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By ADAM BEAM Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California’s largest teachers union is turning up the pressure on Gov. Gavin Newsom.…

By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Dabney Coleman, the mustachioed character actor who specialized in smarmy villains like the…

By SUMMER BALLENTINE Associated Press JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Missouri Republican lawmakers have failed to pass a proposal to make it harder to…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The State Department has renewed a global security warning for Americans overseas and added to it that LGBTQ people and events in…

By LINDSAY WHITEHURST and GARY FIELDS Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — When an upside-down U.S. flag flew over the home of Supreme Court Justice…

WASHINGTON (AP) — ABC’s “This Week” — Sen. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md.; Victoria Nuland, a former top State Department official in the Biden…

By ISABELLA O’MALLEY Associated Press Meteorologists say exceptional windstorms that may leave some Houston residents without power for weeks…

By AMY BETH HANSON Associated Press HELENA, Mont. (AP) — Montana’s attorney general told supporters he skirted the state’s campaign…

By GABRIELA SÁ PESSOA Associated Press SAO PAULO (AP) — A group of volunteers working to save people from the floods in southern Brazil have…

By JIM VERTUNO Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s pardon of a former Army sergeant convicted of murder…

By TODD RICHMOND Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Someone’s plans to harvest dozens of apparent marijuana plants grown on the Wisconsin…

By ISABELLA VOLMERT Associated Press INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Mothers of two children with disabilities are suing an Indiana agency in federal court…

By ED WHITE Associated Press HOWELL, Mich. (AP) — A fall trial has been set for a pharmacist charged with second-degree murder in the deaths of 11…

NEW YORK (AP) — A person wanted in connection with the random assault on actor Steve Buscemi on a New York City street earlier this month has been…

By EDDIE PELLS AP National Writer LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Perspective was even harder to come by than birdies through all the raindrops, bourbon and…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Shohei Ohtani isn’t just getting his own day in Los Angeles this year. The Japanese two-way superstar will be able to call…

By KATE BRUMBACK Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — A media personality who co-founded a conservative political action committee has been appointed to…

CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — A legislator in South Carolina has had his law license suspended after a former client accused him of forging his signature…

By MARK BANCHEREAU Associated Press DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Senegal’s new prime minister has criticized the French military presence in the West…

FARMINGTON, N.M. (AP) — A Lakota student’s traditional feather plume was cut off her cap during her high school commencement this week in the…

By DARKO BANDIC Associated Press ZAGREB, Croatia (AP) — Croatian lawmakers have voted into office a new government that marks a tilt to the right…

By ROB GILLIES Associated Press TORONTO (AP) — Canadian police announced Friday they have linked the deaths of four young women nearly 50 years ago…

CASTLETON, Vt. (AP) — A Vermont university has bestowed the honorary degree of “doctor of litter-ature” on a cat named Max who has become a…

CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — Police say a former Boeing manager who raised safety questions about the aircraft maker took his own life. Police in…

MOSCOW (AP) — Seven Russian servicemen were injured when a World War II-era shell exploded in the basement of a military academy in St. Petersburg…

By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A Pennsylvania man whose father is a prominent conservative activist has been sentenced to…

By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer CANNES, France (AP) — After a string of hospitalizations for long COVID, Paul Schrader had a realization. “If I’m…

By KAREN MATTHEWS Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Would Lisa Simpson set up a tent at New York University to protest the war in Gaza? How would…

By KEN SWEET AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Since its creation roughly 14 years ago, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has faced…

By EDGAR H. CLEMENTE Associated Press TAPACHULA, Mexico (AP) — Mexico President Andrés Manuel López Obrador and Guatemala President Bernardo…

By ANDREW DALTON AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Security video appears to show Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs beating singer Cassie in a Los…

Associated Press A former OpenAI leader who resigned from the company earlier this week said on Friday that product safety has “taken a backseat to…

By JUSTIN SPIKE Associated Press BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — When a gunman shot Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico this week, shock rippled across the…

By JOEY CAPPELLETTI Associated Press LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Democratic groups are asking Michigan officials to investigate the nominating petitions…

By OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The man convicted of attempting to kidnap then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and attacking…

By WILL GRAVES AP National Writer LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — The world’s top-ranked golfer played in the second round of the PGA Championship…

VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Vatican has revised how it evaluates purported supernatural events, such as reported visions of the Virgin Mary, to guard…

By MICHELLE CHAPMAN AP Business Writer Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell has tested positive for COVID-19 and is experiencing symptoms. Powell…

BALTIMORE (AP) — Baltimore’s former top prosecutor Marilyn Mosby has applied for a presidential pardon ahead of sentencing on her recent perjury…

ISLAMABAD (AP) — A Taliban spokesman says that several gunmen opened fire in central Afghanistan, killing at least four people, including three…

CHICAGO (AP) — The Chicago Tribune is being sued by some of its staffers, who say they and other women and Black journalists are being paid less…

By SEUNG MIN KIM and COLLEEN LONG Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Biden has spoken to Black leaders at the National Museum of African American…

