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AP Health Writer New research shows that nearly three out of 10 U.S. drugstores that were open during the previous decade had closed by 2021. A study…

Associated Press MIAMI (AP) — The top United Nations human rights watchdog has ordered Venezuela to avoid destroying tally sheets as it opens an…

Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — An elaborate parody appears to be behind an effort to resurrect Enron, the Houston-based energy company that…

Associated Press HAVANA (AP) — Non-governmental organizations monitoring Cuban prisons are demanding an investigation into the death of a man…

Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — A judge is weighing whether a Georgia state Senate committee has the right to subpoena testimony and documents from…

Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — President-elect Donald Trump’s lawyers formally asked a judge Monday to throw out his hush money criminal…

Associated Press TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — New Jersey’s top law enforcement official says authorities took down two human trafficking rings,…

Associated Press HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Connecticut residents, past and present dignitaries, and state Capitol insiders are paying tribute to…

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Searchers have recovered the body of a Wisconsin woman who vanished more than four years ago. The state Department of Justice…

CENTRAL ISLIP, N.Y. (AP) — The partner of former Abercrombie & Fitch CEO Mike Jeffries who was indicted on sex trafficking charges along with…

AP White House Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) — President-elect Donald Trump’s transition team has signed an agreement to allow the Justice…

AP Film Writer Forty years ago, on Dec. 8, 1984, one of the largest manhunts in FBI history came to an explosive end on Whidbey Island in Puget…

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The Associated Press has learned that a United Nations watchdog has been selected to lead an external probe into…

Associated Press RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — A military police officer in Sao Paulo has been seen on video footage throwing a man off a bridge and into a…

Associated Press Ohio’s top elections official has rejected a Republican challenge over the legal residency of one of the state’s Democratic…

Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — The South Carolina House opened its newest session with an unsuccessful long shot challenge of the Speaker…

Associated Press FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — The Kentucky Senate’s new majority floor leader says lawmakers seem ready to resume work on a bill…

DENVER (AP) — Misdemeanor charges have been dropped against two Colorado law enforcement officers in the fatal shooting of a 22-year-old man…

Associated Press LONDON (AP) — An artist whose work exploring her Scottish Sikh identity includes a vintage Ford car draped in a crocheted doily…

Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Democrats reelected Chuck Schumer as party leader on Tuesday as the party moves into a deeply uncertain…

Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) — A federal appeals court says U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement can continue using a Seattle airport for…

WINDHOEK, Namibia (AP) — Namibia has elected its first female leader, with Vice President Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah declared the winner Tuesday of…

Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Reproductive rights advocates are trying to dismantle a 15-week abortion ban in Arizona that conflicts with newly…

Associated Press A grandmother looking for her lost cat apparently fell into a sinkhole that had recently opened above an abandoned western…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Police say a 30-year-old woman from Hawaii who was reported missing in Los Angeles three weeks ago voluntarily traveled to…

Associated Press A trial has begun for a man charged in the killing of a University of Mississippi student who was well-known in the local LGBTQ+…

Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — A California man has been charged with illegally shipping weapons and ammunition to North Korea. Federal…

NEW YORK (AP) — Brady Corbet’s 3 1/2-hour postwar epic “The Brutalist” won best film from the New York Film Critics Circle on Tuesday, while…

Associated Press QUINCY, Mass. (AP) — As global warming fills the plankton-rich waters of New England with death traps for sea turtles, the number…

Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Jurors have started deliberating in the trial of a military veteran charged with using a fatal chokehold to subdue…

DETROIT (AP) — General Motors is adding over 132,000 heavy-duty pickups in the U.S. to a previous recall for tailgate release switches that can…

AP Sports Writer Former baseball pitcher Maybelle Blair will be an honorary chair on the advisory board of the Women’s Professional Baseball…

Associated Press NABATIYEH, Lebanon (AP) — Lebanon’s Health Ministry and state media say Israeli forces have carried out several drone and…

Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — An investigation is underway after a Secret Service agent working on protective assignment outside Treasury…

AP Pro Football Writer A person with knowledge of the meeting says NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell has met with congressional leaders to speak to them…

Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Iowa officials are suing the Biden administration for access to information on the citizenship status of…

Associated Press KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — Medical experts have been sent to southwestern Congo after a mystery disease killed dozens of people over…

Associated Press HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — President-elect Donald Trump is underscoring his intention to block the purchase of U.S. Steel by Japanese…

Associated Press MARRAKECH, Morocco (AP) — Sean Penn on Tuesday blasted the organizers of the Oscars for being cowards who, in effect, limit the…

AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Jay-Z’s popular exhibit “The Book of Hov” in New York is about to live up to its name by becoming…

TBILISI, Georgia (AP) — Lawmakers in Georgia’s breakaway province of Abkhazia on Tuesday rejected a bill offering privileges to Russian investors…

AP Golf Writer Tiger Woods could not offer much of a timetable Tuesday on PGA Tour negotiations with the Saudi backers of LIV Golf or his own future…

Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A judge’s overturning of Wisconsin’s 13-year-old law that effectively ended collective bargaining for…

Associated Press HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Pop superstar Taylor Swift tops a list of 2024’s most notable quotations compiled by Yale University,…

Associated Press SYOSSET, N.Y. (AP) — A New York Jewish community is mourning the death of a young Israeli American soldier who Israeli authorities…

Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Jill Biden has departed on her final solo foreign trip as first lady. It’s a six-day, four-country haul…

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The U.S. Coast Guard said Tuesday that it has suspended the search for a man believed to have gone overboard from a cruise…

AP Music Writer NEW YORK (AP) — “Not Like Us,” it’s like them — Kendrick Lamar and SZA will hit the road together in 2025. On Tuesday…

Associated Press PARIS (AP) — France’s minority government appears to be in its final hours as opposition lawmakers from the left and the far…

Associated Press Even more snow could be on the way for places in the Great Lakes region that are still digging out after days of storms caused…

Associated Press It was a life that took him from peanut farming to the presidency. While former President Jimmy Carter’s time in the White House…

Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — European nations have approved plans to scale back the protection for wolves in a victory for farmers over…

AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Did you have a “Brat summer” this year? Were you “demure,” and were you “mindful”? Did you enter a…

Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden has ducked questions on his decision to break his word and pardon his son Hunter, ignoring…

BANGKOK (AP) — Thailand’s King Maha Vajiralongkorn on Tuesday presided over a parade that saw the queen lead hundreds of military personnel in…

Associated Press BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — TikTok took down several networks allegedly trying to meddle in Romania’s elections, executives said…

Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japan has dispatched a surveillance plane and a navy ship after spotting a Russian submarine off the coast of a…

AP Music Writer NEW YORK (AP) — “Not Like Us,” but people sure like him: Kendrick Lamar’s smash topped Apple Music’s global song chart…

Associated Press CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — South African President Cyril Ramaphosa says the Group of 20 bloc has sufficient “shock…

Associated Press PALMIRA, Colombia (AP) — It’s been three years since Douarleyka Velásquez abandoned her career in human resources. Her new job…

Associated Press GOMA, Congo (AP) — Fighting between the Congolese army and the M23 rebel group has resumed in eastern Congo ahead of potential…

Associated Press HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — A Zimbabwean High Court judge has ruled that provisions of a law that deny abortion services to women…