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By MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump’s lawyers are amplifying their calls to end the gag order that bars the former…

By PETER SMITH Associated Press INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Southern Baptist delegates expressed alarm Wednesday over the way in vitro fertilization is…

By ADRIAN SAINZ Associated Press MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Officials say the sheriff of a rural Tennessee county illegally profited from the work of…

By BASSEM MROUE Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Hezbollah has vowed to intensify its attacks along the Lebanon-Israel border to avenge the killing…

NEW YORK (AP) — Social media platform X is now hiding your likes. In an update posted on the platform formerly known as Twitter earlier this week,…

By KEVIN McGILL Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Louisiana’s highest court is giving childhood victims of sexual abuse a renewed…

By JEFFREY COLLINS Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A near-total abortion ban was defeated in South Carolina with the help of the only three…

By JACK DURA Associated Press BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — North Dakota voters have just approved a ballot initiative that bars anyone who would be 81…

By MARTINA REBECCA INCHINGOLO and KAITLYN HUAMANI Associated Press LONDON (AP) — At the London premiere of the second part of season 3, the stars…

DENVER (AP) — Authorities say four people, including two children, were shot and killed in an apparent murder-suicide late Tuesday in a small city…

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Two advocacy groups have asked a judge to unseal court records and preserve public access to hearings in the class action…

LAS VEGAS (AP) — A 46-year-old man who was driving while impaired when he fatally struck two Nevada troopers last November has been sentenced to…

By TOM KRISHER AP Auto Writer DETROIT (AP) — If Tesla shareholders vote against restoring Elon Musk’s $44.9 billion pay package Thursday, the CEO…

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Argentine riot police have blasted protesters with water cannons to disperse crowds outside of Congress, escalating…

DIXON, Ill. (AP) — Multiple people have been reported shot in northern Illinois in what authorities are calling a “mass casualty incident.” A…

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press ABOARD THE USS LABOON IN THE RED SEA (AP) — Yemen’s Houthi rebels have likely launched a boat-borne bomb attack…

U.S. District Judge Harry Leinenweber, who presided over singer R. Kelly’s trial on child sex abuse charges, has died. He was 87. The eastern…

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Food authorities in Denmark have recalled three types of spicy instant noodle products imported from South Korea over…

WAITSFIELD, Vt. (AP) — Noah and Kristen Dweck have seen a number of black bears around their home in Vermont but this was a first. It was a bear…

By RODNEY MUHUMUZA Associated Press KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — The University of Cambridge has repatriated more than three dozen traditional artifacts…

By KAREN MATTHEWS Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The charity was called Modest Needs but federal prosecutors who filed charges against its…

REYNOLDS STATION, Ky. (AP) — Police say cadaver dogs have been used to search for a missing western Kentucky baby whose parents and grandfather…

By RIO YAMAT Associated Press A Republican incumbent on a commission that oversees elections in a major swing county in Nevada has fended off a…

By CHRIS LEHOURITES AP Sports Writer It started bad, got a little worse before it got a little better, and then finished as widely expected for the…

By LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer Sony Pictures Entertainment is getting into the exhibition business. The studio behind recent films like “Bad Boys:…

By LAURA UNGAR AP Science Writer If you’ve been sick with COVID-19, you may have some protection against certain versions of the common cold. A new…

By SEAN MURPHY The Associated Press OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The Oklahoma Supreme Court has dismissed a lawsuit of the last two survivors of the 1921…

By LEANNE ITALIE AP Lifestyles Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Whether you go big, small or DIY, there are lots of way to please dad on Father’s Day. If…

By WAYNE PARRY Associated Press ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — A group of New Jersey police chiefs and Republican lawmakers says parents should be held…

By CURT ANDERSON Associated Press The annual rainy season has arrived with a wallop in much of Florida, where a disorganized disturbance of tropical…

PARIS (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron has suspended plans for the controversial voting reforms in New Caledonia following a spate of unrest…

By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The Tony Awards are Sunday with a familiar host and a new venue, Lincoln Center’s David…

By MEAD GRUVER Associated Press DENVER (AP) — A federal court on Wednesday dismissed the appeal of a lawsuit that challenged a transgender…

By GERALD IMRAY Associated Press CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — The leader of South Africa’s Inkatha Freedom Party says it will join a proposed…

By PHILIP MARCELO Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Palestinian supporters have vandalized locations associated with the Brooklyn Museum and the…

By KATHY McCORMACK Associated Press A high school class president in Massachusetts who gave a commencement speech wanted to recognize all of his…

By JOHN RABY Associated Press Classes at a small northern West Virginia school will be relocated starting this fall, two years after the town’s…

By JIM SALTER Associated Press ST. LOUIS (AP) — Transplant organizations say a 98-year-old man may be the oldest American to ever donate an organ.…

ST. JOHN’S, Newfoundland (AP) — The wreck of the last ship belonging to a famed Irish explorer of Antarctica has been found off the coast of…

By MUNIR AHMED Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan’s new coalition government presented its first budget in parliament. It is promising an…

By SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Wisconsin Supreme Court has kept a lower court’s ruling banning the use of mobile voting…

By MARIA SHERMAN AP Music Writer The 1975’s Matty Healy and model Gabbriette Bechtel are engaged, accordingly to Healy’s mother, the…

