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By SARAH RANKIN Associated Press RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Democrat Terry McAuliffe and Republican Glenn Youngkin are set to meet for the second and…
Continue ReadingBy SARAH RANKIN Associated Press RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Democrat Terry McAuliffe and Republican Glenn Youngkin are set to meet for the second and…
Continue ReadingBy KATE BRUMBACK Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — A man already sentenced to life in prison for killing four people at a massage business outside…
Continue ReadingBy RONALD BLUM Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — “Fire Shut Up in My Bones” became the first work by a Black composer in the 138-year history of…
Continue ReadingBy BRIAN WITTE Associated Press ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — A judge has sentenced a man who killed five people at a newspaper to more than five life…
Continue ReadingBEIJING (AP) — The World Bank has cut its economic growth forecast for developing countries in East Asia due to the impact of the coronavirus’s…
Continue ReadingBy JEFFREY COLLINS Associated Press HAMPTON, S.C. (AP) — The influential Murdaugh family is at the center of an unfolding drama in the tiny South…
Continue ReadingBy ROBERT BURNS and LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — In their first congressional testimony on the tumultuous final months of…
Continue ReadingBy LISA MASCARO and ALAN FRAM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Two key Democratic senators are expected to meet with President Joe Biden at the…
Continue ReadingBy ERIKA KINETZ and LORI HINNANT Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — An Associated Press investigation has found that far-right provocateurs are…
Continue ReadingBy ERIKA KINETZ and LORI HINNANT Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — An Associated Press investigation has found that far-right provocateurs are…
Continue ReadingBy JUAN A. LOZANO Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — A Texas inmate is facing execution for fatally stabbing two Houston-area brothers during a…
Continue ReadingBy SOPHIA TAREEN Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — Barack and Michelle Obama are expected to attend a celebratory groundbreaking on Chicago’s…
Continue ReadingBy MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s governing party chooses a new leader on Wednesday to succeed outgoing Prime Minister…
Continue ReadingBy SCHUYLER DIXON AP Pro Football Writer ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — Dak Prescott threw for three touchdowns in his first home game since he suffered…
Continue ReadingSUDBURY, Ontario (AP) — An operation is underway to evacuate 39 miners trapped underground for more than 24 hours after a mechanical problem…
Continue ReadingBy MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s government says the coronavirus state of emergency will end Thursday to help rejuvenate…
Continue ReadingPhilanthropist Laurene Powell Jobs will invest $3.5 billion within the next 10 years to address the climate crisis. A spokesperson for Emerson…
Continue ReadingBy ADAM BEAM Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California’s eviction moratorium ends Friday. But tenants with unpaid rent can still…
Continue ReadingBy The Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Homicides in the U.S. in 2020 increased nearly 30% over the previous year, the largest one-year jump…
Continue ReadingBy DON THOMPSON Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California Gov. Gavin Newsom has approved what he terms a nation-leading law requiring…
Continue ReadingBy EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Secretary-General Antonio Guterres hosted a lunch for the leaders of divided Cyprus in…
Continue ReadingBy KATE BRUMBACK Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — A federal appeals court says it will wait until the U.S. Supreme Court rules on a separate…
Continue ReadingBy LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Lawyers for teachers who don’t want New York City schools to impose a vaccine mandate…
Continue ReadingBy KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea has accused the United States of hostility and demanded the Biden…
Continue ReadingWICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Authorities say a 17-year-old who became unresponsive while being restrained at a Kansas juvenile facility died two days later…
Continue ReadingBy JACQUES BILLEAUD and BOB CHRISTIE Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — A judge has struck down Republican-passed Arizona laws that block schools from…
Continue ReadingBy MICHAEL R. BLOOD AP Political Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Los Angeles’ diversity is on display in the emerging race to replace two-term Mayor…
Continue ReadingBy TOM KRISHER and BRUCE SCHREINER Associated Press GLENDALE, Ky. (AP) — Ford and a partner company say they plan to build three major…
Continue ReadingSALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Investigators have made no arrests but say they have several promising leads in the shooting death of University of Utah…
Continue ReadingBy HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea fired a short-range missile into the sea at nearly the same moment its U.N.…
Continue ReadingTHREE RIVERS, Calif. (AP) — California firefighters are battling fast-growing forest fires threatening giant sequoias and small communities in the…
Continue ReadingBy MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A judge has barred New York City police officers from accessing sealed arrest records without…
Continue ReadingBy MARTIN CRUTSINGER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell is preparing to tell Congress that the current…
