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By TAIWO ADEBAYO Associated Press ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Most of the population in conflict-affected countries like Niger, Mali, Burkina Faso, Chad…

By DAVID BRANDT AP Baseball Writer PHOENIX (AP) — The hard-hitting Arizona Diamondbacks rode a record-setting barrage of solo homers in the third…

By DAVID CRARY AP National Writer It’s been 25 years since Matthew Shepard, a gay 21-year-old University of Wyoming student, died six days…

By LISA MASCARO, FARNOUSH AMIRI and STEPHEN GROVES Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Having won the nomination to be the next House speaker, Rep.…

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — While revealing new details about one of the most famed CIA operations of all…

By SEAN MURPHY Associated Press GREENWOOD, Ark. (AP) — An Oklahoma man who was freed after being imprisoned for decades on a murder conviction says…

By RIO YAMAT Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — Duane “Keffe D” Davis is the last living suspect in one of hip-hop’s most enduring…

By TARA COPP Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Within hours of the horrific attack by Hamas, the U.S. began moving warships and aircraft to the…

By LISA MASCARO and KEVIN FREKING Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — With his walker positioned on the mound, Rep. Steve Scalise threw out the…

By DAVID KOENIG AP Business Writer As the auto workers strike approaches the one-month mark, more Americans sympathize with the striking workers than…

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Inflation in the United States likely eased again last month, though the decline might…

NEW YORK (AP) — Nets coach Jacque Vaughn says their opponent from Israel still wants to play an exhibition game Thursday night in Brooklyn, days…

By JEFF AMY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — A seventh person has been arrested on murder charges after a South Korean woman’s body was found…

By HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — A U.S. nuclear-powered aircraft carrier has arrived in South Korea in a demonstration…

By DAVE CAMPBELL AP Sports Writer MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — José Abreu homered for the third time in two games, a two-run rocket in the fourth inning…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s president has honored a former defense secretary whose high-profile arrest in the U.S. three years ago strained…

By TOM WITHERS AP Sports Writer CLEVELAND (AP) — A sculpture commemorating the famous 1967 meeting of Muhammad Ali, Jim Brown and other athletes…

By MICHAEL R. BLOOD AP Political Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — California’s newly appointed U.S. senator is facing a risky decision: whether or…

By MORGAN LEE Associated Press SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — A federal judge will allow enforcement of a public health order that suspends the right to…

NEW YORK (AP) — Three books that explore and celebrate the diversity of American culture were awarded Kirkus Prizes on Wednesday night, with each…

By TRÂN NGUYỄN Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed a law to fast-track low-income housing on…

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The Internal Revenue Service says Microsoft owes the U.S. Treasury $28.9 billion in back taxes, plus penalties and interest.…

TRÂN NGUYỄN Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Sacramento leaders and Gov. Gavin Newsom’s administration announced Wednesday the state…

HOOVER, Ala. (AP) — An Alabama woman accused of falsely telling police she was abducted after stopping to check on a toddler wandering along a…

ELWOOD, N.Y. (AP) — A police officer has shot and killed a man who charged at authorities with two swords on New York’s Long Island, and the…

By ISABEL DEBRE and FATIMA SHBEIR Associated Press GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — Hallways filled with screaming voices. A terrible stench in the…

By DANIEL SHAILER The Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — A Mexican government official says the military continues to obstruct the search for…

By SAM McNEIL KIBBUTZ BE’ERI, Israel (AP) — Trudging down a cul-de-sac turned to rubble, an Israeli army commander stopped in front of one…

By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — One of the people being sued by the Mississippi Department of Human Services over…

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Spending more than three and a half days aloft and traveling more than 1,653 miles, a French ballooning team has traveled…

By TOM KRISHER AP Auto Writer DETROIT (AP) — The United Auto Workers union significantly escalated its strikes against Detroit Three automakers…

By CHEYANNE MUMPHREY AP Education Writer After serving more than a month of in-school suspension over his dreadlocks, a Black high school student in…

By LISA RATHKE Associated Press CASTLETON, Vt. (AP) — Vermont State Police have released a sketch of a person of interest in the killing of a…

DAVENPORT, Iowa (AP) — An Iowa man has been sentenced to two life terms for killing a 10-year-old girl who was missing for eight months before her…

By JONATHAN MATTISE Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Nashville officials have filed a lawsuit challenging a new Tennessee law that lets…

By JAKE OFFENHARTZ Associated Press New York (AP) — A prominent crime patrol leader in New York City’s Orthodox Jewish community was…

