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By ANITA SNOW Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — American bars and restaurants gear up every year for Cinco de Mayo, offering special deals on Mexican…

By JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — To the casual viewer, competing at the Westminster Kennel Club dog show might look pretty…

WASHINGTON (AP) — China was the biggest global jailer of journalists last year with more than 100 behind bars, according to a press freedom group,…

By SUSAN HAIGH and PAT EATON-ROBB Associated Press HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Tennessee organizers booked more than 50 drag entertainers for next…

By DARLENE SUPERVILLE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — First lady Jill Biden is in London for the coronation of King Charles III. President Joe…

By ANDREW SELSKY and ED KOMENDA Associated Press SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Republicans blocking votes on bills about abortion, gun control and…

By DAVID KLEPPER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The person who operates the Twitter account claims to be an Islamic fundamentalist living in…

By HAVEN DALEY and JULIE WATSON Associated Press COLOMA, Calif. (AP) — Triple Threat. Deadman’s Drop. Satan’s Cesspool. After years of drought,…

By JEFF McMURRAY Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — After a retinal disease left him legally blind, architect John Gleichman was struck by a taxicab…

By SARA BURNETT Associated Press E. Jean Carroll testified in sometimes searing detail about the day she says Donald Trump raped her in a department…

By PAUL WISEMAN AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — America’s employers added a healthy 253,000 jobs in April, evidence of a labor market that…

By JOVANA GEC and DUSAN STOJANOVIC Associated Press BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Authorities say a gunman apparently firing at random killed eight…

SEATTLE (AP) — A man accused in the fatal shooting of a young man in Seattle’s Capitol Hill Organized Protest zone in 2020 has pleaded guilty to…

PULLMAN, Wash. (AP) — Newly released body camera video shows the man accused of fatally stabbing four University of Idaho students being pulled…

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The former chief security officer for Uber was sentenced to probation Thursday for trying to cover up a 2016 data breach in…

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Conservative policy analyst Drew Johnson has announced that he will run in 2024 for the highly competitive Nevada congressional…

By BETH HARRIS AP Racing Writer LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Horse racing’s new antidoping and medication control program has stumbled out of the…

By MORGAN LEE Associated Press SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — U.S. Sen. Martin Heinrich of New Mexico will seek a third term next year as he champions…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Hundreds of police and government agents raided an underground fuel theft terminal in a tunnel in central Mexico, where thieves…

By KIM CHANDLER Associated Press HAYNEVILLE, Ala. (AP) — The U.S. Department of Justice says an environmental justice probe found Alabama engaged…

NEW YORK (AP) — A debut novel by the poet and screenwriter Fatimah Ashgar has won the inaugural Carol Shields Prize for Fiction, a $150,000 honor…

By RIO YAMAT Associated Press Nevada State Police have confirmed they don’t have enough highway patrol troopers to keep providing assigned coverage…

By EVENS SANON Associated Press PETIONVILLE, Haiti (AP) — A large fire has torn through a street market in Haiti and consumed thousands of…

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A person has died after being hospitalized for injuries following a vicious tornado that tore through Mississippi on March…

By SYLVIA HUI Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Prince William has poured a pint of ale and taken a ride on the subway with his wife Kate as part of a…

By GARY D. ROBERTSON and HANNAH SCHOENBAUM Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina lawmakers on Thursday approved and sent to the…

By AAMER MADHANI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is dispatching one his top advisers to Saudi Arabia to meet with Crown…

FLORENCE, Ala. (AP) — An Alabama inmate charged in the death of a senior jail official who helped him escape pleaded guilty Thursday to escape in…

By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Former Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant has released his text email messages related to…

By JACQUES BILLEAUD Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Republican Kari Lake’s lawyers were sanctioned $2,000 Thursday by the Arizona Supreme Court…

By SEAN MURPHY Associated Press Questions are mounting about why an Oklahoma sex offender accused of killing six people and himself was ever freed…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Donors have pledged an additional $5.6 million dollars that will enable the United…

By LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer LAS VEGAS (AP) — Jennifer Lawrence has wanted to do a big comedy for years. She has always been funny and vibrant in…

By TRISHA AHMED Associated Press/Report for America MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A man who is suspected of setting fires to mosques in Minneapolis has been…

By LEA SKENE Associated Press BALTIMORE (AP) — Two Baltimore police officers have been indicted in separate cases this week, including one accused…

