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By SUMMER BALLENTINE and JIM SALTER Associated Press COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt has defeated scandal-scarred…

By JOHN HANNA and MARGARET STAFFORD Associated Press TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas voters on Tuesday sent a resounding message about their desire to…

By JOHN HANNA and HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH Associated Press TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Republicans have nominated Kris Kobach for Kansas attorney general,…

By SARA BURNETT Associated Press Businesswoman and conservative commentator Tudor Dixon has won the Republican primary for Michigan governor. The win…

By MICHAEL TARM AP Legal Affairs Writer CHICAGO (AP) — Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones arrived at the start of his Texas defamation trial for…

PANAMA CITY (AP) — Panama’s teachers will return to the classroom Tuesday after a month-long strike supported by a number of other sectors that…

By GABRIELA SELSER Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — Nicaraguan authorities have ordered the closures of six radio stations belonging to the…

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres plans to attend the 77th anniversary of the world’s first atomic bombing in…

By ZEKE MILLER and AAMER MADHANI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — As the sun was rising in Kabul on Sunday, two Hellfire missiles fired by a U.S.…

By SCOTT SONNER Associated Press RENO, Nev._ (AP) — The developer of a geothermal power plant facing legal challenges in Nevada has agreed to…

By TOM HAYS Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Authorities have charged a man with lurking near the New York City home of an Iranian dissident with…

By ZEKE MILLER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is set to name top officials from the Federal Emergency Management Agency and…

By COLLEEN SLEVIN Associated Press DENVER (AP) — A wealthy dentist accused of fatally shooting his wife at the end of an African safari has been…

ANDERSON, Ind. (AP) — Investigators say a man accused of fatally shooting an Indiana police officer during a traffic stop had made a song about…

By SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Republican candidate for Wisconsin governor endorsed by Donald Trump would not commit to…

By DON THOMPSON Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California’s governor on Monday declared a state of emergency to speed efforts to…

By ELLEN KNICKMEYER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A U.S. drone strike in Afghanistan this weekend killed Ayman al-Zawahri, who helped Osama…

By LEE KEATH Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — The doors of jihad opened for Ayman al-Zawahri as a young doctor in a Cairo clinic. That’s when a…

IONIA, Mich. (AP) — A woman has been charged with causing the deaths of two bicyclists who were struck by her vehicle while riding in a weekend…

By CLAIRE RUSH Associated Press/Report for America SEATTLE (AP) — Oregon authorities are investigating four additional deaths potentially linked to…

By MARY CLARE JALONICK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A bipartisan group of senators is pushing compromise legislation to restore abortion…

By FARNOUSH AMIRI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Top congressional Democrats have requested sit-down interviews and internal documents from the…

By LEE KEATH Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — The doors of jihad opened for Ayman al-Zawahri as a young doctor in a Cairo clinic. That’s when a…

DETROIT (AP) — FCA US, formerly known as Chrysler Group, was placed on probation for three years. It also was ordered to pay roughly $300 million…

By TERRY SPENCER Associated Press FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Family members from three of Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz’s 17 victims gave…

By JANET McCONNAUGHEY Associated Press A Louisiana sheriff says rapper Mystikal is again accused of rape. Ascension Parish Sheriff Bobby Webre said…

By KATHLEEN RONAYNE Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Leasing for new oil and gas drilling on federal land in central California is…

By FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Treasury Department is seeking to borrow $444 billion in the current quarter through…

By ZEKE MILLER and DARLENE SUPERVILLE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — It’s back to the White House balcony and the Treaty Room for President…

By DEE-ANN DURBIN AP Business Writer The National Labor Relations Board has dismissed a charge Starbucks filed against union organizers in Phoenix.…

By ALAN FRAM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Democratic Sen. Kyrsten Sinema’s views remained a mystery Monday as party leaders eyed votes…

GERING, Neb. (AP) — A wildfire that has forced evacuations and destroyed some homes in the Nebraska Panhandle grew to about 25 square miles, but…

By TODD RICHMOND Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Conservatives online are raising questions about a Wisconsin municipality’s mobile…

By DAVID PITT Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — An Iowa-based youth basketball league has agreed to settle a class-action lawsuit filed by…

By MATTHEW BARAKAT Associated Press ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) — A Dutch woman has been sentenced to three years in prison for donating several hundred…

By ELLIOT SPAGAT Associated Press SAN DIEGO (AP) — The Supreme Court has certified its month-old ruling allowing the Biden administration to end a…

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — West Virginia cities and counties have reached a $400 million tentative settlement with three major U.S. drug…

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — A New Mexico jury has convicted a man in the 2016 death of an Albuquerque girl who was strangled, dismembered and set on…

JERUSALEM (AP) — The Palestinian Health Ministry says at least one Palestinian has been killed and another wounded during an Israeli military raid…

By SARA CLINE Associated Press BATON ROUGE (AP) — For weeks, access to abortion in Louisiana has been flickering — with the state’s three…

