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By NICK PERRY Associated Press AUCKLAND, New Zealand (AP) — Voting has closed in New Zealand and ballot counting was underway in a general…

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australians voted in a referendum Saturday to decide whether to enshrine in the…

By REGINA GARCIA CANO Associated Press SAN JOAQUIN, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuelans have come to feel the decade-long crisis that undid their country…

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australians are casting their final votes in the country’s first referendum in a…

By ISABEL DeBRE, EDITH M. LEDERER and WAFAA SHURAFA Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Palestinians scrambled to flee northern Gaza after…

By SARA CLINE Associated Press BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Louisiana’s gubernatorial election is one of three in the country this year. Republicans…

By VANESSA GERA Associated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland is holding an election Sunday that many view as its most important one since the 1989…

By LEAH WILLINGHAM Associated Press CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin has benefited from waiting to reveal where he stood as…

By GISELA SALOMON Associated Press MIAMI (AP) — The lives of several hundred thousand Venezuelans living in the U.S. could change now that…

By CLAIRE RUSH Associated Press PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A rare “ring of fire” eclipse of the sun cuts across the Americas on Saturday, stretching…

By JOSH BOAK and LINLEY SANDERS Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Ethical concerns are casting a shadow over President Joe Biden as he seeks…

By ADAM BEAM Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed a law to raise the minimum wage for health care…

By DAVE COLLINS Associated Press The New York attorney general’s office says police officers in an upstate town will not face criminal charges…

BUENA PARK, Calif. (AP) — An ammonia leak at a Southern California business has sent 11 people to the hospital. The Orange County Fire Authority…

By MORGAN LEE Associated Press SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — A judge has ordered an attempted murder trial for a New Mexico man in the September shooting…

By AMY BETH HANSON Associated Press HELENA, Mont. (AP) — A federal judge in Montana is continuing to block enforcement of a law that puts…

SOUTH BEND, Ind. (AP) — The University of Notre Dame has announced the Rev. John Jenkins will give up the school’s presidency at the end of the…

By AMY BETH HANSON Associated Press A Montana man who was mauled by a grizzly bear that bit off the front of his lower jaw is ready to return home…

By ANITA SNOW Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — The toll of heat-associated deaths in Arizona’s most populous county has now soared over 360.…

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — Court records filed Friday indicate the chief suspect in Natalee Holloway’s 2005 disappearance intends to plead guilty in…

By MICHAEL GOLDBERG Associated Press/Report for America JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The Mississippi sheriff who leads the department where former…

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — An Idaho law restricting which bathrooms transgender students can use in schools will go into effect while a court challenge…

By ISABEL DEBRE and FATIMA SHBAIR Associated Press GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — Watching the pulverized alleys of Jabaliya refugee camp in northern…

By ELLIOT SPAGAT Associated Press SAN DIEGO (AP) — U.S. officials can continue to refuse asylum-seekers at border crossings with Mexico if they…

By JILL COLVIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Former President Donald Trump is stepping back from his pointed criticism of Israel. He said…

By SUSAN HAIGH Associated Press BRIDGEPORT, Conn. (AP) — A local Democratic official in Connecticut’s largest city has invoked her 5th Amendment…

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Lexi Thompson looked to be on the verge of becoming the first woman in 78 years to make the cut on the PGA Tour. Two late bogeys…

By SCOTT SONNER Associated Press RENO, Nev. (AP) — Environmentalists  are poised to return to court in an ongoing legal battle with the Biden…

By AUDREY McAVOY Associated Press PEARL HARBOR, Hawaii (AP) — Next week the U.S. military plans to begin draining fuel from World War II-era…

WOODSTOCK, Ill. (AP) — A judge has convicted a former state child welfare worker of child endangerment in connection with the 2019 beating death of…

By SARAH RANKIN Associated Press RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Virginia state lawmakers are required to live in the district they represent, as well as in…

By MATT O’BRIEN AP Technology Writer After two years co-piloting the biggest acquisition in video game history past an onslaught of challenges,…

