boylan failed to post a watch on the boat the night in September 2019 when a fire led to one of the deadliest maritime disasters in recent U.S. history.

LOS ANGELES — Southern California is bracing for a Labor Day weekend full of intense heat as firefighters continue to battle wildfires across the state amid triple-digit heat that could potentially lead to rolling blackouts.

WASHINGTON — The Biden administration is seeking tens of billions of dollars in emergency funds as part of the upcoming short-term spending bill lawmakers will take up this month, ranging from more military aid to Ukraine to heating and cooling assistance for low-income households.

MIAMI — Several people were rescued from the ocean off the Florida Keys Friday morning and the Coast Guard was searching for others who were aboard a large migrant boat attempting to reach South Florida.

MIAMI — Several people were rescued from the ocean off the Florida Keys Friday morning and the Coast Guard was searching for others who were aboard a large migrant boat attempting to reach South Florida.

Authorities say a passenger van carrying several warehouse workers overturned on a major highway in northern New Jersey, killing four people and injuring eight others. The crash on the Palisades Interstate Parkway in Englewood Cliffs occurred around 1:25 a.m. Friday. Authorities say the van ended up in the center median of the southbound lanes of the highway, leaving the driver and all the passengers trapped inside the vehicle. The four people killed were pronounced dead at the scene, while the injured people were being treated at hospitals. Authorities say everyone in the van was from New York City, but their names and further details about them have not been released. The cause of the crash remains under investigation.

LOS ANGELES — California’s Death Valley is one of the hottest places on Earth.

The families of two military veterans from Alabama who are missing in Ukraine this week met virtually with federal government officials and Ukraine’s ambassador, Oksana Markarova, and participated in two Ukrainian-American events to observe that country’s Independence Day. Alex Drueke and Andy Huynh went missing after their unit came under heavy fire in the Kharkiv region of northeastern Ukraine near the Russian border on June 9.

Mississippi's capital city is struggling with its water system. Many of Jackson's 150,000 residents have had little or no water coming from their faucets the past several days. Problems started days after torrential rain fell in central Mississippi and altered the quality of the raw water entering Jackson’s treatment plants. That slowed the treatment process, depleted supplies in water tanks and caused a precipitous drop in pressure. Jackson has longstanding problems with water quality. It has aging pipes that break. The water treatment plants have had problems with equipment and staffing. And, Jackson has been under a federal order to fix problems with wastewater.

Britney Spears reemerged Thursday on Instagram after a short-lived hiatus to address an ITV News documentary featuring her teenage son, putting further stress on their already strained relationship.

HARTFORD, Conn. — Republican gubernatorial candidate Bob Stefanowski earned $29 million during 2020 and 2021 — helping fuel his current run for governor.

North Dakota’s Supreme Court has reversed a lower court decision that sided with a Houston-based energy company in a dispute involving oil and natural gas royalties. The case stems from a lawsuit Newfield Exploration filed against the state after the Department of Trust Lands conducted an audit in 2016 that claimed the company was underpaying royalties to the agency. Judge Robin Schmidt’s ruled last year that the state’s claim of a breach of contract could not be proven. In a unanimous ruling Thursday, the high court's justices said the lower court should have focused on state’s position that the company underpaid royalties.

North Dakota’s Supreme Court has reversed a lower court decision that sided with a Houston-based energy company in a dispute involving oil and natural gas royalties. The case stems from a lawsuit Newfield Exploration filed against the state after the Department of Trust Lands conducted an audit in 2016 that claimed the company was underpaying royalties to the agency. Judge Robin Schmidt’s ruled last year that the state’s claim of a breach of contract could not be proven. In a unanimous ruling Thursday, the high court's justices said the lower court should have focused on state’s position that the company underpaid royalties.

A Florida man is facing charges that he left dead animals three times at a memorial for the 17 victims of the Parkland high school massacre. Authorities said Friday that 29-year-old Robert Mondragon left a dead duck, raccoon and opossum on bench that is part of the memorial garden outside Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. He was charged with defacing a monument, a felony. He was also charged with violating probation of a previous indecent exposure and assault conviction. His attorney, Andrew Coffey, said Mondragon had a difficult and traumatic childhood. He said Mondragon was the child victim in a criminal case that is pending. He declined to give further details.

Cases of food-borne illness linked to Wendy’s restaurants have spread, now sickening people across six states, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The Humane Society of the United States says it has removed the last group of beagles from a troubled breeding facility in Virginia. The facility in Cumberland planned to sell the dogs to animal testing labs. But it was cited by federal officials for violating the Animal Welfare Act. The Humane Society says it took away the remaining 312 dogs on Thursday. Nearly 4,000 were removed. They’re being taken to shelters and other rescue sites that are finding them homes. People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals initially investigated the facility. PETA found dogs to be living in crowded and stressful conditions. A federal judge approved a plan to remove them in July. Envigo RMS owns the facility and plans to close it.

