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By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s space agency says a rocket carrying eight satellites failed just after liftoff and…

By CAROLYN THOMPSON Associated Press CLARENCE, N.Y. (AP) — Republican New York Rep. Chris Jacobs is not seeking reelection amid backlash over his…

By NICK PERRY Associated Press WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Some 477 pilot whales have died after stranding themselves on two remote New Zealand…

By GRANT PECK Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — A court in military-ruled Myanmar convicted the country’s ousted leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, on two…

By KATE BRUMBACK Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — An Atlanta-area sheriff stands accused of punishing detainees by having them strapped into a…

By TERRY SPENCER Associated Press FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — The jurors who will decide whether Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz is sentenced…

By SARAH RANKIN Associated Press RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Democratic U.S. Rep. Elaine Luria and GOP challenger Jen Kiggans have faced off in a…

By WILL WEISSERT Associated Press GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) — While preparing to march in a Saturday morning parade through this fast-growing…

MENLO PARK, Calif. (AP) — Authorities say a tree trimmer was killed in the San Francisco Bay Area after he fell into a wood chipper. Police say the…

By ELLIOT SPAGAT Associated Press SAN DIEGO (AP) — The Biden administration agreed to accept up to 24,000 Venezuelan migrants at U.S. airports,…

By EDNA TARIGAN and ROD McGUIRK Associated Press DENPASAR, Indonesia (AP) — Hundreds gathered Wednesday on the Indonesian resort island of Bali to…

By BOB CHRISTIE Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Legal abortions that restarted in Arizona this week after a court blocked enforcement of a…

By COLLEEN SLEVIN Associated Press DENVER (AP) — A former National Security Agency employee from Colorado accused of trying to sell classified…

SAN ANTONIO (AP) — A now-former San Antonio police officer has been charged for shooting and gravely wounding a teen eating a hamburger in his car…

By MARK SHERMAN and ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration is urging the Supreme Court to steer clear of a legal…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Tropical Storm Karl has formed off Mexico’s southern Gulf coast and is forecast to meander in the Gulf for a few days…

By HALELUYA HADERO AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — TikTok appears to be deepening its foray into e-commerce. It’s indicating in job…

By KEN RITTER Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — A Nevada judge says Las Vegas police, prosecutors and defense attorneys have to wait to access a…

NEW YORK (AP) — As is traditional in the fall, NBC’s Sunday night football telecast dominated the weekly television rankings, in this case a…

By AUDREY McAVOY Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — Hawaii Gov. David Ige has signed an executive order that aims to prevent other states from…

By ANDREW DALTON AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Harvey Weinstein’s attorney told the judge at his sexual assault trial Tuesday…

By JANET McCONNAUGHEY Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Two anglers whose boat sank over the weekend in the Gulf of Mexico clung to an improvised…

By BILL BARROW Associated Press CARROLLTON, Ga. (AP) — Two U.S. senators, Rick Scott of Florida and Tom Cotton of Arkansas, are boosting the…

SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — A former manager for a Silicon Valley security business that worked with Facebook has testified at a sheriff’s civil…

By JOEY CAPPELLETTI Associated Press/Report for America LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Some 1.6 million voters in Michigan have requested absentee ballots…

By JULIE WATSON Associated Press SAN DIEGO (AP) — From Hollywood movies to the Beach Boys and Snoop Dogg, California has been a world-famous…

By DÁNICA COTO Associated Press SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — A nonprofit organization is calling on Haiti’s government to release certain…

By TERRY SPENCER Associated Press FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — The prosecutor and defense attorney for Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz agreed…

By TOM HAYS and LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A lawyer for Kevin Spacey sought Tuesday to poke holes in the story of fellow…

By AAMER MADHANI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden said Tuesday there will be “consequences” for Saudi Arabia as the…

By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Retired NFL quarterback Brett Favre says he is being treated unfairly in news…

By JOHN HANNA AP Political Writer TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas’ Republican attorney general told a racial justice commission two years ago that…

By MEGAN JANETSKY Associated Press HAVANA (AP) — Haiti is rapidly spiralling into chaos and the neighboring Dominican Republic has responded with…

By The Associated Press Hockey Canada has ousted CEO Scott Smith. Its board of directors has also resigned over a series of scandals that have rocked…

WASHINGTON (AP) — More families who are offered expensive health insurance premiums from their employers will get a discount if they sign up…

By JOSH DUBOW AP Pro Football Writer Las Vegas Raiders receiver Davante Adams could face a possible suspension or fine for shoving a photographer to…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s largest state has approved same-sex marriage, leaving only three of the country’s 32 states without such laws.…

By ED WHITE Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — Lawyers for former Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder are urging a judge to dismiss misdemeanor charges related…

By MATTHEW BARAKAT Associated Press ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) — A federal jury in Virginia has heard opening statements in the trial of a think tank…

By SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Democratic Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers says he wouldn’t sign a bill that keeps in place the…

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greek authorities say a ninth body has been recovered off a southern Greek island where a yacht full of migrants sank in a…

PRAGUE (AP) — Ukrainians have rallied in Prague for the second straight evening to condemn this week’s barrage of Russian missile strikes against…

EXCELSIOR SPRINGS, Mo. (AP) — Charging documents say a Missouri woman was held captive in a basement room for about a month and was raped…

By MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A spacecraft that plowed into a small, harmless asteroid millions of miles away…

