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By STEPHEN HAWKINS AP Baseball Writer ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — José Abreu hit a three-run homer right after Yordan Alvarez’s tiebreaking…

By LEA SKENE Associated Press BALTIMORE (AP) — City officials say a rapidly intensifying blaze that engulfed multiple rowhouses in northwest…

TOPPENISH, Wash. (AP) — A 19-year-old man shot four people Thursday in central Washington state, killing three of them, and then killed himself,…

By LOLITA C. BALDOR and ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — An Army private who fled to North Korea before being returned home to the…

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Haiti’s national police say a former justice official considered one of the main suspects in the killing of…

By JEFF AMY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — The government of France has bestowed a further honor on Atlanta’s Andrew Young. French…

By PAUL J. WEBER Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas officials have released a second audit in as many years of elections in Harris County.…

By MARIA SHERMAN and ANDREW DALTON AP Entertainment Writers LOS ANGELES (AP) — Britney Spear’s highly anticipated memoir “The Woman in Me”…

WHEATON, Ill. (AP) — A prosecutor says a suburban Chicago man has been charged with two hate crimes for allegedly verbally abusing and threatening…

WATERTOWN, N.Y. (AP) — A state of emergency has been issued in a northern New York county where the Fort Drum U.S. Army base is located, following…

By DAVID BRANDT AP Baseball Writer PHOENIX (AP) — Ketel Marte  capped a three-hit afternoon with a walk-off single in the ninth, rookie Brandon…

NIAMEY The junta in Niger says it has thwarted an escape attempt to by the West African nation’s outed president. In a communique read late…

By SUDHIN THANAWALA Associated Press LAWRENCEVILLE, Ga. (AP) — A police detective has testified that a a woman whose body was found in the trunk of…

By CLAIRE SAVAGE Associated Press/Report for America CHICAGO (AP) — After going missing nearly 80 years ago, a baroque landscape painting was…

By ERIC TUCKER Associated Press Federal prosecutors say Donald Trump is “not above the law” as they are urging a judge to reject the former…

By JONATHAN J. COOPER Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — The No Labels Party of Arizona has filed a lawsuit seeking to block people from running for…

By COLLEEN SLEVIN Associated Press DENVER (AP) — Actor and comedian Marlon Wayans says he is being unfairly being prosecuted for disturbing the…

By DAVE COLLINS Associated Press A fatal shooting by police in Wallingford, Connecticut, is raising questions about whether officers could have…

By SOPHIE AUSTIN Associated Press/Report for America SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A judge has ruled to continue halting parts of a Southern California…

By RALPH D. RUSSO AP College Football Writer Michigan coach Jim Harbaugh denied having any knowledge or involvement in plotting to steal opponents’…

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama’s governor has scheduled a November execution date for an inmate convicted of shooting and killing a man during a…

By MAYSOON KHAN Associated Press ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York’s highest court has removed an upstate judge from office for pointing a loaded…

By DYLAN LOVAN Associated Press CARROLLTON, Ky. (AP) — A former Louisville police officer involved in the Breonna Taylor shooting collided with a…

By JEFF AMY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Rivian Automotive has confirmed that it will move ahead with construction on a factory in Georgia early…

MALIBU, Calif. (AP) — A Southern California university wrestling with the deaths of four seniors who were struck by a car sought to comfort…

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — New Orleans’ City Council has approved the appointment of Anne Kirkpatrick as the city’s new police chief.…

WASHINGTON (AP) — As the Israel-Hamas war intensifies, the United States is now allowing Israelis wishing to visit the United States for 90 days or…

By HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH Associated Press Advocates and Nebraska lawmakers are defending a reporter after Gov. Jim Pillen said her story about…

By ISABELLA VOLMERT Associated Press FORT WAYNE, Ind. (AP) — An Indiana judge says two attorneys representing a man accused in the 2017 slayings of…

By MICHELLE L. PRICE Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The Kraken has cracked. Lawyer Sidney Powell vowed to “release the Kraken” as she helped…

By JOE REEDY AP Sports Writer Baseball’s League Championship Series are producing solid ratings after seeing declines during the first two rounds.…

By DANIEL SHAILER Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — Hundreds of judicial employees, from administrative staff to judges, took to the steps of…

SAN DIEGO (AP) — A federal judge who previously overturned California’s three-decade-old ban on assault weapons did it again, ruling Thursday…

PHOENIX (AP) — Arizona’s Maricopa County set a new record Thursday for annual heat-associated deaths. There are 425 tallied so far this year.…

By MICHAEL R. BLOOD AP Political Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Newly appointed California Democratic Sen. Laphonza Butler will not seek election to a…

By ISABEL DEBRE and NAJIB JOBAIN Associated Press KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza Strip (AP) — There are explosions audible in the cramped, humid room where Azmi…

By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN Associated Press SILVER SPRING, Md. (AP) — A Maryland police officer who fatally shot a stabbing suspect earlier this year has…

