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By AARON FAVILA and JOEAL CALUPITAN Associated Press MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Newly retired boxing star Manny Pacquiao has filed his certificate…

By JULHAS ALAM Associated Press DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — Rights groups, the United Nations and the U.S. government have called for a full…

By ANDREW DALTON AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Scarlett Johansson and the Walt Disney Co. have settled her lawsuit over the streaming…

By DAVID RISING Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — Authorities in Bangkok have sandbagged low-lying areas in the Thai capital and checked pumping…

SEATTLE (AP) — A recently demoted Seattle police commander is suing the city of Seattle and interim police Chief Adrian Diaz, alleging…

By MATTHEW DALY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A bitterly divided Senate has approved President Joe Biden’s choice to oversee vast…

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — The mayor of Alaska’s largest city has apologized for his comments supporting some residents’ use of Holocaust imagery…

MONTEZUMA, Iowa (AP) — Investigators searching for an Iowa boy who vanished in May days before his 11th birthday say they have found human remains…

By ANDREW DALTON AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Britney Spears and her attorney have successfully driven her father from the…

By JOHN SEEWER Associated Press Foxconn Technology Group has struck a deal to buy a massive auto assembly plant in Ohio from a startup electric truck…

NEW YORK (AP) — The New York chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union has sued New York City’s police department, saying it is illegally…

MINNNEAPOLIS (AP) — A Texas man who says he is affiliated the anti-government “boogaloo” movement has pleaded guilty to opening fire on a…

FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — The girlfriend of a man who police say confessed this week to killing her, his roommate and three people whose bodies were…

By BOB CHRISTIE Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Scammers pocketed nearly 30% of the $16 billion in unemployment insurance payments sent out by…

By TALI ARBEL AP Technology Writer The hedge-fund billionaire and Milwaukee Bucks co-owner who was named chairman of embattled media organization Ozy…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N.’s top humanitarian official in Myanmar says the Asian nation’s people are…

By DON THOMPSON Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Wildfires have destroyed nearly 50,000 homes in California alone in the last five years,…

By DON THOMPSON Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California is joining the vast majority of states in setting up a way to strip the…

TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — A convicted rapist who hid in Florida for more than 40 years after skipping out on his Connecticut prison sentence has pleaded…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican prosecutors say four dead men have been found in a stolen car in the city of Iguala, in the southern Mexico state of…

By HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea says it has test-fired a new anti-aircraft missile. It is its fourth…

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Authorities in Austin, Texas, say a man wearing an American flag bandanna threw a Molotov cocktail into the headquarters of…

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Brazilian soccer legend Pelé has been discharged from the hospital where he received treatment for nearly a month. He wrote…

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Officials in North Carolina’s capital city have agreed to a $2 million settlement in a federal lawsuit that alleged more…

By PATRICK WHITTLE Associated Press PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Recent leaf-peeping seasons have been disrupted by weather conditions in New England,…

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The Biden administration has scheduled an offshore oil and gas lease sale for the Gulf of Mexico on Nov. 17, obeying a court…

TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Five men have been indicted in the fatal drive-by shooting of a 4-year-old girl in Florida. A Hillsborough County jury formally…

By JOCELYN NOVECK AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Publicist Bobby Zarem has died at 84. Zarem earned the moniker “Superflack” while…

By CASEY SMITH and JESSICA GRESKO Associated Press/Report for America Justice Samuel Alito is pushing back against criticism that recent Supreme…

By JONATHAN LANDRUM Jr. AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, Eminem, Mary J. Blige and Kendrick Lamar will perform for…

By MEAD GRUVER Associated Press CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — A lawsuit says a Black civilian grounds-keeping and kitchen worker at Wyoming’s F.E.…

By JIM SALTER Associated Press Three Democratic members of Congress have offered deeply personal testimony about their own abortions as a…

By KEN SWEET AP Business Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate has narrowly approved President Joe Biden’s pick to run the Consumer Financial…

By ADRIAN SAINZ Associated Press MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — A Tennessee state senator has been found guilty of wire fraud in federal court. News outlets…

By KIM CHANDLER Associated Press MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — The Equal Justice Initiative is opening an expanded museum in Alabama that focuses on the…

By GERALD IMRAY Associated Press CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — South African President Cyril Ramaphosa says he has had discussions with British…

LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) — Regulators want the family of West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice to pay a penalty and follow through on a promise to fix…

By RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration is putting final touches on long-sought consumer protections…

By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN Associated Press A conservative Roman Catholic media outlet is seeking a court order to stage a rally during a U.S.…

By MARCY GORDON and BARBARA ORTUTAY AP Business Writers WASHINGTON (AP) — Senators have fired a barrage of criticism at a Facebook executive over…