By SARAH EL DEEB Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — The 35 American and other international doctors came to Gaza in volunteer teams to help one of the…

By COLLEEN SLEVIN Associated Press DENVER (AP) — A man accused of setting a house fire that killed five members of a Senegalese family in 2020 in a…

By ISABEL DEBRE Associated Press BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Argentine commuters in Buenos Aires are being hit by an abrupt 360% increase in…

By DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — King Charles III plans to travel to France next month for British ceremonies marking the 80th…

By ERIC OLSON AP Sports Writer Scottie Scheffler’s arrest hours before his second-round tee time at the PGA Championship in Louisville will go down…

NEW YORK (AP) — The NFL is distancing itself from Kansas City Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker, saying “his views are not those of the NFL as an…

ATLANTA (AP) — The last U.S. zoo with pandas in its care expects to say goodbye to the four giant bears this fall. Zoo Atlanta is making…

By ADRIAN SAINZ Associated Press MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — A judge has sentenced a Tennessee man to 80 years in prison for raping a woman a year before…

By MIKE STOBBE AP Medical Writer FORT COLLINS, Colorado (AP) — Tick season is starting across the U.S., and experts are warning the bloodsuckers…

MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Officials say one of Indonesia’s most-wanted drug suspects has been arrested in the Philippines after an international…

By JACK DURA Associated Press A abortion rights ballot initiative is going before South Dakota voters this November. The secretary of state’s…

By JACQUES BILLEAUD Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Attorney John Eastman has pleaded not guilty to conspiracy, fraud and forgery charges for his…

By TOM NOUVIAN Associated Press PARIS (AP) — Paris Olympics organizers have inaugurated the Pride House on a barge in the Seine River. The boat is…

JERUSALEM (AP) — The Israeli military says it found the bodies of three Israeli hostages in Gaza, including German-Israeli Shani Louk. A photo of…

By GHAITH ALSAYED Associated Press IDLIB, Syria (AP) — Members of Syria’s most powerful insurgent group in the country’s rebel-held northwest…

By JEFFREY COLLINS Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A state judge has ruled that South Carolina can continue to enforce a ban on nearly all…

By SYLEJMAN KLLOKOQI and LLAZAR SEMINI Associated Press PRISTINA, Kosovo (AP) — Kosovo has criticized the Council of Europe’s decision against…

TBILISI, Georgia (AP) — Georgia’s prime minister has joined tens of thousands of people on march through the country’s capital to mark…

By LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer If you’re looking for a little bit of that “Top Gun: Maverick” spectacle and thrill at the movie theater this…

By DAVID BAUDER AP Media Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The planned presidential debates between Joe Biden and Donald Trump that were swiftly organized…

By JIM SALTER Associated Press ST. LOUIS (AP) — A Missouri inmate who is weeks away from execution is in a hospital after suffering what a Missouri…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — A mayoral candidate and five other people have been killed in a shooting at campaign rally in the violence-wracked southern…

By PHILIP MARCELO Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — New York’s first-in-the-nation plan to levy a hefty toll on drivers entering Manhattan is the…

DETROIT (AP) — Tim Kuniskis, CEO of the Ram and Dodge brands and the unofficial voice of American muscle cars, is retiring from Stellantis after…

By BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press LONDON (AP) — A scenic fishing village in southwest England was under instructions to boil its tap water for a…

BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union has banned four more Russian media outlets from broadcasting in the 27-nation bloc for what it calls the spread…

BERLIN (AP) — The German parliament has approved plans to relax strict restrictions on family names — clearing the way, among other things, for…

LONDON (AP) — A Moroccan asylum-seeker who stabbed a British retiree to death in revenge for Israel’s war against Hamas has been sentenced to at…

BLANTYRE, Malawi (AP) — A man in Malawi has been convicted of insulting President Lazarus Chakwera after posting a TikTok video that shows an…

By DARREN SANDS Associated Press It was daunting when the Rev. Brandon Thomas Crowley, at age 22, replaced a beloved pastor who had ministered to one…

PARIS (AP) — There’s been slight drop in reported violence across New Caledonia Friday, a day after France imposed a state of emergency in the…

By LEAH ASKARINAM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Oregon has multiple hotly contested primaries upcoming, as well as some that will set the…

By DOUG FERGUSON AP Golf Writer LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Masters champion Scottie Scheffler was in police handcuffs going into the PGA Championship.…

By LEAH ASKARINAM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — All of Donald Trump’s top opponents for the Republican presidential nomination dropped out…

LONDON (AP) — Paul McCartney is a billionaire Beatle. According to figures released Friday, the former member of the Fab Four is the first British…

By MAYA SWEEDLER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Voters in California’s 20th Congressional District can be forgiven if they open their ballots…

By ROBERT YOON Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — When Idaho voters head to the polls Tuesday to decide primaries for the U.S. House and the state…

By MAE ANDERSON AP Business Writer For the nation’s bicycle shops, the past few years have probably felt like the business version of the Tour de…

By GERALD IMRAY Associated Press CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — Authorities say an exhaustive rescue operation to find missing construction workers…