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BY JONEL ALECCIA Patients who take blockbuster drugs like Wegovy or Ozempic for weight loss may face life-threatening complications if they need surgery or other procedures that require empty stomachs for anesthesia. This summer's guidance to halt the medication for up to a week may not go far enough, either. Some anesthesiologists in the U.S. and Canada say they've seen growing numbers of patients on the weight-loss drugs who inhaled food

BY AYANNA ALEXANDER AND SEAN MURPHY OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - The Oklahoma Supreme Court will consider a reparations case from survivors of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre after a lower court judge dismissed it last month, giving hope to advocates for racial justice that government may make amends in one of the worst single acts of violence against Black people in U.S. history. Tulsa County District Judge Caroline Wall dismissed the

BY EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS BROOKHAVEN, Miss. (AP) - Witnesses began testifying Wednesday in the trial of two white men in Mississippi who are accused of chasing and shooting at a Black FedEx driver who had dropped off a package at a home. Brandon Case and his father, Gregory Charles Case, are charged with attempted first-degree murder, conspiracy, and shooting into the vehicle driven by D'Monterrio Gibson in January 2022. Gibson, who

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - North Korea on Wednesday offered its first official confirmation that it had detained a U.S. soldier who bolted into its country last month, releasing a statement through its propaganda outlet attributing unverified statements to the Army private that criticized the United States. One expert called the announcement "100% North Korean propaganda." There was no immediate verification that Pvt. Travis King actually made any of the

By Tyria Bourda (Staff Writer) "North Carolina is a State in Emergency and it's time for a moral indictment of the NC General Assembly's" said Reverend William L. Barber. In an invitation-only meeting. Members of the Moral Monday movement joined Bishop Barber in delivering a cease and desist letter to the North Carolina General Assembly.  This past Sunday marked the 58th anniversary of the signing of the Voting Rights Act.

BY LAURAN NEERGAARD NEW YORK (AP) - Surgeons transplanted a pig's kidney into a brain-dead man and for over a month it's worked normally - a critical step toward an operation the New York team hopes to eventually try in living patients. Scientists around the country are racing to learn how to use animal organs to save human lives, and bodies donated for research offer a remarkable rehearsal. The latest experiment

BY LINLEY SANDERS AND JONATHAN J. COOPER WASHINGTON (AP) - Americans are deeply divided along party lines in their views of President Donald Trump's actions in the most recent criminal cases brought against him, a new poll shows, with about half saying his alleged attempt to interfere in Georgia's 2020 vote count was illegal. The poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research, which was conducted before Monday's charges

BY THALIA BEATY The presidents of a wide-ranging group of 13 universities are elevating free speech on their campuses this academic year, as part of a new nonprofit initiative announced Tuesday to combat what organizers call dire threats to U.S. democracy. The Campus Call for Free Expression will take different forms on different campuses. The campaign, created by The Institute for Citizens & Scholars with funding from the Knight Foundation is

BY HILLEL ITALIE NEW YORK (AP) - Clarence Avant, the judicious manager, entrepreneur, facilitator and adviser who helped launch or guide the careers of Quincy Jones, Bill Withers, and many others and came to be known as the "Black Godfather" of music and beyond, has died. He was 92. Avant, inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2021, died Sunday at his home in Los Angeles, according to

BY DÁNICA COTO SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) - A human rights group urged the international community on Monday to intervene quickly to end spiraling violence by gangs in Haiti as it detailed the brutal rapes and killings committed in the troubled nation's capital. The call by Human Rights Watch comes as Haiti awaits a response from the U.N. Security Council to its request in October for the immediate deployment of