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By DIDI TANG and MATTHEW LEE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — China’s top diplomat is meeting high-level U.S. officials, possibly including…

By WILL WEISSERT and HOLLY RAMER Associated Press CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — Minnesota Democratic Rep. Dean Phillips is expected to announce a primary…

By KEVIN FREKING Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — “Embarrassing,” “chaotic” and “irresponsible.” And those were just the…

By JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Former President Donald Trump’s civil business fraud trial is turning to the question of…

By BARBARA ORTUTAY AP Technology Writer SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — One year ago, billionaire Elon Musk walked into Twitter’s San Francisco headquarters…

By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN and LEA SKENE Associated Press HAGERSTOWN, Md. (AP) — Loved ones are grieving the loss of a Maryland judge who was gunned down…

By MARIA SHERMAN AP Music Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Taylor Swift’s reimagined “1989” is here, the album that ushered in the first Peak Swift…

By DARLENE SUPERVILLE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Can’t come to Washington? Couldn’t get a ticket to tour the White House?…

By CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — A UNESCO report released during Lagos Fashion Week notes Africa’s fashion industry is…

By LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. military launched airstrikes early Friday on two locations in eastern Syria linked…

By KEN MORITSUGU Associated Press SHANGRI-LA TOWN, China (AP) — Village schools have been shuttered across China’s Tibet and replaced with…

ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — Former President George W. Bush, the former Rangers owner, will throw out the ceremonial first pitch before Texas plays the…

BEIJING (AP) — Former Premier Li Keqiang, China’s top economic official for a decade, died Friday of a heart attack. He was 68. Li was China’s…

By ASHRAF KHALIL Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The National Zoo’s three celebrity giant pandas will be heading home a little earlier…

By MIKE STOBBE AP Medical Writer NEW YORK (AP) — More than a month after federal officials recommended a new version of the COVID-19 vaccines, 7%…

By ALI SWENSON Associated Press Supporters of a ballot measure that would enshrine abortion rights in the Ohio Constitution are far outraising their…

By GENE JOHNSON Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) — An Idaho woman is suing her one-time fertility doctor, saying he secretly used his own sperm to…

By RONALD BLUM AP Baseball Writer ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — Before opening the World Series, the Arizona Diamondbacks wanted to recount a series of…

By PAUL J. WEBER Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas is moving closer to giving police broad new authority to arrest migrants who cross the…

By JUAN A. LOZANO Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — Officials say a Houston-area deputy accused of fatally shooting a man while confronting him after…

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres has announced the appointment of a 39-member global advisory panel to report on…

By JOSH FUNK AP Business Writer The removal of contaminated soil from the site of February’s fiery Norfolk Southern derailment in eastern Ohio…

By The Associated Press Conservative talk radio host Larry Elder announced Thursday that he was ending his 2024 Republican campaign for president and…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — “Stop the bombs and save lives!” the Palestinian ambassador pleaded at an emotional…

By JONATHAN MATTISE Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Newly released audio of the 911 call from a woman who was carjacked and police…

By LEAH WILLINGHAM Associated Press Democratic U.S. Rep. John Sarbanes of Maryland will not seek reelection in 2024, choosing to depart his seat…

By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi Republican Gov. Tate Reeves says he is working to ease financial…

By HOLLY RAMER and LISA RATHKE Associated Press Writers Authorities have not released the names of the 18 people killed in two mass shootings in…

By BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press KYBURZ, Calif. (AP) — On a mountainside where walls of flames torched the forest on their way toward Lake Tahoe in…

By CLAIRE RUSH Associated Press/Report for America PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — The former Alaska Airlines pilot who police say tried to cut the engines…

By LLAZAR SEMINI Associated Press TIRANA, Albania (AP) — An Albanian court has ruled that former prime minister Sali Berisha, who is accused of…

BALTIMORE, Md. (AP) — More than a century after Edward Garrison Draper was rejected for the Maryland Bar due to his race, he has been posthumously…

By ED WHITE Associated Press A man wrongly accused of drunken driving can sue a Michigan police officer who grossly misread a breath test.…

By KEVIN McGILL Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A sale of federal Gulf of Mexico oil and gas leases that had been scheduled for Nov. 8 is being…

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greenpeace is stepping up its appeal for Greece to abandon a deep-sea gas exploration project in the Mediterranean. It cites…

ROUND LAKE BEACH, Ill. (AP) — A man who allegedly attacked two relatives with a sledgehammer in suburban Chicago has been fatally shot by police…

By CURT ANDERSON Associated Press ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — The Tampa Bay Rays are pushing for swift approval of a financing deal for a new…

MACON, Ga. (AP) — Authorities say one of four men who escaped from a central Georgia jail last week has been caught. The Bibb County Sheriff’s…

By AAMER MADHANII and COLLEEN LONG Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House says that Russia is executing soldiers who have failed to…

By SUDHIN THANAWALA Associated Press GAINESVILLE, Ga. (AP) — A former Georgia voter has testified that he felt overwhelmed and discouraged when he…

