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By STEPHEN GROVES, MARY CLARE JALONICK and LISA MASCARO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate leaders are attempting to push forward a deal to…

By JONATHAN LANDRUM Jr. AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Kris Jenner has a new term: “Twist on it.” The driven matriarch of the…

By MARGERY A. BECK Associated Press A Nebraska state lawmaker has introduced a bill to require the state to accept $18 million in federal funding to…

By ASHRAF KHALIL Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — One of the great interspecies love stories of our time has come to an end. Walnut, a…

By JEFFREY COLLINS Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — The South Carolina Senate has approved a bill that would allow anyone who can legally own…

By KIMBERLEE KRUESI Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — After begrudgingly agreeing to tweak Tennessee’s strict abortion ban last year,…

By DAVE COLLINS Associated Press HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — A new report says inaccurate racial profiling data on traffic stops made by the Connecticut…

NEEDLES, Calif. (AP) — Federal authorities say they might have a break in a long-running investigation into the killing of wild burros in…

By ACACIA CORONADO Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — As tensions grow between Texas officials and the federal government over who can enforce…

By JOSH FUNK and TOM KRISHER Associated Press Residents of eastern Ohio can now get an up-close view in newly released videos of the toxic towers of…

By GENE JOHNSON Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) — Providence health care system is refunding nearly $21 million in medical bills paid by low-income…

By JANIE HAR Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Black lawmakers in California are proposing ways to remedy the long-lasting effects of slavery.…

By MIKE SCHNEIDER Associated Press ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Disney is appealing a federal judge’s dismissal of its free speech lawsuit over Gov. Ron…

By KILEY ARMSTRONG and ANDREW DALTON Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Bruce Springsteen’s mother, Adele Zerilli Springsteen, has died at age…

By JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Yarrah Concepcion was a teenaged aspiring R&B singer and rapper when she got an appointment…

By JAKE OFFENHARTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A pair of childhood friends who were convicted in the killing of a French tourist in Times…

By CHRISTINA A. CASSIDY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — An apparent cyberattack that affected government operations in Georgia’s most populous…

By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A former CIA software engineer has been sentenced to 40 years in prison for what the…

WEST CALN, Pa. (AP) — Authorities say a small plane has crashed in a central Pennsylvania neighborhood. But it’s not yet known if there were…

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Satellite photos show new demolition along a 1-kilometer-deep path on the Gaza Strip’s border…

By ADRIAN SAINZ Associated Press MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — A 16-year-old boy has pleaded guilty to charges of second-degree murder and carjacking in…

By BARBARA ORTUTAY AP Technology Writer Meta Platforms Inc. tripled its profit and posted sharply higher revenue in the final quarter of 2023,…

Associated Press The storm that pummeled California this week was fueled by an atmospheric river, a plume of moisture that extended over the Pacific…

By TODD RICHMOND Associated Press Warm weather has forced the federal officials to suspend the annual wolf-moose count in Isle Royale National Park…

By JOHN ZENOR AP Sports Writer MOBILE, Ala. (AP) — UCLA defensive end Laiatu Latu is a hot NFL draft prospect two years after resuming his football…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Nearly $4 billion in drones and military equipment have been approved for sale to India by the Biden administration. Meant to…

By CURT ANDERSON Associated Press ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — The National Hurricane Center will add inland predictions to its forecast of the…

ST. LOUIS (AP) — Ricky Ian Gordon’s ”This House,” with a libretto by Pulitzer Prize winner Lynn Nottage and daughter Ruby Aiyo Gerber, will…

By MEG KINNARD and MATT BROWN Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Four years after South Carolina removed the Confederate battle flag from its…

By SONIA PÉREZ D. Associated Press GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — Guatemalan President Bernardo Arévalo says that with his political party suspended,…

By FAY ABUELGASIM Associated Press RIYAK, Lebanon (AP) — Britain’s top diplomat said Thursday that his country could officially recognize a…

SOUTH FULTON, Ga. (AP) — Police say officers responding to shots fired at an Atlanta-area home found numerous women there and are investigating the…

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — A group of employees and teachers from a Kentucky middle school who bought a $1 million Powerball winning ticket tucked it…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Former President Donald Trump’s political operation has amassed about $130 million in the final months of last year, but after…

By COLLEEN SLEVIN Associated Press DENVER (AP) — A heavily armed man who was found dead at a Colorado mountaintop amusement park last year had…

By ADRIAN SAINZ Associated Press MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Court documents show that Memphis Police Department trainers are prepared to testify in the…

PANAMA CITY (AP) — Panamanian authorities say a Roman Catholic cardinal disappeared this week in the western part of the country near the border…

SANFORD, Fla. (AP) — A California teenager accused of swatting a Florida mosque has been arrested and transported across the country to face felony…

By DIDI TANG Associated Press Washington (AP) — Two U.S. lawmakers have nominated Jimmy Lai, a former Hong Kong publisher now standing trial on…

BRATISLAVA, Slovakia (AP) — Mass street protests have intensified across Slovakia against a plan by populist Prime Minister Robert Fico to amend…

By JAKE OFFENHARTZ Associated Press New York (AP) — This New York love story begins with a criminal act of sabotage. Under cover of darkness a year…

