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By GILLIAN FLACCUS Associated Press PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — An Oregon judge on Tuesday extended an order blocking a key part of a tough new…

By MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The director of the federal Bureau of Prisons is defending her decision to rally behind a…

WETUMPKA, Ala. (AP) — Two Alabama women have been convicted of misdemeanor crimes because they fed and trapped stray cats. Wetumpka Municipal Judge…

By MARK THIESSEN Associated Press ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — A trial has started to determine whether an Alaska lawmaker is disqualified from holding…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Spain’s Queen Letizia has visited Los Angeles to open a center dedicated to the growth and promotion of the Spanish language…

By AMY BETH HANSON Associated Press HELENA, Mont. (AP) — Zooey Zephyr worked behind the scenes during Montana’s 2021 legislative session to…

By MICHAEL R. BLOOD AP Political Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — The City Council was disrupted Tuesday by another round of boisterous, foul-mouthed…

CAPE GIRARDEU, Mo. (AP) — A man who set a fire that destroyed an Islamic center in southeast Missouri has pleaded guilty to hate crime and arson…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. special envoy for South Sudan is urging the country’s leaders on Tuesday to…

By JUAN A. LOZANO Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — A court ruling says a Jewish death row inmate who was part of the “Texas 7” should have his…

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — The remains of a Confederate general have been unearthed in Richmond a day after a statue bearing his name was taken down. As…

By STEVE LeBLANC Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — A Massachusetts Statehouse panel is weighing whether to approve Gov. Charlie Baker’s recommended…

By LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Hate crimes in the U.S. remained relatively high last year after a surge not seen in…

NEW YORK (AP) — A suspected officer with Russia’s Federal Security Service was among seven people accused by federal prosecutors with helping the…

The late congressman and civil rights giant John Lewis will be honored with a postage stamp in 2023. The U.S. Postal Service has unveiled the design,…

By DANIEL POLITI Associated Press BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — The streets of Argentina turned into a party Tuesday as the national team beat…

By JOSHUA GOODMAN Associated Press MIAMI (AP) — The former nurse of the late Hugo Chavez has been found guilty of money laundering in connection to…

SIOUX FALLS S.D. (AP) — South Dakota prosecutors have dropped all charges against the head of an Indigenous-led advocacy organization stemming from…

LAWRENCEVILLE, Ga. (AP) — Police say a correctional officer has been shot and killed outside a jail in an Atlanta suburb. Gwinnett County police…

By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer NEW YORK (AP) — James Cameron and Sigourney Weaver’s long-running friendship and collaboration reaches an…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — The central Mexico state of Puebla has lost its third governor in a row, when Gov. Miguel Barbosa died Tuesday of unspecified…

FORT STEWART, Ga. (AP) — The Army has identified a soldier who was fatally shot at a Georgia base as a sergeant whose nearly eight years of…

By MATT O’BRIEN, BARBARA ORTUTAY and DAVID KLEPPER The Associated Press What you’re seeing in your feed on Twitter is changing. But how?…

ST. LOUIS (AP) — A KFC employee in St. Louis has been hospitalized after a customer shot him because he was upset that the restaurant had run out…

By JIM SALTER Associated Press ST. LOUIS (AP) — A witness whose testimony helped send a man to prison for a killing decades ago has testified his…

TARIK EL BARAKAH and BARBARA SURK Associated Press RABAT, Morocco (AP) — Hind Sabouni bristles with pride as she recalls her country’s…

By SARAH RANKIN Associated Press RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Two more state lawmakers have jumped into the crowded field of candidates seeking to replace…

By STEVE DOUGLAS AP Sports Writer LUSAIL, Qatar (AP) — Lionel Messi is back in the World Cup final with Argentina on his mission to win soccer’s…

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Puerto Rican salsa singer and musician “Lalo” Rodríguez has died. He was 64. Police said Tuesday that his body…

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Acting Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen says an agreement has been struck to form a new center-led government…

MILWAUKEE (AP) — Foxconn Technology Group qualified for tax breaks from the state of Wisconsin for a second year in a row in 2022 under revised…

By The Associated Press Ten of the best albums of the year, as selected by The Associated Press entertainment journalists. BEYONCÉ,…

By MATTHEW LEE and AAMER MADHANI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris has opened the U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit in…

By PIERRE-RICHARD LUXAMA and DÁNICA COTO Associated Press JEREMIE, Haiti (AP) — A U.S. Navy hospital ship docked in southwest Haiti has…

NEW YORK (AP) — Officials say eight people have suffered minor injuries in a fire at a New York Police Department facilty that houses DNA evidence…

