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By PETER SMITH Associated Press CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — United Methodist delegates on Friday repealed their church’s longstanding ban on the…

By WAYNE PARRY Associated Press LONG BEACH TOWNSHIP, N.J. (AP) — Three anti-wind power groups are suing New Jersey to overturn a key environmental…

By CHRISTINA A. CASSIDY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Several Democrats serving as their state’s top election officials have sent a letter to…

By TOM KRISHER and MATTHEW DALY Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin says new rules governing electric vehicle tax…

By LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer. Filmmaker Doug Liman directs Matt Damon for the first time in over 20 years in the new heist comedy “The…

By JOHN LEICESTER Associated Press SAINT-DENIS, France (AP) — Just like the Olympic athletes, the cyberwarriors that will be crucial for the…

By GENE JOHNSON Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) — A zebra that escaped from a trailer east of Seattle last weekend remained on the lam Friday, as…

By TOM MURPHY AP Health Writer The health insurer Aetna has agreed to settle a lawsuit over whether its fertility treatment coverage discriminates…

By COLLEEN SLEVIN Associated Press DENVER (AP) — A school bus aide shown on surveillance video hitting a nonverbal autistic boy has been charged…

By PATRICK ORSAGOS and MICHAEL RUBINKAM Associated Press KENT, Ohio (AP) — Kent State University is marking another solemn anniversary of the…

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Rolling Stones’ frontman Mick Jagger waded into Louisiana politics during the band’s performance at The New Orleans…

Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — The families of four Americans charged in Turks and Caicos for carrying ammunition continued to claim on…

By KIMBERLEE KRUESI Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — An initial hearing for country music star Morgan Wallen has been postponed until Aug.…

By HOLLY RAMER Associated Press BRENTWOOD, N.H. (AP) — A New Hampshire jury has found the state liable for abuse at its youth detention center and…

By KAREN MATTHEWS Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — New York City police officials are defending their decision to initially keep quiet about a…

By HANNAH FINGERHUT Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The U.S. Department of Justice says it plans to sue Iowa over the state’s new…

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkish state-run news agency says the son of Sudan’s army chief Abdel Fattah Burhan has died two months after he was…

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Indiana Fever fans will get to see Caitlin Clark make her home debut one day earlier than expected. Team officials announced…

SARASOTA, Fla. (AP) — An endangered sawfish rescued last month in the Florida Keys after it was spotted acting erratically and swimming in circles…

The Associated Press KENT, Ohio (AP) — On May 4, 1970, The Ohio National Guard opened fire on unarmed student protesters at Kent State University.…

By ERIK VERDUZCO and JEFFREY COLLINS Associated Press CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Friends, colleagues and the wife of fallen Charlotte-Mecklenburg…

ST. LOUIS (AP) — A former Boy Scout volunteer has been sentenced to 22 years in prison for hiding cameras in a bathroom at a Missouri camp. A…

By GABRIELA SÁ PESSOA Associated Press SAO PAULO (AP) — The civil defense agency in the southern Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul says heavy…

By ALICIA RANCILIO Associated Press Frustrated with the lack of diversity in the fantasy genre, LaDarrion Williams posted a question on Twitter in…

By JESSE BEDAYN Associated Press/Report for America As pro-Palestinian student protests dominated college campuses across the country in recent…

By TARA COPP Associated Press EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. (AP) — With the midday sun blazing, an experimental orange and white F-16 fighter jet…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Democratic U.S. Rep. Henry Cuellar of Texas is denying any wrongdoing amid reports of pending indictments related to business…

By ANDREW DAMPF AP Sports Writer ROME (AP) — The message was clear from Italy coach Luciano Spalletti. Put your PlayStation away and start focusing…

By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN and ALANNA DURKIN RICHER Associated Press A former government employee has been charged with repeatedly submitting fake tips to…

By ELLEN KNICKMEYER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. expects to have arrangements in Gaza ready for humanitarian workers to start…

DORCHESTER, Mass. (AP) — A Massachusetts woman has won $1 million twice on lottery tickets in the last 10 weeks. The state lottery says Christine…

By MEG KINNARD Associated Press The judge overseeing Donald Trump’s New York hush money trial has clarified the gag order pertaining to the…

By HAVEN DALEY Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — San Francisco’s famed Fisherman’s Wharf district is seeing a surge in sea lions. First…

By KIMBERLEE KRUESI Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — One of the two Black lawmakers briefly expelled from Tennessee’s GOP-controlled…

CHRISTINA LARSON AP Science Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The Eta Aquarid meteor shower, remnants of Halley’s comet, peaks this weekend. And with…

By BRUCE SHIPKOWSKI Associated Press TOMS RIVER, N.J. (AP) — The murder trial of a New Jersey dad charged in the death of his 6-year-old son has…

By MATTHEW BARAKAT AP Business Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Google’s preeminence as an internet search engine is an illegal monopoly propped up…

By STEPHEN GRAHAM Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Berlin’s government is offering to give away a villa once owned by Adolf Hitler’s…

NORWALK, Conn. (AP) — Workers have begun removing a bridge over a Connecticut highway that was damaged in a fiery crash involving a gasoline tanker…

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — An armed person shot and killed by Indianapolis police after allegedly pointing a weapon at other people has been identified as…