“The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power” has made its debut and the cast is finally able to talk about the years-long effort. The Amazon Prime Video series, based on J.R.R. Tolkien’s writings, introduces new characters and shows the origins of others. Actor Owain Arthur says it took three hours each day to put on his makeup and prosthetics, while actor Ismael Cruz Córdova felt a pride that she and the cast were at one point the only TV actors working during the pandemic. Markella Kavenagh hopes the series inspires kids to read more Tolkien.

A legislative audit of the Southwest light rail project shows the cost of Minnesota’s most expensive public works project has more than doubled over the past decade to $2.7 billion. The report released Friday by the nonpartisan Office of the Legislative Auditor says the rail line connecting downtown Minneapolis and Eden Prairie has been delayed by nine years and that 20% of the project remains unfunded. Auditors noted the regional planning agency building the line, the Metropolitan Council, has not indicated how the shortfall will be funded. Southwest is an extension of the Green Line and is more than 60% finished.

The fall TV season is officially here with a little something for everyone, from big-budget fantasy shows like “Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power” and Game of Thrones spinoff “House of the Dragon” to returning comedies like “Ghosts” and “Abbot Elementary” and even animated shows like “Ce…

NASA officials are more confident that the Saturday launch attempt of its Artemis I mission to the moon will be successful after poring over data that led to Monday’s scrub, while weather may cooperate as well.

Residents in Ethiopia’s largest federal state, Oromia, say dozens of civilians were killed in an attack by an armed group on Monday, the latest mass violence along ethnic lines that challenges one of Africa's most populous countries. Two residents of the restive Wollega region’s Horo Guduru area said an armed group from the ethnic Amhara community, known as Fano, targeted ethnic Oromos indiscriminately. Representative of the Fano could not be reached, and a spokesman for Ethiopia's federal government hung up without answering questions. Ethiopia has experienced widespread ethnic rivalry and conflict since Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed came to power in 2018.

The Chicago Bears say President and CEO Ted Phillips will retire at the end of the season after nearly 40 years with the franchise. Phillips, an accountant by trade, joined the Bears as the team’s controller in 1983 and spent four years in that position before moving up the organization’s ladder. He became president in February 1999 and has had a hand since then in hiring four general managers, including Ryan Poles this year. Most recently, his focus has been on purchasing a 326-acre tract of land in suburban Arlington Heights, Illinois, where a new stadium and entertainment complex could be built.

An Associated Press analysis found many U.S. states barely use “red flag” laws that allow police to take guns away from people threatening to kill, a trend blamed on lack of awareness of the laws and a reluctance to enforce them even as gun deaths soar. The AP found the 19 states and the District of Columbia that have such laws used them 15,049 times since 2020, fewer than 10 per 100,000 adult residents. Experts called that woefully low and not nearly enough to make a dent in gun violence, considering the millions of firearms in circulation across the country.

At least one person was stabbed and another shot at the Mall of Georgia outside Atlanta. Police say the incident happened Friday when a suspected thief began smashing jewelry counters inside the Macy's store at the mall. News outlets report the suspect then stabbed at least one person and a Gwinnett County police officer shot the suspect. Police haven't released details on either person's medical condition. No further details were immediately released.

A Denton County, Texas, jury Friday is deliberating the fate of former Texas Rangers pitcher John Wetteland, who is accused of sexually abusing a young relative in the early 2000s.

This week’s new entertainment releases include fresh music from John Legend and Kane Brown, Samantha Morton stars as the 16th-century queen Catherine de Medici in an edgy Starz series and a race between two upcoming “Pinocchio” films begins with Robert Zemeckis’ adaptation. On the small screen, Susan Sarandon and Trace Adkins play country music royalty in Fox’s new drama “Monarch,” but their dynasty is in danger of toppling. Look for some impressive guest stars like Shania Twain, Martina McBride, Little Big Town and Tanya Tucker. And “Jurassic World: Dominion,” “Thor: Love and Thunder” and “Elvis” all start streaming.

The Cocopah Indian Tribe says the state of Arizona acted against its wishes by stacking shipping containers on its land to prevent illegal border crossings. The tribe said Friday that it told the governor's office that the state put 42 double-stacked containers on its land near Yuma. It has shared several concerns, including that the containers may topple, as they did during construction. It is a potential setback to Gov. Doug Ducey, who says the barriers are “a major step forward to secure our border,” even though they have failed to make a difference so far.

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