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By STAN CHOE and ALEX VEIGA AP Business Writers Stocks racked up more gains on Wall Street Friday, as the S&P 500 had its best day in two years…

By HARUKA NUGA Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — The U.S. Navy’s top commander in the Pacific and the Japanese defense minister say that close…

By LAURIE KELLMAN Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — There’s no plaque on the gate of the U.S. ambassador’s new residence in Jerusalem, no Stars…

By ALAN FRAM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The House has sent President Joe Biden the most wide-ranging gun violence bill Congress has passed…

By DEEPTI HAJELA Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — LGBTQ Pride commemorations that sometimes felt like victory parties for civil rights gains are…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s leadership of the Conservative party has suffered a heavy…

By JENNIFER McDERMOTT Associated Press PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — The Supreme Court’s decision overturning a gun-permitting law in New York has…

By PHILIP MARCELO Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — He was the uncle I never met. But in my family’s origin story, Emmanuel “Manny” Yap…

By MEG KINNARD Associated Press CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — Two days after losing a bitter primary to a rival she once deemed a “sellout” for…

By KEN RITTER, GABE STERN and SCOTT SONNER Associated Press RENO, Nev. (AP) — Counties across Nevada on Friday certified the last outstanding…

By ZEINA KARAM and DAVID RISING Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanon and Sri Lanka may be a world apart, but they share a history of political…

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — China’s ambassador to Australia says the then-Australian government fired the…

By LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer Jenny Slate and Dean Fleischer-Camp were at a bit of a career crossroads when they manifested Marcel, a one-inch-tall…

By TODD RICHMOND Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A man accused of driving his SUV through a Christmas parade in suburban Milwaukee has served…

QUITO, Ecuador (AP) — One man has been killed in Ecuador’s capital and dozens injured during the 12th day of protets led by Indigenous people…

By ANDREW DALTON AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — A judge has issued a bench warrant for an eyewitness to the shooting death of rapper…

By JOHNSON LAI and HUIZHONG WU Associated Press TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — For Lam Wing-kee, a Hong Kong bookstore owner who was detained by police in…

By ASHOK SHARMA Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — India has sent a technical team to Kabul to coordinate the delivery of humanitarian assistance…

OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Police in San Francisco are searching for a man who shot and killed one person and wounded another inside a…

By BRIAN MAHONEY AP Basketball Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The question for weeks leading into the NBA draft was whether the first pick would be Paolo…

NAPA, Calif. (AP) — Paul Pelosi, the husband of Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, has been charged with driving under the influence by prosecutors…

By MAURICIO SAVARESE Associated Press SAO PAULO (AP) — A Brazilian federal judge has released a former education minister of President Jair…

By SETH BORENSTEIN AP Science Writer From the normally chilly Russian Arctic to the traditionally sweltering American South, big swaths of the…

BOWLING GREEN, Ohio (AP) — The family of a student who died from alcohol poisoning while pledging a fraternity has sued Bowling Green State…

By KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has doubled down on his nuclear arms buildup to…

By JOHN WAWROW AP Sports Writer BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — A New York state supreme court judge has set bail at $100,000 for a Canisius College…

CHICAGO (AP) — A prosecutor has asked a federal judge to sentence Jerry Harris, former star of the Netflix documentary series “Cheer,” to 15…

By BRUCE SCHREINER Associated Press The company that operated a Kentucky candle factory leveled by a deadly tornado last winter is planning to ramp…

By JESSICA GRESKO and MARK SHERMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court has issued its biggest gun rights ruling in more than a…

By DÉBORA ÁLVARES and MAURICIO SAVARESE Associated Press BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — Brazilian prosecutors say a raped 11-year-old girl got a lawful…

By ANDREW DeMILLO Associated Press LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — The family of an unarmed Arkansas teenager fatally shot by a sheriff’s deputy…

By ASTRID SUÁREZ Associated Press BOGOTÁ, Colombia (AP) — President-elect Gustavo Petro, who has vowed to lift up Colombia’s poor and…

By The Associated Press The U.S. Supreme Court has struck down a New York state law that had restricted who could obtain a permit to carry a gun in…

By LISA MASCARO and MARY CLARE JALONICK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The House Jan. 6 committee used Thursday’s hearing to show how…

By KIM CHANDLER Associated Press MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama officials have approved a $725 million bond sale to help finance the construction…

