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By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s Cabinet on Friday formally decided to hold a state funeral on Sept. 27 for…

By MIKE STOBBE AP Medical Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The spread of monkeypox in the U.S. could represent the dawn of a new sexually transmitted…

SYDNEY (AP) — New U.S. Ambassador to Australia Caroline Kennedy said Friday the United States needs to engage more with the Pacific region at a…

By DIARLEI RODRIGUES and DIANE JEANTET Associated Press RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — A raid of Rio de Janeiro’s largest complex of favelas that left at…

ROCHESTER, N.Y. (AP) — Authorities say two police officers have been shot in the city of Rochester in western New York. Both were hospitalized…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Russia is defending its veto of a U.N. resolution that would have extended humanitarian…

By KRISHAN FRANCIS, RAFIQ MAQBOOL and RISHI LEKHI Associated Press COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lankan forces have violently cleared the main…

By ANTHONY IZAGUIRRE Associated Press TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Florida Agriculture Commissioner Nikki Fried and U.S. Rep. Charlie Crist have held…

By MICHELLE L. PRICE Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. Rep. Lee Zeldin, the Republican candidate for New York governor, was assaulted by a man…

By MARY CLARE JALONICK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The House Jan. 6 committee closed out its set of summer hearings with its most detailed…

SAN DIEGO (AP) — The U.S. Marine Corps has halted water operations for its new amphibious combat vehicles while it investigates why two of the…

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — Authorities say a large tree crashed into a home in Birmingham, Alabama, killing two young children and injuring at least…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — The United States has filed its fifth labor complaint about alleged violations of union organizing rights in Mexico.  The…

KEY WEST, Fla. (AP) — The annual Hemingway Look-Alike Contest has begun in Key West on the 123rd anniversary of Ernest Hemingway’s July 21 birth.…

By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A former Coinbase employee and his brother, along with a Houston man, have been charged in…

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Lottery officials on Thursday raised the Mega Millions grand prize to $660 million, giving players a shot at what would be…

By CLAIRE RUSH Associated Press/Report for America PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Gripped by gun violence that’s affecting cities across the nation, the…

SUNRISE, Fla. (AP) — Prosecutors say a South Florida police sergeant who was recorded grabbing a colleague by the neck when she tried to deescalate…

GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. (AP) — A new arrest warrant has been issued for Colorado’s election-denying clerk Tina Peters. The Grand Junction Daily…

By ELLIOT SPAGAT Associated Press SAN DIEGO (AP) — The National Association of Immigration Judges has asked the federal government to restore its…

By JUAN A. LOZANO Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — A judge says a man who has been serving a 25-year prison sentence based mostly on testimony from…

By RUSS BYNUM Associated Press SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — The owner of a 4,000-acre industrial site says it has ended a longstanding agreement to sell…

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A Tennessee jury has found a prominent prison reform advocate guilty of vandalism after he disguised himself as a…

Associated Press DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Israel have launched airstrikes targeting several military positions around Damascus, killing three Syrian…

By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN Associated Press BERNALILLO, N.M. (AP) — With hotter and drier weather plaguing New Mexico, water managers are warning that…

By KEN RITTER Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — Limiting the size of new swimming pools in and around Las Vegas might save a drop in the proverbial…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Taurean Blacque, an Emmy-nominated actor who was known for his role as a detective on the 1980s NBC drama series “Hill Street…

CHICAGO (AP) — An attorney says police bodycam video of an officer shooting a 13-year-old boy appears to show the boy raising his hands in the air…

By STEVE KARNOWSKI Associated Press ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — The federal judge who sentenced Thomas Lane to 2 1/2 years in prison on a civil rights…

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Wichita, Kansas, officials say they have suspended three police officers who were among several law enforcement officers who…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court won’t allow the Biden administration to implement a policy that prioritizes deportation of people in the U.S.…

By The Associated Press A chronology of events in the disappearance of Jimmy Hoffa, former president of the Teamsters union: July 30, 1975 — Hoffa…

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — The U.S. Department of the Interior on Thursday issued guidance for nearly $725 million in funding available this fiscal…

