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By JEFF AMY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia’s Public Service Commission is an elected body that’s gone years without having elections…
Continue ReadingBy JEFF AMY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia’s Public Service Commission is an elected body that’s gone years without having elections…
Continue ReadingCARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuelan opposition powerhouse Maria Corina Machado has named a substitute to her presidential bid while she fights a…
Continue ReadingWASHINGTON (AP) — ABC’s “This Week” — Vice President Kamala Harris; former Rep. Ken Buck, R-Colo. ___ NBC’s “Meet the Press” —…
Continue ReadingWINNIPEG, Manitoba (AP) — Canada’s federal government and the provincial Manitoba government have agreed to spend tens of millions to help search…
Continue ReadingBy MEAD GRUVER Associated Press CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — Wyoming’s governor on Friday vetoed a bill that would have erected significant barriers…
Continue ReadingBASTROP, Texas (AP) — Texas authorities say a school bus with more than 40 prekindergarten students has collided with a concrete truck and rolled…
Continue ReadingCHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — Certain sexual assaults against a spouse will now be criminalized in West Virginia for the first time under a law signed…
Continue ReadingBy DAVID KOENIG AP Airlines Writer The FBI is telling people who were on board the Boeing 737 Max that lost a panel in midflight that they might be…
Continue ReadingBy LEAH WILLINGHAM Associated Press CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — West Virginia Republican Gov. Jim Justice has signed a law that supporters say…
Continue ReadingBy BRUCE SCHREINER Associated Press FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Kentucky lawmakers have wrapped up work on a bill meant to help attract nuclear energy…
Continue ReadingBy ADRIAN SAINZ Associated Press MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Relatives of Tyre Nichols, George Floyd and Eric Garner are expressing frustration with…
Continue ReadingBy MARK STEVENSON Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s president says he won’t fight drug cartels on U.S. orders, in the clearest…
Continue ReadingBy ADAM BEAM Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California’s unemployment rate is now the highest in the country. The state’s…
Continue ReadingBOISE, Idaho (AP) — The GOP-led Idaho Legislature has passed a bill that would ban the use of any public funds for gender-affirming care, including…
Continue ReadingBy COLLIN BINKLEY AP Education Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Education Department says it discovered a calculation error in hundreds of…
Continue ReadingBy FARNOUSH AMIRI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Barely six months into the job, House Speaker Mike Johnson is at risk of the same conservative…
Continue ReadingBy JOHN RABY Associated Press CHARLESTON (AP) — The National Guard has joined in fighting wildfires that erupted this week in West Virginia. Two…
Continue ReadingBy JAMIE STENGLE Associated Press DALLAS (AP) — A Texas medical panel has rebuffed calls to list specific exceptions to one of the most restrictive…
Continue ReadingCHICAGO (AP) — A pair of juries has found two men guilty of killing a Chicago boy almost nine years ago. The Sun-Times reports jurors on Thursday…
Continue ReadingBy SYLVIA HUI Associated Press LONDON (AP) — One of the most famous, photographed and talked-about women in the world is fighting a very personal…
Continue ReadingBy CARLA K. JOHNSON AP Medical Writer Kate, the Princess of Wales, has disclosed that she has cancer and is undergoing chemotherapy — though in a…
Continue ReadingBy SARA CLINE Associated Press BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Louisiana crawfish are in demand despite a shortage of the mudbugs driven by last summer’s…
Continue ReadingBy JEFF AMY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — A former Georgia insurance commissioner is pleading guilty to conspiring to commit health care fraud.…
Continue ReadingBy JACK DURA Associated Press BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — A Democratic state senator in North Dakota has filed paperwork for a campaign to run for…
Continue ReadingBy JOHN RABY Associated Press CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — West Virginia has become the 12th state to ban smoking in vehicles with children present.…
Continue ReadingBy STEPHEN GROVES Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Rep. Mike Gallagher, a Wisconsin Republican who has spearheaded House pushback against the…
Continue ReadingBy STEPHEN WHYNO AP Sports Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The attorney general for the District of Columbia contends that the NBA’s Washington…
Continue ReadingBy STEVE REED AP Sports Writer CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — The Atlantic Coast Conference and Florida State squared off in a courtroom for the first time…
Continue ReadingLONDON (AP) — Kate, Princess of Wales, has released a statement saying she has been diagnosed with cancer. In it, she said she wanted to thank…
Continue ReadingBy MARK SCOLFORO Associated Press HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Some of Pennsylvania’s most populous counties are relocating polling places out of…
Continue ReadingBy BRUCE SCHREINER Associated Press FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — A Republican lawmaker in Kentucky says a bill shielding doctors and other health…
Continue ReadingBy ALEX VEIGA AP Business Writer Real estate brokerage company Compass Inc. will pay $57.5 million as part of a proposed settlement to resolve…