By PHILIP MARCELO Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — Harvard has returned a tomahawk once owned by a pioneering Native American civil rights leader to…

Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp and his Democratic challenger Stacey Abrams continued their bidding war on public safety Thursday. Abrams is proposing a big…

By COLLIN BINKLEY AP Education Writer The Biden administration has agreed to cancel $6 billion in student loans for about 200,000 former students who…

By GARY D. ROBERTSON Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina House Republicans are pitching a plan that could authorize expanding…

HOUSTON (AP) — An effort by Houston area officials to thank residents for taking part in the jury selection process has ended with a mistrial in a…

By KEVIN FREKING Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Dr. Deborah Birx says the lack of clear, concise and consistent message in the earliest months…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Authorities in western Mexico say four police were shot to death after being lured into an ambush and as many as eight suspects…

By ALAN FRAM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate easily approved a bipartisan gun violence bill Thursday that seemed unthinkable a month…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Senior UN officials say the earthquake in Afghanistan has added another emergency facing…

By MATTHEW LEE and NOMAAN MERCHANT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The State Department is preparing to compensate victims of mysterious brain…

By KEN RITTER Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — Elected officials in a rural Nevada county have decided to postpone until Friday certifying results…

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — NASA says it has finished testing its huge moon rocket. The space agency said Thursday it will move the 30-story rocket…

By JOHN FLESHER AP Environmental Writer TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) — The Biden administration is dropping a rule adopted under former President…

BROOKSVILLE, Fla. (AP) — Authorities say two men drowned while on a diving expedition in a Florida cave system that extends deep below the surface.…

By CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Nigeria is grappling with widespread fuel shortages that are forcing motorists to spend…

By ADAM BEAM and DON THOMPSON Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — The California Senate has rejected a proposal to ban involuntary servitude…

By MICHAEL BALSAMO, ERIC TUCKER and NOMAAN MERCHANT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal agents searched a former top Justice Department…

By MATTHEW DALY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Groups representing the oil industry and refiners say a meeting with Energy Secretary Jennifer…

BEIRUT (AP) — Aid agencies say that if the U.N. Security Council does not extend its approval of deliveries to rebel-held parts of northwestern…

JACKSON, Mich. (AP) — A Republican U.S. representative says he believes abortion rights activists may be behind vandalism at the building his…

By BOBBY CAINA CALVAN and MARINA VILLENEUVE Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — New York’s Democratic leaders aim to preserve as many restrictions…

By CHRISTINA LARSON AP Science Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Scientists have discovered the world’s largest bacterium in a Caribbean mangrove…

By PHILIP MARCELO Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — A Connecticut woman who says she’s descended from slaves shown in widely published,…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A California judge has approved a request by Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s adult daughter to change her name and gender on her birth…

By JAMES POLLARD Associated Press/Report for America A former nursing director pleaded guilty Thursday to lying to federal agents in South Carolina…

By BARBARA ORTUTAY and MATT O’BRIEN AP Technology Writers Instagram is testing new ways to verify the age of people using its service,…

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Authorities say a knife-wielding patient has fatally stabbed one person and wounded another inside a Las Vegas hospital. Metro…

By CHRISTINA A. CASSIDY and MORGAN LEE Associated Press SANTA FE, New Mexico (AP) — A rural New Mexico county’s initial refusal to certify…

By FREIDA FRISARO and BRENDAN FARRINGTON Associated Press FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — The Publix supermarket chain isn’t offering the…

By The Associated Press Nike will fully shut down its operations in Russia, joining other international companies that have withdrawn from the…

By JESSICA GRESKO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — In a major expansion of gun rights after a series of mass shootings, the Supreme Court said…

By GENE JOHNSON Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) — Amazon said Thursday it is providing $23 million to help minority-led organizations build or…

DAMACUS, Syria (AP) — A private company says the international airport in Syria’s capital of Damascus has resumed flights after nearly two weeks…

By NICOLE WINFIELD and ROB GILLIES Associated Press ROME (AP) — The Vatican has released the itinerary for Pope Francis’ July 24-30 visit to…

By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN and NOMAAN MERCHANT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The FBI says a U.S. Naval reservist charged with storming the U.S.…

By LOLITA C. BALDOR and MATTHEW LEE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States says it is sending another $450 million in military aid to…