Continue ReadingSHARON HILL, Pa. (AP) — Prosecutors say four of the five people wounded outside a high school football game near Philadelphia a month ago,…
Continue ReadingARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — A child has died after being infected with a rare brain-eating amoeba that was found at a Texas splash pad. Officials in…
Continue ReadingCOLLIERVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Law enforcement officials say the gunman who killed one person and wounded 14 others at a Tennessee supermarket before…
Continue ReadingBy JIM VERTUNO AP Sports Writer AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A Texas district attorney has rejected a felony sexual assault charge filed earlier this year…
Continue ReadingTALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis is asking Florida’s secretary of state to investigate Facebook based on a news article that…
Continue ReadingBy BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Attorneys for families sickened and forced from their Los Angeles homes after the nation’s…
Continue ReadingATLANTA (AP) — A herd of goats brought in to clear weeds got loose, briefly becoming a thorn in the side of Atlanta’s tony Buckhead neighborhood.…
Continue ReadingBy EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The foreign minister of Belarus is accusing Western nations of carrying out “a…
Continue ReadingBy KATHLEEN RONAYNE Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California will mail all registered voters ballots in future elections under…
Continue ReadingMEXICO CITY (AP) — Delegates from Venezuela’s government and opposition have concluded another round of talks in Mexico City after a delay that…
Continue ReadingWINDSOR TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) — A 23-year-old Michigan man suspected of fatally shooting three of his relatives at a house near Lansing has been…
Continue ReadingMINOT, N.D. (AP) — A North Dakota stuntman known as the Flying Farmer has been moved out of intensive care after a dramatic crash on his first car…
Continue ReadingBy WILLIAM J. KOLE Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — Organizers of the Boston Marathon are seeking to make amends for running the 125th edition on…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Authorities have found the body of a maintenance worker who was considered a person of interest in the case…
Continue ReadingBy CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — In a rare moment of ethical controversy for the Federal Reserve, two top officials…
Continue ReadingBy LISA RATHKE Associated Press Middlebury College has removed the name of a former Vermont Gov. John Mead from the campus chapel because of what…
Continue ReadingASHGABAT, Turkmenistan (AP) — Turkmenistan has marked the 30th anniversary of its independence after the collapse of the Soviet Union with a…
Continue ReadingOKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma City-based Devon Energy Corporation and its affiliates have agreed to pay $6.15 million as part of a settlement with…
Continue ReadingBy MATTHEW LEE AP Diplomatic Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — State Department spokesman Ned Price has tested positive for COVID-19 and will be…
Continue ReadingATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greek state ERT TV has reported that the leaders of Greece and France are expected to announce a major, multi-billion euro…
Continue ReadingLAS VEGAS (AP) — The owner of The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas is selling the 3,000-room Las Vegas Strip hotel in a $5.65 billion deal. New York…
Continue ReadingLONDON (AP) — British police have charged a 36-year-old man with the murder of Sabina Nessa, a schoolteacher killed as she walked to meet a friend…
Continue ReadingBy LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press Fort Bliss officials say a soldier reported that she was assaulted by a small group of Afghan refugees at the…
Continue ReadingBy JOHN ANTCZAK Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — The latest in a series of U.S. satellites that has recorded human and natural impacts on…
Continue ReadingBy HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH and TAMMY WEBBER Associated Press Hospitals and nursing homes around the country are bracing for worsening staff shortages…
Continue ReadingNEW YORK (AP) — R. Kelly grew up in Chicago’s housing projects and went on to have an illustrious musical career increasingly clouded by…
Continue ReadingMONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — A new monument in Montgomery pays tribute to three enslaved Black women who were subjected to experimental surgery by a…
Continue ReadingST. SIMONS ISLAND, Ga. (AP) — The final chunk of a cargo ship that capsized two years ago along the Georgia coast is awaiting removal from the…
Continue ReadingBy AHMED AL-HAJ Associated Press SANAA, Yemen (AP) — Officials say security forces of Yemen’s internationally recognized government have…
Continue ReadingBy REBECCA BOONE Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — A former Idaho state lawmaker charged with rape earlier this month has been arrested in…
Continue ReadingKABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — The Taliban have banned barbershops in a southern Afghanistan province from shaving or trimming beards, claiming their…
Continue ReadingBERLIN (AP) — South Africa has pledged more ambitious emissions targets, a move that was welcomed by climate activists. The South African…
Continue ReadingMEXICO CITY (AP) — DNA tests on six sets of skeletal remains found in northern Mexico have confirmed that five of them belong to missing men from…
Continue ReadingBy GLENN GAMBOA AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Global Citizen Live, a 24-hour concert that featured performances from Stevie Wonder, Jennifer…
