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By MARC LEVY Associated Press HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — The National Park Service is retracting a proposal to take down a statue of William Penn at a…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — California Gov. Gavin Newsom has set a mid-March special election date to fill the U.S. House seat vacated by former Speaker…

By KANIS LEUNG and JOHNSON LAI Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — As Taiwan’s presidential election approaches, many immigrants from Hong Kong are…

By JOSH FUNK and HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH Associated Press The parents of the 17-year-old who killed a sixth grader and wounded seven others in a…

By ÉDGAR H. CLEMENTE Associated Press ARRIAGA, Mexico (AP) — About 2,000 migrants have resumed their journey through southern Mexico, after…

By MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The longtime head of National Rifle Association operated as the “King of the NRA,”…

By GENE JOHNSON Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) — The blowout of part of the fuselage on a Boeing 737 Max flying over Oregon is the latest in a…

By DAVID BRANDT AP Sports Writer The Buffalo Bills and Dallas Cowboys are riding high after big Week 18 wins capped their regular seasons. The Miami…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House says that President Joe Biden has renominated Julie Su to serve as labor secretary, whose confirmation languished…

By MEG KINNARD Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley is taking aim at the Democrat she’d like to…

FRESNO, Calif. (AP) — A man accused of a jailhouse attack on the convicted killer of California college student Kristin Smart has pleaded not…

MATTHEW BROWN Associated Press BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — A federal judge in Montana has issued an arrest warrant for a man accused of killing…

By ADRIAN SAINZ Associated Press MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — A judge has declined to reduce a $1 million bond for a man charged with shooting at a…

CHICAGO (AP) — A 29-year-old Chicago woman has pleaded guilty to first-degree murder after authorities said she helped her mother kill a pregnant…

By KEVIN McGILL Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Advocates for LGBTQ rights have announced a lawsuit to block enforcement of Louisiana’s new…

NEW YORK (AP) — The CEO of JetBlue is stepping down, and he’s being replaced by the first woman to head a major U.S. airline. JetBlue said…

SOUTH BEND, Ind. (AP) — A judge has dismissed a University of Notre Dame’s professor’s defamation lawsuit against a student-run publication…

By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A California man has been sentenced to four years in prison for seeking to win a $100 million…

By SARA CLINE Associated Press BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Newly sworn-in Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry has issued an executive order, calling for a…

By FRANK BAJAK AP Technology Writer BOSTON (AP) — The U.S. retail mortgage lender loanDepot says it’s struggling with a cyberattack that has…

By HOLLY RAMER Associated Press CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — New Hampshire’s attorney general has ordered national Democratic party leaders to stop…

By JOHN O’CONNOR AP Political Writer SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to hear a second Illinois case challenging…

By HANNAH SCHOENBAUM Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A U.S. fugitive known as Nicholas Rossi, who is accused of faking his own death and…

By BEN FINLEY Associated Press Authorities say they’ve linked a smalltime fisherman who died in 2017 to three cold-case homicides in Virginia.…

FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — An explosion at a Texas hotel in Fort Worth on Monday littered downtown streets with large section of building and debris…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Lisa Bonet has filed for divorce from Jason Momoa 18 years after the two actors became a couple. The 56-year-old Bonet filed…

By DIANE JEANTET and DIARLEI RODRIGUES Associated Press RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Brazil has observed the anniversary of last year’s uprising in the…

BESSEMER, Ala. (AP) — Police in Alabama said a 5-year-old boy has been killed when someone shot into a home where he was getting his hair cut. The…

By STEVE DOUGLAS AP Sports Writer Franz Beckenbauer put himself a step ahead on the soccer field by taking a step back. The “libero” position is…

By DAVID BAUDER AP Media Writer NEW YORK (AP) — MSNBC’s Mehdi Hasan says he’s quitting the network rather than accept a demotion. The…

By HANNAH FINGERHUT Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The Iowa Legislature has reconvened at the state capitol in Des Moines for a somewhat…

