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By MIKE SCHNEIDER Associated Press The U.S. Census Bureau is asking the Biden administration for permission to test questions about sexual…

By DAVID BAUDER AP Media Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Organizations representing minority journalists say they’re worried that a recently-announced…

By MICHAEL HILL Associated Press West Point has been sued in federal court for using race and ethnicity as factors in admissions by the same group…

By PETER SMITH Associated Press The Southern Baptist Convention has ousted an Oklahoma church whose pastor defended his blackface performance at one…

The Associated Press Tensions between Canada and India have escalated since the assassination of a Sikh independence advocate in June. Canadian Prime…

By JEFFREY COLLINS Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — After 12 years without conducting an execution, South Carolina says it has secured the…

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Temple University says acting president JoAnne A. Epps has died after collapsing at a memorial service at the university. The…

By JOSH FUNK Associated Press OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Investigators say a blast that prompted evacuations near Union Pacific’s massive railyard in…

By HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH Associated Press An investigation into a Minnesota trooper fatally shooting a Black man has wrapped up and now it is up to…

By SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Republican speaker of the Wisconsin Assembly is blocking pay raises for University of…

By JEFF AMY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Hyundai is rushing to start electric vehicle and battery production at a $7.6 billion complex in…

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Polish police have briefly detained an opposition Polish lawmaker in violation of her parliamentary immunity after she…

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A Philadelphia police officer charged in the shooting death of a driver last month is back in custody following the revocation…

By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press VATICAN CITY (AP) — Women who say they were abused by a once-prominent Jesuit artist say they are now being…

NEW YORK (AP) — Rihanna and A$AP Rocky are giving the world the first look at their second child together, a boy they’ve named Riot Rose. The…

By JEFFREY COLLINS Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — The family of a department store worker whose body remained in a locked bathroom for days…

By LISA MASCARO and STEPHEN GROVES Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Speaker Kevin McCarthy is trying to accomplish what at times seems…

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Welcome to the United Nations. Over the course of the next week, leaders from scores of countries will take the marbled dais…

By RANDALL CHASE AP Business Writer DOVER, Del. (AP) — Lawyers for collapsed cryptocurrency exchange FTX Trading are accusing Sam…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Warner Brothers Discovery is entering the direct-to-consumer live sports market. The company has announced that it will launch a…

EAST LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Suspended Michigan State football coach Mel Tucker says he’s “disappointed — but not surprised” that the…

By STEVE LeBLANC Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — Five women state senators from South Carolina who formed a bipartisan coalition to filibuster a…

WHEELING, W.Va. (AP) — A self-proclaimed white supremacist has pleaded guilty to charges that he made online threats toward the jury and witnesses…

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — An art professor can proceed with her lawsuit against a private Minnesota university that fired her for showing early…

By JAKE OFFENHARTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A New York City day care operator and a man who rented a room from her have been charged by…

GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — Thousands of farmers and Indigenous supporters have blocked roads and streets in Guatemala to defend the president-elect as…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Parents whose kids bought virtual gear without their knowledge on the popular Fortnite video game could soon be able to get a…

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A Sacramento prosecutor is suing California’s capital city over failure to clean up homeless encampments. Sacramento…

PARIS (AP) — French investigative news outlet Disclose says one of its reporters has been arrested and her residence searched by the country’s…

By ADAM BEAM and AMY TAXIN Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California officials may vote Tuesday to slash how much water a major…

By DANIEL POLITI Associated Press BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Argentina is celebrating a decision by a United Nations conference to include a…

By ALICIA RANCILIO Associated Press “Luckiest Girl Alive” author Jessica Knoll has released her third novel, “Bright Young Women.” The novel…

By MIKE SILVERMAN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The Metropolitan Opera is broadening its repertoire this season by performing more recent operas…

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The Biden administration says Tennessee and nearly every other state with historically Black land-grant universities have…

By JAMIE STENGLE Associated Press DALLAS (AP) — A man accused of killing nearly two dozen older women and who was convicted last year in the…

By ED WHITE Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — Michigan’s attorney general is suggesting conservative politics played a role in the acquittal of…

By TAMMY WEBBER Associated Press Scientists say climate change made the devastating storm along the Libyan coast up to 50 times more likely and 50%…

By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER and LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Ray Epps, an Arizona man who became the center of a conspiracy…

By JIM HEINTZ Associated Press TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Azerbaijan’s launch of reportedly intense artillery firing in the Nagorno-Karabakh region…

MIAMI (AP) — The National Weather Service says Hurricane Nigel is gaining strength over the Atlantic Ocean and is expected to intensify. The…

By YURAS KARMANAU Associated Press TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Belarusian state media have reported that 48 children from Ukraine arrived in Belarus…

