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By ANDREW DeMILLO Associated Press A Texas judge has expanded her order blocking the state from investigating families of transgender youth who have…

By FABIOLA SÁNCHEZ Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s Independence Day parade had even more of a militaristic air this year coming…

By STEVE KARNOWSKI Associated Press EAGAN, Minn. (AP) — Democratic Gov. Tim Walz has rolled out a framework for fighting climate change that shows…

By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — “The Phantom of the Opera” — Broadway’s longest-running show — is scheduled to…

By JAMES POLLARD Associated Press/Report for America COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A lawsuit alleging the rampant sexual abuse of underage athletes at a…

KEY WEST, Fla. (AP) — The Southernmost Point marker in Key West, Florida, a landmark delineating the continental United States’ southernmost spot…

By STEVE DOUGLAS AP Sports Writer Queen Elizabeth II has been remembered and honored with touching tributes as the English Premier League resumed…

SEATTLE (AP) — Crews later this month will begin trying to recover the wreckage of a seaplane that crashed in Puget Sound off Whidbey Island in…

By JIM SALTER Associated Press LAKE OZARK, Mo. (AP) — Democratic Missouri U.S. Senate candidate Trudy Busch Valentine called for compassion for…

By DENISE LAVOIE AP Legal Affairs Writer RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A Virginia judge on Friday dismissed a lawsuit filed on behalf of 13 young people who…

By The Associated Press DENVER (AP) — A Colorado judge has partially granted a request by news organizations to release an amended autopsy report…

By SOPHIE AUSTIN Associated Press/ Report for America SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed a package of bills aimed at…

By ANDREW DeMILLO Associated Press LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Former White House press secretary Sarah Sanders, who is running for governor in…

By KEN MILLER Associated Press OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Prosecutors say an inmate who had just been booked into an Oklahoma jail got away from the…

NEW YORK (AP) — A mother charged with drowning her three children at New York’s Coney Island beach has been arraigned on murder charges. The…

By BOB CHRISTIE Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — The Republican leaders of the Arizona Legislature will not try to defend a new law limiting…

ELKHART, Ind. (AP) — Police say a staffer for Republican U.S. Rep. Jackie Walorski was trying to pass a flat-bed truck on a northern Indiana…

By WAYNE PARRY Associated Press ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — New Jersey’s casinos, horse tracks that offer sports betting and the online partners…

By ED WHITE Associated Press A judge has slashed nearly four years off the prison sentence of a star witness in the plot to kidnap Michigan’s…

By BOUBACAR DIALLO Associated Press CONAKRY, Guinea (AP) — Guinea’s justice minister says a trial date has been set nearly 13 years after a…

By HOLLY RAMER Associated Press CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — A New Hampshire lawmaker proposes extending the March deadline to close the state’s troubled…

By HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Novelist Gayl Jones is a fiction nominee for the National Book Award, the rare established name…

By CHRISTINA A. CASSIDY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Sensitive voting system passwords posted online. Copies of confidential voting software…

By REGINA GARCIA CANO Associated Press CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaidó has offered a broad accounting of…

By STEPHEN GROVES Associated Press SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem is showing no sign of fighting an action taken against…

By LEAH WILLINGHAM Associated Press CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — Republican Gov. Jim Justice has signed into law a ban on abortions at all stages of…

By DUSAN STOJANOVIC Associated Press BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Organizers of European LGBTQ events held in Belgrade this week have said they will…

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — A federal judge has ruled that a Louisville police officer violated a Black teenager’s constitutional rights during a 2018…

CHICAGO (AP) — Two Chicago police officers face felony charges for allegedly shooting and seriously wounding an unarmed man during a July shootout…

By MARGERY A. BECK Associated Press OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A Nebraska judge has rejected a lawsuit filed by two Omaha women who sought to have both…

SAND SPRINGS, Okla. (AP) — Three northeastern Oklahoma high school students were killed when the vehicle they were in crashed into a tree Thursday,…

By JOHN RABY Associated Press CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A Maryland company says it will build a natural gas power plant designed to capture…

DENVER (AP) — A Colorado man has been convicted of first-degree murder and other charges in the cold case slayings of two women whose bodies were…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. General Assembly has voted to allow Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy…

