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By TARA COPP and LOLITA BALDOR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Patriot missile systems have long been a hot ticket item for the U.S. and allies…

By JONEL ALECCIA AP Health Writer U.S. health officials have revised a tool to track the rising cases of severe obesity among children who were…

By REGINA GARCIA CANO Associated Press LIMA, Peru (AP) — Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro was not invited to a summit of Western Hemisphere…

Associated Press TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — A 6.2 magnitude earthquake originating in the waters off Taiwan’s eastern coast shook the island…

DETROIT (AP) — Elon Musk sold another $3.58 billion worth of Tesla stock this week, but it wasn’t clear where the proceeds were being spent. The…

NASA and Russia’s space agency canceled a spacewalk by two Russian cosmonauts just as they were preparing to exit the International Space Station.…

PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — Police say a roadside bomb killed a soldier and a civilian and wounded at least 14 others in Pakistan’s northwest…

By SCOTT SONNER Associated Press RENO, Nev. (AP) — A Nevada wildflower was declared endangered at the only place it’s known to exist — on a…

By INDRAJIT SINGH Associated Press PATNA, India (AP) — A top elected official says at least 31 people have died and 20 others are hospitalized in…

By JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — The average profile of a missing child in Hawaii: 15 years old, female, from the island…

By REBECCA SANTANA and ELLIOT SPAGAT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Department of Homeland Security says more migrants may be released into…

By FARNOUSH AMIRI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The House has passed bipartisan legislation that would empower law enforcement agencies to…

By KEVIN FREKING Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Democratic-led House has passed a short-term spending bill to keep government agencies…

By JOE REEDY AP Sports Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — UCLA has cleared a major hurdle toward joining the Big Ten Conference in 2024, getting approval…

By KEVIN FREKING Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The bust of a U.S. Supreme Court justice who wrote an infamous decision on slavery could soon…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — A key U.N. committee has again blocked Myanmar’s military junta from taking the…

By MATT O’BRIEN AP Technology Writer Twitter on Wednesday suspended an account that used publicly available flight data to track Elon…

By LISA MASCARO AP Congressional Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) — Outgoing Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s portrait was unveiled at the U.S. Capitol, a…

YPSILANTI, Mich. (AP) — Eastern Michigan basketball star Emoni Bates has been sentenced to 18 months of probation after pleading guilty to a…

EL PASO, Texas (AP) — Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has named a new El Paso district attorney after the previous one resigned under mounting pressure over…

By JOSH FUNK AP Business Writer OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Federal regulators and shippers are questioning Union Pacific’s decision to temporarily limit…

By SUMMER BALLENTINE and JOHN D. HANNA Associated Press COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — The first openly transgender woman set to be executed in the U.S. is…

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Records obtained by The Washington Post show the office of Republican Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton this summer sought…

BATTLE CREEK, Mich. (AP) — A man who pleaded guilty to killing two women in Pennsylvania has been extradited to Michigan to face a first-degree…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The mother of a 15-year-old girl who died of a suspected fentanyl overdose in a high school restroom has filed a negligence and…

BY DREW COSTLEY AP Science Writer A California law that prohibits new oil and gas wells from being drilled near homes, schools and hospitals could…

By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press ROME (AP) — The head of Pope Francis’ Jesuit religious order admitted Wednesday that a famous Jesuit priest…

By FRANK BAJAK AP Technology Writer BOSTON (AP) — A hacker claims to have posed as the CEO of a financial institution to obtain access to the more…

BOSTON (AP) — A Berklee College of Music student and citizen of China has been arrested for allegedly threatening an individual who posted a flyer…

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (AP) — A $3 million settlement has been reached between Virginia Beach and the family of a Black man who was shot by police…

NEW YORK (AP) — Eddie Murphy will receive the Cecil B. DeMille Award at the 80th Golden Globes. The honorary award for the comedian and actor adds…

By BEN FINLEY Associated Press NORFOLK, Va. (AP) — Virginia’s Attorney General has lambasted a state commission that is investigating a 2019 mass…