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By SEAN MURPHY Associated Press WILSON, Okla. (AP) — Before Oklahoma became one of the last places in the U.S. to outlaw cockfighting in 2002, it…

By ASTRID SUÁREZ Associated Press COSCUEZ, Colombia (AP) — Deep inside mountain tunnels where the heat is so intense it causes headaches, women…

By ERIC TUCKER, ALANNA DURKIN RICHER and TERRY SPENCER Associated Press FORT PIERCE, Fla. (AP) — A federal judge will hear arguments Thursday on…

By MARK THIESSEN Associated Press ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — For the past five years, Alaska’s annual Iditarod sled dog race has gone off mostly…

By DIDI TANG Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Since its inception, TikTok has been intended only for non-Chinese markets, unavailable in mainland…

SYDNEY (AP) — Rescuers say falling rocks inside a gold mine in Australia killed one worker and left another with life-threatening injuries. Another…

By SOPHIA TAREEN Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — An open seat to lead the nation’s second-largest prosecutor’s office has become one of the…

By DARLENE SUPERVILLE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris plans to tour a clinic in Minnesota that performs abortions…

By SYLVIA HUI Associated Press LONDON (AP) — After four decades in fashion, the queen of the catwalk is getting her own exhibition. The Victoria…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — A U.N. report says many countries are bouncing back from the COVID-19 pandemic, but the…

By HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea says leader Kim Jong Un has joined his troops in training to operate newly…

FLANDREAU, S.D. (AP) — South Dakota prosecutors will seek the death penalty for a Sioux Falls man charged in the death of a deputy who was struck…

IRVINE, Calif. (AP) — Authorities say people have been injured during law enforcement exercises at an FBI training facility in Southern California.…

By MIKE SCHNEIDER Associated Press ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — The shakeup of Walt Disney World’s governing district more than a year after it was taken…

HAMILTON, Mont. (AP) — A Utah man died after being caught in an avalanche while backcountry skiing in western Montana, Ravalli County officials…

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Federal prosecutors have charged a former rideshare driver in connection with an antisemitic attack on a passenger at San…

SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) — Patriarch Neophyte of Bulgaria, who was the first elected head of the Orthodox Church in the post-communist Balkan country,…

PHOENIX (AP) — A Massachusetts man has been sentenced three years and six months in federal prison for making an online threat to bomb then-Arizona…

By ANITA SNOW Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Public health officials in Arizona’s most populous county report they confirmed a staggering 645…

By The Associated Press The nation’s chief accident investigator says she’s gone to the top of Boeing — the company’s CEO — and…

By MICHAEL RUBINKAM and MARC LEVY Associated Press SCRANTON, Pa. (AP) — Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro is unveiling a plan to fight climate change.…

TRAPPE, Pa. (AP) — George Parker Widman, a longtime Associated Press photographer and 1988 Pulitzer finalist, has died at the age of 79.  An…

By JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — Authorities say a man accused of dousing a woman with acid in Hawaii last year…

By SEAN MURPHY Associated Press OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The death of a Oklahoma high school student who was nonbinary who died the day after a fight…

By GARY D. ROBERTSON Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A federal trial over North Carolina’s photo voter dentification law remains set for…

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — A boat carrying 91 migrants has reached a small island south of Crete that is seeing a spike in the arrival of people…

By RONALD BLUM Associated Press James Conlon will retire as music director of the Los Angeles Opera at the end of the 2025-26 season, ending a…

A federal judge has found the city of Flint, Michigan, in contempt for failing to comply with a court order that spelled out the steps it needed to…

By MATT O’BRIEN AP Technology Writer The popular artificial intelligence image-generator Midjourney has started blocking its users from…

By BEN FINLEY Associated Press NORFOLK, Va. (AP) — The U.S. government could end its legal fight against a planned expedition to the Titanic…

By SUMMER BALLENTINE Associated Press JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Adult women who left marriages they entered as minors are calling on Missouri…

By DAVE COLLINS Associated Press A prosecutor has told a jury that a Connecticut state trooper’s fatal shooting of the 19-year-old man who had just…