By ROBERT YOON Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The race to replace Democratic Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards tops the list of contests voters…

WASHINGTON (AP) — ABC’s “This Week” — White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan; Lt. Col. Jonathan Conricus, a spokesman for the…

By COLLEEN SLEVIN and MATTHEW BROWN Associated Press DENVER (AP) — Jurors delivered a split verdict against two officers charged in the 2019 death…

ENFIELD, England (AP) — Ravens outside linebacker Odafe Oweh will miss his fourth straight game because of an ankle injury when Baltimore plays the…

By MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump’s top corporate deputies considered adding a “presidential premium” to his…

DETROIT (AP) — Florine Mark, a Michigan business icon and former owner of Weight Watchers franchises in Michigan and Ontario, Canada, has died. She…

By GENE JOHNSON, CLAUDIA LAUER, REBECCA BOONE and AUDREY McAVOY Associated Press LAHAINA, Hawaii (AP) — Hawaii’s Maui County has released…

By MIKE CORDER and JULIA FRANKEL Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The deadly attacks by Hamas on Israeli civilians and the…

By MATTHEW PERRONE AP Health Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Chinese disposable e-cigarettes from Elf Bar remain widely available in the U.S. more than…

SELLS, Ariz. (AP) — The Tohono O’odham Nation in southern Arizona is blasting the decision by the U.S. Attorney’s Office not to prosecute…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Five men are dead following a fight between inmates at a prison in Mexico’s Gulf coast state of Tabasco. The state police…

By TOM MURPHY AP Health Writer Open enrollment for Medicare opens Sunday, and seniors could have dozens of options to choose from. During the…

DECATUR, Ga. (AP) — A suburban Atlanta woman has been sentenced to 30 years in prison for the 2021 murder of a 4-month-old who died after she…

By JOSEPH KRAUSS Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — In Israel’s call for the evacuation of half of Gaza’s population, many Palestinians…

SAN DIEGO (AP) — An advocacy group says a migrant died this week after having a medical emergency in an area where people wait to be processed…

By HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Nobel laureate Louise Glück, a poet of unblinking candor and perception who wove classical…

By JACK DURA Associated Press BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — North Dakota lawmakers are scrambling to fill a giant hole in state government operations left…

By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — Police in New York, Los Angeles, and other U.S. cities increased patrols, authorities put up…

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Jurors have cleared an Iowa man charged with murder in the shooting deaths of two students at a Des Moines alternative…

By JOHN LEICESTER Associated Press PARIS (AP) — Because of the fracture in her leg, Karin Journo had talked herself out of going to the Tribe of…

By BROOKE LEFFERTS Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — During the pandemic, a friend sent Sharon Stone a paint-by-numbers set to keep her busy, a…

BETHLEHEM, Pa. (AP) — Pennsylvania lacks federally recognized tribal nations, leaving it with an incomplete picture of its Indigenous culture. But…

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — Alabama state Rep. John Rogers has pleaded not guilty to a charge of attempting to obstruct a federal investigation into an…

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Louisiana’s pardon board has rejected a clemency bid for Antoinette Frank — an ex-New Orleans police officer…

PANAMA CITY (AP) — Panama’s civil aviation authority says a Copa airline flight bound for Tampa, Florida, has returned to Panama City’s…

By The Associated Press Armed robbers broke into the St. Louis Cardinals baseball complex in the Dominican Republic on Friday. A statement from the…

By STEVE KARNOWSKI and JIM SALTER Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A criminal complaint says the Minnesota man accused of shooting five law…

MUMBAI, India (AP) — The IOC says Russian athletes can be directly invited to next year’s Paris Games despite the suspension of their…

MILWAUKEE (AP) — Federal, state and local officials have agreed to spend about $450 million to dredge contaminated sediment from Milwaukee’s…

By PAUL J. WEBER Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A federal judge in Texas has ruled that county political maps in the home of Juneteenth…

By CHEYANNE MUMPHREY and ANNIE MA AP Education Writers For more than a month, Darryl George, a Black high school student in Texas, spent each school…