MADRID (AP) — Spain has approved a new set of energy-saving measures that includes prohibiting air conditioning to be set lower than 27 degrees…

By SONNY FIGUEROA Associated Press GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — A prize-winning Guatemalan journalist jailed on alleged money laundering charges that…

By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A Texas man convicted of storming the U.S. Capitol with a holstered handgun, helmet and…

By AL-HADJI KUDRA MALIRO Associated Press BENI, Congo (AP) — Police have dispersed about 100 demonstrators in Congo’s eastern town of Beni. The…

HUDSON, Wis. (AP) — A 52-year-old Minnesota man was charged Monday with killing a teenager and stabbing four other people in a dispute that…

The Associated Press Benchmark U.S. crude oil for September delivery fell $4.73 to $93.89 a barrel Monday. Brent crude for October delivery fell…

GOLDSBORO, N.C. (AP) — Authorities say three North Carolina sheriff’s deputies were shot and wounded while trying to serve involuntary commitment…

By SETH BORENSTEIN AP Science Writer Experts are ignoring the worst possible climate change catastrophic scenarios, including collapse of society or…

DALLAS (AP) — A man who evaded arrest for over 12 years after being accused of fatally shooting his two teen daughters in a taxi parked near a…

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Authorities investigating the apparent drowning death of a senator in Paraguay say signs point to an accidental fall…

By ROB MAADDI AP Pro Football Writer When two separate Texas grand juries declined to indict Deshaun Watson on criminal complaints stemming from…

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poles are marking the 78th anniversary of the Warsaw Uprising, a doomed revolt against Nazi German forces during World War…

By JIM VERTUNO Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The parents of a Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting victim live with a complex form of…

By JOSH BOAK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden will soon be signing into law a major bill to revive the U.S. computer chip…

By EMILY ROSE Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — An Israeli government’s investigation into the use of powerful eavesdropping technology by…

By JOEY CAPPELLETTI Associated Press/Report for America LANSING, Mich. (AP) — A judge has blocked enforcement of a 1931 Michigan ban on abortion.…

By RUSS BYNUM Associated Press SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — A small enclave of slave descendants on the Georgia coast has settled a lawsuit that claimed…

By STEVE LeBLANC Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — A Massachusetts bill aimed at recasting the state’s gun laws in the wake of last month’s…

By REBECCA REYNOLDS Associated Press LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Another round of rainstorms are hitting flooded Kentucky mountain communities. The rain…

By JIM HEINTZ Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — Since Brittney Griner last appeared in her trial for cannabis possession, the question of her fate has…

By JEFFREY COLLINS Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A trial is starting in South Carolina where lawyers for several death row prisoners are…

By The Associated Press This week’s new entertainment releases include new music from Calvin Harris and a host of his musical friends, the…

By ASHRAF KHALIL Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Department of Housing and Urban Development is providing $2.8 billion in fresh funding for…

By JOSH BOAK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Five weeks ago, senior Biden administration aides gathered for their regular Thursday morning…

By DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — In soccer-mad England, which sees itself as the home of the world’s game, women and girls finally…

By EDGAR H. CLEMENTE Associated Press TAPACHULA, Mexico (AP) — An alleged migrant smuggler has been killed by police near the Mexico-Guatemala…

By HANNAH SCHOENBAUM Associated Press/Report for America RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — The North Carolina State Board of Elections has unanimously voted to…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Tropical Storm Frank continues to weaken well off Mexico’s Pacific coast after reaching hurricane strength over the weekend.…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United Nations chief is warning that “humanity is just one misunderstanding, one…

DEATH VALLEY NATIONAL PARK, Calif. (AP) — Some roads in and out of Death Valley National Park have been closed after they were inundated over the…

MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Newly elected President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. says the Philippines has no plan to rejoin the International Criminal…

By JOHN FLESHER, CHRISTINA LARSON and PATRICK WHITTLE Associated Press GLEN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) — Concealed behind trees near Lake Michigan, two…

ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan’s military says an army helicopter flying in a rescue and relief mission in the country’s flood-stricken southwest…

By KATE BRUMBACK Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham is challenging a subpoena to testify before a special grand jury…

AITKIN, Minn. (AP) — A trial in Minnesota is expected to decide whether a woman’s human rights were violated when a pharmacist denied her request…

By JAMES MacPHERSON Associated Press BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — Authorities say a man who was serving life sentences for killing four people at a North…

By BASSEM MROUE Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanese officials and a U.S. envoy say Lebanon and Israel are getting closer to reaching a deal in…

BOSTON (AP) — Massachusetts lawmakers have reached a deal on a bill that would legalize betting on professional and collegiate sports, joining more…

By AYA BATRAWY Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A veteran of Kuwait’s national oil company has taken over as secretary general…

HOLDENVILLE, Okla. (AP) — Officials say a corrections officer has died after being attacked by an inmate at an Oklahoma prison. The attack on…

By KIMBERLY PALMER of NerdWallet With high inflation and economic uncertainty, it’s easy to feel stressed out about money. But financial experts…