By ABDULRAHMAN ZEYAD Associated Press BAGHDAD (AP) — Health officials say a fire erupted at a hospital in southern Iraq, sending smoke through a…

TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) — Five companies have agreed to pay the federal government more than $7.2 million overall to resolve claims stemming from…

SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic (AP) — Tampa Bay Rays shortstop Wander Franco has been released from a jail in the Dominican Republic amid an…

By FRANCES D’EMILIO Associated Press ROME (AP) — Opposition politicians in Italy are demanding that police investigate a rally in Rome where…

HELENA, Mont. (AP) — Montana’s Gov. Greg Gianforte and first lady Susan Gianforte have purchased a historic Helena mansion built by one of…

By PATRICK WHITTLE and DAVID SHARP Associated Press PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — The 911 calls flooding into dispatchers as a gunman opened fire at a…

By FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The IRS has announced January 29 as the official start date of the 2024 tax season, and…

JACK DURA Associated Press BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — A federal judge has ordered a new legislative district for two Native American tribes who…

By SETH BORENSTEIN AP Science Writer New research shows that the average liter of bottled water has nearly a quarter million invisible pieces of ever…

LAS VEGAS (AP) — CES 2024 kicks off in Las Vegas this week. The multi-day trade event, put on by the Consumer Technology Association, is set to…

By KIMBERLEE KRUESI Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — More women on Monday joined a Tennessee lawsuit challenging the state’s broad…

By STEPHEN GROVES Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate negotiators were trying to close on a bipartisan border security proposal this week…

By KAY DERVISHI of The Chronicle of Philanthropy Chronicle of Philanthropy Author and journalist Ta-Nehisi Coates is teaming up with two nonprofits…

By WYATTE GRANTHAM PHILIPS AP Business Writer LAS VEGAS (AP) — CES, the Consumer Technology Association’s annual show of all-things tech, is…

By ED WHITE Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — A judge has approved a $2.8 million settlement in a dispute over unpaid work performed by aspiring hair…

By RANDALL CHASE AP Business Writer DOVER, Del. (AP) — The clock is ticking for Cleveland Browns owner Jimmy Haslam and his family to decide…

MUNICH (AP) — The sports world reacts to the announcement that soccer great Franz Beckenbauer, who won the World Cup both as player and coach for…

OCALA, Fla. (AP) — Police have arrested a 39-year-old man for murder after a shooting inside a Florida mall that killed a man and wounded a woman.…

By BASSEM MROUE Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — The elite Hezbollah commander who was killed in an Israeli airstrike in southern Lebanon fought for…

LAS VEGAS (AP) — A man who was caught on camera attacking Las Vegas judge is being sentenced to 19 to 48 months in an unrelated case. Deobra Delone…

QUITO, Ecuador (AP) — A convicted leader of one of the most powerful drug gangs in Ecuador has vanished from the prison where he was serving his…

By The Associated Press Tiger Woods and Nike have indicated they have parted ways after more than 27 years. Woods in a social media post thanked Nike…

TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — An elected prosecutor in Florida who was suspended by Gov. Ron DeSantis after he signed a statement opposing abortion…

PARIS (AP) — The office of French President Emmanuel Macron says that he has accepted the resignation of Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne. Borne’s…

By JOHN RABY AP Sports Writer Olympic gymnastics great Mary Lou Retton says she faces a long battle recuperating at home from a rare form of…

By CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Nigeria’s president has suspended the country’s minister of humanitarian affairs and…

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A “highly impactful” winter storm is expected to dump as much as a foot of snow across the country’s midsection, where…

MUNICH (AP) — Franz Beckenbauer, the German soccer great who helped his country win the World Cup both as player and coach, has died, news agency…

By SARAH RANKIN and MATTHEW BARAKAT Associated Press ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) — Virginia lawmakers are set to take up legislation to enable Republican…

By FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen is announcing that 100,000 businesses have joined a new…

By SEUNG MIN KIM and ZEKE MILLER The Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House says the administration will review what rules or…