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By CLAIRE RUSH and ANDREW SELSKY Associated Press PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Tina Kotek has been elected Oregon’s next governor, extending longtime…

By GENE JOHNSON Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) — Democratic U.S. Rep Kim Schrier has won a third term in Washington’s 8th U.S. House district,…

By BILL BARROW Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock and his Republican challenger, Herschel Walker, are pivoting to a…

By GENE JOHNSON Associated Press A U.S. judge in Texas on Thursday blocked President Joe Biden’s plan to provide millions of borrowers with up…

By ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Lawyers for Donald Trump have urged a federal appeals court to leave in place an independent…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. General Assembly has adopted a resolution accusing the Taliban of violating the…

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australian officials say Moscow must he held to account for Russian cybercriminals…

JACKSON, Miss (AP) — Local officials in Mississippi’s capital city have approved an emergency plan to increase staffing at the city’s two water…

By DAVID RISING Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — A custom wristwatch from Cambodian leader Hun Sen at the ASEAN summit in Phnom Penh, a foot-long…

By THOMAS BEAUMONT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The still-undecided U.S. House majority is on track to be even narrower than either…

NEW YORK (AP) — New York City is closing a tent complex for migrants that it had just opened three weeks ago as the influx of people being bused…

By LOLITA C. BALDOR and TARA COPP Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A U.S. official says the U.S. will buy 100,000 rounds of howitzer artillery…

VALLEJO, Calif. (AP) — A San Francisco Bay Area city will pay the mother of a 21-year-old man killed by police in 2017 nearly $3 million to settle…

By STEFANIE DAZIO and EUGENE GARCIA Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — A dive boat captain has pleaded not guilty in federal court to manslaughter…

By PAUL BYRNE and EMILIO SANABRIA Associated Press ASUNCIÓN, Paraguay (AP) — Keeping your eye on the ball takes on a new meaning when you consider…

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A lawsuit filed by the state of California accuses 3M, Dupont and 16 smaller companies of covering up the harm caused to the…

IONIA, Mich. (AP) — A woman has been ordered to stand trial on second-degree murder and other charges after five bicyclists were struck by her…

By KEN RITTER Associated Press NORTH LAS VEGAS, Nev. (AP) — Both Republicans and Democrats were correct about the issues that motivated close to…

By JOEY CAPPELLETTI Associated Press/Report for America LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Michigan Democrats are ushering in a new era of legislative…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Senior U.N. and Russian officials are to meet for talks in Geneva on Friday on extending…

By JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A jury has ordered Academy Award-winning filmmaker Paul Haggis to pay at least $7.5 million to a…

By MICHELLE L. PRICE Associated Press While Democrats were celebrating a stronger-than-expected midterm performance across much of the U.S. this…

By MATT O’BRIEN AP Technology Writer Elon Musk warned Twitter employees Thursday to brace for “difficult times ahead” that might end with…

By SOPHIE AUSTIN Associated Press/Report for America SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A former California police officer is being charged with sexual…

By JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — More than two dozen families have joined a lawsuit accusing the U.S. Navy of making…

By LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Abortion rights supporters secured another win Thursday as voters in Montana rejected a…

By GARY FIELDS and NUHA DOLBY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — This week’s ballot had an unspoken candidate — American democracy. Two years…

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Authorities in Greece ordered an Emirates flight to New York to return to Athens international airport and grounded a second…

By FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden has nominated a new commissioner to steer the IRS forward as it gets a…

By ELLEN KNICKMEYER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Saudi Arabia has released an American woman it took into custody after she spoke out on her…

By RUSS BYNUM Associated Press SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — Leaders of Georgia’s oldest city have voted to strip the name of a former vice president…

By DAVID KLEPPER Associated Press Two days after the midterm elections, misinformation about the results remains focused on Arizona and Pennsylvania.…

By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press VATICAN CITY (AP) — A new chapter has opened in Pope Francis’ financial reform effort: The Vatican’s…

By NICHOLAS K. GERANIOS Associated Press SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — Environmental groups on Thursday hailed a decision by the Biden administration to…

