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By LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The top U.S. military commander for the Middle East boarded a U.S. ballistic missile…

By ANDREW SELSKY Associated Press SALEM, Ore. (AP) — A former legislator has told an Oregon House committee that he was bullied by then-House…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Ukraine is accusing Iran of violating a U.N. Security Council ban on the transfer of…

By ANITA SNOW Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Arizona has refused the federal government’s demand to take down double-stacked shipping…

By KEVIN McGILL Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Three men imprisoned since the 1990s for a fatal New Orleans drive-by shooting were ordered…

By EDGAR H. CLEMENTE CIUDAD HIDALGO, Mexico MEXICO CITY (AP) — Three Venezuelan migrants are dead and five other migrants have been injured in a…

By FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Individuals will be allowed to make sure their records with the Social Security Administration…

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The vice chairman of the University of Minnesota Board of Regents has apologized for questioning whether declining enrollment at…

By MICHAEL R. BLOOD AP Political Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Embattled Los Angeles Councilman Kevin de Leon said Wednesday he will not resign amid an…

By FARNOUSH AMIRI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Former President Donald Trump signed legal documents challenging the results of the 2020…

By JOHN HANNA AP Political Writer TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas Republican Kris Kobach wants to rid his state of ballot drop boxes and says as…

By MATTHEW DALY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Environmental Protection Agency has reached a settlement with United Parcel Service to…

By ANDREW DALTON AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — A woman broke down on the witness stand Wednesday while giving graphic testimony about…

By JIM SALTER Associated Press FLORISSANT, Mo. (AP) — Some parents of children at Jana Elementary School in suburban St. Louis say they’ll seek…

By ALICIA RANCILIO Associated Press Zoe Saldana stars in the new Netflix limited series “From Scratch,” based on a memoir of the same name by…

By KEN RITTER Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — A judge has blocked Las Vegas police, prosecutors and defense attorneys from accessing a slain…

By KIMBERLEE KRUESI Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A Nashville social club owner has pleaded guilty to a campaign finance scheme that…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican activists have filed a criminal complaint at the International Court of Justice at The Hague, arguing authorities…

By ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Former President Donald Trump once predicted that a special prosecutor appointed during his…

MIAMI (AP) — Officials say a U.S. Customs and Border Protection firearms instructor has been shot and killed during a training class at a South…

By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A former UCLA student who stormed the U.S. Capitol while waving a flag promoting a…

By AMANDA SEITZ Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — COVID-19 drove a dramatic increase in the number of women who died from pregnancy or childbirth…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Food and Drug Administration has authorized a booster dose of the COVID-19 vaccine made by Novavax. That company began…

By JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The #MeToo movement is having another moment in the spotlight as high-profile sexual assault…

By ANITA SNOW Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — An outside consultant hired by Arizona’s rural Pinal County says preparations are on track for a…

By JEFFREY COLLINS Associated Press A man has been sentenced to life in prison after confessing to the 2009 killing of a 17-year-old girl who…

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel’s prime minister says a Palestinian gunman who killed an Israeli soldier earlier this month was shot dead by security…

By NICHOLAS RICCARDI and CHRISTINA A. CASSIDY Associated Press In 2018, Democrat Katie Hobbs spent $1 million in campaign funds running to become…

By JOSH BOAK and ZEKE MILLER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is telling voters that he hasn’t given up on lowering…

By RODNEY MUHUMUZA Associated Press KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — A United Nations official is urging tech companies to do everything possible to stop the…

By JILL COLVIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Former Vice President Mike Pence has warned against the growing populist tide in the Republican…

By ANDREW WELSH-HUGGINS Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The Ohio Supreme Court has upheld the death sentence for an inmate who argued her…

By RAF CASERT Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — European Union leaders head into Thursday’s energy summit looking for joint measures to…

SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (AP) — A Massachusetts woman is facing multiple assault and battery charges, accused of releasing a swarm of bees on sheriff’s…

By MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — The first Native American woman in space said Wednesday she is overwhelmed by the…

By DAVID BAUDER AP Media Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Margaret Sullivan has a manifesto. She warns in “Newsroom Confidential” that journalists should…

By ADAM BEAM Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Gavin Newsom will almost certainly win reelection as governor of California in November,…

By MAURICIO SAVARESE Associated Press SAO PAULO (AP) — Brazil’s former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has published an open letter to…

MILLER PLACE, N.Y. (AP) — Authorities rescued nearly 300 rabbits, birds and other animals from a filthy home in New York and charged a self-help…

PARIS (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron’s government says it plans to use a special constitutional authority to force the bill for next…

SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) — Bulgaria’s fragmented parliament has failed to elect a new speaker following the country’s fourth election in less…

By MATTHEW PERRONE AP Health Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — A panel of federal advisers says a pregnancy drug intended to prevent premature births should…

SANIBEL, Fla. (AP) — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis announced the reopening of the causeway linking Sanibel Island to the mainland that was washed out…

By MADDIE BURAKOFF AP Science Writer NEW YORK (AP) — A new study suggests Neanderthals formed small, tightknit communities where females may have…

GENEVA (AP) — The World Health Organization and its partners are recommending that countries temporarily switch to using a single dose of the…

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The U.S. Supreme Court has denied a last-minute appeal filed by Oklahoma death row inmate Benjamin Cole. The high…

By ALI SWENSON Federal law bans noncitizens from voting in federal elections. The 1996 law states that noncitizens who vote illegally will face a…

BOSTON (AP) — A “swift-footed lizard” that lived millions of years ago in what’s now Massachusetts has been named the state’s official…

By LORNE COOK Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — European Union officials and diplomats say the bloc has evidence that Iran is supplying drones to…

By TOM KRISHER and JEFFREY COLLINS Associated Press GREER, S.C. (AP) — BMW will invest $1 billion in its sprawling factory near Spartanburg, South…

By MEG KINNARD Associated Press On Nov. 8, Louisiana voters go to the polls, just like in states across the country — only they’ll…

By ALEX DANIELS of The Chronicle of Philanthropy Chronicle of Philanthropy The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation announced Wednesday that it is…

NEW YORK (AP) — Former President Donald Trump answered questions under oath Wednesday in a lawsuit filed by E. Jean Carroll, a magazine columnist…

ATLANTA (AP) — Two former detainees at a Georgia jail say sheriff’s deputies kept them strapped into restraint chairs for hours without…

By REBECCA GRIESBACH AL.com RUSSELLVILLE, Ala. (AP) — As part of an exercise to help the class learn English, a third grader pulled a block from a…

NEW YORK (AP) — A 75-year-old New York City man pleaded guilty to manslaughter in the 1976 killing of a World War I veteran whose dismembered…

By ACACIA CORONADO Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — One migrant is dead, another is wounded and at least seven others are languishing in…

NEW DELHI (AP) — A Pulitzer Prize-winning Kashmiri photojournalist says Indian immigration authorities prevented her from flying to the United…

By JAMES POLLARD Associated Press/Report for America COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina Supreme Court justices have grilled lawyers over the…

MOSCOW (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin declared martial law Wednesday in the four regions of Ukraine that Moscow annexed and gave all…

By SCOTT SONNER Associated Press RENO, Nev. (AP) — The unusual circumstances that led to the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark ruling on the…

FORT MYERS, Fla. (AP) — Florida has seen an increase in cases of flesh-eating bacteria this year driven largely by a surge in the county hit…

By KIRSTEN GRIESHABER Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Germany wants to massively expand the country’s charging network for electric cars. It plans…

SYLVIE CORBET and BARBARA SURK Associated Press PARIS (AP) — The French government says the slaying of a 12-year-old girl whose body was found…

By SETH BORENSTEIN and DANA BELTAJI Associated Press Nations around the world are trying to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7…