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By CLAUDIA LAUER Associated Press Muslim and Jewish civil rights groups say they’ve seen large increases in reports of harassment, bias and…

By FATIMA HUSSEIN and JOSH BOAK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Economic crises are rippling through the countries bordering Israel. That raises…

By JOEY CAPPELLETTI and CHRISTINE FERNANDO Associated Press DEARBORN, Michigan (AP) — Many of Michigan’s top Democrats, including Gov.…

By NICHOLAS RICCARDI Associated Press The new speaker of the U.S. House had a key role in trying to overturn President Joe Biden’s 2020…

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The government is expected to report stellar growth for the U.S. economy during the…

By SAMY MAGDY and WAFAA SHURAFA Associated Press DEIR AL BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians have decided to stay in…

By MORGAN LEE Associated Press SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — An Australia-based company is announcing plans to build a campus in New Mexico to expand its…

BEIJING (AP) — China has launched its youngest-ever crew for its orbiting space station as it seeks to put astronauts on the moon before 2030. The…

By CLAIRE RUSH and GENE JOHNSON Associated Press PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — What authorities describe as an off-duty pilot’s attempt to shut down the…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. Security Council has failed again to address the Israeli-Hamas war in Gaza,…

By RIO YAMAT Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — Thousands of hotel workers fighting for new union contracts are rallying on the Las Vegas Strip.…

By ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal prosecutors are urging a judge to reinstate a gag order on Donald Trump. They’re…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The leader of a Mexican megachurch who is serving more than 16 years in a California prison for sexually abusing young followers…

By RAUL DOMINGUEZ Associated Press SAN ANTONIO (AP) — Victor Wembanyama is making his NBA debut with the Spurs against the Dallas Mavericks and the…

NEW ALBANY, Ind. (AP) — A man convicted of fatally shooting his wife and a bystander and injuring a third person at a southern Indiana gas station…

By REBECCA BOONE Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — A woman sentenced to life in an Idaho prison in the the murders of her two youngest children…

By GERALD IMRAY Associated Press CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — The World Bank has approved a $1 billion loan for South Africa to help it address…

LEWISTON, Maine (AP) — Maine State Police ordered residents in the state’s second-largest city to shelter in place Wednesday night because of…

By KRISTIE RIEKEN AP Sports Writer HOUSTON (AP) — Dusty Baker has retired as manager of the Houston Astros, ending an illustrious 26-year career as…

MAYWOOD, Ill. (AP) — A prosecutor says former NFL player Sergio Brown bought a one-way ticket to Cancun, Mexico, after being the last person seen…

By KATHLEEN RONAYNE and AMY TAXIN Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Federal officials said Wednesday that conditions have improved on the…

BELOIT, Wis. (AP) — People go to Noodles & Company to save a buck, not to have one interrupt their meal. But that’s what happened in Beloit,…

By JACK JEFFERY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — Al-Jazeera says its chief correspondent in Gaza has lost three members of his family in an Israeli…

By LARRY LAGE AP Sports Writer A Michigan State University hearing officer has determined former Michigan State football coach Mel Tucker sexually…

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Hyundai says it will set up “mobile clinics” at five U.S. locations to provide anti-theft software upgrades for vehicles…

By MARY CLARE JALONICK Associated Press A low-key lawmaker who has been in the House for less than a decade, new House Speaker Mike Johnson isn’t…

SALEM, Ore. (AP) — The Oregon Supreme Court will decide whether Republican state senators who carried out a record-setting GOP walkout during the…

By LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Democratic Rep. Jamaal Bowman was charged Wednesday with a misdemeanor for triggering a…

By GARY D. ROBERTSON Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — The North Carolina General Assembly has given final approval to new redistricting maps…

By SETH BORENSTEIN AP Science Writer Hurricane Otis unexpectedly turned from mild to monster in record time, and scientists are struggling to figure…

By HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH and JOHN HANNA Associated Press TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas officials are calling a massive computer outage that’s kept…

By ASHRAF KHALIL Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — An estimated 17 million households reported problems finding enough food in 2022 — a sharp…

By MARK SHERMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — All or most of a $267,000 loan obtained by Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas to buy a…

By BRENDAN FARRINGTON and COLLIN BINKLEY Associated Press TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Florida’s state university system is disbanding chapters of a…

By MICHAEL CASEY Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — The Boston City Council has passed a resolution that calls for renaming Faneuil Hall, a popular…

By REGINA GARCIA CANO Associated Press CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuela’s chief prosecutor has announced a criminal investigation into…

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — An Alabama judge has dismissed Birmingham-Southern College’s lawsuit against the state treasurer over a loan denial.…

By JOHN CARUCCI Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The first thought that comes to mind when you enter the Balloon Museum for the “Let’s Fly”…

ATLANTA (AP) — Dwight Howard has denied accusations by a Georgia man who says he was sexually assaulted by the former NBA star and another person.…

