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OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Tribal sovereignty is expected to again be a top issue facing Oklahoma lawmakers and Gov. Kevin Stitt as they returned on Monday to begin the 2024 legislative session. Stitt, a Republican and himself a citizen of the Cherokee Nation, has had a contentious relationship with tribal leaders that began with a dispute during his first year …

BUDAPEST (AP) — Los legisladores del partido del primer ministro húngaro Viktor Orbán boicotearon una sesión urgente del Parlamento el lunes en que se realizaría una votación para colocar en su agenda el intento de Suecia de integrarse a la OTAN, una medida que se suma a los 18 meses de demoras que han enojado a los aliados de Hungría. …

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — Lawyers for Cambodia’s ruling Cambodian People’s Party filed a lawsuit Monday at the order of the party’s leader, former Prime Minister Hun Sen, accusing a leading rights activist of defamation and seeking damages of half a million dollars. The complaint was filed in Phnom Penh Municipal Court against Soeng Sen Karuna, deputy chief of Cambodia’s …

NEW YORK (AP) — An oversight board is criticizing Facebook owner Meta’s policies regarding manipulated media as “incoherent” and insufficient to address the flood of online disinformation that already has begun to target elections across the globe this year. The quasi-independent board on Monday said its review of an altered video of President Joe Biden that spread on Facebook exposed …

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Heavily Democratic California might appear an unlikely national battleground, but a string of competitive U.S. House contests is again poised to play a crucial role in determining control of the chamber as Republicans look to maintain their fragile majority in a deeply divided nation. The state that was once home for Republican Presidents Richard Nixon and …

JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — An appeals court panel is deciding whether to let stand the Biden administration’s approval of the massive Willow oil project in a federal petroleum reserve on Alaska’s North Slope. Environmentalists and a grassroots group called Sovereign Iñupiat for a Living Arctic are seeking to have last March’s approval overturned. Arguments before a 9th U.S. Circuit Court …

KIEV, Ucrania (AP) — El presidente ucraniano Volodymyr Zelenskyy dijo que analiza la destitución del jefe del ejército como parte de una reestructuración más amplia en el liderazgo militar, una posibilidad que ha conmocionado a un país que combate la invasión de Rusia y que ha preocupado a los aliados occidentales de Kiev. En una entrevista publicada el domingo por …

BOSTON (AP) — The brother of man suspected in four arsons involving Jewish institutions in the Boston area in 2019 has been extradited from Sweden to face charges alleging that he obstructed the investigation, federal prosecutors said Sunday. Alexander Giannakakis, 37, formerly of Quincy, worked in security at the U.S. embassy in Stockholm, Sweden, when he was arrested by Swedish …

OMAHA, Nebraska, EE.UU. (AP) — Dos policías fuera de servicio mataron a tiros a dos hombres en un SUV en la ciudad más grande de Nebraska, informaron las autoridades, aunque ofrecieron muy pocos detalles del suceso. Los dos policías de Omaha estaban trabajando en un negocio local a eso de las 2 a.m. del sábado cuando abrieron fuego contra los …

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Debt-stricken Sri Lanka signed a trade pact with Thailand on Saturday in a bid to boost trade and investment as the Indian ocean island nation is struggling to recover from its worst economic crisis that hit two year ago. The Sri Lanka Thailand Free Trade Agreement covering trade in goods, investment, custom procedures and intellectual …