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Ken Potts, one of last 2 USS Arizona survivors, dies at 102

By Audrey McAvoy - Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — Ken Potts, one of the last two remaining survivors of the USS Arizona battleship, which sank during the 1941 Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, has died. He was 102. Howard Kenton…

For transgender kids, a frantic rush for treatment amid bans

By Sam Metz and AMANCAI BIRABEN Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — As a third grader in Utah, mandolin-playing math whiz Elle Palmer said aloud what she had only before sensed, telling a friend she planned to transfer schools…

Cruise line let passenger's body decompose, lawsuit says

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — A widow and her family are suing Celebrity Cruises for allegedly mishandling her husband's body after he died while they were on a ship last year, saying it was left to decompose and they suffered…

Shannen Doherty files for divorce after 11-year marriage

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Actor Shannen Doherty of hit shows "Charmed" and "Beverly Hills, 90210" has filed for divorce from her husband, Kurt Iswarienko, after 11 years of marriage, her representative says. "Divorce is the last thing Shannen wanted," publicist…

NAACP sues Mississippi over 'separate and unequal policing'

By Emily Wagster Pettus - Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The NAACP warns that "separate and unequal policing" will return to Mississippi's majority-Black capital under a state-run police department, and the civil rights organization is suing the governor and…

Gardening is strenuous. How to go gentle on your body

By Jessica Damiano - Associated Press Gardening is widely regarded as a moderate to strenuous form of exercise. All that bending, lifting, digging and hauling burns calories and builds muscle. But it can also strain backs and leave even the…

Rape lawsuit trial puts spotlight back on Trump and women

By Jennifer Peltz - Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Former President Donald Trump's behavior toward women, long a source of flashpoints in his political career, now faces a new level of scrutiny: a trial in a lawsuit accusing him…

Police: 8 people, including girl, wounded in 2 DC shootings

WASHINGTON (AP) — Two shootings in Washington, D.C., on Friday night resulted in eight people, including a young girl, suffering injuries, the Metropolitan Police Department said. There were no fatalities in the two shootings, which police said could be related…

Prosecutors dismiss Alec Baldwin charge, citing new evidence

By Morgan Lee and Andrew Dalton - Associated Press SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — Prosecutors on Friday formally dismissed an involuntary manslaughter charge against Alec Baldwin in the fatal 2021 shooting of a cinematographer on the set of the Western…