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By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer An official survey shows that factory activity in China slowed more than expected in May, suggesting further…

By DAVE CAMPBELL AP Sports Writer MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Luka Doncic had a 20-point first quarter on his way to 36 points for his high this postseason,…

By DAVID RISING Associated Press SINGAPORE (AP) — Top defense officials, government leaders and diplomats from around the world are gathering in…

By STEPHEN McGRATH and NICOLAE DUMITRACHE Associated Press BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — Andrew Tate, the divisive social media influencer awaiting…

By HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea says that leader Kim Jong Un has supervised firing drills involving the…

By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN Associated Press ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — A New Mexico judge has granted Mark Zuckerberg’s request to be dropped from…

By MICHAEL R. SISAK, JENNIFER PELTZ, MICHELLE PRICE and JILL COLVIN Associated Press Writers NEW YORK (AP) — History happened just as everyone was…

BY FARAI MUTSAKA Associated Press NKANDLA, South Africa (AP) — Some young South Africans in a poor, rural area of rolling hills were determined to…

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Two Minneapolis police officers and four civilians were injured Thursday in what officials are calling an active-shooter…

By STEVE PEOPLES AP National Political Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Having been convicted of 34 felonies, Donald Trump cannot own a gun, hold public…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The divided U.N. Security Council has voted to extend an arms embargo on South Sudan…

SOUTHINGTON, Conn. (AP) — A Connecticut state trooper has been killed after getting hit by a car while making a traffic stop on an interstate…

By MARY CLARE JALONICK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican lawmakers are reacting with fury to the felony conviction of former President…

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — The U.S. Department of Labor wants a federal judge to prevent Hyundai and two other Alabama companies from what the…

MIAMI (AP) — Two Citgo oil executives detained for nearly five years in Venezuela have sued their former employer for more than $400 million. The…

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A Minneapolis teenager has been sentenced to more than 30 years for a fatal shooting that shut down the Mall of America during…

By ANDREW SELIGMAN AP Sports Writer CHICAGO (AP) — The Chicago Bears are set to be featured on “Hard Knocks” for the first time. HBO and the…

By BEN NUCKOLS Associated Press OXON HILL, Md. (AP) — Bruhat Soma is undefeated in his last three spelling bees. The 12-year-old won the Words of…

By MICHAEL R. SISAK, JILL COLVIN, MICHELLE L. PRICE and ALANNA DURKIN RICHER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump’s conviction on 34…

NEW YORK (AP) — Former President Donald Trump has been found guilty on all 34 counts in his criminal hush money trial. It is the first time a…

By MARCO DI MARCO Associated Press GRINDAVIK, Iceland (AP) — Lava continues to spurt from a volcano in southwestern Iceland but the activity has…

By NICHOLAS RICCARDI Associated Press DENVER (AP) — Donald Trump may be convicted of a felony and reside in Florida, a state notorious for…

COMMERCE CITY, Colo. (AP) — Police in Colorado say a man’s sturdy necklace probably saved his life by blocking a bullet fired at his neck. The…

By MICHELLE CHAPMAN AP Business Writer Shares of Trump Media & Technology Group, the owner of social networking site Truth Social, have slumped…

By JOE REEDY AP Sports Writer The conference finals and Bronny James’ decision to remain in the draft are far from the only things dominating NBA…

By LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — American officials say the U.S. and Britain have struck 13 Houthi targets in several…

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — U.S. ambassador to the Vatican and former U.S. Senator Joe Donnelly is stepping down and returning to Indiana. President Joe…

By SPENCER RIPCHIK Associated Press SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. (AP) — Saratoga Race Course is getting ready to be the center of the horse racing world…

By GERALD IMRAY Associated Press The real politicking in South Africa may start after the election results are announced as the country faces the…

AZUSA, Calif. (AP) — Authorities say an 81-year-old man who investigators alleged had terrorized a Southern California neighborhood for years with…

By HOLLY RAMER Associated Press CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — A commercial truck driver who was acquitted in the 2019 deaths of seven motorcyclists in New…

By JUSTIN SPIKE Associated Press BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Nearly a dozen politicians have taken to the debate stage in Hungary’s capital to make…

CLARKSVILLE, Tennessee (AP) — Police and Army investigators are seeking the public’s help in solving the killing of a 23-year-old Army…

By REBECCA BOONE Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — An Idaho jury has convicted Chad Daybell of murder in the deaths of his wife and his…

By JOEY CAPPELLETTI Associated Press MACKINAC ISLAND, Mich. (AP) — Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan and other leaders from the city announced their…

By STEVE KARNOWSKI Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Prosecutors say a St. Paul, Minnesota, police officer was justified when he fatally shot a…

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Three power conferences have joined the Atlantic Coast Conference in urging a Tallahassee court to keep the league’s TV…

CHICAGO (AP) — A Chicago woman who pleaded guilty to helping her mother kill a pregnant teenager in 2019 before the baby was cut from her womb with…

