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By JESSE BEDAYN and COLLEEN SLEVIN Associated Press/Report for America DENVER (AP) — A trio of health care bills enshrining access in Colorado to…

By AHMAD EL-KHATIB Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — The leader of Lebanon’s militant Hezbollah group claims that Israel did not hit Hamas or…

By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A Connecticut man who used a stolen riot shield to crush a police officer in a doorframe…

By OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ and JANIE HAR Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The tech consultant charged with the killing of Cash App founder Bob Lee…

JESSICA GRESKO The Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court is allowing challenges to the structure of two federal agencies to go…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — A British nursing union has rejected a pay offer from the government, dashing hopes of a quick end…

By WAYNE PARRY Associated Press New Jersey’s Department of Environmental Protection has issued a violation notice against itself for wrongly…

By BRUCE SCHREINER Associated Press LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — In the days after a bank employee used an assault-style rifle to kill five coworkers,…

By REBECCA SANTANA and ELLIOT SPAGAT Associated Pres BETHESDA, Md. (AP) — A Cuban official says Cuba plans to resume accepting deportation flights…

Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The digital media conglomerate Starboard said Friday it purchased the conservative social media site Parler and…

By LINDSAY WHITEHURST and CHRISTOPHER SHERMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department on Friday announced charges against more…

By JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press GENEVA (AP) — The Swiss federal chancellery says that Elisabeth Kopp, an advocate of equal rights and the…

ROME (AP) — Italy is investigating how a Russian businessman escaped from house arrest to avoid extradition to the U.S. on charges of breaking…

By SUMAN NAISHADHAM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration floated two ideas this week to reduce water usage from the…

By ANTHONY IZAGUIRRE Associated Press TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has signed a bill to ban abortions after six weeks of…

MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. (AP) — Minneapolis will allow broadcasts of the Muslim call to prayer at all hours, becoming the first major U.S. city to allow…

By JEFFREY COLLINS Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — The 12 U.S. soldiers died in a pine forest in South Carolina in 1780, their bodies…

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Americans cut their spending at retail stores and restaurants in March for the second…

By JAN M. OLSEN Associated Press COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — A senior Norwegian spy agency officer says ”the intelligence threat from Russia is…

By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER, ERIC TUCKER and NOMAAN MERCHANT Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — A Massachusetts Air National Guardsman accused in the leak…

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — A senior Federal Reserve official said Friday that there has been little progress on…

MOSCOW (AP) — Belarusian air force crews have completed their training in the use of tactical nuclear weapons as part of Russia’s plan to deploy…

RICHMOND, Ind. (AP) — An evacuation order for people living near an extraordinary plastics fire in Indiana stretched into a fourth night Friday as…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s government has approved a controversial plan to open the country’s first casino in the…

By MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer A European spacecraft rocketed away Friday on a decadelong quest to explore Jupiter and three of its icy moons…

By CIARÁN GILES Associated Press MADRID (AP) — A Spanish mountain climber has emerged from a cave 70 meters (230 feet) underground where she spent…

BAGHDAD (AP) — Influential Iraqi Shiite cleric and political leader Muqtada al-Sadr says he will suspend the movement he leads for one year, citing…

By FREIDA FRISARO and TERRY SPENCER Associated Press FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Workers at one of Fort Lauderdale’s landmark restaurants spent…

By DEEPA BHARATH The Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Rev. Edward Siebert’s journey with “The Pope’s Exorcist,” a film about…

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Tens of thousands of Iranians have demonstrated in support of Palestians, marking the annual anti-Israel “Jerusalem Day,”…

By JUSTIN SPIKE Associated Press BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Hungary’s prime minister is seeking to bring down the temperature on spiraling…

CHISINAU, Moldova (AP) — A fugitive Moldovan oligarch and opposition party leader was sentenced in absentia Thursday to 15 years in jail for his…

By ARNIE STAPLETON AP Sports Writer DENVER (AP) — Not since Jamal Murray was dropping 50 points on the Utah Jazz back in the NBA’s bubble in…

By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer OTARU, Japan (AP) — U.S. Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm says the Group of Seven wealthy nations can…

JERUSALEM (AP) — The Palestinian Authority has blocked the registration of a legal advocacy group representing critics and opponents detained in…

BEIJING (AP) — China’s defense minister will visit Moscow for meetings with his Russian counterpart and other military officials. The Defense…

By AHMED AL-HAJ and SAMY MAGDY Associated Press SANAA, Yemen (AP) — An exchange of more than 800 prisoners by Yemen’s warring parties has begun.…

By FRANK JORDANS Associated Press LINGEN, Germany (AP) — Germany is shutting down its last three nuclear power plants on Saturday as part of an…

By SETH BORENSTEIN AP Science Writer Fort Lauderdale’s 25 inches of rain is a case of a strong thunderstorm not knowing when to say when.…

By STAN CHOE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks are slipping Friday as a swirl of competing forces spins Wall Street, from strong profits…

By MICHAEL GOLDBERG Associated Press/Report for America ROLLING FORK, Miss. (AP) — The scent of the Mississippi Delta’s soil took hold of…

By MAURICIO SAVARESE and EMILY WANG FUJIYAMA Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — The trip by Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva to Beijing…

