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MIAMI — An incident involving a suspected migrant smuggling vessel left at least five people dead near an uninhabited island in Puerto Rico on Thursday, according to U.S. authorities.

“Our priority is to look for and rescue any possible survivor,” said Ricardo Castrodad, a Coast Guard spokesman in San Juan.

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Meta Platforms says it will no longer pay U.S. news organizations to have their material appear in Facebook's News Tab as it reallocates resources in the economic downturn. The company said Thursday that most of its users do not come to Facebook for news. It said it does not make business sense for it to invest in areas that don’t align with its users' preferences. Meta, then called Facebook, launched the partnerships in 2019. The “News Tab" section in the Facebook mobile app only displays headlines — and nothing else — from The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, NBC, and the Los Angeles Times, among others.

Canadian police have released the names of the two people who died in a shooting in a Vancouver suburb. In a release Thursday, police identified the two people killed on Monday as 60-year-old Paul David Wynn and 43-year-old Steven Furness. A 26-year-old woman remains in hospital in critical condition, along with a 26-year-old man with non-life threatening injuries. The attacks began early Monday in the community of Langley, about 30 miles (48 kilometers) southeast of Vancouver, and continued until dawn. The lone gunman, 28-year-old Jordan Daniel Goggin of Surrey, British Columbia, was shot and killed by police.

New position will lead the charge in promoting a culture of personal and professional well-being.

MIAMI — An incident involving a suspected migrant smuggling vessel left at least five people dead near an uninhabited island in Puerto Rico on Thursday, according to U.S. authorities.

Here are the bestsellers for the week that ended Saturday, July 23, compiled from data from independent and chain bookstores, book wholesalers and independent distributors nationwide, powered by NPD BookScan © 2022 NPD Group.

Here are the bestsellers for the week that ended Saturday, July 23, compiled from data from independent and chain bookstores, book wholesalers and independent distributors nationwide, powered by NPD BookScan © 2022 NPD Group.

A tropical vacation on a Mexican beachfront resort can’t solve everything.

Barack Obama’s presidential portrait will be unveiled at the White House in a September ceremony hosted by his former No. 2, President Joe Biden. An Obama spokesperson, who spoke on background because the ceremony hadn’t been formally announced, said portraits of the former president and Michelle Obama would be presented in the East Room on September 7. President Biden and first lady Jill Biden will host the Obamas for the occasion. White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre planned to announce the portrait unveiling during her press briefing later Wednesday. As with previous such ceremonies, the artists and details about the artwork won’t be released until the day of the ceremony.

It made Route 66 and Interstate 40 drivers in New Mexico do double takes. An upgraded state Department of Transportation sign erected last week pointing drivers toward Albuquerque misspelled the city's name, losing its“R.” A transportation department spokesperson says people called and sent emails about the mistake and the misspelling was fixed this week on the sign visible from both highways. The city's name actually had two “Rs” in it after colonists in 1706 were granted permission by King Philip of Spain to establish the new community on the banks of the Rio Grande. What used to be Alburquerque lost the other “R” over the centuries.

Federal officials announced plans Thursday to spend $401 million in grants and loans to expand the reach and improve the speed of internet for rural residents, tribes and businesses in 11 West and Central U.S. states. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack told reporters that farmers, store owners, schoolchildren and people seeking telehealth medical checkups will benefit from the ReConnect and Telecommunications Infrastructure Loan and Loan Guarantee programs. He called connectivity critical to remote parts of America and tallied the number of people who could be helped at about 31,000 in Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, New Mexico, Nevada, Arkansas, North Dakota and Texas.

Meta Platforms says it will no longer pay U.S. news organizations to have their material appear in Facebook's News Tab as it reallocates resources in the economic downturn. The company said Thursday that most of its users do not come to Facebook for news. It said it does not make business sense for it to invest in areas that don’t align with its users' preferences. Meta, then called Facebook, launched the partnerships in 2019. The “News Tab" section in the Facebook mobile app only displays headlines — and nothing else — from The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, NBC, and the Los Angeles Times, among others.

