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By MARGERY A. BECK Associated Press OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Outgoing Nebraska Gov. Pete Ricketts is expected to be appointed to the state’s U.S.…

By PAUL WISEMAN and STAN CHOE AP Business Writers WASHINGTON (AP) — After scaling 40-year highs, inflation in the United States has been slowly…

By GABE STERN Associated Press/Report for America RENO, Nev. (AP) — Nevada’s departing Secretary of State was served a subpoena as part of a…

TACOMA, Wash. (AP) — A 48-year-old Washington state man was arrested and charged in federal court for allegedly making threats against members of…

SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) — A California sex offender who kidnapped, raped and killed four women, some of them while wearing a GPS tracker, has been…

By The Associated Press Five Louisiana law enforcement officers have been charged with state crimes for their roles in the 2019 arrest of Ronald…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. Security Council adopted a statement warning of increasing dangers of…

NEW YORK (AP) — A California woman pleaded guilty on Thursday in connection with her unwitting role in a foiled plot to kidnap a prominent Iranian…

By KEVIN FREKING Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate has passed legislation to fund the government for an additional week as lawmakers…

By MATT O’BRIEN AP Technology Writer Twitter on Thursday suspended the accounts of journalists who cover the social media platform and its new…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. Security Council is warning that the threat of terrorism has increased and…

By JESSE BEDAYN, MATTHEW BROWN, BERNARD CONDON and MIKE BALSAMO Associated Press DENVER (AP) — Documents released in the 2021 dropped prosecution…

By KEN RITTER Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — Key questions resurfaced Thursday at a conference of Colorado River water administrators and users…

By SYAWALLUDIN ZAIN and EILEEN NG Associated Press BATANG KALI, Malaysia (AP) — A thunderous crush of soil and debris has killed 21 people,…

By JIM MUSTIAN and JAKE BLEIBERG Associated Press FARMERVILLE, La. (AP) — Five Louisiana law enforcement officers were charged Thursday with state…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Panama’s government has ordered the local subsidiary of a Canadian mining company to cease operations at its huge open pit…

By SARAH RANKIN Associated Press RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Virginia’s Democratic establishment is coalescing in support of state Sen. Jennifer…

By AUDREY McAVOY Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — Two people were injured when a single-engine plane crashed shortly after takeoff from Lihue…

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A Northern California toddler fatally struck by a stray bullet while sleeping in his car seat last year was the victim of a…

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Police in Iowa have charged a man in the death of a 4-year-old boy who was killed when a car that was racing on a city…

By MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A woman who accused a former top adviser to New York Attorney General Letitia James of…

By JOHN O’CONNOR AP Political Writer SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — An Illinois House committee is conducting hearings on a wide-ranging gun…

By MORGAN LEE Associated Press SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — Authorities in El Paso, Texas, are describing a humanitarian crisis as they grapple with the…

CINCINNATI (AP) — The E.W. Scripps Company has announced the launch of a sports division as it looks to acquire local and national rights for teams…

FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — Officials say a pilot had safely ejected from a plane after a failed landing at a North Texas military base. Video that…

By GILLIAN FLACCUS Associated Press PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — An Oregon judge handed guns rights advocates a victory Thursday and placed a new,…

By SAM METZ Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The leader of a small polygamous group on the Arizona-Utah border helped orchestrate the escape…

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York City’s ban on the sale of foie gras had already been delayed by a court challenge. Now it has been found in…

By MATTHEW DALY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal regulators have ordered a review of security standards at the nation’s far-flung…

ST. LOUIS (AP) — Federal officials on Thursday granted Spire Inc. a permanent certificate to operate a natural gas pipeline in Missouri and…

By ANDREW SELSKY Associated Press Residents of The Dalles, Oregon, are learning how much of their water Google’s data centers have been using…

LAFAYETTE, Ind. (AP) — A judge in Indiana has ruled that a Purdue University student charged with murder in the stabbing death of his dormitory…

By BRUCE SCHREINER Associated Press FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Gov. Andy Beshear says Kentucky soon will operate three high-security juvenile detention…