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AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said Saturday that he is seeking to pardon a U.S. Army sergeant who was convicted of murder in the 2020…

By LISA MASCARO AP Congressional Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) — The chairman of the House Select Committee on China said Saturday the U.S. must…

By BOBBY CAINA CALVAN and KEN MILLER Associated Press Emma Hernandez is defiant even if she fears what may come in the latest stage of the…

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Award-winning cyclist Ethan Boyes died after being struck by a car at a national park in San Francisco, the U.S. Park Police…

By SAMY MAGDY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — Yemen’s Houthi rebels say Saudi Arabia released 13 war prisoners. The Houthis say the prisoners…

NORTH RIM, Ariz. (AP) — Officials at Grand Canyon National Park are delaying the opening of the North Rim to visitors for the 2023 season. Like…

TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Thousands of Israelis gathered for a weekly demonstration against the government’s contentious judicial overhaul plans…

By JOSEF FEDERMAN Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — The Israeli military said its forces attacked targets in Syria early Sunday after six rockets…

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Visitors at the Memphis Zoo said goodbye Saturday to giant panda Ya Ya during a farewell party ahead of her departure back to…

By FRANCES D’EMILIO Associated Press VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis returned to public view on Saturday, presiding over Easter vigil Mass…

By MATTHEW PERRONE AP Health Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — A 19th century “anti-vice” law is at the center of a new court ruling that threatens…

MANCHESTER, England (AP) — A British performance of “The Bodyguard” musical ended in unrequited love for some audience members who…

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Jazz saxophonist and music teacher Edward “Kidd” Jordan died in his sleep Friday, surrounded by family at his New Orleans…

By KATHLEEN FOODY The Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — An Indiana school district did not violate a former music teacher’s rights by pushing…

SANTA ROSA, N.M. (AP) — New Mexico wildlife managers say they will have fewer rainbow trout to stock in lakes and rivers around the state this…

By CLAIRE RUSH Associated Press/Report for America PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — When Gadiel Galvez learned that the owner of his mobile home park south of…

LONDON (AP) — The British public health system is warning that a planned four-day strike by tens of thousands of doctors could lead to the…

By JARI TANNER and KOSTYA MANENKOV Associated Press TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Estonia’s Prime Minister Kaja Kallas says her center-right Reform…

JALALABAD, Afghanistan (AP) — Afghan religious scholars Saturday criticized a ban on female education, as a key Taliban minister warned clerics not…

TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — An analysis that was the basis of a highly criticized recommendation from Florida’s surgeon general cautioning young men…

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The Iowa Attorney General’s Office has paused its practice of paying for emergency contraception — and in rare…

ROME (AP) — Silvio Berlusconi’s doctor, who is treating him for a lung infection, said Saturday that the former Italian premier is responding…

By JOSH BOAK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden keeps seeing good economic news and bad public approval ratings. The…

By JOE McDONALD Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — Chinese health officials defended their search for the source of the COVID-19 virus and lashed out…

By VASILISA STEPANENKO Associated Press DNIPROPETROVSK OBLAST, Ukraine (AP) — Deep underground in southeastern Ukraine, miners work around the…

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The U.S. Navy has deployed a guided-missile submarine capable of carrying up to 154 Tomahawk missiles to the…

By WANJOHI KABUKURU Associated Press MOMBASA, Kenya (AP) — In Africa’s Okavango delta, drilling for oil exploration, as well as human-caused…

ISLE OF PALMS, S.C. (AP) — Gunfire erupted on a South Carolina beach during a “senior skip day” event involving numerous teenagers Friday,…

By MARÍA TERESA HERNÁNDEZ Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — After two months of hard work assembling and painting devil-like cardboard figures…

NORMAN, Okla. (AP) — A report of shots fired sent dozens of police cars to the University of Oklahoma Friday night and the campus was locked down…

By RIO YAMAT Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — A Las Vegas lawyer accused of orchestrating a $460 million “slip-and-fall” Ponzi scheme across…

By DAVE SKRETTA and STEVE REED AP Sports Writer AUGUSTA, Ga. (AP) — Heavy rain that left pools of standing water across Augusta National brought…

EVERETT, Wash. (AP) — A legal battle over a dress code for bikini baristas at coffee stands is ending after a city north of Seattle agreed to pay…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Two men who were apparently Mexican tourists have been shot dead and a woman wounded not far from the beach in Mexico’s…

By GENE JOHNSON Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) — Cannabis regulators have halted operations at several outdoor pot farms and processing facilities…

By KEVIN McGILL Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The U.S. Justice Department has filed arguments against ending a decade-old police reform…

By RIO YAMAT Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — A Nevada judge has thrown out a drug trafficking charge against a former “Dances With Wolves”…

By SAM METZ Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A Utah man who f atally shot his wife, her mother and the couple’s five kids after he was…

By MEGAN JANETSKY Associated Press ATLIXCO, Mexico (AP) — Barefoot, half naked and blindfolded, throngs of middle aged men groan as they drag their…

By GABRIELA SELSER Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — Roman Catholics in Nicaragua have had to hold traditional “Stations of the Cross” and…

SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — A federal judge in Washington state on Friday ordered U.S. authorities not to make any changes that would restrict access to…

By PAUL J. WEBER, MATTHEW PERRONE and LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Access to the most commonly used method of abortion…

ROSEVILLE, Calif. (AP) — Police say the gunman who shot a California Highway Patrol officer and two hostages in a public park was initially wanted…

By JOE REEDY AP Sports Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — World Wrestling Entertainment has apologized for using an image from the Auschwitz concentration…

OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Former Peruvian President Alejandro Toledo Manrique has been granted two more weeks to fight his extradition…

By KEN RITTER Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — Police in Las Vegas have released letters apparently addressing the gunman responsible for the…

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Russia lost elections to three United Nations bodies this week, a sign that opposition to its invasion of Ukraine over a year…

By The Associated Press From dressing as Roman soldiers in Antigua, Guatemala, to carrying palm fronds on the streets of Lagos, Nigeria, Christians…

By KIMBERLEE KRUESI and PAUL J. WEBER Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The expulsion of two Tennessee Democrats over a gun control protest…

WASHINGTON (AP) — ABC’s “This Week” — Former Attorney General Bill Barr; James Trusty, a lawyer for Donald Trump; Major League Baseball…

YUBA CITY, Calif. (AP) — Meet Percy, the police rabbit. Yes, that’s fur real. Some bunny — also known as Officer Ashley Carson — found a…

By MEAD GRUVER Associated Press CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — Seven women who have sued to challenge the admission of a transgender woman to their sorority…

MONTREAL (AP) — Hundreds of thousands of people remain without power in eastern Canada two days after a storm left parts of Quebec and Ontario…

By JOSH FUNK AP Business Writer OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Federal regulators say railroads need to re-examine how they assemble their trains. The call…

By MARK THIESSEN Associated Press ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — So this moose walks into a medical building… While that could be a setup to a bad…

By MATTHEW BARAKAT Associated Press FAIRFAX, Va. (AP) — A police force and university in northern Virginia are teaming up for what they say will be…