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By JUAN A. LOZANO and ADRIAN SAINZ Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — Residents of Centerville had become more vigilant over the past three weeks as…

AMES, Iowa (AP) — A man shot two females to death and then apparently killed himself outside a church in Ames. The Story County Sheriff’s…

PUEBLO, Colo. (AP) — A slide on an 80-foot-high (24-meter-high) coal pile killed two workers Thursday at a southern Colorado coal-fired electricity…

By KEN RITTER Associated Press HENDERSON, Nev. (AP) — A prosecutor says a shooting involving rival Hells Angels and Vagos motorcycle gang members…

By MICHAEL LIEDTKE AP Technology Writer California regulators have given a robotic taxi service the green light to begin charging passengers for…

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea says its leader, Kim Jong Un, has sent a letter congratulating Queen Elizabeth II as Britain began a four-day…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United States and its allies are vowing to hold Russia accountable for crimes…

ATLANTA (AP) — A Georgia judge denied bond Thursday evening for rapper Young Thug, who’s accused of conspiracy to violate Georgia’s RICO Act…

By KEITH RIDLER Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — An attack by two wolves panicked a flock of sheep and 143 died after they ran into a steep…

POCATELLO, Idaho (AP) — Idaho State assistant football coach DaVonte’ Neal has been arrested on suspicion of killing a man in Arizona and the…

By ANDREW DeMILLO Associated Press The deadly mass shooting at an Oklahoma medical office by a man who blamed his surgeon for pain following back…

By HALELUYA HADERO AP Business Writer Congressional Democrats are accusing Amazon of obstructing their investigation into the company’s labor…

MEXCO CITY (AP) — The U.S. National Hurricane Center has issued a bulletin on an area of low pressure on Mexico’s Yucatan peninsula that…

RACINE, Wis. (AP) — Police say two people have been shot at a cemetery south of Milwaukee. Racine police described the shooting Thursday as a…

By FARNOUSH AMIRI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection at the Capitol will go public with…

By FABIANO MAISONNAVE Associated Press RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Peru has descended into one of the worst political crises in its history and…

By KATHLEEN FOODY, COREY WILLIAMS and ADRIAN SAINZ Associated Press Two doctors, a receptionist and a former soldier accompanying his wife during a…

By CURT ANDERSON Associated Press ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — Tropical storm watches were posted Thursday for Florida, Cuba and the Bahamas as the…

By BOBBY CAINA CALVAN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A pair of Brooklyn attorneys have agreed to a new plea deal that could significantly reduce…

By KIM CHANDLER Associated Press MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — U.S. Senate candidate Katie Britt, who last month sharply criticized one opponent for not…

By NICHOLAS RICCARDI Associated Press DENVER (AP) — The U.S. Air Force changed its procedures to move the U.S. Space Command from Colorado to…

By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Eleven jurors accused one juror of political bias before saying they were deadlocked in…

SHREVEPORT, La. (AP) — A Louisiana man convicted of killing his girlfriend who was a city police officer has been sentenced to life in prison,…

By ANDREW SELSKY Associated Press SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Efforts to get millions of dollars in funding to treatment centers and related services as…

By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN Associated Press ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — A national conservation group has acquired a sprawling ranch near a New Mexico…

By AAMER MADHANI and ELLEN KNICKMEYER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden has decided to travel to Saudi Arabia in the coming…

BUFFALO, Minn. (AP) — A jury has found a man guilty of murder and other counts in a shooting attack on a Minnesota medical clinic last year that…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — The U.S. government has announced sanctions against six people in Mexico, including a police official, for aiding the Jalisco…

CHICAGO (AP) — Authorities say a U.S. marshal and his police dog were shot during an exchange of gunfire between officers and two gunmen on…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — The United States has extradited a former Mexican border state governor to his homeland, where he is accused of embezzling…

CHICAGO (AP) — A man with an arrest record for a gun charge that was later dropped is suspected of shooting and seriously wounding a Chicago police…

By KEVIN McGILL Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Louisiana lawmakers have converted a controversial bill doing away with the need for permits to…

By BABA AHMED Associated Press BAMAKO, Mali (AP) — Two Red Cross employees have been killed in an ambush attack on their vehicle in western Mali.…

ST. LOUIS (AP) — Federal prosecutors say two current and one former St. Louis aldermen are facing charges accusing them of taking bribes and…

By MUNIR AHMED Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — A spokesman for the Pakistani Taliban says they have indefinitely extended a cease-fire with the…

By ZEKE MILLER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration said Thursday that children under 5 may be able to get their first…

By FATIMA HUSSEIN and TOM MURPHY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A stronger-than-expected economic recovery from the pandemic has pushed back…

By NICHOLAS K. GERANIOS and TED WARREN Associated Press RICHLAND, Wash. (AP) — Washington Gov. Jay Inslee, who has recently criticized the slow…

By MIKE STOBBE AP Medical Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Researchers are drawing attention to a rise in poisonings in children involving the sleep aid…

By The Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Gianandrea Noseda’s contract as music director of the National Symphony Orchestra has been extended by…

By TOM DAVIES Associated Press INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — A former Mike Pence aide seeking to oust Indiana’s Republican secretary of state is fending…

By BOB CHRISTIE Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — An Arizona woman accused of illegally collecting early ballots during the 2020 primary election has…

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The CMA Fest is prohibiting Confederate flag imagery at its four-day country music festival. The Country Music Association…

By LEANNE ITALIE AP Entertainment Writer After an explosive six-week libel trial followed by millions on social media and live TV, Johnny Depp and…

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is forecasting an average oxygen-depleted “dead zone” in the Gulf of…

NEW YORK (AP) — This year’s winner of the International Booker Prize, Geetanjali Shree’s novel “Tomb of Sand,” will be released in the U.S.…

