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WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s President Andrzej Duda said Friday he is sending a controversial new law on judicial accountability for constitutional review instead of rejecting it, because it could help unfreeze billions in European Union funds earmarked for Poland. Brussels has suspended payment of the pandemic recovery funds to Warsaw saying the government’s policies of exerting control over the judiciary, especially through the Supreme Court, violate democratic principles. The […]

NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks that traded heavily or had substantial price changes Friday: PayPal Holdings Inc., up $2.38 to $80.80. The digital payments platform gave investors a strong profit forecast. DexCom Inc., up $10.65 to $117.89. The medical device company reported strong fourth-quarter financial results. Cloudflare Inc., up $1.93 to $60.10. The San Francisco-based internet security firm gave investors an encouraging financial forecast. Expedia Group Inc., down $10.07 to […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon shot down an unknown object flying in U.S. airspace off the coast of Alaska on Friday on orders from President Joe Biden, White House officials said. The object was flying at about 40,000 feet and posted a “reasonable threat” to the safety of civilian flights, said John Kirby, White House National Security Council spokesman. He described the object as roughly the size of a small […]

PHOENIX (AP) — Greg Olsen and his teammates at Wayne Hills High School in New Jersey knew it was a big game when Kevin Burkhardt showed up for interviews to prepare to call their game on local radio over the weekend. More than two decades later, Burkhardt and Olsen will be together in the booth for the biggest football game of the season. They will call their first Super Bowl […]

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Diego Cocca will have his work cut out as Mexico’s new national soccer team coach, after Mexico failed to make it out of the group stage at the 2022 World Cup. It was the first time Mexico hadn’t advanced to the round of 16 since 1978. But the Argentine coach has a reputation for breaking losing streaks. Cocca, 50, was presented Friday as the new national […]

SPIRO, Okla. (AP) — A police officer in eastern Oklahoma shot and killed a 20-year-old man who brandished a weapon and fired at the officer, the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation said Friday. Damon Dante Henderson was shot and killed Thursday in the town of Spiro, about 17 miles (27 kilometers) southwest of Fort Smith, Arkansas, the OSBI said in a statement. The name of the officer was not released. […]

For years, Sue Ferrara has followed the same routine on Super Bowl Sunday. And, no, it has nothing to do with the big game. About the time the Philadelphia Eagles and Kansas City Chiefs kick it off for the NFL championship, Ferrara will head to her two favorite grocery stores, reveling in aisles and checkout lines that are more wide open than a wide receiver after busted coverage. “I’m sure […]

LONDON (AP) — Hugh Hudson, a British filmmaker who debuted as a feature director with the Oscar-winning Olympics drama “Chariots of Fire” and later made such well-regarded movies as “My Life So Far” and the Oscar-nominated “Greystroke,” has died at age 86. Hudson’s family issued a brief statement announcing that he died Friday at a hospital in London “after a short illness.” A London native, Hudson started out as a […]

DENVER (AP) — The person charged with fatally shooting five people and wounding 17 others at a gay nightclub in Colorado Springs last year was at the venue for more than an hour earlier that night before returning to carry out the mass shooting, according to information disclosed Friday during a procedural court hearing. Authorities have previously only said that Anderson Lee Aldrich was seen pulling into a parking lot […]