Canadian police have released the names of the two people who died in a shooting in a Vancouver suburb. In a release Thursday, police identified the two people killed on Monday as 60-year-old Paul David Wynn and 43-year-old Steven Furness. A 26-year-old woman remains in hospital in critical condition, along with a 26-year-old man with non-life threatening injuries. The attacks began early Monday in the community of Langley, about 30 miles (48 kilometers) southeast of Vancouver, and continued until dawn. The lone gunman, 28-year-old Jordan Daniel Goggin of Surrey, British Columbia, was shot and killed by police.

New position will lead the charge in promoting a culture of personal and professional well-being.

For most of the six decades that monkeypox has been known to affect people, it was not known as a disease that spreads through sex. Now that has changed. The current outbreak is by far the biggest involving the virus. It's been designated a global emergency. So far, officials say, all evidence indicates that the disease has spread mainly through networks of men who have sex with men. To protect the people at highest risk while trying to contain the spread, public health agencies are focusing their attention on those men — and attacking the virus based on how it’s currently behaving.

Former U.S. national team forward Jozy Altidore will be loaned to Mexico’s Pueblo for the rest of the year by Major League Soccer’s New England Revolution. Revolution coach Bruce Arena says Altidore initiated the loan. The 32-year-old Altidore was acquired from Toronto in February and has one goal in four starts and 13 substitute appearances. He is a two-time U.S. Soccer Federation player of the year and is married to 2017 U.S. Open tennis women’s singles champion Sloane Stephens.

Formula One champion Max Verstappen supports banning abusive fans from races but believes drivers have limited influence in curbing the boorish behavior seen at recent events. Verstappen called for stronger deterrents from F1 and race promoters. Abusiveness in the grandstands overshadowed the Austrian Grand Prix two weeks ago and spectators used social media to make F1 aware of rampant harassment, sexism, racism, and homophobia. Verstappen tells The Associated Press that measures such as those taken in soccer to tamp down unruly behavior could help F1.

North Carolina’s Republican General Assembly leaders have asked a federal judge to reinstate a 20-week abortion ban previously thrown out by courts, despite the Democratic attorney general’s refusal to seek enforcement of the ban after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned nationwide abortion protections. Outside attorneys for Senate leader Phil Berger and House Speaker Tim Moore asked U.S. District Judge William Osteen on Wednesday to vacate his 2019 ruling that blocked the execution of the ban based on precedents set in Roe v. Wade and an associated 1992 Supreme Court ruling, both struck down on June 24.

The House Jan. 6 committee has interviewed former Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and is in negotiations to talk to several other former members of Donald Trump’s Cabinet. The committee is scrutinizing the days after the Capitol insurrection and discussions about whether to try and remove the then-president from office. The interviews and negotiations were confirmed by three people familiar with the committee’s work who weren't authorized to discuss the developments publicly and spoke on condition of anonymity. According to one of those people, the committee asked Mnuchin about discussions among Cabinet secretaries to possibly invoke the constitutional process in the 25th Amendment to remove Trump after the attack on the Capitol.

The parents of a 12-year-old boy who was left in a comatose state after suffering brain damage have failed to persuade the U.K. Supreme Court to intervene in a life-support treatment battle. Archie Battersbee’s parents filed an urgent appeal to the Supreme Court on Thursday seeking to halt rulings by lower courts to allow doctors to legally withdraw life support from their son. Archie’s mother, Hollie Dance, found him unconscious at home on Apr. 7. Doctors treating the teen at the Royal London Hospital believe he is brain dead, and say continued life-support treatment is not in his best interests. The Supreme Court said Thursday that a panel of three judges refused to give the couple permission to appeal.

