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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Up to one-third of the 12,000 inmates in Los Angeles County jails can’t get to their court appearances because of a shortage…

NEW YORK (AP) — Lorrie Moore has won the prize for fiction and Judy Blume received a lifetime achievement award from the National Book Critics…

By PETER SMITH Associated Press A top Southern Baptist administrative body has selected its first permanent leader in nearly two-and-a-half years, a…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United States is calling for a vote Friday on a newly revised and tougher U.N.…

TULSA, Okla. (AP) — An Oklahoma district attorney said Thursday he doesn’t plan to file any charges in the case of Nex Benedict, the nonbinary…

By ZEKE MILLER and SEUNG MIN KIM Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — Both former President Donald Trump and President Joe Biden are posing the…

By SEAN MURPHY and ERIK VERDUZCO Associated Press SANDERSON, Texas (AP) — The nine hours that Texas was allowed to arrest and deport migrants who…

By The Associated Press A Russian court has rejected a lawsuit filed by the mother of Alexei Navalny, the Russian opposition stalwart who died in…

By THOMAS ADAMSON Associated Press PARIS (AP) — France’s Senate has voted overwhelmingly to reject legislation to ratify a 2017 trade deal…

TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez of New Jersey says he will not run in the Democratic primary as he faces federal corruption charges,…

By MIKE STOBBE AP Medical Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Nearly 108,000 Americans died of drug overdoses in 2022. That’s according to final figures…

BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union’s executive arm is proposing to member countries to impose tariffs on grain imports from Russia and Belarus.…

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — The executive director of Little Rock’s airport who was injured earlier this week in a shootout with federal agents…

By TRÂN NGUYỄN The Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A key measure to combat homelessness backed by California Gov. Gavin Newsom has…

By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — A federal appeals court has ordered Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s case to be…

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Three antirust lawsuits filed by food businesses in federal court in Minnesota this week accuse some of the largest U.S.…

By JOHN O’CONNOR AP Political Writer SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — A federal judge has dismissed a federal lawsuit by ex-governor and ex-con Rod…

By TARA COPP Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A top Pentagon official says that the U.S. has not received a formal request from Niger’s junta…

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Federal authorities have charged a Rwandan man they accused of repeatedly lying about his involvement in murders and rapes…

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Gunfire has erupted in the downtown area of Haiti’s capital. Female street vendors balancing heavy loads on their…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Police say a man who indicated he had a gun hijacked a transit bus in downtown Los Angeles and then grabbed the wheel, causing…

By WAYNE PARRY Associated Press ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — The firing of Los Angeles Dodgers star Shohei Ohtani’s interpreter and close friend…

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A fifth suspect has been charged in a shooting that wounded eight Philadelphia high school students at a bus stop earlier this…

By SUDHIN THANAWALA Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — A bill that would ban any “agent” of China from buying farmland in Georgia has passed the…

By ADAM BEAM and COLLIN BINKLEY Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — The California Legislature has voted to give prospective college…

By JEFF AMY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — The Georgia Senate on Thursday pushed through bills aimed at forcing local governments to help deport…

By BASSEM MROUE Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — A senior official with Lebanon’s militant Hezbollah group has made a rare visit to the United Arab…

DETROIT (AP) — The Detroit Lions have released Cameron Sutton as authorities continue to search for the defensive back to serve a domestic violence…

By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER Associated Press House Republicans have filed a lawsuit seeking to force two Justice Department lawyers to testify about the…

By LAURIE KELLMAN and SYLVIE CORBET Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The teeth clench. The brow furrows. The bicep bulges. In moody black and white,…

By MICHAEL CASEY Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — A Massachusetts bill that bars someone from sharing explicit images or videos without consent was…

By SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin’s top Republican lawmaker says the effort by supporters of former President Donald…

By KIMBERLEE KRUESI Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee has signed off on legislation designed to protect songwriters,…

By HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH and TODD RICHMOND Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — After a season with very little snow, a blast of snowy weather…

By SUMMER BALLENTINE Associated Press COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — An independent investigation has found no evidence of bullying by the president of a…

By JOSEPH WILSON Associated Press BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Fugitive Catalan separatist Carles Puigdemont says that he will return to Spain for the…

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — City leaders in Portland, Oregon, are reviving a protest response team, though some residents are skeptical and say their…

By TODD RICHMOND Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Michigan attorneys have pressed a federal appellate panel in Cincinnati to move their…

By MARYCLAIRE DALE Associated Press PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A judge says a federal lawsuit against the NFL’s disability plan can proceed to trial.…

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) — Court records show a man accused of stabbing his ex-girlfriend and kidnapping and killing her 2-year-old daughter has…

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — An Alabama woman who faked being abducted after stopping her car to check on a toddler wandering along a highway on…

