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By JUAN A. LOZANO Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — Two of Houston’s most powerful and longest serving political titans are facing off in a mayoral…

By SETH BORENSTEIN, DAVID KEYTON and JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Protests aimed at pressuring nations to move…

By PAUL J. WEBER Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The Texas Supreme Court has put on hold a judge’s ruling that approved an abortion for a…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United Nations Security Council took no immediate action at a closed emergency…

By HANNAH FINGERHUT Associated Press SIOUX CITY, Iowa (AP) — A win in Iowa for Nikki Haley doesn’t necessarily mean a win in the state’s…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — In a story published December 7, 2023, about a cash payment program for Californians leaving prison, The Associated Press used…

Associated Press Attorneys for Amazon have asked a federal judge to dismiss the Federal Trade Commission’s antitrust lawsuit against the e-commerce…

The Associated Press Three University of Nevada, Las Vegas, faculty members died this week and another was critically injured when a lone gunman…

MIAMI (AP) — Max Strus didn’t win a Larry O’Brien Trophy during his time in Miami. He won an Emmy instead. Strus, who left the Heat for the…

By HANNAH SCHOENBAUM Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah Attorney General Sean Reyes, facing scrutiny for his decadelong friendship with…

DALLAS (AP) — Flight attendants at Southwest Airlines are saying no to a contract offer hammered out by their union and the airline. The Transport…

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — The Indiana secretary of state is appealing a ruling that a law stipulating voting requirements for a candidate’s party…

By TRAVIS LOLLER Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Nashville Police say they have “exhausted all available investigative avenues” in the…

By LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Fox News is pushing back against a former reporter’s lawsuit saying he was targeted and…

By KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — U.S. National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan is meeting with his South Korean and…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican authorities say 11 people are dead following a clash between gunmen from a criminal gang and residents of a small…

By SARA CLINE Associated Press BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — A judge has voided the result of a Louisiana sheriff’s election that was decided by a…

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — All members of New Mexico’s congressional delegation expressed outrage with the U.S. House leadership’s move to block…

By LISA MASCARO AP Congressional Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) — Retiring Rep. Kevin McCarthy, the ousted House speaker, says he is endorsing…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican authorities have raided and closed 31 drug stores in the Baja California coastal city of Ensenada, after they were…

By MICHAEL R. SISAK and MICHAEL BALSAMO Associated Press Recent assaults on two notorious, high-profile federal prisoners have renewed concerns about…

By KELVIN CHAN AP Business Writer LONDON (AP) — European Union negotiators have clinched a deal on the world’s first comprehensive artificial…

By TERRY SPENCER Associated Press FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — A Florida sheriff’s office has concluded that two of its deputies were…

By ANTHONY McCARTNEY AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Ryan O’Neal, the heartthrob actor who went from a TV soap opera to an…

MILLINOCKET The Maine Warden Service says a man checking the thickness of ice on a wilderness lake crashed into the icy water and drowned. Wardens…

By LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Hunter Biden has been hit with new criminal charges in California accusing him of scheming…

VISALIA, Calif. (AP) — A county prosecutor’s office says one of its law clerks passed the State Bar of California exam at age 17. The Tulare…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s immigration agency says its agents have detained two Iranians who they say were under observation by the FBI. The…

By BRUCE SCHREINER and KIMBERLEE KRUESI Associated Press LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — A pregnant woman in Kentucky has filed a lawsuit demanding the…

GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — Prosecutors in Guatemala have asked a court to strip President-elect Bernardo Arévalo of his immunity. It was the third time…

By ELLIOT SPAGAT Associated Press SAN DIEGO (AP) — A federal judge is prohibiting the separation of families at the border for purposes of…

By SAMYA KULLAB Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine’s human rights ombudsman has voiced hope that a coalition of countries formed to…

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The solid hiring revealed in Friday’s jobs report for November, along with a raft of…

By JOE REEDY AP Sports Writer Coach Dan Campbell and quarterback Jared Goff aren’t the only popular Detroit Lions these days. A movie about the…

SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) — Bulgaria’s parliament has approved the provision of additional military aid to Ukraine in its war with Russia. The…

By STEVE KARNOWSKI Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — LGBTQ+ activists in Minnesota want prosecutors to treat the killing of a trans woman in…

By DEE-ANN DURBIN AP Business Writer Starbucks says it’s committed to bargaining with its unionized workers and reaching labor agreements next…

By EDITH M. LEDERER and ELLEN KNICKMEYER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United Nations chief and many Security Council members are…

By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER and ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal appeals court in Washington has upheld a gag order on former…

DECATUR, Ala. (AP) — An Alabama city has fired three police officers connected to the fatal shooting of a Black man in front of his own home during…

By WAYNE PARRY Associated Press ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — Five billion dollars worth of gambling gets done each year in Atlantic City. But the…

By YURAS KARMANAU Associated Press TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — A Belarusian journalists association has reported that two journalists have been…

By MELINA WALLING and JOSHUA BICKEL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A joint initiative from the United States and United Arab…

TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — An Arizona woman got a huge shock when surveillance footage showed the thief who stole her backyard cameras was four-legged…

By TODD RICHMOND Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Universities of Wisconsin and Assembly Republican Speaker Robin Vos have reached a…

By JOSH FUNK Associated Press OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — The second of two former Black Panthers who always maintained their innocence in the 1970 bombing…

By JACK DURA and HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH Associated Press BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — The 42-year-old son of U.S. Sen. Kevin Cramer is scheduled for his…

By DASHA LITVINOVA Associated Press TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Russian police have put prominent Russian-American journalist Masha Gessen on a wanted…

By HANNAH SCHOENBAUM Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints announced Friday the newest member of…

NEW YORK (AP) — New York can continue to enforce laws banning firearms in sensitive locations, a federal appeals court ruled Friday in its first…

By MICHAEL CASEY Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — Massachusetts’ attorney general has filed a lawsuit accusing a white nationalist group of civil…

By MARGERY A. BECK Associated Press OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — University of Nebraska officials have unveiled a plan for a $450 million renovation of its…

By DAVID A. LIEB and GEOFF MULVIHILL Associated Press JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Some Republican Missouri lawmakers are renewing their call to…

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A Pennsylvania man described by authorities as the lead defendant in a drug distribution and human smuggling case has pleaded…

By KATHY McCORMACK Associated Press CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — A judge has found the New Hampshire publisher of a weekly community newspaper guilty of…

By DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Scotland’s highest civil court has upheld the British government’s move to block a landmark…

KISSIMMEE, Fla. (AP) — An extremely rare white leucistic alligator has been born at a Florida reptile park. Gatorland Orlando said Thursday that…

NEWARK N.J. (AP) — Authorities in New Jersey say two nurses and a medical resident were stabbed inside a pediatric intensive care unit. The…