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MEXICO CITY (AP) — Drug lord Rafael Caro Quintero, captured by Mexican forces, has been notified that a process to extradite him to the United States for the murder of a DEA agent in 1985 and other crimes is beginning. A Mexican federal official who requested anonymity because he was not authorized to make statements confirmed Sunday to The Associated Press that the notification was made Saturday and took place virtually.

NORTH LAS VEGAS, Nev. (AP) — Authorities say four people are dead after two small planes collided at North Las Vegas Airport. The Federal Aviation Administration says a single-engine Piper PA-46 and a single-engine Cessna 172 collided around noon Sunday. They say the Piper was preparing to land when it collided with the Cessna.

NEW YORK (AP) — Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck were wed in a small ceremony Saturday in Las Vegas, culminating a relationship that stretched over two decades in two separate romances and countless tabloid covers. Lopez announced their marriage Sunday in her newsletter for fans with the headline “We did it.”

ST. ANDREWS, Scotland (AP) — Cameron Smith is the British Open champion not many saw coming. The Australian and his magical putter stormed from behind at St. Andrews to overcome Rory McIlroy and win the British Open for his first major.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Juan Soto and Victor Robles homered, and the Washington Nationals beat the Atlanta Braves 7-3 to snap a nine-game losing streak. Soto, Washington’s lone All-Star who could be traded by the end of the month, hit a solo shot in the eighth inning to extend his on-base streak to a career-high 26 games.

WASHINGTON (BP) – The U.S. House of Representatives passed two far-reaching abortion rights bills Friday that seek to repudiate a watershed ruling by the Supreme Court and defy pro-life protections enacted by the states. But the evenly divided Senate has already rejected the Women’s Health Protection Act twice this year by refusing to bring the legislation to the floor for a vote.

Rob Jackson said when he was in Ukraine in early July, a Baptist pastor told him the story of a young mother who showed up at his church. Three days after giving birth, the woman found out her husband had been killed. “She wept and asked the pastor, ‘What am I to do now? I have no husband, no job, and three small children. What am I supposed to do?’

ATLANTA – The Georgia Department of Transportation (DOT) is working with Chicago-based commercial real estate company JLL to plan a network of electric vehicle charging stations across the state. The plan is a required step toward landing federal funds for charging stations through a $5 billion grant program established by the $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure spending bill Congress passed last fall.

As a campus ministries intern at the University of Massachusetts Lowell, Lissy Sandoval builds relationships and helps women come to know Christ. In her work, she has seen students’ lives transformed by the gospel.

Getting quick help for suicidal thoughts and other mental health emergencies will soon be as easy as dialing 9-8-8. The United States’ first nationwide three-digit mental health crisis hotline goes live on Saturday. It connects with an existing network and is designed to be as simple to remember and use as 911.

ST. ANDREWS, Scotland (AP) — Tiger Woods may have played his final round of a British Open at St. Andrews. He received an emotional sendoff worthy of the occasion. Woods shot a 75 and missed the cut.

JEDDAH, Saudi Arabia (AP) — President Joe Biden has been greeted by Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman with a fist bump as he arrived at a royal palace in Jeddah. Biden is working to bridge a rift between the United States and the oil-rich kingdom. It is his first meeting with the Saudi crown prince, who is the presumed heir to the throne held by his father, King Salman.

HOUSTON (AP) — An attorney representing 30 women who have accused the Houston Texans of turning a blind eye to allegations that Deshaun Watson was sexually assaulting and harassing women during massage sessions says they have settled their legal claims against the team. Tony Buzbee, the women's attorney, says the terms of the settlements reached between each of the women and the Texans are confidential.

NEW YORK (AP) — Consumers picked up their spending from May to June, underscoring their resilience despite painfully higher prices at the gas pump and in grocery aisles. U.S. retail sales rose 1% in June, from a decline of 0.1 % in May.

Wells Fargo, the nation’s largest mortgage lender, saw its second-quarter revenue and profit decline as rising interest rates pushed people out of the housing market. The San Francisco bank earned $3.1 billion in the period, or 74 cents per share, coming up short of the 80 cents per share analysts expected. Revenue was $17 billion, also below Wall Street projections.

ANDERSON, Calif. (AP) — Containment of a small but destructive Northern California wildfire has increased. The Peter Fire in Shasta County south of Redding remains at 304 acres Friday but containment jumped to 34% overnight, up from 25%. The California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection says the fire erupted shortly before 3 p.m. Thursday and destroyed 12 structures before its forward progress was stopped.

TOKYO (AP) — Toyota’s flagship model in Japan, the Crown, is going on sale around the world for the first time, including in the U.S. Toyota Chief Executive Akio Toyoda said the company was aiming for 200,000 vehicles in annual global sales in 40 nations. The Crown’s history parallels the rise of Toyota, but it is not well-known abroad.

BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — The grocery store in Buffalo where 10 people were killed in a shooting in May is part of an ever-growing list of public spaces and retail establishments where gun violence shattered a community’s way of living. Whether it’s a school, a church, a movie theater, or a grocery store, how and when do you reopen the site of a mass atrocity?

SYLVANIA, Ga. (AP) — A textile manufacturer says it plans to close a plant in Georgia that employs 260 workers. Milliken & Company announced that its operations in Screven County will be transferred to its plant in Cherokee County, South Carolina. Kevin Brown of Milliken said the company will make every effort to retain any Screven County employees willing to transfer to another location.

ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia’s second-largest school district has approved a policy that lets some employees who aren’t certified police officers carry guns in schools. But the proposal was changed to specifically exclude teachers from those who can be armed in the suburban Atlanta system.

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lanka's prime minister has been sworn in as its interim president until Parliament elects a successor to Gotabaya Rajapaksa, who resigned after mass protests over the country’s economic collapse forced him from office. Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe was acting president since Rajapaksa fled the country Wednesday after angry protesters had stormed his official residence.

President Joe Biden is visiting the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem, believed by Christians to be the birthplace of Jesus. Biden, a devout Roman Catholic, stopped by the church Friday after meeting with Palestinian leaders in the ancient West Bank city.

BETHLEHEM, West Bank (AP) — President Joe Biden has called for “two states for two peoples” — the Israelis and Palestinians — while visiting the West Bank on Friday. But he also acknowledged that the “ground is not ripe" at this moment for restarting peace talks between them.

VINNYTSIA, Ukraine (AP) — Rescue teams with sniffer dogs are combing through the debris in a central Ukrainian city looking for people still missing after Russia’s devastating missile strike that killed at least 23 and wounded over 100 others. Russian forces pounded other sites in Ukraine in a relentless push to wrest territory from Ukraine and try to soften the unbending morale of its leaders, troops, and civilians.