A Georgia county has filed a lawsuit that seeks to force a company to sell it 4,000 acres on which the county has long planned to build a launch pad for commercial rockets. Coastal Camden County took legal action just days after Union Carbide Corp. said it no longer intends to sell the land, citing a March referendum in which county residents voted to kill the deal. Camden County has spent more than a decade and $11 million pursuing a spaceport for launching satellites into orbit. Critics fear the project would pose safety and environmental risks that outweigh any economic benefits. The lawsuit filed Wednesday contends Union Carbide violated a binding agreement to sell land to the county.

U.S. consumers are finally getting the chance to try avocados from a second state in Mexico after 25 years in which Michoacan has been the only one authorized to send the green fruit to the U.S. market. The arrival of avocados from neighboring Jalisco just may help with prices, which have soared this year to over $2 per fruit amid a dip in production in Michoacan. Eleven trucks bearing nearly 20 tons of avocados from Jalisco lined up Thursday in the mountain town of Zapotlan El Grande to set out for the United States.

Two dancers have been injured at a Cantopop concert in Hong Kong after a massive video screen suspended above the stage fell onto performers below. Cantopop boy band Mirror performed Thursday. It was the fourth of a series of 12 scheduled concerts by the band. Video on social media showed Mirror members Anson Lo and Edan Lui performing with a dozen dancers on stage when one of several suspended LED screens above the stage came crashing down. The falling screen appeared to directly hit one dancer on the head and body, before toppling over onto another performer as the audience screamed in horror, according to clips. Police said both dancers were sent to the hospital in a conscious state.

Arizona’s congressional primaries are packed with Republican candidates as the party tries to chip away at the state’s majority Democratic delegation. Voting ends Tuesday in the primary election to determine which candidates will face off in November. Democrats hold the delegation's majority, but control could flip to Republicans because of redrawn districts favoring the GOP. Eight of the nine seats are up for grabs with one incumbent running unopposed. The races have drawn Republicans who are promoting their military service, invoking former President Donald Trump's name and vowing to be tough on border security.

Pennsylvania’s Democratic governor is suing the Legislature over a package of proposed constitutional amendments that Republican lawmakers are pursuing, including one that would say the state constitution does not guarantee any rights relating to abortion or public funding of abortions. The lawsuit filed Thursday in the state Supreme Court argues that the proposed abortion amendment would violate privacy protections. Wolf wants the high court to throw out the amendments, declaring that they are not constitutionally valid. He also claims that bundling the abortion amendment together with four others runs afoul of a constitutional rule against passing legislation that addresses multiple, unrelated topics.

Idaho officials are looking to expand the number of participants in auctions for state lands and potentially bring in more money by allowing remote bidding. The announcement by the Idaho Department of Lands on Wednesday comes ahead of auctions next month for 10 cottage sites at Priest Lake in northern Idaho and an auction this fall for an island in Payette Lake near the vacation and second-home town of McCall in west-central Idaho. The department's Jim Elbin says remote bidding could increase competition and help bring in more money for beneficiaries, mainly public schools. The auction for the Priest Lake cottage sites is Aug. 13 in Coeur d'Alene.

Charges have been dropped against a Black north Louisiana man whose severe beating before he was arrested in 2019 led to criminal charges and lawsuits against a state trooper. A traffic violation and charges of resisting an officer had been hanging over Aaron Bowman of Monroe for two years before the Louisiana Attorney General's office moved to dismiss. Court documents show the office on Monday cited “insufficient evidence to support prosecution” and “credibility issues” with the officers who arrested him. Former trooper Jacob Brown has pleaded not guilty ahead of his federal criminal trial next March in connection with the beating of Bowman.

The House Jan. 6 committee has interviewed former Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and is in negotiations to talk to several other former members of Donald Trump’s Cabinet. The committee is scrutinizing the days after the Capitol insurrection and discussions about whether to try and remove the then-president from office. The interviews and negotiations were confirmed by three people familiar with the committee’s work who weren't authorized to discuss the developments publicly and spoke on condition of anonymity. According to one of those people, the committee asked Mnuchin about discussions among Cabinet secretaries to possibly invoke the constitutional process in the 25th Amendment to remove Trump after the attack on the Capitol.

