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Associated Press ASHEVILLE, N.C. (AP) — High school seniors in Asheville are grappling with several important life decisions as they still recover…

Associated Press LEWISTON, Maine (AP) — Maine residents whose sense of safety was shattered last year by a mass shooting have marked the…

Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — Kamala Harris and Beyoncé ignited a Houston rally with a double-barreled argument against Donald Trump on Friday,…

Associated Press JAVAKHETI, Georgia (AP) — The South Caucasus country of Georgia will go to the polls Saturday in a parliamentary election many…

Associated Press VILNIUS, Lithuania (AP) — Lithuanians will vote Sunday in the second round of parliamentary elections, with the conservative…

Associated Press JOYA-LA BARRETA ECOLOGICAL PARK, Mexico (AP) — As night descended, a rumble of frogs filled the air in this park outside the…

Associated Press LEWISTON, Maine (AP) — Ben Dyer was shot five times during Maine’s deadliest mass shooting, when a gunman killed 18 people at a…

Associated Press/Report for America NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The New Orleans City Council has rejected plans to turn a historic home connected with the…

Associated Press Colorado officials say at least 12 mailed ballots were stolen in a rural county and then sent in with fraudulent votes. The…

CHICAGO (AP) — A judge has sentenced an Illinois man who killed a homeless person known as Chicago’s “Walking Man” in an arson attack to…

Associated Press LANSING, Mich. (AP) — A decision by the elections clerk in Michigan’s third-largest city is raising concerns of a slowdown in…

Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — Attorneys for Karen Read made another push to the highest court in Massachusetts to dismiss two charges she faces in…

Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — When Joe Biden was running for reelection, his strategy was to keep the focus squarely on Donald Trump and his…

Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Lawyers for former President Donald Trump have told a federal judge that the election interference case against…

AP Science Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The red-cockaded woodpecker, an iconic bird in southeastern forests, has recovered enough of its population to…

COVINGTON, La. (AP) — It’s taken 38 years, but Louisiana authorities have finally identified a woman whose body was found floating in Lake…

Associated Press A western Nebraska school superintendent who wanted a student to remove his cowboy hat is facing a felony charge after the boy fell…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Hurricane Kristy has strengthened into a Category 5 storm. Forecasters say the major hurricane is expected to remain far from…

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — The former finance director for a city in a suburb of Birmingham, Alabama, has pleaded guilty to embezzling nearly $1…

Associated Press BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — The White House says President Joe Biden will apologize on behalf of the U.S. government Friday for its…

Associated Press Since going on strike last month, Boeing factory workers repeated one theme from their picket lines: They want their pensions back.…

Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A federal appeals court in New York says a recent Supreme Court decision does not alter its conclusion that New…

ST. CHARLES, Ill. (AP) — Investigators have determined that a skull discovered in the wall of an Illinois home in 1978 was that of an Indiana…

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Argentina’s police raided the Buenos Aires hotel where ex-One Direction singer Liam Payne stayed before dying…

AP Medical Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Health officials said Thursday that there’s no evidence bird flu is spreading between people after…

Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — The unions representing more than 7,000 CVS workers in Southern California have reached a tentative agreement…

NEW YORK (AP) — A pilot program testing AI-powered weapons scanners inside some New York City subway stations this summer did not detect any…

FORT WAYNE, Ind. (AP) — A man who pleaded guilty in a shooting that wounded one person inside an Indiana shopping mall last year has been sentenced…

Associated Press NIAMEY, Niger (AP) — Niger’s former Prime Minister Hama Amadou has died in a hospital in the country’s capital, Niamey. He had…

AKRON, Ohio (AP) — An elections board is deadlocked about whether a Democratic member of Congress from Ohio resides in her Akron district.…

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — A nurse who worked at an Alabama jail is the sixth person to agree to plead guilty in connection with the death of a…

Associated Press RENO, Nev. (AP) — For the first time under President Joe Biden, a federal permit for a new lithium-boron mine has been approved…

CHICAGO (AP) — Federal investigators say the operator of a Chicago commuter train that crashed almost a year ago had alcohol in his system. The…

AP Baseball Writer SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — In the upcoming “See Her Be Her” documentary, sports photographer Jean Fruth and her team chronicle…

Associated Press TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — Online sports betting is bringing in new revenue for New Jersey, but it is also creating concerns over…

Associated Press ACAMBARO, Mexico (AP) — A car bomb left outside a police station in western Mexico has wounded three people. Prosecutors in the…

Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Prosecutors recommended Thursday Erik and Lyle Menendez be resentenced for the 1989 killings of their parents…

Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Florida is suing to force the Justice Department to stop blocking the state’s investigation into the second…

Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — A Republican official in Georgia is appealing a judge’s order that she and other election leaders in the…

BOLOGNA, Italy (AP) — AC Milan’s weekend match at Bologna in Italy’s top soccer league has been postponed. Bologna officials made the…

Associated Press TORONTO (AP) — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says Canada will significantly reduce the number of new immigrants in the country…

Associated Press SYRACUSE, N.Y. (AP) — Democrats trying to win control of the House on Election Day might have their best chance of flipping a seat…

AP Music Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The undead, Medieval-themed suburban restaurants, the mall. Druidism, decapitated chickens, rebirth. Church, sheep…

Associated Press TORONTO (AP) — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says he will lead his Liberal Party into the next election, dismissing a request by…

STATE COLLEGE, Pa. (AP) — Two former Penn State football players facing felony rape charges are free on bond while they await their next hearing.…

Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — The Georgia secretary of state’s office said it acted quickly earlier this month to thwart an attempt to…

Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — An American cryptocurrency executive held in Nigeria for the past eight months has been released after…

AP Health Writer From Boar’s Head deli meat and waffles to McDonald’s Quarter Pounders, this year’s illness outbreaks — some…

Associated Press PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Beyoncé is expected to appear Friday in her hometown of Houston at a rally for Vice President Kamala Harris,…

Associated Press PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Gangs on Thursday opened fire and hit a U.N. helicopter, forcing it to land in Port-au-Prince in the…

Associated Press DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Congo’s President announced a national commission will be set up next year to draft a new constitution for…

PRAGUE (AP) — The Czech Republic has signed a treaty over its relations with the Vatican, becoming one of the last European Union countries to do…

Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — A Michigan man has been released from prison after 22 years after Detroit-area prosecutors acknowledged that his…

AP Business Writer LONDON (AP) — Most people have accumulated a pile of data — selfies, emails, videos and more — on their social media and…

Associated Press Desserts and sweets are a traditional part of the South Asian holiday Diwali. For some, it marks the start of the Hindu New Year,…