By BETH HARRIS AP Racing Writer LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Churchill Downs suspended trainer Saffie Joseph Jr. indefinitely and Lord Miles, who is…

By KAREN MATTHEWS and ADAM BEAM Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Prosecutors in New York and California launched an investigation of the…

By RONALD BLUM Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Nathalie Stutzmann gave up a quarter-century career as a contralto to become a conductor. She took…

By COLLEEN SLEVIN Associated Press DENVER (AP) — A man whose attorney says he was repeatedly stunned with a Taser while handcuffed, including once…

By STEVE KARNOWSKI Associated Press ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — The Minnesota Senate has honored the late pop superstar Prince by voting to dedicate to…

By JEFF AMY and RUSS BYNUM Associated Press A man recorded by a security camera fatally shooting his manager Thursday at a fast food restaurant in…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico has long had a problem with piracy and brand counterfeiting, but this week it reached a new height: fake Coca-Cola.…

NAPLES, Italy (AP) — Napoli fans are celebrating wildly in the streets of the southern city following the team’s first Serie A title in more…

By PATRICK ORSAGOS Associated Press AKRON, Ohio (AP) — When Julia and Robert Jones discovered that a judge from the Akron Municipal Court in Ohio…

By ANTHONY IZAGUIRRE TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Former Florida Democratic candidate for governor Andrew Gillum, who came within a whisker of…

By ARLEIGH RODGERS Associated Press/Report for America INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Indiana’s governor on Thursday signed a bill that will require…

By BILL BARROW Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia’s Republican secretary of state has set the battleground state’s 2024 presidential…

By JEFFREY COLLINS Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A bill that would allow South Carolina to buy the drugs needed for lethal injection…

By BARBARA ORTUTAY AP Technology Writer When it comes to social media, families are seeking help. With ever-changing algorithms pushing content at…

By MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump’s lawyers have asked a federal court to take control of his criminal case. They…

By MIKE STOBBE AP Medical Writer NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. deaths fell last year, and COVID-19 dropped to the nation’s No. 4 cause, the Centers…

By ROB GILLIES Associated Press TORONTO (AP) — Canada’s foreign minister says the country is considering the expulsion of Chinese diplomats over…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Sons of former Sinaloa cartel leader Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán have denied accusations made by U.S. prosecutors last…

By CLAIRE RUSH and ANDREW SELSKY Associated Press SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Most Republican members of the Oregon Senate failed to show up for the second…

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Israel’s defense minister says Iran could have enough enriched uranium to make five nuclear weapons, and warned Tehran that…

By LESLIE AMBRIZ Associated Press Before taking on a new role, Melissa Barrera asks herself, “What is the message that I’m trying to send out…

By MENELAOS HADJICOSTIS Associated Press NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — The European Union’s commissioner for justice says the bloc’s executive arm…

By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER and LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The seditious conspiracy convictions of leaders of the Proud Boys…

MOSCOW (AP) — The U.S. ambassador to Russia has visited Michigan corporate security executive Paul Whelan in a remote Russian prison. “Paul has…

By KEVIN FREKING Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Democrats are trying hard to pressure Republicans into resolving the menacing impasse on…

By JAKE OFFENHARTZ and BOBBY CAINA CALVAN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The choking death of a man at the hands of another New York subway rider…

By AAMER MADHANI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden has signed an executive order setting the path to sanction individuals…

AIGLE, Switzerland (AP) — The International Cycling Union says it will review its rules regulating transgender athletes and expects to make a fresh…

By CIARÁN GILES Associated Press MADRID (AP) — Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez has given his full backing to Colombian President Gustavo…

By TERRY CHEA OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — More than 3,000 teachers and other workers in the Oakland Unified School District are on strike after claiming…

By KRISTIE RIEKEN AP Sports Writer HOUSTON (AP) — Sandy León has worn many jersey numbers during a long career in Major League Baseball. To…

By DÁNICA COTO Associated Press ANN’S GROVE, Guyana (AP) — Villagers in this tiny coastal community lined up on the soggy grass, leaned into the…

ROCHESTER, N.Y. (AP) — The World Video Game Hall of Fame has announced its class of 2023. The four honorees announced Thursday include the first…

DETROIT (AP) — BMW is warning the owners of about 90,000 older vehicles in the U.S. not to drive them due to an increasing threat that the air bags…