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By JOEY CAPPELLETTI Associated Press/Report for America LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Michigan lawmakers approved legislation Wednesday that would allow…

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — The first civil suit alleging Portland police used excessive violence against a 2020 racial justice demonstrator started…

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus says Australia could have tough new data protection laws…

By IAN HARRISON Associated Press TORONTO (AP) — Aaron Judge had gone seven games since his last home run, 34 plate appearances of fans quieting to…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Friend or foe? Or both? On the streets of Tokyo and Beijing, the ties between Japan and China…

TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Water drained from Tampa Bay as Hurricane Ian approached Florida’s Gulf Coast, pushed away by powerful storm winds. Ian…

By JONATHAN LANDRUM Jr. and ANDREW DALTON AP Entertainment Writers LOS ANGELES (AP) — Coolio, the rapper who was among hip-hop’s biggest…

By CURT ANDERSON Associated Press ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — Hurricane Ian, one of the most powerful storms ever recorded in the U.S., swamped…

By JANET McCONNAUGHEY Associated Pres NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The Army Corps of Engineers says the Mississippi River is so low and slow that salt water…

By TERRY TANG Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — After a Willem de Kooning painting worth millions was brazenly stolen in 1985 from an Arizona museum,…

By HALELUYA HADERO AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Amazon says it’s raising its average starting pay for frontline workers from $18 to $19 a…

By BARBARA ORTUTAY AP Technology Writer With roosters crowing in the background as he speaks from the crowded refugee camp in Bangladesh that’s…

NEW YORK (AP) — Former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo is taking his biggest steps yet to return to the public eye, more than a year after resigning in…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Some 200 environmental and land defense activists were killed around the world in 2021, including some 54 in Mexico, which…

By WANJOHI KABUKURU Associated Press MOMBASA, Kenya (AP) — The auctioning of oil and gas blocks in Congo has stirred resistance and concern among…

By MARK STEVENSON Associated Press VICAM, Mexico (AP) — Mexico has become the deadliest place in the world for environmental and land defense…

KEY WEST, Fla. (AP) — Officials say four Cuban migrants swam to shore in the Florida Keys and three others were rescued from the ocean after their…

By DON THOMPSON Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A broadly smiling California Gov. Gavin Newsom joined about two dozen jubilant, cheering…

By ADAM BEAM Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Two new laws in California will let developers bypass local governments to build housing on…

By MICHAEL R. SISAK and MICHAEL BALSAMO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A bipartisan group of U.S. senators introduced legislation Wednesday to…

By KATE BRUMBACK Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — The Georgia State Election Board held a meeting Wednesday meant to reassure board members and the…

By DOUG FERGUSON AP Golf Writer Saudi-funded LIV Golf is denying a report that it was close to a U.S. television deal in which it would buy time to…

By KEN SWEET and JAY REEVES The Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Regions Bank for a second time in a decade was found charging illegal overdraft…

GREENVILLE, S.C. (AP) — Authorities say a man who sent threats and photos of a gun to an ex-girlfriend has been shot and killed by deputies who…

By JESSICA GRESKO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court says it will continue providing live audio broadcasts of arguments in cases.…

By KEN MILLER Associated Press An Oklahoma prosecutor who is recovering after being stabbed by his adult daughter is calling on state lawmakers for…

By SEAN MURPHY Associated Press Writer OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The University of Oklahoma Medical Center says it is ceasing some gender-affirming…

By DAVE COLLINS and PAT EATON-ROBB Associated Press WATERBURY, Conn. (AP) — After watching days of testimony that included the parents of slain…

By TODD RICHMOND Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A judge will let a Wisconsin man accused of killing six people and injuring dozens more when…

By AMANDA SEITZ Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — At-risk people who received a single dose of the monkeypox vaccine in U.S. efforts against the…

By DON BABWIN Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — A judge has set bail at $500,000 for the man suspected of climbing a fire escape at a Chicago police…

By FARNOUSH AMIRI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell says he believes his party now has a 50-50 shot of…

