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By DAVID KOENIG and MICHELLE CHAPMAN AP Business Writers A Senate panel has approved a rail-safety measure in response to the train derailment…

By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Former Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant has given notice that he will sue a news…

By JOEY CAPPELLETTI Associated Press LANSING, Mich. (AP) — A second Michigan school district is banning backpacks, this time because an elementary…

By WILSON RING Associated Press A New Hampshire electric utility is offering a new proposal for an electrical transmission line from Canada that…

By LAURAN NEERGAARD AP Medical Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — An experimental skin patch is showing promise to treat toddlers who are highly allergic to…

By JULIE CARR SMYTH Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — An Ohio Constitution change aimed at thwarting an abortion rights push this fall has…

By SUMMER BALLENTINE Associated Press JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Missouri’s Republican governor is taking applications to replace the…

By PAUL J. WEBER and ACACIA CORONADO Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Rare momentum in the Texas Capitol for a tougher gun law has flickered…

By TARA COPP Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Army has announced changes to the way it will care for the gray and black horses that carry…

By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN and ALANNA DURKIN RICHER Associated Press An Idaho man who traveled to Washington in a car loaded with weapons and was…

By TERRY SPENCER Associated Press FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — The Florida judge who gained a national profile while presiding over the Parkland…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Nicaragua has ordered the closure of the country’s Red Cross, capping a crackdown that has seen the government toss out…

By FARNOUSH AMIRI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — There’s a new leader at America’s National Archives. President Joe Biden’s…

By MICHELLE CHAPMAN AP Business Writer Ongoing strength at its theme parks and an improving streaming business propelled The Walt Disney Co. to…

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A federal appointee is managing the water system in Mississippi’s capital city, and the same might soon be true for the…

By MARY CLARE JALONICK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — California Sen. Dianne Feinstein returned to the Senate on Wednesday after a…

By ANTHONY IZAGUIRRE Associated Press TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Wednesday signed into law a sweeping immigration bill…

By LEANNE ITALIE AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The pioneering mommy blogger Heather Armstrong, who laid bare her struggles as a parent…

NEW YORK (AP) — A 13-count federal indictment unsealed in New York accuses U.S. Rep. George Santos of embezzling money from his campaign, falsely…

By MICHAEL LIEDTKE AP Technology Writer MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. (AP) — Google on Wednesday disclosed plans to infuse its dominant search engine with…

By WAYNE PARRY Associated Press SECAUCUS, N.J. (AP) — Imagine being able to make a bet with this level of specificity: the Yankees’ Aaron Judge…

By KAREN MATTHEWS Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — New York City Mayor Eric Adams said Wednesday that the death of Jordan Neely at the hands of a…

By MAYSOON KHAN Associated Press/Report for America ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York’s attorney general says three companies accused of falsifying…

CHICAGO (AP) — Authorities say four teenagers have been charged in the fatal shooting of a Chicago police officer who was killed last weekend as…

BOST0N (AP) — The highest court in Massachusetts has upheld a nearly $37 million judgment for a woman who said she developed cancer after switching…

By DAVID KLEPPER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Misleading claims about the gunman who killed eight people at a Dallas-area shopping center are…

By JOHN RABY AP Sports Writer West Virginia basketball coach Bob Huggins has agreed to a three-game suspension, a $1 million salary reduction and…

By JEFFREY COLLINS Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A man is suing a sheriff’s office in South Carolina, saying deputies shot at him about…

DETROIT (AP) — A man fatally shot another customer inside a Detroit gas station and wounded two more after the clerk locked the door in a dispute…

By MATTHEW PERRONE AP Health Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal health advisers said Wednesday that a decades-old birth control pill should be sold…

BERLIN (AP) — Germany has given final approval for a Chinese company to take a significant minority stake in the operator of a container terminal…

By LISA RATHKE Associated Press Vermont’s Republican governor has signed abortion and gender affirming shield bills into law that are the first in…

By KEN RITTER Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — Ex-Las Vegas Raiders player Henry Ruggs pleaded guilty Wednesday to driving his sports car drunk at…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The U.K. government has scrapped plan to remove all remaining EU laws from British statute books by…

By ADRIANA MORGA and CORA LEWIS Associated Press The U.S. has approved more than $42 billion in federal student loan debt forgiveness for more than…

By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer When Martin Scorsese premieres his latest film, “Killers of the Flower Moon,” at the Cannes Film Festival on May…

By LAURA UNGAR AP Science Writer For two decades, scientists have been comparing every person’s full set of DNA they study to a template that…

By TRACEE M. HERBAUGH Associated Press When my mother died suddenly 30 years ago, I was 13. I’d spend the next 20 years attempting to…