By JIM SALTER Associated Press A third man has been charged with second-degree murder in connection with the shooting during the Kansas City…

MOSCOW (AP) — Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has met with his Serbian counterpart in Moscow ahead of a soccer game between the countries’…

By DAVID KLEPPER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — New bipartisan legislation introduced in the House would require the identification and…

GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas says that a Texas law giving state authorities the power to arrest and…

OTTAWA, Ontario (AP) — Canadian officials say they will set targets to decrease the number of new temporary residents in the country. Immigration…

By SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers has vetoed Republican proposals that would have allowed election…

By BRUCE SCHREINER and ISABELLA O’MALLEY Associated Press FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — The Biden administration has announced up to $475 million in…

By STAN CHOE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The Wall Street debut of Donald Trump’s Truth Social network could give him stock worth billions…

ROME (AP) — Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni has been asked to testify in court July 2 in the trial of two men who are accused of making deep fake…

By JOE REEDY AP Sports Writer Netflix has started dipping into live sports. The streaming giant has aired exhibition events in golf and tennis over…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Investigators in the northern Mexico border state of Nuevo Leon say they have found at least ten dead, burned bodies in a…

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — A nationwide technology problem interrupted services for a few hours at U.S. state offices that handle driver’s…

By BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Prince Harry alleged Thursday that the publisher of The Sun tabloid unlawfully intercepted phone…

By MICHELLE L. PRICE Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump and his Republican allies are well behind President Joe Biden and Democrats on…

By COREY WILLIAMS and JOEY CAPPELLETTI Associated Press PONTIAC, Mich. (AP) — Pro-Trump attorney Stefanie Lambert has appeared in court in Michigan…

By The Associated Press The Spanish daily El Mundo said Thursday that its correspondent in Russia left the country after authorities refused to renew…

By KELVIN CHAN AP Business Writer LONDON (AP) — It’ll likely take years before the U.S. government’s massive antitrust lawsuit against…

By ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A lawyer for The Wall Street Journal says Russia must face consequences for its detention of Evan…

By WAYNE PARRY Associated Press ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — This is the most intense time of the year for college basketball fans as the NCAA March…

Associated Press ALGIERS, Algeria (AP) — Algeria will hold its next presidential election on September 7, providing more than five months for…

By MATTHEW LEE AP Diplomatic Writer CAIRO (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken huddled Thursday with top Arab diplomats in Cairo to…

By SETH BORENSTEIN AP Science Writer Federal meteorologists predict that the United States can expect a nice spring break from past too rainy or too…

By MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — New York prosecutors have urged a judge to start Donald Trump’s hush money criminal trial…

By MIKE SCHNEIDER Associated Press ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Opponents of online sports betting in Florida have lost their latest fight against a…

By ASHOK SHARMA Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — India’s anti-corruption crusader Arvind Kejriwal has been arrested by a federal agency that…

By DAVID KOENIG AP Airlines Writer The heads of leading U.S. airlines want to meet with Boeing and hear the aircraft manufacturer’s strategy for…

By JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Former President Donald Trump’s lawyers are continuing to press appellate court to excuse him…

By BRUCE SHIPKOWSKI and TASSANEE VEJPOGNSA Associated Press A famed battleship was floating down the Delaware River on Thursday as the USS New Jersey…

By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer “Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga,” George Miller’s eagerly awaited follow-up to “Mad Max: Fury Road,” will make its…

By ALEX VEIGA AP Business Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — The average long-term U.S. mortgage rate climbed back to nearly 7%, just under where it was two…

By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A Colorado man who helped other rioters drag a police officer into a mob storming the U.S.…

By STEPHEN GROVES Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A group of Democratic and independent senators are pushing legislation that focuses on…

By KEVIN FREKING Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Lawmakers introduced a $1.2 trillion spending package Thursday that sets the stage for avoiding…

By KATHY McCORMACK Associated Press CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — A judge has dismissed a lawsuit brought against the state of New Hampshire after…

By LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer “Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire,” in theaters everywhere March 29, is a sequel to “Godzilla vs. Kong,” the…

By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press ROME (AP) — Pope Francis has defrocked a notorious Belgian bishop who admitted 14 years ago that he sexually…

West Virginia state police say a 15-year-old boy shot and killed his father in self-defense after the man fired a shotgun at the boy’s mother and…

By LORNE COOK Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — European Union leaders are being urged to show the same respect for international law in Gaza as…

By NOHA ELHENNAWY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — The U.S. has announced more than $47 million in humanitarian aid for war-torn Sudan and two…

FLINT, Mich. (AP) — A family member has been arraigned in the fatal shooting of a Michigan congressman’s brother. Timothy J. Kildee is accused of…