By KEN RITTER Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — A Las Vegas judge declined to consider blocking government access to a slain investigative…

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden sought out deceased Rep. Jackie Walorski on Wednesday during remarks at a hunger conference, saying…

SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) — Authorities have charged a California woman with killing a man by ramming her car into him after accusing him of trying to…

MCALLEN, Texas (AP) — Three people have been arrested and accused of trying to transport smuggled migrants into interior of the United States by…

NEW YORK (AP) — The man charged with fatally striking “Gone Girl” actor Lisa Banes with an electric scooter last year pleaded guilty to…

By TOM HAYS Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A federal judge in New York says she plans to order disgraced R&B superstar R. Kelly to pay more…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. Mideast envoy says Israel continued its defiance of a 2016 U.N. Security…

By DON THOMPSON Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California will add wine and liquor bottles to its recycling rebate program under a law…

By The Associated Press Russian President Vladimir Putin warns that he won’t hesitate to use nuclear weapons to ward off Ukraine’s…

By LOLITA C. BALDOR and MATTHEW LEE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. will provide an additional $1.1 billion in aid to Ukraine, with…

LARSI, Georgia (AP) — Long lines of Russian men who are trying to escape being called up to fight in Ukraine continue to clog highways out of the…

By AAMER MADHANI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is warning the oil and gas companies against increasing prices for…

By ADAM SCHRECK and HANNA ARHIROVA Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — An adviser to Ukraine’s president says his country is determined to…

By JUAN A. LOZANO Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — A Jewish death row inmate who was part of a gang of prisoners who fatally shot a police officer…

By ANDREW DeMILLO Associated Press LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — One person was fatally shot Wednesday morning at a Little Rock-area hospital, and…

By DAVID McHUGH AP Business Writer FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — German automaker Volkswagen is holding a share offering for a minority stake in its…

By ALEX DANIELS of The Chronicle of Philanthropy Chronicle of Philanthropy As the number of immigrants seeking court permission to avoid deportation…

TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — A New Jersey grand jury has indicted 14 corrections officers on charges stemming from what authorities said was a brutal…

By AMY TAXIN Associated Press REDONDO BEACH, Calif. (AP) — Elsa Morin gripped the football and launched a perfect spiral. Then the 17-year-old…

By MADDIE BURAKOFF AP Science Writer NEW YORK (AP) — A scientist who built a global COVID-19 website received this year’s Lasker award for…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Two people have been arrested in connection with the fatal shooting of rapper PnB Rock and Los Angeles police were searching…

NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — Some 15 Griffon vultures from Spain have been released into the wild in Cyprus to help revive the east Mediterranean…

By ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration should create a new position at the White House National Security…

By KAREEM CHEHAYEB Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanon will hike its fixed currency exchange rate against the U.S. dollar 25 years after…

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Authorities have publicly identified the 14-year-old killed in a shooting that also wounded four other teens as they walked…

By JAN M. OLSEN and PATRICK WHITTLE Associated Press COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Methane leaking from the damaged Nord Stream pipelines is likely to…

CHAMPION, Neb. (AP) — Officials say 11 children and two adult drivers were injured when a semitrailer truck collided with a school bus in…

By MADDIE BURAKOFF AP Science Writer NEW YORK (AP) — A big catch of fish fossils in southern China includes the oldest teeth ever found — and may…

SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) — Two children drowned in eastern El Salvador after being swept away in a rain-swollen gully on their way home from…

By DAVID BAUDER AP Media Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Katie Couric said Wednesday that she’d been diagnosed with breast cancer, and underwent…

By LISA RATHKE Associated Press BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) — Volunteers have restored 51 gravestones of children who lived and died in the late 1800s and…

SANTA CLARITA, Calif. (AP) — Wildlife officers on Wednesday were tracking a mountain lion that attacked a 7-year-old boy and prompted the closure…

By KIM COOK Associated Press Chances are if you’ve been to a great restaurant, bar or hotel, you’ve snagged a coaster, matchbook, napkin or card…