Continue ReadingLOS ANGELES (AP) — As global warming raises temperatures, a California work safety board has approved standards that would require companies to…
Continue ReadingBy SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN Associated Press ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Federal prosecutors have charged a South Carolina man with carjacking resulting in…
Continue ReadingBy ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House says President Joe Biden plans to host Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia…
Continue ReadingHOT SPRINGS, Va. (AP) — Virginia State Police have identified the five people killed when a small private jet crashed as it approached a rural…
Continue ReadingBy MATTHEW LEE and JOSEF FEDERMAN Associated Press TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Friday once again left the…
Continue ReadingValentino’s longtime creative director, Pierpaolo Piccioli, has announced his departure from the storied Italian fashion house. In an emotional…
Continue ReadingBy BRIAN MELLEY and JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Kate, the Princess of Wales, said Friday she has cancer and is undergoing…
Continue ReadingMOSCOW (AP) — Russia’s state RIA Novosti news agency says several gunmen fired shots at a concert hall in Moscow on Friday, leaving a number of…
Continue ReadingSAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris has arrived in Puerto Rico as part of a whirlwind trip to tout the federal aid the…
Continue ReadingBy LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer Joana Vicente is stepping down as the CEO of the Sundance Institute, the nonprofit behind the annual Sundance Film…
Continue ReadingBy TODD RICHMOND Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A federal judge has temporarily blocked plans to build a high-voltage power line across a…
Continue ReadingBy NICK PERRY and HOLLY RAMER Associated Press HOPKINTON, N.H. (AP) — The latest effort to force the hand-counting of ballots in New Hampshire has…
Continue ReadingBy MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump says he has almost a half-billion dollars in cash but would rather spend it on…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press (AP) — A court in Romania’s capital has denied a request by online influencer Andrew Tate to return assets that were seized…
Continue ReadingLONDON (AP) — The online auction of a trove of letters, photos and other items that Pattie Boyd, who was at the heart of the Swinging 60s,…
Continue ReadingBy LISA MASCARO and FARNOUSH AMIRI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — House Speaker Mike Johnson is at risk of being ousted. Hard-right Rep.…
Continue ReadingDETROIT (AP) — Jeep maker Stellantis is laying off about 400 white-collar workers in the U.S. as it deals with the transition from combustion…
Continue ReadingBy MICHAEL KUNZELMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A St. Louis Cardinals super fan known as “Rally Runner” has pleaded guilty to storming…
Continue ReadingBy ROB MAADDI AP Pro Football Writer TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Welsh rugby star Louis Rees-Zammit was dripping sweat and still catching his breath after…
Continue ReadingWARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s government has prepared new legislation to boost the nation’s capacity for self-defense, including more funding…
Continue ReadingBy MELINA WALLING Associated Press Champions of organic farming have long portrayed it as friendlier to humans and the earth. But a new study in a…
Continue ReadingBy REZA SAIFULLAH and EDNA TARIGAN Associated Press MEULABOH, Indonesia (AP) — U.N. agencies say that about 70 Muslim Rohingya believed to have…
Continue ReadingBy DALATOU MAMANE Associated Press NIAMEY, Niger (AP) — The defense ministry says a militant attack on Nigerien forces in a border region near Mali…
Continue ReadingBy SYLVIE CORBET Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron says he “regrets” the Senate’s vote to reject legislation…
Continue ReadingLONDON (AP) — Two men have been arrested in connection with a gas station explosion that killed 10 people and shattered a village in northwestern…
Continue ReadingBy BASSEM MROUE Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Judicial officials say Lebanese authorities have detained a suspected French drug dealer a few days…
Continue ReadingBy PAN PYLAS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — A British IT worker who poisoned a married couple with the strong opioid fentanyl has been sentenced to…
Continue ReadingPORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — U.N. officials say more than 33,000 people have fled Haiti’s capital in a span of nearly two weeks as gangs continue…
Continue ReadingNASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Police in Tennessee on Friday announced that Riley Strain, a University of Missouri student who went missing in Nashville…
Continue ReadingBy ANNE D’INNOCENZIO AP Retail Writer NEW YORK (AP) — More than 440,000 Starbucks-branded mugs made by Nestle and sold during the winter…
Continue ReadingBy CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Hundreds of students in Nigeria rushed to get food donated to their school by the…
Continue ReadingBy SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Prosecutors in three Wisconsin counties are declining to pursue felony charges against former…
Continue ReadingBy CIARÁN GILES Associated Press MADRID (AP) — A Spanish judge has opened an investigation into alleged fraud and false documentation against the…
Continue ReadingBRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union has imposed sanctions on the Russian justice and prison officials responsible for jailing opposition leader…
