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By COLLEEN SLEVIN Associated Press BOULDER, Colo. (AP) — A Colorado man has pleaded guilty to lesser charges in the killings of three people in…

By ED DAVEY Associated Press MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Sea turtles still scramble from the waters of Batangas Bay, paddling up the sand to bury…

By JESSE BEDAYN Associated Press/Report for America DENVER (AP) — Colorado Gov. Jared Polis has signed a bill that would impose another hurdle for…

By KEVIN McGILL Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A federal appeals court says eight books dealing with subjects including racism and transgender…

GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — A Guatemalan lawyer who worked closely with organizations representing farmworker and Indigenous groups has been killed in an…

By FARNOUSH AMIRI, LISA MASCARO and MARY CLARE JALONICK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is set to…

MILAN (AP) — Amanda Knox told Italian TV that she was surprised by a Florence appeals court decision to convict her of slander for accusing a…

By BRUCE SCHREINER Associated Press FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Gov. Andy Beshear says drug overdose deaths in Kentucky fell nearly 10% in 2023. It marks…

By MARK SCOLFORO and MARC LEVY Associated Press HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Some Republican members of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives booed…

By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A former New Jersey attorney general has testified at Sen. Bob Menendez’s bribery trial…

RICHLAND, Miss. (AP) — A white Mississippi police officer has lost his job after telling a Hispanic man “go back to Mexico” while responding to…

By ANTHONY IZAGUIRRE Associated Press ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York Gov. Kathy Hochul is trying to raise taxes on businesses in the city to close a…

By MARGERY A. BECK Associated Press OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Those seeking to keep military veterans out of jails and prisons are shining a spotlight on…

By GREG BEACHAM AP Sports Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Los Angeles Lakers’ reported plan to offer a massive contract to UConn coach Dan Hurley…

By KAITLYN HUAMANI Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Ahead of Pat Sajak’s final episode as the host of “Wheel of Fortune,” Vanna White paid…

By MARK THIESSEN Associated Press ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Three shootings in three weeks involving police officers in Anchorage, Alaska, have…

By OLGA RODRIGUEZ and STEFANIE DAZIO Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A judge has dismissed several criminal charges against Paul…

CHICAGO (AP) — A judge has sentenced a former Illinois state child welfare worker to six months in jail in connection with a 5-year-old boy’s…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican federal immigration authorities say they have cleared one of Mexico City’s largest downtown tent encampments of…

By MIKE STOBBE AP Medical Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Experts say the mysterious death of a man in Mexico who had one kind of bird flu is unrelated to…

By LOLITA C. BALDOR and MATTHEW LEE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Officials say the U.S. will send about $225 million in military aid to…

HAVANA (AP) — Four Russian warships, including a nuclear-powered submarine, will arrive in Havana next week, Cuban officials said Thursday, citing…

SAN ANTONIO (AP) — Seven migrant smuggling suspects have been arrested and 11 migrants hospitalized after a law enforcement sting near San Antonio.…

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — The wife of an Irish businessman who was beaten to death in 2015 and the woman’s father have been released from North…

By YURAS KARMANAU Associated Press TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — United Nations special representatives on human rights have called on Belarusian…

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Florida’s highest court has rejected an effort by a suspended state attorney to get reinstated after she was removed…

By ALEX VEIGA AP Business Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — The average rate on a 30-year mortgage dipped to just below 7% this week, little relief for…

By JACK DURA Associated Press BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — A North Dakota judge has denied a preliminary injunction as three families challenge the…

By MARK BANCHEREAU Associated Press DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — A fire at a displacement camp in eastern Congo has destroyed around 50 makeshift tents,…

By BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Prince Harry has been given permission to appeal the British government’s rejection to provide…

GLEN ROSE, Texas (AP) — A Texas family got a brief scare when a nibble from a giraffe turned a 2-year-old’s safari visit into an airborne…

By BRUCE SCHREINER Associated Press FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Kentucky’s governor says electric vehicles have ignited enough momentum from job…

By MAKIYA SEMINERA Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina Republican lawmakers have reached a compromise on a bill that would have…

By MATTHEW LEE AP Diplomatic Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration is imposing sanctions on dozens of Georgian officials and law…

By JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Two more people have been charged in the sports betting scandal that prompted the NBA to ban…

By MATT O’BRIEN AP Technology Writer U.S. antitrust enforcers have decided to investigate the roles Microsoft, Nvidia and OpenAI have played in…

ST. LOUIS (AP) — A judge has expunged the misdemeanor convictions of a St. Louis couple who waved guns at racial injustice protesters outside their…

By CHRISTINA LARSON AP Science Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The horse transformed human history – and now scientists have a clearer idea of when…

By DANICA KIRKA Associated Pres VER-SUR-MER, France (AP) — It’s been 80 years since Christian Lamb helped rescue France from Nazi tyranny. On…

By CAROLYN THOMPSON Associated Press A Navy veteran of World War II is being mourned after his death en route to France to commemorate the 80th…

By KANIS LEUNG Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — Two British judges have resigned from Hong Kong’s top court, deepening worries over the city’s…

By OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A California Supreme Court ruling will allow student housing at University of California…

By JUAN ZAMORANO Associated Press ISBERYALA, Panama (AP) — Hammocks have begun appearing this week in the doorways of 300 new houses built in what…

PHIPPSBURG, Maine (AP) — A Maine woman learned the hard way that quicksand doesn’t just happen in jungles or rainforests in Hollywood movies.…

By MARIA SHERMAN AP Music Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Every June since the 1970s, across the United States, musicians, fans and industry…

By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Longtime Trump ally Steve Bannon must report to prison by July 1 to serve his four-month…

By MARK BANCHEREAU and JESSICA DONATI Associated Press DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Russia’s foreign minister is visiting Africa’s sub-Saharan…

By SOPHIA TAREEN Associated Press MILWAUKEE (AP) — The head of the U.S. Secret Service says security plans for the Republican National Convention…

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (AP) — An Iowa man is accused of killing three people an injuring a fourth by attacking them with a metal pipe at a rural home.…

By ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The families of American hostages in Gaza say they are hopeful for a deal between Israel and…

By SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The charges brought this week against a warden and eight staffers related to the deaths of two…

By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Broadway has had great success with “Hello, Dolly.” Now get ready for “Hello, I’m…

By WILL WEISSERT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The American Civil Liberties Union has prepared a blueprint for using lawsuits, advice to state…

By BRUCE SHIPKOWSKI Associated Press Retired NASCAR driver Tighe Scott, his adult son and two other Pennsylvania men are facing felony charges…

NEW YORK (AP) — More than 1.2 million rechargeable lights are under recall in the U.S. and Canada following a report of one consumer death.…

By KRYSTA FAURIA Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — It can sometimes be difficult for child actors to shed public conceptions of them as a kid on…

By MARK SCOLFORO Associated Press A former 911 dispatcher in Pennsylvania is no longer facing prosecution for involuntary manslaughter based on…

ATLANTA (AP) — Officials say residents in Atlanta no longer must boil water before drinking it. The advisory was lifted on Thursday, six days after…

By TSVANGIRAYI MUKWAZHI Associated Press HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — Leaders of the United Methodist Church have expressed regret over last week’s…

SANNERVILLE, France (AP) — British paratroopers, who parachuted into the historic D-Day drop zone in Normandy to recreate the airborne part of the…

By DAVID KOENIG AP Airlines Writer Investigators said Thursday that an incoming FedEx cargo plane came within less than 200 feet of hitting a…

By CURT ANDERSON Associated Press ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — At first, fossil-hunting diver Alex Lundberg thought the lengthy object on the sea…

MOSCOW (AP) — Russia’s top state criminal investigation agency says a French citizen has been arrested on charges of collecting information on…

By LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court sided with Native American tribes Thursday in a dispute with the federal…

By CHINEDU ASADU YOLA, Nigeria Associated Press (AP) — Rescuers are searching for dozens of workers who were trapped when a gold mine collapsed in…

By OMAR ALBAM Associated Press IDLIB, Syria (AP) — At least six people, most of them children, have drowned after a school bus in northwest Syria…

PENDLETON, Ind. (AP) — A man charged with killing an Indiana police officer has died at a state prison while awaiting trial. Authorities say…

By STEPHEN WHYNO AP Hockey Writer The NHL is getting the “Drive to Survive” treatment, with a hockey series from the makers of the popular…

SPRINGFIELD, Va. (AP) — Police say an child and two adults have been killed after they were struck by a train on a railroad bridge in northern…

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Polish government officials have demanded explanations after it emerged that three soldiers were handcuffed and detained by…

By MATT O’BRIEN AP Technology Writer Artificial intelligence systems like ChatGPT could soon run out of what keeps making them smarter — the…

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greek authorities have confirmed that they are searching for Michael Mosley, a well-known British television doctor who…

By DIARLEI RODRIGUES and GABRIELA SÁ PESSOA Associated Press RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — When Rio de Janeiro hosted the Olympics in 2016, videos of the…

By ZEKE MILLER and CHRIS MEGERIAN Associated Press COLLEVILLE-SUR-MER, France (AP) — President Joe Biden marked the 80th anniversary of D-Day on…

By MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer SpaceX’s mega Starship rocket blasted off from Texas on Thursday, the fourth test flight for the spaceship that…

By MATT OTT AP Business Writer The number of Americans applying for jobless claims rose last week, but layoffs remain at healthy levels despite…

By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press ROME (AP) — Vatican police have detained a former employee on charges of attempted extortion after he allegedly…

By PETER SMITH Associated Press From its towering white steeple and red-brick facade to its Sunday services filled with rousing gospel hymns and…

By MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Boeing’s space capsule has sprung more helium leaks as it closes in on the…

LONDON (AP) — Around 80 migrants have been rescued at sea by British authorities after a small boat got into difficulty while crossing the English…

By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN, RANDALL CHASE, COLLEEN LONG and MIKE CATALINI Associated Press WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — Jurors in Hunter Biden’s…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japanese, U.S. and South Korean coast guard vessels have conducted their first three-way drill off…