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By CHRIS MEGERIAN and MATTHEW DALY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Despite weeks of negotiations, the White House and House Republicans were…

By FATIMA HUSSEIN and KEVIN FREKING Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — While Republicans seek to make good on campaign promises to cut IRS funding…

By MICHELLE L. PRICE, STEVE PEOPLES and THOMAS BEAUMONT Associated Press GRIMES, Iowa (AP) — Former President Donald Trump kept up a steady…

By MIKE STOBBE AP Medical Writer NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. births were flat last year, as the nation saw fewer babies born than it did before the…

ROME (AP) — Italy on Wednesday displayed hundreds of antiquities that had been looted from Italian territory and were recovered from a London…

BEIJING (AP) — China’s Defense Ministry has accused the U.S. of “interference and surveillance” of a naval exercise in the South China…

By KARL RITTER and CHARLENE PELE Associated Press STOCKHOLM (AP) — Summer is in the air, cigarette smoke is not, in Sweden’s outdoor bars and…

MOSCOW (AP) — A Moscow court has set a new date for a hearing paving the way for another trial of imprisoned Russian opposition leader Alexei…

By LARRY LAGE AP Sports Writer DETROIT (AP) — The Detroit Pistons made a bold move in their latest attempt to become relevant in the NBA again.…

By HANNA ARHIROVA and SUSIE BLANN Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian officials say the latest pre-dawn Russian missile attack on Kyiv…

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A jury has convicted a San Francisco man of killing his 79-year-old roommate by beating her with a baseball bat and lighting…

By JAKE OFFENHARTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A man who briefly worked as an aide to U.S. Rep. George Santos says he got his job after…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Justice Department prosecutors have obtained an audio recording of former President Donald Trump from after he left office in…

By MORGAN LEE Associated Press SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — A failed political candidate has been indicted on federal charges including election…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Amazon agreed Wednesday to pay a $25 million civil penalty to settle Federal Trade Commission allegations it violated a child…

By TARA COPP Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Air Force has announced the permanent location for many more U.S. Space Force units — and…

By BECKY BOHRER and STEFANIE DAZIO Associated Press JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — Two vacationing couples — including sisters — and a fishing boat…

By CARLOS VALDEZ Associated Press LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) — The trustee of a bankrupt bank in Bolivia who died after falling from the 15th floor of an…

By SAM METZ Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Attorneys representing adult entertainers, erotica authors and sex educators on Wednesday asked…

By KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — The sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has accused the United States of…

By JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — About a week after Typhoon Mawar tore through Guam as the strongest typhoon to hit the…

MAMMOTH, Wyo. (AP) — A man from Hawaii pleaded guilty Wednesday to a charge alleging he picked up a bison calf in Yellowstone National Park,…

By JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — An American sleuth and two Chinese men are facing jurors in the first trial to come out of U.S.…

By BEN NUCKOLS Associated Press OXON HILL, Md. (AP) — Confidence on the Scripps National Spelling Bee stage manifests itself in subtle ways, like…

NIAGARA FALLS, Ontario (AP) — The Canadian province of Ontario has charged the Niagara Falls, Ontario, tourist attraction Marineland over the care…

By DAVID KOENIG AP Airlines Writer DALLAS (AP) — American Airlines says it will appeal a court ruling that would break up a partnership with…

By HANNAH FINGERHUT Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A teenage sex trafficking victim who fatally stabbed the man she accused of abusing…

By LARRY NEUMEISTER and KEN SWEET Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon says he never heard about Jeffrey Epstein until he was…

By CLAIRE RUSH Associated Press/Report for America PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — City Council members in Portland were considering on Wednesday whether to…

By ANDREW DALTON AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — “That ’70s Show” star Danny Masterson was led out in handcuffs from a Los…

PALM BAY, Fla. (AP) — An 11-month-old baby died after being left alone in a hot car while her parents were in church services along Florida’s…

By TED ANTHONY AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Roy Kent cries. Nate Shelley apologizes. Rebecca Welton lets her anger go. Trent Crimm finishes…

By TIM REYNOLDS AP Basketball Writer DENVER (AP) — Nikola Jokic wasn’t supposed to be here. Neither was Jimmy Butler, for that matter. Jokic was…

By ROB GILLIES Associated Press TORONTO (AP) — Canada will soon become the first country in the world where warning labels must appear on…

