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Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The final three anti-abortion activists convicted of a 2021 Tennessee clinic blockade have been sentenced,…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Billie Jean King is now the first individual female athlete to be awarded the Congressional Gold Medal. President Joe Biden has…

Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled Friday that Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s name will remain on the…

Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — All the political wrangling over a statewide redistricting issue in Ohio has landed voters in a fix. They…

AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Fall for Dance, the eclectic annual festival in New York, is a beloved tradition for fans, not least for its $30…

Tangled piles of nail-spiked lumber and displaced boats littered the streets. A house lay crushed under a fern-covered oak tree toppled by the winds.…

LONDON (AP) — A proposal by Wimbledon organizers to expand the site of the Grand Slam tournament with 39 new tennis courts has been given the green…

AP Diplomatic Writer NEW YORK (AP) — President Joe Biden’s administration headed into the annual U.N. General Assembly gathering of world leaders…

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A Minnesota resident who came into contact with a bat in July died of rabies. The state’s department of health announced the…

Associated Press Electric vehicle owners who live in the path of hurricanes should be wary of the risk their cars could catch fire if they are…

Associated Press DALLAS (AP) — The State Fair of Texas is back with a new firearms ban. The fair withstood weeks of pressure from Republicans and a…

AP Health Writer The deli meat company Boar’s Head is being scrutinized by law enforcement officials over a deadly outbreak of listeria food…

Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s outgoing president has always taken pride in his reputation as a penny-pincher, cutting funds…

Associated Press Sean “Diddy” Combs was hit with new sexual assault allegations Friday as a woman filed a lawsuit in New York saying she was…

Associated Press/Report for America SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed a law requiring public schools to teach about…

Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. announced an agreement with the Iraqi government Friday to wrap up the military mission in Iraq of an…

Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court has refused an emergency appeal from Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s presidential campaign seeking…

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — The federal government postponed an auction of floating offshore wind leases off the Oregon coast on Friday after developers…

AP Science Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Earth’s moon will soon have some company — a “mini moon.” The mini moon is actually an asteroid…

Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — When the elections clerk in Wisconsin’s heavily Democratic capital city of Madison announced on Monday that…

Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Top Biden administration officials met with port operators ahead of a possible strike at East and Gulf coast…

Associated Press/Report for America MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Authorities say a police officer in northern Alabama allegedly shot and killed a…

Associated Press ASHEVILLE, N.C. (AP) — Days of torrential rain in North Carolina culminating with tropical downpours from what was Hurricane…

Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit challenging a Tennessee law that bans transgender students and…

TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — Tunisia’s parliament has amended a law to strip power from courts over decisions made by an embattled election authority…

Associated Press ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — New Jersey’s former top gambling regulator says gambling regulations need to be toughened to protect…

Associated Press LONDON (AP) — A pair of paintings by Dutch master Vincent van Gogh at London’s National Gallery were vandalized Friday when a…

Coldplay’s 10th studio album, Charlie Puth starring as himself in Roku’s mockumentary series “The Charlie Puth Show” and EA Sports’…

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A group of Tennessee voting and civil rights advocates says it won’t refile a federal lawsuit alleging that…

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A group of utilities has completed a high-voltage transmission linking Iowa and Wisconsin. American Transmission Company,…

Appalachian State’s home football game against Liberty in Boone, North Carolina, scheduled for Saturday was canceled because of the impacts of…

BOSTON (AP) — Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey says that her administration has formally seized a hospital through eminent domain to help keep it…

NUCLA, Colo. (AP) — Wildfire investigators looking for the cause of blaze in western Colorado last month discovered the partially burned remains of…

Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Three Iranian operatives have been charged with hacking Donald Trump’s presidential campaign as part of what…

PRICE, Utah (AP) — Four people from Minnesota and a Utah man were killed in a four-vehicle chain reaction crash in central Utah, the Utah Highway…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Kennedy Center and the union representing musicians in the National Symphony Orchestra have come to an agreement on a…

Associated Press KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — A leading rights group says Rwanda’s army and a militia it backs shelled camps for displaced people in…

Associated Press The U.S. is struggling to replant forests destroyed by increasingly intense wildfires, with many areas unlikely to recover on their…

MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) — President Joe Biden has approved a major disaster declaration for the severe flooding that hit northeastern Vermont in late…

LONDON (AP) — Maggie Smith, who died Friday aged 89, appeared in dozens of films over more than 60 years. Roles ranged from her iconic turn in…

Associated Press WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — An appeals court says a museum in Australia was within its rights to bar men from a controversial…

AP Basketball Writer Joe Wolf, a former North Carolina captain for Dean Smith who went on to play for seven teams in an 11-year NBA career before…

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg will be deposed as part of a lawsuit brought by authors including comedian Sarah Silverman accusing…

Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu signaled to the world from the United Nations that the multiple…

HOWELL, Mich. (AP) — Authorities say a 12-year-old boy died after he was struck by a tree that fell at a southeastern Michigan nature center where…

SKOPJE, North Macedonia (AP) — Hungary’s right-wing prime minister has accused European Union officials of denting North Macedonia’s…

LONDON (AP) — Two boys in Britain who were 12 when they stabbed a stranger to death with a machete have been sentenced to at least eight and a half…

Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Universities of Wisconsin Board of Regents voted unanimously Friday to fire a communications professor…

Associated Press BELLVUE, Colo. (AP) — The U.S. is struggling to replant forests destroyed by increasingly destructive wildfires, with some areas…

TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Rights activists in harshly repressive Belarus say police recently subjected at least 20 LGBTQ+ people to questioning,…

PRAGUE (AP) — Czechs are casting ballots in the second round of voting for a third of the seats in Parliament’s upper house. The main opposition…

AP Fashion Writer PARIS (AP) — Loewe’s latest collection dazzled at Paris Fashion Week Friday, presenting an explosion of flowers and form that…

Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Every September, a crush of events unfold on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly, the annual…

Associated Press FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Massive Hurricane Helene crashed into Florida’s sparsely populated Big Bend region, bringing storm…

AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — A Belarus book publisher forced to operate out of Poland because of persecution from its own government is being…

Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — The main group coordinating opposition to military rule in Myanmar has rejected a surprise offer from the ruling…

Associated Press BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán says his country always has and always will defend itself against…

Associated Press DOUGLAS, Ariz. (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris walked a scrubby stretch along the U.S.-Mexico border on Friday and called for…

Associated Press PERRY, Fla. (AP) — Hurricane Helene left an enormous path of destruction across Florida and the southeastern U.S. on Friday,…

Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s daily morning media briefings have provided him with direct…

Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Abortion-rights groups are courting Latino voters through door-knocking and Spanish-language ads. They say the…