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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Actor Anne Heche died from inhalation injury and burns after her fiery car crash and the death was ruled an accident, according…

By HALELUYA HADERO AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Amazon appears to be getting the TikTok bug, joining other companies seeking to hold…

By TOM KRISHER AP Auto Writer PONTIAC, Mich. (AP) — Thundering gas-powered muscle cars will be closing in on their final Saturday-night cruises in…

By ANDREW DeMILLO Associated Press LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — An Arkansas state senator must unblock critics from his social media accounts under a…

BOWLING GREEN, Ohio (AP) — Two former fraternity members in Ohio have been sentenced to six weeks in jail over the hazing death of a student. The…

MAYVILLE, N.Y. (AP) — The man charged with stabbing Salman Rushdie on a lecture stage in western New York said in an interview that he was…

BATON ROUGE (AP) — Brad Pitt’s Make It Right Foundation and homeowners of the houses built by the program, in an area of New Orleans that was…

By DAVE COLLINS Associated Press HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — A Connecticut judge has begun hearing testimony on whether a lawyer for conspiracy theorist…

ROSSIE, Iowa (AP) — A northwest Iowa woman has died after being attacked by her five Great Danes. The Clay County Sheriff’s Office on…

ELKHART, Ind. (AP) — Former Indiana Attorney General Curtis Hill is dismissing as “old news” the question of whether allegations that he…

By JAMES POLLARD Associated Press/Report for America COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — The South Carolina “fetal heartbeat” law banning abortion around six…

By KEVIN McGILL and MATTHEW BROWN Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A judge’s order that forced the Biden administration to resume sales of oil…

SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — A Georgia man has been indicted on homicide charges after a Memorial Day weekend boat crash that killed five people. Mark…

LAGRANGE, Ga. (AP) — A man has been arrested in connection with three separate shootings along Interstate 85 in Alabama and Georgia that left one…

By HANNAH SCHOENBAUM Associated Press/Report for America RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — The campaign committee for North Carolina Attorney General Josh Stein…

TORONTO (AP) — A Canadian doctor accused of killing a patient last year has been charged with three more counts of first-degree murder. Ontario…

LIBERTY, N.Y. (AP) — A fire consumed a building at the site of the long-closed Grossinger’s resort, once among the most storied and glamorous…

By JOCELYN GECKER and DYLAN LOVAN CECILIA, Ky. (AP) — This year’s back-to-school season will restore a degree of pre-pandemic normalcy. But many…

By MARGARET STAFFORD Associated Press KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Kansas City Mayor Quinton Lucas is suing the state of Missouri over a new law…

By HANNAH SCHOENBAUM Associated Press/Report for America RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Abortions in North Carolina are no longer legal after 20 weeks of…

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The chairman and CEO of a New Orleans-based utility is retiring and his successor as CEO has been chosen. Entergy Corp. is one…

DALLAS (AP) — The federal government is suing SkyWest Airlines on behalf of a former employee who says co-workers sexually harassed her, including…

By LYNN ELBER AP Television Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Randy Rainbow has built a career on his musical parody videos, and he’s up for his…

By JANET McCONNAUGHEY Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The world’s smallest and most endangered sea turtle has hatched in…

MIAMI (AP) — U.S. investigators say they’ve spotted an uptick in the amount and caliber of weapons being smuggled from Florida to Haiti in…

By JONATHAN MATTISE Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Two Black men who challenged their criminal convictions after jurors deliberated in a…

By REBECCA BOONE Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — A legal battle over abortion rights pitting one of the reddest states in the nation against…

BOSTON (AP) — Doctors and other staffers at Boston Children’s Hospital are being threatened with violence over its surgical program for…

By GRANT PECK and EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — The U.N. special envoy for Myanmar, Noeleen Heyzer, has met with the head of its…

By AMY BETH HANSON Associated Press HELENA, Mont. (AP) — The Montana Supreme Court has found the federal Bureau of Indian Affairs can be held…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Rapper A$AP Rocky has pleaded not guilty to felony assault with a firearm charges stemming from a 2021 confrontation in…

