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By JAKE BLEIBERG and JIM VERTUNO Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The Texas Senate is holding impeachment proceedings against Attorney General…

By CHEYANNE MUMPHREY AP Education Writer The white supremacist shooter who killed three Black residents over the weekend at a dollar store in…

By ADRIAN SAINZ Associated Press MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — A medical equipment sterilizing plant using a chemical whose emissions could lead to cause…

By HANNAH SCHOENBAUM Associated Press/Report for America CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (AP) — A school shooting that frightened students and left one faculty…

BOSTON (AP) — A former sheriff’s deputy in Massachusetts has been indicted for allegedly threatening to blow up a courthouse and kill law…

By ROB MAADDI AP Pro Football Writer Justin Jefferson has been setting records and terrifying defenses since the Minnesota Vikings selected him in…

By MARC LEVY Associated Press HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Pennsylvania lawmakers are advancing legislation to hold the state’s 2024 presidential…

By MICHAEL GOLDBERG Associated Press/Report for America JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi will have its first-ever openly gay state legislator…

By CHRISTOPHER WEBER Associated Press A Northern California prison was on generator power for a second week and inmates were issued masks to cope…

By ALBERT AJI Associated Press DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Iran’s foreign minister has condemned Israel’s airstrike on the international airport of…

YURAS KARMANAU TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — A representative of the Polish community in Belarus says a former correspondent for a top Polish newspaper…

EAST LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Michigan State and Tennessee will meet in an exhibition basketball game to raise money for relief efforts in the…

BEIRUT (AP) — The United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees has appealed for $15.5 million to respond to the fallout of clashes in Lebanon’s…

By KEVIN McGILL Associated Press A company has bid $5.6 million to lease federal waters off the Louisiana coast for wind energy generation.…

By MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A federal appeals court has upheld disgraced lawyer Michael Avenatti’s conviction for…

YAZOO CITY, Miss. (AP) — A group of hunters have captured the longest alligator ever to be recorded in Mississippi. The state Department of…

By JOHN FLESHER and MICHAEL PHILLIS Associated Press A month after the U.S. Supreme Court severely restricted the federal government’s power to…

ATLANTA (AP) — Authorities say a 34-year-old man who was being held at a problem-plagued jail in Atlanta died after he was taken to a hospital. He…

CLARKSVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A sheriff says an inmate at a Tennessee jail gave birth alone in a cell after seeking medical help. The Montgomery County…

By MARK LEWIS Associated Press STAVANGER, Norway (AP) — In the land of mountains and fjords, outdoor life starts early. That’s why this week as…

By LEA SKENE Associated Press BALTIMORE (AP) — A new report examining Baltimore’s response to a mass shooting at a neighborhood block party…

By MARGERY A. BECK Associated Press Nebraska voters could decide next year whether to use taxpayer money to fund private school tuition scholarships…

By SYLEJMAN KLLOKOQI and LLAZAR SEMINI Associated Press PRISTINA, Kosovo (AP) — Kosovo’s president has lashed out at France’s Emmanuel Macron…

EVESHAM, N.J. (AP) — Two people were charged with animal cruelty and child endangerment after the bodies of at least 30 dogs were found at a…

By JULIA FRANKEL Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s son must compensate a woman who sued him after…

By EVENS SANON Associated Press PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — A judge in Haiti is for the first time interrogating some of the 18 Colombian suspects…

By BASSEM MROUE Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Syria’s Kurdish-led and U.S.-backed forces and an allied militia have removed the militia’s…

NEW YORK (AP) — Novels by Jesmyn Ward and James McBride and story collections by Jamal Brinkley and Kelly Link are among the finalists for the…

LONDON (AP) — The British government says it will change the law to force serious criminals to attend their sentencing hearings. There was…

BATAM, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesian police say they’ve arrested 88 Chinese citizens for involvement in a cross-border telephone and online…

By KIRSTEN GRIESHABER Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s cabinet has classified Moldova and Georgia as so-called “safe…

LONDON (AP) — A man accused of stabbing an American woman stationed at Britain’s cyberespionage agency has pleaded guilty to attempted murder.…

By BELA SZANDELSZKY Associated Press BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Hungary’s nationalist Prime Minister, Viktor Orbán, says the only path to ending…

By MICHAEL CANTU Edmunds Electric vehicle tax credits aren’t just for new EVs anymore. Starting on January 1, used electric vehicles now qualify…

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — The European Union’s largest wildfire since the bloc started keeping records more than two decades ago shows no signs of…

Associated Press NIXON, Nev. (AP) — The actions of a ranger for the Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe Reservation in northwestern Nevada are under review…

TRUMBULL, Conn. (AP) — A Connecticut man says he didn’t steal the $5,000 in cash he found in a bag, lying in a parking lot in May. But police…

By STEVE KARNOWSKI Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Myon Burrell, who was sent to prison for life as a teenager but then set free after 18 years…

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — New Mexico’s Supreme Court will hear oral arguments regarding a request to strike down recent abortion-ban ordinances in…

By ROB MAADDI AP Pro Football Writer A slew of trades highlighted roster cutdown day in the NFL. Kicker Wil Lutz is reuniting with coach Sean Payton…

