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By JEFF AMY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia lawmakers are watering down a bill to allow heavier trucks on state highways after widespread…

By SEAN MURPHY Associated Press Writer OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Three Republican House members are among those joining the call for a moratorium on the…

By TARA COPP Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A U-2 pilot flying high above the Chinese spy balloon took a close-up photo of the large white orb…

SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic (AP) — Authorities say a Haitian man believed to be a member of the gang involved in the recent killings of six…

LONDON (AP) — An off-duty police officer has been shot in Northern Ireland, where paramilitary groups have previously attacked members of the…

By WILSON RING Associated Press MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) — The Vermont Legislature is considering a proposal that would end an exemption to the…

By LEAH WILLINGHAM Associated Press CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — An appeals court has ruled that Fox News, CNN and other news outlets didn’t defame…

By WILSON RING Associated Press BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) — Officials say a discarded cigarette found near the body of a 24-year-old Vermont school…

By MONIKA SCISLOWSKA Associated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — NATO’s chief says the military alliance has seen “some signs” that China may be…

By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A New York woman who admitted her role in an ex-convict’s decade-long plot to extort and…

By MIKE STOBBE AP Medical Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Early estimates suggest the flu vaccine performed well in a U.S. winter flu season that has…

By JOHN RABY Associated Press CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A federal appeals panel has ruled that West Virginia transgender athletes can compete in…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s president says he hopes that former security chief Genaro García Luna will turn state’s evidence in the…

By STEFANIE DAZIO Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Prosecutors have charged a man with killing a Catholic bishop in a crime that stunned Los…

By REBECCA BOONE Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Idaho could bring back firing squads as a method of execution under legislation introduced by…

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Alcohol sales will soon be allowed in a tiny Nevada town where religious roots led to a decades-long ban on buying beer, wine and…

By THOMAS BEAUMONT Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — As Sen. Tim Scott weighs a potential 2024 presidential candidacy, the South Carolina…

CAMBRIDGE, Ohio (AP) — A reserve offensive lineman for the NFC champion Philadelphia Eagles will make his initial court appearance in Ohio on rape…

By JILL COLVIN and JOHN SEEWER Associated Press EAST PALESTINE, Ohio (AP) — Donald Trump on Wednesday criticized the federal response to the toxic…

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Nearly all Federal Reserve policymakers agreed earlier this month to slow the pace of…

By HALELUYA HADERO AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Amazon said Wednesday it has closed its $3.9 billion acquisition of the primary care…

By ANITA SNOW Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — The prosecutor in the case against an Arizona rancher accused of killing a Mexican man on his land…

LAGRANGE, Ga. (AP) — Human bones recovered from a submerged car more than a year ago have been matched to a man who had been missing since 1976.…

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — West Virginia’s governor has signed a bill setting Nov. 14 each year as a day to remember the worst sports disaster…

By DAVID BILLER Associated Press RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Rio de Janeiro couldn’t resume regular life after the Carnival festivities came to a close…