By MADDIE BURAKOFF AP Science Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Today’s sharks have nothing on their ancient cousins. A giant shark that roamed the…

By RAHIM FAIEZ and EBRAHIM NOROOZI Associated Press KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — A bombing at a mosque in the Afghan capital of Kabul during evening…

By GARY FIELDS and NICHOLAS RICCARDI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Hundreds of federal judges face the same task every day: review an…

By DON THOMPSON Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — The last of three men convicted of hijacking a school bus full of California children…

By JEFFREY COLLINS Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Attorneys for disbarred South Carolina lawyer Alex Murdaugh say prosecutors are taking…

By MARK GILLISPIE Associated Press CLEVELAND (AP) — A federal judge in Cleveland awarded $650 million in damages Wednesday to two Ohio counties…

STOCKHOLM (AP) — Sweden’s government says it wants to pass legislation forcing the country’s public power transmission network operator to help…

PARIS (AP) — France is being whipped by violent storms that have flooded Paris subway stations, snarled traffic and disrupted the president’s…

WALES, Wis. (AP) — A Wisconsin school board voted in favor of a policy that prohibits teachers and staff from displaying gay pride flags and other…

By LISA MASCARO AP Congressional Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) — Liz Cheney’s resounding primary defeat marks the end of an era for the…

FAYETTEVILLE, Ga. (AP) — Police say a Georgia-based Black separatist group is being investigated by federal and local authorities for a range of…

By KEN RITTER Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — A defense attorney raised questions Wednesday about the mental health of his client, a 33-year-old…

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A Des Moines council member is countersuing two police officers who took the unusual step earlier this year of suing…

By WILFREDO LEE Associated Press MIAMI (AP) — Scientists and students from the University of Miami dove into the dark waters a few miles off the…

By PHILIP MARCELO Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — A group calling for sharply limiting immigration has scored a legal victory in its federal lawsuit…

By JOSH FUNK AP Business Writer OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — The major freight railroads signaled they’re ready to negotiate a new deal based on a…

ANDERSON, Ind. (AP) — Prosecutors are seeking the death penalty for a man accused of fatally shooting a young Indiana police officer last month…

By BASSEM MROUE Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — The stabbing of author Salman Rushdie has laid bare divisions in Lebanon’s Shiite Muslim…

By FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Now that President Joe Biden signed Democrats’ expansive climate, tax and health care…

By KATHY McCORMACK Associated Press CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — A hermit known as River Dave — whose cabin in the New Hampshire woods burned down after…

By BRENDAN FARRINGTON and ANTHONY IZAGUIRRE Associated Press TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — An elected Florida prosecutor who was removed from office by…

ASHLAND, Ala. (AP) — Authorities say a Florida college student exploring the east Alabama wilderness with his girlfriend was fatally wounded during…

By MATTHEW BROWN Associated Press CODY, Wyo. (AP) — The rush to build wind farms to combat climate change is colliding with preservation of one of…

BERLIN (AP) — A cargo ship that broke down on the Rhine River caused a backup of other ships near the German town of St. Goar. The ship blocked the…

SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) — Bulgarian authorities say customs have seized 106 kilograms (233 pounds) of heroin valued at 4.8 million euros ($4.9…

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — A restaurant customer in Fort Lauderdale has died of a bacterial infection after eating raw oysters. A Pensacola man…

By CARA ANNA Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — An Ethiopian rebel group has proposed a humanitarian truce to facilitate assistance to hungry…

By HOLLY RAMER Associated Press MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) — Former Vice President Mike Pence on Wednesday implored fellow Republicans to stop lashing…

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Prosecutors plan to seek the death penalty for a Las Vegas man accused of killing his girlfriend’s 4-year-old son and hiding the…

By ED WHITE Associated Press A man who pleaded guilty to conspiring to kidnap Michigan’s governor says two other men were “very eager” to…

