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DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A Des Moines television reporter announced this week on a newscast that she will publicly identify as a transgender woman.…

BLANCHARD, Okla. (AP) — Jody Miller, whose “Queen of the House” won the 1966 Grammy Award for best country performance by a woman, has died at…

By TODD RICHMOND Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A man defending himself against homicide charges for allegedly driving his SUV through a…

By LYNN ELBER AP Television Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Judy Tenuta, a brash standup who cheekily styled herself as the “Love Goddess” and toured…

By MIKE STOBBE and MATTHEW PERRONE Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The latest government study on teen vaping suggests there’s been little…

By CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Several women and children drowned while trying to escape an armed attack in Nigeria’s…

By STEPHEN SMITH and BOBBY CAINA CALVAN Associated Press SANIBEL ISLAND, Fla. (AP) — Rotting fish and garbage lie scattered in Sanibel…

By NICHOLAS RICCARDI Associated Press DENVER (AP) — The Biden administration is preparing to designate its first new national monument, preserving…

By KIM CHANDLER Associated Press MONTGOMERY, Ala (AP) — Alabama is asking a court to swiftly set a new execution date for an inmate who had his…

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Two Arkansas deputies who were caught on video violently arresting a suspect outside a convenience store have been fired.…

By BILL BARROW and MEG KINNARD Associated Press WADLEY, Ga. (AP) — Georgia Republican Senate candidate Herschel Walker is remaining defiant after…

By KATHLEEN FOODY and KIMBERLEE KRUESI Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — Diverted ambulances, cancer treatment delayed and electronic health records…

By MARGERY A. BECK Associated Press LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A Nebraska man has been sentenced to 18 months in prison for online threats he made last…

By KEITH RIDLER Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Idaho’s wolf population appears to be holding steady despite recent changes by lawmakers…

By LEAH WILLINGHAM Associated Press CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A program that incentivizes West Virginia families to pull their children out of K-12…

LAS VEGAS (AP) — An attacker with a large kitchen knife killed two people and wounded six others in stabbings along the Las Vegas Strip before he…

NEW YORK (AP) — Boosted by Aaron Judge’s pursuit of Roger Maris’ American League home run record, Yankees games on the team’s YES Network…

By ED WHITE Associated Press The second man to plead guilty in a kidnapping plot against Michigan’s governor has been sentenced to four years in…

By ELLEN KNICKMEYER, CHRIS MEGERIAN and KEVIN FREKING Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden on Thursday effectively acknowledged…

By MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — SpaceX has delivered a fresh crew to the International Space Station for NASA,…

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — In a story published October 5, 2022, The Associated Press reported that the Ohio Secretary of State’s office earlier…

By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN and ALANNA DURKIN RICHER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A North Carolina man pleaded guilty Thursday to plotting with…

NEWSTEAD, N.Y. (AP) — An investigation into an apparent murder-suicide in western New York has led to the discovery of two additional shooting…

By MARY CLARE JALONICK and JOSH FUNK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Nebraska Sen. Ben Sasse is the sole finalist to become president of the…

PRAGUE (AP) — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says there is a difference in the approaches of Sweden and Finland to meeting Turkey’s…

By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer NEW YORK (AP) — For the first time, the major U.S. theater chains will play a Netflix release after exhibitors and the…

By MATT O’BRIEN and BARBARA ORTUTAY AP Technology Writers A judge has delayed a looming trial between Twitter and Elon Musk. The move gives the…

By ZEKE MILLER and CHRIS MEGERIAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is pardoning thousands of Americans convicted of “simple…

By COREY WILLIAMS Associated Press A white sheriff’s deputy in Michigan was reprimanded after video showed him tell a Black woman who had just been…

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The city of Philadelphia issued an apology more than four decades after unethical medical experiments were allowed to be…

By DAVID McHUGH AP Business Writer FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — Major oil-producing countries led by Saudi Arabia and Russia have decided to slash the…

By COREY WILLIAMS, CLAIRE SAVAGE and MIKE HOUSEHOLDER Associated Press DEARBORN, Mich. (AP) — Authorities say a man accused of fatally shooting a…

