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HAVANA (AP) — Cuba has produced only about half the sugar it had projected this season and authorities acknowledge that while they will cover…

By TERRY SPENCER Associated Press FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — A Florida prosecutor says new DNA testing shows that a man acquitted at retrial of…

By PHILIP MARCELO Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — Boston’s city council has approved a resolution apologizing for the Massachusetts…

BERLIN (AP) — Scientists in Europe say they have figured out the origins of the Black Death, a bacterial plague that wiped out half of the…

By KEN MILLER Associated Press OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A Republican Oklahoma state representative who is a self-described death-penalty supporter said…

ROUND LAKE BEACH, Ill. (AP) — Prosecutors say a suburban Chicago man charged in the drowning deaths of his three young children left a note for his…

By DAVID FISCHER Associated Press MIAMI (AP) — A South Florida man has pleaded no contest to charges related to trying to get $5,000 from a state…

By MICHAEL BALSAMO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal grand jury has indicted a California man who was found with a gun, knife and pepper…

By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The man charged with shooting and killing a passenger on a New York City subway train has…

RUNNEMEDE, N.J. (AP) — LeBron James might be on the cusp of setting another record. And someone will have to pay a lot of money to make it happen.…

By JAY REEVES Associated Press BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — Two U.S. veterans from Alabama who were in Ukraine assisting in the war against Russia…

By ASHRAF KHALIL Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — One month ahead of President Joe Biden’s trip to Saudi Arabia, the District of Columbia is…

NEW YORK (AP) — James Patterson is apologizing for saying that white male writers are being subjected to “just another of form of racism”…

By CHRISTINA A. CASSIDY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — The conspiracy theories about Dominion voting machines that erupted during the 2020…

By LISA MASCARO AP Congressional Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) — The House committee investigating the Capitol riot plans to focus its hearing…

By MARK THIESSEN Associated Press ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — A dozen students and two adults were served floor sealant instead of milk at a day care…

By LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The $1 billion package of military assistance the U.S. announced for Ukraine is aimed at…

By JAMES MacPHERSON Associated Press BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — North Dakota Republican Gov. Doug Burgum’s expensive effort to influence the GOP…

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A city and two law enforcement agencies in a North Carolina county will pay $336,000 to a group of plaintiffs in a settlement…

By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge on Wednesday convicted a Confederate flag-toting man and his son of charges…

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A commission formed to study the government structure in Portland, Oregon, has voted by a supermajority to send a sweeping…

By KAREL JANICEK By Associated Press PRAGUE (AP) — Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and what Europe must do to counter the consequences of it…

By MARK PRATT Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — Federal transportation officials have issued orders to the Boston area’s troubled public transit…

By CARLA K. JOHNSON AP Medical Writer Dr. Anthony Fauci, the face of America’s pandemic response through two White House administrations, has…

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has met with Qatar’s ruling emir as part of his Mideast tour. Sheikh Tamim…

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — The foreign ministers of Ireland, Norway and Turkey say aid deliveries from Turkey to rebel-held northwest Syria must…

By GARY GERARD HAMILTON Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Chad Hugo and Pharrell Williams, who make up the iconic producing team The Neptunes, will…

By KEVIN SCHEMBRI ORLAND Associated Press VALLETTA, Malta (AP) — Abortion rights activists have filed a legal protest in Malta’s courts demanding…

By BEN FINLEY Associated Press NORFOLK, Va. (AP) — John Hinckley Jr. has been freed from court oversight. The development Wednesday ended decades…

By TERRY SPENCER Associated Press FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Florida’s largest electricity provider has announced plans to eliminate all of its…

By ED WHITE Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — Officials say a Michigan police officer charged with murder after shooting Patrick Lyoya in the back of…

By FABIANNO MAISONNAVE, EDMAR BARROS and MAURICIO SAVARESE Associated Press MANAUS, Brazil (AP) — Brazilian police said Wednesday night a fisherman…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Canadian-American writer Ruth Ozeki has won the prestigious Women’s Prize for Fiction for her…

By LLAZAR SEMINI Associated Press TIRANA, Albania (AP) — An international music festival founded by the father of singer-songwriter Dua Lipa to…

By JEFF AMY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Republican Georgia Senate candidate Herschel Walker is acknowledging that he has a second son whom he…

