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NEWBERN, Ala. (AP) — The first Black mayor of a small Alabama town, who said white city officials blocked him from taking office, will return to…

By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER and ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange will plead guilty to a felony charge in…

By ANDREW DeMILLO Associated Press LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Arkansas has sued two pharmacy benefit managers, accusing them of enabling the opioid…

By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A Senate staffer has testified at a bribery trial that planning for Sen. Bob Menendez’s…

Associated Press If you think airports are crowded this summer, it’s not your imagination. The TSA says it screened a record number of…

By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN Associated Press Residents are returning to a fire-ravaged village in the mountains of southern New Mexico. The mayor warns…

By KIMBERLEE KRUESI Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — As Tennessee prepares to become the second U.S. state to enact a ban against adults…

By SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The liberal majority of Wisconsin’s Supreme Court says taxpayers will pay half of the…

CHICAGO (AP) — The longest-serving City Council member in Chicago history has been sentenced to two years in prison for corruption. That was far…

By JILL COLVIN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — After months of casting President Joe Biden as a senile shell of a man incapable of putting two…

BY HOLLY RAMER Associated Press Brentwood, N.H. (AP) — Both sides in a landmark trial over abuse at New Hampshire’s youth detention center were…

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — The Associated Press says tightly contested race in Virginia between one of America’s most conservative congressmen and a…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United Nations chief has launched global principles to combat online hate and lies…

By ANDREW DeMILLO Associated Press LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — The Arkansas Supreme Court is reinstating an agency rule that prohibits residents from…

TORONTO (AP) — A fourth teenage girl accused in the fatal stabbing of a Toronto homeless man two years ago has pleaded guilty. The girl was 14 at…

By DÁNICA COTO Associated Press SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — The leader of a notoriously violent gang in Haiti linked to the kidnapping of 16 U.S.…

IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — Police say Iowa receiver Kaleb Brown was arrested for operating a vehicle while under the influence of alcohol and…

By JACK DURA Associated Press BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — A former North Dakota lawmaker who was one of the most powerful members of the Legislature has…

By STEPHEN GROVES Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The House Ethics Committee is reviewing accusations that two Republican congressmen from Texas…

By MANUEL RUEDA Associated Press BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Colombia has launched peace talks with the Second Marquetalia rebel group as President…

By JAMIE STENGLE Associated Press DALLAS (AP) — Police say a Texas woman allegedly tried to drown a 3-year-old girl in a pool after making racist…

bail funds georgia law lawsuit By KATE BRUMBACK Associated Press (AP) — A new federal lawsuit challenges a Georgia law that expands cash bail and…

By CORAL MURPHY MARCOS Associated Press SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — The private operator of Puerto Rico’s power grid has confirmed the deferral…

PRAGUE (AP) — Argentina’s self-described anarcho-capitalist President Javier Milei has wrapped up his brief trip of three European Union…

BOSTON (AP) — Big record companies are suing artificial intelligence song-generators Suno and Udio for copyright infringement, alleging that the AI…

By SARA CLINE Associated Press BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Civil liberties groups have filed a lawsuit challenging Louisiana’s new law mandating that…

By DEVI SHASTRI AP Health Writer A new study shows the infant death rate in Texas went up in the wake of the state’s abortion ban. The analysis…

OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — A defiant and furious mayor of Oakland, California, says she did not do anything wrong and has no plans to resign from…

By ADRIAN SAINZ Associated Press MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Twelve years ago, the Memphis Music Hall of Fame inducted its inaugural class of 25…

TORONTO (AP) — Canada’s government is investigating whether to impose a surtax on imports of Chinese-made electric vehicles. A 30-day…

SANTA CRUZ, Calif. (AP) — A hiker missing for 10 days has been found safe in the mountains in Northern California. Lukas McClish left the rural…

BAY SHORE, N.Y. (AP) — A small plane has made an emergency landing on the beach on New York’s Fire Island and the two people on board were…

By TARA COPP and MATTHEW LEE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. is expected to announce Tuesday it is sending an additional $150 million…

By COLLEEN LONG Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — On the second anniversary of the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, Vice…

By COREY WILLIAMS Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — Patricia Kobylski remembers when there were plenty of people in her eastside Detroit…

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — Defense attorneys for Alec Baldwin are seeking to scuttle an involuntary manslaughter trial against the actor-producer in the…

BY ABBY SEWELL AND MELANIE LIDMAN Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — The prospect of a full-scale war between Israel and Lebanon’s Hezbollah militia…

By MICHAEL PHILLIS Associated Press ST. LOUIS (AP) — Heavy rains have caused record-setting flooding in parts of Iowa and South Dakota. Hundreds…

BERLIN (AP) — German police say one police officer has died and another one is severely injured after a car collided with the motorcycle police…

By DAVE COLLINS Associated Press A U.S. bankruptcy court trustee is planning to shut down conspiracy theorist Alex Jones’ Infowars media platform…

By BRUCE SHIPKOWSKI Associated Press The conservancy that oversees the SS United States has launched an urgent $500,000 fundraising campaign to help…

