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By ELLIOT SPAGAT Associated Press SAN DIEGO (AP) — The Biden administration says it is pausing plans for a double border wall in San Diego that…

GREENBELT, Md. (AP) — A West Virginia man has been sentenced to three years in federal prison after sending emails that threatened Dr. Anthony…

By ANDREW DALTON AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — A Los Angeles judge has ruled that Kevin Spacey and his production companies must pay…

JAMESTOWN TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) — A western Michigan library faces an uncertain future after a flap over LGBTQ material on its shelves led to the…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Four people have been critically injured after a lightning strike near the White House. The District of Columbia Fire and…

By MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — South Korea joined the stampede to the moon Thursday with the launch of a lunar…

By HANNA ARHIROVA Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Relatives of prisoners of war taken captive by Russia after the fall of Azovstal steel…

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York state health officials issued a more urgent call Thursday for unvaccinated children and adults to get inoculated…

By MARK THIESSEN Associated Press ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Demolition is scheduled to begin this week on a once-opulent downtown Anchorage movie…

By REBECCA SANTANA Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Albert Woodfox, a former inmate who spent decades in isolation at a Louisiana prison and…

By BOB CHRISTIE Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Officials in an Arizona county that weathered issues during Tuesday’s primaries have fired…

By MAURICIO SAVARESE Associated Press SAO PAULO (AP) — Brazil’s former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, currently bidding to return to the…

By JANET McCONNAUGHEY Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The attorney who represented Mystikal on rape and kidnapping charges that were dropped in…

By TRISHA AHMED Associated Press/Report for America BLOOMINGTON, Minn. (AP) — Police in Minnesota confirm three gunshots were fired at the Mall of…

By ALAN FRAM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Democrats have agreed to eleventh-hour changes to their marquee economic legislation, they…

By CAROLYN THOMPSON Associated Press BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — A Black resident of Buffalo, New York, told federal investigators he anonymously tweeted…

By MEG KINNARD Associated Press Former Vice President Dick Cheney excoriated Donald Trump in a new campaign video for his daughter Rep. Liz Cheney,…

By STEFANIE DAZIO Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — At least two robbers ambushed an armored vehicle in broad daylight and opened fire on the…

By SUMMER BALLENTINE Associated Press COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — A top Democratic state lawmaker is asking Illinois and Kansas to cover emergency…

By MARCY GORDON AP Business Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The head of publishing titan Penguin Random House is defending his company’s deal to acquire…

By MATTHEW DALY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — In a surprise victory for Republicans, the Senate on Thursday voted to overturn a Biden…

By ALMUDENA CALATRAVA Associated Press BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — The market welcomed Argentina’s new Economy Minister Sergio Massa with what…

TULARE, Calif. (AP) — California officials say bus heading from Los Angeles to Fresno has crashed and that 24 people were hurt. They said Thursday…

By SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Days after saying that running negative ads is “just bad policy” and politicians who do…

By SARA CLINE Associated Press BATON ROUGE (AP) — Access to abortion in Louisiana has been back-and-forth for weeks — with the state’s three…

BERLIN (AP) — Lufthansa and a union representing its ground staff in Germany have reached a deal to end a pay dispute, a week after a one-day…

By ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Now that WNBA star Brittney Griner has been convicted of drug possession and sentenced to nine…

By HANNAH SCHOENBAUM Associated Press/Report for America RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina Democrats have asked a state court to overturn an…

The Associated Press Benchmark U.S. crude oil for September delivery fell $2.12 to $88.54 a barrel Thursday. Brent crude for October delivery fell…

The Associated Press WNBA All-Star Brittney Griner was convicted and received a 9-year sentence from a Russian judge for drug possession and…

By MARGERY A. BECK Associated Press Authorities say four people have been found dead in two burning homes in a small community in northeastern…

By KEN MILLER Associated Press An Oklahoma judge said six descendants of victims of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre cannot sue for reparations. The…

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — A New Mexico prosecutor says her office will decide whether criminal charges will be filed in the fatal film-set shooting of…

