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By MEAD GRUVER Associated Press CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — The U.S. Capitol insurrection dominated Thursday’s debate in Wyoming among U.S. Rep.…

By DAVID RISING and SHEIKH SAALIQ Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — Sri Lanka’s strategic location has attracted outsized interest in the…

By ZEN SOO Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — Chinese leader Xi Jinping arrived Thursday in Hong Kong to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the…

By CHRISTINA LARSON and ANIRUDDHA GHOSAL Associated Press Los Angeles and Mumbai, India, share many superlatives as pinnacles of cinema, fashion, and…

By ELLEN KNICKMEYER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Amos Hochstein, President Joe Biden’s point man for global energy problems, says he knows…

By JESSICA GRESKO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Last week Clarence Thomas achieved two long-sought goals: expanding gun rights and overturning…

By FARNOUSH AMIRI and NUHA DOLBY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — About half of Americans believe former President Donald Trump should be charged…

By MARTHA IRVINE AP National Writer CHICAGO (AP) — There is a large photo of Jonathan Annicks on a wall at the rehab hospital where he was once a…

By DELMER MARTÍNEZ, SONIA PÉREZ D. and CHRISTOPHER SHERMAN Associated Press LAS VEGAS, Honduras (AP) — Families of the more than 60 people packed…

By CAROLYN THOMPSON Associated Press Middle and high school students in California will be able to sleep a little bit later when the new school year…

By FRANLIN BRICEÑO Associated Press LIMA, Peru (AP) — Hipólito Tica had saved for decades to finally build himself a proper house in a working…

By WAYNE PARRY Associated Press ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — The main union for Atlantic City casino workers reached agreements on new contracts with…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — The Nicaraguan government has closed an additional 101 civic and charity groups, including the local branch of the Missionaries…

By COREY WILLIAMS Associated Press WEST BLOOMFIELD, Mich. (AP) — The parents of a teenager wounded during a mass shooting at Oxford High School in…

SAN DIEGO (AP) — Four of five former U.S. naval officers have been convicted of conspiracy, bribery and fraud as part of the “Fat Leonard”…

By JIM GOMEZ Associated Press MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Ferdinand Marcos Jr., the namesake son of an ousted dictator, praised his father’s…

BANGKOK (AP) — Cambodia’s foreign minister is visiting Myanmar as part of regional efforts to pursue peace in the country mired in violence and…

By DON THOMPSON Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — The California Department of Justice says it wrongly made public the personal…

By LORI HINNANT Associated Press PARIS (AP) — Evidence suggests twin Russian airstrikes deliberately targeted a theater being used as a shelter in…

By STEVE KARNOWSKI Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Federal prosecutors want a judge to sentence one of the four former Minneapolis police…

By BOB CHRISTIE Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Arizona’s Republican attorney general says that a pre-statehood law that bans all abortions is…

By DAVID KOENIG AP Airlines Writer DALLAS (AP) — Shareholders of Spirit Airlines will vote next month on a proposed merger with Frontier Airlines.…

SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — Religious leaders and others in Georgia’s oldest city have called for the police chief’s resignation and a federal…

By JONATHAN J. COOPER and BOB CHRISTIE Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Donald Trump has endorsed a Republican running against Arizona House Speaker…

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Officials in Puerto Rico are raising electric rates again — the seventh time in a year amid continuining power…

SAO PAULO (AP) — The head of Brazilian state-run bank Caixa Economica Federal has resigned amid a sexual harassment investigation against him. A…

By ROB MAADDI AP Pro Football Writer The NFL and Deshaun Watson’s legal team presented their arguments before a disciplinary officer for a second…

By DAVID BAUDER AP Media Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Despite a growing recognition of the newspaper industry’s problems among politicians and…

By NOMAAN MERCHANT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection issued a subpoena Wednesday to…

ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) — Authorities say a stolen Olympic gold medal belonging to a member of the 2020 U.S. Women’s Volleyball Team has been found…

By MATTHEW PERRONE AP Health Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. government will purchase another 105 million doses of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine in…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. Security Council has voted to maintain the U.N. peacekeeping mission in…

GALVESTON, Texas (AP) — A man already sentenced to death for an Oklahoma cold-case killing has pleaded guilty to murder in the deaths of two girls…

