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By DORANY PINEDA Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — California regulators adopted a drinking water limit on toxic hexavalent chromium, a chemical…

By TRÂN NGUYỄN The Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A California lawmaker wants to require limited liability companies and similar…

By ED WHITE Associated Press The U.S. Justice Department has agreed to pay approximately $100 million to settle claims with about 100 people who say…

KEVIN FREKING Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Speaker Mike Johnson has unveiled a long-awaited package of bills that will provide military aid…

By TRAVIS LOLLER Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A Tennessee judge is weighing whether to allow the release of a Nashville school…

By HOLLY RAMER Associated Press BRENTWOOD, N.H. (AP) — The man whose allegations of abuse at New Hampshire’s youth detention center sparked…

By ZEKE MILLER AP White House Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden has misstated key details about his uncle’s death in World War…

By SETH BORENSTEIN and BRITTANY PETERSON Associated Press With cloud seeding, it may rain, but it doesn’t really pour or flood — at least nothing…

By JAKE OFFENHARTZ and MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump’s legal team says it tried serving a subpoena on Stormy…

By DAVE COLLINS Associated Press HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Ellen Ash Peters, the first woman to serve as Connecticut’s chief justice, has died. She…

By WAYNE PARRY Associated Press ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — Casinos in the northeastern U.S. are dealing with numerous challenges as they brace for…

TBILISI, Georgia (AP) — Police in the capital of Georgia on Tuesday unleashed tear gas to break up a large demonstration outside the country’s…

By KIM CHANDLER Associated Press MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama lawmakers on Wednesday rejected a bill that would provide new sentences for about…

By LISA RATHKE Associated Press BERLIN, Vt. (AP) — Hundreds of Vermont farms are still recovering from July’s catastrophic flooding and other…

By MARK THIESSEN Associated Press ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — The Alaska Air National Guard flew 159 civilian search-and-rescue missions last year in…

AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — The Maine Legislature is nearing adjournment with unfinished business, including final votes on a series of gun safety bills…

BALTIMORE (AP) — Baltimore prosecutors have announced the arrest of a man in the cold case homicide of an off-duty Washington, D.C., police officer…

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A federal appeals court has affirmed a lower court’s decision to order New Jersey Democrats to scrap a ballot design widely…

By MAYSOON KHAN Associated Press/Report for America BALLSTON SPA, N.Y. (AP) — A man was sentenced Wednesday to 47 years to life in prison for…

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina coach Dawn Staley has gotten plenty of prominent congratulations since winning her third national title…

By MATTHEW BARAKAT Associated Press ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) — A civilian contractor sent to work as an interrogator at Iraq’s infamous Abu Ghraib…

LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) — A Kentucky spokeswoman says the school is “distressed to hear disturbing allegations” of sexual assault by former…

DETROIT (AP) — A U.S. government investigation into unexpected automatic braking involving nearly 3 million Hondas is a step closer to a recall.…

By MEAD GRUVER Associated Press CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — Two more black-footed ferrets have been cloned from the genes used for the first clone of an…

By JEROME PUGMIRE AP Sports Writer PARIS (AP) — The question of holding the Paris Games opening ceremony on the Seine River loomed large as…

By STEFANIE DAZIO Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — The California Attorney General has declined to file criminal charges against a Los Angeles…

By BASSEM MROUE and KAREEM CHEHAYEB Associated Press BEIT MERI, Lebanon (AP) — Lebanon’s Interior Minister says Israeli agents were most…

GRAND FORKS, N.D. (AP) — Security officers are conducting a door-to-door sweep at a North Dakota Air Force base after a report of a gunshot…

By AMY TAXIN Associated Press ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) — Workers who help bring Disneyland’s beloved characters to life have filed a petition to form…

By JOSHUA GOODMAN and REGINA GARCIA CANO Associated Press MIAMI (AP) — The Biden administration has reimposed crushing oil sanctions on Venezuela…

By BRENDAN FARRINGTON Associated Press TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Former Florida Gov. and U.S. Sen. Bob Graham is being remembered as a politician…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — A law that will enable Britain to send some asylum-seekers on a one-way trip to Rwanda has…

By JOSH CORNFIELD Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — Phish has been performing to thousands of dedicated fans for decades and prides itself on never…

By LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer The Sundance Film Festival may not always call Park City, Utah, home. The Sundance Institute has started to explore…

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Charges have been dismissed against a suspect in the 2016 cold case slaying of a 25-year-old Tulane University graduate who was…

By VALERIE GONZALEZ and ALI SWENSON Associated Press McALLEN, Texas (AP) — A humanitarian organization in northeastern Mexico is saying it did not…

By STEVE KARNOWSKI Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The family of a Minnesota man who was killed by a state trooper during a traffic stop has…

