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By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves traveled to Alabama for a Republican fundraising event…

By HANNAH SCHOENBAUM Associated Press/Report for America RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Transgender rights are taking center stage in North Carolina as the…

By SEUNG MIN KIM The Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden’s son Hunter is by no means the first presidential relative whose…

By MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump’s tempestuous views aside, Manhattan prosecutors say neither the former…

By ANDREW DeMILLO Associated Press LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — A federal judge struck down Arkansas’ first-in-the-nation ban on gender-affirming…

By STEVE KARNOWSKI and TRISHA AHMED Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A man serving a hit-and-run sentence in a California prison until his…

By LOLITA C. BALDOR and TARA COPP Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon said Tuesday that it overestimated the value of the weapons it…

By PAUL J. WEBER Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas’ power grid operator asked residents Tuesday to voluntarily cut back on…

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Police in Milwaukee have arrested a second person in a shooting in which six people, including the two alleged shooters, were…

By ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Criminal defendants are routinely advised to avoid commenting on pending charges against them.…

By TODD RICHMOND Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A U.S. hiker who fell to her death during a savage attack in Germany and a friend who tried…

By JEFF AMY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Opponents of Atlanta’s proposed police and firefighter training center are suing the city. In a…

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — The second week of the double murder trial of rapper YNW Melly began with the judge denying a motion from the defense…

By AMY BETH HANSON and MATTHEW BROWN Associated Press HELENA, Mont. (AP) — An attorney for 16 young plaintiffs has urged a judge to strike down as…

By The Associated Press The vessel that went missing Sunday in the North Atlantic while exploring the Titanic’s wreckage is a submersible not a…

By MARK PRATT Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — A renowned Titanic expert, a world-record holding adventurer and two members of one of Pakistan’s…

By Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders on Tuesday opened a Senate investigation into Amazon’s warehouse safety…

By RIO YAMAT and RICK BOWMER Associated Press ELKO, Nev. (AP) — Dana Dolan was driving through her small Nevada hometown when she thought she had…

By HOLLY RAMER Associated Press CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — A New Hampshire police affidavit alleges that Harmony Montgomery’s father spent months…

By JOHN HANNA AP Political Writer TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas officials have agreed, for now, not to enforce a new restriction on medication…

By JEFF AMY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia’s State Election Board won’t take over running elections in the state’s most populous…

By JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Three men have been convicted of various charges in a trial showcasing U.S. claims that China…

By SUMMER BALLENTINE Associated Press JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — A constitutional amendment to restore abortion rights in Missouri will move…

By JARI TANNER Associated Press HELSINKI (AP) — Finland, which recently became NATO’s 31st member, swore in a new coalition government…

By ZEN SOO Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — Singapore ride-hailing firm Grab Holdings said it is cutting over 1,000 jobs or 11% of its workforce…

MCKEE, Ky. (AP) — Police say a 7-year-old child fatally shot a 5-year-old child inside a home in Kentucky. State police say an initial…

By SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin’s Democratic Gov. Tony Evers has signed a bipartisan bill that sends more money to…

By MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Actor Jonathan Majors’ domestic violence case will go to trial Aug. 3, a Manhattan judge…

By ANNE M. PETERSON AP Sports Writer The path to the Women’s World Cup has been vastly uneven for the teams headed to Australia and New Zealand…

By BASSEM MROUE and KAREEM CHEHAYEB Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Officials say a Turkish drone attack has killed two Kurdish local officials and…

By TOM KRISHER AP Auto Writer DETROIT (AP) — Electric vehicle maker Rivian says it will follow General Motors and Ford and join Tesla’s charging…

By MATTHEW LEE AP Diplomatic Writer BEIJING (AP) — The United States and China may be back to talking at a high level, but their battle for global…

By JONATHAN LANDRUM Jr. AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Dr. Dre will need to make room in his trophy case for another prestigious award.…

