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By GARY D. ROBERTSON Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — The new Republican majority on North Carolina’s Supreme Court has agreed to rehear…

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California’s new law banning new oil and gas wells near homes, schools and other community sites has been put on hold…

WASHINGTON (AP) — ABC’s “This Week” — Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg; Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla.; Gov. Chris Sununu, R-N.H.; retired…

SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — At least 13 people have died as a result of the more than 150 wildfires burning across Chile that have destroyed homes and…

By TERRY SPENCER, ELEONORE HUGHES and NICHOLAS RICCARDI Associated Press MIAMI (AP) — Only a few weeks after his supporters stormed the seat of his…

By BECKY BOHRER Associated Press JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — Alaska authorities say a skull found in a remote part of the state’s Interior in 1997…

By ANTHONY IZAGUIRRE Associated Press TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Florida lawmakers will meet next week to complete a state takeover of Walt Disney…

By ADAM BEAM Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Children in California won’t have to get the coronavirus vaccine to attend schools,…

By GENE JOHNSON Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) — A man who was saved by a Coast Guard rescue swimmer at the mouth of the Columbia River as a massive…

By OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ Associated Press HALF MOON BAY, Calif. (AP) — Farmworkers at two mushrooms farms in California’s Half Moon Bay are back…

By SUMMER BALLENTINE Associated Press COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — Adults ages 21 and older now can legally buy marijuana for recreational use in Missouri.…

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — A former Arkansas lawmaker who admitted to accepting thousands of dollars in bribes and filing a false income tax return…

By AMANDA SEITZ Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A cyberattack caused a nearly daylong outage of the nation’s new 988 mental health helpline…

By JAMES POLLARD Associated Press/Report for America COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A detainee’s recent death is adding to mounting concerns over the…

By MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — As the Manhattan district attorney’s office again ramps up its yearslong investigation of…

By GISELA SALOMON Associated Press MIAMI (AP) — Mexican actor Pablo Lyle was sentenced Friday to five years in prison for involuntary manslaughter…

ROMULUS, Mich. (AP) — Customs agents say they discovered a dolphin skull in luggage left at the Detroit Metropolitan Airport. The U.S. Customs and…

CAMDEN, N.J. (AP) — A New Jersey man who exchanged sexually explicit videos and images with a 13-year-old girl has admitted paying $20,000 in…

By JONATHAN MATTISE Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The federal labor board has decided that fewer than 100 employees out of thousands at…

By ZEKE MILLER AP White House Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden and his Cabinet will embark on a post-State of the Union…

By MORGAN LEE Associated Press SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — A standoff over abortion in politically conservative regions of New Mexico escalated as…

CINCINNATI (AP) — Cincinnati Bengals running back Joe Mixon no longer faces a misdemeanor charge of aggravated menacing over allegations that he…

By JAMIE STENGLE Associated Press DALLAS (AP) — The arrest of a 24-year-old man accused of taking two monkeys from the Dallas Zoo has shed some…

By MATTHEW BROWN and AMY BETH HANSON Associated Press BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — The Chinese balloon drifting high above the U.S. and first revealed…

By MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Astronomers have discovered 12 new moons around Jupiter, putting the total count at…

By MARCOS ALEMÁN and SALVADOR MELÉNDEZ Associated Press TECOLUCA, El Salvador (AP) — When El Salvador began making mass arrests of people with…

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — The man charged with raping and killing a Tennessee kindergarten teacher during a pre-dawn run in Memphis last year has…

LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) — A contest that could define the 2024 Paris Olympics is playing out 18 months before medals are awarded. It’s giving…

By DAVID SHARP Associated Press PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — New Englanders are accustomed to cold weather, snow and ice, but Friday night’s…

By RONALD BLUM AP Baseball Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Major League Baseball has formed a new economic study committee in light of a possible bankruptcy…

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Another giant lottery prize is up for grabs. This time, it’s an estimated $700 million Powerball jackpot drawing on…

