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By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s government has asked a court to revoke the legal status of the Unification Church after…

By DAN GELSTON AP Sports Writer PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Nick Castellanos became the first player to hit multiple homers in consecutive postseason…

By DAVE SKRETTA AP Sports Writer KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Patrick Mahomes threw for 306 yards and a touchdown, Harrison Butker kicked four field…

LAHAINA, Hawaii (AP) — Maui County released audio of 911 calls from a deadly August wildfire late Thursday in response to a public record request…

By REBECCA BOONE Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — An Idaho judge issued a death warrant on Thursday for the state’s longest-serving death…

By THOMAS PEIPERT Associated Press BRIGHTON, Colo. (AP) — As the death of Elijah McClain became a rallying point at police reform rallies in…

By MICHAEL BIESECKER and SARAH EL DEEB Associated Press Less than a month before Hamas fighters blew through Israel’s high-tech “Iron Wall” and…

SMYRNA, Ga. (AP) — Police say a person suspected of fatally shooting two people northwest of Atlanta died by suicide while fleeing officers. The…

By HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea is lashing out at the arrival of a U.S. aircraft carrier battle group in…

By DAVE SKRETTA AP Sports Writer KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Pop superstar Taylor Swift was back at Arrowhead Stadium on Thursday night to watch Travis…

By BRIAN MAHONEY AP Basketball Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Yehu Orland wore a shirt honoring a close friend who was killed two days earlier defending…

By MEAD GRUVER and NICHOLAS RICCARDI Associated Press DENVER (AP) — A Colorado judge has rejected an attempt by former President Donald Trump to…

By SUMMER BALLENTINE Associated Press COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — Missouri regulators are allowing a multistate wind-energy power line to increase the…

By GUILLERMO GARAT Associated Press MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay (AP) — A buyer from Argentina has paid $36,000 for a manuscript of works, including seven…

by DANIEL SHAILER Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico is pursuing a criminal complaint against the country’s largest copper producer…

By TODD RICHMOND Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Republican lawmakers in Wisconsin have tweaked their plan to help fund repairs at the…

By COLLEEN SLEVIN and MATTHEW BROWN Associated Press BRIGHTON, Colo. (AP) — Jurors Thursday convicted a Denver-area police officer of criminally…

By MARCOS ALEMÁN Associated Press TECOLUCA, El Salvador (AP) — With tattoo-covered faces, wearing white shirts and shorts, gang members captured…

NATCHITOCHES, La. (AP) — A Northwestern State University football player has been shot and killed near an apartment complex not far from campus in…

By FABIANO MAISONNAVE Associated Press BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — Smoke from forest fires covered large swaths of the Brazilian Amazon as the region…

A New York man killed after police say he came at them with swords in his hands was a former elite fencer. The state attorney general’s office says…

CASTLETON, Vt. (AP) — Vermont State Police say more than 150 tips have come in since they released a sketch of a person of interest connected to…

By KAREEM CHEHAYEB and ABBY SEWELL Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Will Lebanon’s heavily armed Hezbollah militia join the Israel-Hamas war?…

By BEN FINLEY Associated Press NORFOLK, Va. (AP) — A federal admiralty court in Virginia has canceled a hearing to discuss a contested expedition…

DETROIT (AP) — The U.S. Labor Department says investigators found 19 safety and health violations at a General Motors joint venture electric…

By MARC LEVY Associated Press HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Counties in Pennsylvania are telling Democratic Gov. Josh Shapiro and lawmakers that…

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California officials are faulting communities in a stretch of the crop-rich San Joaquin Valley for failing to develop a…

By The Associated Press A founding member of the Isley Brothers who helped perform such raw rhythm and blues classics as “Shout” and “Twist and…

AIKEN, S.C. (AP) — A 79-year-old South Carolina man has avoided a possible death sentence by agreeing to plead guilty to ambushing police officers…

By TERRY SPENCER and ERIC TUCKER Associated Press FORT PIERCE, Fla. (AP) — A judge has scolded federal prosecutors in the classified documents case…

By REGINA GARCIA CANO Associated Press CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Voters in Ecuador are getting ready to pick a new president. Their choices in…

By JESSE BEDAYN, AMY BETH HANSON, MATTHEW BROWN and MEAD GRUVER Associated Press DENVER (AP) — The legal and financial troubles piled up in recent…

Authorities in Colombia say a prolific serial killer who confessed to murdering more than 190 children during the 1990s has died in a hospital where…

By CARLA K. JOHNSON AP Medical Writer A leading doctors group on Thursday formally withdrew its approval of a 2009 paper on “excited delirium,” a…

By RUSS BYNUM Associated Press SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — The chief executive over Georgia’s seaports says larger cargo ships will need deeper…

CHICAGO (AP) — A man has pleaded guilty to charges in connection with the fatal 2021 shooting of Chicago police officer Ella French and was…

By LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A former contractor for the Internal Revenue Service charged with leaking tax information…

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Seventeen Florida sheriff’s deputies have appeared in court on charges that they stole about half a million dollars…

By ANGELA CHARLTON and JEFFREY SCHAEFFER Associated Press PARIS (AP) — France’s interior minister ordered local authorities to ban all…

ANTANANARIVO, Madagascar (AP) — Madagascar’s highest court has ruled that next month’s presidential election be postponed for a week to allow…

By MICHAEL R. SISAK and JILL COLVIN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump will back in court next week for his New York civil fraud trial.…

By DÁNICA COTO and EVENS SANON Associated Press SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Haiti has declined to join neighboring Dominican Republic in…

SAN QUENTIN, Calif. (AP) — Officials say serial killer Douglas Daniel Clark has died of natural causes. He was 75. Clark was sentenced to death for…

By ASTRID SUÁREZ Associated Press NECOCLI, Colombia (AP) — In Necocli, Colombia, the local economy has shifted, revolving around the migrants who…

By CORA LEWIS Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Tens of millions of older Americans will see a modest increase in benefits in January when a new…

PARIS (AP) — French prosecutors are investigating a suspected poisoning of a Russian journalist who fled Russia after denouncing the war in Ukraine…

By TRÂN NGUYỄN Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed off on two proposals to transform the…

ISABEL DEBRE, SAMYA KULLAB and MOHAMMED JAHJOUH Associated Press GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — The morgue at Gaza’s biggest hospital overflowed…

By KEN SWEET and LARRY NEUMEISTER The Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Sam Bankman-Fried’s lawyer struggled through a meandering…

By ANTHONY IZAGUIRRE Associated Press ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York Gov. Kathy Hochul is supporting the city’s effort to suspend a unique legal…

By KEN RITTER Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — The Nevada Supreme Court plans to soon hear the NFL’s appeal of a crucial ruling denying a…

BY SETH BORENSTEIN AP Science Writer A new study finds that changes in the climate and land use are combining to dramatically shrink the numbers of…

By MARC LEVY Associated Press HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — The White House has selected the Philadelphia area and West Virginia for two regional hubs to…

By MARCIO SANCHEZ and JOHN ANTCZAK Associated Press FRAZIER PARK, Calif. (AP) — A liquor store in a tiny California mountain town reverberated with…

By JOSH FUNK AP Business Writer OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Passenger railroads nationwide will now be required to install video recorders inside their…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Police say two former employees of the Los Angeles County Federation of Labor are the focus of an investigation into a secret…

MIDDLETON, Idaho (AP) — Authorities briefly ordered evacuations for most of the town of Middleton, Idaho, after a gas line exploded at nearby rural…

By NINIEK KARMINI Associated Press JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesia’s former agriculture minister has been arrested by the country’s…

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A 31-year-old San Francisco man has been identified as the driver who was shot and killed by police after crashing a car into…

DECATUR, Ala. (AP) — A police chief in Alabama apologized Wednesday for his department giving incorrect information about what was said before…

By ADRIAN SAINZ Associated Press MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — The case of a Tennessee man charged with trying to enter his former Jewish school with a gun…

By LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — The Pentagon calls it FrankenSAM. It’s a project that cobbles together air defense…

By SONIA PÉREZ D. Associated Press GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — One of the leaders of the nationwide protests that have paralyzed much of Guatemalan…

By WYATTE GRANTHAM-PHILIPS AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The amount of tax money owed but not paid to the IRS is set to keep growing. For tax…

By JOHN HANNA AP Political Writer TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas’ Republican attorney general has asked the state’s highest court to reward the…

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — An Israeli ground offensive in Gaza would further escalate the war raging since Hamas launched…

By MARK THIESSEN Associated Press ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — When it comes to packing on the pounds to survive an Alaska winter, this year’s…

By MARY CLARE JALONICK and SEUNG MIN KIM ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration is expected to announce soon that the U.S.…

By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Federal prosecutors in New York City have rewritten their indictment against U.S. Sen. Bob…

By CHRIS MEGERIAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden has spent decades as a stalwart supporter of Israel, a connection rooted…