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By PAUL J. WEBER Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas would soon become the largest state to ban gender-affirming care for minors under a…

By GENE JOHNSON Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) — A federal indictment accuses the former chief financial officer of a Seattle startup of taking $35…

By TRISHA AHMED Associated Press/Report for America MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Days after chaos erupted at a Democratic nominating convention for a…

Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The State Department is offering to allow the Republican chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee to view…

By LISA BAUMANN Associated Press One of the most vocal bystanders who watched as a Minneapolis police officer killed George Floyd is suing the city,…

By DAVID BILLER Associated Press RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Brazil’s environmental regulator refused on Wednesday to grant a license for a…

By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — Superiors of the Massachusetts Air National Guard member charged with leaking highly…

By JAY COHEN AP Sports Writer CHICAGO (AP) — Soccer officials, scientists, medical professionals and others have gathered in Chicago for a head…

By MORGAN LEE and RIO YAMAT Associated Press SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — A high school student who killed three women in northwestern New Mexico with an…

NEW YORK (AP) — New York Yankees pitcher Domingo Germán has been suspended for 10 games by Major League Baseball and fined for violating the…

By ANDREW SELSKY Associated Press SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Oregon’s latest state revenue forecast far exceeded expectations Wednesday, giving…

By WYATTE GRANTHAM-PHILIPS AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Dancers at a Los Angeles bar could soon become the only unionized group of strippers…

Flooding across Alaska has inundated scores of homes, with several of them knocked from their foundations by large ice chunks, and shut one of the…

By The Associated Press A year and a half after the fatal shooting of its cinematographer Halyna Hutchins, the Alec Baldwin Western “Rust” is…

By HALELUYA HADERO Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — TikTok is challenging Montana’s first-of-its kind law that makes it illegal for people to…

By KEVIN FREKING Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A resolution to expel Rep. George Santos, R-N.Y., from Congress was referred to the House…

By JOSHUA GOODMAN Associated Press Writer NEW YORK (AP) — A federal judge in Houston has dismissed criminal charges against a Swiss banker accused…

By TRAVIS LOLLER Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A group of Tennessee parents whose children attend The Covenant School, scene of deadly…

By AMY BETH HANSON and HALELUYA HADERO Associated Press HELENA, Mont. (AP) — Montana became the first state in the U.S. to enact a complete ban on…

By COLLIN BINKLEY AP Education Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — College programs that leave graduates underpaid or buried in loans would be cut off from…

By MICHAEL GOLDBERG Associated Press/Report for America JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Attorneys for the federal government, Mississippi and the state’s…

LIBERTY, Mo. (AP) — A Missouri prosecutor is asking a judge to carefully consider the public’s right to information while determining whether…

By MATTHEW BARAKAT Associated Press FALLS CHURCH. Va. (AP) — A northern Virginia man charged with assaulting two congressional staffers in their…

By STEVE KARNOWSKI Associated Press ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Minnesota says it settled its lawsuit against e-cigarette maker Juul Labs and tobacco…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A volunteer police officer responding to a report of a bee swarm was hospitalized after getting stung multiple times on his face…

By JOSH FUNK AP Business Writer An animal rights group says a Virginia farm that raised chickens for Tyson Foods mistreated the animals. But Tyson…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — A new U.N. report says Myanmar’s military has imported at least $1 billion worth of…

By MARY CLARE JALONICK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Work requirements for federal aid programs have emerged as a sticking point in ongoing…

By NOMAAN MERCHANT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The National Archives has been called more than 80 times in the past decade-plus about…

NEW YORK (AP) — A 1,100-year-old Hebrew Bible that is one of the world’s oldest surviving biblical manuscripts has sold for $38 million in New…

QUITO, Ecuador (AP) — Ecuador’s President Guillermo Lasso dissolved the country’s National Assembly just as it was forging ahead with…

By SONIA PÉREZ D. Associated Press GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — A coalition of press freedom groups is expressing concern about what they called the…

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — A Florida man who testified against three former friends who murdered rap star XXXTentacion will spend two more years…

By MARK SHERMAN and EMILY SWANSON Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Confidence in the Supreme Court sank to its lowest point in at least 50 years…

By MARGARET STAFFORD Associated Press A man has been indicted by a grand jury on charges of stealing a pair of ruby red slippers worn by Judy Garland…

By MENELAOS HADJICOSTIS Associated Press LIMASSOL, Cyprus (AP) — A U.S. Navy commander says there is “no significant change” in the conduct of…

HONOLULU (AP) — An energy storage farm could replace Hawaii’s last coal-fired power plant that closed in 2022 after 30 years. The AES…

By JUAN A. LOZANO Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — Prosecutors say a woman has agreed to a 52-year prison sentence after pleading guilty in the 2021…

By ELAINE GANLEY Associated Press AUBERVILLIERS, France (AP) — Renowned actor Forest Whitaker, who has portrayed a dictator, a Mafia hitman, a…