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MILWAUKEE (AP) — An attorney says a Wisconsin gun shop will pay $1 million to settle a lawsuit in which a jury found it negligently sold a gun used to injure two Milwaukee police officers.

NEW YORK (AP) — Santas came by the hundreds, reindeer formed a kick line and oversized elves cavorted with saucy Mrs. Clauses as a police helicopter circled overhead.

OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso (AP) — A lawyer in Burkina Faso says three former presidential guard members have been indicted and jailed for the killing of an investigative journalist in 1998.

SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — A 62-year-old army veteran has been arrested after a man called a radio talk show and confessed to taking part in 18 killings during the former Chilean dictatorship's so-called dirty war against leftists during the 1970s.

CAIRO (AP) — A Cairo court convicted two officers of torture and murder, sentencing each to five years in jail on Saturday in the killing of a detained lawyer, the latest in a government crackdown on police officers accused of brutality.

MURFREESBORO, Tenn. (AP) — A Tennessee woman is charged with attempted first-degree murder for what investigators say was a failed abortion attempt.

GENEVA (AP) — Two Syrians arrested in a vehicle containing traces of explosives have not been clearly linked to four men with suspected ties to the Islamic State group who are wanted by Swiss authorities, the Geneva prosecutor said Saturday.

OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso (AP) — A lawyer in Burkina Faso says three former presidential guard members have been indicted and jailed for the killing of an investigative journalist in 1998.

COACHELLA, Calif. (AP) — A person of interest has been detained in the investigation of a suspected arson fire at a Southern California mosque, authorities said.

JESUP, Ga. (AP) — Those close to Shannon Johnson knew him to be fearless — whether he was moving across the country to pursue love, rescuing stray animals in the path of a wildfire, or trying to shield a co-worker from gunfire during the last moments of his life.

AIKEN, S.C. (AP) — Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts is "disgraceful" and a "disappointment" to conservatives, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said Saturday, while praising Associate Justice Clarence Thomas is his favorite member of the high court.

WASHINGTON (AP) — There's no legal or historical precedent for closing U.S. borders to the world's 1.6 billion Muslims, but neither is there any Supreme Court case that clearly prevents a president or Congress from doing so.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, famous for his blustery rhetoric from the bench and beyond, finds himself in controversy again after suggesting that some black students might belong at "slower-track" universities.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid on Thursday blasted Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia for uttering what he called "racist ideas" from the bench of the nation's highest court.

Below are excerpts from arguments before the Supreme Court Tuesday over a challenge to the use of race in college admissions at the University of Texas. The university admits 75 percent of students through a plan that guarantees slots to Texans who graduate in the top 10 percent of their high school classes, regardless of race. The rest are admitted in a process where race is one of many factors considered.

LE BOURGET, France (AP) — The latest on the U.N. climate conference outside Paris (all times local):

WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House is praising what it calls "the most ambitious climate change agreement in history" after the United States and nearly 200 other countries backed the deal in Paris.

AMMAN, Jordan (AP) — A Jordanian woman who came close to joining the Islamic State group described a sophisticated 14-month recruitment process by the extremists that she said landed her in a secret IS compound in Turkey with dozens of other women.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House is praising what it calls "the most ambitious climate change agreement in history" after the United States and nearly 200 other countries backed the deal in Paris.

LE BOURGET, France (AP) — The latest on the U.N. climate conference outside Paris (all times local):