Continue ReadingISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan’s newly appointed finance minister says the country plans to seek a long-term loan from the International Monetary…
Continue ReadingBy PAN PYLAS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The decision by Nike to change the color of the St. George’s Cross on the new England men’s…
Continue ReadingBy MICHAEL CASEY Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — The Massachusetts Senate has approved limits on how long homeless families can stay in emergency…
Continue ReadingBy KRYSTA FAURIA Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — The bones that embody an album can take many shapes. They may tell a story, follow a genre or…
Continue ReadingBy MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako have visited towns in the north-central region of…
Continue ReadingBy MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — April’s total solar eclipse promises to be a scientific bonanza, thanks to new…
Continue ReadingMADRID (AP) — Authorities say a boat carrying a group of migrants ran into trouble off the coast of southeastern Spain killing at least three…
Continue ReadingBy DEEPA BHARATH Associated Press Holi, widely known as the Hindu festival of colors, is a joyful annual celebration at the advent of spring with…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press DETROIT (AP) — Stellantis is recalling nearly 285,000 Dodge and Chrysler sedans because the side air bag inflators can explode…
Continue ReadingRABAT, Morocco (AP) — Regional and local leaders in Morocco met this week with residents of an oasis where many have staged protests over a water…
Continue ReadingBy BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Police say they are investigating whether the largest donor to Britain’s Conservative government…
Continue ReadingBERLIN (AP) — The German government’s plan to liberalize rules on cannabis has cleared its final parliamentary hurdle, paving the way for the…
Continue ReadingBRATISLAVA, Slovakia (AP) — Peter Pellegrini, a close ally of populist Prime Minister Robert Fico, is considered a favorite in the race for the…
Continue ReadingBy BASSEM MROUE Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — A U.N. humanitarian official is appealing for more than $4 billion in life-saving aid for more than…
Continue ReadingMOSCOW (AP) — Rescue workers are laboring for a fifth day to reach 13 people trapped deep underground in a collapsed gold mine in Russia’s far…
Continue ReadingBy BRIAN INGANGA Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Hundreds of Kenyan doctors have protested in the streets demanding better pay and working…
Continue ReadingBy CORA LEWIS Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — If you’re a freelancer or gig worker who receives payments via apps like Venmo, Zelle, Cash App or…
Continue ReadingBy SAMUEL PETREQUIN Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Commission wants to prevent Russia from using agriculture products as a tool to…
Continue ReadingBy JIM GOMEZ Associated Press MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Philippine officials say Chinese coast guard ships backed by a military helicopter tried…
Continue ReadingJAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — A strong and shallow undersea earthquake has shaken the eastern side of Indonesia’s main island of Java, causing some…
Continue ReadingBy NOHA ELHENNAWY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — The Egyptian government has raised fuel prices in a move that is bound to exacerbate inflationary…
Continue ReadingBy JUSTIN SPIKE Associated Press BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Hungary’s populist prime minister, Viktor Orbán, has congratulated Russian President…
Continue ReadingBEIJING (AP) — A former executive at Yoozoo Games has been sentenced to death in the poisoning of the founder of the high-profile Chinese gaming…
Continue ReadingBy JSARH NGARNDEY ULRICH and JESSICA DONATI Associated Press METCHE CAMP, Chad (AP) — Overcrowded refugee camps in eastern Chad are set to run out…
Continue ReadingBy The Associated Press Russia attacked electrical power facilities in much of Ukraine, including the country’s largest hydroelectric plant,…
Continue ReadingMANILA, Philippines (AP) — Philippine officials say a former Filipino congressman accused of masterminding the killings of a provincial governor…
Continue ReadingBy ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer BANGKOK (AP) — Stocks were mixed Friday in Asia after Wall Street tapped fresh records, led by big gains in…
Continue ReadingISLAMABAD (AP) — The Islamic State group has claimed responsibility for a deadly bombing that targeted Taliban trying to collect their salaries at…
Continue ReadingLAHORE, Pakistan (AP) — A Pakistani court in the eastern city of Lahore has sentenced a Muslim woman to life in prison after finding her guilty of…
Continue ReadingBy DEVI SHASTRI AP Health Writer Allergy season in the U.S. is starting sooner than experts expected. Experts say climate change is leading trees and…
Continue ReadingNEW DELHI (AP) — Supporters of an anti-corruption crusader and one of India’s most consequential politicians of the last decade in India are…
Continue ReadingBy KAREL JANICEK Associated Press HUSTOPECE, Czech Republic (AP) — Masses of white and pink blossoms in a rare almond grove in the Czech Republic…
Continue ReadingBy SHEIKH SAALIQ Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — A cluster of Bollywood films based on polarizing issues that promote Prime Minister Narendra…
Continue ReadingBy TRÂN NGUYỄN Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California lawmakers are split on how to best address the retail theft cases that have…
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