By JIM HEINTZ Associated Press TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Thousands of athletes in major and obscure sports are vying for medals in the Russian city…

HATTIESBURG, Miss. (AP) — Marcus “MJ” Daniels Jr., a defensive back at Southern Mississippi, has been shot to death at an apartment complex in…

By COLLEEN LONG Associated Press ABOARD AIR FORCE ONE (AP) — The White House isn’t ruling out a potential commutation for Hunter Biden, the…

BY CHRISTINA MALKIA Associated Press KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — Congo’s president says a boat carrying more than 270 passengers has capsized on a…

ATLANTA (AP) — A man accused of hijacking a commuter bus in downtown Atlanta, fatally shooting one person and leading police on a chase through…

By KRISTIN SHAW Edmunds Looking for a fuel-sipping car? Hybrid powertrains are a smart way to make the most of your fuel budget and ease your carbon…

By JOSEPH KRAUSS Associated Press The latest proposal for a cease-fire in Gaza has the support of the United States and most of the international…

By STEVE PEOPLES and LINLEY SANDERS Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — About half of U.S. adults approve of Donald Trump’s recent felony…

By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The lapels are wide, “Disco Inferno” is blasting and lines and lines of nose candy are…

By KIRSTEN GRIESHABER Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s defense minister is proposing legislation that would help refill the depleted…

By EMMA BURROWS Associated Press The United States widened its sanctions against Russia Wednesday as G7 leaders prepared to gather in Italy for a…

CHICAGO (AP) — Cook County’s top judge has asked state regulators to review allegations that an attorney was handcuffed to a chair after a…

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Elon Musk has dropped his lawsuit against OpenAI just ahead of a scheduled Wednesday hearing on the case. Musk in February…

By AVET DEMOURIAN Associated Press YEREVAN, Armenia (AP) — The leader of Armenia has declared his intention to pull out of a Russia-dominated…

MITCHELL, S.D. (AP) — One of the several former players on an American Legion baseball team in South Dakota charged last year with rape has pleaded…

By CIARÁN FAHEY and FANNY BRODERSEN Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — The currywurst promises to be among the most tantalizing gourmet treats on…

By TIM REYNOLDS AP Basketball Writer Jerry West, who was selected to the Basketball Hall of Fame three times in a storied career as a player and…

BRATISLAVA, Slovakia (AP) — Slovakia’s government has approved a package of measures meant to boost security for leading politicians and others…

By MATTHEW PERRONE AP Health Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate lawmakers are set to question top federal officials about the rise of illegal…

By JAY COHEN AP Baseball Writer Juan Soto has been on baseball cards with Ken Griffey Jr., Mike Trout and other big stars. But this one, well, this…

By DARLENE SUPERVILLE and COLLEEN LONG Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is heading to Italy for a meeting with his…

By NINIEK KARMINI Associated Press JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesian authorities have arrested six suspects in an international poaching ring…

By DAVID McHUGH and KELVIN CHAN AP Business Writers FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — The European Union is moving to hike tariffs on electric vehicles…

By THOMAS ADAMSON Associated Press PARIS (AP) — Françoise Hardy, a French singing legend and pop icon since the 1960s, has died. She was 80. Her…

By JAMES BROOKS Associated Press BASEL, Switzerland (AP) — Multi-million-dollar works by Jean-Michel Basquiat, Yayoi Kusama and Alberto Giacometti…

By JONATHAN J. COOPER Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Republicans responded to Hunter Biden’s conviction on federal gun charges Tuesday with…

By FARNOUSH AMIRI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The House is expected Wednesday to vote on a resolution holding Attorney General Merrick…

BEIJING (AP) — Chinese state media say a helicopter has crashed in southeastern Jiangxi province and three people on board are missing. The crash…

By TERRY SPENCER Associated Press PARKLAND, Fla. (AP) — The three-story building where 17 people died in the 2018 mass shooting at Parkland’s…

By FARNOUSH AMIRI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Merrick Garland is at risk of becoming the third attorney general in U.S. history to be held…

By REGINA GARCIA CANO and GISELA SALOMON Associated Press CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — A fleet of Russian warships and aircraft on Wednesday entered…

NEW YORK (AP) — Bestselling author V.E. Schwab has a 7-figure book deal. Tor Books announced Wednesday that it has agreed to terms on a two-book,…

By FLORENT BAJRAMI and LLAZAR SEMINI Associated Press PRISTINA, Kosovo (AP) — Kosovo is celebrating what it considers a liberation day, marking the…

By PETER SMITH and HOLLY MEYER Associated Press INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Southern Baptists already can kick out churches that believe women can serve as…

By HANNA ARHIROVA Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian forces fired missiles and drones at the Kyiv region and five other areas of Ukraine…

NEW DELHI (AP) — India says it has urged Russia to return Indian citizens recruited by Russia’s army after two were killed recently in the war in…

By JEROME PUGMIRE and CIARÁN FAHEY AP Sports Writers BERLIN (AP) — A recent surge in violence around soccer games is contributing to concerns over…

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — A Russian woman has been detained and questioned in Denmark for allegedly helping a foreign intelligence agency to…

LONDON (AP) — The British economy failed to grow in April in a blow to Prime Minister Rishi Sunak who has made the return of growth a central…

BERLIN (AP) — German energy company Uniper says a tribunal has awarded it more than 13 billion euros (nearly $14 billion) in damages for gas that…