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First-ever February tornadoes in Wisconsin caused $2.4M in damages
EVANSVILLE, Wis. (AP) — Officials say the first tornadoes ever recorded in Wisconsin in the usually frigid month of February caused more than $2.4…
Continue ReadingEVANSVILLE, Wis. (AP) — Officials say the first tornadoes ever recorded in Wisconsin in the usually frigid month of February caused more than $2.4…
Continue ReadingBy SARA CLINE Associated Press BATON ROGUE, La. (AP) — In Louisiana, around 60 people currently sit on death row, but an execution hasn’t…
Continue ReadingBy EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Russia and China accused the United States and Britain of illegally attacking military…
Continue ReadingBy GRANT PECK Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — Myanmar’s military government says it will draft 60,000 young men and women yearly for military…
Continue ReadingBy KIM CHANDLER Associated Press MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — The Alabama Senate voted Wednesday to put a politically appointed board in control of the…
Continue ReadingBy YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Japan has slipped to the world’s fourth-largest economy as government data showed it fell behind…
Continue ReadingEDWARDSVILLE, Ill. (AP) — Authorities say a 13-year-old southern Illinois girl who suffered a gunshot wound to her head while standing on a porch…
Continue ReadingBy MORGAN LEE Associated Press SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — New Mexico’s Democrat-led House of Representatives has rejected a bill that would have…
Continue ReadingBy TRÂN NGUYỄN Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California voters will decide on a statewide ballot measure that Gov. Gavin Newson…
Continue ReadingBy KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea state media says leader Kim Jong Un has supervised a test of new…
Continue ReadingBy STEFANIE DAZIO Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — U.S. safety investigators are looking into what caused last week’s helicopter crash…
Continue ReadingBy MICHELLE L. PRICE Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Jared Kushner, Donald Trump’s former White House adviser and his son-in-law, is defending…
Continue ReadingBy REGINA GARCIA CANO Associated Press CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — A United Nations-backed expert on food security is urging Venezuela’s government…
Continue ReadingBy MARGERY A. BECK Associated Press LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A Republican Nebraska lawmaker has given top priority to a bill that would allow abortions…
Continue ReadingBy KIMBERLEE KRUESI Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee Republican U.S. Rep. Mark Green has announced that he won’t run for a…
Continue ReadingBy JOEY CAPPELLETTI Associated Press LANSING, Mich. (AP) — The National Republican Committee says it would recognize former Congressman Pete…
Continue ReadingBy DAVID A. LIEB Associated Press JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — The Missouri Supreme Court has upheld a ruling that lawmakers illegally blocked…
Continue ReadingBy CAROLYN THOMPSON Associated Press New York City, its schools and public hospital system are suing the tech giants that run Facebook, Instagram,…
Continue ReadingSANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — A New Mexico judge warned attorneys she will not consider any other motions as the court prepares for the involuntary…
Continue ReadingBy KEVIN FREKING Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A longshot bid to temporarily double a $10,000 cap on state and local tax deductions for most…
Continue ReadingBy WAYNE PARRY Associated Press ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — With this year’s Super Bowl being played in Las Vegas, the nation’s gambling…
Continue ReadingBy MICHAEL CASEY Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — The president of MIT has suspended a student group that has held demonstrations against…
Continue ReadingA recent decline in arrests for illegal crossings on the U.S. border with Mexico may prove only temporary. The drop in January reflects how the…
Continue ReadingMOSCOW (AP) — President Vladimir Putin says that Russia would prefer to see President Joe Biden win a second term, describing him as more…
Continue ReadingBy ERIC TUCKER, ALANNA DURKIN RICHER and MARK SHERMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Special counsel Jack Smith has urged the U.S. Supreme…
Continue ReadingATLANTA (AP) — Officials say four students have been shot and wounded outside an Atlanta high school. Shortly after dismissal Wednesday afternoon,…
Continue ReadingBy MARK THIESSEN Associated Press ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Both a Minnesota man testing a snowmobile for his employer and the company have been…
Continue ReadingBy MICHAEL LIEDTKE AP Technology Writer SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Internet networking pioneer Cisco Systems is jettisoning more than 4,000 employees.…
Continue ReadingBy COLLEEN LONG Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House has announced that Palestinians living in the U.S. will be shielded from…
Continue ReadingBy RICHA KARMARKAR, Religion News Service NEW YORK (RNS) — At a Sunday morning service on Sunday (Feb. 4), a priest gave a sermon, a choir sang…
Continue ReadingBy COLLEEN LONG, ZEKE MILLER and ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden avoided criminal charges around his handling of…
Continue ReadingBy LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal judges targeted by threats have more than doubled over the last three years amid a…
Continue ReadingBy BARBARA ORTUTAY AP Technology Writer Tinder, Hinge and other dating apps are designed with addictive features that encourage compulsive use.…
