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Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... By JOSH FUNK One of the pilots of the Amazon cargo plane that careened off a Miami runway and killed five people repeatedly warned they were coming in too fast nearly two minutes ahead of time and at the last second urged them to abort the landing, according to highlights of the cockpit recording that investigators released Wednesday.

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... LOWELL — A pre‑dawn confrontation ended with a woman allegedly attacking the resident of a Hildreth Street apartment with a broken crack pipe, leaving her with cuts and a stab wound, police say. The victim told police the incident began when Sarah St. Onge, 36, of Lowell, banged on her door during the early morning hours Tuesday asking to use her bathroom, then refused to leave after being allowed inside.

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... The Trump administration Wednesday unveiled proposed new rules for the census that would order the national count to exclude undocumented immigrants and not ask about race, ethnicity or sexual orientation.

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... By HILLEL ITALIE, AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Former U.S. poet laureate Robert Pinsky has received a $100,000 lifetime achievement award and poet-children’s author Nikki Grimes has been named the next Young People’s Poet Laureate, the Poetry Foundation announced Wednesday. Pinsky, an acclaimed poet and translator who served as U.S. laureate under the auspices of the Library of Congress from 1997-2000, won the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize.

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... EDITOR’S NOTE: This story includes discussion of sexual assault. If you or someone you know needs help, please call 1-800-656-4673 for the national sexual assault hotline in the U.S. By TERRY TANG One of the organizers who said she was sexually abused by Latino labor leader César Chavez decades ago has sued nonprofits tied to him.

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... BURLINGTON — U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren and Congresswoman Lori Trahan conducted an unannounced visit to the Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Burlington Tuesday, their first surprise visit since ICE was compelled in court to allow such visits earlier this year. In a joint statement released Wednesday, Trahan and Warren said they exercised their “constitutional responsibilities to conduct oversight” when they made the visit.

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... By MARK KENNEDY, AP Entertainment Writer “The Uprising” starts as a true story of medieval England in the grip of economic revolution. That’s good stuff. Then it gets inexplicably hijacked by an origin story for one of the West’s most popular folk heroes. That’s head-scratching stuff.

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... By JAKE COYLE Na Hong-jin makes chase movies and it can be incredible where they go. His latest, “Hope,” is his biggest and wildest movie yet. But despite its heft in scale and run time, it rarely pauses to take a breath. Though some of Na’s contemporaries are better known in the West, the South Korean writer-director has for two decades been a must-see filmmaker for breathless spectacles laced with pointed satire and scruffy humanity.

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... If people need another reason to understand why Dolly Parton was so beloved in American culture, the entertainer, who died Aug. 25 at age 80, was known for being genuinely kind and generous to the people who worked for her. That includes her longtime driver and assistant, Jason Pirro, with news surfacing this week that the country star, philanthropist and LGBTQ+ icon paid for his gender-affirming care in the 1990s, LGBTQ Nation reported.

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... McARTHUR, Ohio (AP) — A man whose 16 grandchildren were discovered living in squalid conditions at a rural southern Ohio home was found mentally incompetent to stand trial Wednesday. A judge in Vinton County accepted the findings of an evaluation report for Gary Siders Sr. Vinton County Prosecutor William Archer did not object to the findings. The 73-year-old Siders appeared in court in a wheelchair.