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WASHINGTON (AP) — Police say a Washington, D.C., officer has died after being shot when a gun he was trying to trying recover from a storm drain…

FRESNO, Calif. (AP) — The second elephant calf in two weeks has been born at a California zoo. The Fresno Chaffee Zoo says African elephant Amahle…

Associated Press ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — An attorney for Robert F. Kennedy Jr. asked a state appeals court to overturn a ruling that would keep him off…

Associated Press MANAUS, Brazil (AP) — Smoke from wildfires in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest is causing people in the region to cough, burning their…

Associated Press The CSX worker who discovered his friend run over by a pair of remote-control locomotives last year sees two-person crews as a…

SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) — A magnitude 6.1 earthquake rattled El Salvador on Wednesday afternoon with no initial reports of injuries or…

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Officials say one person was taken to a hospital after a United Airlines flight was diverted to Memphis, Tennessee, because…

Associated Press VALLEY VIEW, Texas (AP) — The dazed residents of a remote north Texas county sifted through their mangled homes after seven people…

EVANSTON, Ill. (AP) — A cheerleader has dropped her federal sexual harassment lawsuit against Northwestern University. Hayden Richardson filed suit…

Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina’s prisons director says the state’s supply of its lethal injection drug is pure, its…

DETROIT LAKES, Minn. (AP) — A Minnesota state senator has pleaded not guilty to burglarizing the home of her estranged stepmother after her…

BENTON HARBOR, Mich. (AP) — The mayor of Benton Harbor, Michigan, has been dismissed from a lawsuit that accuses him of mismanaging problems with…

PARIS (AP) — French prosecutors say a 33-year-old man accused in an arson attack on a synagogue last weekend said he wanted to defend Palestinians…

Associated Press Nebraska’s Supreme Court has heard arguments in a lawsuit that challenges election officials’ refusal to restore the voting…

Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Mariah Carey’s says her mother Patricia and sister Alison both died on the same day. Carey wrote in a…

DELAWARE WATER GAP, Pa. (AP) — A New Jersey man vacationing with his family in Pennsylvania drowned in the Delaware River while rescuing two of his…

Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump’s campaign was warned about not taking photographs before an altercation at Arlington…

Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Sheriff’s deputies are investigating an apparent homicide at an aging maximum security prison in…

Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Special counsel Jack Smith is pressing forward with his 2020 election interference case against Donald Trump,…

Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Officials with L.A. Care Health Plan and Health Net say they will commit $90 million over five years to build a…

AP Medical Writer LONDON (AP) — Police has been eliminated in most parts of the world, but the infectious disease is still spreading in a small…

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — An escaped water buffalo is headed to a large animal hospital days after it wandered away from a suburban Iowa property and…

Associated Press/Report for America TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said a controversial proposal by his administration to…

Associated Press KHIRBET KARKUR, Israel (AP) — An Israeli hostage rescued from Gaza returned to a hero’s welcome tinged with a bitter reality.…

NEW YORK (AP) — The U.S. Open tennis tournament will stay on ESPN through 2037 under a 12-year contract that starts in 2026. The network and the…

AP Health Writer At least nine people have died after being infected with listeria from eating Boar’s Head deli meats tied to a massive recall…

Associated Press PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Haiti’s Prime Minister Garry Conille says that Haitian forces working with police sent from…

Associated Press Workers have breached the final dams on a key section of the Klamath River, clearing the way for salmon to swim freely through a…

AP Tennis Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Caroline Garcia, a U.S. Open semifinalist two years ago, is drawing attention to the problem of cyberbullying in…

Associated Press HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — A review by Pennsylvania’s elected financial watchdog says there are shortcomings in a state agency’s…

AP Sports Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Frances Tiafoe is getting the rematch he wants, a second shot at Ben Shelton at the U.S. Open. But there…

Associated Press The attorney for an elderly white homeowner who shot Ralph Yarl after the teenage Black honor student came to his home by mistake…

Associated Press ST. LOUIS (AP) — An evidentiary hearing in Missouri will determine the fate of a man on death row who thought DNA evidence…

Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A former U.S. president and several members of Congress were targets of a plot carried out by two European men…

Associated Press CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — Lawyers for a man charged with raping a teenage girl at a New Hampshire youth holding facility are trying to…

Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump shared more than a dozen posts on his social media network that call for the trial or jailing of his…

Associated Press ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — The Orlando Police Department has closed its investigation into the former owners of the Pulse nightclub…

AP Tennis Writer NEW YORK (AP) — It’s nothing new for tennis players to worry aloud about their sport’s overcrowded calendar, too-tough season…

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Investigative records say a firearms instructor in Ohio failed to make sure his gun was empty and fired a fatal shot into the…

Associated Press A special Ring Cycle will be performed for the 150th anniversary Bayreuth Festival in 2026, the annual Richard Wagner showcase said…

AP Film Writer NEW YORK (AP) — When Jennifer Kent’s “The Babadook” opened in theaters a decade ago, it played at two cinemas. When it returns…

Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A militia group member who communicated with other far-right extremists while they stormed the U.S. Capitol has…

Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Over more than a decade, the founder and CEO of the messaging app Telegram has amassed various…

AP Music Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Rapper, singer, songwriter, businesswoman, hot girl summer purveyor and now… award show host? Megan Thee…

AP Health Writer Two U.S. House members who first pushed the Food and Drug Administration in 2023 to investigate the health risks of hair…

Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — It has been almost a decade since Zedd, the Grammy-winning producer and DJ, released his sophomore album,…

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — State officials are approving a deal with Norfolk Southern that expands commuter and passenger rail services in southwestern…

BOSTON (AP) — A Northeastern University student and her parents are suing a sorority, its chapter president and a landlord after the student fell…

AP Sports Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Dan Evans has won the longest match at the U.S. Open since tiebreakers were introduced in 1970, beating Karen…

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — A suspect in a fatal shooting in Tennessee was arrested after he fell through the ceiling of a home where he was hiding,…

Associated Press U.S. wildlife officials beginning next year will drastically scale up efforts to kill invasive barred owls that are crowding out…

Associated Press HINESVILLE, Ga. (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris and her running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, dropped in on a high school…

Associated Press Wildlife agencies are trying to capture and relocate the first pack of wolves that formed under Colorado’s ambitious wolf…

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Officials say two German boys, who got buried in the sand after digging a hole in a dune in northwestern Denmark on…

Associated Press DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez arrived in Gambia on Wednesday as part of a three-day tour of West…

Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Navy will meet its goal to sign up 40,600 recruits by the end of September thanks to several new recruiting…

DETROIT (AP) — Production at an electric vehicle battery cell plant jointly run by General Motors and Samsung SDI has been delayed as EV sales have…

Associated Press DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Swiss authorities say a Swiss citizen has been arrested in Burkina Faso. The Swiss foreign ministry tells…