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By MICHAEL GOLDBERG Associated Press/Report for America JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Two influential members of the U.S. House of Representatives from…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration is asking the Supreme Court to allow Border Patrol agents to cut razor wire that Texas installed on the…

By KEVIN McGILL Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A federal appeals court in New Orleans says the Biden administration cannot use a 1986…

BULLHEAD CITY, Ariz. (AP) — Authorities say the cause of a house fire in northwestern Arizona that left five children dead last month is still…

By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez introduced a member of the Qatari royal family and principal in a…

By JOEY CAPPELLETTI Associated Press LANSING, Mich. (AP) — A group of Michigan Republicans plan to meet Saturday and discuss whether to remove…

By JESSE BEDAYN Associated Press/Report for America DENVER (AP) — Gun rights groups have filed a federal lawsuit challenging Colorado’s ban on…

HONOLULU (AP) — Authorities in Hawaii say a man shot and wounded a woman, stole a car at gunpoint and was later killed in a shootout with police…

By DAVE COLLINS Associated Press HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Kennedy cousin Michael Skakel is suing a police investigator and the town of Greenwich,…

By MIKE CATALINI and CLAIRE SAVAGE Associated Press TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — Some officials in suburbs and outlying cities near Chicago and New York…

By LARRY NEUMEISTER and JOSHUA GOODMAN Associated Press New York (AP) — The brother of a powerful leftist senator in Colombia has pleaded guilty to…

By MIKE CORDER Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — South Africa has launched a case at the United Nations’ top court alleging that…

NEW YORK (AP) — The woman who was pinned under a food truck when a driver fleeing police plowed into pedestrians in midtown Manhattan has been…

NORTHFIELD TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) — Four people from an Arkansas family have been publicly identified as the victims of a fatal house explosion in…

By DAVID BAUDER AP Media Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and former United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley are set to appear at…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The bloom is off the final rose for “Bachelorette” star Rachel Lindsay and husband Bryan Abasolo, who found love on the…

JERUSALEM (AP) — The Israeli prime minister’s office says Zvi Zamir, a former director of the Mossad spy service who warned that Israel was…

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Officials with New Mexico’s largest electric utility say a proposed multibillion-dollar merger with a U.S. subsidiary of…

By GARY D. ROBERTSON Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina’s election board has finalized the candidates for the state’s March 5…

By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — An appeals court says Michael Cohen can’t hold ex-president Donald Trump, his former…

NEW YORK (AP) — Officials say a 1.7 magnitude earthquake that hit New York City may have caused a series of small explosions on an island between…

By TOM WITHERS AP Sports Writer CLEVELAND (AP) — Frank Ryan, the quarterback who led the Cleveland Browns to their last NFL title in 1964, has…

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) — Harvard University President Claudine Gay has resigned amid plagiarism accusations and criticism over testimony at a…

GARY, Ind. (AP) — Police say a woman who was trapped in a car that crashed early on New Years Day was rescued after a passerby directed officers to…

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A man was found dead inside an airplane engine Monday night at Salt Lake City International Airport after police say he…

By HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — The powerful sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has derided South Korea’s…

By LESLIE AMBRIZ Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — J.A. Bayona’s “Society of the Snow” provides a fresh look at the 1972 Andes plane…

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — A small daily newspaper in the U.S. Virgin Islands whose owner credited past generations of literate slaves for its…

LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) — A judge has ruled that a former county clerk who refused to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples in Kentucky must pay…

By OMAR FARUK Associated Press MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — Somalia’s president has rejected an agreement signed between Ethiopia and the breakaway…

By NICHOLAS RICCARDI and COLLEEN SLEVIN Associated Press DENVER (AP) — A man leaving the scene of a car wreck Tuesday shot his way into the…

BEIRUT (AP) — An explosion shook the Lebanese capital’s southern suburbs causing chaos in the militant Hezbollah group’s stronghold. But the…

By NICHOLAS RICCARDI Associated Press DENVER (AP) — Former President Donald Trump is expected to appeal rulings from Colorado and Maine that he is…

ROCHESTER, N.Y. (AP) — Police say a man who died after crashing an SUV loaded with gas cans outside an upstate New York concert venue appeared to…

By LAURA UNGAR AP Science Writer Thousands of women stocked up on abortion pills just in case they needed them, new research shows, with demand…

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Basdeo Panday, a former prime minister of Trinidad and Tobago who was the first person of Indian descent to hold that…

By MARIA DI MENTO of The Chronicle of Philanthropy Chronicle of Philanthropy Investment guru Warren Buffett topped The Chronicle of…

