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NEW YORK (AP) — “Saturday Night Live” is ready to make its return, five months after ending its season early due to the writers strike. NBC…

By TOM KRISHER AP Auto Writer DETROIT (AP) — Meaningful progress has been made in the negotiations between the striking United Auto Workers union…

By MORGAN LEE and ANTHONY IZAGUIRRE Associated Press SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — State election officials and privacy advocates are raising alarms about…

By JONATHAN MATTISE Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee Democratic state Rep. Gloria Johnson raised $1.3 million for a 2024 U.S.…

APOPKA, Fla. (AP) — A judge in Florida has decided to keep an 11-year-old in custody two days after he was accused of taking a gun from his…

SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) — A Southern California county has filed lawsuits alleging that the negligence of a power company caused two wildfires that…

By DEEPTI HAJELA and ANDREW DALTON Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Actor Julia Ormond has filed a lawsuit in New York accusing disgraced movie…

DUDLEY, Mass. (AP) — A former Coast Guard Academy professor whose tenure coincided with a sexual harassment scandal has resigned as president of…

BERLIN (AP) — German police say a leader of the far-right Alternative for Germany party was given medical treatment and then taken to a hospital…

HOLYOKE, Mass. (AP) — Police in Holyoke, Massachusetts, say multiple people were reportedly shot Wednesday afternoon in the downtown area of…

By GARY FIELDS The Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Associated Press and theGrio have come together for a candid conversation about issues…

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — The U.S. Coast Guard says it has rescued 12 people who abandoned a large cargo ship that ran aground near the U.S.…

By BRUCE SCHREINER Associated Press LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Republican Daniel Cameron has expressed sympathy for a woman who discussed the trauma of…

By MICHAEL LIEDTKE AP Technology Writer Google on Wednesday unveiled a next-generation Pixel smartphones lineup that will be infused with more with…

By TARA COPP Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Russia has long turned to Iranian-made drones to attack Ukraine. Now Ukrainian forces will be using…

By MARGERY A. BECK Associated Press A Texas politician who accidentally shot his grandson during a wedding he was officiating in Nebraska could be…

By DEVI SHASTRI AP Health Writer It’s the end of an era for a once-critical pandemic document: The ubiquitous white COVID-19 vaccination cards…

By MARTHA BELLISLE Associated Press TACOMA, Wash. (AP) — A cellphone video of the 2020 fatal arrest of Manny Ellis shows the Black man on the…

By CHRISTOPHER SHERMAN and ALICIA FERNÁNDEZ Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken is leading a U.S.…

By FARNOUSH AMIRI and STEPHEN GROVES Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The stunning removal of Kevin McCarthy as speaker left the House…

By DAVE COLLINS Associated Press HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont says the top two leaders of state police will be retiring. The…

By KARL RITTER Associated Press STOCKHOLM (AP) — The most prestigious and secretive prize in science ran headfirst into the digital era Wednesday…

THE VILLAGES, Fla. (AP) — A man has been arrested on forgery and fraud charges after authorities say he cast a ballot in Florida for his deceased…

By ANTHONY IZAGUIRRE Associated Press ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York City is challenging a unique legal agreement that requires it to provide…

CHICAGO (AP) — The mother of a 19-year-old Chicago woman who was found dead in 2017 in a freezer at a suburban hotel where she had attended a party…

By HARM VENHUIZEN Associated Press/Report for America MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Republican president of the Wisconsin Senate is calling on the…

By RAF CASERT and RENATA BRITO Associated Press GRANADA, Spain (AP) — European leaders will gather at a summit in Spain in an attempt to fix their…

SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic (AP) — Authorities in the Dominican Republic say the bodies of six newborns have been found discarded at the…

By ERIK VERDUZCO and SCOTT McFETRIDGE Associated Press A $1.2 billion Powerball jackpot will again be up for grabs Wednesday night after an 11-week…

By JOHN LEICESTER Associated Press PARIS (AP) — Armless archer Matt Stutzman is reshaping thinking about people with disabilities one arrow at a…

By THALIA BEATY Associated Press The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation has announced its 2023 class of fellows who are often known as…

