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By ELLIOT SPAGAT Associated Press SAN DIEGO (AP) — The U.S. Justice Department is in talks to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars to each child…

By FIRDIA LISNAWATI and NINIEK KARMINI Associated Press DENPASAR, Indonesia (AP) — An American woman convicted of helping to kill her mother on…

By KATHLEEN RONAYNE Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A California judge has declined to validate a contract granting permanent access to…

SAN DIEGO (AP) — A new study says endangered California condors can have “’virgin births.” Researchers with the San Diego Zoo Wildlife…

By TIM REYNOLDS AP Sports Writer SUNRISE, Fla. (AP) — Joel Quenneville resigned as coach of the Florida Panthers on Thursday, two days after the…

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Philadelphia has agreed to settle a wrongful death lawsuit filed by the family of Walter Wallace Jr. after his shooting by…

By BEN FOX Associated Press FORT MEADE, Md. (AP) — A Guantanamo Bay prisoner who went through the brutal U.S. government interrogation program…

By WILL WEISSERT Associated Press PURCELLVILLE, Va. (AP) — Former Vice President Mike Pence has hailed activist parents in suburban Washington who…

By MEAD GRUVER Associated Press CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — A prosecutor in a deeply conservative corner of Wyoming says he won’t charge library…

PHOENIX (AP) — Services for former Arizona Attorney General Grant Woods have been set for next month. His wife, Marlene Galan Woods, announced…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Kenya’s President Uhuru Kenyatta says Africa is at a crossroads, poised on one hand to…

OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — A company that made and operated casino-style games used for illegal gambling will pay $3.5 million and permanently stop its…

By ZEKE MILLER and AAMER MADHANI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Joe Biden set out to be a president who under-promised and over-delivered. That…

By DAVID PITT Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The Iowa Legislature has passed a bill that requires businesses to allow employees to seek…

By DEE-ANN DURBIN AP Business Writer Workers at three Starbucks stores in Buffalo, New York, will hold union elections next month after winning a…

By MARY CLARE JALONICK and FARNOUSH AMIRI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Sen. Patty Murray of Washington, who was elected in 1992 as a self…

By SARAH RANKIN Associated Press RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A. Linwood Holton Jr., Virginia’s first Republican governor since Reconstruction and a…

ATLANTA (AP) — Houston’s 7-2 win over Atlanta in World Series Game 2 drew 10,539,000 viewers on Fox, Fox Deportes and Fox streaming apps.…

By JEFF AMY Associated Press MARIETTA, Ga. (AP) — Another Republican candidate says Herschel Walker’s history of violence against women should…

By BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Convicted murderer Robert Durst has been transferred to state prison less than two weeks after…

By ANTHONY IZAGUIRRE Associated Press TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — The U.S. Department of Education has asked an administrative judge to block the…

By JILL COLVIN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Former President Donald Trump is stepping back into the hotly contested Virginia governor’s race,…

PARIS (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron and Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison have had their first conversation since Australia pulled…

By TOM KRISHER and HOPE YEN Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — The government has reported that the number of U.S. traffic deaths in the first half of…

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — State officials say more than 14,000 low-income Mississippi children had their pandemic food cards mistakenly deactivated…

By MICHAEL HILL Associated Press ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — A sheriff’s officer has accused former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo of groping a woman in an…

By TODD RICHMOND Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Jury selection begins Monday in the trial of Kyle Rittenhouse, an 18-year-old Illinois man…

By JANET McCONNAUGHEY Associated Press A federal indictment accuses a former Louisiana police officer of kicking an arrested man in the face and…

By MATT O’BRIEN and KELVIN CHAN Associated Press The term “metaverse” is the latest buzzword to capture the tech industry’s imagination _…

By ALAN FRAM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Democrats want to again try letting millions of immigrants stay temporarily in the U.S. as…

By STEPHEN GROVES Associated Press South Dakota’s labor secretary says officials had decided to give Gov. Kristi Noem’s daughter another chance…

By SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Racine County sheriff is accusing the Wisconsin Elections Commission of breaking the law…

By MICHAEL RUBINKAM Associated Press Some Spanish-speaking voters in a heavily Hispanic city in Pennsylvania are at risk of being disenfranchised in…

By MAE ANDERSON AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Facebook Inc. says it is changing its name to Meta Platforms Inc., joining a long list of…

OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — California Attorney General Rob Bonta has issued a consumer alert warning about illegal, potent cannabis edibles for sale…

By JEFF AMY and JEFF MARTIN Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — The World Series shifts to Georgia on Friday amid a complicated stew of politics and…

NEW YORK (AP) — A Minnesota man has been charged with trying to extort $150,000 from the MLB as he illegally streamed copyrighted content from…

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Three men have pleaded guilty in connection with a summer shooting that left a 12-year-old New Orleans girl dead and outraged…

By BRIAN SLODYSKO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — North Carolina Sen. Richard Burr and his brother-in-law are under investigation for insider…

By AMY FORLITI Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The South Dakota Supreme Court has ruled that search warrants will be unsealed in an…

