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By MICHAEL R. BLOOD AP Political Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — California Gov. Gavin Newsom is proposing an amendment to the United States Constitution…

By JAKE BLEIBERG and PAUL J. WEBER Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The FBI on Thursday arrested a businessman at the center of the scandal…

FLORENCE, Ala. (AP) — An Alabama prisoner received a life sentence on Thursday for escaping with the help of a jail official who ultimately took…

CLEVELAND (AP) — A former school dance teacher in Cleveland has been sentenced to life in prison for raping six teenage students and sexually…

By ERIC TUCKER, JILL COLVIN and MICHAEL BALSAMO Associated Press MIAMI (AP) — Donald Trump said Thursday that he was indicted for mishandling…

TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — The Tunisian coast guard says five Africans were found dead and dozens are believed missing after three migrant boats…

By MARK THIESSEN Associated Press ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — A Salt Lake City man who says his job offer to become an Alaska State Trooper was…

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — The United States Agency for International Development says it has suspended all food aid to Ethiopia after an internal…

By OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ and ELLIOT SPAGAT Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ recruiters set their sights on Sacred…

By KAREN MATTHEWS Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — New York’s attorney general has filed a federal lawsuit against an anti-abortion group whose…

By KIMBERLEE KRUESI Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — An attorney representing the shooter who killed six people at a Nashville school says…

Associated Press The S&P 500 is now in what Wall Street refers to as a bull market, meaning the index has risen 20% or more from its most recent…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Ashish Jha, the White House’s point person on the COVID-19 response, will depart from the administration next week. A White…

SURFSIDE BEACH, Texas (AP) — Nearly two dozen teenagers from a summer camp were injured when an elevated walkway collapsed Thursday in a beachside…

By LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer There were many stressful things about making “The Flash” and getting it to theaters. It was shot in the middle of…

TERRY SPENCER Associated Press PARKLAND, Fla. (AP) — A Florida police officer has testified he didn’t initially know where shots were being…

CANTONMENT, Fla. (AP) — Officials say animal control officers rounded up more than 600 pigs from an animal sanctuary in Florida after their…

LEAVENWORTH, Kan. (AP) — A prosecutor says he will seek the death penalty for a 43-year-old Kansas man accused of killing his two sons before…

By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Lawyers for former President Donald Trump say a $5 million jury award for his sexual abuse and…

By ALEXANDRA OLSON and WYATTE GRANTHAM-PHILIPS AP Business Writers NEW YORK (AP) — The hazardous haze from Canada’s wildfires is taking its…

DEDHAM, Mass. (AP) — The prosecutor in the murder trial of a man charged with killing a Massachusetts police officer and an innocent bystander…

MOSCOW (AP) — The co-chair of the Nobel Peace Prize-winning human rights group Memorial, Oleg Orlov, has gone on trial in Moscow, charged with…

By FRANK JORDANS Associated Press BONN, Germany (AP) — The United Arab Emirates official tapped to head the next global climate summit pledged…

DETROIT (AP) — A murder charge has been filed in another fatal shooting involving Detroit gas station clerks and customers. Police say Anthony…

By DÁNICA COTO Associated Press SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris has announced that the U.S. is investing more than…

By MARY CLARE JALONICK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate has confirmed the highest-ranking Muslim official in the U.S. government.…

By KEN MILLER Associated Press OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — An Oklahoma City man who found a swastika cut into the grass in front of his home says he…

By CURT ANDERSON Associated Press ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — A white Florida woman charged with shooting and killing her Black neighbor told…

SOUTH BEND, Ind. (AP) — Jack Swarbrick will step down as Notre Dame’s athletic director next year after a 16-year run in which he helped the…

By JESSICA GRESKO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Thursday gave whiskey maker Jack Daniel’s reason to raise a glass,…

By CHRISTINA A. CASSIDY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — After years of criticizing mail voting and so-called ballot harvesting as ripe for fraud,…

By The Associated Press Racing at Belmont Park was canceled and the Washington Nationals’ home game against the Arizona Diamondbacks was…

By BHARATHA MALLAWARACHI Associated Press COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — A U.S. petroleum company has signed an agreement with Sri Lanka allowing it to…

MILAN (AP) — A special Italian court has shut down a probe into whether the country’s former premier and former health minister caused…

BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — Romania’s foreign ministry has informed Russia that it must reduce the number of its embassy positions in Bucharest by…

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen says Spain, Portugal and France are sending 280 firefighters to Canada. With smoke reaching…

By MARK SHERMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Thursday issued a surprising 5-4 ruling in favor of Black voters in a…

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Norwegian officials say the smoke from Canadian wildfires that has enveloped parts of the U.S. and Canada in a thick…

By GRANT PECK Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — A human rights organization says lawyers representing critics of Myanmar’s military government face…

WINONA, Minn. (AP) — A Minnesota man has been arrested in connection with the disappearance of his ex-girlfriend, after a deputy found human…

Associated Press BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — Thousands of health care workers have protested in Romania’s capital on Thursday, demanding higher…

By MIKE SILVERMAN Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — It’s part fairy tale, part psychodrama. Richard Strauss’s opera “Die Frau Ohne…

By LEA SKENE Associated Press BALTIMORE (AP) — Baltimore’s police commissioner is stepping down after four years in the role. Commissioner…

By VASILISA STEPANENKO Associated Press KHERSON, Ukraine (AP) — Defiant as ever, many residents of the southern Ukrainian city of Kherson who faced…

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — A report into a deadly shooting during Oslo’s annual LGBTQ+ Pride festival last year says Norway’s domestic…

By RODNEY MUHUMUZA Associated Press KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — Uganda’s longtime president says he is taking “forced leave” after testing…

By MATT OTT AP Business Writer The number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits last week rose to its highest level since October 2021, but…

By GRAHAM DUNBAR AP Sports Writer GENEVA (AP) — Budweiser will still be the official World Cup beer through the 2026 tournament in the United…

HELSINKI (AP) — Finland’s popular outgoing foreign minister, who was one of the key negotiators of his country’s recent membership in NATO,…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — “Groundhog Day” is back. Again. The story of a jaded weatherman fated to live the same day over…

By MIKE CORDER Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Russia is urging judges at the United Nations’ highest court to throw out a case…

By MOGOMOTSI MAGOME Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Tens of thousands of Zimbabwean nationals working in South Africa who were facing…

By RAHIM FAIEZ Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — A Taliban official says a bombing in Afghanistan’s northeastern Badakhshan province killed at…

KHERSON, Ukraine (AP) — Exclusive drone footage of the collapsed Ukrainian dam and surrounding villages under Russian occupation showed the ruined…

By DAVID McHUGH and COURTNEY BONNELL AP Business Writers LONDON (AP) — The European economy has contracted slightly at the end of last year and…

By DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The head of Britain’s biggest police force has apologized for the department’s past…

By SAMUEL PETREQUIN Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union’s executive is proposing to create an ethics body that would set up…

By ASHOK SHARMA Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — India says it is not planning to invite Ukraine to the G20 summit of industrialized and…

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Asian shares mostly rose Friday, led by a jump on the Tokyo Stock Exchange where share prices got…

By LORNE COOK Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union is launching legal action against Poland over a contentious new law that the…

By TALES AZZONI AP Sports Writer MADRID (AP) — Once again, Barcelona couldn’t do enough to entice Lionel Messi. Nearly two years after the…