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SEATTLE (AP) — Washington has banned fish-farming with net pens in state waters, citing danger to struggling native salmon. Public Lands…

By PAUL J. WEBER Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Abortion opponents who helped challenge Roe v. Wade filed a lawsuit Friday that takes aim at…

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Police say a fourth person wanted in Tennessee in the slaying of rapper Young Dolph has turned himself in. Memphis police…

By KIMBERLEE KRUESI Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee’s Supreme Court has ruled that a state law mandating life sentences for…

By MATTHEW DALY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — In a major action to address toxic wastewater from coal-fired power plants, the Environmental…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Jurors at the rape trial of “That ’70s Show” star Danny Masterson said Friday that they are deadlocked, but a judge told…

By DAVID PITT Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A judge has set a hearing for January to consider whether to order prison for an 18-year-old…

By ROB GILLIES Associated Press HALIFAX, Nova Scotia (AP) — Canada’s defense minister says Ukraine’s military is winning the war and Russian…

By SEAN MURPHY Associated Press Writer OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A scheduled execution in Alabama was called off Thursday after prison officials…

By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press ROME (AP) — Top Vatican cardinals are trying to put the brakes on the German Catholic Church’s controversial…

By KEITH RIDLER Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Idaho will add a new position of solicitor general to challenge federal government actions and…

By DAVID PEREDA Z. Associated Press LIMA, Peru (AP) — A LATAM Airlines plane taking off from Lima’s international airport struck a firetruck…

By NICHOLAS K. GERANIOS Associated Press SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — Four University of Idaho students who were found dead in a rental house near campus…

By KEVIN McGILL Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A federal appeals court has ruled that Congress gave too much power to a nonprofit authority it…

By ELLEN KNICKMEYER and MATTHEW LEE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — It raised eyebrows six weeks ago when Saudi Arabia’s aged king, Salman,…

CHICAGO (AP) — A man accused of shooting at a car while standing alongside 13-year-old Adam Toledo moments before the teen was fatally shot last…

REGINA, Saskatchewan (AP) — A member of the First Nations in Canada will perform “O Canada” in three languages at the Canadian Football…

By JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — A judge has dismissed a lawsuit by a man in the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana…

BEND, Ore. (AP) — City Council members in the central Oregon city of Bend have approved strict new rules for homeless camping that will limit…

By SUDHIN THANAWALA Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia officials have asked a court to immediately block a judge’s ruling striking down the…

By MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The Trump Organization’s former chief financial officer has testified that Eric Trump hiked…

By JAMES POLLARD Associated Press/Report for America COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Over 100 service industry workers have gathered in the capital of the…

The stepmother of a New Hampshire girl who disappeared in 2019 at age 5 and is presumed dead has been sent to prison for at least a year and a half…

By CHRIS MEGERIAN and AAMER MADHANI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is cautioning that “it’s going to take time” for…

By BARBARA ORTUTAY AP Technology Writer Twitter is in chaos mode. Elon Musk, its new owner, has decimated its staff and on Wednesday gave those…

By TOM HAYS Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A New York City attorney has been sentenced to 15 months behind bars for firebombing an empty New York…

By JOANNA KOZLOWSKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — WNBA star Brittney Griner has begun serving her nine-year sentence for drug possession at a…

By JESSE BEDAYN Associated Press/Report for America DENVER (AP) — While conceding his tight U.S. House race to Republican Lauren Boebert, Democrat…

By ERIC TUCKER and MICHAEL BALSAMO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Attorney General Merrick Garland named a special counsel on Friday to oversee…

CHESTER, Va. (AP) — Police say they have captured a suspect in the fatal shootings of a mother and three children at a home in Virginia. The bodies…

By MICHAEL GOLDBERG Associated Press/Report for America JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A group of environmental and racial justice are suing the U.S.…

By LEANNE ITALIE AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Swifties, your girl has spoke on the Ticketmaster meltdown. Taylor Swift posted a story…

By MATTHEW BARAKAT Associated Press ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) — A judge in Virginia has refused to quash a subpoena issued to former White House press…

By PETER PRENGAMAN Associated Press SHARM el-SHEIKH, Egypt (AP) — By their very nature, U.N. climate negotiations are filled with scientific and…

By MICHELLE L. PRICE and LISA MASCARO Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A day after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced she would step aside,…

By STEVE PEOPLES AP National Political Writer LAS VEGAS (AP) — Republican presidential prospects are courting anxious donors and activists in Las…

WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge has sentenced an Ohio man who claimed he was only “following presidential orders” from Donald Trump when he…

By QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA and SAMYA KULLAB Associated Press BAGHDAD (AP) — Multiple Iraqi and Kurdish officials say a senior Iranian military official…

MANILA, Philippines (AP) — The Philippine justice secretary says the top prison official, who is accused of plotting the killing of a radio…

