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By BRENDAN FARRINGTON Associated Press TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is asking state universities for the number…

WILLAMINA, Ore. (AP) — Authorities say a student and a deputy were treated at a hospital after they likely were exposed to fentanyl at a western…

By ANNE M. PETERSON AP Sports Writer Midfielder Sara Björk Gunnarsdóttir has been awarded more than $88,000 in back pay that was withheld by her…

By KIM CHANDLER Associated Press MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama has changed death penalty procedures to give the prison system longer to carry out…

By MORGAN LEE Associated Press SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — A Santa Fe district attorney will announce Thursday whether charges will be brought in the…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — A Mexican human rights group has launched an online guide for people searching for missing relatives, a real need in a country…

By BEN FINLEY and DENISE LAVOIE Associated Press NEWPORT NEWS, Va. (AP) — When a 6-year-old shot and wounded his first-grade teacher in this…

By LEA SKENE BALTIMORE (AP) — In one of his first high-profile decisions after taking office earlier this month, Baltimore’s new top prosecutor…

By REBECCA BOONE Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Investigators seized stained bedding, strands of what looked like hair and a single glove —…

By ALI SWENSON Associated Press A movement to retrofit telephone kiosks with defibrillators across the U.K. is more than a decade old and didn’t…

By LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A government lawyer says the Capitol riot was the culmination of weeks of preparation and…

By SAM METZ Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah lawmakers wasted no time this week before returning to an issue that has become a popular…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Authorities in western Mexico say they have launched a search for two activists who went missing after their vehicle was found…

By JOHN O’CONNOR AP Political Writer SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Legal challenges to Illinois’ semiautomatic weapons ban have begun. A federal…

By MATTHEW LEE and LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. is finalizing a massive package of military aid for Ukraine that…

By BOBBY CAINA CALVAN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The U.S. government’s star witness in a corruption trial over the broadcasting rights to…

By ADRIAN SAINZ Associated Press MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — The U.S. Justice Department says it has opened a civil rights investigation into the arrest…

By TERRY SPENCER Associated Press FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — More than four years after gunmen killed emerging rap star XXXTentacion during a…

NEW YORK (AP) — A bestselling author of crime stories and other nonfiction works is working on a book about the stabbing deaths last fall of four…

By RIO YAMAT Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — A new report released this month in Nevada says state auditors in 2022 found a troubling pattern of…

By R.J. RICO Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Authorities say they killed a man who shot and injured a Georgia state trooper as law enforcement…

By JAMES POLLARD Associated Press/Report for America COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — The South Carolina Supreme Court is set for an all-male bench for the…

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — A Rhode Island man who had more than 200 guns and thousands of rounds of ammunition at his home has pleaded guilty to lying…

By DANICA COTO Associated Press SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Lawyers for sprinter Usain Bolt say more than $12.7 million is missing from his…

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. General Assembly has elected Inger Andersen of Denmark to a second four-year term as executive director of the…

By JIM MUSTIAN and MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump’s former lawyer, Michael Cohen, said he met for 2½ hours…

By KYLE HIGHTOWER AP Sports Writer Chris Ford, a member of the Boston Celtics 1981 championship team, a longtime NBA coach and the player credited…

By MICHAEL LIEDTKE AP Technology Writer SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Elon Musk was alternately depicted in a San Francisco courtroom as a liar who…

MILAN (AP) — German airline Lufthansa says it has submitted an offer for a minority stake in Italy’s ITA Airways Spa, formerly Alitalia. The…

By LEAH WILLINGHAM Associated Press CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — West Virginia’s Republican-controlled House has passed a proposal to reduce the…

By JUSTIN KABUMBA Associated Press GOMA, Congo (AP) — Police in eastern Congo have fired tear gas at demonstrators who were protesting the arrival…

CAMDEN, N.J. (AP) — Campbell’s Soup Co. plans to spend about $50 million to upgrade of its headquarters in New Jersey as it consolidates the…

By CHRISTINA A. CASSIDY Associated Press Two years since the attack on the U.S. Capitol, a series of drive-by shootings targeting Democrats in New…

