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Lahaina residents deliver petition asking Hawaii …

Lahaina residents and their supporters walk at the Hawaii State Capitol in Honolulu on Tuesday, Oct. 3, 2023, to deliver a petition asking Hawaii Gov. Josh Green to delay plans to reopen a portion of West Maui to tourism starting this weekend. The petition signed by more than 14,000 people comes amid a fierce and anguished debate over when travelers should return to the region home to the historic town of Lahaina that was destroyed in the deadliest U.S. wildfire in more than a century. (AP Photo/Audrey McAvoy)

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Speaker McCarthy ousted in historic House vote, as scramble …

Rep. Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., leaves the House floor after being ousted as Speaker of the House at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, Oct. 3, 2023. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

Court reviews gun-carry restrictions under health order …

FILE - Albuquerque residents Michael Caldwell, left, and his wife, Natasha Caldwell, attend a Second Amendment Protest in response to Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham's recent public health order suspending the conceal and open carry of guns in and around Albuquerque for 30-days, Tuesday, Sept. 12, 2023, in Albuquerque, N.M. Natasha said "we came to stand for the constitution and out of anger about what's happening with this health order." Restrictions on carrying guns in public that are tied to an emergency public health order are going under the legal microscope Tuesday, Oct. 3, in New Mexico. (AP Photo/Roberto E. Rosales, File)

New York City mayor heads to Latin America with message …

FILE - New York City Mayor Eric Adams speaks in New York's Times Square during a news conference, Dec. 30, 2022. On Tuesday, Oct. 3, 2023, Adams said he will travel to Latin America to discourage people from seeking asylum in the city as it struggles to handle a massive influx of migrants that have overwhelmed its shelter system and strained financial resources. (AP Photo/Ted Shaffrey, File)

Jury hears Manuel Ellis’ last words at trial of Washington …

Defendant Matthew Collins looks on while the state gives opening statements during the trial of Tacoma Police Officers Christopher Burbank, Matthew Collins and Timothy Rankine in the killing of Manny Ellis, Tuesday, Oct. 3, 2023, at Pierce County Superior Court, Tacoma, Wash. (Brian Hayes/The News Tribune via AP, Pool)

What to know about Elijah McClain’s death and the criminal …

FILE - Sheneen McClain, mother of Elijah McClain, sits outside the courtroom at the Adams County Justice Center for the start of a trial of two of the police officers charged in the death of her son, Wednesday, Sept. 20, 2023, in Brighton, Colo. (AP Photo/Jack Dempsey, File)

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Federal government to conduct nationwide emergency …

FILE - An emergency alert is displayed on a cellphone, Oct. 30, 2020, in Rio Rancho, N.M. (AP Photo/Susan Montoya Bryan, File)

Judges aiming to give Black voters more influence …

FILE - Evan Milligan, center, plaintiff in Merrill v. Milligan, an Alabama redistricting case speaks with reporters following oral arguments at the Supreme Court in Washington, Oct. 4, 2022. The plaintiffs in voting rights cases in Alabama and Louisiana hoped they would be looking at new maps with additional districts where Black voters might have the opportunity to choose the congress member of their choice. Instead, they are facing continuing fights, including one where Alabama has taken a seemingly oppositional stance to the U.S. Supreme Court's most recent voting rights ruling. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

Things to know about the resignation of a Kansas …

This image from Marion, Kan., Police Department body camera video provided by the McDonald Tinker law firm shows former Marion Police Chief Gideon Cody during his department's raid of the Marion County Record newspaper, Aug. 11, 2023, in Marion. (McDonald Tinker via AP)

Arizona to cancel leases allowing Saudi-owned farm …

FILE - Arizona Democratic Gov. Katie Hobbs speaks as she gives the State of the State address, Jan. 9, 2023, at the Arizona Capitol in Phoenix. Hobbs said her administration was terminating land leases that for years have given a Saudi-owned farm nearly unfettered access to pump groundwater in the parched southwestern state. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin, File)

Man who killed 2 women he met a day apart in north …

FILE - This booking photo provided by the Florida Department of Corrections shows Michael Duane Zack III. (Florida Department of Corrections via AP, File)

North Dakota lawmaker killed in plane crash had recently …

North Dakota Republican state Reps. Dori Hauck, SuAnn Olson, state Sen. Kent Weston and state Rep. Mitch Ostlie listen as Republican state Rep. Paul Thomas, unseen, takes a moment to remember the late Republican state Sen. Doug Larsen, of Mandan, N.D., during a legislative meeting at the state Capitol in Bismarck, N.D., on Tuesday, Oct. 3, 2023. Larsen, his wife Amy and their two young children died Sunday in a plane crash near Moab, Utah. (AP Photo/Jack Dura)

11-year-old shoots, injures 2 teens following altercation …