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GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — Guatemalan prosecutors have arrested the former representative of a U.N.-backed anti-corruption commission that was expelled…

HIGHLAND, Kan. (AP) — A Kansas community college that was accused of discriminating against Black student-athletes has agreed to a settlement. The…

By FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — As worker actions continue from Hollywood to Detroit, and new labor unions crop up nationally,…

By JEFF AMY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — The retired federal judge who has been leading Georgia’s State Election Board during a time when it…

By MICHAEL HILL Associated Press WEST POINT, N.Y. (AP) — A lead box believed to have been placed in the base of a West Point monument by cadets…

By JONATHAN LANDRUM Jr. AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — “Saturday Night Live” star Heidi Gardner will be among several entertainers…

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Law enforcement has prepared a first-of-its-kind report detailing missing Alaska Natives and American Indian people in…

By MICHAEL CASEY Associated Press Authorities in Massachusetts have concluded a woman whose mutilated body was discovered on Cape Cod nearly 50 years…

By JULIE CARR SMYTH Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Convicted former Ohio House Speaker Larry Householder has been transferred to Oklahoma…

By DARLENE SUPERVILLE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden will observe next month’s 22nd anniversary of the worst…

By BASSEM MROUE Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Judicial officials say two Russian citizens who were recently detained in Beirut on suspicion of…

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Civil rights advocates have filed a lawsuit challenging an Indiana law that prohibits gender-affirming surgery for inmates.…

By RALPH D. RUSSO AP College Football Writer The dearth of Black coaches leading major college football programs routinely draws scrutiny. This…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida has asked China to urge its citizens to halt acts of…

By JOEY CAPPELLETTI Associated Press LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer will call on lawmakers to pass legislation proactively…

TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Florida officials are warning drivers of “potentially widespread fuel contamination” impacting gas stations across the…

LOUISVILLE, Ky (AP) — Authorities say second man has died following a weekend shooting near a Louisville, Kentucky, restaurant and bar that also…

LONDON (AP) — Hundreds of thousands of revelers have packed the streets of west London for the climax of the Notting Hill Carnival, one of the…

JACK JEFFERY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — The head of Sudan’s army has made a rare public speech in his first tour outside of the capital since…

By RAYMOND J. CROWLEY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — On Aug. 28, 1963, AP reporter Raymond J. Crowley went to the National Mall and chronicled…

BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s rail workers will not go on open-ended strikes after less than 50% of union members voted for all-out strike action. A…

LONDON (AP) — Members of a Canadian First Nation have held a spiritual ceremony at a Scottish museum to begin the homeward journey of a totem pole…

PARIS (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron says France’s ambassador is staying at his post in Niger despite being asked to leave by the ruling…

ROME (AP) — Pope Francis has blasted the “backwardness” of some conservatives in the U.S. Catholic Church, saying they have replaced faith with…

By CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — The mutinous soldiers who overthrew democratically elected Niger President Mohamed Bazoum…

By KEN SWEET AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Artificial intelligence has been the buzzword of 2023 ever since ChatGPT made its public debut…

By AMIR VAHDAT and JON GAMBRELL Associated Press TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran has summoned a Swiss diplomat over the apparent U.S. seizure of Iranian…

By MARIA SHERMAN AP Music Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Trans-Siberian Orchestra will return this winter with a holiday tour called “The Ghosts of…

QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) — A defense lawyer says a court in southwest Pakistan has quashed a sedition case against imprisoned former Prime Minister…

By BASSEM MROUE Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Syrian opposition activists say clashes have broken out between two U.S.-backed groups in eastern…

By JUAN A. LOZANO Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — The largest school district in Texas is opening a new chapter as it begins the school year. A…

By RAHIM FAIEZ Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — The Taliban say they will use security forces to stop women from visiting one of Afghanistan’s…

GRAND CANYON NATIONAL PARK, Ariz. (AP) — Grand Canyon National Park officials are warning that E. coli bacteria has been detected in the water…

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Charges have been dropped against the man who was accused of fleeing police in a high-speed chase that resulted in the death of…

By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Lawyers for Sam Bankman-Fried say prosecutors have delivered another four million pages of…

