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MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) — The office of U.S. Sen. Patrick Leahy says he is out of the hospital and he’s planning to return to Vermont for a full…

By MICHAEL R. BLOOD AP Political Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — An anonymously leaked recording of crude, racist remarks and political scheming that led…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — A new report says a record 4.7 million people in Haiti are facing acute hunger,…

By REBECCA BOONE Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — In the days since Dane Partridge was fatally wounded while serving as a volunteer soldier in…

By SAM MEDNICK Associated Press OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso (AP) — Burkina Faso’s latest coup leader is now officially the country’s…

NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — Battle rapper Tsu Surf is facing federal drug trafficking charges and other related counts following his arrest this week at a…

EAST CHICAGO, Ind. (AP) — A fifth-grade teacher at a school in northwestern Indiana was charged with felony intimidation Friday after allegedly…

By EVA VERGARA Associated Press SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — Shane Cienfuegos is the first person in Chile’s history to receive a non-binary national…

By STEVE KARNOWSKI Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Minnesota’s Democratic Attorney General, Keith Ellison, is defending his record…

SAN ANTONIO (AP) — A Texas sheriff has certified as crime victims 49 migrants flown from San Antonio to Massachusetts. In a statement, ACLU…

By MARC LEVY Associated Press HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Pennsylvania’s Democratic nominee for governor has smashed the state’s 2-decade-old…

By BEN FINLEY, HANNAH SCHOENBAUM and ALLEN G. BREED RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — An avid runner and the mother of three boys. A woman who was the…

By JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — A series of aftershocks are following a magnitude 5.0 earthquake on Hawaii’s…

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Four astronauts are back on Earth after spending almost six months at the International Space Station. Their SpaceX…

By ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department asked a federal appeals court on Friday to shut down the work of an…

By BECKY BOHRER Associated Press JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — Ben Stevens, a former Alaska Senate president and a son of the late U.S. Sen. Ted Stevens,…

NEW YORK (AP) — The wealthy founder of Nikola Corp. was convicted Friday of charges he deceived investors with exaggerated claims about his…

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — An explosion inside a coal mine in northern Turkey killed at least 25 people, local officials announced, while rescuers…

By JULIE CARR SMYTH Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Republican state lawmakers involved in Ohio’s political map-making process have asked…

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — A man found guilty of murder, robbery and other charges in the 2015 killing of an Indianapolis pastor’s wife during a…

By JAMIE STENGLE Associated Press DALLAS (AP) — A week after the second conviction of a man charged in the deaths of 22 elderly women, family…

BRATISLAVA, Slovakia (AP) — Slovakia’s president has joined a rally of thousands to honor two gay men who were shot dead in the capital earlier…

By MATTHEW BARAKAT Associated Press ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) — A judge has tossed out one of  five counts against a think-tank analyst charged with…

By MICHAEL BALSAMO and JAKE BLEIBERG Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration is putting forth seven new Justice Department and…

BERLIN (AP) — The European Investment Bank says the world’s top development banks provided more than $80 billion last year to help countries…

By The Associated Press This week’s new entertainment releases include albums from Babyface, Arctic Monkeys and a Taylor Swift original, a…

CHICAGO (AP) — A United Airlines flight from Chicago to Miami had to return Friday to Chicago O’Hare International Airport when the aircraft…

By YURAS KARMANAU Associated Press TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Moscow-installed authorities in Ukraine’s occupied southern region of Kherson are…

By KEN RITTER Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — A prosecutor says a 24-year-old man accused of killing a Las Vegas police officer fired 18 shots…

By KEN SWEET AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The outlook of the U.S. economy from Wall Street’s biggest banks is getting gloomier and…

By MIKE HOUSEHOLDER Associated Press ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) — Wynton Marsalis has done just about everything in the world of music. One thing he…

By MEGAN JANETSKY Associated Press HAVANA (AP) — As gangs in Haiti blockade and loot key fuel supplies, the fuel crisis is now trickling over to…

By KEN SWEET AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Key financial regulators having approved U.S. Bank’s $8 billion acquisition of Japanese financial…

By JEFF AMY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Workers have begun loading radioactive fuel into a new nuclear reactor in Georgia. The announcement…

By DÁNICA COTO Associated Press SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — A standoff between a powerful gang federation and Haiti’s government is testing how…

BERLIN (AP) — Police in Germany say a man has been detained after biting a service dog and resisting arrest. Officers were called to a dispute…

LONDON (AP) — Scottish actor Robbie Coltrane, who played a crime-solving psychologist on TV series “Cracker” and the half-giant Hagrid in the…

By CARLA BRIDI Associated Press BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — Brazilian polling companies have been facing threats of a crackdown after their surveys for…

By JANIE HAR Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Californians are voting now through Election Day on a constitutional amendment guaranteeing the…

