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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court has rejected a plea from South Carolina to reimpose the death penalty on a South Carolina inmate whose death…

By SCOTT SONNER Associated Press TAHOE CITY, Calif. (AP) — Drought fueled by climate change has dropped Lake Tahoe below its natural rim and halted…

By TODD RICHMOND Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A judge has granted a request from wildlife advocacy groups and blocked Wisconsin’s…

By ANITA SNOW Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — An attorney for members of the San Carlos Apache tribe has asked the the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of…

SUPERIOR, Neb. (AP) — Authorities say an employee who shot and killed a gunman at a Nebraska grain elevator likely prevented further loss of life.…

CLARE, Mich. (AP) — A woman is charged with killing her father, sister and two handymen in mid-Michigan. The Clare County prosecutor says…

By The Associated Press Ride-hailing company Lyft says more than 1,800 sexual assaults were reported by riders in 2019, and the number of incidents…

By ASHRAF KHALIL Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Commuters in the Washington area will face longer waits for Metro trains through at least the…

By MARK THIESSEN Associated Press ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — A woman who was the victim of a serial killer and for the last 37 years was only known…

By JOSEPH HAMMOND Religion News Service In Burkina Faso, the crocodile is divine. The cult of the crocodile dates to sometime in the 1500s, when,…

By MICHELLE LIU Associated Press/Report for America COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Authorities have released 911 calls made by prominent South Carolina…

PARIS (AP) — France on Friday urged Iran to curb nuclear activities of “unprecedented gravity” as U.S. and European envoys met to discuss…

By ZEKE MILLER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House says President Joe Biden will lay out his thinking in the coming weeks about…

By CURT ANDERSON Associated Press ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — Now that the decomposed remains of Brian Laundrie have been found, where does the…

Associated Press OVIEDO, Fla. (AP) — Three sisters in a suburb of Orlando, Florida, share the same birthday, but they’re not twins or triplets.…

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A former Wisconsin high school teacher accused of secretly videotaping undressed students during field trips was sentenced…

By TOM HAYS and LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A New York jury has convicted a former associate of Rudy Giuliani of charges that…

By MIKE STOBBE AP Medical Writer NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. health officials may have solved the mystery of how four people in different states came down…

By BRIAN SLODYSKO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A congressional ethics watchdog has concluded there is “substantial reason to believe”…

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell says the tangled supply chains and shortages that…

By JAMES MacPHERSON Associated Press BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — North Dakota is working to extend its contract with Hollywood actor Josh Duhamel to…

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — A Colorado day care owner convicted of keeping 26 children hidden in the basement of her business in 2019 has…

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Protests are being held in Warsaw and other Polish cities to mark the one-year anniversary of a constitutional court ruling…

By NICOLAE DUMITRACHE and ANDREEA ALEXANDRU Associated Press BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — Doctor Petruta Filip is working 100-hour weeks at a hospital…

DORAL, Fla. (AP) — Officials say two Florida police officers were wounded during a shootout before returning fire and killing the gunman. Doral…

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. (AP) — The University of Alabama has contracted with an online app in response to complaints over long concession lines at home…

By LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer Cinematographer Halyna Hutchins died Thursday after Alec Baldwin fired a loaded weapon that was handed to him by an…

By LYNN ELBER AP Television Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Peter Scolari, who appeared on the TV series “Newhart” and Girls,” has died. His…

YUMA, Ariz. (AP) — A U.S. Marine Corps veteran who disarmed a teenage robbery suspect in an Arizona gas station by grabbing the suspect’s gun…

By RAF CASERT Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — Key European Union leaders are unconvinced by Polish arguments that fundamental judicial changes the…

By KOSTYA MANENKOV Associated Press MOMIRAK FIRING RANGE, Tajikistan (AP) — Russian and Tajik troops have conducted joint drills near…

BERLIN (AP) — A study claims that large technology companies are underreporting their greenhouse gas emissions at a time of heightened scrutiny…

By YURAS KARMANAU Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Belarusian authorities have abolished mask mandates, less than two weeks after their…

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Eleven Pablo Picasso artworks are on display at the Bellagio Gallery of Fine Art ahead of a Saturday auction that host Sotheby’s…

By ANDREW SELSKY and MANUEL VALDES Associated Press THE DALLES, Ore. (AP) — Conflicts over water are as old as history itself, but the massive…

By KEN SWEET AP Business Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department has announced a cross-government effort to investigate and prosecute…

MADRID (AP) — The Spanish government has ordered that all citizens who paid fines during a nearly 3-month state of emergency declared last year to…

by SARAH EL DEEB Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — The United Nations envoy for Syria says the first round of talks between the government and the…

