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By WILL WEISSERT and MEG KINNARD Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — President Joe Biden is looking for an easy win in South Carolina’s…

By MATTHEW BROWN Associated Press COOKE CITY, Mont. (AP) — As Wesley Mlaskoch motored his snowmobile across a mountain in the Montana backcountry,…

By THOMAS BEAUMONT and BRIAN SLODYSKO Associated Press LAS VEGAS, Nevada (AP) — Republican National Committee Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel is calling…

By JOSH FUNK Associated Press OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — The major freight railroads all promised safety improvements after the fiery derailment in eastern…

By JULIA FRANKEL Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Hamas’ demand that Israel release Marwan Barghouti brings new attention to a man many…

By GRAHAM LEE BREWER Associated Press For decades, the University of Pennsylvania has held hundreds of skulls that were once used to promote white…

NEWTON, Mass. (AP) — An 11-day strike by teachers in a Boston suburb has ended after their union and the school district tentatively agreed on a…

By BROOKE LEFFERTS Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Actor Daisy Ridley doesn’t want audiences to be misled by the title of her new film,…

By JADE LE DELEY Associated Press BOUSSY-SAINT-ANTOINE, France (AP) — French shoppers understand that farmers are struggling and many want to…

By VALERIE GONZALEZ Associated Press EAGLE PASS, Texas (AP) — A Texas border city has gained an unsolicited spotlight in an extraordinary showdown…

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United Nations says members of an armed group fired on a U.N. helicopter in eastern Congo, injuring two South African…

By KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea said it has tested cruise missiles outfitted with new “super-large”…

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — Federal officials say a second defendant has pleaded guilty to federal charges in connection with a series of drive-by…

By STEVE LeBLANC BOSTON CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) — Harvard University’s Hasty Pudding Theatricals roasted Barry Keoghan, best known for his roles in…

BAY CITY, Mich. (AP) — A federal judge has dismissed a criminal case against a northern Michigan man accused of threatening President Joe Biden and…

By ANDREW DeMILLO Associated Press LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — The chair of Arkansas’ parole board has resigned after personnel records revealed…

STOCKTON, Calif. (AP) — A California judge has ordered Tesla Inc. to pay $1.5 million as part of a settlement of a civil case alleging the company…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — A major work by surrealist painter René Magritte that hasn’t been shown in public for a quarter…

COLUMBIA FALLS, Maine (AP) — A family with an audacious plan to build the world’s tallest flagpole as a centerpiece for a billion-dollar project…

WASHINGTON (AP) — ABC’s “This Week” — House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y.; Sen. JD Vance, R-Ohio. ___ NBC’s “Meet the…

HONOLULU (AP) — The U.S. Coast Guard is asking mariners for help in finding a 60-year-old man sailing from California to Hawaii. The Coast Guard…

By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN Associated Press ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — The police chief in New Mexico’s largest city vows that the Albuquerque…

By ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Prosecutors in the classified documents case against former President Donald Trump have told a…

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Argentina’s Chamber of Deputies has approved in general terms a sweeping package of reforms proposed by…

By JUAN A. LOZANO Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — A routine day of inspecting shipping containers at the Port of Houston turned into something…

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A federal lawsuit says a woman who died last February shouldn’t have been discharged from a Tennessee hospital, forced to…

HAVANA (AP) — Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel removed the country’s economy minister on Friday, according to state media, following a…

NEW YORK (AP) — Wayne Kramer, co-founder of the protopunk Detroit band the MC5 that thrashed out such hardcore anthems as “Kick Out the Jams”…

By TODD RICHMOND Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Wisconsin Supreme Court will allow U.S. Rep. Dean Phillips to add his name to the…

By MICHAEL CASEY Associated Press A Rhode Island city has approved the first state-sanctioned safe injection site, a place where people can use…

By MARK SHERMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court is allowing West Point to continue taking race into account in admissions,…

By SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Wisconsin Supreme Court on Friday agreed to hear Democratic Gov. Tony Evers’ lawsuit…

BOSTON (AP) — The Massachusetts Registry of Motor Vehicles says it has downgraded the licenses of more than two dozen commercial drivers in the…

By RICHARD LARDNER and AARON KESSLER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — An Associated Press analysis of new Federal Election Commission filings…

By MATTHEW BROWN and TODD RICHMOND Associated Press Federal wildlife officials on Friday rejected requests from conservation groups to restore…

By STEPHEN WHYNO AP Hockey Writer TORONTO (AP) — NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman says the league will wait for the judicial process to play out…

By ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge in Washington has formally postponed Donald Trump’s March trial on charges of…

By DAVE SKRETTA AP Sports Writer Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce says he is ready for the Super Bowl circus to begin when his team arrives in Las Vegas…

By MICHAEL LIEDTKE AP Technology Writer SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Apple’s hotly anticipated Vision Pro headset is hitting store shelves. That means…

WHITING, Ind. (AP) — BP says power has been restored a sprawling oil refinery in northwest Indiana following an outage that prompted the company to…

KENNETT SQUARE, Pa. (AP) — A district judge in Pennsylvania says prosecutors have sufficient grounds to continue to press escape and other charges…

