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By JILL COLVIN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The opening phase of the Republican presidential primary has largely centered on the escalating…

By STEFANIE DAZIO Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — The United States has returned several Peruvian antiquities, including the intricate…

SAN DIEGO (AP) — A former Marine who for years helped smuggle drugs from Mexico into the United States and even tried to get a song written to…

By MATTHEW DALY Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Interior Secretary Deb Haaland defended her department’s approval of the contentious…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A federal grand jury in Los Angeles has indicted a Houston man for allegedly calling the office of California U.S. Rep. Maxine…

By JEFF AMY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Koko Da Doll, an Atlanta woman who gained notice in a documentary about transgender Black women and the…

By KIM CHANDLER Associated Press MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey on Friday announced she replaced her director of early childhood…

By DAVID KOENIG AP Airlines Writer The acting head of the Federal Aviation Administration is leaving this summer, putting pressure on the White House…

By EVA VERGARA and DANIEL POLITI Associated Press SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — The Chilean government’s newly announced plan to have the state take a…

Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — An abandoned and emaciated alligator that was found in a New York City lake and sent to the Bronx Zoo for recovery…

By The Associated Press Here’s a collection curated by The Associated Press’ entertainment journalists of what’s arriving on TV, streaming…

HOUSTON (AP) — A former Houston-area high school football coach on Friday was sentenced for a second time to life in prison in his pregnant…

By CURT ANDERSON Associated Press Returning to Florida to discuss climate change, Vice President Kamala Harris announced Friday that $562 million…

By MICHAEL LIEDTKE AP Technology Writer SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Lyft is preparing to lay off hundreds of employees just days after new CEO David…

By JOHN HANNA AP Political Writer TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly has vetoed anti-diversity and anti-abortion provisions in…

By STEVE KARNOWSKI Associated Press ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — The Minnesota Senate has waded into the culture wars. It has passed bills Friday to make…

By MATTHEW BARAKAT Associated Press FALLS CHURCH, Va. (AP) — The family of a northern Virginia man fatally shot by U.S. Park Police officers has…

By JOCELYN NOVECK AP National Writer Benjamin Millepied’s “Carmen” has little to do with the familiar story from the 1875 Bizet opera about…

By MATTHEW BROWN, AMY BETH HANSON, and SAM METZ Associated Press HELENA, Mont. (AP) — A Montana transgender lawmaker has sued to get back onto the…

BAY MINETTE, Ala. (AP) — Alabama law enforcement officials said Friday they’ve arrested a man accused of murder, eight years after the victim…

By STEVE KARNOWSKI Associated Press ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — An arbitration panel has ordered MyPillow chief executive Mike Lindell to pay $5 million…

By DARLENE SUPERVILLE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Jill Biden hopes a temporary art exhibit at the White House helps educate visitors about…

By COLLEEN SLEVIN Associated Press DENVER (AP) — Colorado is promising not to enforce its new ban on unproven treatments to reverse medication…

By JUAN A. LOZANO Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — A Texas judge has stopped next week’s scheduled execution of a death row inmate who has long…

By ED WHITE Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — A jury has awarded nearly $100 million to the family of a New Jersey man and his son who were killed in…

By JIM MORRIS Associated Press VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) — Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says a massive Volkswagen electric battery…

HAMPTON, N.H (AP) — The U.S. Coast Guard has suspended the search for a fisherman after his boat was found capsized and three companions later…

By PAT EATON-ROBB Associated Press A 74-year-old Connecticut woman suffered bites to her arms and legs when she was attacked by a black bear while…

By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi’s Republican governor has signed a bill to expand the territory of…

By RANDALL CHASE Associated Press DOVER, Del. (AP) — Delaware Gov. John Carney says he will not veto legislation legalizing recreational marijuana…

By The Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — A Los Angeles jury has found “That ’70s Show” actor Danny Masterson guilty of two counts of rape…

By GERALD IMRAY Associated Press CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — South Africa’s Supreme Court of Appeal has upheld a ruling that the…

NEW YORK (AP) — The Federal Election Commission has imposed a $53,100 fine on three committees associated with former New York City Mayor Bill de…

By NICHOLAS RICCARDI Associated Press A fund controlled by a Swiss billionaire who has steered tens of millions of dollars to liberal causes also…

By The Associated Press This week’s new entertainment releases include albums from Smokey Robinson and The National, a live action take on the…

