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ESCANABA, Mich. (AP) — A contract worker at a northern Michigan paper mill has died from a fungal infection that has forced the business to…

By MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — SpaceX has cleared the final hurdle for launching its new giant Starship from Texas…

By AMY BETH HANSON and HALELUYA HADERO Associated Press HELENA, Mont. (AP) — Montana’s House gave final passage Friday to a bill banning the…

By THOMAS BEAUMONT and MEG KINNARD Associated Press Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says he is not entering the race for the 2024 Republican…

By MARK STEVENSON Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s president said Friday he will shut down Notimex, a national news agency that has…

By JULIE WATSON Associated Press The tiny rain-fed wildflowers, no bigger than a few inches, are so vivid and abundant across California this year…

WASHINGTON (AP) — ABC’s “This Week” — Sens. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., and Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn.; Gov. Wes Moore, D-Md. __ NBC’s “Meet…

NEW YORK (AP) — Aaron Judge has won a dispute over trademarks used to promote the New York Yankees slugger. The U.S. Patent and Trademark…

By BOBBY CAINA CALVAN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A New York man has been ordered to spend the rest of his life in prison for hiring a hitman…

SEQUOIA NATIONAL PARK, Calif. (AP) — Foothill areas of Sequoia National Park have reopened to the public following extensive storm damage to roads…

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — A mom accused of killing her two youngest children and a romantic rival described some people as possessed or “zombies,”…

By MIKE STOBBE AP Medical Writer NEW YORK (AP) — A man in Chile is infected with a bird flu that has concerning mutations, but the threat to people…

By DARLENE SUPERVILLE, COLLEEN LONG and JILL LAWLESS Associated Press KNOCK, Ireland (AP) — President Joe Biden was moved to tears on Friday during…

By TARA COPP Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Step into a U.S. military recreation hall at a base almost anywhere in the world and you’re bound…

SAN DIEGO (AP) — Authorities say Memphis basketball recruit Mikey Williams has been arrested in San Diego County in relation to a March shooting.…

By JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press GENEVA (AP) — Switzerland says it will spend about $2 billion to help Ukraine with humanitarian and development…

MOSCOW (AP) — Russian President Putin on Friday signed a bill allowing authorities to issue electronic notices to draftees and reservists amid the…

By BRENDAN FARRINGTON Associated Press TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis is making a point to sign some conservative bills in…

KENOSHA, Wis. (AP) — A Wisconsin man convicted for a second time of killing his wife with antifreeze and by suffocation in 1998 has been sentenced…

By SCOTT McFETRIDGE Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The Iowa Supreme Court has refused to dismiss a lawsuit against Gov. Kim Reynolds that…

By ALICIA RANCILIO Associated Press Peyton List’s new series “School Spirits” is a YA mystery where she stars as a dead teen stuck in limbo…

By KEN SWEET AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The nation’s largest banks appear to be weathering the current turmoil in their industry just…

NEW YORK (AP) — Clint Eastwood is getting back in the director’s chair. The “Unforgiven” and “Gran Torino” filmmaker is set to direct the…

By JOHN CARUCCI Associated Press New York (AP) — Jessica Chastain counts her performance as Nora in the current Broadway revival of “A Doll’s…

By GARY GERARD HAMILTON Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Cedric the Entertainer says part of the success of “The Neighborhood” is that it…

By MATTHEW BROWN Associated Press BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — Libertarians lined up with Democrats on Friday against a proposal that would effectively…

SRINAGAR, India (AP) — Authorities in Indian-controlled Kashmir say an overcrowded footbridge collapsed into a rocky river, injuring at least 70…

MOSCOW (AP) — Finland’s embassy in Moscow says it received an envelope containing white powder. It has turned the envelope and two other sealed…

By ANDREW DeMILLO ASSOCIATED PRESS LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — The push to restrict health care for transgender people has expanded beyond children,…

By GEOFF MULVIHILL Associated Press A U.S. Supreme Court order that keeps access to an abortion drug in place for now could be especially welcome in…

By JESSE BEDAYN and COLLEEN SLEVIN Associated Press/Report for America DENVER (AP) — A trio of health care bills enshrining access in Colorado to…

