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By KIM CHANDLER Associated Press MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — A U.S. judge on Monday blocked Alabama from executing an inmate who says the state lost…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A former University of Southern California dean has pleaded guilty in a bribery case involving a powerful Los Angeles…

Developers and city officials are pushing back on family members’ expectations for a memorial for 98 people who died last year when a beachfront…

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A man who broke windows and security cameras at a Planned Parenthood clinic in southwestern Oregon because he opposed…

PECOS, Texas (AP) — A U.S. judge in West Texas has ruled unconstitutional a federal law banning those under felony indictments from buying guns.…

By AYA BATRAWY AP Business Writer UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Germany’s climate envoy says the country remains committed to phasing out coal as a…

By MARK THIESSEN Associted Press ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Authorities in Alaska were making contact Monday with some of the most remote villages in…

By PAUL J. WEBER Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A Texas sheriff on Monday opened an investigation into two flights of migrants sent to…

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. (AP) — An executive of a vegan food products company has been charged with felony battery and making a terroristic threat after…

By AUDREY McAVOY Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — A former Maui County official and the Honolulu businessman who paid him $2 million in bribes in…

NEW IBERIA, La. (AP) — Lucille Fremin Babineaux, mother of Louisiana’s first female governor and matriarch of a large family, is dead at age…

GOLDEN, Colo. (AP) — An 89-year-old woman has died after she was attacked by two pit bulls at a home west of Denver last week. Golden police say…

By JOHN FLESHER AP Environmental Writer TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) — Seven Midwestern states are teaming up to accelerate the development of…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Liz Truss is heading straight from the funeral of Queen Elizabeth II to the…

By ANDREW SELSKY Associated Press SALEM, Ore. (AP) — County clerks in Oregon are inundated with public records requests stemming from “the big…

By DAVID KOENIG AP Airlines Writer The federal government has turned down a request by a regional airline to hire pilots with half the flying…

By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Nikola Corp.’s top executive, testifying at the trial of the truckmaker’s founder,…

By TOM DAVIES Associated Press INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — A top state lawyer has derided arguments that Indiana’s new abortion ban violates the state…

By ELLEN KNICKMEYER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The United Nations says it has finally reached a yearslong pledging goal to raise money to…

By JIM SALTER Associated Press CLAYTON, Mo. (AP) — St. Louis-area prosecutors say a convicted murderer serving a life sentence for killing a man in…

By MATTHEW LEE AP Diplomatic Writer NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken met with the foreign ministers of Armenia and Azerbaijan…

By MALLIKA SEN Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — How high are the barriers to entry at the U.N. General Assembly? Less than 4 feet (1.2…

By ANDREW KATELL Associated Press A Russian mega-pop star’s criticism of President Vladimir Putin’s war in Ukraine has set off intense reactions…

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — The U.S. Department of Justice has opened an investigation into allegations of discrimination against Black officers by the…

By BRIAN WITTE Associated Press BALTIMORE (AP) — A Baltimore judge on Monday ordered the release of Adnan Syed after overturning Syed’s…

By CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Authorities in Nigeria say they are battling the worst flooding the West African nation has…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — France’s foreign minister is urging Iran to take the last offer on the table to revive…

NEW YORK (AP) — Video game producer Rockstar Games says early development footage from the next version of its popular title Grand Theft Auto was…

By ELLIOT SPAGAT Associated Press SAN DIEGO (AP) — U.S. authorities say the number of Venezuelans taken into custody at the U.S. border with Mexico…

By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Thirteen years after James Cameron plunged moviegoers into the cosmic world of “Avatar,” the lush,…

By AMY BETH HANSON Associated Press HELENA, Mont. (AP) — After months of defiance, Montana’s health department said Monday it will follow a…

By MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A NASA lander on Mars has captured the vibrations and sounds of four meteoroids…

By ALBERT AJI Associated Press DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — The World Health Organization says a plane carrying medical supplies to deal with the spread…

By TERRY SPENCER Associated Press FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — The judge overseeing the penalty trial of Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz has…

By DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — I couldn’t see the lone piper. But it didn’t matter. As the sounds of the Scottish lament,…

