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CHICAGO (AP) — A Chicago woman accused of luring a pregnant teenager to her home and cutting her baby from her womb with a butcher knife nearly…

NEW YORK (AP) — Will Bynum, who played for the Detroit Pistons for six season, has been sentenced to 18 months in prison for his conviction in a…

By JEFFREY COLLINS Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A report from the South Carolina Senate says state Treasurer Curtis Loftis nearly put the…

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — The mayor of North Carolina’s capital city has announced that she wouldn’t seek reelection this fall. Mary-Ann Baldwin has…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán now claims he can’t get phone calls or visits in the maximum security U.S. prison where the…

By HOLLY RAMER Associated Press BRENTWOOD, N.H. (AP) — Jurors deciding whether to hold the state of New Hampshire accountable for alleged abuse at…

NEW YORK (AP) — A former shoemaker has pleaded guilty to allegations that he had an illegal gambling operation for the Mafia at his shop in…

PHENIX CITY, Ala. (AP) — A man who kidnapped, raped and killed a 5-year-old Georgia girl has been given four death sentences for the crime. An…

By CLAIRE RUSH Associated Press Forced to hide her true self, Joe Horras’ transgender daughter struggled with depression and anxiety until three…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. envoy for Libya, Abdoulaye Bathily, lashed out at the country’s feuding…

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York’s highest court has taken up a case that seeks to throw out a regulation requiring health insurance policies to…

By ANNE D’INNOCENZIO and WYATTE GRANTHAM-PHILIPS AP Business Writers NEW YORK (AP) — Shares of Dr. Martens have plunged after the iconic…

By SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A lawsuit in Wisconsin argues that voters with disabilities should be able to cast their…

By HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH Associated Press KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — An attorney says a former Kansas City-area pharmacist who has been incarcerated…

By JULIA FRANKEL and JACK JEFFERY Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel is vowing to retaliate against Iran even though such a mission carries…

By JILL COLVIN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump plans to visit New York’s Harlem neighborhood after spending his second day in a…

By MARIA SHERMAN AP Music Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Performing in the U.S. for international musicians just got a lot more complicated. The United…

TORONTO (AP) — Authorities in Canada say they have made arrests in the theft of a cargo container that included gold and other items worth over 20…

By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Civil rights attorney Ben Crump is demanding that police in a small town in…

By JIM SALTER Associated Press ST. LOUIS (AP) — Strong storms have caused damage in parts of the middle U.S. and spawned tornadoes in Kansas and…

By MATTHEW BARAKAT Associated Press ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) — An Army general who investigated the abuse of prisoners 20 years ago at Iraq’s…

By SUMMER BALLENTINE Associated Press JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — A Missouri ethics panel is at an impasse over reported misconduct by the powerful…

By JIMMY GOLEN By JIMMY GOLEN AP Sports Writer (AP) — Boston Marathon winner Sisay Lemma says he expects to be on the Ethiopian roster for the…

By ISABELLA VOLMERT Associated Press INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — She’s cemented her place as a college basketball legend. Now, Caitlin Clark is…

By JEFF AMY Associated Press Three district attorneys in Georgia are asking a judge to strike down a law creating a commission to discipline and…

By LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer Participant, the activist film and television studio that has financed Oscar winners and socially conscious…

By EVELYNE MUSAMBI Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — A United Nations-backed gathering has raised pledges of almost $630 million for…

By SOPHIA TAREEN Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — Ukraine Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal has made multiple stops in Chicago aimed at drumming up…

DETROIT (AP) — On the eve of a vote on union representation at Volkswagen’s Tennessee factory, Gov. Bill Lee and some other southern governors…

By CARLOS MUREITHI Associated Press The world installed 117 gigawatts of new wind power capacity in 2023, a 50% increase from the year before, making…

By HOWARD FENDRICH and EDDIE PELLS AP National Writers NEW YORK (AP) — Athletes in plenty of sports compete for plenty of cash. Olympians? Not so…

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell cautioned that persistently elevated inflation…

NEW DELHI (AP) — Police in India say they killed at least 29 suspected Maoist rebels in the central state of Chhattisgarh. The gunfight came three…

By ELENA BECATOROS Associated Press ATHENS, Greece (AP) — The world is not doing enough to protect coral reefs. That’s according to the…

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro has ordered the closure of his country’s embassy and consulates in Ecuador in…

By MATTHEW DALY and LEAH WILLINGHAM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Labor Department issued a new rule Tuesday intended to protect coal…