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — Prosecutors in the case of a man charged with fatally shooting a retired New Hampshire couple on a hiking trail have argued…

By MARIA SHERMAN AP Music Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — In July, country music star Craig Morgan re-enlisted in the Army Reserves at age 59. It was on…

By ROB GILLIES Associated Press TORONTO (AP) — Canada’s foreign minister says 41 diplomats have been removed from India after the Indian…

By GLENN GAMBOA AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Humanitarian donations to conflict-ravaged Haiti have dramatically declined since the…

By JEFF AMY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — The state of Georgia will start paying for gender-affirming health care for public employees covered by…

By JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The spotlight at Donald Trump’s civil fraud trial turned Thursday to the former president’s…

PARIS (AP) — French police have arrested a man climbing on the Eiffel Tower, temporarily stranding a crowd at the top. Among those trapped were a…

By PETER SMITH Associated Press Ukraine’s parliament voted overwhelmingly Thursday to advance legislation seen as effectively banning the…

By TARA COPP and LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. officials say a U.S. Navy warship on Thursday took out three missiles…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court has rejected an emergency appeal from Black voters in Louisiana to speed the process of drawing new…

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Authorities say a 19-year-old has been arrested and charged with killing a fellow college student in Mississippi. Joshua…

By JOHN HANNA AP Political Writer TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas is poised to nearly double its lawmakers’ pay in 2025 in hopes of attracting more…

By JAMEY KEATEN and JACK JEFFERY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — U.N. officials and their partners are ramping up efforts to take advantage of a…

By JOEY CAPPELLETTI Associated Press LANSING, Mich. (AP) — A Michigan Republican accused of participating in a fake elector plot in Michigan had…

JERUSALEM (AP) — New York Gov. Kathy Hochul’s father has died while she was touring wartime Israel. The teary-eyed governor slipped a note…

By MELINA WALLING Associated Press Birds nesting in agricultural settings were significantly less likely to successfully raise their young during…

By SETH BORENSTEIN AP Science Writer The upcoming United States winter looks likely to be a bit low on snow and extreme cold outbreaks, with federal…

NEWTOWN, Conn. (AP) — Connecticut officials say a tractor-trailer carrying 44 dairy cows crashed on a highway exit ramp, killing eight of the…

WASHINGTON (AP) — More than 300 people were arrested for illegally demonstrating and three people were charged with assaulting police after…

By KEN RITTER Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — A lawyer speaking for the former Southern California street gang leader charged with killing Tupac…

By DAVID BAUDER AP Media Writer NEW YORK (AP) — A limited number of journalists in Gaza are trying to report on the war with Israel while facing…

CHICAGO (AP) — A teenager who was shot and wounded during a 2019 shootout between suburban Chicago police and a bank robbery suspect inside a music…

By MIKE SCHNEIDER Associated Press ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — The number of former Californians who became Texans dropped slightly last year, but some of…

BALTIMORE (AP) — Will Smith joined Jada Pinkett Smith on stage as she promoted her new memoir in her Baltimore hometown Wednesday night, pledging…

By TARA COPP Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Two U.S. officials tell The Associated Press that a military base in southern Syria where U.S.…

By MOLLY QUELL Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Defense lawyers have told the International Criminal Court that their client is not a…

By CLAIRE RUSH Associated Press PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Federal regulators have approved the expansion of a natural gas pipeline in the Pacific…

By CHRIS MEGERIAN and SEUNG MIN KIM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden will deliver only the second Oval Office address of his…

By EDDIE PELLS AP National Writer Nearly 1,000 years after lacrosse was first played across the Haudenosaunee confederacy, the sport will be on the…

PARIS (AP) — The MTV Europe Music Awards canceled its ceremony next month, citing the Israel-Hamas War. The event had been scheduled for Paris on…

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell says inflation remains too high and that bringing…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Hurricane Norma has strengthened to a major storm as it spins off Mexico’s Pacific coast on a path expected to bring it near…

By LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department has secured a $9 million settlement with Ameris Bank over…

By JANIE HAR and HAVEN DALEY Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — San Francisco business leaders launched a new $4 million marketing campaign…

By PAN PYLAS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Asylum seekers have started returning to the barge moored off the south coast of England, more than two…

BOSTON (AP) — A man has been charged with raping a woman who thought he was the driver she requested after leaving a Boston nightclub. Police say…

By SETH BORENSTEIN AP Science Writer A study says Atlantic hurricanes are now more than twice as likely as before to rapidly intensify from wimpy…

By TODD RICHMOND Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A man accused of bringing guns to the Wisconsin state Capitol building is free on a…

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — People are set to duck under desks and tables in California and around the world for an annual drill practicing ways to…

By KENYA HUNTER AP Health Writer ATLANTA (AP) — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is considering a ban on certain hair-straightening chemicals…