By MARK THIESSEN and PATRICK WHITTLE Associated Press ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — A polar bear chased several residents around a tiny, isolated Alaska…

BANGOR, Maine (AP) — A Maine newspaper that was criticized for publishing an edited version of Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream”…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s president said Wednesday his government will consider a plea by imprisoned drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman to…

By CHRIS MEGERIAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris is heading to Florida on Sunday to speak about abortion on the…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is pushing ahead with a contentious plan to remove all remaining…

By DAVID CRARY AP National Writer Anti-abortion activists will have multiple reasons to celebrate — and some reasons for unease — when they…

BROVARY, Ukraine (AP) — A helicopter crash that killed Ukraine’s interior minister and about a dozen other people is the latest devastating…

By ERIC TUCKER and JOSH BOAK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A Russian national who founded a cryptocurrency exchange the Justice Department…

The latest survey by the Michigan Department of Natural Resources shows gray wolves are holding their own in the state. An analysis of data collected…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration will provide $125 million for parts and other supplies to help repair crews in Ukraine keep up with…

By MARK PRATT Associated Press The husband of a Massachusetts woman who has been missing since New Year’s Day went online to look up ways to…

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell tested positive Wednesday for COVID-19 and is…

By LEAH WILLINGHAM Associated Press CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — West Virginia has settled for $83 million with Walgreens for the pharmacy store…

By SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A Milwaukee County circuit judge has raised more money over the last six months of 2022 than…

NEW YORK (AP) — Novelist Meg Medina is the new National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature, a selection made by the Library of Congress.…

By SETH BORENSTEIN AP Science Writer A sharp spike in Greenland temperatures since 1995 showed the giant northern island 2.7 degrees (1.5 degrees…

The Associated Press A starry group of celebs from film, TV, sports, music and fashion will be channeling the Lagerfeld Look at this year’s Met…

By HANNA ARHIROVA Associated Press DNIPRO, Ukraine (AP) — Since Russia invaded Ukraine almost 11 months ago, many Ukrainians had fled to Dnipro.…

By GARY D. ROBERTSON Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina Attorney General Josh Stein has announced a bid for governor in 2024. The…

By JIM SALTER Associated Press O’FALLON, Mo. (AP) — Authorities say a driver who led police on a chase in suburban St. Louis was shot and…

NEW YORK (AP) — Ken Follett is ready to wrap up his epic fictional chronicle of Western civilization. Viking announced Wednesday that the British…

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Growing evidence that high inflation is finally easing shows that the Federal…

By MATT O’BRIEN AP Technology Writer Microsoft is cutting 10,000 workers, almost 5% of its workforce, joining other tech companies that have…

MADRID (AP) — In a story published Jan. 18, 2023, about deaths on migration routes to Spain in 2022, The Associated Press erroneously reported that…

By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Snoop Dogg, Gloria Estefan, Sade, Jeff Lynne, Glen Ballard, Teddy Riley and Liz Rose have…

By THOMAS ADAMSON AP Fashion Writer PARIS (AP) — Men’s Fashion Week in Paris was in top form with a second day of runway shows touting a dynamic…

By ANNE D’INNOCENZIO AP Retail Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Americans cut back on spending in December, the second consecutive month they’ve done…

By HOLLY RAMER Associated Press He was 6, in his first-grade class in Newport News, Virginia. He pointed a handgun at his teacher, police say, and…

By VANESSA GERA Associated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Warsaw’s Jewish history museum has presented a group of photographs taken in secret during…

By KAREEM CHEHAYEB Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanon’s caretaker government has approved opening credit lines totaling $116 million to help…

By SYLVIA HUI Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The Church of England said Wednesday it will allow blessings for same-sex, civil marriages for the…

By KIRSTEN GRIESHABER Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — The Berlin museum authority says it is ready to return hundreds of human skulls from the…

By The Associated Press ST. PETERSBURG, Russia (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin says Moscow’s action in Ukraine was intended to stop a…

By SALLY FRENCH of NerdWallet Resort fees that aren’t advertised as part of the room rate of a hotel stay can surprise many travelers when they see…