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MALE, Maldives (AP) — Voting has started in the Maldives presidential election,  a virtual referendum over which regional power, India or China,…

By EVELYNE MUSAMBI, FARNOUSH AMIRI, CARA ANNA and ELLEN KNICKMEYER Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — The graves at the edge of the orphanage…

By LAURAN NEERGAARD AP Medical Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Updated COVID-19 vaccines are coming soon, just in time to pair them with flu shots. And…

By JIM HEINTZ Associated Press NARVA, Estonia (AP) — Under President Vladimir Putin’s nearly quarter-century in office, Russia’s quality of…

By THOMAS BEAUMONT and HANNAH FINGERHUT Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Donald Trump will cross paths with several Republican rivals…

By JEFF MARTIN Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Hurricane Lee is rewriting old rules of meteorology, leaving experts astonished at how rapidly it…

By PAT EATON-ROBB Associated Press NEW LONDON, Conn. (AP) — A Connecticut city burned to the ground by Benedict Arnold is getting payback in a…

By MIKE SCHNEIDER and MORGAN LEE Associated Press SANTA FE, N.M (AP) — A majority of Native American tribes won’t get the full suite of…

By AAMER MADHANI and JOSH BOAK Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — President Joe Biden and his allies plan to roll out plans on Saturday for a…

By KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un invited visiting Chinese delegates and Russian artists…

By ADAM SCHRECK and DAVID RISING Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — Leaders of many of the world’s biggest economies are ready to huddle in the…

By MAURICIO SAVARESE Associated Press SAO PAULO (AP) — Since the start of her career, New York-born Brazilian singer Bebel Gilberto has put out…

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham on Friday issued an emergency public health order that suspends the open and…

By JAKE OFFENHARTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The Trump Organization will offload its rights to operate a Bronx golf course to a company that…

CLEVELAND (AP) — Cleveland Orchestra music director Franz Welser-Möst had a cancerous tumor removed and has canceled his conducting performances…

By KEVIN McGILL Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A federal appeals court has significantly whittled down a lower court order curbing Biden…

PHOENIX (AP) — Phoenix is on the cusp of yet another heat record this summer after an additional day of 110-degree weather. The National Weather…

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Staffing issues in Las Vegas-area schools reached a critical point this month as classes were canceled or combined to address…

NEW YORK (AP) — An upcoming civil trial over allegations that former president Donald Trump lied about his wealth could last as long as three…

RABAT, Morocco (AP) — A powerful earthquake has struck Morocco, and shaking was felt from Rabat to Marrakesh. There is no immediate word on any…

By MICHELLE CHAPMAN and TOM KRISHER AP Business Writers DETROIT (AP) — The United Auto Workers union has rejected wage and benefit offers from all…

By SUMMER BALLENTINE Associated Press COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — A newly proposed constitutional amendment would prohibit St. Louis and other Missouri…

STAR, Idaho (AP) — A man described as suicidal died after a police officer fired at him in Idaho, authorities said. Police officers in the city of…

By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN Associated Press ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — The U.S. Postal Service is rolling out its latest special edition postage stamps,…

By OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Kaiser Permanente has agreed to pay $49 million as part of a settlement with California…

By AUDREY McAVOY Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — Hawaii’s governor says the number of people still missing following wildfires that…

By JACK DURA Associated Press BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — A North Dakota man was sentenced Friday to five years in prison for running over and killing an…

By ADAM BEAM and CHRISTINA A. CASSIDY Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California lawmakers have voted to limit when local governments…

LAS VEGAS (AP) — A former operations manager at a Las Vegas Strip resort is jailed after being accused of siphoning more than $773,000 in hotel…

By KATE BRUMBACK Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — A judge has denied Trump White House chief of staff Mark Meadows’ request to move his Georgia…

WASHINGTON (AP) — ABC’s “This Week” — Secretary of State Antony Blinken; Gov. Chris Sununu, R-N.H.; Sen. Chris Coons, D-Del.; Dr. Anthony…

By SAMANTHA HENDRICKSON Associated Press/Report For America COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Ohio authorities have released additional bodycam and store…

By ANDREW DeMILLO Associated Press LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders is proposing shielding a broad range of government…

By JIM VERTUNO and JAKE BLEIBERG Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The impeachment trial that could remove Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton…

