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By DON THOMPSON Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A new law in California will require companies that provide online services to protect…

By FELICIA FONSECA Associated Press FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — A leader of a small polygamous group on the Arizona-Utah line pleaded not guilty…

By JUAN A. LOZANO Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — A Texas board has declined a request that George Floyd be granted a posthumous pardon for a 2004…

By MICHAEL TARM AP Legal Affairs Writer CHICAGO (AP) — Federal prosecutors this week scored multiple convictions against R. Kelly at the singer’s…

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Haiti’s National Police says it is investigating the recent slaying of three officers that it blames on gang…

By DENISE LAVOIE and MATTHEW BARAKAT Associated Press RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Virginia has denied parole to convicted Washington, D.C., area sniper…

By MARK PRATT Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — The sex lives of constipated scorpions, cute ducklings with an innate sense of physics, and a…

By PETER SMITH Associated Press As Republican governors ramp up their high-profile transports of migrants to Democratic-run jurisdictions, the…

DALLAS (AP) — A Dallas anesthesiologist was arrested on charges alleging that he injected nerve-blocking agents and other drugs into bags of…

By COLLEEN LONG Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden has nominated a Miami litigator and longtime government lawyer to serve as…

By REBECCA BOONE Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — A judge told attorneys in a high-profile triple murder case that he’s worried broad…

By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — Federal authorities have arrested a woman accused of calling in a fake bomb threat at Boston…

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — The Libertarian Party of Virginia has voted to dissolve itself amid disagreements with the party’s national direction. But…

By DAVID HAMILTON AP Technology Editor SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A complex software change to the cryptocurrency ethereum holds the potential to…

By WILSON RING Associated Press The president of the University of Vermont has issued a blistering denial of allegations the university failed to…

NEW YORK (AP) — Grammy-winning rapper Cardi B has resolved a yearslong criminal case stemming from a pair of brawls at New York City strip clubs,…

By FABIOLA SÁNCHEZ Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican authorities have arrested a retired general and three other members of the army for…

By JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A New York man has been resentenced to prison — at least for now — after temporarily going…

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Thousands of nurses have returned to work at hospitals in Minnesota following a three-day strike over wage increases and…

By JANET McCONNAUGHEY Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A Louisiana judge has thrown out air quality permits for a Taiwanese company’s…

By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — After nearly seven weeks of being forced to boil their water before drinking it or…

By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN Associated Press A Virginia man who stormed the U.S. Capitol while wearing an antisemitic “Camp Auschwitz” sweatshirt over a…

By ROB GILLIES Associated Press TORONTO (AP) — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will travel to London with four former Canadian prime ministers as…

BILOXI, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi has quietly settled its lawsuit against State Farm Fire and Casualty Co. for allegedly minimizing its Hurricane…

SKOPJE, North Macedonia (AP) — Police in North Macedonia say they have detained a group of 142 migrants near the southern border with Greece. A…

By FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press NEW CARROLLTON, Md. (AP) — Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen is laying out her vision for a modernized,…

By MARC LEVY Associated Press BLUE BELL, Pa. (AP) — In a community college gymnasium in an affluent Philadelphia suburb, John Fetterman strode on…

MATTHEW PERRONE and MIKE STOBBE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. health officials are warning doctors against overusing the lone drug…

CAIRO (AP) — Egyptian authorities have announced the release of 46 detainees, including a prominent human rights lawyer, in its latest series of…

By ADRIAN SAINZ Associated Press MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — A Tennessee man has pleaded not guilty to raping a woman about a year before he was charged…

HUNTINGTON, W.Va. (AP) — A police detective says a former Ohio schools superintendent charged in West Virginia with luring two children into his…

By MATTHEW BROWN and AMY BETH HANSON Associated Press BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — Just hours after a Montana judge blocked health officials from…

By ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden plans to meet at the White House on Friday with family members of WNBA star…

By MARGARET STAFFORD and JOHN HANNA Associated Press TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A former Kansas City, Kansas, police detective who has long been accused…

By NICOLAS VAUX-MONTAGNY Associated Press LYON, France (AP) — A priest accused of sexually abusing Inuit children when he missioned in their…

