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Associated Press DENVER (AP) — The family of a man who was hit and killed by an SUV on a Colorado interstate after a sheriff’s deputy shocked him…

U.S. regulators have cleared a third updated COVID-19 vaccine for this fall, shots made by Novavax Inc. Already, Pfizer and Moderna are shipping…

PHOENIX (AP) — A conservative group has told Arizona officials that it plans to monitor ballot drop boxes for the November election and identify…

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — The state of California has agreed to pay a former employee $350,000 to settle her claims that Democratic state Treasurer…

ST. JAMES, N.Y. (AP) — Authorities say a New York man shot his former wife and her new boyfriend to death after first texting his 15-year-old…

Associated Press MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — Ethiopia is increasingly concerned over a defense deal signed earlier this month between Egypt and…

Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Two former Georgia election workers who won a $148 million defamation judgment against Rudy Giuliani are asking…

MAMARONECK, N.Y. (AP) — The driver of a mini-school bus that struck and killed a kindergartner and his mother as they were walking to school in…

Associated Press OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A nearly century-old Oklahoma company that supplies stock for rodeos had as many as 70 horses die a week ago…

Associated Press CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — The New Hampshire Supreme Court has upheld a school district’s policy aimed at supporting the privacy of…

PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistan’s military says security forces have killed 37 insurgents in multiple raids over more than a week on…

Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — An inmate set to be executed in South Carolina in three weeks wants the state Supreme Court to delay the…

Associated Press BELFAST, Northern Ireland (AP) — Passengers who bought cabins for a 3 1/2-year round-the-world cruise have been waiting months for…

DILI, East Timor (AP) — East Timor is celebrating the 25th anniversary of a U.N.-backed referendum that secured its independence from its major…

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Republican Nebraska Gov. Jim Pillen has appointed a new member to the Nebraska Library Commission — a former local school…

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Two Minnesota women are charged with organizing thefts of several thousand dollars’ worth of merchandise from a Lululemon…

NASA on Friday cut two astronauts from the next crew to make room on the return trip for the two stuck at the International Space Station.…

Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Police used a tanklike vehicle with a battering ram to smash into a Southern California home and arrest the…

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — An Illinois man accused of stabbing a state child welfare worker to death as she was making a home visit to check on…

The suspenseful thriller “Rebel Ridge,” the 31st studio album from George Strait and the return of the acclaimed English spy series “Slow…

TEMPE, Ariz. (AP) — Four days after last scanning in for work, a 60-year-old office worker in Arizona was found dead in a cubicle at her workplace.…

AP Music Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Every day, millions of people stream music on Spotify. Some pay a monthly subscription fee for uninterrupted…

Associated Press DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Aminata Thiam is one of Senegal’s few female beatmakers. Known by her stage name Myamy, she teaches women…

NHL player Johnny Gaudreau and his brother Matthew were killed by a suspected drunken driver while riding bicycles Thursday night near their…

Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Some security officers at a jail in Atlanta that is under federal investigation walked off the job after the Fulton…

Associated Press A federal judge has overruled a magistrate and ordered a Defense Department civilian to remain jailed pending trial on accusations…

AP Business Writer Airports, highways, beaches and theme parks are expected to be packed across the U.S. this Labor Day weekend as a lot Americans…

ROME (AP) — Italian prosecutors have put under investigation two more crew members of the Bayesian, the superyacht that sank off Sicily last week,…

Associated Press Carolyn Baker, clad in a neon pink top and matching sunglasses, smiled as she ran the Falmouth Road Race on the shore of Cape Cod,…

Associated Press Heatstroke is a dangerous illness caused by heat and runners are at increasing risk as climate change creates more hot days. It can…

Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — Each time the kidnapper hung up the phone, Veronica Rosas and her relatives did the only thing they could think…

PRAGUE (AP) — Czech explosive experts have detonated a World War II bomb at a major chemical plant in northwestern Czech Republic where it was…

A Russian newspaper publisher has been convicted by a court in Siberia and sentenced to eight years in prison after his paper reported on Russia’s…

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Seeking to Poland’s government is easing access to abortion for women needing to end a pregnancy for health reasons,…

AP Business Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Strong growth for stocks on Wall Street this year have helped juice gains for savers with retirement…

BANGKOK (AP) — Thai officials say the bodies of three foreign workers who were trapped for days in a railway tunnel in northeastern Thailand that…

BERLIN (AP) — A prominent German leftist politician was sprayed with a red liquid, likely paint, during a campaign event in the eastern city of…

AP Business Writer FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — Inflation is down in Europe. August’s figure is only 2.2%, down from 2.6% in July. The pace of…

Associated Press SRINAGAR, India (AP) — Residents of Indian-controlled Kashmir are gearing up for their first regional election in a decade that…

Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Germany has deported Afghan nationals to their homeland for the first time since August 2021, when the Taliban…

AP Sports Writer EAST LANSING, Mich. (AP) — The 2026 World Cup is coming to North America with an ambitious plan, expanding the field by 50% and…

AP Business Writer Stocks on Wall Street finished broadly higher Friday as the market closed out its fourth straight winning month with solid gains.…

AP Film Writer VENICE, Italy (AP) — “Babygirl,” an erotic thriller about a female CEO who begins an affair with a younger, male intern, is…

Associated Press Racial differences in how schools discipline students received new attention 10 years ago, during a national reckoning with racial…

Associated Press The United States’ longest war is over. But not for everyone. Outside of San Francisco, surgeon Doug Chin has helped provide…

Associated Press SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — A flash flood near the Grand Canyon sent hikers scrambling for shelter in rocky nooks and crannies and swept…

Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The National Basketball Association formalized its giving over the past four years through a new $300 million…

Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Army commander in charge of the U.S. military’s Gaza pier project says the mission was the biggest…