By MICHAEL RUBINKAM Associated Press Pennsylvania utility regulators must turn over inspection records to the National Transportation Safety Board as…

By MAKIYA SEMINERA Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Diversity, equity and inclusion staff members’ jobs in North Carolina’s public…

By MARK SCOLFORO Associated Press The ride-hailing company Uber says it’s banned an account that sent a driver to the Ohio home where an…

NEW YORK (AP) — Hundreds of young dancers in white tutus and tightly coiffed hair gathered in New York’s Plaza Hotel to break the world record…

By YURAS KARMANAU Associated Press TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — The Belarusian parliament has voted to suspend the country’s participation in the…

Associated Press SAN SALVADOR (AP) — El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele has released the father of a Salvadoran soccer player from prison after…

By LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Pentagon leaders are telling Congress that Ukraine and Israel both desperately need the…

By AMY BETH HANSON The Associated Press The sound of a vehicle backfiring spooked a circus elephant while she was getting a pre-show bath in Butte,…

GUYMON, Okla. (AP) — An Oklahoma judge has denied bond for the four people charged with kidnapping and killing two Kansas women. Tifany Adams, her…

By ED WHITE Associated Press HOWELL, Mich. (AP) — The head of a specialty pharmacy will be sentenced in Michigan for 11 deaths more than a decade…

By JOHN HANNA AP Political Writer TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The board overseeing higher education in Kansas is considering banning state universities…

By RUTH ALONGA Associated Press GOMA, Congo (AP) — The U.N. human rights chief says the world is forgetting the escalating violence in eastern…

LESBOS, Greece (AP) — A makeshift burial ground for migrants on the Greek island of Lesbos has been cleaned up and redesigned after years of…

By COREY WILLIAMS Associated Press A man has been charged in federal court in Illinois in the transport of millions of dollars worth of Masters golf…

BALTIMORE (AP) — The owner of the container ship Dali has initiated a process requiring owners of the cargo on board to share salvage costs after…

SEATTLE (AP) — Alaska Airlines briefly grounded all flights Wednesday due to a technical issue. The Seattle-based airline says it requested a…

By TIM REYNOLDS AP Basketball Writer The NBA banned Toronto two-way player Jontay Porter on Wednesday, after a league probe found he disclosed…

By DAVID BAUDER AP Media Writer NEW YORK (AP) — A National Public Radio editor who wrote a critical essay saying that his company had become…

WASHINGTON (AP) — House Speaker Mike Johnson, facing a choice between potentially losing his job and advancing aid for Ukraine, forged ahead…

By JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press GENEVA (AP) — The lower house of Swiss parliament is following in the footsteps of the Senate, or upper house, and…

By EDDIE PELLS AP National Writer Olympic gymnastics all-around champion Suni Lee revealed that at the height of dealing with a kidney disease last…

By KIM CHANDLER Associated Press MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama lawmakers have advanced legislation to ensure President Joe Biden will appear on…

By ROB GILLIES Associated Press TORONTO (AP) — Police said nine people are facing charges in what authorities are calling the biggest gold theft in…

By GEOFF MULVIHILL Associated Press Three court rulings across the U.S. this week delved into laws restricting the rights of transgender kids,…

By ELENA BECATOROS Associated Press ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greece’s environment and energy minister says his country will be able to create…

By JOCELYN NOVECK AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Let no one say “Suffs” lacks timing. Shaina Taub’s buzzy musical about the…

By TIM REYNOLDS AP Basketball Writer Golden State guard Stephen Curry knew he was running out of chances to play in what would be his first Olympics,…

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — A Minnesota toddler has died after falling from a third-floor window at a hotel in South Dakota. The parents of 1-year-old…

By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Orlando Bloom wanted to test himself for his latest adventure project. Not by eating…

By PAN PYLAS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Hundreds of people have attended a vigil in central London to commemorate the life of a police officer…

By MARK SHERMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court has made it easier for workers who are transferred from one job to another…

ROME (AP) — Milan’s La Scala, one of the world’s most prestigious and historic opera houses, has named Fortunato Ortombina as its new director.…

By SETH BORENSTEIN AP Science Writer A new study says climate change will reduce future global income by about 19% in the next 25 years compared to a…

By WYATTE GRANTHAM-PHILIPS AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Ford is recalling more than 456,000 Bronco Sport and Maverick vehicles due to a…

By BOUAZZA BEN BOUAZZA Associated Press TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — Days after Tunisia’s president insisted that he remains unwilling to let Europe…

By MARIA SHERMAN AP Music Writer The 2024 Latin Grammys will return home to Miami — where the organization is headquartered. The 25th annual event…

By DARLENE SUPERVILLE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden’s administration has announced new steps to improve a program…