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By The Associated Press Russian President Vladimir Putin used an interview with former Fox News host Tucker Carlson to urge Washington to recognize…

NEW YORK (AP) — New York prosecutors say a Brooklyn woman has been sentenced in connection with a sprawling COVID-19 fraud scheme. The 32-year-old…

By The Associated Press The U.S. military has conducted new airstrikes targeting Yemen’s Houthi rebels. The U.S. Central Command said Friday that…

By LEANNE ITALIE AP Lifestyles Writer NEW YORK (AP) — There was nary a sandworm in sight Thursday night on the runway of Christian Siriano. But he…

By WILL WEISSERT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden worked so closely with the ghostwriter he is accused of sharing government…

By KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korean media say leader Kim Jong Un has restated he has no desire for diplomacy…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United Nations chief is urging the international community to mobilize and do…

By MORGAN LEE Associated Press SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — New Mexico legislators want to create a unique educational endowment of at least $50 million…

By DEEPTI HAJELA Associated Press The pomp, the glamour, the conflicts, the characters – when it comes to the United Kingdom’s royal family,…

By HANNAH SCHOENBAUM Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah’s Republican governor and lieutenant governor are urging the State Board of…

ATLANTA (AP) — Former professional baseball and football player Vincent “Bo” Jackson, a running back who won the Heisman Trophy at Auburn…

By JONATHAN LANDRUM Jr. AP Entertainment Writer LAS VEGAS (AP) — Andra Day normally deals with with nervousness before any big show — especially…

By CLAIRE RUSH Associated Press PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — An attorney representing passengers of an Alaska Airlines flight that lost a door plug in…

By MARGERY A. BECK Associated Press LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Nebraska would become one of the last Republican-led states to enact a so-called “stand…

By DÁNICA COTO Associated Press SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Donald Trump has amassed another win at a Republican caucus held in the U.S. Virgin…

By JAKE OFFENHARTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Newly-released body-camera footage shows the chaotic lead-up to a brawl between migrants and…

By KEN RITTER Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — A Nevada jury has awarded about $130 million in damages in a lawsuit filed by five people who…

LAHAINA, Hawaii (AP) — It has been six months since a wildfire leveled most of Lahaina, a centuries-old town on the Hawaiian island of Maui.…

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A bounty of 10 African penguin chicks has hatched in just over a year at a San Francisco science museum. The California…

By SARA CLINE Associated Press BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry officially called for a highly anticipated crime-focused special…

By AAMER MADHANI, STEVE PEOPLES and COLLEEN LONG Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The special counsel’s report on President Joe Biden’s…

By SUMAN NAISHADHAM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A jury on Thursday in Washington, D.C. said climate scientist Michael Mann was defamed 12…

By MARGERY A. BECK Associated Press LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Nebraska state Sen. Loren Lippincott is touting a bill that would give the Nebraska State…

By WALTER BERRY and JOHN ANTCZAK Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Heavy snow shut down parts of major interstates in northern Arizona while…

TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — A wayward kangaroo was corralled safely by sheriff’s deputies Thursday after it was spotted hopping around the pool area…

TACOMA, Wash. (AP) — A Washington State Patrol trooper arrested a woman on suspicion of drunken driving when she was actually experiencing a…

By KATHY McCORMACK Associated Press CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — A prosecutor says a New Hampshire man brutally beat his 5-year-old daughter to death and…

By JOSH FUNK Associated Press OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A prosecutor says he won’t charge two off-duty police officers who shot and killed two men…

By JEFF AMY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia’s ruling Republicans are moving to make it harder for workers at companies that get…

By JOSH BOAK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The longstanding concerns about President Joe Biden’s age and memory intensified on Thursday…

By JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — A ruling by Hawaii’s high court saying that a man can be prosecuted for carrying a…

LONDON (AP) — Queen Camilla has described King Charles III as doing well given his cancer diagnosis, adding that he has been touched by the…

TORONTO (AP) — Canada’s largest communications company is ending multiple television newscasts and making other programming cuts after its parent…

By HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH Associated Press The city of Minneapolis has agreed to pay $950,000 to settle a lawsuit alleging that journalists were…

By GERALD IMRAY Associated Press CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — South African President Cyril Ramaphosa confronted some of his country’s deep…

By TARA COPP Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The chief of the National Guard says the U.S. is still able to train Ukrainian pilots on F-16…

OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — California Gov. Gavin Newsom says he is sending prosecutors to Oakland to help crack down on rising crime in the San…

CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. (AP) — Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey has filed criminal charges accusing a county coroner of stealing cash from a…

By TIM REYNOLDS AP Basketball Writer Bojan Bogdanovic left Detroit to join a now even-more-formidable contender in New York. Gordon Hayward is…

By BROOKE LEFFERTS Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Costume designer and producer Lou Eyrich has helped create many vivid worlds for television.…

