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More bonds OK’d for high-speed rail line LAS VEGAS • A proposed high-speed passenger train between Las Vegas and Southern California got another boost on Tuesday with Biden administration approval to issue $2.5 billion in tax-exempt bonds for the $12 billion project. The announcement benefiting the Brightline West project followed a $3 billion U.S. Department…

Harvard president resigns amid plagiarism claims CAMBRIDGE, Mass. • Harvard University President Claudine Gay resigned Tuesday amid plagiarism accusations and criticism over testimony at a congressional hearing where she was unable to say unequivocally that calls on campus for the genocide of Jews would violate the school’s conduct policy. Gay is the second Ivy League…

Prosecutors weigh options in Alec Baldwin case SANTA FE • A Santa Fe district attorney will announce Thursday whether charges will be brought in the fatal 2021 film-set shooting of a cinematographer by actor Alec Baldwin during a rehearsal of the Western “Rust.” Santa Fe District Attorney Mary Carmack-Altwies said a decision will be announced…

WH brushes aside criticism over document finds WASHINGTON • The White House is brushing aside criticism Tuesday of its fragmented disclosures about the discovery of classified documents and official records at President Joe Biden’s home and former office. Ian Sams, a spokesperson for the White House counsel’s office, told reporters Tuesday the White House may…

ROME • Cardinal George Pell, who was the most senior Catholic cleric to be convicted of child sex abuse and spent 404 days in solitary confinement in his native Australia only to have his convictions overturned, died Tuesday. He was 81. Pell died after undergoing hip surgery at Rome’s Salvator Mundi hospital, said a friend,…

Brazil reels from riots while Bolsonaro is in Florida KISSIMMEE, Fla. • As Brazil reels from mobs of rioters swarming its seats of power, its former leader has decamped to a Florida resort, where droves of supporters flocked to cheer on their ousted president. Devotees have traveled in recent days to the temporary home of…

Kim looks to expand nuclear arsenal SEOUL, South Korea • North Korean leader Kim Jong Un ordered the “exponential” expansion of his country’s nuclear arsenal and the development of a more powerful intercontinental ballistic missile, state media reported Sunday, after he entered 2023 with another weapons launch following a record number of testing activities last…

Man kills five in condo complex TORONTO (AP) — Canadian police identified the man who shot and killed five people and wounded another at a suburban Toronto condominium as a 73-year-old resident of the building and said three of the five people he killed were on the condo board. During a news conference Monday, Chief…

Hilaree Nelson, a famed ski mountaineer and Colorado College alum, has been reported missing on 26,781-foot Mount Manaslu in Nepal. Nepalese rescuers were searching by helicopter Tuesday for Nelson, who was skiing down Manaslu on Monday with her partner Jim Morrison when reports say she fell. Also Monday, an avalanche at a lower elevation on Manaslu…