By JIM SALTER Associated Press ST. LOUIS (AP) — Volatile weather is expected to hone in on parts of Kansas and Missouri Wednesday night, and the…

BY FARAI MUTSAKA Associated Press HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — Zimbabwe police say they have rescued dozens of children used as labor at a religious…

By LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Hunter Biden could face trial in Delaware on federal firearms charges as soon as June, in…

TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — A New Jersey Republican candidate for U.S. Senate was arrested in 2020 and charged with driving under the influence of alcohol…

By CARLA K. JOHNSON AP Medical Writer A blood test for colon cancer performed well in a study published Wednesday, offering a new kind of screening…

By PAN PYLAS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The U.K. government says it will back legislation banning foreign state ownership of British newspapers…

By STEPHANIE LIECHTENSTEIN Associated Press VIENNA (AP) — The Austrian government says that it has ordered two diplomats from Russia’s…

By LAURAN NEERGAARD AP Medical Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Researchers revved up immune cells that shrank an extremely aggressive type of brain tumor…

By JACK DURA and JOSH FUNK Associated Press A Democratic legislator is calling for an inquiry into South Dakota Republican Gov. Kristi Noem’s trip…

By TARA COPP Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Air Force is reporting the first data on cancer diagnoses among troops who worked with nuclear…

By JEFF AMY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia House Speaker Jon Burns is leaning into the push to pass a voucher plan funding private school…

By DAVID HAMILTON AP Business Writer SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Elon Musk has abruptly canceled “The Don Lemon Show” a talk show on his social media…

By CHEVEL JOHNSON RODRIGUE Associated Press Civil rights activist Dorie Ann Ladner has died at age 81. Joyce Ladner confirms her sister died…

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Universities of Wisconsin regents have selected a New Hampshire provost to replace UW-La Crosse Chancellor Joe Gow. Gow…

NEW YORK (AP) — The retired Concorde jet that belongs to New York’s Intrepid Museum will return to its home on a west side pier after a…

By MIKE CORDER Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Dutch soccer star Quincy Promes has reportedly been arrested by authorities in Dubai…

By JOHN HANNA Associated Press TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas will pay $1 million to settle a lawsuit over the 2015 murder of a 7-year-old boy who…

By MATTHEW BROWN Associated Press BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — Federal prosecutors say a Montana rancher illegally used tissue and testicles from wild…

By RUSS BYNUM Associated Press SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — Attorneys plan to refile a lawsuit over zoning changes that they say threaten one of the…

By JONATHAN J. COOPER Associated Press Robert F. Kennedy Jr. plans to announce a running mate for his independent presidential campaign on March 26…

By RUTH ALONGA Associated Press GOMA, Congo (AP) — A senior United Nations official says intensifying violence in Congo’s eastern region has…

MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — The European Union’s maritime security force says it is tracking a Bangladesh-flagged cargo vessel that was boarded by…

By JOSEPH WILSON Associated Press BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — The regional president of Catalonia has called an early election for May 12 after his…

BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — A judge has acquitted a New York state trooper who was charged with manslaughter after shooting an unarmed motorist to death…

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis is ordering more than 250 law enforcement officers and soldiers to the Florida Keys to help…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Robotaxis will begin cruising the streets of Los Angeles on Thursday when Google spinoff Waymo starts offering free rides to…

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Federal prosecutors say three men from Kansas City, Missouri, face firearms charges, including gun trafficking, after an…

BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — A court in Romania’s capital has extended geographical restrictions against online influencer Andrew Tate, who is…

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s Foreign Ministry says it’s cutting short the missions of 50 of the nation’s ambassadors as part of…

By MEGAN JANETSKY, VICTOR R. CAIVANO & RODRIGO ABD Associated Press TUSAQUILLAS, Argentina (AP) — Irene Leonor Flores de Callata, 68, treks…

By TIA GOLDENBERG Associated Press TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — The Israeli military says it plans to direct many of the 1.4 million displaced…

By ED WHITE Associated Press PONTIAC, Mich. (AP) — A prosecutor urged jurors to convict the father of a Michigan school shooter on Wednesday,…

