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MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico says it wants to see more U.S. action on extraditions and weapons trafficking at security meetings scheduled for Friday…

By ROBERT BURNS AP National Security Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — In a reversal of Trump administration policy, the State Department has disclosed the…

DEATH VALLEY NATIONAL PARK, Calif. (AP) — A Navy jet fighter has crashed in Death Valley National Park and authorities say the pilot ejected and…

By KEITH RIDLER Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — U.S. officials have approved a long-lasting fire retardant that could significantly aid in…

CHICAGO (AP) — Opponents of a new Texas ban on most abortions have asked a federal judge in Illinois to declare the law unconstitutional. The…

PHOENIX (AP) — Former six-term Sheriff Joe Arpaio is attempting another comeback, this time running for mayor of the affluent Phoenix suburb where…

By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Lawyers say a potential plea deal that would have averted a criminal trial for an associate of…

By ELLIOT SPAGAT Associated Press SAN DIEGO (AP) — A federal appeals court has tossed out California’s ban on privately owned immigration…

By KEITH RIDLER Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Idaho Gov. Brad Little says he will rescind an executive order involving COVID-19 vaccines by…

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden has announced his picks to head the National Endowments for the Humanities and the Arts, tapping a Harvard…

PIERRE, S.D. (AP) — South Dakota’s reputation as a destination for the wealthy to store billions of dollars in trust funds has long had the…

ASHEVILLE, N.C. (AP) — A national sorority has suspended activities at a North Carolina university after most of its members left the group when it…

By BARBARA ORTUTAY and DAVID KLEPPER Associated Press A former Facebook data scientist testified before Congress that the social network’s products…

By PETER SMITH Associated Press A top committee of the Southern Baptist Convention has agreed to open up legally protected records to investigators…

By DAVID BAUDER AP Media Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Tom Brady wins in the television ratings, too. The Tampa Bay quarterback’s return to his old…

By DON BABWIN Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — Federal officials are recommending that Tootsie Roll Industries pay more than $136,000 in fines after…

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The former Minneapolis police officer who fatally shot a woman who called 911 to report a possible rape behind her home is being…

By JOSH FUNK Associated Press OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Work has halted at all of the Kellogg Company’s U.S. cereal plants as roughly 1,400 workers went…

By JEFFREY COLLINS Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — An executive who lied to regulators about two South Carolina nuclear plants that never…

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A jury in Oregon has found a member of the far-right group the Proud Boys guilty of assault, menacing and unlawful use of a…

By JULIE WATSON Associated Press SAN DIEGO (AP) — The Biden administration says the coronavirus pandemic and the difficulty of reversing Trump…

By TERRY TANG Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — A federal agent shot and killed by an Amtrak train passenger in Arizona is being remembered as a…

By YURAS KARMANAU Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Israel’s president is in Ukraine to honor the victims of the Babi Yar massacre eight…

CAIRO (AP) — Libyan lawmakers have voted to reschedule parliament elections, a move likely to increase tensions among Libyan rivals already divided…

By LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer “Girls Trip” producer Will Packer will produce next year’s Oscars. It’s the first time Packer has been…

By KEVIN McGILL Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A final settlement has been reached in a 2017 lawsuit over New Orleans prosecutors’ use…

By SONIA PÉREZ D. Associated Press GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — A prominent Guatemalan judge faces the possibility of losing his immunity from legal…

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Florida is the last state to submit a plan to the U.S. Department of Education that’s required before more than $2.3…

By COREY WILLIAMS Associated Press WEST BLOOMFIELD, Mich. (AP) — A suburban Detroit crematorium owner who has already lost his mortuary science and…

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (AP) — A longtime Alabama sheriff removed from office after being convicted of theft and ethics violations is giving five-star…

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — In a story published October 4, 2021, about New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham’s speech to a group of oil and gas…

By KIRSTEN GRIESHABER Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — A leading Jewish group in Germany says it’s shocked by a German-Israeli singer’s…

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Opening statements are underway Tuesday in the corruption trial of a powerful Philadelphia labor leader and a city official he…

By JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — U.S. Geological Survey officials have lowered the alert level for a Hawaii volcano.…

MARTINEZ, Calif. (AP) — Prosecutors and defense attorneys are presenting competing narratives in the trial of a California police officer accused…