LEBANON, Ind. (AP) — A jury has convicted a central Indiana man of three counts of murder in the 2021 execution-style slayings of three people that…

HARLINGEN, Texas (AP) — U.S. Customs and Border Patrol says a migrant woman died in South Texas after spending just under a day in federal custody.…

By REBECCA SANTANA and ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration says it has detected and stopped a network…

By LEAH WILLINGHAM Associated Press CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — West Virginia University plans to eliminate its world languages department but is…

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Two siblings have been fatally shot in front of a courthouse in the U.S. territory of Puerto Rico. Police said in a…

By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN Associated Press ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — A landmark court ruling in 2018 determined New Mexico wasn’t meeting its…

By JAKE OFFENHARTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A longtime superintendent at a New York City building fatally stabbed his wife and two young…

By SETH BORENSTEIN AP Science Writer Feeding on some of the hottest water on the planet, Hurricane Idalia is rapidly strengthening as it bears down…

By CURT ANDERSON Associated Press ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Florida’s Big Bend is one of the last truly natural places in the state. It’s not Disney…

By MARK THIESSEN Associated Press ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — The nation’s top environmental official said he fully supports his agency’s decision…

By DAVID KOENIG AP Airlines Writer DALLAS (AP) — One airline plans to find out if solitude-seeking travelers will pay a hefty extra charge to avoid…

By JAY COHEN AP Baseball Writer CHICAGO (AP) — Toronto Blue Jays outfielder Kevin Kiermaier has played through the scenario in his head. There is a…

By FRANK BAJAK and STEFANIE DAZIO Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — U.S. officials say the FBI and its partners in Europe infiltrated and seized…

By LEA SKENE Associated Press BALTIMORE (AP) — More than 70 wrongfully convicted people from across the country have expressed their support for…

By DAVE COLLINS Associated Press HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — The Connecticut Supreme Court says police reports about deaths and other incidents in…

By SARA CLINE Associated Press BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — One of the largest wildfires in Louisiana history continues to burn through land and…

BOSTON (AP) — Couples filling out marriage certificates in Boston will no longer be required to identify their sex or gender. Officials say the…

By SONIA PÉREZ D. Associated Press GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — Guatemala’s Aug. 20 presidential election has been bogged down in court and legal…

By ADRIAN SAINZ Associated Press MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Lawyers for former NFL player Michael Oher are seeking his school records and information…

By BEN FINLEY Associated Press NORFOLK, Va. (AP) — The U.S. government is trying to stop a planned expedition to recover items of historical…

By KAREN MATTHEWS Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The Muslim call to prayer will ring out more freely in New York City under guidelines announced…

ALLEN, Texas (AP) — Police in the north Texas city of Allen found four people dead in what investigators say was an apparent murder-suicide. Police…

By JEFF MARTIN Associated Press A rare blue supermoon could be playing a role in worsening the impact of Hurricane Idalia as the storm lashes…

By MICHAEL TARM AP Legal Affairs Writer CHICAGO (AP) — A young, white gunman’s killing of three Black people over the weekend in Jacksonville,…

By TARA COPP Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration will send an additional $250 million in weapons and ammunition to Ukraine…

A Louisiana-based nonprofit is calling for future engineers to get more education on past failures and how to avoid repeating them. The campaign by…

By SAMUEL PETREQUIN Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — The EU’s top official will nominate the Dutch foreign minister as the next commissioner in…

CHICAGO (AP) — A Chicago television news crew has been robbed at gunpoint while they were reporting on a string of robberies. Spanish-language…

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Nebraska tight end Arik Gilbert has been arrested on suspicion of burglary after police received a report of a break-in at a…

By JONEL ALECCIA AP Health Writer Health officials are investigating an outbreak of E. coli food poisoning among students at the University of…

By JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press GENEVA (AP) — Swiss federal prosecutors say they’ve indicted a former Algerian defense minister for his…

By ROB GILLIES Associated Press TORONTO (AP) — Canadian police say are charging a man with 12 additional counts of counseling and aiding suicide…

By KRYSTA FAURIA Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — The company had struggled for years, tossed around by pandemic-induced production shutdowns…

By PATRICK WHITTLE Associated Press EASTERN EGG ROCK, Maine (AP) — On remote islands off the Maine coast, a unique bird held its own this year in…

By LESLIE AMBRIZ Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Jean Dawson is pushing the boundaries of his experimental yet melodic sound with a 2023…

By JOHN RABY Associated Press CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — Thunderstorms have dumped heavy rains that caused significant flooding in parts of West…

By CARA ANNA Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — The United Nations human rights office says at least 183 people have been killed in clashes in…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A veteran Los Angeles politician has been sentenced to 3 1/2 years in prison for a scheme involving his son and the University…

By YURI KAGEYAMA Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — A team investigating sexual assault allegations against the late founder of a talent agency for boy…

By MARÍA TERESA HERNÁNDEZ Associated Press MÉXICO CITY (AP) — Long before it was confiscated by President Daniel Ortega’s government in…

BERLIN (AP) — A Munich court has sentenced a German woman who was a member of the Islamic State group to 14 years in prison for allowing a…

NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — Police in Cyprus say they have arrested 21 people and used tear gas and a water cannon after a group of Greek Cypriots…