Peltola beats Palin, wins Alaska House special election
By BECKY BOHRER Associated Press JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — Democrat Mary Peltola won the special election for Alaska’s only U.S. House seat on…
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By BECKY BOHRER Associated Press JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — Democrat Mary Peltola won the special election for Alaska’s only U.S. House seat on…
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By BOB CHRISTIE Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Arizona’s Supreme Court says the state Senate can keep hundreds of records related to its…
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By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A prosecutor says an international yoga business founder arrested on tax charges is a flight…
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By REBECCA BOONE Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — A former Idaho lawmaker convicted of raping a 19-year-old legislative intern has been…
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By Andy Rose, CNN The University of North Dakota is working to repatriate human remains and sacred artifacts taken from Indigenous communities, UND…
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By Simone McCarthy, CNN China has committed “serious human rights violations” against Uyghur Muslims in its northwestern region of…
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BY SAMY MAGDY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — The body that oversees Egypt’s Suez Canal says an oil tanker ran aground in Egypt’s Suez Canal,…
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By ADAM BEAM Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California lawmakers have voted to make vasectomies cheaper for men. The legislation passed…
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By COLLEEN SLEVIN Associated Press DENVER (AP) — A defense expert says forcibly administering anti-psychotic medication to a man charged with…
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By JIM SALTER Associated Press St. Louis’ top prosecutor has filed a motion asking a judge to vacate the conviction that sent a man to prison…
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By KEVIN McGILL Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A former chief of patrol for the New York City Police Department will serve temporarily as…
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By Meron Moges-Gerbi, CNN A Black South Dakota teen feels he has no choice but to switch schools after refusing to cut his hair, his mother said.…
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By JOEY CAPPELLETTI and SARA BURNETT Associated Press LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Supporters of expanding voting access in Michigan say they will appeal…
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By SEAN MURPHY Associated Press OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma Attorney General John O’Connor is urging prosecutors and law enforcement…
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By KATHLEEN FOODY Associated Press A once obscure Michigan elections panel is back in the spotlight after rejecting a ballot initiative seeking to…
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By JAMEY KEATEN and EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press GENEVA (AP) — China’s discriminatory detention of Uyghurs and other mostly Muslim…
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By MARGARET STAFFORD Associated Press A Kansas school district has settled a lawsuit filed by a teacher who was suspended because she refused to use…
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By MATTHEW BARAKAT Associated Press FALLS CHURCH, Va. (AP) — A nurse practitioner from northern Virginia has sued CVS Health after she says she was…
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DETROIT (AP) — General Motors says a new electric vehicle battery plant built in Ohio has started producing cells, which could help customers get…
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By TERRY CHEA and OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ Associated Press OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — An unprecedented red tide in the San Francisco Bay Area is killing…
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MEXICO CITY (AP) — Yet another mother searching for her disappeared son has been killed in northern Mexico. At least three volunteer search…
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By JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — Four families have filed a lawsuit against the United States, saying the Navy…
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By JAMES MacPHERSON and GRETCHEN EHLKE Associated Press BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — Volunteers are organizing in North Dakota to finish the harvest work…
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By ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The FBI investigation into top-secret government information discovered at Mar-a-Lago is zeroing…
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By ARLEIGH RODGERS Associated Press/Report for America INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Authorities say in an arrest affidavit that the 22-year-old man accused…
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By Gabe Cohen, CNN When the bell rings at Casa Grande Union High School, more than seventy sophomores pile into Stacy Brady’s biology class.…
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By KATE BRUMBACK Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Lawyers for John Eastman say they advised their client to assert attorney-client privilege and…
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By LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Reports of sexual assaults across the U.S. military jumped by 13% last year, driven by…
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By AAMER MADHANI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States says it has determined that Russia is suffering “severe manpower…
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By HOWARD FENDRICH AP Tennis Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Serena Williams can call it “evolving” or “retiring” or whatever she wants. And she can…
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By Nicquel Terry Ellis, CNN A California school district is vowing to reform its discipline practices after a federal investigation revealed it was…
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By LYNN ELBER and MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writers So many TV shows, so few nominees who will end up clutching trophies at the Primetime Emmy…
