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By JIM VERTUNO Associated Press An exterior door at Robb Elementary School did not lock when it was closed by a teacher shortly before a gunman used…

BY MICHAEL TARM and COREY WILLIAMS Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — Even as the nation reeled over the massacre of 19 children and two teachers at…

Authorities say a hiker in Northern California died after being swept into the ocean over the weekend and another hiker was hospitalized. Shelter…

By MARC LEVY and MARK SHERMAN Associated Press HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — The U.S. Supreme Court is temporarily blocking the counting of some mail-in…

By WILL WEISSERT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — K-Pop sensation BTS is visiting the White House to discuss combating the rise in hate crimes…

RIGBY, Idaho (AP) — A 12-year-old girl who shot three people at an eastern Idaho junior high school last year will remain in juvenile detention…

By WAYNE PARRY Associated Press ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — Unable to reach new contracts with the Atlantic City casinos, the city’s main casino…

By SETH BORENSTEIN AP Science Writer Batten down the hatches for another nasty hurricane season. Nearly every natural force and a bunch of…

By KATE BRUMBACK Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — The nation’s leading cybersecurity agency says electronic voting machines from a leading vendor…

By BEN NUCKOLS Associated Press OXON HILL, Md. (AP) — One speller ran off the stage in the middle of her time at the microphone, saying she needed…

By JIM MORRIS and ROB GILLIES Associated Press VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) — Canada is allowing the province of British Columbia to try a…

By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press VATICAN CITY (AP) — A former Vatican official has testified about the frenzied meetings in 2018 that the Holy…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has signed a decree outlawing the sale of e-cigarettes, continuing the…

By ANDREW DALTON AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Eleven months after he was freed from prison, 85-year-old Bill Cosby will again be the…

OSHKOSH, Wis. (AP) — The judge has postponed a trial involving a violent altercation in a Wisconsin high school after defense attorneys argued that…

FAIRFAX, Va. (AP) — After a six-week trial, a civil jury in Virginia is deliberating defamation claims by Johnny Depp and his ex-wife Amber Heard.…

By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit that accused Mississippi of using a…

MOSCOW (AP) — Russia’s opposition leader Alexei Navalny said Tuesday that he is facing new criminal accusations that could extend his current…

By AAMER MADHANI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is praising New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern for her success in…

MUSKOGEE, Okla. (AP) — A bond hearing is set for a 26-year-old man suspected of killing one person and wounding seven in a shooting at an outdoor…

By PHILIP MARCELO Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — Congressional leaders in New England are calling for a federal investigation into the low rate of…

By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Vatican says Pope Francis will travel to Kazakhstan in September for an interfaith…

By JAMES MacPHERSON Associated Press BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — North Dakota’s longest-serving state senator is declining to comment on whether he’s…

By ELENA BECATOROS Associated Press SLOVIANSK, Ukraine (AP) — Blood smears the stairwell floor and the shards of glass strewn about while shrapnel…

By CHRIS MEGERIAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Summit of the Americas is only one week away, and it’s still unclear if Mexican…

LONDON (AP) — The British government says it plans to send a first group of asylum seekers to Rwanda in two weeks under a controversial deal with…

By JOSEPH KRAUSS Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel says it has proof that Iran stole classified documents from the U.N. atomic energy agency…

By FARNOUSH AMIRI and MICHAEL BALSAMO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Former Trump adviser Peter Navarro revealed in a court filing Tuesday…

By CURT ANDERSON Associated Press LARGO, Fla. (AP) — A man died searching for Frisbees in a lake at a disc golf course where people are warned by…

By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — As a kid, Eitan Bernath didn’t collect baseball cards, comic books or coins like his…

By The Associated Press Here’s a collection curated by The Associated Press’ entertainment journalists of what’s arriving on TV, streaming…

By ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A lawyer for Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign has been acquitted of lying to the FBI…

PUEBLO, Colo. (AP) — Rescuers have recovered the body of a second victim after a boat carrying 13 people capsized on a Colorado lake over the…

By SAMUEL PETREQUIN AP Sports Writer BRUSSELS (AP) — Roman Abramovich has filed a lawsuit at the EU’s general court against the European…

Associated Press The unofficial start of summer over the Memorial Day weekend offers a troubling glimpse of what lies ahead for travelers during the…

SILER CITY, N.C. (AP) — A North Carolina trooper fatally shot a man who authorities said “presented a pistol” during a traffic stop initiated…

GLASGOW, Scotland (AP) — Scotland coach Steve Clarke understands why national team great Graeme Souness wants his country to lose against Ukraine…

By MATT OTT AP Business Writer SILVER SPRING, Md. (AP) — U.S. consumer confidence edged lower in May as Americans’ view of their present and…

By DENISE LAVOIE Associated Press FAIRFAX, Va. (AP) — A jury finished a second day of deliberations Tuesday without reaching a verdict in the…

By ROB HARRIS and STEVE DOUGLAS AP Sports Writers The French government is blaming Liverpool fans. The English club is enraged by the…