By The Associated Press A judge on Feb. 13 will hear a request by the attorneys general of Tennessee and Virginia for a preliminary injunction that…

By MORGAN LEE Associated Press SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — New Mexico Democrats who control the Legislature want to make it a crime to pose as a fake…

By ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department has announced that it is seizing more than 500,000 barrels of…

REBECCA SANTANA Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas says he is “totally focused on the work” that…

By SARA CLINE Associated Press BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Louisiana State University head football coach Brian Kelly helped release back into the wild…

By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Carl Weathers, a former NFL linebacker who became a Hollywood action movie and comedy star,…

By SUDHIN THANAWALA Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia is suing the Biden administration to try to keep the state’s new health plan for…

By JONATHAN MATTISE Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The Tennessee governor’s office says it only plans to participate for one year…

By JOHN ANTCZAK Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Graffiti has risen to high art in downtown Los Angeles: Taggers have covered at least 27…

By LISA RATHKE Associated Press A Vermont mother has filed a lawsuit alleging that police used excessive force and discriminated against her unarmed…

By CAROLYN THOMPSON Associated Press BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — The federal death penalty trial for a white supremacist who killed 10 Black people at a…

By DORANY PINEDA Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Extreme heat and wildfire smoke on their own are harmful to the human body, but the…

HOUSTON (AP) — Officials are working to clean up fire-suppression foam that was inadvertently released in a United Airlines hangar at George Bush…

COOPERSTOWN, N.Y. (AP) — Adrián Beltré will have a Texas Rangers’ logo on his baseball Hall of Fame plaque and Jim Leyland will not have any…

By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Sam Waterston, who has played the spiky, no-nonsense district attorney on “Law &…

By JACK JEFFERY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — The U.N. food agency says it has received reports of people dying from starvation in Sudan, where…

By KATE BRUMBACK Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — A court filing Friday disclosed that Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis is involved in a…

By JOHN HANNA AP Political Writer Kansas is poised to expand an income tax credit for goods and services purchased from companies and nonprofits…

By STEPHEN GROVES Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate negotiators have reached a deal on a proposal to overhaul the asylum system at the U.S.…

By KEVIN McGILL Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — New Orleans’ annual Carnival celebration entered its high-intensity home stretch Friday…

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — The names of three Idaho men killed when an airport hangar under construction in Boise collapsed were released by the Ada…

By ADRIAN SAINZ Associated Press MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — A defense lawyer says a man charged with killing Young Dolph cannot get a fair trial in…

By ED WHITE Associated Press PONTIAC, Mich. (AP) — Prosecutors in Michigan have tried to attack the credibility of a school shooter’s mother.…

By BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press LONDON (AP) — A new exhibit at the UK National Archives in London uses the 80th anniversary of the so-called Great…

By MIKE CATALINI and MARK SCOLFORO Associated Press DOYLESTOWN, Pa. (AP) — A Pennsylvania prosecutor says the man accused of shooting and…

By STEVE KARNOWSKI Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Federal authorities in Minnesota are investigating a suspected arson fire that heavily…

By JACK DURA Associated Press BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — A federal judge in North Dakota has dismissed a lawsuit brought by a county election official…

By EDUARDO VERDUGO Associated Press OCUMICHO, Mexico (AP) — Guided by their ancestral lunar calendar, members of Mexico’s Purepecha…

By MARIA SHERMAN AP Music Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Victoria Monét and Coco Jones brought smooth R&B and studied choreography, Noah Kahan and…

MIAMI (AP) — Authorities say 3-year-old twins are dead after they were found unresponsive in a car parked along a Miami highway. Miami-Dade County…

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greece has completed a major privatization, selling its 30% stake in the biggest airport operator in the tourism-reliant…

LONDON (AP) — London police say a woman remains hospitalized with life-changing injuries after she was attacked with a corrosive substance earlier…

By JONATHAN LANDRUM Jr. AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Martin Lawrence has kept busy: The actor-comedian readies for his new “Bad…

By BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press LONDON (AP) — A judge has acquitted climate activist Greta Thunberg of a charge that she had refused follow a…

By MARK ANDERSON AP Sports Writer LAS VEGAS (AP) — Las Vegas Raiders owner Mark Davis called his new home the Death Star in 2020 and the name…

ISABELLA O’MALLEY Associated Press PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Scrutiny over Taylor Swift’s travel in private jets has been bubbling up online,…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — A group of residents of towns near Japanese nuclear plants has submitted a petition asking…

By BOUAZZA BEN BOUAZZA and SAM METZ Associated Press TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — The head of Tunisia’s largest opposition party has been sentenced to…

By GABE STERN and MICHELLE L. PRICE Associated Press/Report for America RENO, Nev. (AP) — A new state law requires Nevada to hold a primary…

MOSCOW (AP) — President Vladimir Putin describes Moscow’s military action in Ukraine as a battle for Russia’s survival as he campaigned for…

By TARA COPP and ABDULRAHMAN ZEYAD Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. has bolstered the defenses in place to protect 350 troops at a base…

By DUSAN STOJANOVIC Associated Press BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Serbia’s president says the country’s government will seek an urgent…