By NICHOLAS RICCARDI Associated Press DENVER (AP) — Attorneys for former President Donald Trump have moved a lawsuit seeking to bar him from…

By JUAN A. LOZANO Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — This summer’s sweltering heat has put tremendous stress on Texas’ power grid, with the state…

By REGINA GARCIA CANO Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — A U.N. envoy is urging urged Ecuador’s leaders to boost enforcement of labor laws and…

BOSTON (AP) — Law enforcement officials are investigating an episode in which passengers complained of a camera allegedly placed in a bathroom on…

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A state lawmaker in Ohio says he’ll step down next month following a pair of arrests in less than two months in an…

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — A south Alabama woman has been sentenced to a year in prison for hanging racially offensive homemade dolls on her Black…

By JAKE BLEIBERG and PAUL J. WEBER Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A former Texas lawman says he told Attorney General Ken Paxton in 2020…

By MIKE CATALINI Associated Press TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — New Jersey’s leaders appear to agree with Justice Department findings that state-run…

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — The pilot of a Florida medical rescue helicopter has told investigators he heard a loud bang before a fire broke out…

By DAVID SHARP Associated Press PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Maine’s attorney general has concluded there was no criminal conduct when four law…

By HOLLY RAMER Associated Press CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — A fourth man has been charged in connection with threats and vandalism targeting two public…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Investigators say one of the engines on a United Airlines jet broke up over Denver in 2021 because of wear and tear on a fan…

By RALPH D. RUSSO AP College Football Writer Oregon State and Washington State on Friday filed a complaint in Washington state court against the…

By MARK SHERMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court is being asked to reverse an appellate ruling that would cut off mail-order…

By TRÂN NGUYỄN Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed a bill aimed at clearing the way for…

By LEA SKENE Associated Press BALTIMORE (AP) — The perjury and mortgage fraud trial of Baltimore’s former top prosecutor is being moved…

By JAKE OFFENHARTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Officials say they’ve identified the remains of two people who died in the 9/11 attack on…

By MEG KINNARD and KATE BRUMBACK Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis pursued charges against roughly half…

By SETH BORENSTEIN AP Science Writer The world is far off track on its 2015 pledge to curb global warming. A new United Nations report central to…

PLUM, Pa. (AP) — Investigators say the location of an explosion that killed six people and destroyed three houses near Pittsburgh last month was…

By GEOFF MULVIHILL Associated Press The Kroger Co. has agreed to pay up to $1.4 billion to settle lawsuits over the toll of opioids. The supermarket…

PITTSBURGH (AP) — A retired pediatrician from Pittsburgh who helped create the ‘Mr. Yuk’ poison warning for kids has died. Dr. Richard W.…

By EVA VERGARA Associated Press SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — When Augusto Pinochet installed himself as Chile’s dictator in 1973, the age of…

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) — Authorities have upgraded murder charges against the man accused of fatally shooting three University of Virginia…

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United Nations has doubled down on its pledge to revive stalled negotiations over the disputed Western Sahara in a visit…

By KAREN MATTHEWS Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A mother has filed a lawsuit against Peloton over the death of her son, who was killed when his…

By SARA CLINE and KEVIN McGILL Associated Press BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — A federal judge has ruled that incarcerated youths be removed from a…

By DYLAN LOVAN Associated Press LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Lawyers for two Kentucky men exonerated for a decades-old killing have settled with the city…

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — An Indianapolis police officer who pleaded guilty to kicking a handcuffed man in the face during a 2021 arrest has been…

By BEATRICE DUPUY Associated Press Luxury fashion house Dior has confirmed that longtime former artistic director Marc Bohan has died at 97. The…

By TODD RICHMOND Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A Wisconsin sawmill has agreed to pay about $191,000 and submit to multiple sanctions after…

Associated Press The Federal Aviation Administration is considering requiring that all planes be equipped with technology designed to prevent close…

PANAMA CITY (AP) — Panama says it will increase deportations and infrastructure in the area of the Darien jungle along its shared border with…

By TERRY TANG Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Collaboration between art and government sometimes breeds conflict. The postponement of a Mesa,…

By JACK DURA Associated Press BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers on Friday released its draft environmental impact statement of…

TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy named Secretary of State Tahesha Way to be the state’s next lieutenant governor, a month after…