By BARBARA SURK Associated Press NICE, France (AP) — A pro-independence movement in the French Pacific territory of New Caledonia is demanding the…

By MICHAEL CASEY Associated Press CANTON, Mass. (AP) — A retired forensic pathologist says some the injuries suffered by a Boston police officer…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — President Joe Biden has denounced violence that flared when opponents of the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza staged a protest at a Los…

Traffic fatalities declined about 3% in the first quarter, according to preliminary data from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. The…

TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — A former University of Arizona graduate student convicted of fatally shooting a hydrology professor on campus months after he…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court has rejected a challenge to a 2021 Connecticut law that eliminated the state’s longstanding religious…

WEST GLACIER, Mont. (AP) — Officials in Glacier National Park say a 26-year-old Pennsylvania woman drowned after being swept over a 35-foot…

By EVELYNE MUSAMBI Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Hundreds of Kenyan police officers are leaving for Haiti, where they will lead a…

By CURT ANDERSON Associated Press ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — Stinging jellyfish, rays with their whip-like tails and sharks on the hunt are some…

By IGNATIUS SSUUNA Associated Press Authorities in Rwanda say one person was killed in a stampede at a reelection rally for President Paul Kagame in…

By MARIA SHERMAN AP Music Writer Taylor Swift had a surprise for fans attending her Eras Tour at London’s Wembley Stadium on Sunday: her…

By STEPHEN GROVES Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — As candidates for the U.S. House vie for election in the few dozen districts that are likely…

By JOSH JACQUOT Edmunds The number of truly outstanding performance cars priced at or around $65,000 might surprise you. But what you get for that…

By KRYSTA FAURIA Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — When Veronika Slowikowska graduated from college in 2015, she did what conventional wisdom…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — A Japanese transport ministry panel has proposed a number of air traffic control measures to boost…

By THOMAS ADAMSON AP Fashion Writer PARIS (AP) — Dior has staged an homage to sport on the eve of the Paris Olympics on the grounds of the Musée…

By KATIE MARIE DAVIES Associated Press Over the years, Russia’s southern republic of Dagestan, located in the North Caucasus region, has been…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court agreed on Monday to consider reviving a critical approval for a railroad project that would carry crude oil and…

By JOHN SEEWER and SHARON JOHNSON Associated Press The first weekend of summer brought a tragic yet familiar pattern for American cities wracked by…

By The Associated Press The Texas Rangers are the only one of the 30 teams in Major League Baseball that aren’t hosting Pride Night during a game…

By SCHUYLER DIXON AP Sports Writer ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — The Texas Rangers have frustrated LGBTQ+ advocates for years as the only Major League…

By AHMED HATEM and KAREEM CHEHAYEB Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — A senior official with the U.N. health agency says the reconnected U.S.-built pier…

BERLIN (AP) — German prosecutors say two men who allegedly tried blackmailing the family of former Formula 1 champion Michael Schumacher were…

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — A Malaysian minister says police have detained eight people with suspected links to the Islamic State militant group…

By MATTHEW LEE AP Diplomatic Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — One of Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s most senior aides is leaving for a top job…

By NINIEK KARMINI Associated Press JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Authorities say Indonesia’s national data center has been compromised by a hacking…

MASON, Ohio (AP) — A man who was struck by a steel roller coaster at an Ohio theme park last week after he entered a restricted area to retrieve…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court has rejected two appeals related to COVID-19 vaccines from Children’s Health Defense, the anti-vaccine…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court has agreed to intervene for the second time in a dispute between Hungary and Holocaust survivors who want to be…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court has rejected a challenge from Republican-controlled states to a horse racing safety law that has led to…

By DAVID BAUDER AP Media Writer NEW YORK (AP) — For one weekend day this fall in New York — and for a price — MSNBC fans can see many of their…

By LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court has rejected an appeal from Josh Duggar, a former reality television…

BERLIN (AP) — Pope Francis has appointed the longtime secretary of the late Pope Benedict XVI, who was sent back to his native Germany without a…

By MELINA WALLING Associated Press OREGONIA, Ohio (AP) — As the first heat wave of the season ripples across the U.S., summer camps are working to…

By MARK SHERMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court is stepping into the fight over transgender rights, agreeing to hear appeals…

By BRIAN WITTE Associated Press The cargo ship Dali is headed out of Baltimore for Virginia. It departed Monday morning, nearly three months after it…

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Malaysia Airlines says one of its plane en route to Bangkok made a U-turn back to Kuala Lumpur International Airport…

By LAURA UNGAR AP Science Writer At least one in 20 people who are pregnant develop a scary complication called preeclampsia, a high blood pressure…

By MARÍA TERESA HERNÁNDEZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — It’s not just a book. Back in the 1450s, when the Bible became the first major work…

By SAM MEDNICK Associated Press JUBA, South Sudan (AP) — A draft report from the leading international authority on hunger crises says an influx of…

By WYATTE GRANTHAM-PHILIPS AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Car dealerships across North America continue to wrestle with disruptions that…