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BEIJING (AP) — The death toll from a fire at a Beijing hospital rose to 29, including 26 patients, authorities said Wednesday, and a dozen people…

By JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — Police in Hawaii have vowed to step up illegal gambling enforcement after one of the…

By LISA RATHKE Associated Press MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) — As spring starts to blossom in New England, some Vermont communities come to life with the…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Police and marines in Mexico’s capital have arrested an alleged senior leader of the Mara Salvatrucha gang who is wanted in…

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Black teen Ralph Yarl was shot twice, in the head and arm, after going to the wrong home in Kansas City, Missouri, to pick…

By SHEIKH SAALIQ Associated Press AYODHYA, India (AP) — Syed Mohammad Munir Abidi says India is a changed country, one he doesn’t recognize…

By STEPHEN GROVES Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republicans for months have railed against the Biden administration’s handling of the…

By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER and ERIC TUCKER Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — A Massachusetts Air National Guardsman charged with leaking highly…

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Eight Indonesian fishermen are feared drowned and another 11 have been rescued after…

THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. (AP) — One Southern California teenager was killed and three others injured when a stabbing suspect crashed his vehicle into…

SEATTLE (AP) — The Seattle Police Department should “offer a sincere, public apology” for its violent response to people demonstrating after…

By SAMY MAGDY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — For the last three days, Howeida al-Hassan and her family have been hunkered down in the first floor of…

OTTAWA, Ontario (AP) — Some 155,000 federal workers, including 35,000 from Canada’s tax agency, have gone on strike in what their union is…

By HYUNG-JIN KIM and KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said his country has built its…

ATLANTA (AP) — Charles Stanley, a prominent televangelist who once led the Southern Baptist Convention, died Tuesday at his home in Atlanta at age…

By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN Associated Press ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Forecasters with the National Weather Service are delivering good news for cities…

By JONATHAN MATTISE Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — In the wake of a deadly school shooting last month, Republican lawmakers in Tennessee…

By BRUCE SHIPKOWSKI Associated Press TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — New Jersey residents looking to buy or lease an electric vehicle won’t be able to get a…

By TERRY TANG Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — The parents of two transgender girls in Arizona have filed a lawsuit challenging a year-old state law…

By DAVE COLLINS Associated Press When Kaylin Gillis and her friends took a wrong turn into an upstate New York driveway last weekend, they…

By REGINA GARCIA CANO Associated Press CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Russia and Venezuela have reviewed some of their hundreds of bilateral agreements…

By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — JPMorgan Chase & Co. CEO Jamie Dimon must undergo up to two days of questioning by lawyers…

By MICHAEL HILL Associated Press ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York’s Senate confirmed Rowan Wilson as the state’s first Black chief judge. The vote…

By REBECCA BOONE Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — The only surviving child of a woman charged in the murders of her two youngest children and a…

By ANDREW DALTON AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Singer and rapper Aaron Carter accidentally drowned in his bathtub as a result of…

By COLLEEN SLEVIN Associated Press Lawyers for a Colorado man once charged with murder and still considered a suspect in the presumed death of his…

By PATRICK ORSAGOS and JOHN SEEWER Associated Press AKRON, Ohio (AP) — Social justice activists are calling for police reforms and marching through…

By TED SHAFFREY, BOBBY CAINA CALVAN and JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A parking garage collapsed Tuesday in lower Manhattan’s…

JEFFERSONVILLE, Ind. (AP) — A southern Indiana nurse facing a criminal charge for allegedly removing a nursing home resident’s oxygen mask hours…

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran’s supreme leader has ruled out the holding of popular referendums on state policies. Iran faced calls for…

By ASHRAF KHALIL Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The recent data breach of personal information for thousands of users of Washington, D.C.’s…

By ANDREW SELSKY Associated Press SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Oregon’s pioneering experiment with legalized magic mushrooms took a step closer to…

By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A Tennessee man and his mother have been convicted of charges that they stormed the Capitol…

By KIMBERLEE KRUESI Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee budget writers say they will funnel $20 million of taxpayer dollars to help…

