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By KEVIN McGILL Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The U.S. Justice Department has filed arguments against ending a decade-old police reform…

By RIO YAMAT Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — A Nevada judge has thrown out a drug trafficking charge against a former “Dances With Wolves”…

By SAM METZ Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A Utah man who f atally shot his wife, her mother and the couple’s five kids after he was…

By MEGAN JANETSKY Associated Press ATLIXCO, Mexico (AP) — Barefoot, half naked and blindfolded, throngs of middle aged men groan as they drag their…

By GABRIELA SELSER Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — Roman Catholics in Nicaragua have had to hold traditional “Stations of the Cross” and…

SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — A federal judge in Washington state on Friday ordered U.S. authorities not to make any changes that would restrict access to…

By PAUL J. WEBER, MATTHEW PERRONE and LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Access to the most commonly used method of abortion…

ROSEVILLE, Calif. (AP) — Police say the gunman who shot a California Highway Patrol officer and two hostages in a public park was initially wanted…

By JOE REEDY AP Sports Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — World Wrestling Entertainment has apologized for using an image from the Auschwitz concentration…

OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Former Peruvian President Alejandro Toledo Manrique has been granted two more weeks to fight his extradition…

By KEN RITTER Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — Police in Las Vegas have released letters apparently addressing the gunman responsible for the…

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Russia lost elections to three United Nations bodies this week, a sign that opposition to its invasion of Ukraine over a year…

By The Associated Press From dressing as Roman soldiers in Antigua, Guatemala, to carrying palm fronds on the streets of Lagos, Nigeria, Christians…

By KIMBERLEE KRUESI and PAUL J. WEBER Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The expulsion of two Tennessee Democrats over a gun control protest…

WASHINGTON (AP) — ABC’s “This Week” — Former Attorney General Bill Barr; James Trusty, a lawyer for Donald Trump; Major League Baseball…

YUBA CITY, Calif. (AP) — Meet Percy, the police rabbit. Yes, that’s fur real. Some bunny — also known as Officer Ashley Carson — found a…

By MEAD GRUVER Associated Press CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — Seven women who have sued to challenge the admission of a transgender woman to their sorority…

MONTREAL (AP) — Hundreds of thousands of people remain without power in eastern Canada two days after a storm left parts of Quebec and Ontario…

By JOSH FUNK AP Business Writer OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Federal regulators say railroads need to re-examine how they assemble their trains. The call…

By MARK THIESSEN Associated Press ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — So this moose walks into a medical building… While that could be a setup to a bad…

By MATTHEW BARAKAT Associated Press FAIRFAX, Va. (AP) — A police force and university in northern Virginia are teaming up for what they say will be…

By FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Top sanctions officials from the U.S. Treasury Department are set to make a series of…

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California’s Medicaid program will continue to pay Walgreens about $1.5 billion each year. That’s despite…

By SALAR SALIM and QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA Associated Press BAGHDAD (AP) — Officials say an explosion has struck next to an international airport in…

By JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — The brother of a Hawaii man recently released after more than 20 years in prison for…

ROME (AP) — Three people were killed at a farm in Northern Italy when their car crashed into a silo that collapsed and buried their vehicle under…

By LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department has launched an investigation into the possible release of Pentagon…

By SEAN MURPHY and HANNAH SCHOENBAUM Associated Press A Biden administration proposal to forbid outright bans on transgender athletes sparked outrage…

By MICHAEL HILL Associated Press For decades, the middle-class towns of single-family homes that ring many American cities have used zoning laws to…

FARMINGTON, N.M. (AP) — Police officers in New Mexico shot and killed a homeowner when they showed up at the wrong address in response to a…

By LISA RATHKE Associated Press A growing number of state legislatures are considering bans on cosmetics and other consumer products that contain a…

By GARY GERARD HAMILTON Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Teyana Taylor says the praise she’s received for her new film, “A Thousand and One”…

By SETH BORENSTEIN AP Science Writer A new study says changes in air patterns as the world warms will likely push more and nastier hurricanes up…

By TRAVIS LOLLER, KRISTIN M. HALL and ZEKE MILLER Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris has made a last-minute trip…

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian forces have bombarded the regions of Ukraine it has illegally annexed but doesn’t fully control, resulting in…

By JEAN-YVES KAMALE Associated Press KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — Six men in Congo were sentenced to life in prison on Friday for the murder of Italy’s…

By LINDSAY WHITEHURST and ALANNA DURKIN RICHER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal appeals court has sided with the Justice Department in…

