News

By ANDREW DeMILLO Associated Press LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Voters have approved recreational marijuana in Maryland and Missouri and rejected it in…

By ANDREW MELDRUM and YURAS KARMANAU Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine’s president has hinted at the possibility of peace talks with…

By SAMUEL PETREQUIN Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — EU lawmakers investigating the use of surveillance spyware by the bloc’s governments have…

By JAN M. OLSEN Associated Press COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — The daughter of Norway’s King Harald says she no longer will officially represent the…

By HOLLY RAMER Associated Press CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — Democratic U.S. Sen. Maggie Hassan faces Republican Don Bolduc Tuesday in a closely-watched…

By PAUL J. WEBER Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has won a third term following one of the most expensive…

By MEAD GRUVER Associated Press CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — Following a first term fraught with a double dose of crises — the COVID-19 pandemic and…

By KEITH RIDLER Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Idaho Republican Gov. Brad Little’s reelection campaign strategy involves ignoring his…

By KEN MILLER Associated Press Republicans have kept control of Arkansas’ four congressional seats after a mostly quiet runup to Election Day in…

By MATTHEW BROWN and AMY BETH HANSON Associated Press BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — Montana Republican Matt Rosendale won a second term in the U.S. House…

By MORGAN LEE Associated Press SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — Two Democratic congresswomen won reelection to seats in New Mexico on Tuesday while it was too…

By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi is electing a new member of Congress because a Republican incumbent lost…

By RYAN J. FOLEY Associated Press IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — Republicans are trying to sweep Iowa’s four seats in the U.S. House of Representatives,…

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — Republican U.S. Sen. John Thune of South Dakota has won reelection to a fourth term. He will return to the Senate and is…

By CLAIRE SAVAGE Associated Press/Report for America CHICAGO (AP) — Illinois’ newly redrawn 17th district will be one of the U.S. House…

By KIM CHANDLER Associated Press MONTGOMERY, Ala (AP) — Republican Katie Britt could become the first woman elected to the U.S Senate from Alabama…

By THOMAS BEAUMONT Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley was elected to an eighth term, defeating Democrat Michael…

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — Republican U.S. Rep. Dusty Johnson faced an unknown and unfunded Libertarian candidate on Tuesday as he sought a third…

By SARA BURNETT, JILL COLVIN and WILL WEISSERT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Control of Congress hung in the balance early Wednesday as…

By SEAN MURPHY Associated Press Writer OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Republicans U.S. Sen. James Lankford and U.S. Rep. Markwayne Mullin have both coasted…

By MATTHEW BARAKAT and BEN FINLEY Associated Press FALLS CHURCH, Va. (AP) — Three Democratic congresswomen in Virginia are looking to survive tough…

TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Eight-time NBA All Star Dwight Howard is headed to Taiwan to play for the Taoyuan Leopards in the island’s top division.…

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Sweden’s new prime minister, Ulf Kristersson, is meeting Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in a bid to clinch Turkish…

By SEAN MURPHY Associated Press OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Republicans in Oklahoma are heavily favored to retain all five of the state’s U.S. House…

By JOHN O’CONNOR Associated Press SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker is getting another term in office after besting GOP…

BERLIN (AP) — An ambassador for the World Cup in Qatar has described homosexuality as a “damage in the mind” in an interview with German public…

By COLLEEN BARRY and NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press MILAN (AP) — A humanitarian group appealed to France on Tuesday for a port where it could…

By MUNIR AHMED Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — Party officials say Pakistan’s former Prime Minister Imran Khan has postponed the resumption of…

By ANDREW DeMILLO Associated Press LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Little Rock’s first popularly elected Black mayor is hoping to fend off…

SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) — Bulgaria’s interior minister says a Bulgarian police officer has been shot dead at the border with Turkey. The…

By COLLEEN BARRY AP Business Writer MILAN (AP) — A new fully electric vehicle startup in Italy is challenging U.S. and Chinese rivals with “Made…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — The Japanese government says repayment of the more than 10 trillion yen ($68 billion) government…

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Japanese video game maker Nintendo has reported a 34% surge in its profit for the first half of…

BEIJING (AP) — China is displaying its latest generation fighter jets and civilian aircraft as it looks to carve a larger role for itself in the…

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Long-hauled carrier Emirates is buying five Boeing 777 freighters in a deal valued at more than $1.7 billion,…

By FRANK JORDANS and WAJOHI KABUKURU Associated Press SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt (AP) — The world should confront climate change the way it does…