By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Sidney DuPont knew he’d made the right career decision when musical theater icon Chita…

TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s parliament has enacted a $21 billion extra budget to tackle soaring fuel and food prices following Russia’s invasion…

By MARK PRATT Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — The suspect in a nearly four-decade old killing in South Boston that authorities have linked to…

By ZEN SOO Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong’s incoming chief executive, John Lee, says the city still has to work hard at controlling…

MADRID (AP) — Tired of speaking to a machine when you call the bank or power company? Spain’s government wants to end those nerve-shattering,…

NEW DELHI (AP) — India’s economic growth, hit by pandemic curbs and price increases, slowed to 4.1% in the January-March quarter, according to…

By TOM MURPHY AP Health Writer PLANO, Texas (AP) — Millions of Americans with serious health problems depend on children ages 18 and younger to…

BERLIN (AP) — A court in Germany has convicted five men of membership in a local cell of the Islamic State group that received orders from a…

MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Philippine police say they have killed four suspected Chinese kidnappers in a gunbattle and rescued a Chinese man they…

By ISABEL DEBRE Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran has disrupted internet access to the outside world as angry demonstrators…

By JUSTIN SPIKE Associated Press BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Hungary’s divisive leader has once again got his own way with the European Union. This…

BERLIN (AP) — Authorities in Germany have raided the offices of Deutsche Bank and its subsidiary DWS following claims that it was exaggerating the…

BERLIN (AP) — Police have raided homes and offices in northern and western Germany as part of an investigation of five men accused of fraudulently…

By DUSAN STOJANOVIC Associated Press BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Aleksandar Vucic has been sworn in for his second 5-yar term as Serbia’s president,…

By BINAJ GURUBACHARYA Associated Press KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — Rescuers have recovered all 22 bodies from the site where a plane crashed on a…

CAIRO (AP) — Human Rights Watch has called for the International Criminal Court to investigate allegations of the use of landmines in 2019 by…

By COLIN BERESFORD of NerdWallet Car prices have skyrocketed in the last year, making it an even bigger challenge to shop for your first car. With…

By YURAS KARMANAU and ELENA BECATOROS Associated Press SLOVIANSK, Ukraine (AP) — Russian forces in a “frenzied push” have seized half of the…

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Authorities in Virginia identified two women missing Tuesday after a group of people in rafts and on paddleboards went over…

ANDREW WILKS ISTANBUL (AP) — The European Court of Human Rights says Turkey had unlawfully detained the head of the country’s Amnesty…

By LORNE COOK and SAMUEL PETREQUIN Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union’s groundbreaking decision to ban nearly all oil from…

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel and the United Arab Emirates have signed a free trade agreement, the first Israel has concluded with an Arab country. The…

By ANDREW WILKS Associated Press ISTANBUL (AP) — Turkey’s president has highlighted the activities of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party as part of…

By JAN M. OLSEN Associated Press COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Danish citizens are voting in a referendum that will decide whether their country will…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — After seven decades on the throne, Queen Elizabeth II is widely viewed in the U.K. as a rock in…

TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — On a visit to Taiwan, U.S. Senator Tammy Duckworth is reiterating support for the island amid rising Chinese threats.…

By SYLVIA HUI Associated Press LONDON (AP) — When Ajay Chhabra was asked to design a pageant performance to celebrate Queen Elizabeth II’s…

By ELENA BECATOROS Associated Press POKROVSK, Ukraine (AP) — In wheelchairs and on stretchers, in ambulances and on train station platforms, they…

CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australia’s center-left Labor Party has secured enough seats to hold an outright majority in the House as vote…

By EMILY WANG FUJIYAMA and KEN MORITSUGU Associated Press SHANGHAI (AP) — Shanghai authorities say they will take major steps Wednesday toward…

By TOM MURPHY AP Health Writer PLANO, Texas (AP) — Ronan Kotiya leans over his father, fingers wrapped around a plastic tube he’s about to slide…

By CLAUDIA LAUER Associated Press PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Just one more step and the stroller would have been on the curb. The thought haunts Latanya…

By STEVE PEOPLES and AARON KESSLER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Diane Murray struggled with her decision all the way up to Election Day. But…

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A large fire that raged through a Nebraska chemical plant was extinguished by Tuesday morning and nearby residents who were…

By JOSÉ MARÍA ÁLVAREZ Associated Press SAN ISIDRO DEL PALMAR, Mexico (AP) — Mexican authorities say Hurricane Agatha caused flooding and…

By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer Shares were mixed in Asia on Wednesday after a wobbly day on Wall Street closed out a month buffeted by…

By ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON and JAMIE STENGLE Associated Press UVALDE, Texas (AP) — The blame for an excruciating delay in killing the gunman at a Texas…

By ROB GILLIES Associated Press TORONTO (AP) — Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government has introduced legislation that would put a…

By LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press Since the Columbine High School massacre more than 20 years ago, police have been trained to quickly confront…