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By PAUL J. WEBER Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — How much does an extramarital affair matter to whether Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton…

PUTRAJAYA, Malaysia (AP) — Malaysia’s Court of Appeal has upheld the acquittal of former Prime Minister Najib Razak of audit tampering in…

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Aerosmith has postponed a half-dozen dates on their farewell tour because frontman Steven Tyler injured his vocal cords during…

By MIKE SCHNEIDER Associated Press Some U.S. urban areas gained population. But it’s not because of a flood of moving trucks into Atlanta, New…

By CLAIRE SAVAGE and COREY WILLIAMS Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — It took four and a half months for Shannon Ross’ life to unravel. Ross, who…

By MICHAEL TARM Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — An Illinois appeals court will hear oral arguments Tuesday that the panel should toss Jussie…

By DARLENE SUPERVILLE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Hillary Clinton is stepping over the White House threshold in yet another role. Over the…

By PAUL WISEMAN and MICHAEL LIEDTKE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Google will confront a threat to its dominant search engine beginning…

By SHARON LURYE Associated Press For much of her teaching career, Carrie Stark relied on math games to engage her students, assuming they would pick…

By MARIA SHERMAN AP Music Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — The MTV Video Music Awards return Tuesday night and for the first time in the show’s history,…

BEIJING (AP) — Rainstorms battering southern China have killed at least seven people and allowed dozens of crocodiles to escape from a farm. Nearby…

By KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Joined by his top military officials handling his nuclear-capable weapons and…

By ANDREW DeMILLO Associated Press LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders’ effort to restrict the public’s…

By KIM CHANDLER Associated Press MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama on Monday asked the U.S. Supreme Court to let it keep Republican-drawn…

By SOPHIE AUSTIN Associated Press/Report for America SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California lawmakers have approved legislation requiring major…

By DENNIS WASZAK Jr. AP Pro Football Writer EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. (AP) — Aaron Rodgers was injured on his fourth snap in his debut with the New…

STOCKHOLM (AP) — The Swedish government wants to increase the country’s defense budget by 28% as it prepares to join the NATO alliance. The…

By RUSS BYNUM Associated Press DARIEN, Ga. (AP) — Descendants of enslaved people living on a Georgia island are watching anxiously as county…

By SARAH RANKIN and DENISE LAVOIE Associated Press RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A candidate in a high-stakes legislative contest in Virginia performed sex…

By TRÂN NGUYỄN Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California lawmakers have voted to end a ban on state-funded travel to states with…

By TARA COPP Associated Press NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. (AP) — SpaceX founder Elon Musk’s refusal to allow Ukraine to use Starlink internet services…

By TODD RICHMOND Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Indigenous tribes in Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin are asking federal officials to deny…

By WILL WEISSERT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — First Lady Jill Biden saluted Colleen Shogan, the first woman to be sworn in as national…

DADE CITY, Fla. (AP) — Officials say a fatal single-vehicle crash just hours before Hurricane Idalia made landfall in Florida has been declared the…

By JESSE BEDAYN Associated Press/Report for America DENVER (AP) — A Colorado’s sheriff’s office says two deputies were fired after an…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s former Foreign Affairs Secretary Marcelo Ebrard says that he will wait to see how the ruling party of President…

By MANUEL RUEDA Associated Press BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — The U.N. says coca cultivation reached an all-time high in Colombia last year the…

By GRAHAM DUNBAR AP Sports Writer NYON, Switzerland (AP) — European soccer body UEFA has hosted a storied group of women players and coaches for a…

By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer TORONTO (AP) — Think of movies about the financial system and your mind is almost sure to go to Gordon Gekko and…

By SCOTT McFETRIDGE Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A coalition of civil society groups is seeking to force the Environmental Protection…

By ERIC TUCKER and ALANNA DURKIN RICHER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Lawyers for Donald Trump on Monday asked the federal judge presiding…

By WYATTE GRANTHAM-PHILIPS AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — A tortilla chip maker’s decision to pull its extremely spicy product sold as a…

GRAND CANYON NATIONAL PARK, Ariz. (AP) — Authorities say a 55-year-old man from Virginia has died in the Grand Canyon while trying to hike from the…

NEW YORK (AP) — Houston Rockets guard Kevin Porter Jr. was arrested Monday and charged with assault and strangulation after allegedly attacking his…

By KEVIN McGILL Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell said Monday that she has chosen Anne Kirkpatrick, a former…

By ADAM BEAM Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Most fast food workers in California would get a raise next year under a new bill in the…

By MATTHEW BARAKAT Associated Press FALLS CHURCH, Va. (AP) — Federal prosecutors have dropped charges against a onetime business partner of former…

DENVER (AP) — Retired Colorado Rockies first baseman Todd Helton is teaming up with the organization RIP Medical Debt to help eliminate $10 million…