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By DÁNICA COTO Associated Press SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — An international banker accused of bribing Puerto Rico’s then-governor to undermine…
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By Zoe Sottile, CNN Interstate 55 in Tennessee was left covered in Alfredo sauce and one person was injured after an eighteen-wheeler crashed into a…
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By JEFFREY COLLINS COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Authorities say a woman killed while looking out the window of her South Carolina home was intentionally…
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By MICHAEL GOLDBERG and LEAH WILLINGHAM Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The water pressure at James Brown’s home in Jackson was so low the…
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By JAMES POLLARD Associated Press/Report for America COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — While the results of this month’s Kansas abortion vote have shaken…
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Associated Press Israel has launched airstrikes targeting Syria’s Aleppo International Airport. Syrian state media on Wednesday did not report…
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By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer NEW YORK (AP) — When “The Woman King” rises up in theaters on Sept. 16, it will emerge as a potent force on a…
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By ANTHONY IZAGUIRRE Associated Press TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Florida has sued federal health officials, accusing them of stalling the…
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JERUSALEM (AP) — Palestinian officials say a detainee held without charge or trial by Israel will suspend his nearly six-month hunger strike after…
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By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Lawyers for three Black NFL coaches alleging racial bias by the league took aim directly at…
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BOSTON (AP) — Federal transportation officials say in a highly critical report that the Boston-area’s aging subway system has for years neglected…
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PORT CHESTER, N.Y. (AP) — Several live lizards were wrongly delivered to a residence in a town just north of New York City. Police in Port Chester…
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By DON THOMPSON Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California won’t allow teens age 15 and up to be vaccinated against the…
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By MICHAEL HILL Associated Press SCHOHARIE, N.Y. (AP) — A judge rejected a plea agreement that would have meant no prison time for the operator of…
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ATLANTA (AP) — A fire broke out on the rooftop of a skyscraper under construction in downtown Atlanta on Wednesday, bringing dozens of firefighters…
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NEW ORLEANS (AP) — An 83-year-old missionary nun from Louisiana has been released nearly five months after she was kidnapped from her bed in the…
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By Jeremy Herb, Marshall Cohen and Tierney Sneed, CNN Former President Donald Trump has pushed an “incomplete and inaccurate narrative”…
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The US Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday authorized updated COVID-19 vaccine booster shots from Moderna and…
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By COREY WILLIAMS Associated Press A 19-year-old man was charged Wednesday with first-degree murder in a series of apparently random shootings over…
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By Tami Luhby, CNN “Some pain” is on the horizon for Americans, Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell warned last week of the central…
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By Judson Jones, CNN Meteorologist It isn’t your imagination. The tropics in the Atlantic have been very quiet this year despite a forecast…
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By Elizabeth Wolfe and Amanda Musa, CNN For decades, investigators in Tennessee affectionately referred to an unidentified girl whose remains were…
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By Deidre McPhillips, CNN After a historic drop in 2020, life expectancy in the United States took another significant hit in 2021. According to…
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By SETH BORENSTEIN AND REBECCA SANTANA Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — It’s been quiet — too quiet — this Atlantic hurricane season,…
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By Eliott C. McLaughlin, CNN Atlanta-area District Attorney Fani Willis is unabashed in using rap lyrics to help prosecute her cases, repeatedly…
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RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina’s influential state chapter of the NAACP has lost its federal tax-exempt status for failing to file tax…
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By SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin’s bipartisan elections agency will be asking the GOP-controlled Legislature to pay…
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By STEVE KARNOWSKI Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Bird flu has returned to the Midwest earlier than authorities expected after a lull of…
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The Secretary of State’s Office says a conservative podcaster who embraces former President Donald Trump’s discredited…
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NEW LONDON, Conn. (AP) — The Coast Guard Academy is disenrolling seven cadets for failing to comply with the military’s COVID-19 vaccination…
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By BRENDAN FARRINGTON Associated Press TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — U.S. Rep. Charlie Crist is resigning his seat in Congress to focus on his…
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By Brad Lendon, Paula Hancocks and Gawon Bae, CNN US and South Korean combined forces on Wednesday held their first live-fire exercises since the…
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By Zoe Sottile, CNN The director at a wildlife park in Florida lost his hand after being bitten by one of his own alligators last week, according to…
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By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer NEW YORK (AP) — For the first time in three years, the fall movie industrial complex is lurching back into high gear.…
