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By DAVID PITT Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — After running unopposed in Iowa’s primary election, Republican Gov. Kim Reynolds holds a…

By STEPHEN GROVES Associated Press SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem has won the Republican primary for another term,…

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Progressive Jessica Cisneros is requesting a recount in her tight runoff election against nine-term Democratic U.S. Rep. Henry…

By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A judge says a sex-assault civil lawsuit against actor Kevin Spacey can proceed in New York…

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A federal appeals court has upheld the eight-year prison sentence given to an environmental activist who tried to sabotaged…

By LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A U.S. service member has been identified as a possible suspect in an April explosion that…

By MEG KINNARD Associated Press Vice President Kamala Harris is returning to South Carolina this week to headline a fundraising dinner for Democrats…

By TOM FOREMAN Jr. Associated Press A North Carolina sheriff’s office announced a $3 million settlement on Monday in a lawsuit filed by the…

By KEVIN McGILL Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Louisiana’s Democratic governor said Monday he will call the Republican-dominated…

OZARK, Ala. (AP) — Two aviators were injured Monday when a military helicopter crashed near an Army base in southern Alabama. The Fort Rucker…

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A California federal judge has sentenced the Mexican man who fatally shot a woman along a San Francisco pier to the seven…

By JONATHAN J. COOPER Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — An Arizona judge has declined a request by the state Republican Party to block most mail…

By TOM KRISHER and MATT O’BRIEN AP Business Reporters Elon Musk on Monday threatened to walk away from his $44 billion bid to buy Twitter, the…

By TODD RICHMOND Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin Secretary of State Doug La Follette is heading to Africa just as the primary…

By WAYNE PARRY Associated Press ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — The chairman of the global Hard Rock casino and entertainment company spoke recently…

By ANDREW DALTON AP Entertainment Writer SANTA MONICA, Calif. (AP) — A dispute over the arcade game Donkey Kong arose during the civil trial of…

NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — Cyprus’ government says Labor and Social Insurance Minister Zeta Emilianidou has died in a hospital in the Greek capital…

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — European Council President Charles Michel is accusing Russia of using food supplies as “a stealth missile against…

By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN and ALANNA DURKIN RICHER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The former top leader of the far-right Proud Boys extremist group…

By SARAH RANKIN Associated Press RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A three-judge panel has dismissed a lawsuit that sought to force all 100 members of…

By KIM CHANDLER Associated Press MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — U.S. Rep. Mo Brooks is asking former President Donald Trump to back him once again in…

By JEFF AMY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Some Republican activists are calling on abolishing Georgia’s open primary system. They are…

By JIM SALTER Associated Press The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear an appeal from Mark and Patricia McCloskey, the husband-and-wife…

The Associated Press PENSACOLA, Fla. (AP) — Authorities in Florida say the chief of a volunteer fire department is accused of fatally shooting a…

By BRIAN WITTE Associated Press ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — The Chesapeake Bay watershed has received an overall grade of C+ on its latest report card.…

By MEG KINNARD Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — U.S. Rep. Nancy Mace is beefing up her campaign coffers in an effort to stave off GOP…

NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — The president of ethnically divided Cyprus says he will lodge a complaint with the United Nations over Turkey’s new…

By JAY REEVES Associated Press Lawyers have revealed a potential defense for an Alabama prisoner who walked out of jail with a corrections official,…

By MARTÍN ADAMES Associated Press SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic (AP) — The Dominican Republic’s minister of the environment and natural…

By DARLENE SUPERVILLE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Jill Biden on Monday praised Nancy Reagan as a first lady who “made such a…

Associated Press (AP) — New York lawmakers have passed a bill targeting the use of warehouse productivity quotas in the state. The legislation aims…

By MOGOMOTSI MAGOME Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — South African President Cyril Ramaphosa is facing a criminal investigation after a…

By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Federal authorities are moving to seize a $60 million Gulfstream and a $350 million aircraft…

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — A judge has declared a second mistrial for a man charged in the 2015 killing of a pastor’s wife after jurors learned details…

By TERRY SPENCER Associated Press FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — The public defenders representing Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz tried to…

By FABIANO MAISONNAVE and DAVID BILLER Associated Press RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — A British journalist and an Indigenous affairs expert are missing in…

By JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — Asian stock markets were mixed Tuesday following a bond sell-off on Wall Street amid anxiety…

By STEVE KARNOWSKI and AMY FORLITI Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The judge overseeing the remaining case against two former Minneapolis…

By SEAN MURPHY Associated Press Writer OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A federal judge in Oklahoma on Monday ruled the state’s three-drug lethal injection…

By MARIA CHENG AP Medical Writer LONDON (AP) — British health officials have reported another 77 cases of monkeypox. That raises the U.K. total to…

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — Cambodia’s election agency says the ruling party of long-serving Prime Minister Hun Sen easily topped the field…

By VANESSA GERA Associated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — The government of Poland, where a near-total abortion ban is in place, faced accusations…

By MOGOMOTSI MAGOME Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — A South African court has convicted a pastor of plotting to overthrow the government and…

TRONA, Calif. (AP) — The Navy has made public the identity of a pilot killed in the crash of a fighter jet in the Southern California desert last…

By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — At a lunch for Tony Award nominees last month, veteran theater producer Ron Simons looked…

MADRID (AP) — Penélope Cruz has won one of Spain’s top cinema awards for her contribution to Spanish film. The jury of the 2022 National Cinema…

By WILL WEISSERT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden ordered emergency measures Monday to boost crucial supplies to U.S. solar…

By JIM HEINTZ Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — Russia’s foreign ministry has called U.S. news media to a meeting to warn that their accreditations…

By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The story of how the musical “Grease” became a pop culture juggernaut is told in the…

By TOM KRISHER and MATT O’BRIEN AP Business Writers DETROIT (AP) — Elon Musk is threatening to end his $44 billion agreement to buy Twitter,…

Associated Press Elon Musk threatened Monday to call off his $44 billion acquisition of Twitter, accusing the company of refusing to give him…

By WANJOHI KABUKURU Associated Press MOMBASA, Kenya (AP) — Better climate-related research and early warning systems are needed as extreme weather…

By EMILY SCHULTHEIS Associated Press VIENNA (AP) — The head of the United Nations nuclear watchdog has urged Iran to cooperate with his inspectors…

By FRANK JORDANS Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — The U.N. climate chief has urged countries to keep up hope and focus on tackling global warming…

By MICHAEL BALSAMO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Axon, the company best known for developing the Taser, said Monday it was halting plans to…

UVALDE, Texas (AP) — Eliahna Garcia loved the Disney movie “Encanto,” and the studio’s costume makers sent her parents a custom-made gown and…

By EDGAR H. CLEMENTE Associated Press TAPACHULA, Mexico (AP) — Several thousand migrants have set out walking in the rain in southern Mexico, tired…

By GRAHAM DUNBAR AP Sports Writer GENEVA (AP) — Sepp Blatter and Michel Platini’s 11-day trial on charges of defrauding soccer governing body…

MOSCOW (AP) — Voters in the Central Asian nation of Kazakhstan have given an overwhelming approval to proposed constitutional changes widely seen…

By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — A father accused of bribing a Georgetown University tennis coach to help get his daughter…