PUEBLO, Colo. (AP) — A child’s body was found encased in concrete in a Colorado storage unit, and Pueblo officers announced this week they…

By BROOKE SCHULTZ Associated Press/Report for America It was a passionate student letter in 2020 that caused the Southern York County school board to…

By MIKE STOBBE AP Medical Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The latest COVID-19 vaccines are 54% effective at preventing symptomatic infection in adults.…

By MATTHEW DALY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate has approved President Joe Biden’s nominee to lead the Environmental Protection…

By GEOFF MULVIHILL Associated Press A company that helped develop marketing campaigns for OxyContin and other opioids has agreed to a $350 million…

By JEFF AMY Associated Press Georgia senators are passing a bill to allow sports gambling. The bill moves on to the House for more debate, but only…

FLINT, Mich. (AP) — A second contractor says it has reached a $25 million settlement over its role in Flint, Michigan’s lead-contaminated water…

By ANDREW WILKS Associated Press ISTANBUL (AP) — Media outlets say two gunmen have taken seven hostages at a factory owned by Procter & Gamble…

By ALANIS THAMES AP Sports Writer MIAMI (AP) — Some of Roberto Clemente’s most impactful career and life moments are on display at the Miami…

By JIM SALTER Associated Press When two Native American boys from Nebraska died after being taken to a notorious boarding school hundreds of miles…

By ALICIA RANCILIO Associated Press The new season of National Geographic’s “Genius” anthology series focuses on two civil rights legends, the…

By DAVID A. LIEB Associated Press JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — The Missouri Supreme Court is considering whether changes should be made to the…

By JULIE CARR SMYTH Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Stanley J. Aronoff has died at age 91 after a long career that included nearly four…

By CLAIRE RUSH Associated Press SALEM, Ore. (AP) — The Oregon Supreme Court said Thursday that 10 Republican state senators who staged a…

By LAURAN NEERGAARD AP Medical Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Women are far more likely than men to get autoimmune diseases, illnesses like lupus or…

MOSCOW, Idaho (AP) — Attorneys for the man charged with stabbing four University of Idaho students to death in late 2022 are seeking a change of…

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Authorities have captured a man accused of taking a gun from the scene of a shooting inside a Philadelphia store that left a…

By STEPHEN WHYNO AP Sports Writer The Washington Commanders have an agreement with Dan Quinn to hire him as coach, two people with  knowledge of the…

By WAYNE PARRY Associated Press NORTH WILDWOOD, N.J. (AP) — New Jersey is refusing to allow a shore town whose sand dunes have washed away in…

By LOLITA C. BALDOR and TARA COPP Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin says he never directed anyone on his staff not…

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Police and student protesters have clashed in the center of the Greek capital after a demonstration against government plans…

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) — Harvard University’s Hasty Pudding Theatricals has named actor Annette Bening as its 2024 Woman of the Year. Bening…

By GARY GERARD HAMILTON Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Legendary Southern rapper Juvenile says he had been unaware of NPR’s Tiny Desk…

By MARIA SHERMAN AP Music Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — At the 2024 Grammys, boygenius — the major label rock band built of Phoebe Bridgers, Julien…

By COLLEEN LONG, ZEKE MILLER and AAMER MADHANI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden’s is expected to issue an executive order…

By ED WHITE Associated Press PONTIAC, Mich. (AP) — Jurors in Michigan have seen portions of a journal written by a teen before he shot up his…

MOSCOW (AP) — A Russian court has ordered a detained Russian-American journalist to be held in jail for two more months pending her trial on…

By JULIE CARR SMYTH Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A task force convened by Republican Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine after a deadly school bus…

By WYATTE GRANTHAM-PHILIPS AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — TikTok may look (or sound) a little different when you scroll through the app going…

LONDON (AP) — A Conservative lawmaker says he will step down when an election is called later this year because of abuse and death threats. Mike…

PARIS (AP) — France’s two major farmers unions have announced their decision to suspend protests and lift road blockades across the country. The…

By MELISSA RAYWORTH Associated Press Political polarization. Economic struggles. Inequity. Climate change. War. In a world like ours, you can hardly…

CHICAGO (AP) — More than 200 reporters, photographers and other staffers with the Chicago Tribune and six other newsrooms around the nation began a…

By NINIEK KARMINI Associated Press JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesia’s top security minister says that President Joko Widodo has accepted his…

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — A military veteran who helped subdue a man who attacked Connecticut’s first Muslim state representative is seeking to…

BERLIN (AP) — Austrian prosecutors have appealed a court decision that a man who kept his daughter captive for 24 years and raped her thousands of…

By DASHA LITVINOVA Associated Press Imprisoned opposition leader Alexei Navalny is urging Russians to show their protest of President Vladimir Putin…

By MATT OTT AP Business Writer The number of Americans filing for jobless benefits rose last week to the highest level in 11 weeks, though layoffs…

By ILLIA NOVIKOV Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine is claiming it used sea drones to sink a Russian corvette in the Black Sea during a…

By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press ROME (AP) — Street artist Maupal, whose cartoon-like depictions of Pope Francis as a “Super Pope” have…

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Authorities are searching for migrants missing off Puerto Rico’s northwest coast after a crowded boat capsized,…