Continue ReadingBy JIM VERTUNO Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A Texas hospital official says a large aquarium in the lobby of an emergency room likely saved…
Continue ReadingALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Federal prosecutors say a New York City man who admitted to smuggling three Burmese pythons in his pants through a…
Continue ReadingPORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Officials in Oregon’s Multnomah County, home to Portland, said they will declare a state of emergency Wednesday evening…
Continue ReadingBy ASHRAF KHALIL Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The National Archives building and galleries were evacuated after two protestors dumped powder…
Continue ReadingBy ADRIANA MORGA Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Last year, the Federal Trade Commission received over 64,000 romance scams reports that…
Continue ReadingSAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Haiti’s government has announced that it is working on an official agreement with Kenyan officials to secure the…
Continue ReadingBy BROOKE LEFFERTS Associated Press The New York City Ballet’s principal dancer Tiler Peck has choreographed her first ballet, “Concerto for…
Continue ReadingBy JOHN RABY Associated Press CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — West Virginia’s Republican-led House of Delegates has overwhelmingly passed legislation to…
Continue ReadingSAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — A fiery debate over public health and personal rights has gripped Puerto Rico as legislators clash with medical…
Continue ReadingBy RUSS BYNUM Associated Press SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — A conservative group that claimed to uncover a ballot stuffing scheme in Georgia has told a…
Continue ReadingROCHESTER, N.Y. (AP) — A man convicted for a 2015 killing in western New York has been freed and his indictment has been dismissed, solely because…
Continue ReadingDANA POINT, Calif. (AP) — A massive landslide on a coastal bluff has left a Southern California mansion on the edge of a cliff. But authorities…
Continue ReadingBy STEVE LeBLANC Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — A bust of famed abolitionist Frederick Douglass was unveiled in the Massachusetts Senate Chamber on…
Continue ReadingBy JUAN A. LOZANO and JIM VERTUNO Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — A shooter’s motive for opening fire in celebrity pastor Joel Osteen’s…
Continue ReadingBy MATTHEW BARAKAT AP Business Writer ARLINGTON, Va. (AP) — Real estate data firm CoStar Group is moving its headquarters from Washington, D.C., to…
Continue ReadingBy MARK THIESSEN Associated Press ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — An avalanche on Alaska’s Kenai Peninsula killed one backcountry skier and injured two…
Continue ReadingBy BRUCE SCHREINER Associated Press FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — A lawmaker has resumed his push to limit a Kentucky governor’s pardon powers.…
Continue ReadingJEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — The Missouri Supreme Court has set an execution date for David Hosier, who is on death row for killing a Jefferson City…
Continue ReadingBy YURAS KARMANAU Associated Press TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — The family of imprisoned Belarusian opposition figure Maria Kolesnikova says it…
Continue ReadingBy FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. has imposed sanctions on three people and four firms — across Iran, the United Arab…
Continue ReadingBy MICHAEL GOLDBERG Associated Press/Report for America JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A federal lawsuit claims inmates at a Mississippi prison were forced…
Continue ReadingBy JEFFREY COLLINS Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — The South Carolina House has given key approval to a bill allowing liquor stores to open…
Continue ReadingBy BRUCE SHIPKOWSKI and SAMANTHA HENDRICKSON Associated Press/Report For America COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Prosecutors in the murder trial of a former…
Continue ReadingBy MICHAEL MAROT AP Sports Writer INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — The signs are all around downtown Indianapolis now. NBA All-Star weekend has finally arrived.…
Continue ReadingPHILADELPHIA (AP) — A former Philadelphia police inspector has been acquitted of assault in the use of a baton during an encounter with a protester…
Continue ReadingBy BASSEM MROUE and JON GAMBRELL Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — The slow-simmering cross-border conflict between Lebanon’s Hezbollah militant…
Continue ReadingST. LOUIS (AP) — A St. Louis man has been sentenced to 60 years in prison for a series of carjackings, including one in which a high school…
Continue ReadingBy CARLOS MUREITHI Associated Press A team of scientists says extreme wind and rain may contribute to bigger and worse desert locust outbreaks. A…
Continue ReadingBy JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The 29-year-old filmmaker Sean Wang can’t believe it, himself, but he’s going to the…
Continue ReadingBy MICHAEL CASEY Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — Federal authorities announced they have charged over 40 gang members in Boston with a range of…
Continue ReadingBy VANESSA GERA Associated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Estonia’s foreign minister says NATO has about three or four years to strengthen its…
Continue ReadingBy REGINA GARCIA CANO Associated Press CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Representatives of nearly 10 human rights organizations have held a press…
Continue ReadingBy ELLEN KNICKMEYER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The head of the House Intelligence Committee says he has information about a serious…
Continue ReadingSKOPJE, North Macedonia (AP) — North Macedonia’s parliament speaker has formally set early parliamentary and presidential elections in the…