By PATRICK WHITTLE Associated Press PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — A federal judge has ruled that new lobster fishing restrictions designed to conserve…

By JARI TANNER Associated Press HELSINKI (AP) — Finnish border guard officials say construction of a planned barbed-wired fence on the Nordic…

LONDON (AP) — Police in Northern Ireland said Friday that two officers escaped injury when their vehicle was damaged by a homemade bomb. The force…

By LAURAN NEERGAARD AP Medical Writer Pfizer said its updated COVID-19 booster may offer some protection against newly emerging omicron mutants even…

JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — A strong undersea earthquake has shaken western Indonesia but no serious damage or casualties have been reported. The…

BERLIN (AP) — The Berlin Zoo shut its doors to visitors after one of its aquatic birds tested positive for avian flu, the facility said Friday. A…

BERLIN (AP) — A former German military reserve officer has been convicted of spying for Russian intelligence for several years and given a…

By LISA RATHKE Associated Press ST. ALBANS, Vt. (AP) — Authorities in Vermont say a Ugandan activist who fled his country after he says he was…

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Experts from Ukraine have joined Polish and American investigators who are looking into a missile blast that killed two men…

LONDON (AP) — A sexual predator with a string of convictions has pleaded guilty to killing a woman as she walked home in London. It was one in a…

By CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — A Nigerian soldier opened fire at a military base in the northeast region, killing a…

By LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Diane Warren was in the recording studio with Sofia Carson to work on her new song “Applause”…

By THOMAS ADAMSON Associated Press PARIS (AP) — What is bigger: A ronna or a quetta? Scientists meeting outside of Paris on Friday — who have…

By JUSTIN SPIKE Associated Press BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Hungary will not support a European Union plan to provide Ukraine with billions in budget…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — The head of a taskforce from the International Atomic Energy Agency says it is examining whether…

BERLIN (AP) — Four bullet holes have been found in the door of a former rabbi’s residence that adjoins an old synagogue in the German city of…

By LEANNE ITALIE Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The look of Nancy Meyers’ movies. Inside Ina Garten’s kitchen. Oversize cable knit…

By JOHN LEICESTER Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine’s electricity grid chief warned of hours-long power outages Friday as Russia…

By DAVID RISING Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — Chinese President Xi Jinping has used his first face-to-face meetings with America’s Asia-Pacific…

MENTONE, Texas (AP) — A strong earthquake that struck a remote area of the West Texas desert caused damage in San Antonio, hundreds of miles from…

By ELENA BECATOROS Associated Press ATHENS, Greece (AP) — The defense ministers of Israel and Greece have stressed the importance of maintaining…

By JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press GENEVA (AP) — A top U.N. official says West Africa is next in line to receive Russian fertilizer that is tied up…

By EILEEN NG Associated Press KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Malaysian political candidates are making their final pitches on the eve of national…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Britain’s Conservative government is defending its decision to hike taxes for millions of working…

By PATRICK WALL and KALYN BELSHA of Chalkbeat and ANNIE MA of The Associated Press Mira Ugwuadu felt anxious and depressed when she returned to her…

By CAROLYN THOMPSON Associated Press BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — A dangerous lake-effect snowstorm paralyzed parts of western and northern New York on…

BAGHDAD (AP) — A civil defense official says the death toll from a heating gas tank that exploded in a residential complex in northern Iraq has…

DAVID McHUGH AP Business Writer FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — The president of the European Central Bank is warning the bank may have to raise interest…

By GRAHAM DUNBAR AP Sports Writer DOHA, Qatar (AP) — Qatar banned the sale of beer at World Cup stadiums on Friday, a sudden U-turn on the deal it…

By FATIMA SHBAIR Associated Press JABALIYA REFUGEE CAMP, Gaza Strip (AP) — Twenty-one victims of a fire that tore through a top-floor apartment in…

By JARI TANNER Associated Press HELSINKI (AP) — Investigators found traces of explosives at the Baltic Sea site where two natural gas pipelines…

GENEVA (AP) — An imprisoned Russian opposition activist who was honored by a human rights advocacy group dedicated his award to the thousands of…

By CORA LEWIS Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — President Joe Biden’s plan to provide up to $20,000 in federal student loan forgiveness has been…

By KRUTIKA PATHI Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris is assuring Asian leaders “the United States is here to…

By SETH BORENSTEIN, KELVIN CHAN and PETER PRENGAMAN Associated Press SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt (AP) — U.S. Climate Envoy John Kerry has tested…

By GEIR MOULSON Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s biggest industrial union has agreed with employers on a pay deal that will see millions…

By SAM MEDNICK and HANNA ARHIROVA Associated Press KYSELIVKA, Ukraine (AP) — As violence escalates in Ukraine, human rights abuses have become…

ISTANBUL (AP) — Turkey’s state-run news agency says a court has ordered 17 suspects jailed pending trial in connection with a deadly street…