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By MARÍA VERZA and FERNANDA PESCE Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexicans are celebrating Day of the Dead, an intangible tradition borne down…

By MICHAEL GOLDBERG Associated Press/Report for America JACKSON, MISS. (AP) — A federal judge has postponed sentencing for six former Mississippi…

By JONATHAN MATTISE Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A panel of judges has ruled that it was unconstitutional for Tennessee lawmakers to…

By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN Associated Press ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — New Mexico’s top prosecutor is going after landowners who he says are illegally…

By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried has undergone a final barrage of questions from a prosecutor…

LIMA, Peru (AP) — A Dutchman who recently confessed to killing American high school student Natalee Holloway in 2005 in Aruba has been returned…

By HOLLY RAMER Associated Press Maine State Police documents shed light on why a delusional U.S. Army reservist who killed 18 people at a bowling…

By SUMMER BALLENTINE Associated Press COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — A Missouri appeals court has ruled against a Republican-written description of…

NEW YORK (AP) — A Long Island woman has been convicted of aggravated manslaughter in the death of a New York City police detective killed on the…

SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) — Tropical Storm Pilar is lashing Central America with heavy rains that have already been blamed for two deaths in…

Associated Press A pilot has been indicted for allegedly threatening to shoot the plane’s captain if the captain diverted the flight because of…

By JACK DURA Associated Press BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — The executive director of the North Dakota Republican Party has resigned a week into the job…

By BABACAR DIONE Associated Press DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Senegal’s electoral commission says that main opposition leader Ousmane Sonko should…

By HOLLY RAMER Associated Press Documents released by a Maine sheriff’s office give the most detailed timeline yet of the warning signs and…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — A senior U.N. official says Russian strikes are inflicting unimaginable suffering on the…

By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Robert De Niro lashed out in a New York courtroom against a former executive assistant and…

By DÁNICA COTO Associated Press SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Members of a U.N. body charged with protecting deep international waters are…

LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) — Bolivia has severed diplomatic relations with Israel while calling for an end to the Israeli military offensive against…

By GABE STERN Associated Press/Report for America RENO, Nev. (AP) — Nevada Republican Gov. Joe Lombardo is criticizing his state party’s plan to…

By TOM KRISHER AP Auto Writer DETROIT (AP) — From generous pay and benefits to stronger job security, the United Auto Workers union won significant…

By BRIAN SLODYSKO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Mike Johnson does not typically mention one aspect of his work before being elected to…

By BRUCE SCHREINER Associated Press LONDON, Ky. (AP) — Republican Daniel Cameron is picking apart the Democratic governor’s record in trying to…

PALMYRA, Maine (AP) — Police in Maine arrested a former Walmart employee who made a threatening social media post that referenced a recent mass…

EVERMAN, Texas (AP) — A Texas woman who told various stories to explain her 6-year-old son’s absence before leaving the country has been charged…

KENOSHA, Wis. (AP) — A judge has ruled that video and transcripts of a police interview with a Wisconsin woman accused of killing a man she alleges…

By BRIAN SLODYSKO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Before House Speaker Mike Johnson was elected to public office, he was the dean of a small…

By JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — When Donald Trump tried to buy the Buffalo Bills in 2014, investment bankers doubted the NFL…

By LAURAN NEERGAARD AP Medical Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Maryland doctors say the second person to receive a transplanted heart from a pig has died.…

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (AP) — A power company’s plans for an enormous offshore wind farm off Virginia’s southeast coast have received key…

NAUGATUCK, Conn. (AP) — A Connecticut police officer who shocked a shoplifting suspect three times with a stun gun, including when the man was on…

By KAREEM CHEHAYEB Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — The human rights group Amnesty International says civilians in southern Lebanon were injured this…

By DOUG FERGUSON AP Golf Writer TGL is the tech-infused golf league created by Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy. And now they’re sharing exactly…

By MARY CLARE JALONICK The Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate has confirmed Jacob Lew as ambassador to Israel, filling the key…

By JOSEF FEDERMAN Associated Press Over the past five days, Israeli ground troops have pushed deeper and deeper into Gaza in their war against Hamas,…

Authorities say a North Dakota woman fatally poisoned her boyfriend after learning that he planned to break up with her after he received a large…

By LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press FBI Director Christopher Wray is warning that Hamas’ rampage inside Israel could inspire violence in the…

By EVENS SANON and DÁNICA COTO Associated Press PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — The United Nations expert on human rights in Haiti says he is alarmed…

By JONATHAN MATTISE Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The mother of a man who was fatally shot by an officer in Tennessee after fleeing a…

PARIS (AP) — French Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne on Tuesday vowed a “merciless fight” against surging antisemitism after residents of the…

By ADAM GELLER AP National Writer In a country shadowed by the threat of mass shootings and neighborhood violence, courts have embraced an…

By COLLIN BINKLEY AP Education Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The country’s largest Christian university is being fined $37.7 million by the federal…

FORT WAYNE, Ind. (AP) — The trial for an Indiana man charged in the killings of two teenage girls slain in 2017 during a hiking trip has been moved…