Continue ReadingBy SARAH RANKIN Associated Press RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A GOP legislative effort to prevent Virginia children from using the video-sharing app TikTok…
Continue ReadingBy MATT BROWN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Black History Month was celebrated in the nation’s capital with dueling events on Tuesday…
Continue ReadingThe Associated Press Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce says he went too far when he bumped into coach Andy Reid and screamed at him during…
Continue ReadingBy The Associated Press PIERRE, S.D. (AP) — Former South Dakota Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg is urging the state Supreme Court to dismiss an…
Continue ReadingGLEN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) — William Post, a Michigan man who played an important role in the development of Pop-Tarts, has died at age 96. Post died…
Continue ReadingPLATTSBURGH, N.Y. (AP) — Police said they believe a shooting at a northern New York hospital may have narrowly been avoided after a disgruntled…
Continue ReadingBy PATRICK WHITTLE Associated Press PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — A coalition of environmental groups is suing the federal government to try to force the…
Continue ReadingPARIS (AP) — A Paris appeals court upheld a guilty verdict against former French President Nicolas Sarkozy for illegal campaign financing in his…
Continue ReadingBy MARYCLAIRE DALE Associated Press PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The Bayer Corporation has spent more than $10 billion to settle lawsuits that claim the…
Continue ReadingBy AMANDA SEITZ Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Cybersecurity experts are warning that hospitals around the country are at risk for attacks like…
Continue ReadingBy HOLLY RAMER Associated Press CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — I came. I saw. I Concord. A New Hampshire lawmaker wants to amend state law to include an…
Continue ReadingBy JOHN BOHNENKAMP Associated Press IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — Fans who want to be able to say they were in the arena when Caitlin Clark set the NCAA…
Continue ReadingBy LISA MASCARO and STEPHEN GROVES Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican Speaker Mike Johnson says the U.S. House will not feel…
Continue ReadingWARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s National Security Bureau says the country’s president has met the CEO of U.S. manufacturer Lockheed Martin…
Continue ReadingBy COREY WILLIAMS Associated Press A Michigan Republican accused of participating in a fake elector plot after the 2020 presidential election has…
Continue ReadingBy MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — A Japan space agency official says an unmanned spacecraft that landed on the moon last month has…
Continue ReadingMANASSAS, Va. (AP) — Police in northern Virginia fatally shot a man with a knife suspected of stabbing two people inside a training center for…
Continue ReadingBy JEFF AMY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — A nuclear power plant in Georgia has begun splitting atoms in the second of its two new reactors, in a…
Continue ReadingBy MATT OTT AP Business Writer Lyft shares jumped 62% after the bell Tuesday thanks in part to a typo in the ride-hailing company’s earnings…
Continue ReadingMEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — The city of Memphis has released additional documents tied to the January 2023 fatal beating of Tyre Nichols by five police…
Continue ReadingMILAN (AP) — Italian police on Wednesday raided the homes of 24 people under investigation for promoting fascism during a gathering at a restaurant…
Continue ReadingMEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican regulators have ordered online retailers Amazon and Mercado Libre to reveal their algorithms, and wall off TV streaming…
Continue ReadingBy The Associated Press A Moscow court has remanded a German citizen into custody after his arrest for possession of cannabis gummies and accusations…
Continue ReadingBy MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The mild-mannered Franklin — the first Black character in the “Peanuts” comic strip…
Continue ReadingBy DAVID SHARP Associated Press PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — The tradition of red hearts mysteriously appearing overnight across Maine’s largest city…
Continue ReadingBy TARA COPP Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A day after his latest hospital stay, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has hosted a virtual meeting…
Continue ReadingCOPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — A Scandinavian Airlines plane struck a fence at the Oslo airport on Wednesday, causing minor damage to the aircraft and…
Continue ReadingWASHINGTON (AP) — Authorities says three police officers have been shot in Washington and their injuries appear to be non-life-threatening. The…
Continue ReadingBy TERRY SPENCER Associated Press PARKLAND, Fla. (AP) — The family of a teen murdered at Parkland’s Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School is…
Continue ReadingBy HUIZHONG WU Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — Taiwan’s Coast Guard says two Chinese fishermen have drowned while being chased by the coast guard…
Continue ReadingBy The Associated Press Travis Kelce is already making moves in Hollywood. The Super Bowl champ has his first executive producer credit on a new film…
Continue ReadingBy SAMY MAGDY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Edrogan is in Cairo for talks with his Egyptian counterpart to rally…
Continue ReadingSEOUL, South Korea (AP) — A South Korean court has convicted three former police officers of destroying internal files and other evidence in an…
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