By DAVE SKRETTA AP Basketball Writer LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — An independent panel has downgraded five Level I violations lodged by the NCAA against…

By JOSH FUNK AP Business Writer Kansas became the 10th state in the nation Wednesday to require two-person railroad crews over the objections of the…

PATNA, India (AP) — A government official and news reports say a passenger train has derailed in eastern India, killing at least four people and…

By BEN FINLEY Associated Press NORFOLK, Va. (AP) — The company that owns the salvage rights to the Titanic said it has cancelled plans to retrieve…

By SCOTT SONNER Associated Press RENO, Nev. (AP) — A preliminary investigation suggests there was confusion among pilots just before a fatal…

TITUSVILLE, Fla. (AP) — Bruce Weaver, a Florida-based photographer who captured a definitive image of space shuttle Challenger breaking apart into…

By DAVE COLLINS Associated Press A criminal charge has been dropped against a Connecticut man who found a bag containing nearly $5,000 in cash…

By MICHAEL R. SISAK and JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump obtained hundreds of millions of dollars in loans using…

PITTSBURGH (AP) — A 19-year-old man has pleaded guilty to third-degree murder in the death of a 15-year-old student shot last year in a school van…

By JULIE CARR SMYTH and NICHOLAS RICCARDI Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Dysfunction within the Republican Party isn’t limited to the…

By JIM VERTUNO AP Sports Writer AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A woman awaiting trial in the killing of professional cyclist Anna Moriah Wilson tried to run…

By COREY WILLIAMS Associated Press Authorities say former NFL player Sergio Brown has been arrested in Southern California nearly a month after the…

By MARY CLARE JALONICK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The speaker of the House is normally elected every two years, in January, when the House…

BALTIMORE (AP) — Law enforcement has blocked traffic from entering the Baltimore Washington International Airport terminal. Airport officials cited…

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A federal appeals court has temporarily blocked a lower court’s ruling that California cannot ban gun owners from having…

By JAKE BLEIBERG Associated Press DALLAS (AP) — Authorities say a 13-year-old Texas boy has been convicted on a murder charge stemming from the…

RIVERSIDE, Calif. (AP) — A jury has delivered a $135 million verdict in a molestation case involving a middle school teacher, determining that…

By ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON Associated Press MIAMI (AP) — Former President Donald Trump is set to speak to some of his supporters near Mar-a-Lago…

By LARRY NEUMEISTER and KEN SWEET Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Sam Bankman-Fried’s former top executive has blamed the FTX founder of…

By HANNAH SCHOENBAUM Associated Press/Report for America RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — The family of a transgender boy in North Carolina is suing the state…

By MICHAEL CASEY and TRISHA AHMED Associated Press An Israeli-American teenager survived an attack from Hamas fighters over the weekend after his…

By FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Social Security’s cost-of-living increase for 2024 will be announced Thursday. But…

By JOSEPH KRAUSS Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — In the three and a half decades since it began as an underground militant group, Hamas has…

By DANICA KIRKA and AMI BENTOV Associated Press TEL AVIV (AP) — One of those taken hostage is a grandmother who learned Arabic in hopes of building…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Two giant rocket motors required to display the retired NASA space shuttle Endeavour as if it’s about to blast off arrived…

STOUGHTON, Mass. (AP) — A confrontational blogger known as “Turtleboy” is facing charges of witness intimidation and conspiracy related a…

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Plans by the Port of South Louisiana to purchase what was once a major shipyard for construction of military vessels have been…

By BOBBY CAINA CALVAN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Federal prosecutors in New York are seeking forfeiture of a collection of 1,000 butterflies,…

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal Reserve officials regarded the U.S. economy’s outlook as particularly…

By KEN MILLER Associated Press OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The chief justice of the Oklahoma Supreme Court is recommending the removal of a district court…

By CAROLYN THOMPSON and HALELUYA HADERO Associated Press New York is bidding to put new controls on social media platforms that state leaders say…

SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) — El Salvador has sent more than 4,000 security forces into three communities on the outskirts of the capital to…

By LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A gun count that had been part of a collapsed plea deal in the Hunter Biden case has been…

ST. CLAIR, Mo. (AP) — District officials say a Missouri high school teacher who was suspended after officials discovered that she was performing on…

By ADRIAN SAINZ Associated Press MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Two newly created national wildlife refuges in Tennessee and Wyoming will help protect…

By AMY TEIBEL Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — The Hamas-run Gaza Strip is a tiny enclave, measuring 25 miles long and no more than 7 miles wide,…