The parents of a 12-year-old boy who was left in a comatose state after suffering brain damage have failed to persuade the U.K. Supreme Court to intervene in a life-support treatment battle. Archie Battersbee’s parents filed an urgent appeal to the Supreme Court on Thursday seeking to halt rulings by lower courts to allow doctors to legally withdraw life support from their son. Archie’s mother, Hollie Dance, found him unconscious at home on Apr. 7. Doctors treating the teen at the Royal London Hospital believe he is brain dead, and say continued life-support treatment is not in his best interests. The Supreme Court said Thursday that a panel of three judges refused to give the couple permission to appeal.

A Georgia county has filed a lawsuit that seeks to force a company to sell it 4,000 acres on which the county has long planned to build a launch pad for commercial rockets. Coastal Camden County took legal action just days after Union Carbide Corp. said it no longer intends to sell the land, citing a March referendum in which county residents voted to kill the deal. Camden County has spent more than a decade and $11 million pursuing a spaceport for launching satellites into orbit. Critics fear the project would pose safety and environmental risks that outweigh any economic benefits. The lawsuit filed Wednesday contends Union Carbide violated a binding agreement to sell land to the county.

U.S. consumers are finally getting the chance to try avocados from a second state in Mexico after 25 years in which Michoacan has been the only one authorized to send the green fruit to the U.S. market. The arrival of avocados from neighboring Jalisco just may help with prices, which have soared this year to over $2 per fruit amid a dip in production in Michoacan. Eleven trucks bearing nearly 20 tons of avocados from Jalisco lined up Thursday in the mountain town of Zapotlan El Grande to set out for the United States.

Two dancers have been injured at a Cantopop concert in Hong Kong after a massive video screen suspended above the stage fell onto performers below. Cantopop boy band Mirror performed Thursday. It was the fourth of a series of 12 scheduled concerts by the band. Video on social media showed Mirror members Anson Lo and Edan Lui performing with a dozen dancers on stage when one of several suspended LED screens above the stage came crashing down. The falling screen appeared to directly hit one dancer on the head and body, before toppling over onto another performer as the audience screamed in horror, according to clips. Police said both dancers were sent to the hospital in a conscious state.

Arizona’s congressional primaries are packed with Republican candidates as the party tries to chip away at the state’s majority Democratic delegation. Voting ends Tuesday in the primary election to determine which candidates will face off in November. Democrats hold the delegation's majority, but control could flip to Republicans because of redrawn districts favoring the GOP. Eight of the nine seats are up for grabs with one incumbent running unopposed. The races have drawn Republicans who are promoting their military service, invoking former President Donald Trump's name and vowing to be tough on border security.

Pennsylvania’s Democratic governor is suing the Legislature over a package of proposed constitutional amendments that Republican lawmakers are pursuing, including one that would say the state constitution does not guarantee any rights relating to abortion or public funding of abortions. The lawsuit filed Thursday in the state Supreme Court argues that the proposed abortion amendment would violate privacy protections. Wolf wants the high court to throw out the amendments, declaring that they are not constitutionally valid. He also claims that bundling the abortion amendment together with four others runs afoul of a constitutional rule against passing legislation that addresses multiple, unrelated topics.

Idaho officials are looking to expand the number of participants in auctions for state lands and potentially bring in more money by allowing remote bidding. The announcement by the Idaho Department of Lands on Wednesday comes ahead of auctions next month for 10 cottage sites at Priest Lake in northern Idaho and an auction this fall for an island in Payette Lake near the vacation and second-home town of McCall in west-central Idaho. The department's Jim Elbin says remote bidding could increase competition and help bring in more money for beneficiaries, mainly public schools. The auction for the Priest Lake cottage sites is Aug. 13 in Coeur d'Alene.

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