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By JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A man who oversaw food service for New York City schools was convicted Wednesday in a bribery…

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina lawmakers have finalized legislation that would bar certain gender-affirming care for children. It also would…

By DENISE LAVOIE AP Legal Affairs Writer RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Lawyers for the family of a Virginia man who died of asphyxiation after he was pinned…

By EVENS SANON and DÁNICA COTO PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — A U.N. human rights expert says that a specialized international force is needed to…

By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The U.S. Labor Department says 44 farms in Mississippi exploited local Black workers…

By PATRICK WHITTLE Associated Press PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Human remains have likely been recovered from the wreckage of the submersible that…

BOSTON (AP) — A New Jersey lawyer recently charged with sexually assaulting four women in Boston 15 years ago has been indicted on suspicion of…

By JOHN HANNA AP Political Writer TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Four times as many Kansans changed their gender on birth certificates and driver’s licenses…

By MARIA SHERMAN AP Music Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Madonna has postponed her career-spanning Celebration tour due to what her manager called a…

By RONALD BLUM AP Baseball Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Mets owner Steven Cohen is threatening his underperforming team with the prospect of a trade…

By DAVE COLLINS Associated Press HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — A new audit says hundreds of Connecticut state police troopers falsified information on at…

By COLLEEN SLEVIN Associated Press A lawsuit against a Utah woman who wrote a children’s book about coping with grief after her husband’s…

By BRUCE SCHREINER, DYLAN LOVAN and KIMBERLEE KRUESI Associated Press LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Federal judges in Kentucky and Tennessee on Wednesday…

By KEN SWEET AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The nation’s 23 largest banks passed the Federal Reserve’s so-called stress tests this year, a…

By MIKE SCHNEIDER Associated Press ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Attorneys for Gov. Ron DeSantis have asked that a trial involving Disney be postponed until…

MOORPARK, Calif. (AP) — Authorities say an Amtrak train carrying 198 passengers derailed after striking a truck in Southern California. A fire…

PITTSBURGH (AP) — A neurologist says a gunman who massacred 11 worshippers at a Pittsburgh synagogue has schizophrenia and epilepsy. Dr. Siddhartha…

By MICHAEL HILL Associated Press ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York state Attorney General Letitia James charges in a lawsuit that the operators of four…

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — A Florida state prison inmate already serving a three-decade sentence will serve an additional one year and three months…

By DÁNICA COTO Associated Press SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Authorities in the Cayman Islands say a controversial legislator and former premier…

By The Associated Press Steven Spielberg, Martin Scorsese and Paul Thomas Anderson are stepping up to help curate programming for Turner Classic…

By BRIAN WITTE Associated Press ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — Grieving relatives joined current and former staff of the Capital Gazette newspaper at a…

By GUILLERMO GARAT Associated Press MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay (AP) — Residents of Uruguay’s capital are increasingly exasperated after two months of…

By FREIDA FRISARO Associated Press FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — A firefighter from Georgia and two fathers who drowned while trying to save their…

By LINDSAY WHITEHURST and TOM MURPHY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department has charged dozens of people in several health care…

By The Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Welcome Wren Alexander Stephens, the fourth child of John Legend and Chrissy Teigen. The baby was born…

By SOPHENG CHEANG and GRANT PECK Associated Press PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen, a devoted and very active user of…

SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — Rapper Quando Rondo has bonded out of jail after he was indicted on drug and gang charges in his hometown of Savannah,…

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — An autopsy has determined that a Vermont man’s death was “not suspicious” as he awaited trial on charges he killed…

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) — A grand jury has indicted a young Michigan man who is accused of making threats over social media and having plans to…

By LORNE COOK Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg says he’s called a meeting of senior officials on July…

BERLIN (AP) — German Chancellor Olaf Scholz is insisting that right-wing populism won’t gain the upper hand in his country, days after a…

By ROB GILLIES Associated Press TORONTO (AP) — Canadian officials say heavy rain in Quebec in recent days missed the places where wildfires are…

TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Russian authorities have declared a news outlet critical of the Kremlin an “undesirable” organization, effectively…

By MIKE CATALINI Associated Press TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — The New Jersey political consultant who hired two career criminals to kill a friend and…

By SETH BORENSTEIN AP Science Writer A new study says climate change is turning major snowfalls into more extreme rain over mountains, somehow…

By ÉDGAR H. CLEMENTE Associated Press TAPACHULA, Mexico (AP) — Assailants have tossed at least one explosive device at a police station in the…

By SUSAN HAIGH Associated Press HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Former U.S. Senator and Connecticut governor Lowell P. Weicker Jr., has died following a…

By JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — New York started new inspections this month at the unlicensed pot shops that are troubling the…