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The Minneapolis City Council has overridden a mayoral veto with a 9-3 vote and approved a resolution that calls for a cease-fire…

CHICAGO (AP) — A large children’s hospital in Chicago remains hobbled by a cyberattack that began more than a week ago, cutting doctors and…

NEW YORK (AP) — Nearly 20 years after their last collaboration, Spike Lee and Denzel Washington are reuniting for an adaptation of Akira…

BRATISLAVA, Slovakia (AP) — Lawmakers for the new coalition government of populist Prime Minister Robert Fico have voted to amend the penal code…

Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California would ban all plastic shopping bags in 2026 under a new bill in the state Legislature.…

By DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Upon receiving his first treatment for cancer, Britain’s King Charles III retreated to…

By SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A Republican member of the Wisconsin Elections Commission who has faced calls to resign after…

By SAMYA KULLAB Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — The man Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has named to lead the country’s military…

TBILISI, Georgia (AP) — The former chairman of Georgia’s ruling party has been appointed by parliament as the prime minister of the Caucasus…

BLAIR, Neb. (AP) — A man accused of fatally attacking a priest in a small Nebraska town has pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder and other…

By NICHOLAS RICCARDI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The prevailing view among legal experts before the Supreme Court heard argument in a case…

By CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — West Africa’s regional bloc says the coup-hit nations of Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger are…

By JIM MUSTIAN and JOSHUA GOODMAN Associated Press The CIA this week terminated a woman whose whistleblower account of being assaulted in a stairwell…

By R.J. RICO Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — A man believed to be one of the opponents of a planned police and firefighter training facility in…

By TODD RICHMOND Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Enbridge energy company is trying to persuade a federal appeals court to allow a pipeline to…

By ABBY SEWELL Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — A U.S. strike in Baghdad that killed a commander with the powerful Kataib Hezbollah paramilitary…

By LEA SKENE Associated Press BALTIMORE (AP) — A new lawsuit alleging child sexual abuse inside Maryland juvenile detention facilities brings the…

By MIKE STOBBE AP Medical Writer NEW YORK (AP) — A study finds that a new, higher-dose nasal spray for reversing opioid overdoses didn’t save…

By MICHAEL CASEY Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — A former Olympian and longtime track coach is expected to plead guilty to charges of sexually…

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — From Wall Street traders to car dealers to home buyers, Americans are eager for the…

By GLENN GAMBOA AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Silent Donor is flourishing just as the privacy debate for contributors heats up, especially for…

By LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer Casting directors are some of the most important creatives in Hollywood but have never been celebrated as such on…

By JOEY CAPPELLETTI and COREY WILLIAMS Associated Press DEARBORN, Mich. (AP) — Biden administration officials are meeting with Arab American and…

By MEG KINNARD Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Will Lester, a longtime reporter and editor for The Associated Press who played a critical…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japanese officials say Chinese coast guard vessels have been passing by Japanese-claimed waters for…

EMPIRE, Mich. (AP) — A man accused of diverting a national park river to ease boat access to Lake Michigan has been convicted of two misdemeanors.…

CHORLEY, England (AP) — Chorley could be the next soccer club from the English non-leagues to be given a sprinkle of celebrity stardust. The…

By STEPHEN GROVES, MARY CLARE JALONICK, and LISA MASCARO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate is making a last-gasp push toward approving…

By ZEKE MILLER and COLLEEN LONG Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden will not seek any redactions in a report by the Justice…

Associated Press CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Authorities say they’re collecting reports from Floridians who felt shaking from a 4.0 magnitude…

BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — The EU has announced 210 million euros to help the coastal nation of Mauritania combat irregular migration, as the number…

By BRIAN WITTE Associated Press ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — Maryland judges could shield personal information online to prevent hostile people from…

LONDON (AP) — Northern Irish prosecutors say a former British soldier will be prosecuted for the killing of a man in Belfast during sectarian…

By JOHN RABY Associated Press CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — Dozens of speakers have condemned a bill in the West Virginia Legislature that would narrow…

TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — Tunisian authorities say 13 Sudanese migrants died and 27 others are believed missing after their small metal boat sank off…

By JINTAMAS SAKSORNCHAI and JERRY HARMER Associated Press MAE SOT, Thailand (AP) — Thailand’s foreign minister says it expects to open up a…

HOUSTON (AP) — A Texas man who drugged his wife’s drinks in an attempt to induce an abortion was sentenced to 180 days in jail and 10 years on…

By ELLEN KNICKMEYER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The family of two American brothers trapped in Gaza says Israeli forces have detained the…

By ALI SWENSON Associated Press The Federal Communications Commission is outlawing robocalls that contain voices generated by artificial…

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A near-total abortion ban has been rejected by lawmakers in the Virginia House of Delegates. The Richmond Times-Dispatch…