By RAF CASERT and DAVID McHUGH Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — European Union governments tentatively agreed Friday to set a $100-per-barrel price…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Navy ships are getting fewer steaming hours because of growing maintenance delays and costs, a troubling trend that comes as at…

By STEVE KARNOWSKI Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The parents of Amir Locke, who was killed by a Minneapolis police officer when a SWAT team…

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) — A Michigan judge says a second-degree murder charge against former Grand Rapids police officer Christopher Schurr will…

By The Associated Press This week’s new entertainment releases include an album from Paramore that shows off the band’s funkier side, the…

By MATTHEW DALY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Treasury Department said Friday it is making more electric vehicles — including SUVs made…

By ADRIAN SAINZ and JONATHAN MATTISE Associated Press MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — A sixth Memphis officer was fired Friday after an internal police…

VISALIA, Calif. (AP) — Two gang members were arrested early Friday, one after a gunbattle, in the January massacre of six people including a baby…

By GARY GERARD HAMILTON Associated Press New York (AP) — Tank was nervous after sending his manager a preview of “When We” — he’d never…

By MICHAEL LIEDTKE AP Technology Writer SAN FRANCISO (AP) — A jury on Friday decided Elon Musk didn’t defraud investors with his 2018 tweets…

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — A major hospital system in northern Florida says it is diverting some emergency room patients and canceling surgeries…

HIGHLAND PARK, Mich. (AP) — Police say three bodies found in a vacant Detroit-area apartment building during an investigation into the…

By FREIDA FRISARO and CURT ANDERSON Associated Press FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — The car owned by a missing 74-year-old Florida Lyft driver has…

By JONEL ALECCIA AP Health Writer U.S. agriculture officials on Friday proposed new nutrition standards for school meals, including the first limits…

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Acclaimed Iranian director Jafar Panahi has been released on bail, two days after going on hunger strike to…

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Giant panda Le Le has died, the Memphis Zoo announced Friday. The panda, born July 18, 1998, died Wednesday, zoo spokesperson…

By The Associated Press Ukraine and the three Baltic countries have moved a step closer to boycotting next year’s Paris Olympics because of the…

By RONALD BLUM AP Sports Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The first English-language television broadcast of the U.S. men’s soccer team in its new media…

By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer NEW YORK (AP) — When Lukas Dhont was 12, a camera was thrust into his hands. For Dhont, who would come out as gay as a…

By AMY TAXIN Associated Press California officials are considering a plan to make flag football a girls’ high school sport amid soaring popularity…

By MATTHEW BROWN Associated Press BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — The Biden administration took a first step Friday toward ending federal protections for…

The Associated Press The music industry ’s Grammy awards made its debut on May 4, 1959, 30 years after the Academy Awards handed out its first…

DETROIT (AP) — Honda and the U.S. government are urging owners of about 8,200 older vehicles not to drive them until dangerous air bag inflators…

Associated Press Wall Street had its eyes Friday on big tech after some of the biggest companies in the world posted lackluster quarterly financial…

By JONATHAN LANDRUM Jr. AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Shania Twain felt the need on her new album to empower herself the same way she…

ST. LOUIS (AP) — A man is in custody and recovering from a bullet wound after shooting two St. Louis police officers who returned fire. The…

By JENNA FRYER AP Auto Racing Writer Ford will return to Formula One as the engine provider for Red Bull Racing in a partnership announced Friday…

MALVERNE, N.Y. (AP) — A street that honored a leader of the Ku Klux Klan in New York has a new name after a yearslong campaign led by high school…

By TERESA DE MIGUEL Associated Press CALAKMUL BIOSPHERE RESERVE, Mexico (AP) — Miguel Ángel Díaz walks slowly so his footfall on dry leaves…

By JONATHAN LANDRUM Jr. AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — As Lil Wayne was honored for his musical achievements, the rapper opened up…