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By KANIS LEUNG Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — A Hong Kong court on Tuesday began to hear pleas for lenient sentences from some prominent…

By JINTAMAS SAKSORNCHAI, ALANNA DURKIN RICHER and ERIC TUCKER Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — A plane believed to be carrying WikiLeaks founder…

By The Associated Press Six candidates have been approved by Iran’s theocracy to run in Friday’s presidential election to replace the late…

By HALELUYA HADERO Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Amazon is partnering with hip-hop star Megan Thee Stallion to boost sales for its 10th annual…

By MICHAEL CASEY Associated Press DEDHAM, Mass. (AP) — Jurors in the murder trial of Karen Read must decide whether she was a callous girlfriend…

By JOSH FUNK, TOM KRISHER AND PATRICK ORSAGOS Associated Press EAST PALESTINE, Ohio (AP) — Eastern Ohio residents will learn more Tuesday about the…

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

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — Defense attorneys for Alec Baldwin say the involuntary manslaughter charge against him in the 2021 death of a cinematographer…

By AUDREY McAVOY Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — Alicia Humiston bought her condo in Lahaina after she visited Maui and fell for its rainforests,…

By MARGERY A. BECK, HANNAH FINGERHUT and JOHN HANNA Associated Press NORTH SIOUX CITY, S.D. (AP) — More storms are possible in parts of the deluged…

By MARK THIESSEN Associated Press A well-known Hawaii lifeguard who was killed in a shark attack on Oahu’s North Shore was a former professional…

By ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — News that the U.S. Justice Department has reached a plea deal that will lead to freedom for…

By ANTHONY IZAGUIRRE Associated Press One of the most liberal members of Congress is trying to fight off a strong challenge from a political moderate…

By ANIRUDDHA GHOSAL Associated Press HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — Vietnamese automaker VinFast has a big problem: It just can’t sell enough cars. Idle…

By JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — Hawaii authorities say the death toll from last year’s wildfire in Lahaina on the…

By KEN RITTER Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — A Nevada judge is being asked to decide if a former Los Angeles-area gang leader will be freed from…

By JOHN HANNA Associated Press TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Federal judges in Kansas and Missouri have together blocked much of a Biden administration…

By JACK DURA and RICHARD LARDNER Associated Press BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum has emerged as a serious contender to be…

By RICHARD LARDNER and JACK DURA Associated Press BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum is one of Donald Trump’s most visible and…

By DAVID BAUDER AP Media Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Joe Biden and Donald Trump won’t be alone at Thursday’s debate. Moderators Dana Bash…

By HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Rescue workers were combing through the charred ruins of a factory building near South…

By DASHA LITVINOVA and ERIC TUCKER Associated Press TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — One was a journalist on a reporting trip. Another was attending a…

By JEFFREY COLLINS Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Former President Donald Trump and South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster are on opposite…

By WILL WEISSERT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — It’s debate prep time for President Joe Biden and Republican Donald Trump, and their…

By MARÍA VERZA Associated Press TILA, Mexico (AP) — It was night when residents began hearing gunshots in the remote southern Mexico town of Tila.…

By TIM REYNOLDS AP Sports Writer SUNRISE, Fla. (AP) — There was no collapse. The Florida Panthers are Stanley Cup champions for the first time, and…

By TIM REYNOLDS AP Sports Writer SUNRISE, Fla. (AP) — There was no collapse. The Florida Panthers are Stanley Cup champions for the first time, and…

By JOE REEDY AP Sports Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — The jury in the class-action lawsuit filed by “Sunday Ticket” subscribers against the NFL is…

By HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Rescue workers are combing through the charred ruins of a factory building near South…

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…