NORTH MIAMI BEACH, Fla. (AP) — The mayor of a South Florida city has been arrested on illegal voting charges following months of accusations that…

By MIKE SCHNEIDER Associated Press The U.S. Census Bureau says it is once again delaying the release, and narrowing the scope, of some of the most…

By ANDREW SELSKY Associated Press SALEM, Ore. (AP) — The longest-ever walkout in the Oregon Legislature completed its fourth week on Wednesday as…

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — John Beasley, the veteran character actor who played a kindly school bus driver on the TV drama “Everwood” and appeared in…

By JOSEF FEDERMAN Associated Press The Middle Eastern country of Jordan is set to host its biggest royal wedding in years on Thursday as the…

By DEE-ANN DURBIN AP Business Writer Rapper and entrepreneur Sean “Diddy” Combs is suing Diageo, saying the company didn’t make promised…

By JILL COLVIN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Former Vice President Mike Pence will officially launch his widely expected campaign for the…

WINNIPEG, Manitoba (AP) — Sixteen schoolchildren and one adult have been hospitalized after a fall Wednesday at a popular tourist attraction in the…

By TOM KRISHER and BRUCE SCHREINER Associated Press FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Toyota will invest another $2.1 billion in an electric and hybrid vehicle…

CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — Alex Murdaugh was arraigned Wednesday on federal money laundering and wire fraud charges for indictments saying he stole…

By WYATTE GRANTHAM-PHILIPS AP Business Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Some of Adidas’ remaining Yeezy shoes are back on sale — months after the…

Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — Jaguar is recalling more than 6,000 I-Pace electric SUVs in the U.S. due to the risk of a battery fire, and…

By JOHN RABY and DENISE LAVOIE Associated Press CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — Thirteen coal companies owned by the family of West Virginia Gov. Jim…

By SAM METZ Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — U.S. Rep. Chris Stewart on Wednesday announced plans to resign his Utah seat due to his wife’s…

By TOM KRISHER and ASHRAF KHALIL Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. government’s auto safety agency plans to require that all new…

By MAYSOON KHAN Associated Press/Report for America SCHOHARIE, N.Y. (AP) — A former limousine company manager was sentenced Wednesday to at least…

By JEFF AMY and KATE BRUMBACK Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Police on Wednesday arrested three Atlanta organizers who have been aiding protesters…

By CORA LEWIS and ADRIANA MORGA Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A three-year pause on student loan payments will end this summer regardless of how…

By PETER SMITH Associated Press PITTSBURGH (AP) — It was her brother’s active faith that inspired Carol Black to recommit as an adult to…

MILAN (AP) — Simone Bellotti has been named design director at Bally as part of an effort to rejuvenate the 172-year-old Swiss fashion house.…

LONDON (AP) — The United States and Europe are drawing up a voluntary code of conduct for artificial intelligence, with a draft expected in weeks.…

NEW YORK (AP) — Jonathon Heyward will succeed Louis Langrée as music director of Lincoln Center’s Mostly Mozart Orchestra, which will be given a…

By SCOTT McFETRIDGE, TRISHA AHMED and ERIN HOOLEY Associated Press DAVENPORT, Iowa (AP) — Residents of a partially collapsed six-story building in…

By MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — NASA held its first public meeting on UFOs Wednesday a year after launching a study…

By STEPHANIE LIECHTENSTEIN Associated Press VIENNA (AP) — Iran has resolved two outstanding inquiries of the International Atomic Energy Agency.…

FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — German police say a 15-year-old soccer player has died after suffering severe brain injuries during a post-match brawl…

By PAUL WISEMAN AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. job openings rose unexpectedly in April a sign the American labor market remians…

STOCKHOLM (AP) — Scandinavian Airlines says travelers will soon be able to book flights on the carrier’s first commercial flights that are due to…

By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The special Tony Award that honors educators will go this year to a drama teacher in…

By TERRY TANG Associated Press Like a lot of chefs, Aaron Verzosa has been hustling the past three years to get Archipelago, his Filipino restaurant…

By GRANT PECK Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — A court in military-ruled Myanmar has convicted a 34-year-old journalist of violating the country’s…

NEW YORK (AP) — Al Pacino, 83, and 29-year-old Noor Alfallah are expecting a baby, the actor’s representative confirmed Wednesday.…

By ADAM BEAM Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California Gov. Gavin Newsom wants the state to purchase massive amounts of renewable…

By JILL COLVIN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie is expected to launch his second campaign for the Republican…