By ABDUL SATTAR Associated Press QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistan’s military says a Taliban guard opened fire at civilians at a border crossing…

By THALIA BEATY Associated Press The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation has announced its 2023 class of fellows, often known as recipients…

By The Associated Press Three decades ago, the world held its breath as tanks blasted the Russian parliament building in central Moscow while the…

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s administration says it is working to fix an error that caused an unknown number of eligible Virginians…

NEW YORK (AP) — MSNBC host Ali Velshi is drawing upon the personal past for an upcoming book about democracy. St. Martin’s Press announced…

WINCHESTER, Va. (AP) — An animal trainer featured in the popular Netflix series “Tiger King” has received a suspended two-year sentence after…

By SETH BORENSTEIN AP Science Writer A new study finds that far more people are in harm’s way as they move into high flood zones around the…

By GRAHAM DUNBAR AP Sports Writer GENEVA (AP) — A unique 2030 World Cup is set to be played in Europe and Africa with the surprising addition of…

By Christina Larson AP Science Writer The world’s frogs, salamanders, newts and other amphibians remain in serious trouble. A new global assessment…

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s central bank lowered its key interest rate Wednesday, pointing to a drop in inflation despite a still-high rate of…

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Tropical Storm Philippe is drenching the U.S. and British Virgin Islands as it spins away from the northeast Caribbean…

NEW YORK (AP) — The final stages of jury selection have resumed at the fraud trial of FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried in New York City. Opening…

NEW YORK (AP) — “Star Trek” actor and political activist George Takei has a picture book scheduled for next spring that draws upon his early…

By MICHAEL R. SISAK, BOBBY CAINA CALVAN and JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Former President Donald Trump returned to his New York…

By PAN PYLAS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — A British army investigation has concluded that a 19-year-old soldier is believed to have taken her own…

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkey’s foreign minister says Kurdish militants behind a suicide bombing in the Turkish capital face robust retaliation…

By KATHERINE ROTH Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — You may not know her name. But Dorothy Liebes was a celebrity in her day — a weaver and…

LONDON (AP) — U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak on Wednesday proposed raising the legal age that people in England can buy cigarettes by one year,…

WINNIPEG, Manitoba (AP) — The Canadian province of Manitoba has elected the first First Nations premier of a province in Canada. Manitobans elected…

By LORNE COOK Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — European Union countries have overcame a new obstacle in their yearslong quest to overhaul the…

By JUSTIN SPIKE Associated Press BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Hungary’s foreign minister says that his government wants guarantees from Kyiv that a…

By JULIA FRANKEL Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli police say they have arrested several people suspected of spitting in the direction of…

LONDON (AP) — British police have opened an investigation into corporate manslaughter at a northern England hospital after a neonatal nurse was…

By HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Judy Blume, James Patterson and Michael Connelly are among 24 prominent writers who have raised…

By DARLENE SUPERVILLE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Jill Biden is urging women to talk to their doctors about getting mammograms or other…

MOSCOW (AP) — Sirens have wailed across Russia and television stations interrupted regular programming to broadcast warning signals as part of…

By STEFANIE DAZIO Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Picketing has begun at Kaiser Permanente hospitals as some 75,000 workers who say…

BENNINGTON, Vt. (AP) — Police say a man has been accused of stalking a woman in New York via his small airplane, flying out of an airport in nearby…

By MARK SHERMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court is taking up a case that could make it harder to sue hotels when their…

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greece is urging other European Union member states to adopt a proposed plan to sanction countries that refuse to accept…

BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — A court in Serbia has released from a brief detention a Kosovo Serb leader who has been linked to a clash with Kosovo…

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Shares in Scandinavian Airlines have dropped more than 90% after the ailing carrier announced new shareholders in a…

By SALLY FRENCH of NerdWallet For Disney fans, Halloween is among the most desirable (and expensive) times to visit its theme parks. That’s largely…

By DEE-ANN DURBIN AP Business Writer Uber is adding a new task to its list of services: mailing consumers’ return packages. The ride-hailing and…