BERLIN (AP) — A far-right party in Germany is being mocked online for planning to offer voters soft candies that bear a striking resemblance to a…

By FELICIA FONSECA Associated Press PEACH SPRINGS, Ariz. (AP) — Garnett Querta slips on his work gloves as he shifts the big rig he’s driving…

By DAVE COLLINS and PAT EATON-ROBB Associated Press WATERBURY, Conn. (AP) — Infowars revenues and website viewership spiked around the time of one…

BULLHEAD CITY, Ariz. (AP) — Authorities are trying to identify a mummified body found by police in the bathtub of a northwestern Arizona home as…

By JEFFREY COLLINS Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A sheriff says a deputy in South Carolina shot and killed a man who slammed his stolen…

By RODNEY MUHUMUZA Associated Press KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — Hundreds of Ugandans have attended a memorial service in honor of Queen Elizabeth II, a…

LONDON (AP) — Microsoft’s $69 billion deal to buy video game company Activision Blizzard faces an in-depth antitrust investigation in Britain…

By JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press GENEVA (AP) — Swiss police are investigating a fake advertising campaign that appeared on social media and shows a…

By ELLEN KNICKMEYER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A volunteer Ukrainian medic held captive three months by Russian forces in Ukraine’s…

BERLIN (AP) — The German government is urging companies to make a one-off payment to their employees of up to 3,000 euros (dollars) as a way of…

By KAREEM CHEHAYEB Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — A Lebanese activist group says they will continue to organize bank heists to help people retrieve…

By FELICIA FONSECA Associated Press Hualapai tribal land in northwestern Arizona borders 100 miles of the Colorado River, but the tribe can’t draw…

By BEATRICE DUPUY Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The designers behind The Blonds bring memories of escapism and glamour from their early party…

FORESTHILL, Calif. (AP) — Firefighters again prevented flames from entering a Northern California mountain town and reported major progress against…

GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — At least nine people died and some 20 were injured in a stampede in Guatemala early Thursday as the country celebrated its…

By The Associated Press The founder of outdoor gear company Patagonia, long known for environmental activism, says the company is transferring all of…

By MATT OTT AP Business Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Average long-term U.S. mortgage rates climbed over 6% this week for the first time since the…

By ASHRAF KHALIL Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Two buses of migrants from the U.S.-Mexico border were dropped off near Vice President Kamala…

AMSTERDAM (AP) — The CEO of Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport has quit after a summer that descended into chaos and flight cancellations amid staff…

By HOWARD FENDRICH AP Tennis Writer Roger Federer is retiring from professional tennis at age 41 after a series of knee operations, closing a career…

BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s economy minister says the Group of Seven major economies have agreed to take a tougher, more coordinated stance toward…

By AAMER MADHANI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is set to sign an executive order that aims to sharpen the national…

Associated Press Amtrak says it is working to quickly restore canceled trains after President Joe Biden announced that a tentative railway labor…

LONDON (AP) — The death of Queen Elizabeth II has triggered a tightly choreographed series of ceremonial and constitutional steps, as Britain…

By ANNE D’INNOCENZIO AP Retail Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Americans picked up their spending a bit in August from July even as surging inflation…

By MATT OTT AP Business Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits fell again last week to a four-month…

SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) — The U.S. Embassy in Sarajevo has described claims by the Bosnian Serb leader that his security services are…

LONDON (AP) — Shell CEO Ben van Beurden is stepping down at the end of 2022 after nine years in charge as oil and natural gas companies are under…

LUCKNOW, India (AP) — Six men have been arrested in northern India for allegedly raping and killing two teenage girls whose bodies were found…

LONDON (AP) — Two minutes of silence will be observed across the United Kingdom at the end of Queen Elizabeth II’s state funeral at Westminster…

By LISA ANTHONY of NerdWallet The possibility of a recession in the near future and the likely reduction in credit availability that is often…

AMMAN, Jordan (AP) — Jordanian rescue teams pulled another body from the rubble of a collapsed building in the capital on Thursday, bringing the…

By DAVID RISING Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — China’s Foreign Ministry is accusing the United States of violating its commitment to the “One…