BRUSSELS (AP) — One police officer is dead and another injured in a stabbing attack in Brussels, which a Belgian judicial official says is…

By DAVID KLEPPER Associated Press Instances of racial slurs have soared on Twitter since Elon Musk purchased the influential platform, despite…

By STEPHEN WHYNO AP Sports Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The attorney general for the District of Columbia said Thursday his office is filing a civil…

By AMY BETH HANSON Associated Press HELENA, Mont. (AP) — Montana voters have rejected a legislative referendum that raised the prospect of criminal…

By ELEANOR H. REICH Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — A far-right Israeli lawmaker, whose surging popularity helped propel former Prime Minister…

By LOLITA C. BALDOR and MATTHEW LEE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. will send $400 million more in military aid to Ukraine amid…

CHICAGO (AP) — U.S. Rep. Jesus “Chuy” Garcia is joining a crowded field of candidates hoping to unseat Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot next year.…

By DAVE COLLINS Associated Press HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones and his company were ordered Thursday to pay an extra $473…

By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN Associated Press ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — The mother of an Albuquerque girl who was strangled and dismembered has been…

By KEN SWEET and MICHAEL BALSAMO AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The swift collapse of cryptocurrency exchange FTX sent more shockwaves through…

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — Tens of thousands of Palestinians in Gaza have marked the anniversary of the death of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat…

By SEAN MURPHY Associated Press Writer OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — An Oklahoma appeals court has denied death row inmate Richard Glossip’s request…

By DAVE KOLPACK Associated Press FARGO, N.D. (AP) — The first winter storm of the season to blast off from the Rockies was unloading its energy…

By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer NEW YORK (AP) — “The Fabelmans” is Steven Spielberg’s most autobiographical movie, but the introspection it…

SPRING VALLEY, Wis. (AP) — A nurse in Wisconsin has been charged with elder abuse, accused of amputating a hospice patient’s frostbitten foot…

By MIKE CATALINI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The winners in more than a dozen races for U.S. House in California haven’t been determined,…

NEW YORK (AP) — Works by artists including Cézanne, Seurat, and van Gogh sold for a record-breaking $1.6 billion during Christie’s two-day…

CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — A banker accused of helping disbarred attorney Alex Murdaugh take money from the legal settlements of clients is the first…

NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — A man accused of posting a broad online threat last week that spurred heightened security at Jewish synagogues and schools in…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Nine people are dead, including four women, after gunmen burst into a bar and opened fire in the violence-wracked Mexican state…

By ISABEL DEBRE and GRAHAM DUNBAR Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Soccer fans from Israel and the Palestinian territories will be able to fly…

By KATE BRUMBACK Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger announced Thursday that state election officials…

By MATTHEW BROWN Associated Press BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — Republican Ryan Zinke has prevailed over his Democratic challenger in the race for a newly…

By ALBERT AJI Associated Press DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — A U.N. envoy is urging Western and Arab countries to lift sanctions imposed on Syria, warning…

By TOM MURPHY AP Health Writer Biogen has picked former Sanofi CEO Christopher Viehbacher to become its next leader, as the drug developer continues…

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — Democratic challenger Gabe Vasquez has won election to Congress in New Mexico’s 2nd District, defeating incumbent Rep.…

ROCHESTER, N.Y. (AP) — The National Toy Hall of Fame’s new honorees include an object dating to ancient times, a line of muscle-bound action…

NEW YORK (AP) — Jurors have begun deliberating in a civil trial involving Academy Award-winning filmmaker Paul Haggis and a publicist who accused…

BEIRUT (AP) — The head of Lebanon’s Middle East Airlines says a stray bullet hit a jet landing in Beirut, causing some material damage. No…

MADRID (AP) — Italy’s premier says an Italian woman arrested in Iran amid protests has been freed. Premier Giorgia Meloni announced the…

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greek authorities say they have found the body of another victim from last week’s shipwreck of an overloaded migrant…

By The Associated Press Third-ranked Michigan hosts Nebraska on Saturday aiming to remain among the four undefeated teams in the Football Bowl…