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Associated Press TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — An enormous Hurricane Helene swamped parts of Mexico on Wednesday as it churned on a path forecasters…

Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — The victory plan that President Volodymyr Zelenskyy will present to the White House this week asks the Biden…

Associated Press An Alaska national park’s yearly celebration of the beefy, brown and bristly is getting underway as some of the chunkiest…

Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Ohio Sen. JD Vance, the Republican vice presidential candidate, is less popular among voters than his Democratic…

Associated Press/ Report for America PHOENIX (AP) — Arizona Supreme Court Justice Robert Brutinel has announced he will retire this fall. The…

TEMPE, Ariz. (AP) — Authorities say someone fired shots at a Democratic Party campaign office in a Phoenix suburb, causing damage but no injuries.…

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A woman in Minnesota has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for her alleged role in the killing of a Minneapolis real estate…

Legal Affairs Writer PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A U.S. appeals court has ruled that a man who spent 26 years in solitary confinement in Pennsylvania can…

Associated Press RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — A Brazilian judge has suspended the preventive arrest of one of the country’s most popular country music…

Associated Press FLOWOOD, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves says legislators should ignore “myths” from opponents who want to block…

Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — A jury is deliberating the fate of a former Houston police officer accused of being responsible for the 2019 deaths…

Associated Press LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — An Arkansas inmate who was beaten by a police officer in the back of a patrol car has sued the former…

Associated Press BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — There was a time when the city of Birmingham, Alabama, earned the nickname “Bombingham,” renowned for…

AP College Football Writer The Pac-12 is suing the Mountain West over what it calls an unlawful and unenforceable “poaching penalty” that would…

Associated Press SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — As the first St. Lucian to win an Olympic medal, sprinter Julien Alfred already has poetry, paintings…

Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — The U.S. Treasury Department has sanctioned a Mexican ice cream shop chain and a local pharmacy used as…

Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A man who authorities say staked out Donald Trump for 12 hours on his golf course in Florida and wrote of his…

More than a decade after retiring from football, Brett Favre says he has Parkinson’s disease. Favre told a congressional hearing Tuesday that he…

Associated Press SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — Donald Trump is again criticizing the Biden administration’s financial support for Ukraine in its war…

CAIRO (AP) — The humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders says new mothers and their children in the Sudanese region of South Darfur are…

Associated Press The way the Environmental Protection Agency has reported its test results since the disastrous East Palestine, Ohio, train…

RICHMOND, Ind. (AP) — An accused drug dealer has been arrested in the killings of two confidential police informants whose bodies were stashed in…

Associated Press ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — Another storm system is taking aim at Florida. Helene became a hurricane Wednesday after rapidly…

Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — The U.S. Education Department says it confirmed that a Michigan school counselor referred to a Muslim student as a…

Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House says President Joe Biden will make his long-awaited visit to Africa next month. He will travel…

Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The head of New York City’s public schools system says he will step down at the end of the calendar year,…

Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — A new lawsuit seeks to overturn two provisions of a Georgia election law related to voter challenges. The Georgia…

Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Hospitals are facing questions about why they denied care to pregnant patients and whether state abortion bans…

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A West Virginia state lawmaker who was arrested last month is facing new charges after police say they suspect he was…

Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Up to 2,000 voters in Wisconsin’s heavily Democratic capital of Madison were sent duplicate absentee…

Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — Survivors of child sex abuse at juvenile detention facilities in Illinois are hoping for justice. Hundreds of…

ROME (AP) — Italy’s main metalworkers union says workers in the automotive sector will go on strike on Oct. 18 in protest of declining output…

Associated Press An effort to prevent Donald Trump from losing a potentially crucial electoral vote from Nebraska appears dead. Republican Gov. Jim…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — An American quarry company says the Mexican government has carried out a de facto expropriation of its properties on…

Associated Press The federal Bureau of Prisons mistakenly released an Iowa man from custody before he finished serving his 30-month sentence for…

AP Diplomatic Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The Gulf nation of Qatar has become just the second Muslim-majority country to be admitted into a program that…

AP Film Writer NEW YORK (AP) — You have by now probably heard a few things about “Megalopolis.” Maybe you know that Coppola financed the $120…

Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia Supreme Court justices are expressing skepticism that votes for presidential candidates Cornel West and…

GUATEMALA CITY, Guatemala (AP) — Guatemalan President Bernardo Arévalo says his country will send 150 military police officers to help Haiti fight…

Associated Press HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — A state appeals court is upholding a lower court’s finding that a Republican-controlled county in…

Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Lawyers for a Texas county that wants to keep 17 books off its library shelves went before 18 federal appeals…

BLOOMFIELD TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) — A classmate of Detroit Lions Head Coach Dan Campbell’s daughter reposted the family’s home address on…

Associated Press HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) — A Texas man who waived his right to appeal his death sentence has received a lethal injection for killing…

Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — After almost a year of trading fire, Israel and the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah are now engaged in ferocious…

Associated Press MIAMI (AP) — Law enforcement authorities across the U.S. are increasingly focused on a Venezuelan gang behind a spate of violent…

NORCO, Calif. (AP) — Authorities say the passenger in a car was killed when a horse smashed through the windshield during a series of crashes on a…

AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — If you think Latin American history starts with Christopher Columbus, John Leguizamo would like to have a…

Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Waverly B. Woodson Jr., who was part of the only African American combat unit involved in the D-Day invasion…

AP Film Writer TORONTO (AP) — You have by now probably heard a few things about “Megalopolis.” Maybe you know that Coppola financed the $120…

Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — A federal judge has ruled that the government is liable for a nighttime collision involving a snowmobiler who…