By TAMMY WEBBER Associated Press An expert says the combination of heat and humidity would have quickly created life-threatening conditions inside…

By JULIE WATSON and FABIOLA SÁNCHEZ Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — The two cousins returned to the tiny, hardscrabble hamlet they grew up in…

By MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A New York judge has ruled that former President Donald Trump is no longer in contempt of…

By HALELUYA HADERO NEW YORK (AP) — Amazon is limiting how many emergency contraceptives consumers can buy, joining other retailers who put in place…

MEETEETSE, Wyo. (AP) — A distress signal initially thought to be from a crashed aircraft led searchers to a backpacker who’d been mauled by a…

RABAT, Morocco (AP) — Activists on Wednesday urged Morocco to launch an unbiased investigation into the deaths of at least 23 migrants who…

By JAY REEVES and EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A team searching a Mississippi courthouse basement for evidence about…

By MARK SHERMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The first Black woman confirmed for the Supreme Court, Ketanji Brown Jackson, is officially…

By KEVIN McGILL Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Arizona’s Republican attorney general says a total abortion ban that has been on the books…

ASHGABAT, Turkmenistan (AP) — Leaders of the five countries along the Caspian Sea have reaffirmed their shared commitment to keep foreign…

By JULIE CARR SMYTH Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Laws banning most abortions at the point of the “first detectable heartbeat” are…

By The Associated Press V is for vaccine. Elmo got a COVID-19 vaccine Tuesday, according to Sesame Workshop, the nonprofit educational organization…

SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — Cain Velasquez, the former UFC heavyweight champion accused of trying to kill the man he claims molested his 4-year-old…

By GRANT SCHULTE and MICHELLE L. PRICE Associated Press LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A special election in Nebraska that was supposed to be an easy win for…

By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — A former University of Southern California soccer coach who took bribes in exchange for…

By MARINA VILLENEUVE Associated Press ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York leaders plan to ban people from carrying firearms into many places of business…

By GEOFF MULVIHILL and AMY FORLITI Associated Press The Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe v. Wade has set off a frenzy of activity in…

By KEN RITTER Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — Cristiano Ronaldo wants a U.S. judge to order a woman’s lawyer to pay the international soccer…

MENDON, Mo. (AP) — Authorities have identified the four people killed when an Amtrak passenger train collided with a dump truck earlier this week…

BERLIN (AP) — A German court has ruled that a driver should pay more than the usual fine for running a red light because he was driving a sports…

By PHILIP MARCELO Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — Great white shark researchers on Cape Cod are reminding visitors that warmer weather signals not…

By FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Mohegan Chief Marilynn “Lynn” Malerba, the nation’s first Native American U.S.…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. special envoy for Congo is warning that the M23 rebel group has increasingly…

CIUDAD VICTORIA, Mexico (AP) — A journalist was shot to death in northeastern Mexico as he was leaving his house with his 23-year-old daughter, who…

By ADAM BEAM Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California lawmakers have approved a nearly $308 billion spending plan. Lawmakers on…

By JOHN RABY Associated Press CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — Hershel W. “Woody” Williams, the last remaining Medal of Honor recipient from World War…

By JEFFREY COLLINS Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Once prominent and soon-to-be disbarred South Carolina lawyer Alex Murdaugh has been…

By TERRY SPENCER Associated Press FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — A jury of seven men and five women have been sworn in for the penalty trial of…

BERLIN (AP) — The daughter of two Malian refugees has become the first Black member of a state government in Germany. Aminata Touré was named…

YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK, Wyo. (AP) — A Colorado man who Yellowstone National Park officials say got too close to a bison was thrown by the animal…

By JOSEPH KRAUSS Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, who led a broad but fragile coalition government that…

PARIS (AP) — A Paris court has ruled against extraditing to Italy 10 former left-wing militants, including some former Red Brigades members,…

BRIDGEPORT, Calif. (AP) — California authorities say a Sierra Nevada wildfire has destroyed one building and is a threat to 250 homes and other…

By MATTHEW BROWN Associated Press BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — The U.S. government this week is holding its first onshore oil and gas drilling lease…

By MICHAEL PHILLIS and JULIO CORTEZ Associated Press POOLESVILLE, Md. (AP) — People who work to protect rivers and waterways have begun using…