BRATISLAVA, Slovakia (AP) — Slovakia’s president says she will not seek re-election in next year’s presidential vote. Zuzana Čaputová says…

By LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden’s son Hunter will plead guilty to federal tax offenses and avoid a…

By SYLVIE CORBET and ANGELA CHARLTON Associated Press PARIS (AP) — Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni and French President Emmanuel Macron have buried…

By MICHELLE CHAPMAN AP Business Writer Gannett is suing Google and its parent company Alphabet, claiming that they unlawfully acquired and maintain…

By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press VATICAN CITY (AP) — An unprecedented global canvassing of Catholics has called for the church to take concrete…

By MARÍA TERESA HERNÁNDEZ Associated Press AMECAMECA, Mexico (AP) — Moisés Vega has a distinctive job: The 64-year-old Mexican says he can speak…

By GERALD IMRAY Associated Press CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — A lawyer for one of the last remaining suspects accused of orchestrating brutal…

By MEAD GRUVER Associated Press RAWLINS, Wyo. (AP) — Portrait photographer Anne Brande shoots graduation and wedding engagement photos at scenic…

By ABBY SEWELL Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — The head of the U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees says that without a new injection of funding, it…

NEW YORK (AP) — A fire at a New York City e-bike shop quickly spread to upper-floor apartments and killed four people early Tuesday in the latest…

By FRANCES D’EMILIO Associated Press VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis, in his first full week back at the Vatican following abdominal…

BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — Andrew Tate, a social media personality known for expressing misogynistic views online, was charged in Romania with rape,…

By COSTAS KANTOURIS and ELENA BECATOROS Associated Press ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Nine Egyptian men accused of being members of a migrant smuggling…

By DÁNICA COTO Associated Press SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Tropical Storm Bret grew stronger on Wednesday as it took aim at islands in the…

By ELIZABETH AYOOLA of NerdWallet Parenting comes with many responsibilities, and one is raising financially independent kids. But adult kids…

By BASSEM MROUE Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Auto tycoon Carlos Ghosn has filed a $1 billion lawsuit against Nissan and about a dozen individuals…

BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Police have arrested a Norwegian citizen in Hungary on suspicion that he was planning an extremist attack modeled after a…

By HOWARD FENDRICH AP Tennis Writer A half-century later, Billie Jean King thinks back on the landmark gathering of female tennis players at a London…

By EDNA TARIGAN and DAVID RISING Associated Press JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — The Association of Southeast Asian Nations is moving ahead with plans…

By SAMY MAGDY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — The governor of Darfur called for an international investigation into alleged atrocities against…

BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s domestic intelligence agency says it has recorded a new high in crimes by political extremists in 2022, with the far…

BERLIN (AP) — Official statistics in Germany show that large numbers of refugees from Ukraine fleeing Russia’s war fueled a 1.3% rise in the…

PARIS (AP) — French investigators searched the headquarters of Paris Olympic organizers on Tuesday in a probe into suspected corruption, according…

By JOSH BOAK Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — President Joe Biden has convened a group of technology leaders in San Francisco to debate the…

By SUSIE BLANN Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian officials say the country’s air defenses have downed 32 of 35 Shahed exploding…

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — A senator has invited the International Criminal Court to investigate what Australian…

By GEIR MOULSON Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s chancellor has pressed China to lean harder on Russia over its war in Ukraine, while…

By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer BANGKOK (AP) — Shares were mostly lower Wednesday in Asia after Wall Street benchmarks retreated following…

By JANIE HAR Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A new study by the University of California, San Francisco shows that homeless people in…

By BEN FINLEY and HOLLY RAMER Associated Press Rescuers in a remote area of the Atlantic Ocean raced against time Tuesday to find a missing…

By ISABEL DEBRE Associated Press AMMAN, Jordan (AP) — Visitors to Jordan this month noticed a new addition to the royal portraits over highways and…

By TAIWO ADEBAYO Associated Press ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Nigeria’s removal of a subsidy that helped reduce the price of gasoline has increased…