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By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Ukraine’s foreign minister is urging the world’s nations as the anniversary of…

By KEVIN McGILL Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Opponents of embattled New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell say they have enough signatures from a…

By ED WHITE Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — The state of Michigan is asking a judge to release a man who has served nearly 21 years of a life…

By JONATHAN J. COOPER Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Arizona’s former attorney general suppressed findings by his investigators who…

By JESSE BEDAYN Associated Press/Report for America DENVER (AP) — Lawmakers in Colorado and at least five other states are proposing bills to roll…

By TOM DAVIES Associated Press INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Indiana Republican lawmakers have voted to prohibit Indiana University from using any state…

By JEFFREY COLLINS Associated Press A former law partner of Alex Murdaugh testified at his double murder trial Wednesday that more than a dozen…

By ANDREW DeMILLO Associated Press LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Five employees of an environmental consulting firm died when a small airplane they were…

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…