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By GARY D. ROBERTSON and HANNAH SCHOENBAUM Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina lawmakers on Thursday approved and sent to the…

By AAMER MADHANI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is dispatching one his top advisers to Saudi Arabia to meet with Crown…

FLORENCE, Ala. (AP) — An Alabama inmate charged in the death of a senior jail official who helped him escape pleaded guilty Thursday to escape in…

By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Former Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant has released his text email messages related to…

By JACQUES BILLEAUD Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Republican Kari Lake’s lawyers were sanctioned $2,000 Thursday by the Arizona Supreme Court…

By SEAN MURPHY Associated Press Questions are mounting about why an Oklahoma sex offender accused of killing six people and himself was ever freed…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Donors have pledged an additional $5.6 million dollars that will enable the United…

By LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer LAS VEGAS (AP) — Jennifer Lawrence has wanted to do a big comedy for years. She has always been funny and vibrant in…

By TRISHA AHMED Associated Press/Report for America MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A man who is suspected of setting fires to mosques in Minneapolis has been…

By LEA SKENE Associated Press BALTIMORE (AP) — Two Baltimore police officers have been indicted in separate cases this week, including one accused…

By BETH HARRIS AP Racing Writer LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Churchill Downs suspended trainer Saffie Joseph Jr. indefinitely and Lord Miles, who is…

By KAREN MATTHEWS and ADAM BEAM Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Prosecutors in New York and California launched an investigation of the…

By RONALD BLUM Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Nathalie Stutzmann gave up a quarter-century career as a contralto to become a conductor. She took…

By COLLEEN SLEVIN Associated Press DENVER (AP) — A man whose attorney says he was repeatedly stunned with a Taser while handcuffed, including once…

By STEVE KARNOWSKI Associated Press ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — The Minnesota Senate has honored the late pop superstar Prince by voting to dedicate to…

By JEFF AMY and RUSS BYNUM Associated Press A man recorded by a security camera fatally shooting his manager Thursday at a fast food restaurant in…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico has long had a problem with piracy and brand counterfeiting, but this week it reached a new height: fake Coca-Cola.…

NAPLES, Italy (AP) — Napoli fans are celebrating wildly in the streets of the southern city following the team’s first Serie A title in more…

By PATRICK ORSAGOS Associated Press AKRON, Ohio (AP) — When Julia and Robert Jones discovered that a judge from the Akron Municipal Court in Ohio…

By ANTHONY IZAGUIRRE TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Former Florida Democratic candidate for governor Andrew Gillum, who came within a whisker of…

By ARLEIGH RODGERS Associated Press/Report for America INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Indiana’s governor on Thursday signed a bill that will require…

By BILL BARROW Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia’s Republican secretary of state has set the battleground state’s 2024 presidential…

By JEFFREY COLLINS Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A bill that would allow South Carolina to buy the drugs needed for lethal injection…

By BARBARA ORTUTAY AP Technology Writer When it comes to social media, families are seeking help. With ever-changing algorithms pushing content at…

By MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump’s lawyers have asked a federal court to take control of his criminal case. They…

By MIKE STOBBE AP Medical Writer NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. deaths fell last year, and COVID-19 dropped to the nation’s No. 4 cause, the Centers…

By ROB GILLIES Associated Press TORONTO (AP) — Canada’s foreign minister says the country is considering the expulsion of Chinese diplomats over…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Sons of former Sinaloa cartel leader Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán have denied accusations made by U.S. prosecutors last…

By CLAIRE RUSH and ANDREW SELSKY Associated Press SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Most Republican members of the Oregon Senate failed to show up for the second…

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Israel’s defense minister says Iran could have enough enriched uranium to make five nuclear weapons, and warned Tehran that…

By LESLIE AMBRIZ Associated Press Before taking on a new role, Melissa Barrera asks herself, “What is the message that I’m trying to send out…

By MENELAOS HADJICOSTIS Associated Press NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — The European Union’s commissioner for justice says the bloc’s executive arm…

By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER and LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The seditious conspiracy convictions of leaders of the Proud Boys…

MOSCOW (AP) — The U.S. ambassador to Russia has visited Michigan corporate security executive Paul Whelan in a remote Russian prison. “Paul has…