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MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A federal judge says Wisconsin voters with disabilities can get help returning their ballots, despite a state Supreme Court…
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IRVING, Texas (AP) — The changing Big 12 Conference plans to have discussions with ESPN and Fox about a potential early extension of its media…
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By LAURA UNGAR AP Science Writer A growing number of scientists is trying to help people reach a goal humans have been chasing throughout history:…
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By JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A man has been convicted again in the first retrial stemming from scrutiny of a once-lauded New…
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By KAREEM CHEHAYEB Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Internet shutdowns are plaguing Lebanon, as the country’s telecom workers go on strike.…
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Lucinda Williams, Chris Isaak, Brandi Carlile and Indigo Girls are among the performers who will take the stage at the…
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By SYLVIA HUI Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The two candidates vying to become Britain’s next prime minister are making their final push to win…
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By PREDRAG MILIC Associated Press PODGORICA, Montenegro (AP) — A rapid deployment team of FBI cyber experts is heading to Montenegro to investigate…
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By LAURAN NEERGAARD AP Medical Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. on Wednesday authorized its first update to COVID-19 vaccines, booster doses that…
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NEW DELHI (AP) — The Indian government says the country’s economy grew by 13.5% in the April-June quarter from a year earlier, pushed up by a…
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By EMILY ROSE Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel is imposing sanctions on 20 companies and individuals operating across the Middle East that…
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ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greek authorities say two earthquakes with magnitude 5.3 and 4.7 have rocked the eastern Aegean Sea island of Samos but no…
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By JUAN A. LOZANO Associated Press LA PORTE, Texas (AP) — It’s the only surviving battleship that served in both world wars, having fought in…
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MOSCOW (AP) — Call it a slice of life. One of Mikhail Gorbachev’s most notable appearances after he resigned as leader of the collapsed…
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By CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Nigeria’s emergency services says one person has died after a three-story building…
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By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The return of dragons has been a hit. Now it’s time for the return of the elves and…
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By LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer Catherine Deneuve is not that fond of reminiscing, even as she prepares to collect a Lifetime Achievement Award at the…
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GENEVA (AP) — Independent human rights experts working with the United Nations say Spain violated the political rights of members of the Catalan…
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By Rachel Ramirez, CNN Extreme heat is on the rise around the world, and a new study shows it is taking a significant toll not just on our physical…
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By Rebecca Wright, Olga Konovalova and Kostyantin Gak When the Russian invasion began, Maria Pokusaeva knew that she wouldn’t leave her home in…
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SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea plans to challenge a World Bank tribunal’s order to pay $216.5 million plus interest to Texas-based Lone…
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By MICHAEL R. SISAK and MICHAEL BALSAMO Associated Press A former California prison chaplain who pleaded guilty to forcing an inmate to have sex with…
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BERLIN (AP) — German prosecutors have raided the office of JPMorgan Chase & Co. in Frankfurt as part of a broader tax evasion investigation…
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By MARK PRATT Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — There is a silver lining to the drought affecting the northeastern U.S. that has frustrated farmers,…
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From CNN’s Petro Zadorozhnny, Daria Makina and Vica Butenko The head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said it plans to…
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By MICHAEL CANTU Edmunds The 2023 Chevrolet Bolt EV received a huge discount for the new model year and is one of the most affordable new electric…
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BERLIN (AP) — German lawyer Hans-Christian Stroebele has died at age 83. He defended members of the far-left Red Army Faction and later became the…
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By KATE ASHFORD of NerdWallet Continuing to work past the traditional retirement age gives many the opportunity to add more money to their nest egg…
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By DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — It was a warm Saturday evening and journalists had gathered at a Paris restaurant to enjoy the last…
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NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — Cyprus has lifted the obligatory use of face masks in all indoor areas after the island nation’s top health official said…
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PARIS (AP) — France’s Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne has warned that a worst-case scenario this winter could lead to rolling 2-hour power cuts in…
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By JIM GOMEZ Associated Press MANILA, Philippines (AP) — A psychiatrist who helped fellow Cambodians recover from trauma resulting from the Khmer…
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By Alexandra Meeks, CNN About a month ago, a lottery ticket was sold for the second-largest Mega Millions jackpot ever, netting the winner nearly…
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By DAVID A. LIEB Associated Press JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Stoked by the largest surplus in state history, Missouri’s Republican-led…
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