By DARLENE SUPERVILLE, COLLEEN LONG, CHRIS MEGERIAN and DAVID KEYTON Associated Press BALLINA, Ireland (AP) — President Joe Biden ended his trip to…

By FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Andre Blount has been serving food to dignitaries at World Bank headquarters for nearly 10…

By WILL WEISSERT and TOM DAVIES Associated Press INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Top Republican hopefuls for the 2024 presidential race vowed Friday at the…

By YURI KAGEYAMA Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Makoto Shinkai doesn’t yet know the story he will tell in his next film, only that it will be…

By PATRICK WHITTLE Associated Press PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — On a breezy spring day, scientists and conservationists methodically conducted…

By HUIZHONG WU Associated Press TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — China sanctioned a United States lawmaker Thursday for his visit to Taiwan, saying he…

By LEANNE ITALIE Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — They’re the biggest of brands. But with no logos. And that’s the whole point. Call it…

By ANIRUDDHA GHOSAL AP Science Writer SURGUJA, India (AP) — Poonam Gond is learning to describe her pain by numbers. Zero means no pain and 10 is…

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — A bus carrying Israeli tourists fell on its side on a road in southern South Korea, killing one woman and injuring 34…

By SAM MEDNICK Associated Press SAINT-LOUIS, Senegal (AP) — When the gas rig arrived off the coast of Saint-Louis, residents of this seaside…

By STEFANIE DAZIO Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Federal prosecutors accuse two former Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies of violating…

By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER Associated Press The son of a man killed in a 2021 mass shooting at an Indianapolis FedEx facility and two survivors have…

PANAMA CITY (AP) — Two U.N. groups said Thursday that the number of migrants crossing the dangerous Darien Gap between Colombia and Panama could…

By ANTHONY IZAGUIRRE Associated Press TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis signed into law a bill approved by the…

By ASHRAF KHALIL Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Conservative mega-donor Harlan Crow purchased three properties belonging to Supreme Court…

By JAMIE STENGLE Leaders in a rural Texas county held a special meeting Thursday to consider the drastic option of shutting their public library…

By BRENDAN FARRINGTON Associated Press TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Florida will soon no longer require unanimous jury recommendations for judges to…

By JUAN A. LOZANO Associated Press DAISETTA, Texas (AP) — When the massive sinkhole first appeared in Daisetta in May 2008, some residents had…

By MATT O’BRIEN and HALELUYA HADERO Associated Press PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — The chatting app Discord is one of the most popular ways gamers…

By FRANKLIN BRICEÑO Associated Press LIMA, Peru (AP) — A Peruvian judge has convicted retired army general and conservative politician Daniel…

By KIM TONG-HYUNG and HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea says it successfully test-launched a new…

By NOMAAN MERCHANT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — In trying to identify who was behind a major breach of classified U.S. documents, federal…

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — A rapid spring snowmelt after an unusually wet winter is unleashing flooding from the Southwest to the Rockies, causing…

By JOHN RABY Associated Press Funerals are set for most of the five bank employees who were fatally shot by a co-worker this week in Louisville,…

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — The judge who oversaw the sentencing of the Parkland massacre gunman won’t be able to oversee proceedings in another…

By MARIA VERZA Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican prosecutors say the head of the country’s immigration agency is scheduled to make an…

By JAVIER COLÓN DÁVILA Associated Press SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Two cousins of Puerto Rico’s Gov. Pedro Pierluisi have pleaded guilty for…

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australia’s most powerful tropical cyclone in eight years lashed its northwest coast…

By ISABELLA O’MALLEY Associated Press A startup business that places small turbines in irrigation canals to generate electricity has raised…

NEWPORT NEWS, Va. (AP) — The mother of a 6-year-old boy who shot and wounded his teacher in Virginia has been formally arrested on charges of child…

By TERESA M. WALKER AP Sports Writer Grizzlies point guard Ja Morant has filed a countersuit against the Memphis teenager suing the two-time…

TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — Tunisian authorities say at least 25 African migrants died and 15 are missing after a boat carrying them toward Europe sank…

BROWNSTOWN, Ind. (AP) — A federal lawsuit alleges that a man with a history of mental illness died after 20 days locked away, naked, in a…

By DAVID KOENIG AP Airlines Writer Federal officials say they have asked the FBI to consider criminal charges against more than 250 unruly airline…

By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A federal judge says a civil rape trial for former President Donald Trump will begin as…

By SUMMER BALLENTINE and HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH Associated Press COLUMBIA. Mo. (AP) — Missouri’s attorney general has announced new restrictions…

By LAURA UNGAR and AMANDA SEITZ Associated Press Doctors, clinics and telehealth providers across the country are scrambling to figure out how they…

By MARY CLARE JALONICK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s monthslong absence from the Senate to recover in California…

By JIM SALTER Associated Press The city of Minneapolis agreed Thursday to pay nearly $9 million to settle lawsuits filed by two people who said…

By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Martin Scorsese was knee-deep in preparation for “Killers of the Flower Moon” when Mara Hennessey…

NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — Cyprus’ government says it’s looking into how a number of Cypriot nationals were included in new round of U.S. and…

By TRÂN NGUYỄN Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Authorities say they’ve arrested a suspect who made threats against…

DIMMITT, Texas (AP) — An explosion at a dairy farm in the Texas Panhandle that critically injured one person and killed an estimated 18,000 head of…