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NEW YORK — The latest technology can make for an easy holiday gift, but when it comes to the ultra-tech-savvy people in your life, finding a cool gadget they don't already own can be tough.

Sept. 15, 1953 — Dec. 10, 2016

BALTIMORE (AP) — The Baltimore Orioles have signed right-handed reliever Logan Ondrusek to a major league contract.

MEXICO CITY (AP) — In one of the stranger chapters of Mexico's drug war, townsfolk have kidnapped the mother of an alleged drug gang boss to demand the release of their loved ones.

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (AP) — Police say a man whose family says he had dementia was unarmed when an officer fatally shot him.

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Cleveland Browns owner Jimmy Haslam was deposed Tuesday in a civil lawsuit against the Pilot Flying J truck-stop chain owned by his brother, Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam, and other family members.

CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — Two power line projects that won federal approval Tuesday will give a big capacity boost to the Western energy grid, including power for up to 1 million homes from what's on track to become the biggest…

Our politics is often reflected in our popular culture, and vice versa — especially in an election year. That relationship seemed closer than ever in 2016, when a TV personality was elected president, reality shows and beauty contests were referenced…

NORRISTOWN, Pa. (AP) — The Latest on Bill Cosby's latest court appearance in a sexual-assault case (all times local):

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A plan to open a second women's prison in Oregon is facing a major setback as lawmakers have rejected a request for funding for the project.

FREMONT, Ohio (AP) — A former Ohio sheriff who admitted stealing prescription drugs and misusing office funds while he was on the job has been sentenced to four years in prison.

OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — The Latest on developments in the Dec. 2 Oakland warehouse fire that killed 36 (all times local):

NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — A Romanian national was sentenced to nearly five years in prison Tuesday for participating in a scheme that stole bank account information from thousands of customers by installing card-reading devices in ATMs.

NEW YORK (AP) — A federal judge has directed the U.S. government to show him any search warrant application used to gain access to a new batch of Hillary Clinton's emails just before the election.

There are two ways to look at the St. Louis Cardinals' offseason.

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A federal appeals court on Tuesday upheld a Virginia law requiring voters to show photo identification at the polls, rejecting a challenge from Democrats who argued that it suppresses voting by minorities and young people.

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Thousands of anti-government protesters marched Tuesday from the former Communist party headquarters in Warsaw to the offices of Poland's current ruling party, a symbolic route chosen to underline the charge that the government is destroying democracy.

OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Investigators said Tuesday that they still can't pinpoint a specific cause in the fire that killed 36 partygoers in an Oakland warehouse.

NEW YORK (AP) — From the outside, Samy El-Goarany seemed to have it all.

LAS VEGAS (AP) — A 20-year-old British man diagnosed with mental illness was sentenced to about four more months in a U.S. prison for trying to grab a police officer's gun in a plot to kill presidential candidate Donald Trump…

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Almost four months after the Olympics ended, Rio de Janeiro organizers are unable to pay some of their bills, including $3.7 million owed to the International Paralympic Committee.

THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. (AP) — The Los Angeles Rams barely had time to process the news that head coach Jeff Fisher was being fired before starting preparations to play the Seattle Seahawks on Thursday night.

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Migrants returning to Mexico for the holidays will form a caravan of at least 150 vehicles to travel from Nuevo Laredo to their homes in central Mexico.

MOSCOW (AP) — The Kremlin says President Vladimir Putin has warned German Chancellor Angela Merkel of a threat to the gas supplies Russia sends to Europe via Ukraine.

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Undercover audio and video recordings are again being played for jurors deliberating the fate of a Florida woman accused of trying to hire a hit man to murder her husband.