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SANFORD, Fla. (AP) — A political consultant who is accused of helping put a “ghost candidate” on a ballot to siphon off votes from the…

By ELLEN KNICKMEYER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi flew into Taiwan on an Air Force passenger jet Tuesday,…

BALTIMORE (AP) — Baltimore’s state’s attorney’s office says a grand jury has indicted a 15-year-old boy accused in the fatal…

MUNCIE, Ind. (AP) — A prosecutor says the parents of a 6-year-old eastern Indiana boy who fatally shot his 5-year-old sister in their home each…

By MATTHEW LEE AP Diplomatic Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration has approved two massive arms sales to Saudi Arabia and the United…

By AMANDA SEITZ Associated Press Washington (AP) — The number of people living in America without health insurance coverage hit an all-time low of…

By MIKE SCHNEIDER Associated Press A federal judge has tossed out a public records lawsuit on the 2020 census based on the interpretation of one…

DADEVILLE, Ala. (AP) — Authorities say a 12-year-old girl held captive in a rural Alabama residence escaped, prompting an investigation that led…

By KEVIN FREKING Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A bill enhancing health care and disability benefits for millions of veterans exposed to toxic…

GERING, Neb. (AP) — Fire crews battling a western Nebraska wildfire that has destroyed some homes are looking to the skies with hope and…

By MICHAEL HILL Associated Press ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — The polio virus was detected in wastewater samples from the suburban county near New York City…

HONDO, Texas (AP) — The Texas city near where 19 children and two teachers were shot dead in an elementary school classroom has rescinded a deal…

By BEN FINLEY ASSOCIATED PRESS NORFOLK, Va. (AP) — A special prosecutor in Virginia says that a former police officer should not be criminally…

By BRUCE SCHREINER and DYLAN LOVAN Associated Press FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Kentucky’s two abortion clinics filed a quick appeal Tuesday aimed at…

By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER Associated Press Members of the far-right Oath Keepers’ extremist group charged in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S.…

The Associated Press Benchmark U.S. crude oil for September delivery rose 53 cents to $94.42 a barrel Tuesday. Brent crude for October delivery rose…

By MICHAEL R. BLOOD AP Political Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris have endorsed Karen Bass in the…

GOLDSBORO, N.C. (AP) — Officials say a North Carolina sheriff’s deputy has died after he and two other deputies were shot while trying to serve…

By SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The special investigator hired by Republicans in Wisconsin to review the 2020 election told…

By RUSS BYNUM Associated Press SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — The man who initiated the neighborhood chase that resulted in the fatal shooting of Ahmaud…

By AAMER MADHANI, ZEKE MILLER, NOMAAN MERCHANT and LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration is holding out the…

DALLAS (AP) — A prosecutor says a man who evaded arrest for more than 12 years after being accused of fatally shooting his two teenage daughters in…

By MARK SCOLFORO and MARC LEVY Associated Press HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — A wide expansion of mail-in voting in Pennsylvania has survived a legal…

The Wall Street Journal reports that the husband of former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley and brother of U.S. Rep. Jim Clyburn were given shares of…

Utah man has been arrested on accusations he started a wildfire while trying to burn a spider with his…

NORCO, Calif. (AP) — A man armed with a rifle was shot by a quick-acting convenience store owner who pulled a shotgun out from behind the counter…

By JUSTIN SPIKE Associated Press KRAMATORSK, Ukraine (AP) — Maryna Havrysh struggled to hold back her tears as she helped a group of volunteers…

By TERRY SPENCER Associated Press FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — A grieving father erupted in anger as he told jurors about the daughter school…

By MARK PRATT Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — A former parishioner at a Massachusetts church has filed a lawsuit alleging he was sexually abused as…

By MICHAEL BALSAMO and REBECCA BOONE Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — The Justice Department on Tuesday filed a lawsuit that challenges…

By JIM VERTUNO Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Fighting back tears and finally given the chance to confront conspiracy theorist Alex Jones,…

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden’s “loose cough” has returned as he faces a rebound case of COVID-19, his doctor said Tuesday, though he…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Attorney General Merrick Garland has sworn in the new director of the federal Bureau of Prisons, as the Biden administration…

By MAYSOON KHAN Associated Press/Report for America ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York authorities have lifted a ban that had stopped state prison…

NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — The Cyprus Health Ministry says a 40-year-old man is the east Mediterranean island nation’s first confirmed monkeypox…

By ALICIA RANCILIO Associated Press From a struggling addict in “The Haunting of Hill House” to the guy in “The Invisible Man” who tormented…

By FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A new round of U.S. sanctions targeting Russian elites includes a woman named in news reports…