By REGINA GARCIA CANO Associated Press CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuelan government critic María Corina Machado has been declared the winner of…

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — Five-time Olympic gold medalist Diana Taurasi and Brittney Griner head up the USA Basketball Women’s National Team…

By JOSH FUNK AP Business Writer OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Norfolk Southern has installed the first of what will be more than a dozen of a new generation…

NEW YORK (AP) — Lionel Messi is a finalist for the MLS Newcomer of the Year award. The league announced the finalists for its season awards on…

By JONEL ALECCIA AP Health Writer Federal officials are warning health care providers and the public about injuries and at least one death in…

By MAYSOON KHAN and ANTHONY IZAGUIRRE Associated Press ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York Gov. Kathy Hochul is refusing to disclose who paid for her to…

By TOM KRISHER AP Auto Writer DETROIT (AP) — General Motors and Jeep maker Stellantis are meeting with United Auto Workers bargainers to see if…

By PATRICK WHITTLE, LINDSAY WHITEHURST and MARC LEVY Associated Press PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Barely four years before a gunman’s deadly…

By LARRY NEUMEISTER and KEN SWEET Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Sam Bankman-Fried got a test run at testifying at his New York criminal trial…

By ISABEL DEBRE Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — How many Palestinians have been killed in the Gaza Strip since the war between Israel and Hamas…

LONDON (AP) — A prominent lawmaker within Britain’s governing Conservative Party has revealed that he has been arrested in connection with a rape…

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — A police spokesman in the Afghan capital Kabul says an explosion has killed two people and injured nine others. It struck…

ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — Bill Miller and Alfonso Márquez will be joined by five first-time World Series umpires when the Texas Rangers play the…

By STEPHEN WHYNO AP Hockey Writer Ottawa Senators forward Shane Pinto has been suspended 41 games for violating the NHL’s gambling policy. He…

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — The son of a federal judge who was convicted of killing his wife more than a decade ago has pleaded guilty to…

By ROBERT YOON Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden wasn’t successful in unseating New Hampshire from the first-in-the-nation…

By GARY D. ROBERTSON Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A Democratic member of Congress is running for North Carolina attorney general next year…

ROME (AP) — Newcastle midfielder Sandro Tonali has been banned for 10 months by the Italian soccer federation for betting on teams he played for.…

WILLIAMSPORT, Md. (AP) — Authorities say a man suspected of killing a Maryland judge last week has been found dead. The Washington County…

By MATTHEW BARAKAT AP Business Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Google is beginning its defense against a federal lawsuit accusing it of illegally…

By JIM SALTER Associated Press ST. LOUIS (AP) — Federal prosecutors say that the executive director of a Missouri nonprofit is accused of stealing…

By JULIE WATSON Associated Press SAN DIEGO (AP) — The U.S. Customs and Border Protection has announced a new government-wide strategy that will…

By JEFF AMY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — A federal judge says some of Georgia’s congressional, state Senate and state House districts are…

By JACK DURA Associated Press BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — An east-moving snowstorm, the first major one of the season, continued Thursday into North…

By SAMANTHA HENDRICKSON Associated Press/Report For America COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — An Ohio judge has found former Republican state Rep. Bob Young…

MADRID (AP) — Spanish authorities are planning to convert unused military barracks and installations into temporary shelters for migrants to deal…

By JAKE OFFENHARTZ Associated Press New York (AP) — A woman who accused the actor Jonathan Majors of domestic violence was herself arrested by the…

By ABBY SEWELL Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — A senior Hamas official has told The Associated Press that the Palestinian militant group had…

By The Associated Press Cooper Flagg, the consensus top player in the 2024 recruiting class, says his focus is on the tragedy of a mass shooting in…

BEIJING (AP) — China and the United States appear to be restarting dialogue between their militaries, despite continuing disputes over…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Two workers at the tsunami-wrecked Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant have been hospitalized…

By RAVI NESSMAN and AMY TEIBEL Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — More than two weeks after Hamas’ attack, many Israelis are furious at Prime…

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — An acquaintance has been charged in the death of a Philadelphia journalist who went from sleeping on the street to working for…

By ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON Associated Press MIAMI (AP) — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’s office says the state has arranged to send drones, weapons,…

By JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A New York judge says he will take a fuller look at Donald Trump’s out-of-court comments and…

By STEVE KARNOWSKI Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A strike has shut down all shipping on the St. Lawrence Seaway, interrupting exports of…

By WAYNE PARRY Associated Press UPPER TOWNSHIP, N.J. (AP) — A giant smokestack that was part of the landscape for millions of tourists heading to…

By SAMANTHA HENDRICKSON Associated Press/Report For America COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — An Ohio woman has been indicted on murder charges in the deaths…

By AMY TEIBEL Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel has expelled a prominent Palestinian activist from his home in a West Bank city at the heart…

By LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Democratic congressman Jamaal Bowman has pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor count for…

By GERALD IMRAY Associated Press CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — An inquiry has opened into an apartment building fire that killed at least 76…