By CHRISTOPHER BODEEN Associated Press TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — China has publicized for the first time what it claims is an unwritten 2016 agreement…

HOUSTON (AP) — Torrential rain inundated southeastern Texas on Friday, forcing schools to cancel classes and closing numerous highways around…

Associated Press DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — The Congolese army says a bomb at a refugee camp in eastern Congo has killed at least 5 people, including…

By COLLIN BINKLEY Associated Press A wave of student protests has spread across U.S. campuses over the last two weeks, led by students who have…

BEIRUT (AP) — Syrian opposition war monitor and pro-government media oulets say suspected members of the Islamic State group have attacked three…

By EVELYNE MUSAMBI Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Kenya’s president has postponed next week’s planned reopening of schools until…

By SYLVIA HUI Associated Press LONDON (AP) — A U.K. High Court judge has ruled that the government acted unlawfully when it approved a plan to meet…

MOSCOW (AP) — A Russian activist has been sentenced to 15 years in prison for attempting to set fire to a military conscription office in protest…

PARIS (AP) — French police have peacefully removed dozens of students from a building at the Paris Institute of Political Studies, known as…

By SUSIE BLANN Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine’s president and foreign minister say they have pressed British Foreign Secretary…

By JAN M. OLSEN Associated Press COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — A radical Norwegian Islamist who is suspected of complicity in the deadly shooting at…

QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistani police say a blast from an improvised explosive device has killed three people and wounded seven in southwestern…

By ROBERT YOON Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The race for the White House tops the ballot Tuesday in Indiana’s presidential and state…

By JUAN ZAMORANO Associated Press PANAMA CITY (AP) — Panama’s Supreme Court has rejected a constitutional challenge to the candidacy of leading…

By SOPHENG CHEANG Associated Press PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — Cambodia’s Supreme Court has upheld the two-year prison sentence of a labor union…

LONDON (AP) — Former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson was turned away from a polling station after forgetting to bring ID to vote in the…

By FATIMA HUSSEIN and JOSH BOAK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen is arguing that a fractured democracy can have…

NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump will return to court as his hush money trial enters its 11th day. Friday will cap a frenzied second week of witness…

BEIJING (AP) — China has dispatched a vice premier to oversee recovery efforts and urged better safety measures after a highway collapse killed at…

By CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Nigerian military authorities say two military personnel will face a court martial over the…

By JOE REEDY AP Sports Writer Last year at the Kentucky Derby, Eddie Olczyk did what every horse racing fan and handicapper has done at one point —…

By BETH HARRIS AP Racing Writer LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Larry Demeritte has run horses on Kentucky Derby day in the past, just never in the big…

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Nippon Steel says it has postponed the expected closing of its $14.1 billion takeover of U.S.…

By JOVANA GEC Associated Press BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Hundreds of people are laying flowers and lighting candles to commemorate the victims of…

By AMANDA SEITZ Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Roughly 100,000 immigrants who were brought to the U.S. are expected to enroll in the Affordable…

By JAN M. OLSEN Associated Press COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Denmark’s government says it is relaxing its restrictions on abortion for the first…

By DARLENE SUPERVILLE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden will awardthe Presidential Medal of Freedom to a diverse group of 19…

By GLENN GAMBOA AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The King’s Trust has celebrated its new name, an update of King Charles III’s long-running…

SYDNEY (AP) — Germany says Russia will face consequences after accusing its military intelligence service of masterminding an “absolutely…

PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — A bus has plunged into a rocky ravine in northern Pakistan after its driver lost control, killing at least 15 people and…

By The Associated Press Dror Or, a 49-year-old held captive in Gaza, has died, the Hostages Families Forum said Friday. Or marks the 38th hostage…

By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer Asian shares were mostly higher Friday ahead of a report on the U.S. jobs market, while several major markets…

SYDNEY (AP) — Pro-Palestinian protesters are camped on university campuses across Australia, with some scuffling with pro-Israel protesters in…

By MEHDI FATTAHI Associated Press KASHAN, Iran (AP) — The historic Kashan bazaar in central Iran once sat on a major caravan route, its silk…

By PAN PYLAS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Britain’s governing Conservative Party is suffering heavy losses as local election results pour in…

By AUDREY McAVOY Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — Defense chiefs from Australia, Japan, the Philippines and the United States have vowed to deepen…

By NICK PERRY Associated Press LEWISTON, Maine (AP) — It’s a dilemma no business owner should have to face: whether to reopen after a mass…

By ANITA SNOW and MORGAN LEE Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs’ signing of the repeal of a Civil War-era ban on nearly…

TBILISI, Georgia (AP) — Georgia has been engulfed by huge protests triggered by a proposed law that critics see as a threat to media freedom and…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LYPIVKA, Ukraine (AP) — An extraordinary new church is bringing spiritual comfort to war-weary residents of the…

By HUIZHONG WU Associated Press CHENGDU, China (AP) — In 2018, the censors who oversee Chinese media issued a directive to the nation’s…

By HUIZHONG WU Associated Press CHENGDU, China (AP) — In 2018, the censors who oversee Chinese media issued a directive to the nation’s…

By MICHAEL CASEY Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — The trial in Massachusetts of a woman charged in the death of her Boston police officer boyfriend…