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By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Lawyers for former a former Indiana congressman say he should be spared from prison after his…

By CLAIRE RUSH and GENE JOHNSON Associated Press PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A jury in Oregon says the electric utility PacifiCorp must pay punitive…

By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN Associated Press ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — More than a year and a half after Alec Baldwin shot and killed a cinematographer…

PONTIAC A Detroit-area woman accused of fleeing to Thailand after killing a Michigan State University student in a hit-and-run crash has pleaded no…

By ANITA SNOW Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service says a female Mexican gray wolf has been returned to the wilds of…

By CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Nigerian President Bola Tinubu has suspended the head of the West African nation’s…

HAMTRAMCK, Mich. (AP) — A Detroit-area community has banned LGBTQ+ flags from publicly owned flagpoles. The unanimous vote by the Hamtramck City…

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — The parents of a 6-year-old girl who drowned at a Kansas City water park allege in a lawsuit that the park hires young,…

By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A U.S. federal appeals court has rejected a bid for bail by a self-exiled Chinese businessman…

CABO SAN LUCAS, Mexico (AP) — Police in a seaside community on Mexico’s Baja California peninsula say two Americans have been found dead in…

By JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Jurors are expected to start deliberating Thursday in the criminal trial of three men accused of…

By RANDALL CHASE Associated Press DOVER, Del. (AP) — The University of Delaware has agreed to pay $6.3 million to settle a lawsuit over its campus…

By MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A man charged with manslaughter for putting an agitated New York City subway rider in a fatal…

By STEVE PEOPLES and JILL COLVIN Associated Press BEDMINSTER, N.J. (AP) — Just last week, former Vice President Mike Pence said he hoped federal…

By KYLE HIGHTOWER AP Sports Writer Images of players are being used in sportsbook advertisements. Sportsbook branding has prominent placement in…

By RONALD BLUM Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The Metropolitan Opera saw a slight uptick in ticket sales in its second season following the…

By MATTHEW DALY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A senior Republican on the Senate Energy panel is calling for an investigation of Energy…

By ANNIE MA and AARON MORRISON Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — As a Black student who was raised by a single mother, Makia Green believes she…

By MARY CLARE JALONICK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The House has rejected an effort to censure California Rep. Adam Schiff, voting to turn…

TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Officials say five dogs have been killed in an RV fire the day before a dog show was set to begin in Florida. Hillsborough…

By ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON Associated Press MIAMI (AP) — Miami Mayor Francis Suarez filed paperwork Wednesday to launch his bid for the Republican…

By TODD RICHMOND Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers said Wednesday in a newspaper report that he won’t sign the…

GREAT FALLS, Mont. (AP) — A southwestern Montana man has been sentenced to 18 years in federal prison after being convicted of a hate crime and…

ALBANY, Ga. (AP) — Damaging winds and possible tornadoes toppled trees, damaged buildings and blew cars off a highway Wednesday as powerful storms…

By KEN RITTER Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — The troubled son of Oklahoma City bombing co-conspirator Terry Nichols has been sentenced to prison…

By HARM VENHUIZEN Associated Press/Report for America MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin’s top elections official who has faced GOP criticism for how…

By CARLOS RODRÍGUEZ Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — Diego Balleza is a prominent 10-meter diver and is used to wearing small swimsuits that…

MOSCOW (AP) — More than 20 Ukrainian soldiers who were taken prisoner during fighting in Ukraine went on trial in southern Russia on Wednesday. The…

By FRANK JORDANS Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — German officials say that an array of climate measures being introduced by the government will…

JERUSALEM (AP) — The United States says it’s seeking more information about the closure of an Israeli military investigation into the death…

By DAVID BAUDER AP Media Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Fox News appeared to express regret Wednesday for showing an onscreen message that called President…

By JOEY CAPPELLETTI Associated Press GRAND HAVEN, Mich. (AP) — Organizers estimate 4,000 people turned out for the first-ever Pride festival in a…