By SEUNG MIN KIM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House is asking lawmakers for more than $23 billion in emergency funding to help the…

NORFOLK, Neb. (AP) — Police in Norfolk, Nebraska, have identified a man whose body was found inside an apartment building chimney, but they’re…

NEW YORK (AP) — Bud Light is set to return as the official beer of the UFC in the U.S. next year as the brand tries to recover from a conservative…

By DARLENE SUPERVILLE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House is hosting a state dinner to celebrate U.S. relations with Australia while…

NEW YORK (AP) — Scholastic Inc. will end a widely criticized policy that made it easier for school book fairs not to sell works with racial,…

By AMANDA SEITZ Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Billions of dollars for a global HIV/AIDS program that’s saved millions of lives are in…

By LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A second U.S. Attorney says he has testified to Congress that the prosecutor overseeing…

By KIMBERLEE KRUESI Associated Press Tennessee’s top legal chief says the federal government is wrongly withholding millions of dollars in family…

By JACK DURA Associated Press BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — North Dakota’s Republican-controlled Legislature has adjourned after rewriting a major…

By AAMER MADHANI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden has spoken out against retaliatory attacks by Israeli settlers against…

By SUMAN NAISHADHAM and BRITTANY PETERSON Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Major corporations in water-guzzling industries such as apparel, food…

By RUSS BYNUM Associated Press ELLABELL, Ga. (AP) — Construction of Hyundai’s first U.S. plant dedicated to making electric vehicles is…

By DÁNICA COTO Associated Press SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Environmental groups are urging a moratorium on deep-sea mining ahead of an…

SEDONA, Ariz. (AP) — Operators of a northern Arizona golf course think they have finally found the right repellent for javelinas ripping apart…

By SYLVIE CORBET Associated Press PARIS (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron sought to promote — with little success so far — the creation…

By STEFANIE DAZIO Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Jury selection continues in the federal trial of the captain of a scuba dive boat that caught…

By DANIEL POLITI Associated Press BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Former Argentine presidential candidate Patricia Bullrich has endorsed right-wing…

By TOM KRISHER AP Auto Writer DETROIT (AP) — The United Auto Workers union appears to be edging closer to a tentative contract agreement with Ford…

By BEN FINLEY Associated Press NEWPORT NEWS, Va. (AP) — A heated debate has emerged about the once-unimaginable shooting of a teacher by her…

CUPERTINO, Calif. (AP) — Apple Inc. is raising the prices for its AppleTV+ streaming and Arcade gaming plans as well as its bundled Apple One…

By CLAIRE SAVAGE Associated Press/Report for America CHICAGO (AP) — A man who prosecutors say pepper-sprayed pro-Palestinian protesters in Illinois…

By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press ROME (AP) — Pope Francis’ big meeting on the future of the Catholic Church is heading into its final stretch.…

By MARY CLARE JALONICK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate Foreign Relations Committee has approved Jacob Lew to be ambassador to…

By WYATTE GRANTHAM-PHILIPS AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Bitcoin is having another moment. The world’s largest cryptocurrency soared to…

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Voters in a Tennessee city have firmly rejected a far-right mayoral candidate after she refused to denounce white…

By COLLEEN SLEVIN Associated Press DENVER (AP) — A Colorado judge chided a welding company that tried to pay off a $23,500 settlement with a…

By GEOFF MULVIHILL Associated Press A new survey finds that the total number of abortions provided in the U.S. after bans started going into effect…

NEW YORK (AP) — Olympic figure skating gold medalist Tara Lipinski and her husband, Todd Kapostasy, have welcomed a daughter through a surrogate…

By RON TODT Associated Press PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A judge has reinstated all charges, including a murder count, against a former police officer who…

By KEVIN McGILL Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A federal appeals court has upheld a deal that ensured Black representation on…

ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. (AP) — It ain’t the Olympics, but a group of Floridians plan to host competitions themed according to the collective antics…

By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Krystal Joy Brown has planted her flag on Broadway, first professionally and now…

NEW YORK (AP) — A man was trapped inside a steel-reinforced concrete jewelry vault in New York City overnight after firefighters had to abandon an…

SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) — Bulgaria has decided to expand the country’s nuclear power generation as an alternative of fossil fuels by launching the…

By LARRY NEUMEISTER and KEN SWEET Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A lawyer for Sam Bankman-Fried says the FTX founder plans to testify at his…

By SYLVIA HUI Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Two Metropolitan Police officers have been dismissed from the force after a disciplinary panel…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Authorities say the 22-year-old driver of a car that struck and killed four college students on a coastal highway in Malibu is…

By DAVID SHARP Associated Press The U.S. Postal Service says law enforcement officials have charged more than 600 people with postal crimes since…

LAS VEGAS (AP) — The NBA enlisted an actor from “The Sopranos” and borrowed the central theme of the film “Ocean’s Eleven,” that…

By JENNIFER PELTZ and JAKE OFFENHARTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Michael Cohen will be back on the witness stand to testify against his…