By KEVIN SCHEMBRI ORLAND and MATTHEW AGIUS Associated Press VALLETTA, Malta (AP) — In a stunning reversal, two brothers who are on trial for the…

By ALI SWENSON Whether a state requires voters to request an absentee ballot or participates in universal mail-in voting, all ballots cast by mail or…

By ARLEIGH RODGERS Associated Press/Report for America INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — A top Indiana lawyer has questioned the validity of a lawsuit brought by…

MILWAUKEE (AP) — No charges will be filed in the death of a man who fell from a Milwaukee drawbridge that was raised as he was walking across it,…

WASHINGTON (AP) — In a story published October 14, 2022, about a request from SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk that the Defense Department take over…

By JONATHAN MATTISE Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A state appeals panel has ruled that public housing agencies in Tennessee can no…

By SYLVIE CORBET Associated Press PARIS (AP) — A French and a Ukrainian nongovernmental organization have filed a complaint for alleged…

By BILL BARROW and RUSS BYNUM Associated Press SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — Georgia’s Republican Senate candidate Herschel Walker on Friday denied his…

BERLIN (AP) — German Chancellor Olaf Scholz says his country wants to strengthen ties to Mongolia, citing the country’s wealth of key commodities…

By ISABEL DEBRE Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — A line of cars snaked through the garbage-strewn streets of the Shuafat refugee camp in east…

By MENELAOS HADJICOSTIS Associated Press NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — The European Union’s energy commissioner says natural gas from undersea deposits…

By KIMBERLEE KRUESI Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee has no plans to participate in a debate against Democratic…

By DON BABWIN Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — Federal prosecutors say AT&T Illinois has agreed to pay a $23 million fine to resolve a probe…

By ANNE D’INNOCENZIO AP Retail Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The pace of sales at U.S. retailers was unchanged in September from August as rising…

By SARAH RANKIN and DENISE LAVOIE Associated Press RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — The office of Virginia’s attorney general has handed off jurisdiction…

By JIM SALTER Associated Press ST. LOUIS (AP) — When Abdul-Kaba Abdullah decided to sell his home two years ago, he listed the neatly-kept,…

CAIRO (AP) — At least 10 child leukemia patients in Yemen have died, and dozens more left seriously ill, after being administered expired doses of…

By CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — The lawyer for a Nigerian separatist leader facing terrorism charges and accused of…

By GLENN GAMBOA AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Dolly Parton proudly accepted the Carnegie Medal of Philanthropy at Gotham Hall Thursday night,…

By PETER SMITH and DAVID CRARY Associated Press A year after 17 North American missionaries were kidnapped in Haiti, beginning a two-month ordeal…

By ANDREW SELSKY and SARA BURNETT Associated Press SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Oregon is typically known as a bastion of West Coast liberalism where…

WATERVILLE, Maine (AP) — Two Ukrainians who documented the horrors of the Russian invasion and siege of Mariupol for The Associated Press are being…

By KAREEM CHEHAYEB Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — France’s foreign minister has urged Lebanon’s political leadership to swiftly elect a…

ASSOCIATED PRESS BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union’s border agency on Friday sought to put a damning report highlighting its involvement in…

By GLENN GAMBOA AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Dolly Parton laughs at the idea that she is some sort of secret philanthropist. Sure, social…

By JOCELYN NOVECK and MARYCLAIRE DALE Associated Press Once again, disgraced mogul Harvey Weinstein sits in a courtroom, on trial in Los Angeles…

LONDON (AP) — Climate protesters threw soup over Vincent van Gogh’s “Sunflowers” in London’s National Gallery on Friday to protest fossil…

By KEVIN SCHEMBRI ORLAND and MATTHEW AGIUS Associated Press VALLETTA, Malta (AP) — A judge in Malta sentenced two brothers to 40 years in prison…

By ALEXANDER TURNBULL Associated Press PARIS (AP) — Continuing strikes at TotalEnergies group refineries in France are seriously disrupting fuel…

BERLIN (AP) — The Islamic call to prayer is set to sound for the first time from one of Germany’s biggest mosques in Cologne on Friday — but at…

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — What keeps driving inflation so high? The answer, it seems, is nearly everything.…

By DAVID PITT Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The U.S. Department of Agriculture on Friday proposed sweeping changes in the way chicken…

By JUAN A. LOZANO Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — A federal judge has ruled that the current version of a federal policy that prevents the…

By SIBI ARASU Associated Press BENGALURU, India (AP) — India’s renewables sector is booming, with the country projected to add 35 to 40 gigawatts…

By KARL RITTER Associated Press STOCKHOLM (AP) — Three Swedish center-right parties say they have reached a deal to form a coalition government…

BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s health minister is urging the country’s 16 states to consider stepping up measures against the coronavirus amid a rise…

By SUZAN FRASER Associated Press ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says Turkey and Russia have instructed their…