Continue ReadingMONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — The father of a University of Alabama student who killed herself after reporting she was raped has settled a lawsuit…
Continue ReadingBOSTON (AP) — A former assistant soccer coach at the University of Southern California testified Monday that she regularly created fake athletic…
Continue ReadingBy MICHELLE L. PRICE Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — New York City is planning to hire a private weather forecaster, install more drainage…
Continue ReadingBy KIM CHANDLER Associated Press MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama lawmakers are beginning a special session on a $1.3 billion prison construction…
Continue ReadingBARTOW, Fla. (AP) — A Florida man has been charged with first-degree murder in the death of his girlfriend after he confessed to his mother and she…
Continue ReadingWARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s interior minister says he will seek an extension of the state of emergency in force along the border with Belarus.…
Continue ReadingFORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — Police are investigating after three dismembered bodies were discovered last week in a dumpster that had been set afire in…
Continue ReadingMOLINE, Ill. (AP) — An Illinois man unexpectedly won the Quad Cities Marathon this weekend when the two Kenyan runners who had far outpaced him…
Continue ReadingBy MATTHEW LEE AP Diplomatic Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States and Russia will hold their second round of strategic talks later this week…
Continue ReadingANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Residents of Alaska’s largest city often contend with bears and moose, but state officials are warning of another wild…
Continue ReadingBy MARK STEVENSON Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s celebration of the 200th anniversary of its final independence from Spain has…
Continue ReadingBy MAGGIE HYDE Associated Press The top diplomat of Yemen’s internationally recognized government says his conflict-torn country needs millions…
Continue ReadingBy STEPHEN GROVES Associated Press SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — Ethics experts are questioning whether South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem had a conflict of…
Continue ReadingBy NICHOLAS K. GERANIOS Associated Press SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — Greyhound Lines Inc. will pay $2.2 million to settle a lawsuit over the bus line’s…
Continue ReadingBy ZENEL ZHINIPOTOKU and LLAZAR SEMINI Associated Press PRISTINA, Kosovo (AP) — The NATO-led KFOR mission in Kosovo has increased its patrols on…
Continue ReadingBy DAVID BAUDER AP Media Writer NEW YORK (AP) — “Saturday Night Live” returns for its 47th season this weekend with a bit of a surprise. All…
Continue ReadingWAVERLY, Ohio (AP) — Attorneys for an Ohio man charged in eight slayings want the aggravated murder charges and the possibility of a death penalty…
Continue ReadingBy PAUL J. WEBER and ACACIA CORONADO Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas Republicans are trying to shore up their slipping dominance in…
Continue ReadingBy DAVID BAUDER AP Media Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The two co-hosts of “The View” who were abruptly pulled off the air last week before a planned…
Continue ReadingBy ZEINA KARAM Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Syria’s top diplomat says Syria’s doors are open for the safe return of refugees to their…
Continue ReadingBy LUIS ANDRES HENAO and PETER SMITH Associated Press Faith-based groups are scrambling to keep up with fast-paced developments in the Haitian…
Continue ReadingBy ELLIOT SPAGAT Associated Press The Biden administration is proposing a new rule that would shield hundreds of thousands of immigrants who came to…
Continue ReadingBy ZEKE MILLER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden and the Senate’s Republican leader have now had three COVID-19 shots…
Continue ReadingMEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Court records show a Tennessee state senator charged with stealing $600,000 in federal grant money from a health care school…
Continue ReadingBy ISABEL DEBRE Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Qatar Airways says it suffered a more than $4 billion loss in revenues over the…
Continue ReadingBy TODD RICHMOND Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A high-ranking Roman Catholic cardinal who was placed on a ventilator after contracting…
Continue ReadingBOSTON (AP) — The guitar played by Johnny Ramone on all 15 Ramones albums and at nearly 2,000 live performances by the rock band sold at auction…
Continue ReadingBy EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The dispute between Afghanistan’s new Taliban rulers and its former government over…
Continue ReadingWARSAW, Poland (AP) — A court in Poland has convicted a man of instigating a murder in 2002 and participating in subsequent cannibalism and handed…
Continue ReadingBy DEE-ANN DURBIN AP Business Writer Beyond Meat and Impossible Foods are getting into the fast-growing market for plant-based chicken. Beyond Meat…
Continue ReadingBy TOM HAYS and LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — R&B superstar R. Kelly faces the possibility of decades in prison after being…
Continue ReadingBy JOCELYN NOVECK AP National Writer America had yet to really learn about sexual harassment when Anita Hill testified against Clarence Thomas in…
Continue ReadingPARIS (AP) — French President Macron was hit at the shoulder by an egg thrown at him by a man during an international food trade fair in the French…
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