By MATTHEW LEE AP Diplomatic Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration has cleared the way for the release of five American citizens…

By SUMMER BALLENTINE Associated Press JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Advocates are asking a Missouri judge to rewrite what they say are misleading…

By ED WHITE Associated Press A man charged with assisting the leaders of a plan to kidnap Michigan’s governor is denying any role. But he told…

By CHRISTINE FERNANDO and HARM VENHUIZEN Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Wisconsin Supreme Court justice who Republicans are threatening…

PAWNEE, Okla. (AP) — An Oklahoma prosecutor says there’s insufficient evidence to charge the BTK serial killer in the 1976 disappearance of a…

WINDSOR, Ontario (AP) — Canadian federal prosecutors are arguing that a man facing murder charges in the deaths of four members of a Muslim family…

By WAYNE PARRY Associated Press ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — Sports betting company DraftKings apologized Monday after using the Sept. 11, 2001,…

By STEVE LeBLANC Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — Prosecutors say a 68-year-old man walked into an FBI field office in Oregon and confessed to…

By STEVE DOUGLAS AP Sports Writer Croatia climbed atop its European Championship qualifying group by beating Armenia 1-0 away thanks to Andrej…

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Casino and hotel giant MGM Resorts International says a cybersecurity issue led to the shutdown of computer systems at its…

By MARTÍN ADAMES ALCÁNTARA Associated Press SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic (AP) — The president of the Dominican Republic says he has…

By R.J. RICO Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Officials from the City of Atlanta have refused to verify tens of thousands of signatures submitted by…

By ANDREW DAMPF AP Sports Writer ROME (AP) — Juventus midfielder Paul Pogba has tested positive for testosterone. Italy’s anti-doping agency…

JERUSALEM (AP) — The British foreign secretary has arrived in Israel on a three-day visit to a country in turmoil, facing its biggest protest…

By LAURAN NEERGAARD AP Medical Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. regulators have approved updated COVID-19 vaccines from Pfizer and Moderna, shots…

By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN Associated Press ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — The sheriff in New Mexico’s largest metro area has vowed not to enforce an…

By SETH BORENSTEIN AP Science Writer The deadly firestorm in Hawaii and Hurricane Idalia’s watery storm surge helped push the United States to an…

By AVET DEMOURIAN Associated Press YEREVAN, Armenia (AP) — Armenia has launched a joint military exercise with the United States, a move that has…

LONDON (AP) — The fashion designer who created the wedding dress of Kate Middleton, Princess of Wales, is stepping down as creative director at…

By WAYNE PARRY Associated Press POINT PLEASANT BEACH, N.J. (AP) — As the U.S. races to build offshore wind power projects that will transform…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United States and Britain have invited ambassadors, journalists and representatives…

SAN ANTONIO (AP) — A trial is underway over a sweeping Texas voting law that set off a 38-day walkout by Democrats in 2021 and resulted in…

MILAN (AP) — An American literary historian, a French paleoanthropologist, a Danish evolutionary geneticist and a German-Dutch radio astronomer…

By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — One of three active-duty Marines who stormed the U.S. Capitol together has been sentenced…

HEBRON, Ky. (AP) — Former Cincinnati Bengals defensive back Adam “Pacman” Jones was arrested early Monday after police responded to a report of…

By CLIFF BRUNT AP Sports Writer NORMAN, Okla. (AP) — Oklahoma offensive coordinator Jeff Lebby has apologized after his father-in-law, disgraced…

ARROWSIC, Maine (AP) — A nonprofit group says a lighthouse that was the site of a walkway collapse that injured 11 people will remain closed for an…

SKOPJE, North Macedonia (AP) — The heads of state of six Western Balkan countries that are seeking to join the European Union have urged the bloc…

CLAYTON, Mo. (AP) — A Missouri jury has awarded $745 million to the parents of a young woman killed on a sidewalk outside an urgent care center by…

By MONIKA SCISLOWSKA Associated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s conservative ruling party has unveiled a new campaign ad that portrays…

NEW YORK (AP) — Disney and Charter Communications announced a deal to settle a dispute that had cut some 15 million cable TV customers off from…

NEW YORK (AP) — A Ukrainian composer has been commissioned to write an opera about mothers from that country going into Russia to rescue their…

LISBON, Portugal (AP) — A Portuguese hacker whose bombshell revelations on the “Football Leaks” website rocked European soccer has been…

SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) — A court in Bosnia says it has confirmed an indictment against Bosnian Serb separatist leader Milorad Dodik on…

By EVA VERGARA and DANIEL POLITI Associated Press SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — Chile on Monday was commemorating the 50th anniversary of the coup led by…

By PAUL J. WEBER Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s impeachment trial on abuse of power charges could be…