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Associated Press LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — A federal appeals court has reinstated an Arkansas rule prohibiting election officials from accepting…

Associated Press/Report for America TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — A Florida sheriff fed up with a spate of false school shooting threats is taking a new…

AP Sports Writer GENEVA (AP) — Two former Olympic champions are in the race to be the next IOC president. So is a prince of a Middle East kingdom…

Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia’s state school superintendent says he wants the state to spend more money to guarantee security officers…

Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A Wisconsin judge says stricter cash bail measures that voters approved last year will stand despite…

OCEAN CITY, Md. (AP) — Officials are warning people to stay out of the ocean at several beaches in Maryland, Delaware and Virginia after they say…

Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A judge has ruled that Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s name will stay on the presidential ballot in the swing…

EUGENE, Ore. (AP) — A tribe in Oregon whose culture is tied to the ocean is suing the U.S. government over plans to hold an offshore wind energy…

Associated Press/Report For America Award-winning, world renowned artist Fred Nall Hollis has died. Hollis was 76 years old and a local arts center…

AP Technology Writer Elon Musk has deleted a post on his social media platform X in which he said “no one is even trying to assassinate”…

Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Marine Corps in a ceremony at the commandant’s headquarters has presented their highest noncombat medal to…

SPRINGFIELD, Ohio (AP) — Ohio state police will help protect schools in a city at the center of a political furor over Haitian migrants, the…

Associated Press RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Firefighters have battled flames spreading through a national park in Brazil in the latest wildfire in the…

Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A federal appeals court refused Monday to revive a defamation lawsuit that former NFL quarterback Brett Favre…

Associated Press ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — The good news for Atlantic City’s casino industry is that internet gambling had its best month…

DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — A U.S. Defense Department official says the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Niger is complete. A Pentagon spokesperson said…

Associated Press Postmaster General Louis DeJoy says he’ll work with state election officials to address concerns about mail-in ballots after they…

Associated Press A district attorney reviewing the case of a Massachusetts State Police recruit who died after a boxing training exercise says he…

Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — Venezuela’s main opposition coalition has urged the U.S. to cancel licenses for Chevron and other energy…

AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Some food lovers celebrate vegetables or rice or chicken. Steve Sando celebrates beans. He’s found a…

LAURINBURG, N.C. (AP) — Police in North Carolina say a Waffle House customer fatally shot an 18-year-old worker. Laurinburg police say officers…

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Voting rights groups have filed a lawsuit against  Alabama’s secretary of state over a policy they said is illegally…

Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States is placing new sanctions on a spyware firm and its executives after its tools were used to spy…

HARLAN, Ky. (AP) — Authorities say a Kentucky lawmaker was critically injured when the lawn mower he was riding plunged into an empty swimming pool…

Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — In yet another reversal, votes in Georgia for presidential candidates Cornel West and Claudia De la Cruz will count…

CLEVELAND (AP) — A woman who authorities say fatally stabbed a 3-year-old boy as he sat in a grocery cart outside an Ohio supermarket and wounded…

BOSTON (AP) — The alternative rock band Jane’s Addiction has scuttled its latest tour following an onstage scuffle between lead singer Perry…

Associated Press ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — The federal government is warning that allowing people to bet on the outcome of U.S. elections poses…

Associated Press PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Republican Sen. Susan Collins is introducing a bill prompted by the state’s deadliest shooting that…

Associated Press TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran’s new reformist president is insisting that Tehran didn’t want to enrich uranium at near-weapons…

AP Music Writer NEW YORK (AP) — New York rapper Lil Tecca will release his fourth studio album, “Plan A,” on Friday. He tells the…

AP Science Writer A new study offers the first detailed map of the human brain throughout and after pregnancy. It was published in the journal Nature…

BEDFORD, Ohio (AP) — Authorities say an 8-year-old girl took an SUV from her Ohio home and drove for miles to a store where she was later found…

Associated Press TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko has pardoned 37 people serving prison sentences for what his…

MOSCOW (AP) — The trial of a French citizen arrested in Russia on charges of unlawfully collecting information on military issues started but was…

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — An early morning shootout has left two Iowa police officers hospitalized and a suspect dead. Des Moines police say the…

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Officials say the number of people killed after a tanker truck carrying gasoline exploded in southern Haiti over the…

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Tropical Storm Gordon has weakened to a depression as it swirls through open waters in the Atlantic. The storm was…

LONDON (AP) — Three prominent columnists have resigned from the newspaper Jewish Chronicle over allegations it published fabricated articles about…

Associated Press CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — Rescuers freed an 11-year-old boy who slipped between two boulders near his school and was trapped for more…

AP Business Writer Washington state is in court to try to block a proposed merger between Albertsons and Kroger. The case that opened Monday is one…

Associated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Exceptionally heavy rainfall pounding Central Europe has prompted deadly flooding in the region, with four…

Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Former BBC news anchor Huw Edwards has been given a suspended prison sentence for indecent images of children on his…