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By KEVIN McGILL Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A federal lawsuit says Louisiana State University did too little to address allegations of…

By ED WHITE Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — Michigan is urging residents of Benton Harbor to use bottled water for cooking and drinking, a major…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico has sent another plane load of Haitian migrants back to their homeland on a flight carrying 129 people to Port au Prince.…

By BRUCE SCHREINER Associated Press FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Kentucky’s Republican attorney general is seeking another shot at defending an…

By DAVID PORTER Associated Press NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — A former Army major and his wife who prosecutors said routinely beat their young foster…

By JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Days after kicking out seven U.N. officials, Ethiopia is accusing them without providing…

By KRISTIN M. HALL AP Entertainment Writer Nashville, Tenn. (AP) — The Fisk Jubilee Singers’ first tour wasn’t an immediate success,…

By MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — New York City’s police department has placed the embattled former head of its sergeants…

By ANDREW SELSKY Associated Press SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Oregon’s court of appeals reversed the murder conviction and death sentence of a Black man,…

By TOM FOREMAN Jr. Associated Press WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (AP) — A teacher has resigned from a North Carolina charter school after telling Black…

LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) — A federal judge ruled that a former Kentucky Democratic Party chair must report to prison next month on campaign finance…

By MARK THIESSEN Associated Press ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Court documents unsealed Wednesday allege an Alaska man threatened to hire an assassin…

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — South Dakota’s attorney general says he has asked the state’s Government Accountability Board to review questions…

RALEIGH, NC (AP) — A local governing board in North Carolina has formally apologized for the mob lynching of a Black boy unlawfully taken from a…

By MAGGIE MULVIHILL Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — Drug defendants whose cases have not yet been dismissed because of misconduct at a Boston lab…

MANAGUA, Nicaragua (AP) — Activists in Nicaragua say one member of an Indigenous community has been killed and three others are missing after…

By BARBARA ORTUTAY and AMANDA SEITZ Associated Press When whistleblower Frances Haugen this week revealed internal Facebook studies of the harms its…

By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — The first trial in the sweeping college admissions bribery scandal will soon be in the hands…

SILVER CITY, N,M. (AP) — New Mexico authorities say a man on probation has been charged in the fatal beating of his wife with an ax after…

OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Health care giant Kaiser Permanente has put more than 2,200 employees nationwide on unpaid leave for choosing not to get…

By PIERRE-RICHARD LUXAMA Associated Press PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Martine Moïse, the widow of Haiti’s assassinated president, has traveled…

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A barge company responsible for a Mississippi River oil spill that damaged Louisiana shoreline habitat in 2008 has agreed to pay…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico passed a milestone of sorts in September when the airport at the country’s biggest coastal resort, Cancun,…

By DEE-ANN DURBIN and GRANT SCHULTE OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A summer of labor unrest at U.S. food manufacturers has stretched into fall. Around 1,400…

By SUZAN FRASER and ZEYNEP BILGINSOY Associated Press ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkey has ratified the Paris climate accord, joining the global fight…

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The Minnesota Supreme Court has denied former Minneapolis police Officer Derek Chauvin’s request to have a public defender…

MOSCOW (AP) — An organization that monitors human rights in the Russian military and provides legal support for conscripts says it is ending its…

By DON THOMPSON Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A California judge says Wednesday that she plans to resentence Scott Peterson to life in…

By TERRY SPENCER Associated Press FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Jury selection in the jail brawl trial of Florida school massacre suspect Nikolas…

By KEVIN McGILL Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A new trial date of April 4 has been set for the man who killed ex-NFL star Will Smith in New…

By COLLIN BINKLEY and RYAN J. FOLEY Associated Press IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — A growing number of school districts in the U.S. are using federal…

LONDON (AP) — Police in Northern Ireland have announced an investigation into allegations of physical and sexual abuse at church-run institutions…

By MATT OTT AP Business Writer SILVER SPRING, Md. (AP) — Searching for flights on Google just got “greener.” The tech giant on Wednesday…

By ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department is poised to sue government contractors and other companies who receive…

By LISA RATHKE Associated Press The receiver overseeing the Jay Peak ski area after the former owner was accused of fraud says sale discussions have…

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (AP) — Virginia Beach leaders want Pharrell Williams to reconsider bringing the Something in the Water festival back next year,…