MADRID (AP) — Spanish authorities say that its leading scientific research body suffered a cyberattack that appears to have its origin in Russia.…

By BHARATHA MALLAWARACHI Associated Press COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lanka’s president says COVID-19 cases and deaths are rising in the…

By WANJOHI KABUKURU Associated Press MOMBASA, Kenya (AP) — African officials outlined their priorities for the upcoming U.N. climate summit,…

NEW YORK (AP) — The crypto division of the online brokerage Robinhood will pay a $30 million penalty to New York state for failing to comply with…

By LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The gunmaker Smith & Wesson is facing new scrutiny from Congress. The House Oversight…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Britain’s Supreme Court on Tuesday refused to prevent a hospital withdrawing life support from a…

By JAY REEVES, MICHAEL PHILLIS and KIM CHANDLER Associated Press HAYNEVILLE, Ala. (AP) — Federal officials announced a pilot program on Tuesday to…

LONDON (AP) — British prosecutors have charged a man with intending to “injure or alarm” Queen Elizabeth II after he was arrested at Windsor…

By ARLEIGH RODGERS and TOM DAVIES Associated Press INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Several doctors have told Indiana lawmakers that physicians fear they could…

BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) — A federal judge in Vermont has ruled that the man charged with killing his mother at sea during a 2016 fishing trip off the…

By LAURAN NEERGAARD AP Medical Writer New research hints that even simple exercise just might help seniors with mild memory problems. While physical…

By SONIA PÉREZ D. Associated Press HUEHUETENANGO, Guatemala (AP) — At dawn, police and federal agents with cover from helicopters flying overhead…

By OMAR FARUK Associated Press MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — A former deputy leader of the al-Shabab extremist group has been named a government…

By BASSEM MROUE Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Judicial officials say Lebanon’s prosecutor general has granted permission for a Syrian ship said…

By MATT ROURKE and SHAWN MARSH Associated Press NATIONAL PARK, N.J. (AP) — Researchers believe they have uncovered in a mass grave in New Jersey…

By SAMYA KULLAB Associated Press BAGHDAD (AP) — Followers of an influential Shiite cleric camped out inside the Iraqi parliament building for a…

By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer NEW YORK (AP) — In addition to opening this month’s Venice Film Festival, Noah Baumbach’s adaptation of Don…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss has been forced into a policy U-turn as she runs to succeed…

By MUNIR AHMED Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan’s elections oversight body has ruled that former Prime Minister Imran Khan accepted…

By JOSHUA GOODMAN Associated Press MIAMI (AP) — It’s one of the seafood industry’s most gruesome hunts. Every year, the fins of as many…

By BRUCE SCHREINER, REBECCA REYNOLDS and BRYNN ANDERSON Associated Press HINDMAN, Ky. (AP) — Withering heat was descending on a region of eastern…

NEW YORK (AP) — State and local poets laureate from Alabama to Hawaii will receive $50,000 grants from the Academy of American Poets for…

By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — The Kremlin says it’s ready for talks with the United States on nuclear arms control even…

The Russian Supreme Court has declared Ukraine’s Azov Regiment a terrorist organization banned in Russia, a designation that may expose Ukrainian…

By JULIE CARR SMYTH Associated Press SANDUSKY, Ohio (AP) — Jim Obergefell is hoping that Democrats can win back seats at the Ohio Statehouse and…

MILAN (AP) — Luxury Italian automaker Ferrari raised its 2022 forecast Tuesday after reporting a 22% increase in second-quarter earnings as sales…

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Hino Motors, a truck maker that’s part of the Toyota group, systematically falsified emissions…

ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan’s military says search teams have found the wreckage of a helicopter that went down the previous day while flying on a…

By RAHIM FAIEZ and MUNIR AHMED Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — The U.S. drone strike that killed al-Qaida leader Ayman al-Zawahri is intensifying…

By DALIA RAMIREZ of NerdWallet As you look through your social media feeds this summer, fear of missing out, or FOMO, can kick in when it seems like…

By LUIGI NAVARRA and LUCA BRUNO Associated Press PORTO TOLLE, Italy (AP) — Drought and unusually hot weather have raised the salinity in Italy’s…

By FOSTER KLUG and MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — The U.S. ambassador in Tokyo says his government is working with Japan and other…

By KELVIN CHAN Associated Press LONDON (AP) — British Airways said Tuesday that it’s suspending sales of short-haul flights from…

NEW DELHI (AP) — India has announced a $100 million line of credit to the Maldives to support development projects. Prime Minister Narendra Modi…

By DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — BP said its earnings from April to June almost tripled from a year earlier, increasing pressure on…