By BASSEM MROUE Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Palestinians have commemorated the 40th anniversary of the horrific killings in a refugee camp in…

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (AP) — A West Virginia school district’s directive to remove pride flags from classrooms is drawing complaints from students…

By ED WHITE Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — A judge has found key parts of Michigan’s newborn blood-testing program unconstitutional in a…

BERLIN (AP) — A town in central Germany has voted in favor of letting all swimmers bathe topless at its four municipal pools. German news agency…

By DREW COSTLEY AP Science Writer JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A boil-water advisory has been lifted for Mississippi’s capital, and the state will…

By LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer Naomi Watts had some reservations about remaking the Austrian horror “Goodnight Mommy.” The 2014 film from…

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran’s president has ordered a probe in the case of a young woman who slipped into a coma while in police…

By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Rapper and actor Common will make his Broadway debut this fall in Stephen Adly Guirgis’…

By RODRIQUE NGOWI, GISELA SALOMON and CLAUDIA TORRENS Associated Press EDGARTOWN, Mass. (AP) — The chief executive of Martha’s Vineyard…

By RAHIM FAIEZ Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — A leading international rights group has released a harrowing report about six members of an…

By MEAD GRUVER Associated Press FLAMING GORGE RESERVOIR, Wyo. (AP) — Tony Valdez wasn’t worried about being left high and dry when he bought…

By ZAK PODMORE The Salt Lake Tribune SALT LAKE CITY, Utah (AP) — The second driest state in the country, Utah, doesn’t contribute much water to…

By KRISHAN FRANCIS Associated Press COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — A Sri Lankan court has issued a summons ordering an ex-president to appear in a case…

By BASSEM MROUE Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanese depositors have stormed at least five banks to demand their trapped savings, signaling…

By DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The long goodbye for Queen Elizabeth II is a reminder of a broader truth playing out with little…

By LORNE COOK Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union’s executive branch has unveiled plans for new laws that it said would help…

ISTANBUL (AP) — Turkey’s coast guard says five people have been found dead in the Aegean Sea after a migrant boat sank. The boat, carrying 20…

AMMAN, Jordan (AP) — Jordanian officials say the death toll from the collapse this week of a four-story building in the Jordanian capital of Amman…

By DAKE KANG Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — A Chinese-born Kazakh activist is preparing to register a political party in Kazakhstan to counter…

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Officials say divers searched through the night for a student missing after a rowing team’s boat capsized in an Orlando lake…

MIAMI (AP) — Tropical Storm Fiona is passing near Guadeloupe, hitting some of the Caribbean’s easternmost islands with strong rain and wind as…

BERLIN (AP) — German customs officials say a trail of slime led them to a stash of almost 100 giant African land snails and other items hidden…

BEIJING (AP) — A massive fire has sent flames and black smoke pouring from a 42-story skyscraper in central China belonging to the country’s…

By MICHAEL BALSAMO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — When a government document mysteriously appeared earlier this week in the highest profile…

BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has lashed out at the European parliament’s declaration that Hungary can no longer…

SAMARKAND, Uzbekistan (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin vowed Friday to press his attack on Ukraine despite Ukraine’s latest…

By FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration is moving one step closer to developing a central bank digital…

By MICHAEL FAULHABER and DANIEL NIEMANN Associated Press MUNICH (AP) — Oktoberfest is back in Germany after two years of pandemic cancellations —…

By RAFAL NIEDZIELSKI Associated Press JANOW, Poland (AP) — Poland has sealed $3 billion deals with South Korea for the purchase of 48 Korean FA-50…

CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — Moody, brooding and floating, Malagasy artist Joel Andrianomearisoa’s “The Five Continents of All Our…

By AVET DEMOURIAN Associated Press YEREVAN, Armenia (AP) — U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says she plans to make a weekend visit to Armenia, where…

MOSCOW (AP) — Kazakhstan’s parliament has voted unanimously to support constitutional amendments that would extend the presidential term to seven…

By MUNIR AHMED Associated Press Pakistani officials say weeks of floodwaters are now receding in the worst-hit southern Sindh province after a deadly…

By ZEN SOO and ALICE FUNG Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — Hundreds of Hong Kong residents are lining up in front of the British Consulate General…