By BOUBACAR DIALLO Associated Press CONAKRY, Guinea (AP) — Opposition leaders say one person was killed in Guinea’s capital during protests…

JERUSALEM (AP) — The director of the U.N.’s atomic watchdog has arrived in Israel and is set to hold talks with top officials. Thursday’s…

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Puerto Rico’s water and sewer company has been hit by a federal lawsuit demanding that it provide services to…

By FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Treasury Department is targeting yachts, aircrafts, the firms that manage them, Kremlin…

By FREIDA FRISARO Associated Press FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — The remains of a Florida teenager who went missing nearly 50 years ago have been…

By JAY REEVES and JAKE BLEIBERG Associated Press UVALDE, Texas (AP) — The commander overseeing police during a shooting at an elementary school in…

By SAMUEL PETREQUIN Associated Prses BRUSSELS (AP) — The head of the Russian Orthodox Church has been removed from the latest round of European…

GASTONIA, N.C. (AP) — Police in North Carolina say an 8-year-old boy took off in his mother’s SUV and drove for miles with an infant sibling in…

By BRUCE SCHREINER Associated Press LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Kentucky Democrat Charles Booker appears on camera with a noose around his neck to…

By MARC LEVY Associated Press HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — If Republican Doug Mastriano is elected governor of Pennsylvania, the state could become a…

By MICHAEL PHILLIS and SUMAN NAISHADHAM Associated Press ST. LOUIS (AP) — The Environmental Protection Agency has proposed handing more power to…

By STEPHEN GROVES and ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON Associated Press UVALDE, Texas (AP) — Bullet fragments lodged in the children’s arms and legs.…

By FARNOUSH AMIRI and MARC LEVY Associated Press HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Pennsylvania’s Republican nominee for governor, Doug Mastriano, has…

DAYTON, Ohio (AP) — A county jail inmate receiving treatment at an Ohio hospital shot and killed a security guard, pointed the weapon at others and…

KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) — Prosecutors say a police officer in Kansas who fatally shot a former police detective during a scuffle will not be charged…

UVALDE, Texas (AP) — One girl made other people smile. Another was a creative child who loved mermaids, unicorns and the color purple. A third…

By CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — The World Health Organization’s Africa office says the continent’s 54 countries…

By LAURAN NEERGAARD AP Medical Writer GAITHERSBURG, Md. (AP) — Americans may soon get a new COVID-19 vaccine option — shots made with a more…

Associated Press Amazon said Thursday it will shut down its digital Kindle bookstores in China and stop selling the device to retailers in the…

By LISA RATHKE Associated Press BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) — A Colorado man pleaded not guilty Thursday in federal court in Vermont to kidnapping a man…

By MARCOS ALEMAN and CHRISTOPHER SHERMAN Associated Press LA LIMONERA, El Salvador (AP) — Over the past 10 weeks, El Salvador’s security forces…

MILFORD, Conn. (AP) — A Connecticut state trooper who killed a 19-year-old man while firing seven gunshots into the driver’s window of a stolen…

DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Syrian state TV says militants have attacked a civilian bus in eastern Syria, killing three people and wounding 21. The TV…

By MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A New York appeals court on Thursday upheld Harvey Weinstein’s rape conviction and 23-year…

By FREIDA FRISARO Assocaited Press MIAMI (AP) — A loggerhead turtle whose left fin was destroyed in a shark attack is rehabbing at Zoo…

By MOGOMOTSI MAGOME Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — A South African court is to rule on efforts to stop British oil giant Shell from…

NEW YORK (AP) — “This is Us” star Chrissy Metz is teaming with partner Bradley Collins on a children’s book about parenting and religious…

By DOUG FEINBERG AP Basketball Writer Brittney Griner can’t play with her WNBA colleagues. She can’t call them, either. But she can write. In one…

BOSTON (AP) — Two manholes exploded in downtown Boston on Thursday morning, shattering a window, forcing the evacuation of two buildings and…

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Authorities in Virginia say search teams have found the body of one of two women missing for days after a dozen people on…

By SALLY HO AND GARANCE BURKE Associated Press Child welfare officials in Oregon will stop using an algorithm to help decide which families are…

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — The European Commission chief says the disbursement of pandemic recovery funds to Poland depends on the government’s…

By ED WHITE Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — A judge has declined to put a former Detroit police chief on the Republican ballot for Michigan…

By OLEKSANDR STASHEVSKYI and NATACHA PISARENKO Associated Press POTASHNYA, Ukraine (AP) — In 100 days of war in Ukraine, countless lives have been…

By CAROLYN THOMPSON Associated Press BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — The white man charged with carrying out a racist mass shooting that killed 10 people at a…

By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — Since last week’s shooting in Uvalde, Texas, one Associated Press writer has, like so many…

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran’s health minister says the country has marked its first day after more than two years without a single COVID-19 death.…

BOSTON (AP) — The Boston subway system is experiencing service disruptions after a crash the night before that sent four employees of the…

By PAUL WISEMAN and MAE ANDERSON AP Business Writers WASHINGTON (AP) — 2022 is expected to be the best summer job market for teens in 15 years.…

By LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer Long before Quentin Tarantino and Roger Avary won an Oscar for co-writing “Pulp Fiction,” they were just a couple…

By BOBBY CAINA CALVAN and LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Michael Avenatti was sentenced Thursday to four years in prison for…

By BEN NUCKOLS Associated Press OXON HILL, Md. (AP) — A speller has been reinstated into the Scripps National Spelling Bee field after successfully…

PRAGUE (AP) — A massive fire in a nursing home for Alzheimer patients in the Czech Republic has left two people dead and injured more than 50…