CINCINNATI (AP) — Bengals running back Joe Mixon is again facing a misdemeanor charge of aggravated menacing over allegations that he pointed a gun…

By TRISHA AHMED Associated Press/Report for America North Dakota lawmakers have named Denise Lajimodiere as the state’s poet laureate, making…

MOSCOW (AP) — Jailed Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich has been charged with espionage in Russia and has entered a formal denial, two…

By BRENDAN FARRINGTON Associated Press TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Things are so bad for the Florida Democratic Party that the arrests of its party…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate’s top two leaders are demanding the immediate release of Evan Gershkovich. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer…

By MARK SHERMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas said Friday he was not required to disclose the many trips…

BRATTLEBORO, Vt. (AP) — A judge has ordered a mental evaluation for a homeless woman accused of using an ax and knife to kill a shelter coordinator…

By HAVEN DALEY and ADAM BEAM Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — This Easter, Americans will devour more than 1 billion Peeps — those…

By The Associated Press Regulators are worried that faucet leaks in Boeing 787 jets could pose a safety hazard by water seeping into the…

By MADDIE BURAKOFF AP Science Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Dust off your eclipse glasses: It’s only a year until a total solar eclipse sweeps across…

TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — A Belarusian opposition leader and former ally of President Alexander Lukashenko has received a 17-year prison sentence in…

By LESLIE AMBRIZ Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Season one of “Yellowjackets” ended with the phrase “let the darkness set us free,”…

By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer The quiet perceptions, everyday troubles and intermittent moments of transcendence that make up Kelly Reichardt’s…

By JONATHAN LANDRUM Jr. AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Mary J Blige and Clifford “Method Man” Smith are two of the most prominent…

NEW YORK (AP) — Authorities say 20 people were injured in a fire set by an inmate at New York City’s troubled Rikers Island jail complex. The…

By The Associated Press LONDON (AP) — For “Star Wars” lovers, new entertainment is a little less far, far away — Lucasfilm announced three…

By JINTAMAS SAKSORNCHAI Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — A religious freedom activist says more than 60 asylum-seeking members of a Chinese…

By JOHN HANNA AP Political Writer TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Abortion opponents pushed a bill through the Kansas Legislature early Friday to require…

By SUZAN FRASER and VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV Associated Press ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Russia’s top diplomat says Moscow may pull out of a wartime…

By R.J. RICO Associated Press Over the past few months, many streaming companies have started eliminating some of their own shows from their library.…

By R.J. RICO Associated Press Actor Diana-Maria Riva is all too familiar with one of her shows being canceled. For a performer, it’s a painful,…

By PATRICK WHITTLE Associated Press PORTSMOUTH, N.H. (AP) — A group of fish farmers wants to be the first to bring offshore aquaculture to the…

By KATE ASHFORD of NerdWallet More than half of older taxpayers (57%) are worried they’ll have to pay more taxes this year because of the 5.9%…

By DEREK GATOPOULOS Associated Press ATHENS, Greece (AP) — A retired senior prosecutor in Greece has been named as the new leader of a far-right…

By DAN GELSTON AP Sports Writer Smashing Pumpkins singer and guitarist Billy Corgan is back this weekend trying to raise funds for victims of last…

By JOHN HANNA AP Political Writer TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Republican legislators in Kansas have approved a proposal to end gender-affirming care for…

BEIJING (AP) — A Chinese court has sentenced a man to nine years in prison for abusing and unlawfully detaining a woman who was shown chained in a…

LONDON (AP) — British police have charged a 12-year-old boy with murder after a car plowed into a woman on a city street in northern England. The…

By SAM MEDNICK Associated Press OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso (AP) — Months after hundreds of French troops left Burkina Faso, ousted by the ruling…

ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan’s military has arrested a high-value target in an operation against Baluch insurgent group in the country’s…

By KRYSTA FAURIA Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Throughout her career, Ellie Goulding has been candid about the drawbacks of fame. Although…

By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN Associated Press Thousands of Catholics are making the trek to a historic adobe church in the hills of northern New Mexico as…

By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN Associated Press The family of a Native American woman who went missing from her home on the Navajo Nation pleaded with the…

By GABE STERN Associated Press/Report for America CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) — Nevada Democrats and gun control advocates have rallied around a trio of…

By ISABEL DEBRE Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel unleashed rare airstrikes on Lebanon and bombarded the Gaza Strip on Friday, an escalation…