By JORGE RUEDA and JUAN ARRAEZ Associated Press CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Rescue workers in Venezuela are clearing rocks and mud from the streets…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Venezuela, South Korea and Afghanistan have lost contested races for seats on the…

By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Federal authorities say they are seeking the extradition of a man arrested in the United…

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — More than $100 million in grants have been announced by the federal government as part of a major effort to close the…

By JUSTIN SPIKE Associated Press LYMAN, Ukraine (AP) — Covered head-to-toe in protective suits, forensic workers pulled several bodies wrapped in…

By ALICIA RANCILIO Associated Press Drake Rodger and Meg Donnelly are premiering their new TV series “The Winchesters,” with a built-in fan base.…

LONDON (AP) — King Charles III will be crowned at Westminster Abbey on May 6 in a ceremony that will embrace the past but look to the modern world…

By PATRICK WHITTLE Associated Press PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Maine lobster fishermen have hired a former high-ranking U.S. Department of Justice…

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — A bronze sculpture of a West African king that had been in the collection of a Rhode Island museum for more than 70 years…

By MICHAEL HILL Associated Press ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — The New York attorney general’s office has tightened rules on gun buybacks after a critic of…

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkey disaster management authority says a moderately-strong earthquake has shaken the southern Turkish province of…

By DAVID A. LIEB Associated Press Voters in some battleground states will be deciding ballot proposals this November that could reshape the way they…

By WILSON RING Associated Press ST. ALBANS, Vt. (AP) — A fired Vermont deputy sheriff who is the only candidate on the November ballot to become…

By JADE LE DELEY and SYLVIE CORBET The Associated Press PARIS (AP) — French Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne has announced a decision to requisition…

By ADRIANA MORGA Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Credit scoresare complicated and because rating agencies consider many factors, the process of…

By BRIAN WITTE Associated Press ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — Prosecutors dropped charges against Adnan Syed on Tuesday in the 1999 killing of Hae Min Lee…

By KATE BRUMBACK Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Comedians Eric André and Clayton English are challenging a police program at the Atlanta airport…

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Authorities say a toddler accidentally was left behind in a locked rental car when it was returned by her grandfather in…

By SYLVIA HUI Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Judges at the U.K.’s highest court have begun hearing evidence on whether Scotland’s Parliament…

By MICHELLE CHAPMAN and ALEXANDRA OLSON AP Business Writers The U.S. Department of Labor is publishing a new proposal on how workers should be…

By PAUL J. WEBER Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Democrat Beto O’Rourke says his campaign for Texas governor raised another $25 million…

ALLENTOWN, Pa. (AP) — A malfunctioning heater sent dangerously high level of carbon monoxide into a Pennsylvania day care center, sickening dozens…

By FRANK JORDANS Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Climate activist Greta Thunberg says it would be “a mistake” for Germany to switch off its…

By DAVE COLLINS Associated Press WATERBURY, Conn. (AP) — A Connecticut jury has wrapped up its second full day of deliberations on how much…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court has rejected an appeal from Dylann Roof, who challenged his death sentence and conviction in the 2015 racist…

SKOPJE, North Macedonia (AP) — Police in North Macedonia say they have detained 44 Syrian migrants, including 14 minors, found carefully hidden in…

By BARRY HATTON Associated Press LISBON, Portugal (AP) — The head of a lay committee looking into historic child sex abuse in the Portuguese…

By RIAZ KHAN Associated Press PESHAWAR (AP) — Thousands of people are protesting in the northwestern Pakistani city of Mingora after a gunman…

By The Associated Press Bryce Harper and the Philadelphia Phillies hoped to be in this position. Alex Bregman and the Houston Astros probably…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japan and Canada have agreed to formally start talks toward signing a military intelligence…

By PAUL WISEMAN and FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The International Monetary Fund is downgrading its outlook for the world…

By ROB MAADDI AP Pro Football Writer The NFL did not give officials a directive to emphasize roughing-the-passer penalties following Dolphins…

ST. PETERSBURG, Russia (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin has hailed a recent decision by OPEC, Russia and other oil producing nations to…

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — A 29-year-old Syrian man has been sentenced by a Danish court to three years in prison for money laundering after…

By JANET McCONNAUGHEY Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The federal government says the gopher tortoise isn’t threatened in most of its…

By KIRSTEN GRIESHABER Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — The German government has pledged to provide more support to cities and towns struggling to…

TOKYO (AP) — Japanese automaker Nissan Motor Co. says it plans to sell its Russian operations to its local partner and end manufacturing there. The…

ISLAMABAD (AP) — A Taliban official says a 5.1 magnitude earthquake has jolted the Afghan city of Faizabad, the capital of northeastern Badakhshan…

By LAURA MCMULLEN of NerdWallet Most people have an inner critic that sometimes judges their actions and behaviors, including those related to money.…

GENEVA (AP) — The United Nations’ development program is calling on rich countries and financial institutions in them to do more to help…

By DAVID R. MARTIN and MICHELLE L. PRICE Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A shooting outside New York U.S. Rep. Lee Zeldin’s Long Island home is…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The head of Britain’s cyber-intelligence agency is accusing China of using its economic and…

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Sweden says it will not give information regarding gas leaks in the Baltic Sea to Russia because of Swedish…

By ILAN BEN ZION Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel’s prime minister says the country has reached a “historic agreement” with…

By NICK PERRY Associated Press WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Two of New Zealand’s largest ski areas have been placed into a type of bankruptcy…