By ANTHONY IZAGUIRRE Associated Press ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — An independent party will review antisemitism policies at the City University of New…

McCOOK, Neb. (AP) — Officials say a single-engine plane crash in a southwestern Nebraska town has killed one person and injured another who were on…

LANSING, Mich. (AP) — The Michigan attorney general’s office says the state prosecution of former Gov. Rick Snyder and other officials for their…

By MARK SHERMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court wrestled Tuesday with whether public officials can block critics from…

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The city of Philadelphia has picked the winning design for a Harriet Tubman statue outside City Hall after facing criticism…

By KAREN MATTHEWS Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A man who beat a 66-year-old Sikh man to death after a fender bender in New York City has been…

By The Associated Press Five hostages of Hamas are free, offering some hope to the families of more than 200 others snatched in southern Israel…

RUMFORD, Maine (AP) — Law enforcement officers in Maine have killed a man who confronted officers outside a police station with a rifle.…

OXFORD, Mich. (AP) — An independent investigation has concluded that a threat assessment should have been conducted by school officials into Ethan…

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Puerto Rico police have arrested at least 380 people in the department’s biggest crackdown on crime in recent years.…

By MARTHA BELLISLE Associated Press TACOMA, Wash. (AP) — Five weeks into the trial against three Tacoma, Washington, police officers charged in the…

By HANNAH SCHOENBAUM Associated Press/Report for America RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Toyota will invest an additional $8 billion in the hybrid and…

By LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer In her 25 years of making films, Sofia Coppola has always found the poetry behind the headlines, the banality in the…

CHULA VISTA, Calif. (AP) — Three people were struck by bullets and a fourth grazed when a shooter opened fire inside a Brazilian restaurant south…

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Yemen’s Houthi rebels have for the first time claimed missile and drone…

By JEFF AMY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — A former employee is suing to force a Mississippi utility to repay $382 million to the federal…

By PETER SMITH Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Like other Christian, Jewish and Muslim clergy in a delegation of Ukrainian interfaith leaders…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — The Mexican navy said Tuesday that four more boats have been located on the bottom of Acapulco bay, bringing to 33 the number of…

By GRANT PECK Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — A high-ranking official from China has made a visit to military-ruled Myanmar to discuss security…

By DAVID SHARP LEWISTON, Maine (AP) — Children returned to school Tuesday and planned to go trick-or-treating in the evening after spending days…

By STEPHEN WHYNO AP Sports Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Gallaudet University and AT&T developed a football helmet for Deaf and hard-of-hearing…

By BOUAZZA BEN BOUAZZA Associated Press TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — The leader of Tunisia’s moderate Islamist party has been sentenced to 15 months…

HELSINKI (AP) — Three Finnish men who embraced neo-Nazi ideology have been found guilty of committing crimes with terrorist intent including…

By ZEN SOO Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong leader John Lee will not attend an upcoming economic conference in the U.S. due to…

DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — Thousands of garment factory workers have taken to the streets of Bangladesh’s capital, Dhaka, and the industrial…

BERLIN (AP) — Police say remains of a person missing since devastating floods in western Germany more than two years ago have been found near the…

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — A Dutch court has convicted a Russian businessman of exporting computer chips and other electronic products to the…

By SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin Democratic Gov. Tony Evers us suing the Republican-controlled Legislature, arguing…

By MATT OTT AP Business Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — American consumers are feeling increasingly less confident these days as fears of an oncoming…

By JULHAS ALAM Associated Press DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — Police have clashed with opposition supporters in Bangladesh as the main opposition…

SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — A magnitude 6.6 earthquake has struck off the coast of northern Chile, and has been felt in several provinces of neighboring…

By BINAJ GURUBACHARYA Associated Press KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — The U.N. chief has toured the highest peaks in Nepal, and says the world should end…

By MENELAOS HADJICOSTIS Associated Press NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — Cyprus is working out with partners in the European Union and the Middle East the…

By JUSTIN KABUMBA Associated Press GOMA, Congo (AP) — The United Nations migration agency says a record 6.9 million people have been displaced by…

By JULIA FRANKEL and MOSHE EDRI Associated Press ASHKELON, Israel (AP) — The soldiers guarding Avi Chivivian’s organic vegetable farm in…

By MELINA WALLING and JOHN LOCHER Associated Press GANADO, Ariz. (AP) — Growing up in Ganado, a small town in Navajo Nation in eastern Arizona,…

By BABA AHMED Associated Press BAMAKO, Mali (AP) — Residents say United Nations peacekeepers have withdrawn from a rebel stronghold in northern…

By CIARÁN GILES Associated Press MADRID (AP) — Spain’s Catholic bishops have apologized again for sex abuses committed by members following…

NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — A former U.S. Army major and his wife accused of routinely beating their young foster children and denying them food and water…

By LUIGI NAVARRO Associated Press FLORENCE, Italy (AP) — Just four at a time, visitors soon will be allowed access to a long-hidden space inside…

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Wages and benefits grew at a slightly faster pace in the July-September quarter than…