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By RONALD BLUM AP Baseball Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Major League Baseball has opened a formal investigation into illegal gambling and theft…

By GENE JOHNSON and MARK THIESSEN Associated Press Authorities are investigating whether the deaths of an 83-year-old man who was walking his dogs…

By JEFF AMY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia’s Public Service Commission is an elected body that’s gone years without having elections…

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuelan opposition powerhouse Maria Corina Machado has named a substitute to her presidential bid while she fights a…

WASHINGTON (AP) — ABC’s “This Week” — Vice President Kamala Harris; former Rep. Ken Buck, R-Colo. ___ NBC’s “Meet the Press” —…

WINNIPEG, Manitoba (AP) — Canada’s federal government and the provincial Manitoba government have agreed to spend tens of millions to help search…

By MEAD GRUVER Associated Press CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — Wyoming’s governor on Friday vetoed a bill that would have erected significant barriers…

BASTROP, Texas (AP) — Texas authorities say a school bus with more than 40 prekindergarten students has collided with a concrete truck and rolled…

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — Certain sexual assaults against a spouse will now be criminalized in West Virginia for the first time under a law signed…

By DAVID KOENIG AP Airlines Writer The FBI is telling people who were on board the Boeing 737 Max that lost a panel in midflight that they might be…

By LEAH WILLINGHAM Associated Press CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — West Virginia Republican Gov. Jim Justice has signed a law that supporters say…

By BRUCE SCHREINER Associated Press FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Kentucky lawmakers have wrapped up work on a bill meant to help attract nuclear energy…

By ADRIAN SAINZ Associated Press MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Relatives of Tyre Nichols, George Floyd and Eric Garner are expressing frustration with…

By MARK STEVENSON Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s president says he won’t fight drug cartels on U.S. orders, in the clearest…

By ADAM BEAM Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California’s unemployment rate is now the highest in the country. The state’s…

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — The GOP-led Idaho Legislature has passed a bill that would ban the use of any public funds for gender-affirming care, including…

By COLLIN BINKLEY AP Education Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Education Department says it discovered a calculation error in hundreds of…

By FARNOUSH AMIRI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Barely six months into the job, House Speaker Mike Johnson is at risk of the same conservative…

By JOHN RABY Associated Press CHARLESTON (AP) — The National Guard has joined in fighting wildfires that erupted this week in West Virginia. Two…

By JAMIE STENGLE Associated Press DALLAS (AP) — A Texas medical panel has rebuffed calls to list specific exceptions to one of the most restrictive…

CHICAGO (AP) — A pair of juries has found two men guilty of killing a Chicago boy almost nine years ago. The Sun-Times reports jurors on Thursday…

By SYLVIA HUI Associated Press LONDON (AP) — One of the most famous, photographed and talked-about women in the world is fighting a very personal…

By CARLA K. JOHNSON AP Medical Writer Kate, the Princess of Wales, has disclosed that she has cancer and is undergoing chemotherapy — though in a…

By SARA CLINE Associated Press BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Louisiana crawfish are in demand despite a shortage of the mudbugs driven by last summer’s…

By JEFF AMY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — A former Georgia insurance commissioner is pleading guilty to conspiring to commit health care fraud.…

By JACK DURA Associated Press BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — A Democratic state senator in North Dakota has filed paperwork for a campaign to run for…

By JOHN RABY Associated Press CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — West Virginia has become the 12th state to ban smoking in vehicles with children present.…

By STEPHEN GROVES Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Rep. Mike Gallagher, a Wisconsin Republican who has spearheaded House pushback against the…

By STEPHEN WHYNO AP Sports Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The attorney general for the District of Columbia contends that the NBA’s Washington…

By STEVE REED AP Sports Writer CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — The Atlantic Coast Conference and Florida State squared off in a courtroom for the first time…

LONDON (AP) — Kate, Princess of Wales, has released a statement saying she has been diagnosed with cancer. In it, she said she wanted to thank…

By MARK SCOLFORO Associated Press HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Some of Pennsylvania’s most populous counties are relocating polling places out of…

By BRUCE SCHREINER Associated Press FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — A Republican lawmaker in Kentucky says a bill shielding doctors and other health…

By ALEX VEIGA AP Business Writer Real estate brokerage company Compass Inc. will pay $57.5 million as part of a proposed settlement to resolve…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — As global warming raises temperatures, a California work safety board has approved standards that would require companies to…

By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN Associated Press ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Federal prosecutors have charged a South Carolina man with carjacking resulting in…

By ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House says President Joe Biden plans to host Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia…

HOT SPRINGS, Va. (AP) — Virginia State Police have identified the five people killed when a small private jet crashed as it approached a rural…

By MATTHEW LEE and JOSEF FEDERMAN Associated Press TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Friday once again left the…

Valentino’s longtime creative director, Pierpaolo Piccioli, has announced his departure from the storied Italian fashion house. In an emotional…

