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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department violated the constitutional rights of a close friend of James Comey and must return to him computer files that prosecutors had hoped to use for a potential criminal case against the former FBI director, a federal judge said Friday.The ruling from U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly represents not only a stern rebuke of the conduct of Justice Department prosecutors but also imposes a dramatic hurdle to government efforts to seek a new indictment against Comey after an initial one was dismissed last month. The order concerns computer files and communications that investigators obtained years…

An employee with the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) checks the documents of a traveler at the Hollywood Burbank Airport in Burbank, California, U.S., Oct. 1, 2025.Daniel Cole | ReutersThe Transportation Security Administration is giving U.S. immigration officials the names of every airline traveler as part of the Trump administration’s widespread deportation program, The New York Times reported Friday.TSA, several times per week, gives Immigration and Customs Enforcement a list of travelers expected to be passing through airports, the Times reported.”ICE can then match the list against its own database of people subject to deportation and send agents to the airport…

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — In the age of dinosaurs — before whales, great whites or the bus-sized megalodon — a monstrous shark prowled the waters off what’s now northern Australia, among the sea monsters of the Cretaceous period.Researchers studying huge vertebrae discovered on a beach near the city of Darwin say the creature is now the earliest known mega-predator of the modern shark lineage, living 15 million years earlier than enormous sharks found before.And it was huge. The ancestor of today’s 6-meter (20-foot) great white shark was thought to be about 8 meters (26 feet) long, the authors of…

LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) — A Bolivian court on Friday ordered the country’s former President Luis Arce to remain detained for five months while he awaits trial on corruption charges, the latest development in a case that threatens to exacerbate Bolivia’s political tensions. Arce, 62, a leader from Bolivia’s Movement Toward Socialism party, was elected in 2020 and left office a month ago following the election of Bolivia’s first right-wing leader in nearly two decades. He strongly denies the charges of breach of duty and financial misconduct. He faces up to six years in prison if convicted.Two days after Arce’s…

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah has repealed a collective bargaining ban passed earlier this year that prevented labor unions serving teachers, firefighters, police and other public employees from negotiating on behalf of their workers.Republican Gov. Spencer Cox on Thursday approved the repeal of a policy that experts had called one of the most restrictive labor laws in the country. The state’s Republican-controlled Legislature originally approved the policy in February, saying it was needed to allow employers to engage directly with all employees, instead of communicating through a union representative. Thousands of union members from the public and private sector…

SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) — The president of the Los Angeles Angels baseball team testified Friday in a wrongful death lawsuit that the fatal overdose of pitcher Tyler Skaggs was tough for the club and he wished he had known sooner about drug use by the player and one of the team’s employees.John Carpino, president of the Angels since 2009, made the comments during the final moments of defense testimony in a long-running trial in California over whether the MLB team should be held responsible for Skaggs’ death. Carpino told jurors that Skaggs and team communications director Eric Kay, who…

Kevin Warsh, former governor of the US Federal Reserve, speaks with CNBC on July 17, 2025.CNBCPresident Donald Trump said Friday that Kevin Warsh has moved to the top of his list as the next Federal Reserve chair, though others remain in contention, according to the Wall Street Journal.Previously considered on Trump’s short list but not the favorite, Warsh, a former Fed governor himself, apparently ingratiated himself further following an interview Wednesday with the president.”Yes, I think he is,” Trump told the paper when asked if Warsh was at the top, according to an account posted Friday afternoon.Referring to National Economic…

West Brom eased the pressure on head coach Ryan Mason with a 2-0 win over Sheffield United at The Hawthorns.The Baggies had slipped into the bottom half of the Championship after six defeats in their last 10, but moved up to 14th – outside the top half on goal difference alone – thanks to in-form striker Aune Heggebo’s seventh goal in seven games and a thunderbolt from Karlan Grant. Sheffield United failed to hit a shot on target in the second half, as their six-game unbeaten run came to an end. Chris Wilder’s side stay 17th as a result of…

Oracle CEO Clay Magouyrk appears on a media tour of the Stargate AI data center in Abilene, Texas, on Sept. 23, 2025.Kyle Grillot | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesOracle on Friday pushed back against a report that said the company will complete data centers for OpenAI, one of its major customers, in 2028, rather than 2027.The delay is due to a shortage of labor and materials, according to the Friday report from Bloomberg, which cited unnamed people. Oracle shares closed down more than 4% on Friday. “Site selection and delivery timelines were established in close coordination with OpenAI following execution of…

“This is the wrong approach — and most likely illegal,” Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., said in a post on X Thursday. “We need a strong federal safety standard, but we should not remove the few protections Americans currently have from the downsides of AI,” Klobuchar said.Trump’s executive order directs Attorney General Pam Bondi to create a task force to challenge state laws regulating AI.The Commerce Department was also directed to identify “onerous” state regulations aimed at AI. The order is a win for tech companies such as OpenAI and Google and the venture firm Andreessen Horowitz, which have all lobbied…