By BRUCE SCHREINER Associated Press One of the world’s largest bourbon producers has announced a tentative contract agreement with a union…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The British government’s scientific advisers have urged the government to ensure coronavirus…

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — A plea deal between Rod Stewart and Florida prosecutors to settle charges he and his adult son   battered a security…

TACOMA, Wash. (AP) — Authorities say gunshots rang out across several streets during a shooting that killed four people in a neighborhood in…

CAIRO (AP) — The United Nations says it has resumed humanitarian evacuation flights for migrants stranded in Libya. The announcement comes after a…

OCALA, Fla. (AP) — Authorities say a 58-year-old Florida man is accused of killing his neighbor in a dispute over a cat that wandered into his…

By HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The cinematographer who was fatally shot with a prop gun by Alec Baldwin on a movie set grew up…

By SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A highly anticipated nonpartisan audit of the 2020 presidential election in Wisconsin did not…

By COLLIN BINKLEY AP Education Writer President Joe Biden’s long-sought goal of free community college appears to be a victim of cost-cutting in…

By HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Robert Caro has been writing history for much of his adult life. Now Caro himself is being…

By STAN CHOE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The company planning to bring President Donald Trump’s new media venture to the stock market…

TIRANA, Albania (AP) — The Russian Embassy in Tirana says the bodies of four Russian tourists who were found dead at a beach resort in western…

By MARTIN CRUTSINGER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. budget deficit totaled $2.77 trillion for 2021, the second highest on record…

By MARK SHERMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court is allowing the Texas law that bans most abortions to remain in place for now,…

By STEVE KARNOWSKI Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A Minneapolis police officer has been charged with manslaughter and vehicular homicide for a…

By SARAH EL DEEB Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Exchange rate distortions in war-torn Syria have allowed the government of President Bashar Assad…

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER, CASEY SMITH and LARRY FENN Associated Press/Report for America INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Earlier this year, an insistent cry…

SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) — Bosnia’s Serb police have held an “anti-terrorist” drill just outside the capital Sarajevo, in a move…

PRISTINA, Kosovo (AP) — Kosovo’s president says she has ordered the expulsion of two Russian diplomats for allegedly “endangering national…

By JOSEPH KRAUSS Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel has effectively outlawed six prominent Palestinian human rights groups by declaring them…

By BABAR DOGAR and MUNIR AHMED Associated Press LAHORE, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistan’s police say violent clashes have erupted between security…

By AARON MORRISON Associated Press A bust of Black Panther Party co-founder Huey Percy Newton is scheduled to be unveiled in Oakland, California, on…

MOSCOW (AP) — Falling scaffolding has broken off one of the “teeth” on the top of the Kremlin wall, prompting Russian authorities to seal off…

HAMTRAMCK, Mich. (AP) — Another Michigan city is giving filters to residents as a result of high lead results in some drinking water samples.…

By KAREN MATTHEWS Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Millionaire real estate scion Robert Durst has been charged in suburban New York City with the…

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Malaysia will reopen its borders to foreign workers to address a labor crunch, and allow fully vaccinated tourists at…

By NOMAAN MERCHANT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. officials have issued new warnings about China’s ambitions in artificial intelligence…

By YURAS KARMANAU Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine’s coronavirus infections and deaths have reached all-time highs for a second…

By CURT ANDERSON Associated Press ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — An attorney says family members are hoping for more answers from law enforcement…

By CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — Nigeria’s national security adviser says the new leader of a rebel group in Nigeria…

By LAURAN NEERGAARD and MATTHEW PERRONE Associated Press Federal scientists say kid-size doses of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine appear highly effective…

By RAF CASERT Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — Angela Merkel is still Germany’s Chancellor and might be still when the European Union leaders…

KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — Nepalese authorities are searching for dozens of people missing in this week’s heavy rains, floods and landslides, as…

By PETER SMITH and MARK SCOLFORO Associated Press PITTSBURGH (AP) — A landmark synagogue building in Pittsburgh’s Squirrel Hill neighborhood…

GENEVA (AP) — Nearly four dozen countries in Europe and central Asia have agreed to improve protections for environmental defenders who voice…

By KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea’s Justice Ministry has blocked the army from appealing a landmark court…

BERLIN (AP) — Environmental campaigners have staged protests on several continents to press their demands for more government action to curb global…

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — The Turkish lira has slid to a record low against the U.S. dollar, a day after the Central Bank sharply cut interest rates.…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — The first female president of Japan’s powerful labor union federation says she will work to…