By AHMAD EL-KHATIB Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — The leader of Lebanon’s militant Hezbollah group claims that Israel did not hit Hamas or…

By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A Connecticut man who used a stolen riot shield to crush a police officer in a doorframe…

By OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ and JANIE HAR Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The tech consultant charged with the killing of Cash App founder Bob Lee…

JESSICA GRESKO The Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court is allowing challenges to the structure of two federal agencies to go…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — A British nursing union has rejected a pay offer from the government, dashing hopes of a quick end…

By WAYNE PARRY Associated Press New Jersey’s Department of Environmental Protection has issued a violation notice against itself for wrongly…

By BRUCE SCHREINER Associated Press LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — In the days after a bank employee used an assault-style rifle to kill five coworkers,…

By REBECCA SANTANA and ELLIOT SPAGAT Associated Pres BETHESDA, Md. (AP) — A Cuban official says Cuba plans to resume accepting deportation flights…

Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The digital media conglomerate Starboard said Friday it purchased the conservative social media site Parler and…

By LINDSAY WHITEHURST and CHRISTOPHER SHERMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department on Friday announced charges against more…

By JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press GENEVA (AP) — The Swiss federal chancellery says that Elisabeth Kopp, an advocate of equal rights and the…

ROME (AP) — Italy is investigating how a Russian businessman escaped from house arrest to avoid extradition to the U.S. on charges of breaking…

By SUMAN NAISHADHAM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration floated two ideas this week to reduce water usage from the…

By ANTHONY IZAGUIRRE Associated Press TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has signed a bill to ban abortions after six weeks of…

MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. (AP) — Minneapolis will allow broadcasts of the Muslim call to prayer at all hours, becoming the first major U.S. city to allow…

By JEFFREY COLLINS Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — The 12 U.S. soldiers died in a pine forest in South Carolina in 1780, their bodies…

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Americans cut their spending at retail stores and restaurants in March for the second…

By JAN M. OLSEN Associated Press COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — A senior Norwegian spy agency officer says ”the intelligence threat from Russia is…

By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER, ERIC TUCKER and NOMAAN MERCHANT Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — A Massachusetts Air National Guardsman accused in the leak…

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — A senior Federal Reserve official said Friday that there has been little progress on…

MOSCOW (AP) — Belarusian air force crews have completed their training in the use of tactical nuclear weapons as part of Russia’s plan to deploy…

RICHMOND, Ind. (AP) — An evacuation order for people living near an extraordinary plastics fire in Indiana stretched into a fourth night Friday as…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s government has approved a controversial plan to open the country’s first casino in the…

By MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer A European spacecraft rocketed away Friday on a decadelong quest to explore Jupiter and three of its icy moons…

By CIARÁN GILES Associated Press MADRID (AP) — A Spanish mountain climber has emerged from a cave 70 meters (230 feet) underground where she spent…

BAGHDAD (AP) — Influential Iraqi Shiite cleric and political leader Muqtada al-Sadr says he will suspend the movement he leads for one year, citing…

By FREIDA FRISARO and TERRY SPENCER Associated Press FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Workers at one of Fort Lauderdale’s landmark restaurants spent…

By DEEPA BHARATH The Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Rev. Edward Siebert’s journey with “The Pope’s Exorcist,” a film about…

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Tens of thousands of Iranians have demonstrated in support of Palestians, marking the annual anti-Israel “Jerusalem Day,”…

By JUSTIN SPIKE Associated Press BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Hungary’s prime minister is seeking to bring down the temperature on spiraling…

CHISINAU, Moldova (AP) — A fugitive Moldovan oligarch and opposition party leader was sentenced in absentia Thursday to 15 years in jail for his…

By ARNIE STAPLETON AP Sports Writer DENVER (AP) — Not since Jamal Murray was dropping 50 points on the Utah Jazz back in the NBA’s bubble in…

By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer OTARU, Japan (AP) — U.S. Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm says the Group of Seven wealthy nations can…

JERUSALEM (AP) — The Palestinian Authority has blocked the registration of a legal advocacy group representing critics and opponents detained in…

BEIJING (AP) — China’s defense minister will visit Moscow for meetings with his Russian counterpart and other military officials. The Defense…