By BRIAN MELLEY and JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Kate, the Princess of Wales, said Friday she has cancer and is undergoing…

MOSCOW (AP) — Russia’s state RIA Novosti news agency says several gunmen fired shots at a concert hall in Moscow on Friday, leaving a number of…

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris has arrived in Puerto Rico as part of a whirlwind trip to tout the federal aid the…

By LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer Joana Vicente is stepping down as the CEO of the Sundance Institute, the nonprofit behind the annual Sundance Film…

By TODD RICHMOND Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A federal judge has temporarily blocked plans to build a high-voltage power line across a…

By NICK PERRY and HOLLY RAMER Associated Press HOPKINTON, N.H. (AP) — The latest effort to force the hand-counting of ballots in New Hampshire has…

By MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump says he has almost a half-billion dollars in cash but would rather spend it on…

Associated Press (AP) — A court in Romania’s capital has denied a request by online influencer Andrew Tate to return assets that were seized…

LONDON (AP) — The online auction of a trove of letters, photos and other items that Pattie Boyd, who was at the heart of the Swinging 60s,…

By LISA MASCARO and FARNOUSH AMIRI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — House Speaker Mike Johnson is at risk of being ousted. Hard-right Rep.…

DETROIT (AP) — Jeep maker Stellantis is laying off about 400 white-collar workers in the U.S. as it deals with the transition from combustion…

By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A St. Louis Cardinals super fan known as “Rally Runner” has pleaded guilty to storming…

By ROB MAADDI AP Pro Football Writer TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Welsh rugby star Louis Rees-Zammit was dripping sweat and still catching his breath after…

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s government has prepared new legislation to boost the nation’s capacity for self-defense, including more funding…

By MELINA WALLING Associated Press Champions of organic farming have long portrayed it as friendlier to humans and the earth. But a new study in a…

By REZA SAIFULLAH and EDNA TARIGAN Associated Press MEULABOH, Indonesia (AP) — U.N. agencies say that about 70 Muslim Rohingya believed to have…

By DALATOU MAMANE Associated Press NIAMEY, Niger (AP) — The defense ministry says a militant attack on Nigerien forces in a border region near Mali…

By SYLVIE CORBET Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron says he “regrets” the Senate’s vote to reject legislation…

LONDON (AP) — Two men have been arrested in connection with a gas station explosion that killed 10 people and shattered a village in northwestern…

By BASSEM MROUE Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Judicial officials say Lebanese authorities have detained a suspected French drug dealer a few days…

By PAN PYLAS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — A British IT worker who poisoned a married couple with the strong opioid fentanyl has been sentenced to…

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — U.N. officials say more than 33,000 people have fled Haiti’s capital in a span of nearly two weeks as gangs continue…

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Police in Tennessee on Friday announced that Riley Strain, a University of Missouri student who went missing in Nashville…

By ANNE D’INNOCENZIO AP Retail Writer NEW YORK (AP) — More than 440,000 Starbucks-branded mugs made by Nestle and sold during the winter…

By CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Hundreds of students in Nigeria rushed to get food donated to their school by the…

By SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Prosecutors in three Wisconsin counties are declining to pursue felony charges against former…

By CIARÁN GILES Associated Press MADRID (AP) — A Spanish judge has opened an investigation into alleged fraud and false documentation against the…

BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union has imposed sanctions on the Russian justice and prison officials responsible for jailing opposition leader…

ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan’s newly appointed finance minister says the country plans to seek a long-term loan from the International Monetary…

By PAN PYLAS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The decision by Nike to change the color of the St. George’s Cross on the new England men’s…

By MICHAEL CASEY Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — The Massachusetts Senate has approved limits on how long homeless families can stay in emergency…

By KRYSTA FAURIA Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — The bones that embody an album can take many shapes. They may tell a story, follow a genre or…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako have visited towns in the north-central region of…

By MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — April’s total solar eclipse promises to be a scientific bonanza, thanks to new…

MADRID (AP) — Authorities say a boat carrying a group of migrants ran into trouble off the coast of southeastern Spain killing at least three…

By DEEPA BHARATH Associated Press Holi, widely known as the Hindu festival of colors, is a joyful annual celebration at the advent of spring with…

Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — Stellantis is recalling nearly 285,000 Dodge and Chrysler sedans because the side air bag inflators can explode…

RABAT, Morocco (AP) — Regional and local leaders in Morocco met this week with residents of an oasis where many have staged protests over a water…

By BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Police say they are investigating whether the largest donor to Britain’s Conservative government…

BERLIN (AP) — The German government’s plan to liberalize rules on cannabis has cleared its final parliamentary hurdle, paving the way for the…

BRATISLAVA, Slovakia (AP) — Peter Pellegrini, a close ally of populist Prime Minister Robert Fico, is considered a favorite in the race for the…

By BASSEM MROUE Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — A U.N. humanitarian official is appealing for more than $4 billion in life-saving aid for more than…