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By KATHY McCORMACK Associated Press CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — A judge denied a request to end parole supervision for the getaway driver in the case of a…

By MICHAEL R. BLOOD AP Political Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Los Angeles City Council is struggling with a still-unfolding racism scandal that…

By The Associated Press Reactions to the death of Jeff Beck, rock innovator and guitar virtuoso who died Wednesday. “The six stringed Warrior is no…

By JOHN HANNA AP Political Writer TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas’ anti-abortion Republican attorney general is asking the state’s highest court to…

By ROB GILLIES Associated Press TORONTO (AP) — Canadian police are asking victims to come forward after a group of eight to 10 teenage girls…

By HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — No, the public has not tired of hearing about Prince Harry. Sales for “Spare” have…

FRISCO, Texas (AP) — Universal Parks & Resorts is bringing a theme park to Texas that will focus on entertaining young children. Officials…

By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Jeff Beck, a guitar virtuoso who pushed the boundaries of blues, jazz and rock ‘n’…

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Authorities say a six-year-old girl has been found dead in a retention pond after going missing from a South Florida…

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — A group of Florida college professors are asking a federal judge to block Gov. Ron DeSantis from requesting spending data…

By ED WHITE Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — A judge has ordered a Detroit museum to hold onto an 1888 painting by Vincent van Gogh. The order comes…

By KATHY McCORMACK Associated Press CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — A second arrest has been made in the case of the daughter of MLB Hall of Fame pitcher…

JEFF AMY Associated Press (AP) — Georgia state lawmakers are pushing back on a state court ruling that forced some of them to testify during an…

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — A Florida drawbridge operator won’t be going to prison for causing a bicyclist to fall to her death last year.…

By MARY CLARE JALONICK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republicans are taking early action on abortion now that they are in the majority.…

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The 14th Mississippi child has died from COVID-19. The state’s department of health says the child was an infant under the…

By JIM SALTER Associated Press A Christian boarding school in Missouri that’s been under intense scrutiny over abuse allegations will close…

KENOSHA, Wis. (AP) — Prosecutors and attorneys for a Wisconsin man accused of killing his wife with antifreeze in 1998 have delivered opening…

By TOM KRISHER AP Auto Writer DETROIT (AP) — The head of the National Transportation Safety Board is expressing concern about the safety risks that…

By DAVE COLLINS Associated Press Five Connecticut police officers have pleaded not guilty to charges accusing them of cruelly mistreating a Black man…

By SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A Republican member of Wisconsin’s bipartisan elections commission is standing by comments…

By SOPHIE AUSTIN Associated Press/Report for America SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California’s capital city is known for the many trees that…

By SEAN MURPHY Associated Press Writer OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The Oklahoma Department of Corrections has reversed its position and now says it will…

By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — Russia’s top military officer has been put in charge of troops fighting in Ukraine on…

By MEGAN JANETSKY Associated Press MIAMI (AP) — Western Union says it has resumed remittance services between the U.S. and Cuba in a limited…

By JESSICA GRESKO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court is allowing New York to continue to enforce for now a sweeping new law…

By EVENS SANON Associated Press PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Hundreds of Haitians are flocking daily to the sole immigration office in…

By The Associated Press SANTA BARBARA, Calif. (AP) — Tatjana Patitz, one of an elite group of famed supermodels who graced magazine covers in the…

By The Associated Press Naomi Osaka is pregnant and plans to return to competition in 2024, the tennis star announced Wednesday. The former world No.…

NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — The government of Cyprus said Wednesday it will require all passengers arriving from China to produce evidence of a negative…

By KEVIN McGILL Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Flag-waving admirers lined the sidewalk outside the National World War II Museum in New Orleans…

By LOLITA C. BALDOR and MATTHEW LEE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The top national security officials from the U.S. and Japan have unveiled…

By MICHELLE L. PRICE Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — State and local Republican leaders in New York on Wednesday called for the immediate…

By BROOKE SCHULTZ and MARC LEVY Associated Press HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Pennsylvania’s state Senate is postponing a trial seeking to remove…

By JOHN WAWROW AP Sports Writer ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. (AP) — The “Prayers for Damar 3” have been answered. Buffalo Bills safety Damar Hamlin is…

