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By DAVID PITT Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The Biden administration has set new requirements that increase the amount of ethanol that…

By ED WHITE Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — Two candidates for Michigan governor have lost their final appeals and will remain off the ballot in…

BRUNSWICK, Ga. (AP) — A man from Canada and a man from the United Kingdom have been indicted in Georgia on charges that they sent fentanyl to two…

DETROIT (AP) — FCA US has pleaded guilty to conspiracy in a scheme to deceive regulators about diesel emission systems on 101,000 Jeep Grand…

By JILL COLVIN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Republican Rep. Chris Jacobs said Friday he will not run for another term in Congress amid backlash…

By KEITH RIDLER Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — The U.S. Forest Service violated environmental laws in approving exploratory drilling by a…

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is set to travel to New Mexico to hear from state and federal officials as the largest wildfire in state…

HELENA, Mont. (AP) — A wildlife agency that lost key court rulings over its denial of petitions to protect Yellowstone National Park bison will…

By THOMAS BEAUMONT Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Iowa Democrats are hoping to salvage their leadoff presidential selection position with…

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. (AP) — An Indiana man accused of abusing his 12-year-old son and starving the child to death has pleaded guilty to murder. Luis…

ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia officials have arrested an 18-year-old who they say threatened to kill a sheriff and his wife over the arrest of rappers…

By SEAN MURPHY Associated Press As investigators dig deeper into the law enforcement response to the school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, a host of…

BRATISLAVA, Slovakia (AP) — Slovakian police say a train engine has hit a stopped passenger train in Slovakia, injuring dozens of people, four of…

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER and JOSH BOAK Associated Press Writers REHOBOTH BEACH, Delaware (AP) — President Joe Biden came before the television…

By MARC LEVY and MICHAEL RUBINKAM Associated Press HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — John Fetterman, the Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate in Pennsylvania,…

SAN ANTONIO (AP) — San Antonio police say officers fatally shot a 13-year-old suspected of stealing a car and ramming it into a marked patrol car.…

ROCKY MOUNT, N.C. (AP) — An historical marker alerting motorists that 1912 two-time Olympic gold medalist Jim Thorpe once played pro baseball in…

By TOM DAVIES and RICK CALLAHAN Associated Press INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — The Indiana Supreme Court has thrown out a law that gave state lawmakers…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Two U.N. peacekeepers were killed when their armored personnel carrier hit an improvised…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — A town in Mexico has fired a police chief who the U.S. government publicly accused of aiding a drug cartel. The mayor of the…

By LYNN BERRY Associated Press As Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy tells it, when Russia invaded 100 days ago, no one expected his country to…

By MARYCLAIRE DALE and JOCELYN NOVECK Associated Press The call came Thursday, only a day after the Johnny Depp-Amber Heard verdict, to a free legal…

By AAMER MADHANI and JOSH BOAK Associated Press REHOBOTH BEACH, Del. (AP) — President Joe Biden says he’s not changed his views on human rights…

RACINE, Wis. (AP) — Police are still searching for whoever opened fire during a funeral at a Wisconsin cemetery. Someone began shooting during…

By MATT O’BRIEN and MICHAEL BALSAMO Taser developer Axon said this week it is working to build drones armed with the electric stunning weapons…

By ANTHONY IZAGUIRRE Associated Press TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — The Special Olympics has dropped a coronavirus vaccine mandate for its games in…

By SETH BORENSTEIN AP Science Writer The amount of heat-trapping carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has shot past a key milestone — more than 50%…

By MUNIR AHMED Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistani health authorities have confirmed the seventh case of polio so far this year, saying it…

By JAKE BLEIBERG and JIM MUSTIAN Associated Press Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards said there was “no excuse” for a video he watched of the deadly…

UVALDE, Texas (AP) — The cousins were together in life and in death. Jailah Silguero and Jayce Luevanos were remembered Friday at a funeral Mass at…

By The Associated Press This week’s new entertainment releases include an album from Carrie Underwood and an anthology set from BTS, while Adam…

By MICHAEL BALSAMO, ERIC TUCKER and FARNOUSH AMIRI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department has declined to charge former White…

By SIGAL RATNER-ARIAS Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Seven years ago, Moisés Kaufman was approached to direct the Broadway musical “Paradise…

By FARNOUSH AMIRI The Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Parents of victims and survivors of the mass shootings in Buffalo and Uvalde will appear…

By GRANT PECK Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — Myanmar’s military-installed government says it will go ahead with the executions of a former…

By MICHAEL BALSAMO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A U.S. Capitol Police officer was indicted on federal civil rights charges after authorities…

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iranian media say security forces have arrested a young man following an assault on a top provincial cleric in the central city…

WHITERIVER, Ariz. (AP) — Arizona authorities say a tribal police officer was fatally shot during a traffic stop on a reservation and the suspect,…

By DAVID CRARY AP National Writer The hardline stances of many conservative Catholic bishops in the U.S. are not shared by a majority of lay…

By MARC LEVY Associated Press HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — When Philadelphia’s election board prepared to count ballots last year that were mailed-in…

By LISA MASCARO AP Congressional Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) — Less than 48 hours after a gunman stormed an elementary school and killed 19…

MIDDLETOWN, Conn. (AP) — A federal appeals court has upheld part of a 2020 Connecticut police accountability law that allows public disclosure of…

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s authorities are reminding citizens they can rummage state forests for firewood to heat their homes. The go-ahead…

By CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Nigeria’s police say the country’s security forces are still looking for…

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Estonia’s center-right Prime Minister Kaja Kallas is set to start power-sharing talks with two small center-leaning…

MOSCOW (AP) — The chairman of the African Union, Senegal’s President Macy Sall, has told Russian President Vladimir Putin that the fighting in…

By GRANT PECK Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — A court in Myanmar has ruled there is sufficient evidence for the trial of deposed leader Aung San…

By MICHAEL HILL Associated Press ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — The New York Legislature has approved a milestone environmental measure designed to tap the…

By SCOTT BAUER Associated Press Donald Trump’s endorsement of construction company co-owner Tim Michels in Wisconsin’s hotly contested…

By JANIE HAR Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Politically liberal San Francisco could vote out one of the most progressive prosecutors in the…

By FREIDA FRISARO and CURT ANDERSON Associated Press FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Much of the Florida peninsula, along with parts of Cuba and the…

By TOM KRISHER AP Auto Writer DETROIT (AP) — More than 750 Tesla owners have complained to U.S. safety regulators that cars operating on the…

GUANGZHOU, China (AP) — Dragon boat festivities have returned in parts of China for the first time since the outbreak of the pandemic in late 2019…

PARIS (AP) — Tennis legend and LGBTQ rights activist Billie Jean King received France’s highest civilian honor, the Legion of Honor, on Friday.…

BERLIN (AP) — A train accident in the Alps in southern Germany on Friday left at least four people dead and many more injured, authorities said.…

BERLIN (AP) — The German parliament has approved raising the country’s minimum wage to 12 euros ($12.84) per hour, fulfilling a key campaign…

BERLIN (AP) — Police in western Germany say a man suspected of shooting at officers, seriously injuring one, has been found dead in his apartment.…

MARSEILLE, France (AP) — A permanent virtual exhibit of one of France’s most famous prehistoric sites, the undersea Cosquer Cave, is set to open…

By JON GAMBRELL and DAVID RISING Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — China’s most advanced aircraft carrier to date appears to be nearing completion,…

By JONATHAN LANDRUM Jr. AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Jennifer Lopez will be honored for her film and television achievements at the…

By OLEKSANDR STASHEVSKYI and FRANK BAJAK Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Electronic warfare is a vital, mostly invisible element in…

By The Associated Press When Vladimir Putin sent troops into Ukraine in late February, the Russian president vowed his forces would not occupy the…

By OLEKSANDR STASHEVSKYI and FRANK BAJAK Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — On Ukraine’s battlefields, the simple act of powering up a…

By GEIR MOULSON Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — German lawmakers have approved a $107-billion special fund to strengthen the country’s military.…

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Toshiba executives said Friday that privatization remains an option for the Japanese technology…

By JOSEPH KRAUSS Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Prime Minister Naftali Bennett has accused Iran of deceiving the international community about…

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Once a key ally of Ethiopia’s federal government in its deadly war in the country’s northern Tigray region, the…

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Official data show annual inflation in Turkey hit 73.5% in May as a cost-of-living crisis in the country deepens. The Turkish…

MOSCOW (AP) — At least least two people have been rushed to hospital after a massive fire engulfed a business center in western Moscow amid fears…

By GANTRY MEILANA and NICK PERRY Associated Press DILI, East Timor (AP) — The foreign ministers of Australia and China were both making their final…

By JAMEY KEATEN and YURAS KARMANAU Associated Press GENEVA (AP) — One hundred days into Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the war has brought the…

By BASSEM MROUE and ZEYNEP BILGINSOY Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — In northern Syria, residents are bracing for a new fight. With the world’s…

By DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Tonga’s chief diplomat in the U.K. will be thinking about two monarchs this weekend as Britain and…

By STAN CHOE and DAMIAN J. TROISE AP Business Writers NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stocks fell broadly Friday and pulled major indexes into the red for the…

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran has reported the death of another colonel of the elite Quds force of its Revolutionary Guards, the second in two weeks…

By ALEX SANZ and ANITA SNOW Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Growing up in Guadalajara, Mexico, Katya Echazarreta was encouraged to abandon her…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — U.N. experts say Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers are maintaining close ties with al-Qaida…

By SHEIKH SAALIQ Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — Narendra Modi rose from his chair and walked briskly towards the podium to deliver another…

By STEPHEN WADE AP Sports Writer OIZUMI, Japan (AP) — Brazilians will feel at home when Brazil plays Japan next week in Tokyo in a soccer game…

By KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — President Joe Biden’s special envoy for North Korea said Friday the United States is…

By ZEKE MILLER and WILL WEISSERT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden has delivered an impassioned plea to Congress to act on gun…

By MICHAEL TARM and DON BABWIN Associated Press Hospitals, like schools, are not typically designed to guard against the threat of a determined…

By BEN FOX Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Some Afghans who were evacuated from their country as it fell to the Taliban last summer have found…

By VICTORIA MILKO and ANDI JATMIKO Associated Press BABAHAN, Indonesia (AP) — Tossing flowing crests back and forth, three snow-white Bali mynahs…

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. employers added 390,000 jobs in May, extending a streak of solid hiring that has…

By JANIE McCAULEY AP Sports Writer SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Once Boston’s balanced roster of NBA Finals first-timers found a groove from long range,…

By BEN NUCKOLS Associated Press OXON HILL, Md. (AP) — Harini Logan has won the Scripps National Spelling Bee, defeating Vikram Raju in the…