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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…

WEST MEMPHIS, Ark. (AP) — An Arkansas judge won’t allow new genetic testing of crime scene evidence from the killing of three boys nearly 30…

By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — How does Rick Astley handle one of his songs being part of the biggest internet meme of all…

By MELISSA MURPHY AP Sports Writer NEW YORK (AP) — It’s the 50th anniversary of Title IX. Tennis great and champion for equality Billie Jean…

By JIM VERTUNO and JAMIE STENGLE Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Well before the sun came up Thursday, Jazmin Cazares sat on her sister’s…

Associated Press Amazon’s Alexa might soon replicate the voice of family members – even if they’re dead. The capability, unveiled at…

By MARCY GORDON AP Business Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal regulators have accused Harley-Davidson and Westinghouse of imposing illegal warranty…

By THOMAS ADAMSON AP Fashion Writer PARIS (AP) — He may have died in November, but Virgil Abloh lives on at Paris Fashion Week in a high-energy…

By DAVID A. LIEB and JIM SALTER Associated Press COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — The lawyer for the ex-wife of Missouri U.S. Senate candidate Eric Greitens…

WAUKESHA, Wis. (AP) — The second of two women who were sent to a state mental health facility after a 2014 stabbing attack on a sixth-grade…

By SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The former Wisconsin Supreme Court justice hired to investigate President Joe Biden’s…

By AARON BEARD AP Sports Writer The number of women competing at the highest level of college athletics continues to rise along with an increasing…

NEW YORK (AP) — A memoir by Chelsea Manning will come out this fall. The book is titled “README.txt,” and it’s scheduled for release Oct.…

LONDON (AP) — The European Medicines Agency says it is recommending the authorization of the coronavirus vaccine made by French pharmaceutical…

By COLLIN BINKLEY AP Education Writer The Biden administration proposed a dramatic overhaul of campus sexual assault rules on Thursday, acting to…

By ELLIOT SPAGAT Associated Press EAGLE PASS, Texas (AP) — The Border Patrol paroled more than 207,000 migrants who crossed from Mexico from August…

By ED WHITE Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — The state of Michigan has agreed to destroy more than 3 million dried blood spots taken from babies and…

BALTIMORE (AP) — A 17-year-old boy has pleaded guilty to first-degree murder in the fatal shooting of an Israeli man who was visiting Baltimore for…

By MATTHEW PERRONE AP Health Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal health officials on Thursday ordered Juul to pull its electronic cigarettes from the…

By JESSICA GRESKO and GARY D. ROBERTSON Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court is giving Republican legislative leaders in North…

By KIRSTEN GRIESHABER Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s foreign minister says the government has got more than 21,000 former local…

NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — Israel has dispatched two water-dropping aircraft to help battle a large wildfire that has scorched at least 10,000 acres of…

NEW YORK (AP) — The author of “Nomadland,” the basis for the Oscar-winning movie of the same name, is working on a book about abortion. Jessica…

BERLIN (AP) — Austria’s health minister says the country is scrapping a dormant coronavirus vaccine mandate, saying the measure risked polarizing…

PONTIAC, Mich. (AP) — A judge has postponed a murder trial until January in the case of a teenager accused of killing four fellow students and…

LONDON (AP) — British police on Thursday charged a man and a woman with conspiring to bring a child to the U.K. in order to harvest organs.…

By ISABEL DEBRE Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A sleek $156 million superyacht belonging to a sanctioned Russian oligarch and…

By ALICIA RANCILIO Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — James Burrows loves sitcoms, and he should. The 81-year-old has directed more than 1,000…

By AARON MORRISON Associated Press As a young man in Memphis, Tennessee, Robert Dabney Jr. wanted to blaze a path that could set his family up for a…

By SUZAN FRASER Associated Press ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkish media reports say Turkish authorities have detained five Iranian suspected of…

By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press ROME (AP) — One the most spectacular examples of ancient Roman baths, the Baths of Caracalla, has become more…