By CARLA BRIDI and NATÁLIA SCARABOTTO Associated Press BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — Skittish Brazilian authorities spared no effort to boost security…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The leaders of Britain and Japan have signed defense agreement that could see troops deployed to…

By FARNOUSH AMIRI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republicans on Wednesday opened their long-promised investigation into President Joe…

La SALLE, Ill. (AP) — Officials say a large fire that sent smoke plumes towering over a northern Illinois chemical plant has been contained and no…

TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) — An Ohio man who federal officials say is a member of the far-right anti-government group the boogaloo boys has pleaded not…

LONDON (AP) — Britain’s governing Conservative Party has suspended a lawmaker who spread misinformation about COVID-19 vaccines. The party…

By MICHAEL PHILLIS Associated Press The series of storms that have struck California have poured water on a state mired in a years-long drought.…

By DEE-ANN DURBIN AP Business Writer Thousands of travelers were stranded at U.S. airports due to an hours-long computer outage. If a flight is…

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The Dutch government has backtracked on restrictions it placed on family members joining asylum-seekers who are…

By LORNE COOK Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — A European Parliament official says the president of the EU assembly wants to clamp down on the…

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — An Iranian state-linked news agency says a former senior defense official has been sentenced to death after…

LVIV, Ukraine (AP) — Polish President Andrzej Duda says that the European Union nation has decided to send a company of Leopard tanks to help…

By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The Screen Actors Guild has announced nominations to its 29th annual awards, heaping honors on…

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — The Cayman Islands says it will start culling feral cats to help save a dwindling colony of brown booby birds. The…

By MANU FERNÁNDEZ and JOSEPH WILSON Associated Press MADRID (AP) — Farmers from southeastern Spain have protested against a government order to…

BERLIN (AP) — More than 244,000 people have applied for asylum in Germany last year and more than 1 million Ukrainian refugees who have come to the…

By FARAI MUTSAKA Associated Press HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — Zimbabwe has brought in a law that bans health workers such as nurses and doctors from…

By COLLEEN SLEVIN Associated Press DENVER (AP) — A judge is set to consider whether authorities should be punished after the media obtained…

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — A police spokesman in Kabul says an explosion near the Foreign Ministry in the Afghan capital has caused casualties. It…

By DARLENE SUPERVILLE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Surgeons removed a cancerous lesion above first lady Jill Biden ‘s right eye and one…

By SYLVIA HUI Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Around 25,000 U.K. ambulance workers went on strike Wednesday, walking out for the second time since…

By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Lizzo, Taylor Swift and Harry Styles lead the 2023 iHeartRadio Music Awards nominations…

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — A man has died of injuries suffered in an Indianopolis apartment fire this week that left four children ages 15 months, 3, 12…

LODZ, Poland (AP) — The discovery in central Poland of hundreds of objects that were most likely hidden by their Jewish owners during World War II…

BEIRUT (AP) — Hussein Husseini, a former Lebanese parliament speaker and the father of the 1989 Taif Agreement that ended the country’s 15-year…

By ELENA BECATOROS Associated Press ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greece’s government says the country’s former and last king will be buried as…

BEIJING (AP) — Chinese state TV says Beijing is preparing to allow airlines to fly more routes between China and the United States following the…

By DAVID McHUGH and VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV Associated Press FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — Russia’s still making plenty of money from oil sales…

By DAVID KOENIG and MICHELLE CHAPMAN AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Thousands of flights across the U.S. were canceled or delayed after a…

By SAMY MAGDY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — A new report has found that weapons supplied by the United Kingdom and the United States and used by a…

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — China’s new foreign minister has sidestepped a new call by the African Union for permanent representation on the United…

By NICOLAE DUMITRACHE AND STEPHEN McGRATH Associated Press BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — A court in Romania’s capital Bucharest has rejected an…

By MUNIR AHMED Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan’s prime minister says several countries and international institutions have pledged…

Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — From electric cars and boats to wireless TVs to the latest phones and tablets, there was a wide range of…

By JEFF AMY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — A South Korean solar panel maker says it will invest more than $2.5 billion in two Georgia factories.…