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FILE - FBI agents and representatives of the Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources set up a base in March, 2018, in Benezette Township, Elk County, Pa. A lawyer for a father-son team of treasure hunters is accusing the FBI of either lying to a federal judge about having video of its 2018 dig for legendary Civil War-era gold, or illegally destroying the video. The FBI has acknowledged it was looking for gold at the Pennsylvania site but says it found nothing of value. The duo believes the FBI recovered a huge cache of gold and have sued for information about the dig. (Katie Weidenboerner/The Courier-Express via AP, File)

Sanctions sought against FBI over Civil War gold dig videos

A lawyer for a father-son team of treasure hunters is accusing the FBI of either lying to a federal judge about having video of its 2018 dig for legendary Civil War-era gold, or illegally destroying … more

By MICHAEL RUBINKAM | 6/13/22

Part of the funds raised by the new Global Citizen initiative will go to the One Acre Fund so it can expand its work with Kenyan farm families to serve an additional 250,000 a year and grow an additional 250 tons of food. (Hailey Tucker/One Acre Fund via AP)

Will money-back guarantee win over wealthy donors?

The advocacy group Global Citizen and the finance firm NPX are engineering a new campaign that targets Forbes 400 billionaires, Giving Pledge members, and the wealthy generally — a group … more

By DREW LINDSAY of The Chronicle of Philanthropy | 6/13/22

FILE - Officers on horseback guard the entrance to designated demonstrator areas near Riverbend Maximum Security Institution as people wait to enter before the scheduled execution of inmate Oscar Smith on April 21, 2022, in Nashville, Tenn. Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee has ordered an independent investigation of the state's lethal injections in early May, 2022, and paused all executions through the end of the year. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey, File)

Tennessee execution pause through 2022 could last longer

Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee has ordered an independent investigation of the state's lethal injections and paused all executions through the end of the year. He did so after putting an April execution on … more

By JONATHAN MATTISE | 6/13/22

This 2010 image released by CBS News shows Richard Schlesinger who is retiring after nearly four decades at the network. He's a fixture on the newsmagazine “48 Hours” and also does stories for “CBS Sunday Morning.” (Craig Blankenhorn/CBS via AP)

CBS News' Richard Schlesinger of '48 Hours' is retiring

Longtime CBS News correspondent Richard Schlesinger is retiring after nearly four decades at the network. He's a fixture on the newsmagazine “48 Hours” and also does stories for “CBS Sunday … more

6/13/22

FILE - A Texas Department of Public Safety officer keeps watch on June 3, 2022, in Uvalde, Texas, near a memorial outside Robb Elementary School created to honor the victims killed in last a school shooting. As public pressure mounts for more information on the deadly Uvalde school shooting, some are concerned that Texas officials will use a legal loophole to block records from being released — even to the victims' families — once the case is closed. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)

Texas shooting records could be blocked by legal loophole

Some Texas lawmakers and advocates are concerned that law enforcement authorities will use a legal loophole to block the release of further information related to the mass shooting at an elementary … more

By ACACIA CORONADO | 6/13/22

FILE - A Donetsk People's Republic militia's multiple rocket launcher fires from its position not far from Panteleimonivka, in territory under the government of the Donetsk People's Republic, eastern Ukraine, Saturday, May 28, 2022. Day after day, Russia is pounding the Donbas region of Ukraine with relentless artillery and air raids, making slow but steady progress to seize the industrial heartland of its neighbor. With the conflict now in its fourth month, it’s a high-stakes campaign that could dictate the course of the entire war. (AP Photo/Alexei Alexandrov, file)

The battle of Donbas could prove decisive in Ukraine war

Day after day, Russia is pounding the Donbas region of Ukraine with relentless artillery and air raids, making slow but steady progress to seize the industrial heartland of its neighbor. With the … more

By The Associated Press | 6/13/22

This June 10, 2022, aerial photo provided by the Bureau of Land Management Alaska Fire Service shows a tundra fire burning near the community of St. Mary's, Alaska. The largest documented wildfire burning through tundra in southwest Alaska was within miles St. Mary's and another nearby Alaska Native village, Pitkas Point, prompting officials Friday to urge residents to prepare for possible evacuation. (Ryan McPherson/Bureau of Land Management Alaska Fire Service via AP)

Tundra wildfire creeps closer toward Alaska Native community

A tundra wildfire has moved closer to an Alaska Native community in southwest Alaska, but mandatory evacuations have not been ordered. Fire officials Sunday said the East Fork fire was within 3.5 … more

By MARK THIESSEN | 6/12/22

Tundra fire slows, but still aiming at Alaska Native village

A large fire burning in the tundra of southwest Alaska continues to move toward an Alaska Native village, but fire managers say it is moving at a slower rate. The East Fork fire was started by … more

By MARK THIESSEN | 6/11/22

FILE - This Feb. 5, 2021, photo provided by the Oklahoma Department of Corrections shows James Coddington. In a request filed Friday, June 10, 2022, Oklahoma Attorney General John O’Connor is asking the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals to set execution dates for 25 death row inmates, including Coddington. (Oklahoma Department of Corrections via AP, File)

Oklahoma official seeks execution dates for 25 inmates

Oklahoma’s attorney general has asked the state’s highest appeals court to set execution dates for 25 death row inmates following a federal judge’s rejection of their challenge to the state’s … more

By KEN MILLER | 6/11/22

Alexandria Rubio's cross stands at a memorial site for the victims killed in this week's shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, Friday, May 27, 2022. (AP Photo/Dario Lopez-Mills)

Slain Uvalde girl remembered as caring and opinionated

Alexandria Aniyah Rubio was opinionated like her mother, and she played basketball and softball like her father. When she got older, she wanted to go to college on a softball scholarship and to … more

6/11/22

FILE - Peter Dushame, 33, of North Andover, Mass., center, is lead out of Nashua District Court in Nashua, N.H. on Oct. 3, 1989, after his arraignment on a negligent homicide charge. Dushame, who was found guilty of manslaughter, earned a master's degree in counseling psychology and changed his name to Peter Stone while in prison, and was released in 2002. In July 2021, he was arrested on charges he sexually assaulted a woman he was counseling in North Conway, N.H. (AP Photo/File)

Therapist sex abuse case reveals dark past, ethical concerns

A man convicted of killing a 10-year-old girl in a notorious drunken driving crash decades ago is facing new charges in New Hampshire, under a new name. Peter Dushame changed his name to Peter Stone … more

By HOLLY RAMER | 6/11/22

FILE - Visitors watch the morning sun illuminate the Grand Tetons from within the Great Room at the Jackson Lake Lodge in Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming on Aug. 28, 2016. Heather Mycoskie, 40, accused of intentionally providing wrong information in the search for a missing man in Grand Teton National Park has been banned from the park and ordered to pay restitution. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley, File)

Woman banned from Grand Teton in missing man false report

A woman accused of intentionally providing wrong information in the search for a missing man in Grand Teton National Park has been banned from the park for five years and must pay $17,600 in … more

6/10/22

FILE - Demonstrators gather on the steps to the State Capitol to speak against transgender-related legislation bills being considered in the Texas Senate and Texas House, May 20, 2021, in Austin, Texas. A Texas judge on Friday, June 10, 2022, temporarily blocked the state from investigating families of transgender children who have received gender-confirming medical care, a new obstacle to the state labeling such treatments as child abuse. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)

Judge blocks Texas investigating families of trans youth

A Texas judge has temporarily blocked the state from investigating families of transgender children who have received gender confirming care. The judge on Friday issued a temporary restraining order … more

By ANDREW DeMILLO | 6/10/22

FILE - The House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol holds its first public hearing to reveal the findings of a year-long investigation, on Capitol Hill in Washington, June 9, 2022. The centerpiece of Thursday night’s hearing was a video reconstruction of the attack on the Capitol. (Mandel Ngan/Pool via AP, File)

Key moments from the Jan. 6 committee's video of the riot

In launching its case to the American public, the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection made a central argument: Look at the tape. The centerpiece of Thursday night’s hearing was a … more

By The Associated Press | 6/10/22

FILE - This 2003 electron microscope image made available by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows a monkeypox virion, obtained from a sample associated with the 2003 prairie dog outbreak. The U.S. government is building up its supply of monkeypox vaccine to contend with escalating cases identified in a surprising international outbreak, health officials said Friday, June 10, 2022. (Cynthia S. Goldsmith, Russell Regner/CDC via AP, File)

US buys more monkeypox vaccine as global case count grows

The U.S. government is buying more monkeypox vaccine as a surprising international outbreak continues to grow. The U.S. has identified 45 monkeypox cases in 15 states and the District of Columbia. … more

By MIKE STOBBE | 6/10/22

The gutted remains of cars sit along a road during heavy fighting at the front line in Severodonetsk in the Luhansk region of Ukraine, Wednesday, June 8, 2022. (AP Photo/Oleksandr Ratushniak)

AP PHOTOS: In the midst of war, life goes on in Ukraine

Life goes on in Ukraine. The war goes on, too. In the span of two weeks that included the 100th day of the conflict with Russia, Associated Press photographers captured a country that is both a … more

By The Associated Press | 6/10/22

Pecan trees, planted in the 1960's, shade a memorial created to honor the victims killed in the recent school shooting at Robb Elementary, Thursday, June 9, 2022, in Uvalde, Texas. The Texas elementary school where a gunman killed 19 children and two teachers has long been a part of the fabric of the small city of Uvalde, a school attended by generations of families, and where the spark came that led to Hispanic parents and students to band together to fight discrimination over a half-century ago. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

Uvalde superintendent says district to hire more police

The superintendent of the Texas school district where 19 students and two teachers were fatally shot says the district will hire more police officers in the fall but released no information about the … more

6/10/22

A jogger runs towards Bug Light while a lobster boat heads out of Portland Harbor under calm conditions, Tuesday morning. June 7, 2022, in South Portland, Maine. Southern Maine can expect a soaking rain on Wednesday. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)

AP Week in Pictures: North America

JUNE 3 - 9, 2022 This photo gallery highlights some of the most compelling images from North America made or published by The Associated Press in the past week. The selection was curated by … more

6/10/22

A horse pulls a buggy with passengers through a street flooded by heavy rains, in Havana, Cuba, Friday, June 3, 2022. Heavy rains have drenched Cuba with almost non-stop rain for the last 24 hours as tropical storm watches were posted Thursday for Florida, Cuba and the Bahamas as the system that battered Mexico moves to the east. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)

AP Week in Pictures: Latin America and Caribbean

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6/10/22

In this photo provided by the Hawaii County Fire Department is the scene where a helicopter crashed in a Big Island lava field in Hawaii on Wednesday, June 8, 2022. Six people on board have been safely evacuated from the site, but two are in serious condition, officials said. Cyrus Johnasen, a public information office for Hawaii County, said it was a tour helicopter with a pilot and five passengers. He said the pilot, a man in his 50s, had been trapped but was later extracted and was in serious but stable condition. (Hawaii County Fire Department via AP)

NTSB to investigate after 6 hurt in Hawaii helicopter crash

A federal aviation accident investigator will be sent to Hawaii to investigate after a tour helicopter crashed on a remote lava field, injuring all six people on board. Officials say the Bell 407 … more

By JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER | 6/9/22