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DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The Iowa Attorney General’s Office has paused its practice of paying for emergency contraception — and in rare…

ROME (AP) — Silvio Berlusconi’s doctor, who is treating him for a lung infection, said Saturday that the former Italian premier is responding…

By JOSH BOAK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden keeps seeing good economic news and bad public approval ratings. The…

By JOE McDONALD Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — Chinese health officials defended their search for the source of the COVID-19 virus and lashed out…

By VASILISA STEPANENKO Associated Press DNIPROPETROVSK OBLAST, Ukraine (AP) — Deep underground in southeastern Ukraine, miners work around the…

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The U.S. Navy has deployed a guided-missile submarine capable of carrying up to 154 Tomahawk missiles to the…

By WANJOHI KABUKURU Associated Press MOMBASA, Kenya (AP) — In Africa’s Okavango delta, drilling for oil exploration, as well as human-caused…

ISLE OF PALMS, S.C. (AP) — Gunfire erupted on a South Carolina beach during a “senior skip day” event involving numerous teenagers Friday,…

By MARÍA TERESA HERNÁNDEZ Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — After two months of hard work assembling and painting devil-like cardboard figures…

NORMAN, Okla. (AP) — A report of shots fired sent dozens of police cars to the University of Oklahoma Friday night and the campus was locked down…

By RIO YAMAT Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — A Las Vegas lawyer accused of orchestrating a $460 million “slip-and-fall” Ponzi scheme across…

By DAVE SKRETTA and STEVE REED AP Sports Writer AUGUSTA, Ga. (AP) — Heavy rain that left pools of standing water across Augusta National brought…

EVERETT, Wash. (AP) — A legal battle over a dress code for bikini baristas at coffee stands is ending after a city north of Seattle agreed to pay…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Two men who were apparently Mexican tourists have been shot dead and a woman wounded not far from the beach in Mexico’s…

By GENE JOHNSON Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) — Cannabis regulators have halted operations at several outdoor pot farms and processing facilities…

By KEVIN McGILL Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The U.S. Justice Department has filed arguments against ending a decade-old police reform…

By RIO YAMAT Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — A Nevada judge has thrown out a drug trafficking charge against a former “Dances With Wolves”…

By SAM METZ Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A Utah man who f atally shot his wife, her mother and the couple’s five kids after he was…

By MEGAN JANETSKY Associated Press ATLIXCO, Mexico (AP) — Barefoot, half naked and blindfolded, throngs of middle aged men groan as they drag their…

By GABRIELA SELSER Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — Roman Catholics in Nicaragua have had to hold traditional “Stations of the Cross” and…

SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — A federal judge in Washington state on Friday ordered U.S. authorities not to make any changes that would restrict access to…

By PAUL J. WEBER, MATTHEW PERRONE and LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Access to the most commonly used method of abortion…

ROSEVILLE, Calif. (AP) — Police say the gunman who shot a California Highway Patrol officer and two hostages in a public park was initially wanted…

By JOE REEDY AP Sports Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — World Wrestling Entertainment has apologized for using an image from the Auschwitz concentration…

OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Former Peruvian President Alejandro Toledo Manrique has been granted two more weeks to fight his extradition…

By KEN RITTER Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — Police in Las Vegas have released letters apparently addressing the gunman responsible for the…

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Russia lost elections to three United Nations bodies this week, a sign that opposition to its invasion of Ukraine over a year…

By The Associated Press From dressing as Roman soldiers in Antigua, Guatemala, to carrying palm fronds on the streets of Lagos, Nigeria, Christians…

By KIMBERLEE KRUESI and PAUL J. WEBER Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The expulsion of two Tennessee Democrats over a gun control protest…

WASHINGTON (AP) — ABC’s “This Week” — Former Attorney General Bill Barr; James Trusty, a lawyer for Donald Trump; Major League Baseball…

YUBA CITY, Calif. (AP) — Meet Percy, the police rabbit. Yes, that’s fur real. Some bunny — also known as Officer Ashley Carson — found a…

By MEAD GRUVER Associated Press CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — Seven women who have sued to challenge the admission of a transgender woman to their sorority…

MONTREAL (AP) — Hundreds of thousands of people remain without power in eastern Canada two days after a storm left parts of Quebec and Ontario…

By JOSH FUNK AP Business Writer OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Federal regulators say railroads need to re-examine how they assemble their trains. The call…

By MARK THIESSEN Associated Press ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — So this moose walks into a medical building… While that could be a setup to a bad…

By MATTHEW BARAKAT Associated Press FAIRFAX, Va. (AP) — A police force and university in northern Virginia are teaming up for what they say will be…

By FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Top sanctions officials from the U.S. Treasury Department are set to make a series of…

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California’s Medicaid program will continue to pay Walgreens about $1.5 billion each year. That’s despite…

By SALAR SALIM and QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA Associated Press BAGHDAD (AP) — Officials say an explosion has struck next to an international airport in…

By JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — The brother of a Hawaii man recently released after more than 20 years in prison for…

ROME (AP) — Three people were killed at a farm in Northern Italy when their car crashed into a silo that collapsed and buried their vehicle under…

By LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department has launched an investigation into the possible release of Pentagon…

By SEAN MURPHY and HANNAH SCHOENBAUM Associated Press A Biden administration proposal to forbid outright bans on transgender athletes sparked outrage…

By MICHAEL HILL Associated Press For decades, the middle-class towns of single-family homes that ring many American cities have used zoning laws to…

FARMINGTON, N.M. (AP) — Police officers in New Mexico shot and killed a homeowner when they showed up at the wrong address in response to a…

By LISA RATHKE Associated Press A growing number of state legislatures are considering bans on cosmetics and other consumer products that contain a…

By GARY GERARD HAMILTON Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Teyana Taylor says the praise she’s received for her new film, “A Thousand and One”…

By SETH BORENSTEIN AP Science Writer A new study says changes in air patterns as the world warms will likely push more and nastier hurricanes up…

By TRAVIS LOLLER, KRISTIN M. HALL and ZEKE MILLER Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris has made a last-minute trip…

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian forces have bombarded the regions of Ukraine it has illegally annexed but doesn’t fully control, resulting in…

By JEAN-YVES KAMALE Associated Press KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — Six men in Congo were sentenced to life in prison on Friday for the murder of Italy’s…

By LINDSAY WHITEHURST and ALANNA DURKIN RICHER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal appeals court has sided with the Justice Department in…

CINCINNATI (AP) — Bengals running back Joe Mixon is again facing a misdemeanor charge of aggravated menacing over allegations that he pointed a gun…

By TRISHA AHMED Associated Press/Report for America North Dakota lawmakers have named Denise Lajimodiere as the state’s poet laureate, making…

MOSCOW (AP) — Jailed Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich has been charged with espionage in Russia and has entered a formal denial, two…

By BRENDAN FARRINGTON Associated Press TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Things are so bad for the Florida Democratic Party that the arrests of its party…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate’s top two leaders are demanding the immediate release of Evan Gershkovich. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer…