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By KATE BRUMBACK and RUSS BYNUM Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Attorneys are asking a U.S. appeals court to throw out the hate crime convictions…

By ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The classified documents investigation of Donald Trump appeared to have clear momentum in 2022…

By DARKO BANDIC and JOVANA GEC Associated Press ZAGREB, Croatia (AP) — Religious and neo-conservative groups have been ramping up pressure to ban…

By LEA SKENE Associated Press BALTIMORE (AP) — It was the middle of the night when a dispatcher’s 12-second warning crackled over the radio: A…

By BILL BARROW and LINLEY SANDERS Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Many Americans are unenthusiastic about a November rematch of the 2020…

By DAVID BAUDER AP Media Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The British royal family learned the hard way: in the modern media world, if you don’t fill…

By YURI KAGEYAMA Associated Press URAWA, Japan (AP) — One Japanese creation grabbing attention on the Oscars red carpet wasn’t a movie. It was…

By MAURICIO SAVARESE and SYLVIE CORBET Associated Press SAO PAULO (AP) — The Brazilian and the French presidents announced on Tuesday a plan to…

By SUSAN HAIGH and TRÂN NGUYỄN Associated Press Famed American artist and sculptor Richard Serra has died at his home in Long Island, New York, at…

By HANNAH SCHOENBAUM Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A Utah woman who authorities say fatally poisoned her husband in 2022, then published a…

By DÉBORA REY Associated Press BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Judges overseeing a high-profile human rights trial in Argentina have convicted 11…

By KIM CHANDLER Associated Press The private liberal arts school Birmingham-Southern College in Alabama has announced it will close at the end of…

By DENG MACHOL Associated Press JUBA, South Sudan (AP) — South Sudan’s government says schools will reopen next week following a two-week closure…

By TALES AZZONI AP Sports Writer MADRID (AP) — Teenagers Lamine Yamal and Endrick took the spotlight and Vinícius Júnior had a quiet game as…

By MAURICIO SAVARESE and DIARLEI RODRIGUES Associated Press RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Dozens of kids and teenagers from Rio de Janeiro’s Mare…

By JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Former President Donald Trump got a break this week when an appeals court cut down the amount of…

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — The federal government is asking a court to halt California’s enforcement of a rule requiring prison guards be…

By SUMMER BALLENTINE Associated Press COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — Days after Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey blamed an after-school fight on a…

BOSTON (AP) — A Rwandan man who authorities say took part in the country’s 1994 genocide before making his way to the U.S. has been indicted by a…

By JOSH FUNK Associated Press The collision of three Norfolk Southern trains in Pennsylvania early this month highlights the shortcomings of the…

By JEFFREY COLLINS Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Federal prosecutors say convicted killer Alex Murdaugh didn’t tell the truth when FBI…

By DAVID BAUDER AP Media Writer NEW YORK (AP) — NBC News will cut ties with former Republican National Committee chief Ronna McDaniel, hired last…

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — A former North Dakota Republican state senator has ended his campaign for the state’s only U.S. House seat. Tom Campbell, a…

HOUSTON (AP) — Police are investigating the death of an 8-year-old girl whose body was found inside a large pipe for a lazy river at a Houston…

By GARY FIELDS Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Former Justice Department official Jeffrey Clark could face sanctions, including disbarment in…

By JEFF AMY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia’s Republican state senators are making another attempt to impose a conservative stamp on the…

By JONATHAN LANDRUM Jr. AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Sean “Diddy” Combs’ lawyer said Tuesday that the searches of the…

By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN Associated Press ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Top officials were gathering Tuesday in southern New Mexico to mark the 25th…

By JULIE CARR SMYTH and SAMANTHA HENDRICKSON Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Two families of transgender minors have filed a constitutional…

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — A federal court has dismissed an attempt by conservative Pennsylvania lawmakers to overturn automatic voter registration,…

By HANNAH FINGERHUT Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The Iowa attorney general’s office said it is still working on an audit of its…

By MATTHEW PERRONE, AMANDA SEITZ and CHRISTINE FERNANDO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. Supreme Court justices on Tuesday did not appear…

By MICHAEL CASEY Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — Two former officials of a Massachusetts veterans home where at least 76 people died during the…

By CHRISTOPHER WEBER Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — A mountain lion killed a man and seriously wounded his brother last weekend in northern…

By WAYNE PARRY Associated Press The bridge that collapsed into a Maryland river after a ship strike was iconic — erected almost five decades ago,…

By TARA COPP Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon says a controversial policy that allows service members to be reimbursed for travel if…

By STEFANIE DAZIO Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — A Southern California police department has been handcuffed by Lego. The Danish toy company…

By YURAS KARMANAU Associated Press TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — A prominent journalist in Belarus has been designated a political prisoner by the…

BOSTON (AP) — The city of Boston will pay about $4.6 million to settle a wrongful death lawsuit stemming from the police killing of a mentally ill…

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Indiana officials have revoked the liquor license of an Indianapolis bar where one person was killed and five others, including…

By KEVIN McGILL Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Advocates for adult victims of childhood sexual abuse say they will ask Louisiana’s Supreme…

By MEG KINNARD Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has picked a California lawyer and philanthropist who’s never held…

BERKELEY, Calif. (AP) — The city of Berkeley, California, has agreed to halt enforcement of a ban on natural gas piping in new homes and buildings…

LAS VEGAS (AP) — A Nevada judge tentatively set an August trial date for a former Las Vegas-area elected official accused of killing an…

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Republican legislators have approved a bill that would require Kansas abortion providers to ask their patients why they want to…

By TIM BOOTH AP Sports Writer SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — Utah coach Lynne Roberts said her team experienced a series of “racial hate crimes” after…

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — A convicted child molester has been sentenced to 220 years in federal prison for producing child sexual abuse material…

By MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A New York judge has issued a gag order barring Donald Trump from making public statements…

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Gangs have intensified their rampage in the downtown area of Haiti’s capital, setting fire to a school and looting…

By MATTHEW BARAKAT Associated Press ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) — A 24-year-old woman is telling jurors that she was repeatedly raped and sexually…

The Associated Press The Biden administration greenlit the seventh large offshore wind project in the United States Tuesday. Danish wind energy…

By JEFFREY COLLINS Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina has collected about $1.8 billion in a bank account over the past decade…

By JOHN MARSHALL AP Basketball Writer CHANDLER, Ariz. (AP) — Caitlin Clark has reshaped women’s college basketball and the perception of it.…

By JOHN HANNA and SEAN MURPHY Associated Press TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas is poised to require internet pornography sites to verify that visitors…

By BOUAZZA BEN BOUAZZA Associated Press TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — A Tunisian journalist is being detained in the lead-up to his trial next month on…

By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A top U.S. prosecutor has announced criminal charges against a once ascending company in the…

By DAVID McHUGH, ANNE D’INNOCENZIO and PAUL WISEMAN AP Business Writers The stunning collapse of Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge is…

By LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer Following the success of “Wonka” and the “Dune” movies, Warner Bros. is staying in the Timothée Chalamet…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The British Museum is suing a former curator alleged to have stolen almost 2,000 artifacts from its…

By MIKE CORDER Associated Press VEENDAM, Netherlands (AP) — A 420-meter or quarter-mile white steel tube running alongside a railway line in the…

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — The driver of a pickup truck has been charged for his role in a four-vehicle crash that sent a tractor-trailer through a…

By PATRICK WHITTLE Associated Press PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Travelers through Maine’s largest airport can now take a trip to the moon – sort of.…

By JILL COLVIN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Former President Donald Trump is hawking Bibles as he runs to return to the White House. The…

NEW YORK (AP) — Krispy Kreme and McDonald’s are getting together over breakfast. The doughnut chain and the fast food giant unveiled plans…

By ELENA BECATOROS Associated Press ATHENS, Greece (AP) — A Greek opposition party has submitted a motion of no-confidence in the government over…

By MICHAEL RUBINKAM Associated Press A large suburban Philadelphia county has joined dozens of other local governments around the country in suing…

BALTIMORE (AP) — Authorities are piecing together what led to the bridge collapse in Baltimore. But so far, we know that Maryland Gov. Wes Moore…

LONDON (AP) — Bruce Springsteen is the first international songwriter to be named a fellow of The Ivors Academy, the U.K’s professional…

COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — President Joe Biden has won Missouri’s primary, the state Democratic Party announced. Biden’s win was not in doubt; he has…

By KAREEM CHEHAYEB & FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. has imposed sanctions on a group of firms and one individual…

By JIM SALTER Associated Press ST. LOUIS (AP) — A school bus company will terminate its contract with St. Louis Public Schools a year early. The…

By DEEPTI HAJELA Associated Press A major bridge that collapsed in Baltimore after getting hit by a ship is named for Francis Scott Key, who turned a…

By PAUL J. WEBER Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The securities fraud case against Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is over after nine…

By EVELYNE MUSAMBI Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Kenya’s government has begun handing over to relatives the bodies of 429 members of…

By BASSEM MROUE Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — The head of a Lebanese Sunni political and militant group that has joined the Shiite militant group…

By MELANIE LIDMAN Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — As Israel battles a prolonged war in Gaza, exemptions from mandatory military service for…

BEIRUT (AP) — A series of airstrikes on eastern Syria have killed more than a dozen people, including an Iranian military adviser and a team member…

By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer This is an abridged version of ENT-Film-Steve Martin (AP) — People participate in documentaries for all kinds of…

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine has sunk or disabled a third of all Russian warships in the Black Sea in just over two years of war, the navy…

By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer NEW YORK (AP) — People participate in documentaries for all kinds of reasons. But Steve Martin may be unique in making…

By SYLVIE CORBET Associated Press PARIS (AP) — France’s defense minister says it will soon be able to deliver 78 Caesar howitzers to Ukraine…

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) — Ethiopia’s biggest bank says it has recouped nearly 80% of the cash it lost during a system glitch that allowed…

By MAE ANDERSON AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Hiring woes may be easing for small businesses. The CBIZ Small Business Employment Index…

The Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Former President Donald Trump launched his social media platform, Truth Social, in early 2022, after he…

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — The majority of Poland’s ruling pro-European Union coalition lawmakers have taken steps to bring the head of the central…

By SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Wisconsin Supreme Court dismissed a lawsuit Tuesday brought by Amazon’s logistics…

By MATT OTT AP Business Writer U.S. consumer confidence held steady this month even as Americans are still concerned about high prices and feeling…

By TIM REYNOLDS AP Basketball Writer Jimmer Fredette, Kareem Maddox, Canyon Barry and Dylan Travis piled up enough wins together last year to get USA…

BERLIN (AP) — Vienna police say Austrian police officers who provided security around the Russian Embassy on the day of that country’s…

Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Visa and MasterCard announced a settlement with U.S. merchants related to swipe fees, a development that could…