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HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Pennsylvania’s Republican nominee for governor is suing the congressional committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack…

By REGINA GARCIA CANO Associated Press CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — The Venezuelan government is again accusing its former oil czar of wrongdoing…

By COLLEEN SLEVIN Associated Press DENVER (AP) — A federal prosecutor urged a judge on Thursday to order that a man charged with killing three…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Actor Anne Heche died without a will, and her 20-year-old son has filed court papers to control her estate. Homer Laffoon filed…

By MICHAEL HILL Associated Press A commission created by Congress is recommending changes at West Point when it comes to commemorating Robert E. Lee…

By MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — New York City police say they’re investigating a confrontation Tuesday in which a detective…

By HALELUYA HADERO AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — A hearing officer for a federal labor board has rebuffed Amazon’s attempt to scrap a…

By HANNAH SCHOENBAUM Associated Press/Report for America A North Carolina police chief says one person was killed and two were injured in an apparent…

By SUSAN HAIGH Associated Press Connecticut’s attorney general will investigate any “potentially illegal discrimination” recorded in a viral…

By CLAIRE RUSH Associated Press/Report for America PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A federal judge has ruled that the Oregon State Hospital must limit the…

By MICHAEL R. SISAK and JOSHUA GOODMAN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. federal agents have simultaneously searched three properties linked to…

By TODD RICHMOND Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Prosecutors have charged a Wisconsin man who acknowledged he posed as Assembly Speaker Robin…

By DAVID PITT Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A state court judge has dismissed a lawsuit filed by a former state agency director who…

By LAURAN NEERGAARD AP Medical Writer The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has endorsed updated COIVD-19 boosters. The decision opens the…

By ZEKE MILLER and JOSH BOAK Associated Press PHILADELPHIA (AP) — President Joe Biden says he doesn’t consider any Donald Trump supporter to…

By MICHAEL LIEDTKE AP Technology Writer SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — A federal judge on Thursday tentatively declined to overturn the jury conviction of…

By JULIE WATSON Associated Press SAN DIEGO (AP) — The Biden administration is phasing out a program that aimed to give at-risk Afghans a quicker…

By JOEY CAPPELLETTI and SARA BURNETT Associated Press LANSING, Mich. (AP) — An abortion-rights group has asked the Michigan Supreme Court to…

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A jury in Kansas could not reach a verdict in the case of a woman accused of killing her ex-husband and his girlfriend. After…

By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — For at least the third time in a dozen years, portable toilets are parked outside…

By DEE-ANN DURBIN AP Business Writer Starbucks has named a longtime PepsiCo executive as its new CEO. The coffee giant said Thursday that Laxman…

By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A retired New York Police Department officer was sentenced on Thursday to a record-setting…

CHICAGO (AP) — Chicago officials say 75 immigrants have arrived in the city on buses from Texas, as part of a border policy by Texas Gov. Greg…

ARKADELPHIA, Ark. (AP) — Prosecutors say a southwest Arkansas man has been charged with 132 counts accusing him of sexually assaulting more than 30…

By TERRY SPENCER Associated Press FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — In a failed attempt to bar the admission into evidence several swastikas Florida…

By LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer VENICE, Italy (AP) — Todd Field didn’t write “TÁR” with Cate Blanchett in mind. He wrote it for Cate…

By SUDHIN THANAWALA Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — One of Atlanta’s largest hospitals says it plans to shut down in two months after…

CASTAIC, Calif. (AP) — Firefighters battling a Southern California wildfire were pulled back at times to find rest and shade on Thursday, a day…

ROCKPORT, Mass. (AP) — When Laura Hernandez fell into the water and lost her iPhone while paddleboarding off Massachusetts earlier this month, she…

By BRIAN MAHONEY AP Sports Writer NEW YORK (AP) — A Ukrainian player declined to shake hands with Victoria Azarenka after the three-time U.S. Open…

By THOMAS BEAUMONT Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Strict, anti-abortion Republicans running in competitive House, Senate and governor’s…

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — The state of Alabama is asking a federal judge to dismiss a lawsuit filed by an inmate who’s trying to halt his…

By BROOKE SCHULTZ and HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH Associated Press/Report for America HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — As Braylon Price remembers it, he struggled…

By KEVIN FREKING Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A House committee seeking financial records from former President Donald Trump has reached an…

By ARLEIGH RODGERS Associated Press INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — A 22-year-old Indiana man has been charged with murder in the fatal shooting of a Dutch…

By MICHAEL GOLDBERG and EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi officials set up emergency distribution centers for…

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Raging inflation has so scrambled the economy that it’s come to this: If Friday’s…

CHERRY HILL, N.J. (AP) — Authorities in New Jersey have released video and documents related to sexual offense charges filed against actor Gary…

By ANDREW WELSH-HUGGINS Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — An attorney representing the family of a man fatally shot in Ohio’s capital city…

By MICHAEL TARM AP Legal Affairs Writer CHICAGO (AP) — R. Kelly’s lawyers began mounting a defense Thursday in Chicago against federal…

By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER Associated Press A lawyer for the far-right Oath Keepers extremist group has been charged with conspiracy in connection with…

By ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House counsel under former President Donald Trump and his top deputy are set to appear…

By ANDREW SELSKY and LEAH WILLINGHAM Associated Press SALEM, Ore. (AP) — People experiencing mental health crises have been being killed by police…

By DAVID PITT Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A trial date has been set for Willard Miller, the 17-year-old charged with murder in the…

By LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer VENICE, Italy (AP) — Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s new film “Bardo (or False Chronicle of a Handful of…

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran on Thursday put the FIFA World Cup trophy on display for the first time, part of the trophy’s global tour ahead of the…

By DAKE KANG Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — When Zumret Dawut heard that the United Nations had declared that China’s crackdown in its…

LAKE CITY, Fla. (AP) — Three puppies in northeast Florida were saved from a burning house after a delivery driver noticed a fire in the home whose…

By FRANCOIS MORI Associated Press BREST, France (AP) — Australia and France are drawing up plans to strengthen their defense cooperation as the two…

MIAMI (AP) — Tropical Storm Danielle has formed Thursday in the Atlantic, but is not currently a threat to any land. The storm’s maximum…

BY DREW COSTLEY and MATTHEW BROWN Each ton of carbon dioxide that exits a smokestack or tailpipe is doing far more damage than what governments take…

By FRANCES D’EMILIO Associated Press ROME (AP) — Abortion rights advocates in San Marino say they’re pleased that lawmakers in the tiny…

DETROIT (AP) — Ford is recalling nearly 200,000 large SUVs because the heating and cooling fan motors can fail and catch fire. The recall covers…

By FABIANO MAISONNAVE MANAUS, Brazil (AP) — More fires burned in the Brazilian Amazon rainforest this August than in any month in nearly five…

By The Associated Press Permanently misspelled tweets might soon be a thing of the past. Twitter said Thursday it’s working on allowing users…

GENEVA (AP) — Swiss police have arrested two people in connection with a federal investigation into their suspected support for, or participation…

By ALICIA RANCILIO Associated Press With millions of followers on Instagram and TikTok, Amelie Zilber is used to sharing her life with the public.…

LONDON (AP) — The European Medicines Agency has recommended the authorization of two coronavirus vaccines made by Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna Inc.,…

By KAY DERVISHI of The Chronicle of Philanthropy Chronicle of Philanthropy Two biopharmaceutical companies will give $5 million and $500,000,…

BERLIN (AP) — The stench is gone and, slowly, the fish are returning to the Emscher, a river through western Germany’s industrial heartland…

By AHMED AL-HAJ Associated Press SANAA, Yemen (AP) — A judge on Yemen’s Supreme Court was killed in the capital Sanaa this week, officials…

PRAGUE (AP) — The Czech Republic’s coalition government is facing a parliamentary no-confidence vote over its handling the energy crisis and a…

BERLIN (AP) — Prices for gasoline and public transport in Germany have surged as government subsidies expired, hurting commuters already struggling…

ISLAMABAD (AP) — Officials say a Pakistani court has extended former Prime Minister Imran Khan’s protection from arrest until September 12.…

By GEIR MOULSON Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Mikhail Gorbachev was enduringly popular in Germany for enabling the country’s reunification after…

MOSCOW (AP) — Russian news reports say the chairman of the board of Russia’s largest private oil company fell out of a hospital window and died.…

TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Taiwan’s military says it has shot down a drone hovering over one of its island outposts just off the Chinese coast.…

By JALAL BWAITEL Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Two Palestinians were killed in the occupied West Bank, the official Palestinian news agency…

BEIJING (AP) — China is responding furiously to a United Nations report on alleged human rights abuses in its northwestern Xinjiang region…

By JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — The Chinese government is calling on Washington to repeal technology export curbs after…

By ASHRAF KHALIL Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Amid months of mass flight cancellations and delays, the Department of Transportation has…

By JARI TANNER Associated Press HELSINKI (AP) — Finland is slashing the number of visas issued to Russian citizens to a tenth of the regular…

MOSCOW (AP) — Russia’s foreign minister is warning that any actions seen as endangering a Russian peacekeeping contingent in a separatist region…

By COREY WILLIAMS and MICHELLE L. PRICE Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — About 2 in 10 U.S. adults say they or someone close to them has had a…

By MICHAEL R. BLOOD and ADAM BEAM Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — The California Legislature was advancing Gov. Gavin Newsom’s…

By DON THOMPSON Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Gun-control advocates could have had one more victory in their very successful…

By MUNIR AHMED Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistani health officials are reporting an outbreak of waterborne diseases in the flood-affected…

By FARAI MUTSAKA Associated Press HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — Zimbabwe has begun moving more than 2,500 wild animals from a southern reserve to one in…

BEIJING (AP) — Chinese authorities have locked down Chengdu, a southwestern city of 21 million people, following a spike in COVID-19 cases.…

By KEN MORITSUGU and JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — The U.N. accused China of serious human rights violations that may amount to…

By FRANCES D’EMILIO Associated Press VATICAN CITY (AP) — The moment that the black wall telephone rang early on the morning of Sept. 29,…

By JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — Asian stock markets were mixed Friday ahead of U.S. jobs data that might influence Federal…

By BASSEM MROUE Associates Press BEIRUT (AP) — Forty years since Hezbollah was founded at the height of Israel’s 1982 invasion of Lebanon, the…

By JAY REEVES Associated Press CHILDERSBURG, Ala. (AP) — Michael Jennings wasn’t breaking any laws or doing anything that was obviously…

By JAY REEVES Associated Press CHILDERSBURG, Ala. (AP) — Michael Jennings wasn’t breaking any laws or doing anything that was obviously…

By CALEB JONES Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — The last bits of ash and greenhouse gases from Hawaii’s only remaining coal-fired power plant…