By HANNA ARHIROVA Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — As Ukrainian and Russian troops fight conventional battles on the front lines, Europe’s…

SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — Former Peruvian President Alejandro Toledo Manrique has surrendered to U.S. federal agents to be extradited to Peru. He…

MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) — A new Vermont law that raises the eligibility age for marriage to 18 takes effect in July. Republican Gov. Phil Scott signed…

By HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer KEY WEST, Fla. (AP) — At Books & Books, the nonprofit store Judy Blume and her husband have run for the…

By JULIE WATSON Associated Press LONG BEACH, Calif. (AP) — Engineering faculty at the University of California Los Angeles say they have developed…

MIlWAUKEE (AP) — Prosecutors in Milwaukee have charged a jail guard with misconduct in connection with the in-custody death of an accused killer…

POCATELLO, Idaho (AP) — An early morning fire engulfed much of a large high school in the southern Idaho city of Pocatello on Friday. The Pocatello…

BERLIN (AP) — Nudists in Austria are up in arms about plans for a cable car that would pass over a popular beach on the northern edge of Vienna…

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) — A businessman pleaded guilty Friday to bribing the head of a Michigan marijuana licensing board, the first conviction in…

PARIS (AP) — A Paris court has convicted a Lebanese-Canadian academic in absentia on terrorism charges over a bombing outside a Paris synagogue in…

By STEVE DOUGLAS AP Sports Writer The champagne is on ice for Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney. Soccer is the new love of the Hollywood celebrities…

By CURT ANDERSON Associated Press TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — A North Carolina man accused of shooting and wounding a 6-year-old girl and her parents after…

By JONATHAN LANDRUM Jr. AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Directing a project focused on Tupac’s life was a farfetched idea for…

SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — Chilean President Gabriel Boric has announced a plan to require private companies take Chile’s government on as a partner…

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — A Polish volunteer who died of wounds sustained during a humanitarian mission in eastern Ukraine has been buried in his home…

By DAVE COLLINS Associated Press HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Bullets sprayed out from a speeding car in Connecticut’s capital, killing an innocent…

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. (AP) — An Indiana woman now faces a federal hate crime in the stabbing of an Indiana University student of Chinese descent on a…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japanese LGBTQ activist groups are urging the government to enact an anti-discrimination law and…

By JAMES ROBSON AP Soccer Writer WREXHAM, Wales (AP) — Spoiler alert! Season 2 of “Welcome to Wrexham” is set to get the Hollywood ending the…

By DARLENE SUPERVILLE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Chef Edward Lee says food, at its best, tells a story. And the story he wants told with…

By SUSAN HAIGH Associated Press HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — A historic amount of money is being spent on urban tree planting and maintenance in…

By STEFANIE DAZIO, LARRY FENN and COLLEEN SLEVIN Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Four people found shot to death in an RV in a small Mojave…

By JEROME PUGMIRE AP Sports Writer PARIS (AP) — Four million applications were received for an online lottery where winners get to buy tickets for…

BERLIN (AP) — Daniel Barenboim has been made a citizen of honor of Berlin, months after he ended his three-decade tenure as the general musical…

By SETH BORENSTEIN AP Science Writer Looking back at 2022’s weather with months of analysis, the World Meteorological Organization said last…

By MOGOMOTSI MAGOME Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Police say 10 members of the same family were killed in a mass shooting at a house in…

By SAM MEDNICK Associated Press DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Burkina Faso’s government has opened investigations into allegations of human rights abuses…

By SETH BORENSTEIN, WANJOHI KABUKURU, FABIANO MAISONNAVE and SIBI ARASU Associated Press They fight for Earth. Young and old, famous and not so well…

By JEFFREY SCHAEFFER Associated Press PARIS (AP) — The immense success of the Netflix series “Emily in Paris” has transformed a quiet,…

By SAMUEL PETREQUIN Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — Belgian customs have destroyed more than 2,000 cans of Miller High Life, advertised as the…

By COURTNEY BONNELL Associated Press LONDON (AP) — A group of Credit Suisse investors have sued Swiss financial regulators after a…

By BINAJ GURUBACHARYA Associated Press KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — An Indian climber who was rescued after spending three days trapped in a 300-meter…

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Toyota’s new president Koji Sato has promised what he called an aggressive shift on…