By SUMMER BALLENTINE and JOHN HANNA Associated Press JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Transgender minors won’t have access to puberty blockers,…

By MIKE SCHNEIDER Associated Press ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Before allies of Gov. Ron DeSantis took over, Disney World’s governing district,…

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland is reverting to using its historical name for Kaliningrad, the Russian city and administrative region that sits on its…

FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — Volkswagen’s annual shareholder meeting was briefly disrupted Wednesday by protests over the company’s…

By SYLVIA HUI Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The head of the Church of England has made a rare intervention in Parliament to condemn the British…

By MICHAEL LIEDTKE AP Technology Writer Almost everyone knows Steve Jobs’ uncanny vision, relentless drive and technological wizardry hatched…

MADRID (AP) — Spain plans to ban outdoor work during periods of extreme heat. Second Deputy Prime Minister Yolanda Díaz told reporters Wednesday…

By ISABELLA O’MALLEY Associated Press When Joe Seaman-Graves, the city planner for the working class town of Cohoes, New York, Googled the term…

By SEUNG MIN KIM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Hollywood writers’ strike that’s snarling the television and movie industries…

By JAKE OFFENHARTZ and MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press CENTRAL ISLIP, N.Y. (AP) — U.S. Rep. George Santos, infamous for fabricating his life…

STOCKHOLM (AP) — An explosion at an ammunition factory in southern Sweden has seriously injured at least one person. Police said they were…

By KAREEM CHEHAYEB Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Saudi Arabia has invited Syrian President Bashar Assad to the upcoming Arab League summit in the…

By FRANCES D’EMILIO Associated Press ROME (AP) — Italian police say they have arrested 29 people and smashed a transnational operation that…

PARIS (AP) — Colleagues of Arman Soldin, the Agence France-Presse journalist slain Tuesday in Ukraine, have gathered solemnly at the press…

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — A detective who has been with a South Florida sheriff’s agency for nearly 21 years is accused of falsifying…

SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) — A European Union commissioner from Bulgaria has been nominated for the post of prime minister as the Balkan country…

By NOHA EL HENNAWY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — The Sudanese Doctors’ Syndicate says tribal clashes over several days killed 25 people and…

By HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Oprah Winfrey’s latest book project is one she helped write. Winfrey has teamed with the…

BERLIN (AP) — Germany plans to allow sound recording of some criminal trials, ending the decades-long practice of requiring judges, prosecutors and…

MOSCOW (AP) — Russia’s foreign minister is hosting his counterparts from Turkey, Syria and Iran for talks aimed at normalizing Turkish-Syrian…

By MARIA VERZA, COLLEEN LONG and MORGAN LEE Associated Press CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico (AP) — The Biden administration on Thursday will begin denying…

PARIS (AP) — Germany’s foreign minister has described China as increasingly becoming a “systemic rival” on the world stage. With China’s…

By KANIS LEUNG Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong lawmakers have passed an amendment to a law granting the city’s leader the power to…

By BOUAZZA BEN BOUAZZA and THOMAS ADAMSON Associated Press TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — Tunisian authorities have opened an investigation into a shooting…

By KATE ASHFORD of NerdWallet Most older adults ages 50 to 80 say it’s important to stay in their homes for as long as they can, according to the…

MOSCOW (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed decrees abolishing visas for Georgian nationals and lifting a 2019 ban on direct flights…

By MARIA CHENG AP Medical Writer LONDON (AP) — Britain’s fertility regulator says the first babies created using an experimental technique…

By JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press GENEVA (AP) — Authorities in eastern Switzerland have ordered residents of the tiny village of Brienz to evacuate…

By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis and the Coptic Orthodox pope have delivered a joint blessing from St.…

By NICK KURCZEWSKI Edmunds The Honda Pilot and Hyundai Palisade are midsize SUVs with three rows of seating and a reputation for comfort and value.…

By SUSIE BLANN Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine’s atomic energy company is claiming that Russia plans to relocate around 2,700…

BERLIN (AP) — China’s foreign minister says his country has no intention of benefiting from the war in Ukraine and hopes for further talks on a…

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Authorities in Poland say a 16-year-old girl was killed and nine other people were injured in a knife attack in an orphanage…

By LORNE COOK Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — A top European Union court says EU competition authorities were wrong to approve bailouts for German…

BANGKOK (AP) — Myanmar’s military government is urging people fighting against its rule to surrender their weapons, offering a cash reward if…

By ZEKE MILLER AP White House Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is aiming to showcase the Democratic coalition rallying around…