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By NASSER KARIMI and VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV Associated Press TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin won staunch support from Iran on…

By GREG BEACHAM AP Sports Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Juan Soto bet heavily on his own talent and health by turning down a massive, long-term…

By KRISHAN FRANCIS Associated Press COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lanka’s prime minister and acting president Ranil Wickremesinghe faces two…

By HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH Associated Press Freddy Fernandez almost wasn’t here, on his couch in his Missouri home, his baby on his lap, gnawing on…

By LISA MASCARO AP Congressional Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. House overwhelmingly approved legislation Tuesday to protect same-sex and…

By BRIAN WITTE Associated Press ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — Dan Cox, a far-right state legislator endorsed by former President Donald Trump, won the…

By ALAN FRAM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrats will push ahead on restraining pharmaceutical prices and extending health insurance…

By ANNIE MA New research shows students largely made academic gains this past year that paralleled their growth pre-pandemic and outpaced the…

MANILA, Philippines (AP) — The East Asia Super League has started production on a reality TV series covering the inaugural season of the…

JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — An Indonesian military jet crashed on a nighttime training mission on the main island of Java, killing its pilot. The…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Investigators said another autopsy of a young woman whose mysterious death shocked Mexico has shown that she died of asphyxia by…

By KRUTIKA PATHI and BHARATHA MALLAWARACHI Associated Press COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — A day after Sri Lanka’s president fled, Mohamed Ishad…

By FARNOUSH AMIRI and MARY CLARE JALONICK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Two former White House aides are expected to testify at the House Jan.…

By BRUCE SCHREINER Associated Press LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — U.S. Sen. Rand Paul is accusing Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell of cutting a…

By STEFANIE DAZIO Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Thieves broke into an unattended Brink’s tractor-trailer parked at a remote Southern…

By ANDREA RODRÍGUEZ Associated Press HAVANA (AP) — The young people come and go on their electric motorcycles at this highway outside Cuba’s…

Associated Press QUITO, Ecuador (AP) — Officials say a riot in an Ecuadorian prison has left at least 13 inmates dead, more than two months after a…

By LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press A total of 376 officers converged on Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas — more than the entire police…

By BEN FINLEY Associated Press Archaeologists in Virginia have begun excavating three suspected graves at the original site of one of the nation’s…

By JIM VERTUNO Associated Press A massive but uncoordinated and chaotic law enforcement response. A “regrettable” culture of noncompliance on…

By MICHAEL BALSAMO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal prosecutors said Monday they have declined to bring charges against nine people…

By CALEB JONES Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — Towering waves on Hawaii’s south shores crashed into homes and businesses, spilled across…

By KEVIN FREKING Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Key Republicans are warming up to passing a bill that provides roughly $52 billion in…

By MAURICIO SAVARESE Associated Press SAO PAULO (AP) — Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro has invited dozens of diplomats to the presidential…

By BOBBY CAINA CALVAN and MARC LEVY The Associated Press A man firing a rifle killed shoppers at an Indiana mall’s food court. A gunfight at a…

By ADRIAN SAINZ Associated Press MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — A Tennessee judge has ordered a mental evaluation for a man police say had planned a mass…

Russia’s parliament has moved to tighten already stringent restrictions on the discussion of LGBTQ rights and relationships. A draft bill calls for…

By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN Associated Press ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Federal investigators say evidence indicates that a helicopter that crashed in New…

By NICHOLAS RICCARDI Associated Press DENVER (AP) — The Republican nominee for Colorado governor is naming an election denier as her running mate.…

By BERNARD CONDON Associated Press The Uvalde, Texas, gunman gave off so many warning signs that he was obsessed with violence and notoriety in the…

By AMY BETH HANSON Associated Press HELENA, Mont. (AP) — A new report found that a California woman who was fatally mauled by a grizzly bear in…

By JEFF AMY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Groups challenging Georgia’s 2021 voting law are asking a federal judge to block a ban on giving…

By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The Mississippi abortion clinic at the center of a U.S. Supreme Court case that…

ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — The U.S. Naval Academy says a midshipman from Texas has died after falling over a waterfall in Chile. The academy says…

By LINDSEY TANNER AP Medical Writer Many OB-GYNs, including some who perform abortions, are celebrating a decision that allows them to avoid…

By MICHAEL BALSAMO and MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The outgoing director of the Bureau of Prisons has been subpoenaed to…

TWIN FALLS, Idaho (AP) — The Idaho Republican Party has rejected adding language to their platform to allow an abortion to save the life of the…

By TODD RICHMOND Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The National Rifle Association has issued a stinging rebuke after Wisconsin Republican…

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Philadelphia police are looking for a man they say raped a woman on a subway platform while holding her boyfriend at gunpoint.…

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — A judge has scheduled sentencing this week for a former Minneapolis police officer convicted of violating George Floyd’s…

By AMY BETH HANSON Associated Press HELENA, Mont. (AP) — Officials say that a 3-year-old was among the six people killed in last week’s…

By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer NEW YORK (AP) — There’s little in contemporary movies quite like the arrival of a new Jordan Peele film. They tend…

By LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. will spend $1.3 billion to develop advanced satellites that will be able to better…

ELLEN KNICKMEYER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Ukraine’s first lady has arrived in Washington for her highest-profile event since Russian…

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — San Francisco police say they have arrested an Oakland man for allegedly reporting a false bomb threat over the weekend…

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Alaska State Troopers have have halted their search for a missing woman whose 2-year-old grandchild was found alone last…

By STEFANIE DAZIO Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Prosecutors plan to charge a Los Angeles man in connection with three murders across Southern…

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A North Carolina-based insurance magnate whose convictions on corruption-related counts were overturned by a federal appeals…

By KAREN MATTHEWS Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A group of Sept. 11 victims’ family members who have long accused Saudi Arabia of aiding the…

By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer NEW YORK (AP) — There’s little in contemporary movies quite like the arrival of a new Jordan Peele film. They…

By MARÍA VERZA Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — A Mexican judge’s ruling means the extradition of drug trafficker Rafael Caro Quintero,…

MOUNT VERNON, Wash. (AP) — A customer and an employee of a Walmart were shot and injured along with three young men who authorities said were…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Britain’s Prince Harry is challenging people everywhere to adopt Nelson Mandela’s…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Dr. Anthony Fauci, the government’s top infectious disease expert, says he plans to retire by the end of President Joe…

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — A former Little Rock, Arkansas, police chief who fired his gun at an armed suspect on New Year’s Eve won’t…

By The Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Pop artist Claes Oldenburg, who turned the mundane into the monumental through his outsized sculptures of a…

By KATE BRUMBACK Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Republican U.S. Rep. Jody Hice of Georgia is fighting a subpoena seeking to have him testify…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Interior Department says Secretary Deb Haaland is recovering after breaking her leg in a hiking accident Sunday in…

By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — One of The Chainsmokers’ latest hits is “High” and they’re hoping to live up to…

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says his country can still “freeze” Sweden and Finland’s membership in NATO…

By LEAH WILLINGHAM Associated Press CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A judge in West Virginia’s capital has blocked enforcement of the state’s…

TIRANA, Albania (AP) — Albania says its government webpage and all those of its public institutions have been closed following a cyberattack from…

MADRID (AP) — When Francisco Seoane’s train unexpectedly stopped in Spanish countryside, he and other passengers got a fright when they looked…

By NICHOLAS K. GERANIOS Associated Press COEUR D’ALENE, Idaho (AP) — Six of the 31 members of a white supremacist group who were arrested…

By VESELIN TOSHKOV Associated Press SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) — Bulgarian President Rumen Radev has handed a mandate to the third-largest political…