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel’s prime minister has vowed to begin production at a contested Mediterranean natural gas field “as soon as it is…

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The former Wisconsin Supreme Court justice who led a fruitless 14-month investigation into the state’s 2020 election…

By FABIOLA SÁNCHEZ and MARÍA VERZA Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — A magnitude 7.6 earthquake shook Mexico’s central Pacific coast on…

By JANET McCONNAUGHEY Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The Grammy-nominated rapper Mystikal has pleaded not guilty to charges accusing him of…

By MARGARET STAFFORD and JOHN HANNA Associated Press TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A former Kansas City, Kansas, police detective accused of preying on poor…

By ANTHONY IZAGUIRRE Associated Press TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — A federal judge in Florida has ruled that a state prosecutor suspended by Gov. Ron…

By BIANCA VÁZQUEZ TONESS and JOCELYN GECKER AP Education Writers With COVID-related school disruptions setting back children around the world,…

BERLIN (AP) — The operator of one of Germany’s three remaining nuclear power stations says it has detected a leak that will require the plant to…

BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s defense minister says her country will provide Ukraine with four additional self-propelled howitzers and ammunition.…

By MIKE STOBBE AP Medical Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Sharply rising cases of some sexually transmitted diseases — including a 26% rise in new…

FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — The European Central Bank says it will give corporations climate scores before it buys their bonds and intends to…

By NICHOLAS PAPHITIS Associated Press ATHENS, Greece (AP) — In movie theatres and pubs, on giant screens and smartphones, people watched and…

By GRANT PECK Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — Government helicopters have attacked a school and village in north-central Myanmar, killing at least…

ATHENS, Ala. (AP) — A judge has declared a mistrial in the murder trial of an Alabama teenager accused of killing his father, stepmother and three…

NEW YORK (AP) — In a story published September 19, 2022, about refunds for student loan payments made during the pandemic, The Associated Press…

By THOMAS BEAUMONT Associated Press COLUMBUS, Wis. (AP) — Sarah Motiff has voted for Sen. Ron Johnson every time his name appeared on the ballot,…

RENO, Nev. (AP) — Authorities have identified the pilot who died while competing in the Reno Air Races. Officials with the Reno Air Racing…

By PAUL WISEMAN AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Russia’s war against Ukraine, the lingering coronavirus pandemic and the damage of climate…

By MENELAOS HADJICOSTIS Associated Press NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — Israel and Cyprus say they have made “significant” headway in resolving a…

By BASSEM MROUE Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Protesters in Lebanon have scuffled with security forces outside the Justice Ministry in Beirut…

JERUSALEM (AP) — The Iranian president’s comment that “there are some signs” that the Holocaust happened but that the issue required more…

BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s ruling center-left party is warning that a victory for far-right leader Giorgia Meloni in Italy’s upcoming election…

By SYLVIA HUI Associated Press LONDON (AP) — After the pomp and pageantry of a grand state funeral, Queen Elizabeth II has been laid to rest with…

By MIKE SCHNEIDER Associated Press ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Visitors to the new terminal at Orlando International Airport may want to wear sunscreen.…

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A major storm that battered western Alaska over the weekend has churned through Northern California after bringing…

By TOM KRISHER and HOPE YEN Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — The number of people killed on U.S. roadways fell slightly from April through June.…

By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Acres of water lilies will bloom on Wall Street this fall, at least digitally. A massive,…

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell bluntly warned in a speech last month that the…

ISLAMABAD (AP) — A Pakistani judge has ordered police to drop terrorism charges against former prime minister Imran Khan for verbally threatening…

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — The leader of Sweden’s third largest party — the center-right Moderates — has formally been asked to try…

By SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Republican gubernatorial candidate Tim Michels is calling on Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers to halt…

NEW YORK (AP) — Marilyn Nelson has won the $100,000 Wallace Stevens Award, a lifetime achievement honor presented by the Academy of American Poets…

GENEVA (AP) — Swiss officials have formally signed a procurement contract to buy three dozen F-35 fighter jets from the United States as part of a…

By KATIE WORKMAN Associated Press Apples are a traditional food on Rosh Hashana, the Jewish New Year. AP food writer Katie Workman has an apple cake…