By SAMANTHA HENDRICKSON Associated Press/Report For America COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Automatic external defibrillators, or AEDs, would be placed in…

By SONIA PÉREZ D. Associated Press GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — A Guatemalan tribunal has convicted newspaper founder and editor José Rubén Zamora and…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — American novelist Barbara Kingsolver has won the prestigious Women’s Prize for Fiction for a…

By JIMMY GOLEN AP Sports Writer Henri Richard’s family says the late Hockey Hall of Famer has been diagnosed with chronic traumatic encephalopathy.…

SCRANTON, Pa. (AP) — A former manager at the Harvard Medical School morgue, his wife and three other people have been indicted in the theft and…

By HANNAH FINGERHUT Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Two firms have been tasked with investigating the partial collapse of a six-story…

By JOSEF FEDERMAN Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel’s parliament has appointed an opposition lawmaker to the powerful committee that…

PITTSBURGH (AP) — A survivor of the Pittsburgh synagogue massacre says she saw her right arm “get blown open in two places” by a gunman and…

By WYATTE GRANTHAM-PHILIPS AP Business Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal prosecutors want Elizabeth Holmes to pay $250 each month to victims of her…

CAMDEN, N.J. (AP) — Jurors in federal court have awarded $25.6 million to a former Starbucks regional manager who alleged that she and other white…

By MICHAEL R. BLOOD and STEFANIE DAZIO Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Los Angeles is facing another scandal as it tries to manage a homeless…

By ZEN SOO Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — A popular Hong Kong protest song was no longer available on several major music streaming sites as…

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Regulated sports betting and horse racing should begin across North Carolina in the first half of next year after Gov. Roy…

By RONALD BLUM Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Andrew Lloyd Webber’s absence from New York City’s stages will be at most 14 months, with…

By JOHN WAWROW AP Sports Writer NFL Vice President Troy Vincent and his wife Tommi are helping launch a domestic abuse study at Niagara University…

ZURICH (AP) — FIFA secretary general Fatma Samoura is leaving after seven years as the highest profile woman working in world soccer. FIFA says…

By SAMY MAGDY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — The U.N. migration agency says Sudan’s conflict has displaced more than 2 million people as the tally…

By MARC LEVY Associated Press Pennsylvania will truck in 2,000 tons of lightweight glass nuggets to help quickly rebuild a collapsed section of…

By ED WHITE Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — Prosecutors have filed a murder charge in the death of a Detroit-area teenager whose remains have not…

By JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — Canada’s finance minister says it is suspending activity with a Chinese-founded development…

By SCOTT McFETRIDGE Associated Press A coalition of activist groups and researchers has released a report it hopes will increase pressure on…

By DUSAN STOJANOVIC and LLAZAR SEMINI Associated Press BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Kosovo police have reported that three officers patrolling a…

By JOHN FLESHER AP Environmental Writer TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) — Gray wolves are thriving at Isle Royale National Park five years after…

BOSTON (AP) — A woman who’s accused a New Jersey man of raping her 16 years ago in Boston says she felt that her freedom had been taken away from…

STOCKOLM (AP) — Two women have been detained in Stockholm after they threw “some kind of paint” at a painting by French artist Claude Monet and…

By PATRICK WHITTLE Associated Press Roger Payne, the scientist who spurred a worldwide environmental conservation movement with his discovery that…

By PETER SMITH and DEEPA BHARATH Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The Southern Baptist Convention has refused to welcome Saddleback Church back…

By SYLVIA HUI Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Executives at Britain’s ITV have defended the broadcaster’s working culture as a committee of…

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — There will be no more rides to Hel on bus 666. The bus to the town of Hel on Poland’s Baltic coast has long been popular…

By PAN PYLAS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Two of the U.K.’s biggest mobile phone operators have agreed to merge their businesses to capitalize…

SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) — Police in Bosnia say a 13-year-old boy has been arrested after allegedly shooting and wounding a teacher inside…

ISTANBUL (AP) — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says his economic policies haven’t changed but his finance minister will have leeway…