By KRISHAN FRANCIS Associated Press COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — A group of Rohingya refugees living in Sri Lanka has staged a protest outside the…

MADRID (AP) — A Spanish man who spent 15 months in an Iranian prison after visiting the tomb of Mahsa Amini has returned home to Madrid after being…

By MARÍA TERESA HERNÁNDEZ Associated Press SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic (AP) — The Dominican Republic is one of four Latin American nations…

By MARÍA TERESA HERNÁNDEZ Associated Press AZUA, Dominican Republic (AP) — It was a busy Saturday morning at Marcia González’s church. A…

By JARI TANNER Associated Press HELSINKI (AP) — Finland and Sweden have recorded the coldest temperatures this winter as thermometers plummeted to…

By ALANA BENSON of NerdWallet I never wanted to be a vegetarian, and definitely not a vegan, but after seeing a family member change their diet for…

BANGKOK (AP) — Thailand’s Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin says his country and China will soon implement visa-free entry for each other’s…

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkey’s state-run news agency says authorities have detained 33 people suspected of spying on behalf of Israel.…

BERLIN (AP) — Members of the smallest party in German Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s unpopular coalition have voted in a low-profile ballot to stay in…

By WAFAA SHURAFA, SAMY MAGDY and MELANIE LIDMAN Associated Press DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Heavy fighting was reported in the southern Gaza…

TOKYO (AP) — A plane has caught fire on the runway of Tokyo’s Haneda airport. Local TV showed a large burst of fire erupt from the side of a…

JOHNSTON, Iowa (AP) — A lottery player in Michigan has won the $842.4 million Powerball jackpot on the first day of 2024, the first time it has…

By The Associated Press Asian markets were mostly lower Tuesday following the release of data showing more signs of weakness in the Chinese…

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine’s capital and its second-largest city came under heavy Russian missile attacks on Tuesday, killing one person and…

PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistani police say unidentified gunmen have shot and killed six barbers in a former stronghold of the Pakistani Taliban…

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — ESPN has apologized for a video clip of a woman bearing her breast that was shown during the broadcast of the Sugar Bowl in New…

By RALPH D. RUSSO AP College Football Writer NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Michael Penix Jr. passed for 430 yards and two touchdowns, and Washington held off…

By RODNEY MUHUMUZA Associated Press MBARARA, Uganda (AP) — Tonto is a legendary traditional drink in Uganda. But the fermented banana juice is…

By MAURICIO SAVARESE Associated Press RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva likes to boast he had a good first year…

By KEN RITTER Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — A former Los Angeles-area gang leader charged with killing hip-hop music icon Tupac Shakur in 1996…

By SOPHIA TAREEN Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — Investigators specializing in cold cases and missing people have discovered the identity of an…

By SOPHIA TAREEN Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — Investigators specializing in cold cases and missing people have discovered the identity of an…

By STEVE PEOPLES AP National Political Writer LACONIA, N.H. (AP) — U.S. presidential elections have been rocked in recent years by economic…

By MARC LEVY Associated Press HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — The hacking of a municipal water authority in a small Pennsylvania town is prompting new…

By STEVE PEOPLES AP National Political Writer LACONIA, N.H. (AP) — U.S. presidential elections have been rocked in recent years by economic…

By ZEN SOO Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — Prominent activist and publisher Jimmy Lai on Tuesday pleaded not guilty to three charges of sedition…

ROCHESTER, New York (AP) — Police are investigating after a fiery two-vehicle collision killed two people and injured five others in Rochester, New…

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korean opposition leader Lee Jae-myung was attacked and injured by an unidentified man during a visit Tuesday to…

By GREG BEACHAM AP Sports Writer PASADENA, Calif. (AP) — Blake Corum rushed for a 17-yard touchdown on the second snap of overtime, and top-seeded…

By HIRO KOMAE and YURI KAGEYAMA Associated Press NANAO, Japan (AP) — A series of powerful earthquakes hit western Japan, leaving at least four…

ORINDA, Calif. (AP) — Officials say several people suffered minor injuries and service was disrupted when a train derailed and caught fire on New…

By TIM BOOTH AP Sports Writer SEATTLE (AP) — Joey Daccord made 35 saves in his second career shutout, and the Seattle Kraken beat the Vegas Golden…

PHOENIX (AP) — Klee Benally, a Navajo man who advocated on behalf of Indigenous people and environmental causes, has died, his sister said. He was…

NEW YORK (AP) — Access to a busy terminal at New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport has been restricted as pro-Palestinian protesters…

By The Associated Press Les McCann, a prolific and influential musician and recording artist who helped found the soul-jazz genre and became a…