By JAMIE STENGLE Associated Press DALLAS (AP) — A Texas man who spent decades using an iron lung after contracting polio as a child has died at the…

By GARY D. ROBERTSON Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A former North Carolina representative who finished second in last week’s primary for…

By FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A pair of Ukrainian justice ministers in Washington this week said they were “quite…

By MORGAN LEE Associated Press SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — A movie set armorer convicted of involuntary manslaughter in the fatal shooting of a…

By KATE BRUMBACK Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — An appeals court has overturned the convictions of a former Georgia police officer who shot and…

LINLEY SANDERS AND AMELIA THOMSON-DEVEAUX WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump have secured their party’s…

By DÁNICA COTO and EVENS SANON Associated Press PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — A proposal to install new leadership in Haiti appeared to be…

NORTH LAS VEGAS. Nev. (AP) — Authorities say officers near Las Vegas shot and killed a man who refused orders to drop a gun while walking toward…

By GERALD IMRAY Associated Press CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — South Africa’s foreign minister says her country’s citizens who fight in the…

By BRUCE SCHREINER Associated Press FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Kentucky Senate Republicans have revealed their version of the state’s next two-year…

By KATHLEEN FOODY Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — Seven people living at a Chicago shelter for migrants have tested positive for measles since last…

By HALELUYA HADERO AP Business Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — TikTok once again finds itself in a precarious position as lawmakers in Washington move…

By MICHAEL CASEY Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — A Massachusetts beach community is scrambling after a weekend storm washed away mountains of sand…

By TOM ODULA Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Kenya’s President William Ruto says the country will still lead a U.N.-backed…

By The Associated Press Olivia Munn has revealed that she was diagnosed with breast cancer and underwent a double mastectomy, thanking her doctors…

By LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Rose Glass’ first film “Saint Maud,” was a chilling picture of faith and madness. Her…

By COREY WILLIAMS Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — Author and Detroit Free Press columnist Mitch Albom and nine others have been rescued by…

TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) — Former UFC champion Mark Coleman was airlifted to an Ohio hospital after saving his parents from a house fire. Coleman’s…

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Authorities want the final suspect to turn himself in after a shooting wounded eight Philadelphia high school students at a bus…

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — NCAA chief medical officer Brian Hainline is retiring after more than a decade in the position. Hainline’s retirement…

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The New Orleans police chief says conditions at the department’s aging headquarters are so deplorable that rats have…

By MIKE STOBBE AP Medical Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Researchers have linked another kind of amoeba to nasal rinsing. The Centers for Disease Control…

By GAETANE LEWIS Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Trader Joe’s mini canvas tote is the latest item to cause a stir on social media, so much so…

By SETH BORENSTEIN AP Science Writer A new study calculates that U.S. oil and natural gas wells, pipelines and compressors are spewing three times…

By FARNOUSH AMIRI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Hunter Biden has rejected an invitation from House Republicans to appear for a public hearing…

MERIDEN, Conn. (AP) — A Connecticut police officer was suspended for five days and arrested on assault charges after punching a motorist during an…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A landslide has destroyed a hillside home and is imperiling at least two others in Los Angeles. The slide occurred just before 3…

By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Like most kids, Victor Levin was raised on fairy tales — and still resents it. Those…

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (AP) — Republican U.S. Rep. David Valadao and Democrat Rudy Salas will face each other in November in California’s…

By LUIS ANDRES HENAO The Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The biopic “Bob Marley: One Love” has been a box office hit in the United States and…

By MUNIR AHMED Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — Officials say the International Monetary Fund will hold a crucial round of talks with Pakistan…

By MIKE CORDER Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Two days of closed-doors talks between four Dutch political leaders appear to have…

By KATE BRUMBACK Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — The judge overseeing the Georgia election interference case on Wednesday dismissed some of the…

By GEIR MOULSON Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Chancellor Olaf Scholz has defended his refusal to send Taurus long-range cruise missiles to…

RAFAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — The Palestinian soccer federation says former national team member Mohammed Barakat was killed in an Israeli airstrike in…

By STEVE LeBLANC Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — Those convicted of misdemeanor marijuana possession charges in Massachusetts would see their…