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LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Top Michigan Republicans on Tuesday denounced a state House candidate over his remarks about rape, the latest in a number of controversial comments from the man who narrowly won a special GOP primary a week ago.

RUSTON, La. (AP) — The president of a north Louisiana school board has resigned after being arrested on charges of obscenity and drug possession.

OLATHE, Kan. (AP) — The 18-year-old suspect in a shooting at a Kansas high school that left two adults and the student wounded used a “ghost gun” that is untraceable, a prosecutor said.

Republican Lesley DeNardis announced Tuesday that she is running against Connecticut Democratic U.S. Rep. Rosa DeLauro in this year's election, in an attempt to become the first GOP member to hold the 3rd District seat since her father in the early 1980s.

A 12-year-old girl fought off a man who tried to pull her into his car Monday morning while she was walking to a Santa Rosa elementary school, officials said.

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A Kuwaiti court on Tuesday acquitted two former ministers and their co-defendants of the corruption charges they faced in an explosive case that tarnished the government and was widely seen as a test of accountability.

HAWTHORNE, Calif. (AP) — A 25-year-old man was shot to death during an argument at a Southern California home where a baby shower was being held, authorities said Tuesday.

DETROIT (AP) — McDonald’s said Tuesday it is temporarily closing all of its 850 restaurants in Russia in response to the country's invasion of Ukraine.

DETROIT (AP) — McDonald's says it is temporarily closing 850 restaurants in Russia in response to the Ukraine invasion.

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Indiana lawmakers could vote Tuesday on a plan that a top Republican said would include an individual income tax cut phased in over several years.

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Florida's Republican-dominated legislature passed a bill Tuesday to forbid instruction on sexual orientation and gender identity in kindergarten through third grade, rejecting a wave of criticism from Democrats that it marginalizes LGBTQ people.

DURHAM, N.H. (AP) — The president of the University of New Hampshire is taking on additional duties in a new combined role aimed at increasing efficiency at the broader public university system.

BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union is seeking to fully phase out its reliance on Russian energy “well before 2030” to ensure the 27-nation bloc no longer faces difficult decisions about hurting their own economies in geopolitical crises like the invasion of Ukraine.

Kansas senior guard Ochai Agbaji is the unanimous pick as The Associated Press Big 12 player of the year after the league's leading scorer helped the sixth-ranked Jayhawks share the regular-season conference title with No. 3 Baylor.

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BOSTON (AP) — A middle school counselor and social worker has filed a complaint with the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination alleging she was unfairly fired after she asked to work from home because she is pregnant and has other health issues.

SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — A Georgia county's plan to build a rocket launch pad for sending satellites into space went before voters Tuesday in a referendum forced by opponents who fear the project poses safety and environmental risks that outweigh any economic benefits.

As the Russian invasion of Ukraine continues, prices at the pump are exploding across the United States. When will they ever go down?

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Police charge 6 teens with murder in shooting outside Des Moines high school that killed 1, injured 2.

BASKING RIDGE, N.J. (AP) _ Barnes & Noble Education Inc. (BNED) on Tuesday reported a loss of $36.8 million in its fiscal third quarter.

MALVERN, Pa. (AP) _ Neuronetics Inc. (STIM) on Tuesday reported a loss of $7.6 million in its fourth quarter.

WAUKESHA, Wis. (AP) — Firefighters in Waukesha rescued two people from a burning apartment building while two others jumped from second-story windows early Tuesday, officials said.

GENEVA (AP) —

An expert group convened by the World Health Organization said Tuesday it “strongly supports urgent and broad access” to booster doses, in a reversal of the U.N. agency’s previous insistence that boosters weren’t necessary and contributed to vaccine inequity.

In a statement, WHO said its expert group concluded that immunization with authorized COVID-19 vaccines provide high levels of protection against severe disease and death amid the global circulation of the hugely contagious omicron variant. Читать дальше...

SAN DIEGO (AP) _ Petco Health & Wellness Co. (WOOF) on Tuesday reported fiscal fourth-quarter net income of $29 million.

LVIV, Ukraine (AP) — Buses carried civilians out of one embattled Ukrainian city Tuesday and supplies toward another, as officials tried to move people away from a Russian onslaught and easy the dire humanitarian situation for those still stuck. But reports of renewed Russian attacks in one area threatened to again derail those efforts.