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Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN WASHINGTON (AP) — A man refusing to eat food while jailed on charges he shot two National Guard troops near the White House, killing one of them, can be fed against his will under a judge’s emergency order. U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta agreed Saturday to order “nonconsensual” nutrition and medical treatment for Rahmanullah Lakanwal, who was rushed to a hospital in July after he stopped eating.

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... MARBLETOWN, N.Y. — Voters in the Stone Ridge Public Library District will decide on a $393,355 budget and elect trustees to three seats on the Library’s board of trustees on Tuesday, Sept. 15. Polls at the library at 3700 Main St., Stone Ridge (U.S. Route 209), will be open from 2 to 8 p.m. that day. Three board of trustees positions with full four-year terms are on the ballot.

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... KINGSTON, N.Y. — Motorists looking to gas up in Ulster County on Tuesday could find the cost of that fill-up to be a little higher than it has been. The sales tax holiday on gasoline and diesel fuel costing more than $3 a gallon that began in June ends after today, Aug. 31, meaning the county’s 4% sales tax will again be applied to every penny spent at the pumps.

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... By ANDREW DALTON, AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Singer D4vd lost his high-profile private lawyers Monday at a hearing where he entered a new not guilty plea to charges that he killed, sexually abused and dismembered 14-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez. It’s not clear why Blair Berk and her colleagues Marilyn Bednarski and Regina Peter parted ways with the indie-pop singer whose legal name is David Anthony Burke.

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... ROSENDALE, N.Y. — Rosendale Library officials are seeking voter approval of a proposed $453,100 budget for 2027 that will carry a 7.46% increase of $31,450. Voting will be from noon to 7 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 15, in the library at 264 Main St. Under the spending plan, there would be a $410,800 property tax levy representing a 4.89% increase of $19,150.

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... By BEN FINLEY WASHINGTON (AP) — The highest-ranking officer in the U.S. military says there are no plans to send troops to polling places during November’s midterm congressional elections, addressing concerns among Democrats that the Trump administration could use the military to interfere with the vote. Gen. Dan Caine, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, made the statement in a letter to Michigan Democratic Sen.

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... MIAMI (AP) — The National Hurricane Center posted a tropical storm warning on Monday for the Gulf of Mexico coast near the Texas-Louisiana state line. As of late Monday morning, the potential tropical cyclone was centered about 130 miles south of Morgan City, Louisiana, with maximum sustained winds of 35 mph. It was forecast to strengthen into a named tropical storm by Monday night.

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... By MICHELLE GUMEDE JOHANNESBURG (AP) — A pregame stunt involving two passenger jets flying dramatically low over a sports stadium in South Africa drew huge cheers from the estimated crowd of around 56,000 people, but also sparked a major debate over safety risks. The flyby by two Embraer jets operated by local airline Airlink happened on Saturday before a rugby game between South Africa and New Zealand in Cape Town.

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... By SETH BORENSTEIN, AP Science Writer Cooling from air conditioning saves lives — more than 5,000 a year in the United States alone — but it also heats up the planet and taxes our electrical grid, scientists say. As the world warms, heat waves strike nearly every continent and United Nations officials estimate that about half a million people die a year from heat, air conditioning is needed and being used more than ever.

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... By Tim Henderson, Stateline.org As more states seek ways to limit immigration enforcement, a Stateline analysis shows one tactic has had an effect: making it more difficult for local law enforcement to hand over people they are holding in city or county jails to federal immigration authorities.