By HANNAH SCHOENBAUM Associated Press/Report for America RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — The North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation says it has…

By RAF CASERT Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — European Union energy ministers have failed yet again to overcome their deep differences on a…

By VASILISA STEPANENKO and LORI HINNANT Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — A team of doctors and nurses who fled Mariupol as Russian forces…

By REGINA GARCIA CANO Associated Press LIMA, Peru (AP) — A judge has ordered ousted Peruvian President Pedro Castillo to remain in custody, denying…

By CARA ANNA Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — A new report on the Horn of Africa’s worst drought in decades says Somalia has not yet fallen…

By LAURAN NEERGAARD AP Medical Writer Thousands of Americans who shared their DNA for science are about to learn if they have some particularly…

By SYLVIA HUI Associated Press LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has pledged to clear a backlog of asylum-seeker applications. Sunak…

By JOHN HANNA and HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH Associated Press TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The company operating a pipeline that leaked about 14,000 bathtubs’…

By LOLITA C. BALDOR and MATTHEW LEE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. is poised to approve sending a Patriot missile battery to Ukraine,…

By JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — U.S. scientists declared Tuesday that two active Hawaii volcanoes — one where lava…

By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Playwright David West Read and the team behind the Broadway jukebox musical “&…

By JEAN-YVES KAMALE Associated Press KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — At least 100 people have been killed and dozens injured on Tuesday by widespread floods…

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — The U.S. Coast Guard says it has rescued 34 Haitian migrants abandoned by smugglers on an uninhabited island near…

By NICOLAS VAUX-MONTAGNY Associated Press PARIS (AP) — A French court has convicted eight people charged in connection with a truck attack more…

METUCHEN, N.J. (AP) — Defense Department officials say the remains of an Army Air Force sergeant from New Jersey who died during World War II have…

CAIRO (AP) — One of Libya’s rival prime ministers has called for the release of the former Libyan intelligence officer accused of making the bomb…

By DÁNICA COTO Associated Press SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — A top court in Barbados has struck down colonial-era laws that criminalize gay sex.…

By GLENN GAMBOA AP Business Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The new CEO of FTX says the founder of the failed cryptocurrency exchange helped 1,500…

MILWAUKEE (AP) — A bald eagle shot in Wisconsin has died during surgery to treat its injuries, the Wisconsin Humane Society said Tuesday.…

By MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — What’s a dust devil sound like on Mars? A NASA rover by chance had its…

By CORA LEWIS Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — After reaching 40-year highs over the summer, price increases in the U.S. are now steadily easing.…

BERLIN (AP) — Railway workers in Austria are set to get a significant wage increase under a deal to resolve a pay standoff that resulted in a…

By LEANNE ITALIE Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The pandemic disrupted our traditions, practices and pursuits. It altered how we mark milestones,…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Tuesday agreed to hear an appeal arising from a murder-for-hire ordered by the onetime leader of a violent…

MADRID (AP) — Spain’s government wants to help working parents juggle the responsibility of raising children with their jobs by giving them more…

By The Associated Press The producers of the Tony Awards have set June 11 for the show that celebrates the best of Broadway and are setting it in a…

BERLIN (AP) — A key figure in a massive German tax evasion case has been convicted of three counts of tax evasion and sentenced to eight years in…

By RALPH D. RUSSO AP College Football Writer Gruff, pioneering and unfiltered, Mississippi State’s Mike Leach was one of the most influential…

LONDON (AP) — Police say the death toll in an explosion and fire at an apartment building on the English Channel Island of Jersey has risen from…

By SABINA NIKSIC Associated Press ZAGREB, Croatia (AP) — Forget Croatia’s forthcoming historic change of currency, or joining European…

By JOHN MARSHALL AP Sports Writer Dusty Baker finally got his elusive championship with the Houston Astros, garnering his first World Series ring in…

The Associated Press Shares of Merck and Moderna jumped early Tuesday after the drugmakers said a potential skin cancer vaccine they are developing…

By SAMUEL PETREQUIN Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — European affairs ministers from the 27 EU nations have endorsed a recommendation from the…

By MONIKA SCISLOWSKA Associated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s divisive justice minister has narrowly survived a confidence vote in…

LISBON, Portugal (AP) — An Atlantic storm has slammed into the Iberian peninsula, dumping heavy rain on Portugal and Spain and drawing a line under…

By LEE KEATH Associated Press DOHA, Qatar (AP) — Let’s be clear: They definitely wanted beer. So a group of guys from Nottinghamshire, England…

By TIM REYNOLDS AP Basketball Writer Michael Jordan was moments away from hoisting his third of what would become five NBA Most Valuable Player…