By TOM DAVIES Associated Press INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Police have changed their description of the crash that killed Indiana Republican U.S. Rep.…

By SETH BORENSTEIN AP Science Writer This hurricane season may be a tad quieter than initially projected, but it is still likely to be busier than…

By TRAVIS LOLLER Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A transgender child and her parents are suing the Tennessee Department of Education over…

JERUSALEM (AP) — The Israeli military says it is sending additional forces to the area around the Gaza Strip as it braces for possible attacks…

By ZEKE MILLER, MIKE STOBBE and MICHAEL BALSAMO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The federal government declared a public health emergency…

By DAVID BAUDER AP Media Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Alyssa Farah Griffin, a former Trump administration spokeswoman who broke from her old boss in…

WASHINGTON (AP) — A 36-year-old central Missouri man is facing federal charges alleging he took a gun to the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol. Jerod…

By LLAZAR SEMINI Associated Press TIRANA, Albania (AP) — A U.S. security firm says a cyberattack that temporarily shut down some Albanian…

By TOM KRISHER AP Auto Writer DETROIT (AP) — The death toll from exploding air bag inflators made by Takata Corp. has risen to 19 in the U.S. and…

By NASSER KARIMI Associated Press TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Mourners have poured out in large numbers onto the streets of Tehran to pay their respects to…

STILLWATER, Minn. (AP) — Hundreds of people gathered at a Minnesota golf course to remember a 17-year-old boy who was fatally stabbed during a…

By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A judge on Thursday made it likely she’ll rule in weeks rather than months whether NFL…

By VANESSA GERA Associated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Polish officials say they’re seeing a change in migration over the country’s border with…

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A former police chief was able to take postings at multiple successive U.S. Army bases despite allegations that he sexually…

By PAUL J. WEBER Associated Press DALLAS (AP) — Hungary’s autocratic Prime Minister Viktor Orban urged cheering American conservatives on…

By TERRY TANG The Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — For a comedy, Jo Koy’s new movie “Easter Sunday” had a lot of waterworks. The film…

By JIM VERTUNO Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — An attorney for the parents of a child killed in the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre who…

By DYLAN LOVAN Associated Press LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — The federal government filed civil rights charges Thursday against four Louisville police…

By MARGERY A. BECK Associated Press Three family members killed during a shooting last month at an eastern Iowa state park were shot, stabbed and/or…

By MOGOMOTSI MAGOME Associated Press KRUGERSDORP, South Africa (AP) — Community members in the South African city of Krugersdorp have beaten…

BY DENG MACHOL Associated Press JUBA, South Sudan (AP) — Parties to the peace deal ending South Sudan’s devastating civil war have again delayed…

By ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal grand jury investigating efforts to undo the results of the 2020 presidential election…

LONDON (AP) — More than 700 Amazon warehouse workers in England staged a protest Thursday in a dispute over pay. It’s the latest sign of…

By BRUCE SCHREINER Associated Press HINDMAN, Ky. (AP) — National Guard soldiers rushed to distribute bottled water to flood-ravaged eastern…

By ELIZABETH MONROY Associated Press SABINAS, Mexico (AP) — Efforts to rescue 10 miners trapped in a collapsed and flooded coal mine in northern…

By BASSEM MROUE Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — A large section of Beirut’s giant port grain silos, shredded by a massive explosion two years ago,…

By MATT OTT AP Business Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The average long-term U.S. mortgage rate fell below 5% for the first time in four months this…

By MICHAEL CASEY Associated Press PROCTOR, Vt. (AP) — Weeks after surviving one of the deadliest and most destructive wildfires in California…

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — The Polish foreign ministery has summoned the charge d’affaires of Belarus to express its concern after a Belarusian…

By DAVID KLEPPER and SOPHIA TULP Associated Press In the thick of Kansas’ contentious debate over abortion rights, the anonymous text messages…

CINCINNATI (AP) — There’s a new mouth to feed to at Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden. A full-term hippopotamus was born Wednesday night. The…

By BOBBY CAINA CALVAN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — When camp counselor Allie Tarantino was flipping through a magazine years ago, he came upon…