By BECKY BOHRER Associated Press JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — Two Russians who said they fled the country to avoid military service have requested asylum…

By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Police in Mississippi’s capital city have agreed to pull back on aggressive…

By LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. officials say U.S. special operations forces conducted a raid in northeast Syria…

PRAGUE (AP) — The leaders of Turkey and Armenia have held their first face-to-face meeting since the two countries agreed to improve relations.…

By TERRY SPENCER Associated Press FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz calmly told a psychologist he picked…

By FARNOUSH AMIRI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol has scheduled its next…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Russia is calling for a secret ballot vote next week on a Western-backed resolution that…

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook says more interest rate increases will be necessary…

By FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. on Thursday imposed more sanctions on Iranian government officials in response to the…

TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — A University of Arizona professor who authorities say was fatally shot on campus by a former graduate student was an expert on…

By ERIC TUCKER and JIM MUSTIAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A U.S. senator is pressing the FBI for more information after a whistleblower…

UVALDE, Texas (AP) — Uvalde school officials have abruptly fired a former Texas state trooper who was on scene of the Robb Elementary School…

By KATHLEEN FOODY The Associated Press The founder and CEO of a Michigan software company accused of stealing data on hundreds of Los Angeles County…

By MICHAEL HILL Associated Press ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York’s attorney general has appealed a federal judge’s ruling that halted key…

By DAVE KOLPACK Associated Press WAHPETON, N.D. (AP) — When North Dakota State College of Science suffered a heartbreaking loss in early September…

HALSEY, Neb. (AP) — Firefighters have nearly contained a large wildfire in the Nebraska Sandhills that has burned roughly 30 square miles and led…

ROCHESTER, N.Y. (AP) — City officials agreed to pay $12 million to the children of Daniel Prude, a Black man who died after police held him down…

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The Mississippi solicitor general has argued to a federal appeals court that the U.S. Justice Department overreached in suing…

By BRIAN WITTE Associated Press ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — The family of the victim in the murder case chronicled in the first season of the…

By CARA ANNA Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Food security, consumer rights and biodiversity groups are protesting Kenya’s reversal of a…

By FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The International Monetary Fund is once again lowering its projections for global economic…

By MICHAEL RUBINKAM Associated…

NEW YORK (AP) — Jada Pinkett Smith has a lifetime of thoughts she’d like to set down. The actor, singer entrepreneur and host of “Red Table…

By SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A Wisconsin judge is prohibiting voters from canceling their original absentee ballot and…

By KATHY McCORMACK Associated Press CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — “Missing Millions” is a 1922 silent film with a darkly prescient title — like…

By KATHLEEN RONAYNE, MICHAEL CASEY and GEOFF MULVIHILL Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — In California’s capital, massive tent…

By EDUARDO VERDUGO Associated Press SAN MIGUEL TOTOLAPAN, Mexico (AP) — A drug gang shot to death 20 people, including a mayor and his father, in…

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Two young children died and their mother was hospitalized after two family dogs attacked them at their home in Tennessee,…

By MIKE CORDER Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — A Dutch court has ordered the government and its asylum-seeker accommodation agency…

By HALELUYA HADERO NEW YORK (AP) — Amazon will hire 150,000 full-time, part-time and seasonal employees across its warehouses ahead of the holiday…

A fire broke out late Wednesday evening at an Amazon facility in upstate New York that’s voting in a union election next week. In a statement, an…

BRUSSELS (AP) — EU lawmakers have condemned the crackdown on media freedom in military-ruled Myanmar. In a resolution adopted Thursday, MEPs called…

By JOVANA GEC Associated Press BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Hungary’s foreign minister says his country and Austria will provide Serbia with…

By MATT OTT AP Business Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — More Americans filed for unemployment benefits last week, but the labor market remains strong even…

WASHINGTON (AP) — WNBA star Brittney Griner is at her “absolute weakest moment in life right now” as she faces a hearing in Russia later this…

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkey’s state-run news agency says Ankara has appointed a new ambassador to Israel in the latest step between the two…