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By PETER DEJONG and MIKE CORDER Associated Press VOORSCHOTEN, Netherlands (AP) — A passenger train has slammed into a construction crane and…

By SCOTT McFETRIDGE and SEAN MURPHY Associated Press Writer DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — People still sorting through the wreckage of their homes after…

By BASSEM MROUE Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — A drone strike carried out by the American-led coalition in northwestern Syria has killed a senior…

By SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A Democratic-backed Milwaukee judge won the high stakes Wisconsin Supreme Court race Tuesday,…

By SARA BURNETT Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — Brandon Johnson, a union organizer and former teacher, was elected as Chicago’s next mayor…

By GENE JOHNSON Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) — A plan announced last week to return Lolita, a killer whale held captive for more than a…

By COLLEEN LONG and MICHAEL BALSAMO Associated Press Former President Donald Trump is set to appear in a New York City courtroom on charges related…

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australia has become the last of the “Five Eyes” security partners to ban the…

By EDDIE PELLS AP National Writer HOUSTON (AP) — After six games and 240 minutes of pure dominance that ran through March, then part of April, it…

By SARAH BRUMFIELD and LEA SKENE Associated Press BALTIMORE (AP) — A former Maryland political aide wanted on corruption charges died Monday after…

SURREY, British Columbia (AP) — A suspect accused of slashing a person’s throat on a bus in the Canadian province of British Columbia has been…

NEW YORK (AP) — New York City police have arrested two men in connection with two killings that investigators believe were part of a series of…

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A Washington state man accused of entering the U.S. Capitol with a pro-Trump mob during the Jan. 6 deadly insurrection has…

By NICK PERRY Associated Press WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — A powerful earthquake in Papua New Guinea has killed four people and destroyed more…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Russia’s U.N. ambassador is dismissing U.S. and European Union descriptions of its…

By TRISHA AHMED Associated Press/Report for America MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Viewers of the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources EagleCam were…

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — A man convicted of breaking into a woman’s Florida Panhandle apartment and fatally stabbing her 37 times in 1986 is set…

By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer BANGKOK (AP) — The Asian Development Bank says China’s recovery from the pandemic and strong demand…

By JOSHUA GOODMAN Associated Press Writer MIAMI (AP) — The new representative of Venezuela’s opposition in the U.S. is urging the Biden…

NEW YORK (AP) — Novels by Geraldine Brooks and Lan Samantha Chang and poetry by Saeed Jones are among this year’s winners of the Anisfield-Wolf…

By COLLEEN SLEVIN Associated Press DENVER (AP) — A prosecutor says a Colorado woman knew what she was doing when she stabbed her young stepson 18…

WASHINGTON (AP) — First lady Jill Biden said Monday that she wants the defeated Iowa women’s basketball team to be invited to the White House in…

PARADISE, Mont. (AP) — Crews could face a difficult task cleaning up a 25-car train derailment in western Montana that spilled numerous cases of…

By JOSH FUNK AP Business Writer OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A lawsuit says Union Pacific routinely hires private investigators to check out employees’…

By MEGAN JANETSKY Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — Belize has reaffirmed its diplomatic ties with Taiwan, the second country to do so in a week…

By The Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Leonardo DiCaprio testified Monday at the trial of former Fugee rapper Prakazrel “Pras” Michel, who is…

By HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH Associated Press The president of a private Minnesota university says she’s retiring next year. She had been…

By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN Associated Press The FBI says a man charged with storming the U.S. Capitol was stationed on a Navy aircraft carrier when he…

By DAVE COLLINS Associated Press HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Veterans’ advocacy groups have sued the U.S. Department of Defense seeking records of…

By BECKY BOHRER Associated Press JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — Opponents of a major oil project on Alaska’s petroleum-rich North Slope lost the first…

BEIRUT (AP) — Syrian state media says Israel has staged airstrikes on the southern suburbs of the Syrian capital of Damascus killing two civilians.…

By STEFANIE DAZIO Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — California law enforcement seized 54 so-called ghost guns last year from people who can’t…

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — LSU’s national championship women’s basketball team has returned to campus where thousands of fans gathered to welcome…

By JAMES POLLARD Associated Press/Report for America COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A lawyer for the family of a teenager found dead nearly eight years ago…

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas legislators have given final approval to a bill that would make it easier to pursue criminal charges or file lawsuits…

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack has announced $40 million in grants to extend high-speed internet to extremely…

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A court in Dubai has rejected the appeal of a British financier fighting extradition to Denmark, where he is…

By ASHRAF KHALIL Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Movie star Leonardo DiCaprio testified in federal court Monday morning as part of a trial…