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BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — Three Alabama residents have been indicted in a federal investigation that found that a letter carrier illegally sold keys…

HELSINKI (AP) — A walrus that became a global celebrity last year after it was seen frolicking and basking in a Oslo fjord before it was euthanized…

OSKALOOSA, Kan. (AP) — A Kansas man who spent 16 years in prison for a rape and murder he didn’t commit will receive $7.5 million from the…

By GIOVANNA DELL’ORTO Associated Press CORDOVA, New Mexico (AP) — Ever since missionaries started building churches out of mud 400 years ago…

By BOUAZZA BEN BOUAZZA Associated Press TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — Tunisia’s coast guard says that under two weeks it has recovered around 210 bodies…

By LISA MASCARO AP Congressional Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) — “We thought we could die.” The Russian invasion had just begun when Nancy…

By DASHA LITVINOVA Associated Press TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — A court in Russia has convicted a woman from a Siberian city over social media posts…

By JIM MUSTIAN Associated Press A federal judge overseeing the New Orleans Roman Catholic bankruptcy recused himself in a late-night reversal that…

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Two teenagers have been charged with firearms and related offenses following the slaying of three people and the wounding of a…

ISTANBUL (AP) — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says his country’s first astronaut will travel to the International Space Station by…

NEW CASTLE, Ind. (AP) — A female mental health counselor and a male inmate have been stabbed by another inmate during an attack at a private prison…

By JUAN A. LOZANO and PAUL J. WEBER Associated Press CLEVELAND, Texas (AP) — The search for a Texas man who allegedly shot his neighbors after they…

By NICOLE WINFIELD and JUSTIN SPIKE Associated Press BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Pope Francis plunged into both sides of Russia’s war with…

By RAF CASERT Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — Ukraine has welcomed the European Union’s hard-fought deal to keep farm exports flowing into and…

By JOHN HANNA AP Political Writer TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — No big tax cuts are coming for Kansas residents even though the state treasury is bulging…

By MOGOMOTSI MAGOME Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — An accountant working on a high-profile corruption case was killed along with his son by…

TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — A former U.S. national security adviser called for deeper interaction between his country and Taiwan during a visit Saturday…

By DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — King Charles III lives in a palace, travels in a chauffeur-driven Bentley and is one of Britain’s…

By DAVID RISING Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — A massive fire erupted at an oil depot in Crimea after it was hit by two of Ukraine’s…

By SEAN MURPHY Associated Press OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — When Oklahoma’s newly elected Republican head of public schools campaigned for the job last…

By STEPHEN GROVES Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republicans are touting their debt limit package as a first step toward fiscal…

By JEFF AMY Associated Press BUFORD, Ga. (AP) — A slate of Georgia Republicans led by Gov. Brian Kemp handily won reelection last year over…

By GEOFF MULVIHILL Associated Press More than a year after OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma reached a tentative settlement over the toll of opioids that…

By JOHN HANNA AP Political Writer TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Republican lawmakers in Kansas who say parents need alternatives to public schools…

By MICHAEL WARREN Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Jimmy Carter tried like no president ever had to put human rights at the center of American…

By GLENN GAMBOA AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Hugh Evans highlighted a staggering new statistic to explain why this year’s Global Citizen…

By GREG BEACHAM AP Sports Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Jack is back. Los Angeles Lakers superfan Jack Nicholson was watching at courtside for the…

Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden awarded the Commander-in-Chief’s Trophy to the Air Force Academy for winning football…

Associated Press SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Time to say goodbye. Seven lions, a bear, a camel and even a porcupine left Puerto Rico’s lone…

By LISA BAUMANN Associated Press Outspoken abortion provider LeRoy “Lee” Carhart has died. Clinics for Abortions & Reproductive Excellence in…

By ANDREW SELSKY Associated Press SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Oregon Secretary of State Shemia Fagan is in hot water, with Republican lawmakers calling for…

By CHEVEL JOHNSON RODRIGUE Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Sounds of R&B, rock ’n roll, Zydeco, pop, blues, country, rap, gospel and, of…

By REBECCA BOONE Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Prosecutors say the mother charged in a triple murder case took part in a complex conspiracy…

OTTAWA, Ontario (AP) — Canada’s government has made a new contract offer to the country’s biggest public workers union as thousands of federal…

By KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — The powerful sister of North Korea’s leader says her country would stage more…

By HAVEN DALEY and AMY TAXIN Associated Press TWIN BRIDGES, Calif. (AP) — Much of the famed valley at California’s Yosemite National Park will be…

MIAMI (AP) — An Arizona man has been charged in South Florida with illegally smuggling diamonds into the United States. Court records show that…

By REBECCA BOONE Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — The sister of a woman killed in what prosecutors say was a doomsday-focused plot told jurors…

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Why did 2,500 sheep cross the road? Because the grass was greener on the other side. In Idaho, it’s not unusual to see…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Some engineers for the Federal Aviation Administration wanted to ground the Boeing 737 Max soon after a second deadly crash, but…

By SOPHIE AUSTIN Associated Press/Report for America SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California air regulators approved a rule to stop selling new big…

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Authorities say three people have been killed and another wounded in a shooting in a Philadelphia residential neighborhood. It…

By JONATHAN MATTISE and ADRIAN SAINZ Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee says a special lawmaking session dedicated to…

By SCOTT SONNER Associated Press RENO, Nev. (AP) — Federal wildlife officials are again considering whether a sage grouse species deserves…

By GEOFF MULVIHILL Associated Press As transgender people have increasingly gained acceptance and visibility, conservative lawmakers have zeroed in…

By GARY GERARD HAMILTON Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — “Stone Cold” Steve Austin missed out on many seemingly mundane experiences during his…

By MARGERY A. BECK and JAMES POLLARD Associated Press LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Abortion bans in deeply conservative Nebraska and South Carolina both…

By JOHN ZENOR AP Sports Writer BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — The first episode of “100 Days to Indy” featured a behind the scenes look at the IndyCar…

By DAVID KOENIG AP Airlines Writer Congressional investigators said in a report Friday that an increase in flight cancellations as travel recovered…

By DAVID BRANDT AP Sports Writer PHOENIX (AP) — The NBA’s Phoenix Suns and WNBA’s Phoenix Mercury announced a new media rights deal that could…

By COLLEEN LONG Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden has commuted the sentences of 31 people convicted of nonviolent drug crimes…

By The Associated Press This week’s new entertainment releases include an album from Ed Sheeran, Woody Harrelson and Justin Theroux co-starring in…

By MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Water may be more widespread and recent on Mars than previously thought, based on…

By KELVIN CHAN AP Business Writer ChatGPT’s maker says the artificial intelligence chatbot is available again in Italy after the company met the…

By GEOFF MULVIHILL Associated Press With measures to protect abortion access becoming law in two states, a ban in a third state and court action…

By BASSEM MROUE Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Iran’s top diplomat has visited Lebanon’s border with Israel, expressing support for the…

ROME (AP) — A former Florida school principal who was forced to resign after students were shown an image of Michelangelo’s iconic statue of a…

By PATRICK WHITTLE Associated Press PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — The father of two of the victims of a deadly shooting rampage in Maine said Friday he…

By MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A critical antenna is jammed on a Jupiter-bound spacecraft launched two weeks ago,…