By THOMAS ADAMSON AP Fashion Writer PARIS (AP) — Chanel brought Paris Fashion Week to its final day with a runway show that illustrated how…

By MIKE SCHNEIDER Associated Press ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — The share of single people in the U.S. has grown over the past three decades. That’s…

By BRYAN ANDERSON Associated Press/Report for America RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A North Carolina appeals court says some supporters of former Republican…

EAST LANSING, Mich. (AP) — A Michigan State University official personally delivered a doctorate degree to a New Jersey man in 2019, decades after…

ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — A federal magistrate determined Friday that Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan’s former chief of staff can remain free before his…

By PIPER HUDSPETH BLACKBURN and ANNIE MA Associated Press LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Officials at historically Black colleges thought they might…

By AAMER MADHANI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is dispatching White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan for…

By SEAN MURPHY Associated Press OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma’s Pardon and Parole Board has narrowly rejected granting clemency for a death…

By MONIKA SCISLOWSKA Associated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — The government of Poland is working abroad to warn potential migrants that the…

By JEFF AMY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Supporters of Republican Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp are fighting back against Donald Trump and their own…

By COLLIN BINKLEY AP Education Writer The Biden administration on Tuesday ordered Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey to stop using the state’s federal…

By MAE ANDERSON AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The six-hour outage of Facebook, Instagram and Whatsapp on Monday was a headache for many casual…

By QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA Associated Press BAGHDAD (AP) — Among the candidates running in Iraq’s general elections this week is a leader of one of…

By MARK GILLISPIE Associated Press CLEVELAND (AP) — Attorneys for three retail pharmacy chains say the companies are blameless for the ongoing…

By SUMAN NAISHADHAM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A report by the United Nations’ weather agency finds much of the world is unprepared…

By LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Former independent presidential candidate Evan McMullin is launching a campaign to…

By ALICIA RANCILIO Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Jorja Fox reprises her role of Sara Sidle in the latest “CSI” iteration, “CSI: Vegas.”…

BAL HARBOUR, Fla. (AP) — Authorities say three floors of a South Florida high-rise condominium have been evacuated after a property manager found…

By DUSAN STOJANOVIC Associated Press LJUBLJANA, Slovenia (AP) — Police in Slovenia have fired tear gas and water cannons at anti-government…

By YURAS KARMANAU Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Lawmakers in Belarus have voted to suspend an agreement with the European Union obliging…

PAPILLION, Neb. (AP) — Prosecutors say a Nebraska man accused in the deaths of his two young children is now being charged with murder after an…

BY AHMED AL-HAJ Associated Press SANAA, Yemen (AP) — The U.N. special envoy for Yemen has met with the prime minister of the country’s…

By FARNOUSH AMIRI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department says it’s reviewing an earlier decision to decline prosecution…

Associated Press ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — A friend of U.S. Rep. Matt Gaetz has asked a judge to postpone his sentencing until next year so he can…

By MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Federal agents have raided the offices of a New York City police union whose leader has…

By ALEX DANIELS of The Chronicle of Philanthropy Chronicle of Philanthropy A fund created by a group of social-justice-minded foundations including…

STAMFORD, Conn. (AP) — The quirky, red-headed announcer for David Letterman for two decades who frequently appeared in the show’s comedy bits has…

By TALI ARBEL Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — A year and a half in, the pandemic is still agonizing families. There’s the exhaustion of…

By TERRY SPENCER Associated Press FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Jury selection has begun in the trial of the suspect in 2018′s Florida high school…

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Federal prosecutors say two Rhode Island men who touched off a needless and expensive ocean search-and-rescue effort when…

BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union aims to combat growing antisemitism with new plans to tackle hate speech, raise awareness about Jewish life and…

By MICHAEL RUBINKAM Associated Press Pennsylvania’s attorney general has filed criminal charges against the developer of a pipeline that takes…

By MATTHEW LEE AP Diplomatic Writer PARIS (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken is calling on the world’s most developed countries to…

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — Officials say two Florida sheriff’s deputies fatally shot a man who refused their orders to drop his gun. Pinellas…

BANGKOK (AP) — Myanmar’s ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi this month will give courtroom testimony for the first time in one of the several cases…

By ARITZ PARRA Associated Press MADRID (AP) — Spain’s left-wing ruling coalition says it wants to rein in soaring housing costs by imposing rent…