By WAYNE PARRY Associated Press ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — Prosecutors in New Jersey say Atlantic City Mayor Marty Small and his wife disapproved…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Attorney General Merrick Garland has told lawmakers President Joe Biden has shown no signs of cognitive impairment while…

By JOHN ANTCZAK and JULIE WATSON Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — The University of Southern California has canceled a commencement speech by…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — The United States has filed a labor complaint panel after Mexico refused to act on alleged union-busting by a Mexican company.…

By ANDREW DeMILLO Associated Press LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — A former Arkansas law enforcement officer who was caught on video kicking and hitting a…

By JEFF AMY Associated Press BARNESVILLE, Ga. (AP) — Students will pay more to attend Georgia’s public universities and colleges in the the…

By DAVID KOENIG AP Airlines Writer The Biden administration is enlisting officials in 15 states to help enforce consumer-protection laws covering air…

LONDON (AP) — A portrait of Winston Churchill by an artist whose work the British leader loathed is going up for auction. The painting by modernist…

By JUAN A. LOZANO Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — A judge has recommended that the conviction and death sentence of Texas inmate Melissa Lucio…

By STEVE KARNOWSKI Associated Press ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — The U.S. Supreme Court has denied a petition by MyPillow founder and election denier…

LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Prosecutors plan to announce charges Tuesday in an investigation of the former leader of the Michigan House. Attorney General…

By FARAI MUTSAKA Associated Press HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — State media in Mozambique say at least eight people from one family have died after their…

By LISA MASCARO AP Congressional Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) — Defiant and determined, House Speaker Mike Johnson has pushed back against…

By JOSEPH WILSON Associated Press BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Authorities in Spain’s drought-stricken Catalonia are considering imposing water…

By LORNE COOK Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — Belgian police have shut down a gathering of far-right politicians and supporters, citing concerns…

By AMY TAXIN Associated Press California officials are considering whether to take over monitoring groundwater use in part of the fertile San Joaquin…

REDMOND, Wash. (AP) — Microsoft is investing $1.5 billion in a technology firm based in the United Arab Emirates and overseen by the country’s…

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A federal appeals court has overturned a West Virginia transgender sports ban, finding that the law violates Title IX, the…

By FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen is warning of potential global “economic spillovers” from…

By COREY WILLIAMS Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — Home values in Detroit have increased by billions of dollars in the years following the city’s…

By MAE ANDERSON AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Record numbers of people are starting new businesses, and more and more of them are women and…

By MICHAEL RUBINKAM Associated Press A barge operator believes it has found a sunken barge in the Ohio River near Pittsburgh, one of 26 that broke…

By CURT ANDERSON Associated Press Changing course, a Democratic Florida prosecutor suspended from office by Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis says he will…

By HANNA ARHIROVA Assocaited Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has signed a controversial law, days after it was…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court has sided with a decorated veteran of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq in a protracted fight with the…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas was back on the bench Tuesday, after an unexplained one-day absence. Thomas, 75, was in his…

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal Reserve Vice Chair Philip Jefferson suggested that the central bank’s key…

BERLIN (AP) — The southern German state of Bavaria says it will ban the smoking of cannabis at public festivals, inside beer gardens and even at…

By The Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump returned Tuesday to a New York courtroom as the jury selection process in his historic hush…

SOUTH CHARLESTON, Ohio (AP) — An elderly Ohio man who authorities say fatally shot an Uber driver he thought was trying to rob him after a scam…

By LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has spoken with China’s national defense minister in the…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — The U.S. ambassador to Japan has urged Tokyo to take a greater role in developing, producing and…

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greece’s governing conservative party has added a convicted politician from Albania’s ethnic Greek minority to its list…

LONDON (AP) — A Muslim student who wanted to pray during lunchtime lost a court fight Tuesday against a strict London school that had banned prayer…

By KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — A report from the website 38 North says that North Korea is putting surveillance…

By PAUL WISEMAN AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The International Monetary Fund has upgraded its outlook for the global economy, saying the…

By COLLIN BINKLEY AP Education Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden’s latest plan for student loan cancellation is moving forward as a…

SYDNEY (AP) — Australia’s prime minister says a French construction worker who confronted a man who stabbed six people to death in a Sydney…

By EDDIE PELLS AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — American Olympic athletes have a new place to turn to lock down college degrees and other skills…

By ELENA BECATOROS Associated Press ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greece aims to create two large marine parks as part of an $830 million program to…

ALGIERS, Algeria (AP) — An Algerian journalist is decrying his expulsion from the country after flying in from France and not being allowed to…

LONDON (AP) — British lawmakers are set to vote on the government’s plans to introduce a landmark smoking ban that aims to stop young people from…