By GHAITH AL-SAYED Associated Press BAB Al-HAWA, Syria (AP) — A United Nations aid convoy has reached rebel-held northwest Syria after a vital…

By LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer Hopes were always high for Christopher Nolan’s “Oppenheimer.” The studio knew the film was great, and…

By SCOTT McFETRIDGE Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A long stretch of hot, dry weather has left the Mississippi River so low that barge…

By CURT ANDERSON Associated Press ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — The playoff-bound Tampa Bay Rays are putting the finishing touches on plans for a new…

By FARNOUSH AMIRI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republicans plan to hold their first hearing next week in their impeachment inquiry into…

BERLIN (AP) — A German higher regional court has ruled that a state court in Braunschweig can hear a sex offenses case against a man who also is a…

By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN and ALANNA DURKIN RICHER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge in Washington has upheld an obstruction conviction…

By ALBERT AJI and BASSEM MROUE Associated Press DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — The office of Syria’s President Bashar Assad says he will head to…

By ISSAM ADWAN Associated Press GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israel has barred entry to thousands of Palestinian laborers from the Gaza Strip…

By LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press RAMSTEIN AIR BASE, Germany (AP) — Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin is urging defense leaders to “dig deep”…

By MARIA SHERMAN AP Music Writer The 2023 Latin Grammy nominations are here. Édgar Barrera, the producer and songwriter known for his work with such…

By JAMEY KEATEN and ILLIA NOVIKOV Associated Press GENEVA (AP) — Ukraine is filing a complaint at the World Trade Organization against Hungary,…

By ABDULRAHMAN ZEYAD Associated Press BAGHDAD (AP) — The Iraqi president says he will summon Turkey’s ambassador and hand him a formal letter of…

NEW YORK (AP) — Prosecutors have charged a New York City man with performing acupuncture without a license after they say he punctured a woman’s…

By NICK PERRY Associated Press WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — The tiny Pacific island nation of Niue has come up with a novel plan to protect its…

By DENG MACHOL Associated Press JUBA, South Sudan (AP) — A video showing a mayor in South Sudan slapping a female street vendor has gone viral.…

PODGORICA, Montenegro (AP) — Police in Montenegro say a bus has plunged into a ravine, killing at least two people and injuring several. The bus…

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro’s administration says it’s trying to make it easier for someone to register to vote…

By TRISHA POWELL CRAIN of AL.com PIEDMONT, Ala. (AP) — While the rest of the country’s schools were losing ground in math during the COVID…

MILAN (AP) — A Newcastle fan is reportedly in stable condition in hospital after being stabbed in Milan ahead of a Champions League match in the…

NEW YORK (AP) — Poet Afaa Michael Weaver has won a lifetime achievement honor presented by the Academy of American Poets. He’ll receive $100,000…

By SYLVIA HUI Associated Press LONDON (AP) — For Ksenia Schnaider and her fellow Ukrainian designers, the show must go on despite the war in their…

MOSCOW (AP) — Evan Gershkovich, a Wall Street Journal reporter who was detained on espionage charges, appeared in a Moscow court Tuesday to appeal…

MOSCOW (AP) — A senior Kremlin official has called for closer policy coordination between Moscow and Beijing to counter Western efforts to contain…

By KRUTIKA PATHI and DAVID COHEN Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — Hardeep Singh Nijjar, a Sikh independence advocate whose killing two months ago…

By ELLEN KNICKMEYER, JON GAMBRELL and LUJAIN JO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Americans detained for years in Iran arrived home Tuesday after…

By MELISSA LAMBARENA of NerdWallet As federal student loan payments make a comeback in October 2023, managing them on top of credit card debt may…

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — A Ukrainian governor says Russia launched a massive drone attack on the western city of Lviv, damaging a warehouse facility in…

By KANIS LEUNG and ZEN SOO Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — China’s Foreign Ministry has asked all foreign consulates in Hong Kong to provide…

By JULIE CARR SMYTH Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A network of ancient American Indian ceremonial and burial mounds in Ohio noted for…

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel has sentenced a military commander in the occupied West Bank to 10 days in prison after an investigation into his shooting…

DERNA, Libya (AP) — The prime minister of Libya’s eastern administration said Tuesday that authorities have divided the flood-stricken city…

MADRID (AP) — Spain’s Parliament is set to allow its national legislators to use the country’s minority languages of Catalan, Basque and…

By MICHAEL LIEDTKE AP Technology Writer Google is introducing its artificially intelligent chatbot named Bard to other members of its digital family…

By DEE-ANN DURBIN AP Business Writer Instacart is heading from the supermarket to the stock market. The San Francisco-based grocery delivery company…

By The Associated Press Azerbaijan authorities say four soldiers and two civilian road workers were killed Tuesday in landmine explosions that it…