By SEAN MURPHY Associated Press McALESTER, Okla. (AP) — Oklahoma has executed a man who stabbed a prison cafeteria worker to death in 1998 in the…

By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN Associated Press ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Federal wildlife officials are proposing to change the way Mexican gray wolves are…

By MICHAEL TARM and TODD RICHMOND Associated Press When Kyle Rittenhouse goes on trial Monday for shooting three men during street protests in…

By BARBARA ORTUTAY AP Technology Writer OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg says his company is rebranding itself as Meta, an…

BOSTON (AP) — Utility crews are working to restore power to hundreds of thousands of homes and businesses in New England after a nor’easter…

PHOENIX (AP) — The Arizona Lottery has announced that three members of a family from Lake Havasu City have claimed the $108 million Mega Millions…

By BOUAZZA BEN BOUAZZA Associated Press TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — Tunisia’s independent media regulator has shut down three broadcasters that were…

By CANDICE CHOI Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — They can make cakes sparkle, but decorative glitters can contain toxic metals and aren’t always…

By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN Associated Press GREENBELT, Md. (AP) — Two neo-Nazi group members have been sentenced to nine years in prison each in a case…

By ANTHONY IZAGUIRRE Associated Press TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — The state of Florida is suing the Biden administration over its coronavirus vaccine…

By ELENA BECATOROS Associated Press ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Germany’s outgoing Chancellor Angela Merkel has arrived in Greece for a two-day visit…

By EDGAR H. CLEMENTE Associated Press ESCUINTLA, Mexico (AP) — A few thousand migrants have resumed their walk north through southern Mexico, and…

By HALELUYA HADERO AP Business Writer Elon Musk isn’t happy. With a personal fortune that is flirting with $300 billion, the Tesla CEO — the…

LONDON (AP) — Britain has removed the seven remaining countries on its travel “red list.” The change means that travelers who have been…

THESSALONIKI, Greece (AP) — Greek authorities say they have rescued nine men being held for ransom in the northern city of Thessaloniki and…

By MIKE STOBBE AP Medical Writer NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. health officials are changing their definition of lead poisoning in young children. The more…

By CHRISTINA LARSON AP Science Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — China is offering no significant new goals for reducing climate-changing emissions ahead of…

MIAMI (AP) — A coalition of engineers says Florida should consider requiring high-rise buildings near the coast to undergo safety inspections every…

By MELINDA DESLATTE and JAKE BLEIBERG Associated Press BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — The Louisiana Senate has created a special committee to dig into…

By TOM HAYS Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. authorities have returned about 250 antiquities to India in a long-running investigation of a…

By MATTHEW BROWN Associated Press BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — A group of Democratic lawmakers is urging the Biden administration to enact emergency…

By VESELIN TOSHKOV Associated Press SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) — Thousands of restaurant owners, chefs, waiters and bartenders are protesting in cities…

By BASSEM MROUE Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — The U.S. Treasury Department has imposed sanctions on two Lebanon businessmen and a politician…

By CHALIDA EKVITTHAYAVECHNUKUL Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — The youngest daughter of former Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, whose ouster…

WEST PEORIA, Ill. (AP) — Somebody who ain’t nothin’ but a hound dog has made off with an Elvis Presley bust from a Central Illinois saloon.…

By FARAI MUTSAKA Associated Press HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — A United Nations special envoy has urged the United States to end sanctions that she says…

By BRUCE SCHREINER Associated Press LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — GE Appliances has announced plans to add more than 1,000 jobs at its sprawling Kentucky…

By LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer VENICE, Italy (AP) — Edgar Wright melds past and present in his stylish new film “Last Night in Soho,” which…

By KEITH RIDLER Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — An Idaho company that successfully brought genetically modified potatoes to the market has…

BERLIN (AP) — A German electrician has gone on trial accused of murder in the death of one man, and of mutilating several others by performing…

By PETER SMITH Associated Press Relatives and supporters of 17 missionaries kidnapped in Haiti are praying at least as much for the captors as the…

By MEG KINNARD Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Families of nine victims killed in a racist attack at a Black South Carolina church have reached…

By HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH Associated Press MISSION, Kan. (AP) — Dozens of recall campaigns are underway across the U.S. ahead of next week’s…

By AYA BATRAWY Associated Press RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) — Saudi Arabia’s annual investment forum has drawn over a thousand participants, with…

By JEFFREY COLLINS Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Police have charged two men with murder in the death of a 7-year-old boy shot in his…

By MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — NASA is debating whether to try to fix a jammed solar panel on its newly launched…

BANGKOK (AP) — Police in the Southeast Asian nation of Laos have made one of Asia’s biggest-ever drug busts, seizing more than 55.6 million…

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s justice minister says the European Union member should not pay any of the total $1.8 million daily fines the…

CHICAGO (AP) — An 82-year-old man freed from prison last year after serving nearly 60 years in the slaying of one of three suburban Chicago women…

By ALEXANDRA JAFFE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — When President Joe Biden meets with Pope Francis on Friday, he won’t kiss the ring. Biden,…