By JOHN RABY AP Sports Writer CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — The NCAA and a coalition of states suing the organization have announced a proposed…

NEW YORK (AP) — Police say a man was stabbed in both legs with a machete in New York’s Times Square. A spokeswoman for the New York Police…

DALLAS (AP) — Crews in Texas are trying to restore power across the storm-battered state ahead of severe weather that could bring more damaging…

By MIKE STOBBE AP Medical Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Reports of a rare nervous system disorder are “more common than expected” in older U.S. adults…

By DAN GELSTON AP Sports Writer JERSEY CITY, N.J. (AP) — UFC is set to unveil a new glove designed in large part to stunt eye pokes that often…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. General Assembly’s tribute to Iran’s late president Ebrahim Raisi was…

By MARK AMBROGI Associated Press TERRE HAUTE, Ind. (AP) — Boston Celtics great Larry Bird addressed a public ceremony for the official opening of…

By BRUCE SHIPKOWSKI Associated Press The National Transportation Safety Board is now leading the investigation into a massive explosion that blew out…

By BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press LONDON (AP) — A Welsh couple who dined out on pricey meals and then bolted when the bill came is now paying the…

By DAVID BAUDER AP Media Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The New York accents of court reporters reading testimony. A juror’s facial expression. And…

By COLLEEN LONG and SEUNG MIN KIM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House is finalizing plans for a U.S.-Mexico border clampdown that…

By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN Associated Press An Oklahoma man has pleaded guilty to assaulting a police officer during the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S.…

By MARK SHERMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Chief Justice John Roberts has declined an invitation to meet with Democratic senators to talk…

By JULIE CARR SMYTH Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A temporary fix allowing President Joe Biden to appear on this fall’s ballot has…

By PHILIP MARCELO Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Truckers have added to the list of legal challenges to block New York’s first-in-the-nation…

By DYLAN LOVAN Associated Press LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — The Louisville police officer who arrested Scottie Scheffler said he has “no ill will”…

By TARA COPP and JOSEF FEDERMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Defense experts who’ve reviewed debris images from an Israeli airstrike…

By JESSICA DONATI Associated Press DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — A new report has found that billions of dollars in gold is smuggled out of Africa each…

By FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The IRS will make permanent the free electronic tax return filing system that it experimented…

NEW YORK (AP) — New York City police have arrested a man on hate crime charges after they say he shouted antisemitic threats while trying to mow…

NORTHFIELD, Vt. NORTHFIELD, Vt. (AP) — More than 40 years after some Vermont children waiting for a school bus discovered a dead baby off the side…

By SARA CLINE Associated Press BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Louisiana could soon become the first state to require that the Ten Commandments be…

By BRUCE SHIPKOWSKI Associated Press A federal appeals court panel has ordered Ohio’s attorney general to move forward on a proposed constitutional…

By WILL GRAVES AP National Writer FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — Jordan Chiles is making another run at the Olympics. The gymnast who helped the American…

By MIKE STOBBE and JONEL ALECCIA Associated Press Health officials say another Michigan dairy worker has been diagnosed with bird flu. It’s the…

CINCINNATI (AP) — Police near Cincinnati say a suspect with a gun and a bystander inside a grocery store were shot and injured during a shootout…

By HOWARD FENDRICH and TOM NOUVIAN Associated Press PARIS (AP) — The French Open has banned fans from having alcohol in the stands at the Grand…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Ian Darke will pair with Landon Donovan as Fox’s lead broadcast team at this year’s European Championship, while John Strong…

RENO, Nev. (AP) — Authorities in Nevada and his family say longtime U.S. District Judge Larry Hicks died at age 80 after being struck by a vehicle…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court has given homeowners another chance to force Bank of America and other large banks to pay interest on mortgage…

By JAN M. OLSEN Associated Press COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Sweden’s domestic security agency is accusing Iran of using established criminal…

By SAM METZ Associated Press AGADIR, Morocco (AP) — The head of the United States military’s Africa Command is pushing back against…

NEW YORK (AP) — Medical supply company Medline Industries is recalling some 1.5 million portable adult bed rails across the U.S. and Canada,…

By PATRICK ORSAGOS Associated Press AKRON, Ohio (AP) — Hundreds gathered in an Ohio city to unveil a plaza and statue dedicated to abolitionist…

By JIM GOMEZ and JOEAL CALUPITAN Associated Press MANILA, Philippines (AP) — The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies…

By DENG MACHOL Associated Press JUBA, South Sudan (AP) — The European Union delegation in South Sudan has denied reports that the group is working…

RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) — A South Dakota man is accused of pushing a police officer during the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol, and the…

By HYUNG-JIN KIM and KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Manure. Cigarette butts. Scraps of cloth. Waste batteries. Even,…

By JEFFREY COLLINS Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina officials have filed 76 counts of ethics violations against the court…

By RODNEY MUHUMUZA Associated Press KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — The United States has imposed sanctions on Uganda’s parliament speaker and other…