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By BILL BARROW Associated Press PLAINS, Ga. (AP) — Chad Loshbaugh and his seventh-grade son, Theo, were starting a historical tour for their winter…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Ukraine’s foreign minister is urging the world’s nations as the anniversary of…

By KEVIN McGILL Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Opponents of embattled New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell say they have enough signatures from a…

By ED WHITE Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — The state of Michigan is asking a judge to release a man who has served nearly 21 years of a life…

By JONATHAN J. COOPER Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Arizona’s former attorney general suppressed findings by his investigators who…

By JESSE BEDAYN Associated Press/Report for America DENVER (AP) — Lawmakers in Colorado and at least five other states are proposing bills to roll…

By TOM DAVIES Associated Press INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Indiana Republican lawmakers have voted to prohibit Indiana University from using any state…

By JEFFREY COLLINS Associated Press A former law partner of Alex Murdaugh testified at his double murder trial Wednesday that more than a dozen…

By ANDREW DeMILLO Associated Press LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Five employees of an environmental consulting firm died when a small airplane they were…

By JEFF AMY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia lawmakers are watering down a bill to allow heavier trucks on state highways after widespread…

By SEAN MURPHY Associated Press Writer OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Three Republican House members are among those joining the call for a moratorium on the…

By TARA COPP Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A U-2 pilot flying high above the Chinese spy balloon took a close-up photo of the large white orb…

SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic (AP) — Authorities say a Haitian man believed to be a member of the gang involved in the recent killings of six…

LONDON (AP) — An off-duty police officer has been shot in Northern Ireland, where paramilitary groups have previously attacked members of the…

By WILSON RING Associated Press MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) — The Vermont Legislature is considering a proposal that would end an exemption to the…

By LEAH WILLINGHAM Associated Press CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — An appeals court has ruled that Fox News, CNN and other news outlets didn’t defame…

By WILSON RING Associated Press BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) — Officials say a discarded cigarette found near the body of a 24-year-old Vermont school…

By MONIKA SCISLOWSKA Associated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — NATO’s chief says the military alliance has seen “some signs” that China may be…

By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A New York woman who admitted her role in an ex-convict’s decade-long plot to extort and…

By MIKE STOBBE AP Medical Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Early estimates suggest the flu vaccine performed well in a U.S. winter flu season that has…

By JOHN RABY Associated Press CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A federal appeals panel has ruled that West Virginia transgender athletes can compete in…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s president says he hopes that former security chief Genaro García Luna will turn state’s evidence in the…

By STEFANIE DAZIO Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Prosecutors have charged a man with killing a Catholic bishop in a crime that stunned Los…

By REBECCA BOONE Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Idaho could bring back firing squads as a method of execution under legislation introduced by…

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Alcohol sales will soon be allowed in a tiny Nevada town where religious roots led to a decades-long ban on buying beer, wine and…

By THOMAS BEAUMONT Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — As Sen. Tim Scott weighs a potential 2024 presidential candidacy, the South Carolina…

CAMBRIDGE, Ohio (AP) — A reserve offensive lineman for the NFC champion Philadelphia Eagles will make his initial court appearance in Ohio on rape…

By JILL COLVIN and JOHN SEEWER Associated Press EAST PALESTINE, Ohio (AP) — Donald Trump on Wednesday criticized the federal response to the toxic…

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Nearly all Federal Reserve policymakers agreed earlier this month to slow the pace of…

By HALELUYA HADERO AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Amazon said Wednesday it has closed its $3.9 billion acquisition of the primary care…

By ANITA SNOW Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — The prosecutor in the case against an Arizona rancher accused of killing a Mexican man on his land…

LAGRANGE, Ga. (AP) — Human bones recovered from a submerged car more than a year ago have been matched to a man who had been missing since 1976.…

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — West Virginia’s governor has signed a bill setting Nov. 14 each year as a day to remember the worst sports disaster…

By DAVID BILLER Associated Press RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Rio de Janeiro couldn’t resume regular life after the Carnival festivities came to a close…

LONDON (AP) — Several British supermarket chains have limited the amount of some fresh fruits and vegetables that customers can buy amid shortages…

By MICHELLE CHAPMAN AP Business Writer WWE, an organization that is already king of the ring on social media, will attempt to expand its online…