By JIM VERTUNO Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Former sports superstar Bo Jackson helped pay for the funerals of the 19 children and two…

CAMDEN, N.J. (AP) — A woman who admitted her role in a scam that raised $400,000 using a fake story about a homeless man has been sentenced in…

By BRUCE SCHREINER Associated Press FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Gov. Andy Beshear has made a pitch to a company that took over plans to build an aluminum…

By ED WHITE Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — The FBI found no evidence of missing Teamsters boss Jimmy Hoffa during a search of land under a New…

By GABRIELA SELSER Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — One of Nicaragua’s leading national newspapers announced Thursday on its website that its…

By TOM MURPHY AP Health Writer CVS Health is asking pharmacists in some states to verify that a few of the prescriptions they provide will not be…

By SUZAN FRASER Associated Press ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkish officials say a deal on a U.N. plan to unblock the shipment of Ukrainian grain and…

FORT GORDON, Ga. (AP) — The U.S. military has identified a soldier killed by a lightning strike at Georgia base as a 41-year-old Army reservist who…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Nine people were injured — two seriously — when a shuttle bus crashed into a pole at Los Angeles International Airport. The…

By ISABEL DEBRE Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The top U.S. Air Force general in the Middle East has warned that Iran-backed…

DOTHAN, Ala. (AP) — Police say an Alabama woman provided a gun to juveniles and then drove them to and from the scene of a shooting. She was…

By AJA HANNAH and LEE CHILCOTE of The Land for The Chronicle of Philanthropy The Land for The Chronicle of Philanthropy CLEVELAND (AP) — Hakizimana…

By ED WHITE Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — Jurors have heard closing arguments in the only trial to arise so far from the Flint water crisis.…

By JOHN RABY Associated Press CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — An appeals court has revived a federal lawsuit accusing the state of West Virginia of…

By CLAUDIA TORRENS and MORGAN LEE Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Two Republican border-state governors who are investing billions of dollars on…

MENLO PARK, Calif. (AP) — Facebook is rolling out an update that enables its 2 billion daily users to more easily view their friends’ posts in…

By FRANCES D’EMILIO Associated Press ROME (AP) — Italian Premier Mario Draghi’s decision to turn in his resignation after his…

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — A Rhode Island high school basketball coach has been criminally charged by authorities who say he asked male…

By ZEKE MILLER, CHRIS MEGERIAN and JOSH BOAK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden says he’s “doing great” after testing…

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A grand jury in Ohio has indicted the man accused of raping and impregnating a 10-year-old girl who traveled to Indiana for…

By DENISE LAVOIE AP Legal Affairs Writer RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Amber Heard has notified a Virginia court that she intends to appeal the $10 million…

By ANGELO FICHERA Associated Press President Joe Biden’s speech at a former coal-fired power plant in Massachusetts this week led to widespread…

By CARLA K. JOHNSON AP Medical Writer President Joe Biden tested positive for COVID-19 on Thursday, is experiencing mild symptoms and has begun…

By SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The meeting place? A secret. Agenda? Not public. Name tags? Take them off in public. Even one…

By MIKE STOBBE AP Medical Writer NEW YORK (AP) — An unvaccinated young adult from New York recently contracted polio, the first U.S. case in nearly…

By DIARLEI RODRIGUES and DIANE JEANTET Associated Press RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — A police operation Thursday targeting gang members in Rio de…

By MARINA VILLENEUVE Associated Press ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — An independent auditor will review the New York state government’s response to the…

By JEFF AMY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia’s abortion law changed so abruptly Wednesday afternoon that some patients who were in an…

By LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer “Anything’s Possible,” which debuts on Amazon Prime Video Friday, is a milestone for transgender representation…

By STEVE LeBLANC and BOBBY CAINA CALVAN Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — Dangerously high temperatures threatened much of the Northeast and Deep…

By MARC LEVY Associated Press HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Republicans are suing again in an attempt to throw out Pennsylvania’s broad mail-in voting…

SOMERVILLE, Mass. (AP) — One passenger jumped into a river and several others climbed out of windows when a Boston-area public transit train caught…

NEWPORT, R.I. (AP) — Pete Seeger, the banjo-playing folk singer whose music was indelibly intertwined with his social activism, was honored…

by GARANCE BURKE AND MICHAEL TARM Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — A federal lawsuit filed Thursday alleges Chicago police misused “unreliable”…

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — A New Zealand-based company announced Thursday it plans to install more than 6,000 electric vehicle chargers in Florida…

By MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — An Italian astronaut has teamed up with a Russian cosmonaut in a rare spacewalking…

By PAUL WISEMAN and GABRIELA SELSER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration dropped Nicaragua from a list of countries that can…

By SARA CLINE Associated Press BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Abortion clinics in Louisiana can continue operating under the latest order from a state…

By MICHELLE CHAPMAN AP Business Writer A new lunar rover is under development by Lockheed Martin and Goodyear as NASA gears up for a return to the…

By JOE REEDY AP Sports Writer With less than two months before its first regular season game, Prime Video’s crew for “Thursday Night Football”…

By HANNAH SCHOENBAUM Associated Press/Report for America RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina’s Democratic attorney general has declined to meet…

By JOHN HANNA AP Political Writer OLATHE, Kan. (AP) — A vote is looming in Kansas that could clear the way for the Legislature to more strictly…

By ADRIANA DE JESÚS SALAMÁN Associated Press SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — A Puerto Rico court “archived” a restraining order issued…

By NICHOLAS K. GERANIOS Associated Press SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — Patty Murray was first elected to the U.S. Senate from Washington state in 1992…

By SHEIKH SAALIQ Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — A woman who hails from a minority ethnic community was chosen Thursday as India’s new…

By JOSEPH WILSON Associated Press BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — The governments of Spain and Portugal have criticized a European Union plan to reduce the…

By SARAH RANKIN Associated Press RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Some federal lawmakers urged Google last month to limit the appearance of anti-abortion…

By KATHY McCORMACK Associated Press CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — Dartmouth College has named its first female president in its over 250-year history. Sian…

By SYLVIA HUI Associated Press LONDON (AP) — An independent inspection has found that Britain’s response to the increase in migrants crossing the…

By HALELUYA HADERO Amazon announced Thursday it will acquire the primary care organization One Medical in a deal valued roughly at $3.9 billion,…

By EMILY ROSE Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — A group of Ukrainian mental health professionals has spent the last two weeks in a special course…

By MATT OTT AP Business Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits last week rose to the highest level in…

EDMOND, Okla. (AP) — Authorities say a suburban Oklahoma City motorcycle police officer was killed when he was struck from behind while on patrol.…

By ASHRAF KHALIL Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Steve Bannon’s lawyer has opened his defense by asking the judge to rule that prosecutors had…

ROME (AP) — A top Vatican cardinal has endorsed calls for a fossil fuels nonproliferation treaty. Cardinal Michael Czerny is the Canadian Jesuit…

By MICHAEL GOLDBERG Associated Press/Report for America JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Health officials are grappling with how people staffing the new…

By MSTYSLAV CHERNOV Associated Press KHARKIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian shelling has pounded a densely populated area in Ukraine’s…

TIRANA, Albania (AP) — The Albanian government says most public websites are working again while an investigation to find the source of a…

By KEN SWEET, MICHAEL CASEY and ALEX VEIGA The Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Kyle Tomcak was looking for a home for his in-laws in the suburbs…

LONDON (AP) — The U.K. Supreme Court says will hold hearings in October on whether Scotland can call an independence referendum without the consent…

By SYLVIA HUI Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The BBC on Thursday apologized to the former nanny of Princes William and Harry over “false and…

By JESSICA GRESKO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — It’s going to be a “Beautiful Day” for the band U2 and four other artists when they…

By CHRISTINA LARSON AP Science Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The monarch butterfly fluttered a step closer to extinction Thursday, as scientists put the…

By JIM HEINTZ Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — The spokesperson for Russia’s Foreign Ministry says the United States has shown disrespect for…