By MIKE SCHNEIDER Associated Press A U.S. House committee has passed a bill outlawing the distribution of fake or misleading materials that resemble…

By KIMBERLEE KRUESI and CHEYANNE MUMPHREY Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Recognition of Juneteenth, the effective end of slavery in the…

By WILL WEISSERT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden issued an executive order Wednesday to stymie what what his administration…

By MARK STEVENSON Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — An unusual alliance of international activist groups, Mexican prosecutors and a dog trained…

By ANDREW DeMILLO Associated Press A federal appeals court panel is considering whether to continue blocking Arkansas’ ban on gender confirming…

By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press ROME (AP) — Pope Francis has taken another step to reign in and regulate new religious groups in the Catholic…

By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN Associated Press ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — New Mexico’s Democratic governor wants the Biden administration to delay planned…

By ELLEN KNICKMEYER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A government report says the Pentagon and the State Department failed to investigate whether…

MILWAUKEE (AP) — Recovery crews are searching for two men who were swept away by fast-moving water in a rain-swollen drainage ditch in Milwaukee…

MOSCOW (AP) — Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny confirms he’s been moved to another maximum security prison. Navalny wrote on the…

By JILL BLEED and TERRY WALLACE Associated Press Residents of the West Texas city of Odessa improvised emergency water supplies after a water system…

By MARY CLARE JALONICK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021 insurrection released video on…

By SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A Wisconsin judge has ordered the investigator hired by Republicans to look into the 2020…

BALTIMORE (AP) — Baltimore officials say a fire tore through four row homes, sending three people to a hospital. Baltimore City Fire Department…

By JEFF AMY Associated Press MCDONOUGH, Ga. (AP) — A U.S. House runoff in Georgia next week pits a former Democratic elected official who’s…

By JESSICA GRESKO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court says it was wrong to wade into a dispute involving a Trump-era immigration…

By KATHLEEN FOODY Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — People flocked to pools, beaches and cooling centers in a swath of the Midwest and South spanning…

By CURT ANDERSON Associated Press The federal investigation into the deadly collapse of a Florida beachfront condominium building is entering a new…

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Danish toy company Lego said Wednesday it plans to invest more than $1 billion over 10 years to build a new factory in…

By JUSTIN KABUMBA Associated Press GOMA, Congo (AP) — A spokesman for a top military official in eastern Congo said Wednesday that if Rwanda…

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A federal indictment accuses a Missouri man and others of breaking into a prehistoric Native American archeological site…

BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanon’s state-run news agency says the country’s caretaker energy minister has extended the licensing deadline for oil…

By CAROLYN THOMPSON and MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — The white gunman who killed 10 Black people in a racist attack at a…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Dozens of heavily armed men swarmed through the Mexican colonial-era city of San Cristobal de las Casas, and President Andrés…

By FRANCES D’EMILIO Associated Press ROME (AP) — Italy has been so successful in recovering illegally exported ancient artworks and artifacts…

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (AP) — A third arrest has been made in a mass shooting in Chattanooga, Tennessee, where three people died and 14 were injured.…

By JESSICA GRESKO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court says the federal government improperly lowered drug reimbursement payments…

CHESTERFIELD, Va. (AP) — Global toy manufacturer the LEGO Group plans to invest more than $1 billion to construct a new precision manufacturing…

BEIJING (AP) — Chinese President Xi Jinping has reasserted his country’s support for Russia on issues of sovereignty and security in a phone…

By GEIR MOULSON Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Russia’s Gazprom has announced a reduction in natural gas flows through a key European pipeline…

By SOPHENG CHEANG Associated Press PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — Prime Minister Hun Sen’s Cambodian People’s Party has sued the vice president of…

By LINDSEY TANNER and MIKE STOBBE AP Medical Writers The first COVID-19 shots for U.S. infants, toddlers and preschoolers moved a step closer…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida has announced plans to establish an infectious disease crisis…

By HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Independent booksellers are growing in number and becoming more diverse. Membership in the…

By GRAHAM DUNBAR AP Sports Writer GENEVA (AP) — Prosecutors in the fraud trial of former FIFA president Sepp Blatter and vice president Michel…

By DARLENE SUPERVILLE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Former Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms is joining the White House as a senior adviser…

STOCKHOLM (AP) — Swedish authorities say the police car crash in Sweden that killed Swedish artist Lars Vilks last year was an accident. That…