By DAVID BAUDER AP Media Writer NEW YORK (AP) — For more than half a century, ABC, CBS and NBC have aired evening newscasts each weeknight on…

PRAGUE (AP) — Thousands of protesters are rallying again in the Czech capital to condemn the Czech government’s handling of the energy crisis and…

By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Grab your toilet paper. Bring a flashlight. Don’t forget a newspaper — or your…

OSWIECIM, Poland (AP) — Film icon Arnold Schwarzenegger visited the site of the Auschwitz Nazi death camp on Wednesday, meeting a Holocaust…

BERLIN (AP) — The president of the Berlin Constitutional Court says Germany’s capital will likely need to repeat its 2021 state and district…

By TOM MURPHY AP Health Writer Shares of Biogen and other drugmakers researching Alzheimer’s disease soared Wednesday after Japan’s Eisai Co.…

By JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press GENEVA (AP) — An academic study says Switzerland’s glaciers are melting like never before. The Swiss Academy of…

By TASSANEE VEJPONGSA Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — A fashion model from Myanmar who feared being arrested by the country’s military government…

By ELDAR EMRIC Associated Press SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) — Bosnian Serb separatist leader Milorad Dodik is facing an election this weekend…

By SYLVIE CORBET and JADE LE DELEY PARIS (AP) — A French Senate delegation says sexual and physical abuse in France’s porn industry is…

By MICHAEL HILL Associated Press ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Some historical battle re-enactors in New York are holding their musket fire because of…

By KRISTIN SHAW Edmunds Introduced in 2022, Hyundai’s Elantra N is the higher-octane version of its small value-packed sedan, made for people who…

VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Vatican says Pope Francis will travel to Bahrain in November, as the pope presses his message of dialogue with the Muslim…

BERLIN (AP) — The far-right Alternative for Germany, or AfD, party says its national headquarters in Berlin have been searched by officials with…

By ANNIE MILLERBERND of NerdWallet A personal loan can be a good option when you need money, but it typically requires strong credit and high income…

By THOMAS ADAMSON AP Fashion Writer PARIS (AP) — Paris Fashion Week roared into full gear Wednesday, with glitzy shows and growing anticipation of…

By CARA ANNA Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — New satellite imagery of one of the world’s most reclusive nations shows a military buildup…

By ASHRAF KHALIL and DARLENE SUPERVILLE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden says his administration’s goal of ending…

By AAMER MADHANI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is hosting Pacific Island leaders for a two-day summit as the U.S. looks to…

By HYUNG-JIN KIM and KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea fired two short-range ballistic missiles toward its…

BY SAMY MAGDY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — The U.N. envoy for Yemen has warned that the risk of a return to fighting “is real,” urging warring…

BRUSSELS (AP) — Belgian prosecutors say a man was shot dead during anti-terror raids targeting a group of suspected right-wing extremists. The…

By LINDSAY WHITEHURST and COLLEEN LONG Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration is asking that parents of children separated at…

By KIRSTEN GRIESHABER Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Austria says it will start checks at its border crossings with Slovakia following a similar…

KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — The body of a famed U.S. extreme skier who fell from the world’s eighth-highest mountain has been recovered. Hilaree…

By MAJDI MOHAMMED Associated Press JENIN REFUGEE CAMP, West Bank (AP) — The Palestinian Health Ministry says at least four Palestinians were killed…

By CHRIS MEGERIAN, MARI YAMAGUCHI and TONG-HYUNG KIM Associated Press YOKOSUKA, Japan (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris has said her trip to Asia…

BAGHDAD (AP) — Four security officers have been wounded as four rockets landed in Baghdad’s Green Zone government area. Iraqi state news…

BEIJING (AP) — Authorities say a restaurant fire has killed 17 people in the city of Changchun in northeastern China. The fire was reported shortly…

By FRANCES D’EMILIO and TRISHA THOMAS Associated Press ROME (AP) — Advocates for women and the LGBTQ community in Italy are worrying that the…