By RONALD BLUM Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The financially challenged Metropolitan Opera is cutting its schedule to 18 productions next…

By MOGOMOTSI MAGOME Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — The Russian military has denied it’s planning to test its new Zircon hypersonic…

By DAVID SHARP Associated Press PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — The winner of a $1.35 billion Mega Millions jackpot — the fourth largest in U.S. history…

By CIARÁN GILES Associated Press MADRID (AP) — The European Parliament´s budget control committee says it has found no evidence of fraud in…

By MIKE CORDER Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The United Nations’ highest court has ordered Azerbaijan to “take all steps at…

By MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Astronomers have discovered what appear to be massive galaxies dating back to within…

By DUSAN STOJANOVIC Associated Press BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Novak Djokovic has asked American authorities for special permission to enter the…

By SYLVIE CORBET Associated Press PARIS (AP) — French authorities and media reports say a female teacher has been stabbed to death in southwestern…

By CARA ANNA Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — A climate center says the trends in a historic Horn of Africa drought are worse than they were…

By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — There are celebrities with TV travel shows who just can’t wait to show you where they…

By MEG KINNARD Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Trav Robertson won’t seek another term leading South Carolina’s Democrats. Robertson…

By TARA COPP Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Air Force’s review of cancers among its nuclear missile corps will include all personnel…

By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press ROME (AP) — An Italian journalist has deflated an accusation in the Vatican’s sprawling financial trial.…

By FRANK JORDANS Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — The price of releasing planet-heating carbon into the atmosphere rose above 100 euros in the…

By CORA LEWIS Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A low credit score can hurt your ability to take out a loan, secure a good interest rate, or…

By The Associated Press One year after the invasion of Ukraine began, Russia’s reintegration into the world of sports threatens to create the…

By MICHAEL TARM AP Legal Affairs Writer CHICAGO (AP) — R. Kelly wouldn’t be eligible for release until 2066, a year shy of his 100th birthday, if…

By BABAR DOGAR and MUNIR AHMED Associated Press LAHORE, Pakistan (AP) — Hundreds of supporters of Pakistan’s former Prime Minister Imran Khan are…

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — The Norwegian Nobel Committee says that 305 candidates — 212 individuals and 93 organizations — have been nominated…

By The Associated Press Russia and China showcased their deepening ties Wednesday in a series of meetings closely watched for signs that Beijing…

By MATT O’BRIEN AP Technology Writer Microsoft is ready to take its new Bing chatbot mainstream — less than a week after making major fixes…

By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — Both houses of Russia’s parliament have quickly endorsed President Vladimir Putin’s…

By LAETITIA BEZAIN Associated Press ANTANANARIVO, Madagascar (AP) — A weakened Cyclone Freddy which pummeled Madagascar Tuesday night with heavy…

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Dutch prosecutors have dropped their case against a man who had been suspected of involvement in supplying automatic…

By ILAN BEN ZION Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel’s parliament has advanced a bill that would enable lawmakers to overturn a Supreme…

BERLIN (AP) — A closely watched survey shows that German business confidence has strengthened for a fourth consecutive month as managers look past…

By ELIZA HAVERSTOCK of NerdWallet As in-person classes resume around the globe, American high school seniors are increasingly applying to undergrad…

NEW YORK (AP) — Beverly Gage’s J. Edgar Hoover biography “G-Man,” Robert Samuels’ and Toluse Olorunnipa’s “His Name is George Floyd”…

MADRID (AP) — The next Latin Grammy Awards gala will be held in southern Spain, leaving the United States for the first time. Latin Recording…

By MUNIR AHED and RAHIM FAIEZ Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistani officials say the country’s defense minister is in Afghanistan and…

By MICHAEL CANTU Edmunds Both the Honda CR-V hybrid and Kia Sportage Hybrid have been redesigned for 2023. The CR-V has enjoyed its time as the king…

By JOSEF FEDERMAN and AREF TUFAHA Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — The Israeli military said Palestinian militants fired six rockets from the Gaza…

BEIJING (AP) — An open pit mine collapsed in China’s northern Inner Mongolia region on Wednesday, killing at least two people and leaving…

By DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — A British woman whose U.K. citizenship was revoked after she traveled to Syria to join the so-called…