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TOLAR, Texas (AP) — One firefighter has suffered burns and two others have been treated for heat exhaustion while fighting a new North Texas…

By BOB CHRISTIE Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Officials in an Arizona county are vowing to overhaul their election procedures after a shortage of…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Chrissy Teigen and her husband John Legend are expecting another child nearly two years after the couple suffered a pregnancy…

By KEN RITTER Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — A Las Vegas-based corporate owner of thousands of residential rental properties in several U.S.…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — A journalist was among four people killed inside a beer shop in central Mexico, the 13th media worker killed in the country this…

CENTRAL ISLIP, N.Y. (AP) — A former schoolteacher from suburban New York City has been sentenced to 30 months in prison for mailing dozens of…

HAMPSHIRE, Ill. (AP) — Illinois State Police say an eighth person has died from a fiery crash involving a wrong-way car on an interstate in…

By MICHAEL LIEDTKE and OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ Associated Press BERKELEY, Calif. (AP) — A group of protesters broke through an 8-foot chain fence erected…

By LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration has filed its first legal challenge to a state abortion ban since…

GONZALES, La. (AP) — A Louisiana judge has refused to set any bond for rapper Mystikal, who is accused of raping and choking a woman at his home…

By ALAN FRAM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans see inflation, taxes and immigration as Democratic weak spots worth attacking in the…

By BOB CHRISTIE Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Arizona voters relegated House Speaker Rusty Bowers to the history books after the conservative…

By GABE STERN Associated Press/Report for America RENO, Nev. (AP) — County commissioners in rural Nevada have appointed a new top election official…

By FRANKLIN BRICEÑO Associated Press LIMA, Peru (AP) — Peru’s prime minister has announced his resignation, adding to political uncertainty in…

By BOB CHRISTIE and CHRISTINA A. CASSIDY Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — The Trump-endorsed state lawmaker who won the GOP nomination for Arizona…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United Nations chief says he is appointing a fact-finding mission in response to…

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — The Oglala Sioux Tribe is requiring churches and missionaries to register with the tribe before entering the Pine Ridge…

By DOUG FERGUSON AP Golf Writer The dispute between the PGA Tour and the Saudi-funded LIV Golf series is now in the courts. Phil Mickelson and Bryson…

By BRIAN SLODYSKO and TOM DAVIES Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican U.S. Rep. Jackie Walorski has been killed in a car accident in her…

By ROB MAADDI AP Pro Football Writer The NFL is seeking an indefinite suspension of at least one year plus a fine in appealing a disciplinary…

OXFORD, Mich. (AP) — An attorney suing a Michigan school district following a mass shooting at its high school says an armed security officer told…

By ANDREW DeMILLO Associated Press LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — An Arkansas panel has blocked a recreational marijuana proposal from appearing on the…

By JOHN RABY Associated Press CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A federal judge has ruled that West Virginia’s Medicaid program must provide coverage for…

By TERRY SPENCER and FREIDA FRISARO Associated Press FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — A Girl Scout and avid reader. A trombone player who loved movies…

By JEFF AMY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia Republican Herschel Walker has accepted an invitation in his U.S. Senate race to debate…

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The remains of two children killed in the 1985 bombing of a Philadelphia home used as the headquarters of a Black radical group…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Dr. Meredith Grey will be cutting back her workload on “Grey’s Anatomy.” Series star Ellen Pompeo is set to appear in…

By RACHEL LA CORTE Associated Press OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — The two Republican members of Congress from Washington who drew interparty challenges due…

By MICHAEL BALSAMO Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The Justice Department has filed suit against Peter Navarro, claiming the former adviser to…

By STEPHEN GROVES Associated Press SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — A South Dakota government ethics board on Wednesday pressed forward in its…

By MICHAEL BIESECKER and HELEN WIEFFERING Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Environmental Protection Agency says it will conduct helicopter…

By STEVE PEOPLES AP National Politics Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Democrats displayed a newfound sense of optimism about the election-year political…

By MARGARET STAFFORD Associated Press Two Kansas state lawmakers who have faced legal troubles since they were elected have lost their primary races.…

By KEN MILLER Associated Press OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The Oklahoma Board of Pardon and Parole is recommending clemency for death row inmate James…

By ANDREW WELSH-HUGGINS Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The six officers who shot and killed an active shooter in Dayton 32 seconds after…

MILWAUKEE (AP) — A recent decision by a Wisconsin school district to ban pride flags and the use of pronouns in emails has released an avalanche of…

By DENISE LAVOIE AP Legal Affairs Writer RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — With the suspects now facing federal gun charges, a judge has dismissed state gun…

The Associated Press Benchmark U.S. crude oil for September delivery fell $3.76 to $90.66 a barrel Wednesday. Brent crude for October delivery fell…

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — A federal oversight board is ordering the United Mine Workers of America to pay more than $13 million in compensation to an…

By TRAVIS LOLLER Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A federal judge in Tennessee has extended a restraining order against 10 anti-abortion…

By MATTHEW LEE AP Diplomatic Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S.-China relations are teetering on a precipice after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s visit…

By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — A civil rights lawsuit accuses a suburban Boston police officer of pinning a Black man to…

MINEOLA, N.Y. (AP) — The driver in a hit-and-run crash that killed the father of rapper Nicki Minaj last year was sentenced Wednesday to a year in…

By RAHIM FAIEZ Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — A Taliban official says a gunbattle in Afghanistan’s capital of Kabul left at least five people…

By HOLLY RAMER Associated Press CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — A survivor of a crash that killed seven fellow members of a Marine motorcycle club…

GERING, Neb. (AP) — Fire crews made substantial headway in containing a western Nebraska wildfire that earlier destroyed some homes. Ben Bohall…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United Nations chief sharply criticized the “grotesque greed” of oil and gas…

TITUSVILLE, Fla. (AP) — A woman with an open bottle of Jack Daniel’s whiskey in a bag was arrested for driving a golf cart on Florida’s…

By QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA and SAMYA KULLAB Associated Press BAGHDAD (AP) — Influential Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr has told his followers to continue…

By KRISTIN M. HALL AP Entertainment Writer NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Country singer Brooke Eden is deep in love and ready to get married, but it was…

ROCHESTER, N.Y. (AP) — The 21-year-old man accused of killing an upstate New York police officer and wounding his partner has been charged with…

BERLIN (AP) — Chancellor Olaf Scholz says that extending the life of Germany’s three remaining nuclear reactors beyond the end of this year…

LONDON (AP) — New coronavirus cases fell 9% globally last week while deaths remained stable. That’s according to the latest weekly assessment…

By JEFF AMY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Federal regulators say a nuclear power plant being built in Georgia can begin loading radioactive fuel…

YEREVAN, Armenia (AP) — Clashes between Armenian and Azerbaijani forces have reignited in the separatist region of Nagorno-Karabakh.…

By SCOTT BAUER Associated Press PEWAUKEE, Wis. (AP) — Former Vice President Mike Pence is campaigning with his pick in battleground Wisconsin’s…

By SIBI ARASU Associated Press BENGALURU, India (AP) — Nine months after India announced its target of “net zero” emissions by 2070 at the…

By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer NEW YORK (AP) — In a highly unusual move that rattled Hollywood, Warner Bros. axed the “Batgirl” film planned for…

PARIS (AP) — Local officials in southwest France say an explosion at a plant that produces a component of ammunition injured eight people, one of…

By MARK PRATT Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — The Christian flag that became the focus of a free speech legal battle that went all the way to the…

By SAMY MAGDY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — The United Nations has painted a grim picture for Sudan’s humanitarian situation. It says Wednesday…

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The husband of U.S. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi pleaded not guilty Wednesday to misdemeanor driving under the influence…

By JONATHAN MATTISE Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Nashville’s metro council has dealt what’s likely final blow to hosting the…

By YURAS KARMANAU Associated Press TALINN, Estonia (AP) — A court in Belarus has sentenced yet another independent journalist to a lengthy prison…

By MATTHEW DALY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Environmental Protection Agency is warning residents who live near medical sterilizing…

By COREY WILLIAMS Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — State Rep. Shri Thanedar has won Michigan’s 13th Congressional Democratic primary, topping a…

RENO, Nev. (AP) — Authorities say bats have infested a Nevada fire station for the second time in seven years, forcing its temporary closure. A…

By RAQUEL REDONDO Associated Press MADRID (AP) — Police in Spain are investigating about 50 reported cases of women getting pricked with medical…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Los Angeles City Council has voted to ban homeless encampments within 500 feet of schools and daycare centers. The council…

By LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer It may be common etiquette to not spoil the end of a film, but Ron Howard learned years ago on “Apollo 13” that…

REYKJAVIK, Iceland (AP) — A volcano in southwest Iceland began erupting Wednesday, the country’s meteorological authorities said — just eight…

By TOM MURPHY AP Health Writer Better-than-expected COVID-19 vaccine sales pushed Moderna past Wall Street’s second-quarter forecasts. The company…