By MARCOS ALEMÁN Associated Press SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) — Some 50,000 people have been locked up in El Salvador since late March for…

KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) — Veterinarians from a global animal welfare organization are in Pakistan for a series of surgeries on a pair of elephants…

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greek authorities say two sailboats carrying dozens of migrants have arrived on a southern Greek island early, with the first…

By PAUL WISEMAN and ANNE D’INNOCENZIO AP Business Writers WASHINGTON (AP) — The pace of sales at U.S. retailers was unchanged last month as…

By JULHAS ALAM Associated Press DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — Bangladesh’s leader has told a visiting U.N. official that hundreds of thousands of…

MIAMI (AP) — Police in South Florida say a 29-year-old officer has died after being shot in the head during a confrontation with a robbery suspect…

NEW YORK (AP) — Matthew Desmond’s first book since his Pulitzer Prize winning “Evicted” is not just a study of who is poor in the world’s…

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Norway’s military says 30 members of the country’s prestigious royal guards unit will be booted out for…

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel and Turkey will restore full diplomatic relations and dispatch ambassadors for the first time in years, the latest step in…

by FABIANO MAISONNAVE RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Like other Brazilians, residents of the Amazon will elect governors and lawmakers in general elections…

By MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — NASA’s new moon rocket arrived at the launch pad Wednesday ahead of its debut…

MADRID (AP) — Authorities in Spain say an approaching wildfire caused a train driver to stop and prepare to change directions, and several…

LONDON (AP) — A man who got into the grounds of Windsor Castle armed with a crossbow told police he wanted to “kill the queen,” prosecutors…

By BARBARA ORTUTAY and AMANDA SEITZ The Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Social media companies are offering few specifics as they share their…

LONDON (AP) — Elon Musk caused a stir by tweeting that he was buying the English soccer team Manchester United — whose current owners are opposed…

By KRISTIN SHAW Edmunds The 2022 Acura RDX received a number of updates for 2022, while the Genesis GV70 is a fresh newcomer. These two SUVs are…

By SALLY FRENCH of NerdWallet Car rental costs are up nearly 50% since 2019, compared to just a 7% increase in hotel prices and a 16% increase in…

By JOHNSON LAI Associated Press HUALIEN, Taiwan (AP) — Taiwan is staging military exercises to show its ability to resist Chinese pressure to…

CAIRO (AP) — Egypt’s central bank governor resigned as the country has struggled to address its economic woes. That’s according to a…

By DUSAN STOJANOVIC Associated Press BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Wartime rivals Serbia and Kosovo will hold high-level crisis talks which the European…

By FARAI MUTSAKA Associated Press HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — Officials in Zimbabwe say a  measles outbreak has killed 157 children, most of whom were…

LEH, India (AP) — The remains of an Indian army soldier have been found more than 38 years after he went missing on a glacier at the highest point…

By ISABEL DEBRE Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The chief executive of Dubai International Airport says the hub saw a surge in…

By KEN MORITSUGU Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — The world’s two biggest emitters of greenhouse gases are sparring on Twitter over climate…

LONDON (AP) — The British government says thousands of people who contracted HIV or hepatitis from transfusions of tainted blood in the 1970s and…

By BRIAN SLODYSKO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The nation’s leading abortion rights advocacy organization, Planned Parenthood, plans to…

By JOCELYN GECKER and DYLAN LOVAN CECILIA, Ky. (AP) — This year’s back-to-school season will restore a degree of pre-pandemic normalcy. But many…

By PAUL BYRNE Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — A spate of explosions and fires has turned Russian-occupied Crimea from a secure rear base into…

By ILAN BEN ZION and KIRSTEN GRIESHABER BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s chancellor says that he was “disgusted by the outrageous remarks” made by…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Britain’s inflation rate has risen to a new 40-year high of 10.1% in July as climbing food prices…

By JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — Asian stock markets followed Wall Street lower Thursday after the Federal Reserve said U.S.…

By YURI KAGEYAMA Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — A former Tokyo Olympic organizing committee board member and three people from a clothing company…