WASHINGTON (AP) — ABC’s “This Week” — Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, a Republican presidential candidate; Cedric Richmond, co-chair…

By STEVE KARNOWSKI Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The U.S. Forest Service has rejected the expansion plans of Lutsen Mountains, one of the…

STEVE KARNOWSKI Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A Pakistani doctor and former Mayo Clinic research coordinator who sought to join the Islamic…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United States is warning that the string of military takeovers in Africa’s Sahel…

By JONATHAN J. COOPER Associated Press A camera clicks. In a fraction of a second, the shutter opens and then closes, freezing forever the image in…

By RUSS BYNUM Associated Press SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — Georgia’s oldest city, steeped in history predating the American Revolution, made a…

By NATHAN ELLGREN and GARY FIELDS Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Fencing and construction workers greet visitors to the Lincoln Memorial,…

SEATTLE (AP) — DoorDash will pay $1.6 million to its workers after a Seattle investigation found the company failed to implement the city’s…

By THALIA BEATY Associated Press Open Society Foundations plan to significantly curtail their work in Europe and lay off much of their staff there.…

Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. air defense has scrambled fighter jets to wave off a civilian aircraft that had entered temporarily…

By The Associated Press The grassland birds that bring sweet song to North America’s prairie are in decline, with habitat loss, land degradation…

By HANNAH FINGERHUT Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — One of Iowa’s largest cities repealed its ban on “conversion therapy” —…

By CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Niger’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs says the French ambassador has been asked to leave…

By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A federal appeals court will not revive a lawsuit by the family of a Mississippi…

By KAREN MATTHEWS Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Three men who were convicted of crimes in the New York City borough of Queens in the 1990s and…

By MEG KINNARD Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis says he got a $1 million cash bump after Wednesday night’s…

By MARCOS MARTÍNEZ CHACÓN Associated Press MONTERREY, Mexico (AP) — Mexico’s 2024 presidential election is less than a year away and…

GARYVILLE, La. (AP) — A massive fire at a south Louisiana oil refinery sent a tower of black smoke billowing into the air above the Mississippi…

SAN DIEGO (AP) — A Marine Corps pilot has died in the crash of combat jet near a San Diego military base. The service says in statement Friday that…

BOSTON (AP) — One of the first personal computers built by Apple and signed by company co-founder Steve Wozniak has sold at auction for more than…

LAKE TOWNSHIP, Ohio (AP) — Police performing a welfare check at an Ohio home found five family members dead inside. Authorities say the family died…

By DARLENE SUPERVILLE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris has praised the 2022 WNBA champion Las Vegas Aces for showing…

BEIRUT (AP) — Prominent Lebanese journalist Talal Salman who founded one of the country’s largest Arabic-language independent newspapers has died…

By KIMBERLEE KRUESI, JEFF AMY and ANTHONY IZAGUIRRE Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A new rule in Tennessee that would have blocked people…

By TAMMY WEBBER Associated Press POTTER, Neb. (AP) — When Reed Cammack hears the first meadowlark of spring, he knows his family has made it…

By FARAI MUTSAKA Associated Press HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — Zimbabweans are waiting anxiously for the outcome of general elections as dozens of armed…

By KATE BRUMBACK Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Former President Donald Trump and the 18 people indicted along with him in Georgia on charges that…

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. humanitarian chief is warning that the conflict in Sudan is fueling “a humanitarian emergency of epic…

By DASHA LITVINOVA Associated Press TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — The attacks range from the exotic — poisoned by drinking polonium-laced tea or…

By DARLENE SUPERVILLE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris will observe Monday’s 60th…

By JENNA EBBERS AND CASSIDEY KAVATHAS, News21 CLOVIS, N.M. (AP) — In the year since Roe v. Wade was reversed, New Mexico has emerged as a safe…

By JUAN A. LOZANO Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — A federal judge is questioning whether living in poverty would be enough to qualify someone for a…

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — The government of the Bahamas has unveiled several bills aimed at legalizing marijuana for medical and religious…

By REBECCA BOONE, BEATRICE DUPUY, GENE JOHNSON and JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — Within a day of Maui County releasing…

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Dutch brewer Heineken has completed its withdrawal from Russia, 18 months after Moscow launched its full-scale…