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Lawmakers in Iowa’s Senate passed a controversial bill Tuesday that would allow minors to work longer hours and work…

By DENISE LAVOIE AP Legal Affairs Writer RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A grand jury in Virginia has indicted multiple people on felony charges for carrying…

HARRISONBURG, Va. (AP) — A Civil War reenactor has pleaded guilty to charges that he planted a pipe bomb at a Virginia battlefield in 2017 and…

By WILSON RING Associated Press BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) — Vermont ice cream maker Ben & Jerry’s says it supports a plan to unionize by the…

By LINDSAY WHITEHURST and ALANNA DURKIN RICHER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The roster of Republican presidential hopefuls who flocked to the…

LONDON (AP) — A Paris publisher says one of its managers has been arrested in London after being questioned by police about participating in…

By REBECCA BOONE Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Prosecutors say the mother charged in a triple murder case took part in a complex conspiracy…

By MICHAEL LIEDTKE AP Technology Writer SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Netflix is poised to shut down the DVD-by-mail rental service that set the stage for…

By CURT ANDERSON Associated Press ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — Four Americans affiliated with a Black empowerment and political organization have…

By JONATHAN MATTISE Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee Rep. Justin Pearson never guessed he’d be expelled for leading a gun…

By ALMUDENA CALATRAVA Associated Press BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — The opposition-run city of Buenos Aires has announced that its police will…

By BARBARA ORTUTAY AP Technology Writer SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Twitter has quietly removed a policy against the “targeted misgendering or…

By FRANCES D’EMILIO Associated Press ROME (AP) — Bogged down by leftist opposition amendments, Italy’s Senate has delayed the start of a…

ATLANTA (AP) — The family of a man who died in a jail in Atlanta’s suburbs said his death could have been prevented if he had received proper…

By KIRSTEN GRIESHABER Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — German police say four people have been severely injured in a stabbing attack at a gym in the…

By DAVID BAUDER AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Lucinda Williams is emerging with an autobiography and new album less than three years…

By TARA COPP Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Air Force says it is investigating how a lone airman could access and distribute possibly…

By KEN MILLER and SEAN MURPHY Associated Press An Oklahoma sheriff’s office says the recording in which the sheriff and others are reportedly heard…

By PATRICK WHITTLE and DAVID SHARP Associated Press BOWDOIN, Maine (AP) — Four people were fatally shot at a house in Maine on Tuesday shortly…

By PAT GRAHAM AP Sports Writer BOULDER, Colo. (AP) — One of Deion Sanders’ most trusted business associates and friends is Constance…

LONDON (AP) — The European Union is closing in on approval for a plan to ramp up semiconductor production. The EU is seeking to wean itself off…

By SAM MEDNICK Associated Press DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — United Nations’ officials say hunger is soaring and spreading across West Africa, with…

ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) — A judge has ruled that a graduate student instructor strike at the University of Michigan amounts to an unfair labor…

By MARGARET STAFFORD and JIM SALTER Associated Press KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — As Ralph Yarl struggled to come to grips with being shot after going…

BRUSSELS (AP) — Authorities in several European Union member states have raided fashion houses in an initial move linked to an EU antitrust probe.…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Press freedom groups say the Mexican government apparently continued to use Pegasus spyware to infect the telephones of human…

WASHINGTON (AP) — A curious toddler on Tuesday earned the title of one of the tiniest White House intruders after he squeezed through the metal…

TRUCKEE, Calif. (AP) — The winter that wouldn’t quit showed up again in the Sierra Nevada region of California and Nevada on Tuesday. The…

RIPON, Wis. (AP) — Officials in Ripon, Wisconsin, are moving the building where the Republican Party is said to have been founded across town to…

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Former Florida Democratic gubernatorial candidate Andrew Gillum is on trial in federal court on charges of corruption and…

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By DAVID KOENIG AP Airlines Writer DALLAS (AP) — Southwest Airlines says planes are taking off again after departures were held up because of what…

By JOHN WAWROW AP Sports Writer ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. (AP) — Buffalo Bills safety Damar Hamlin took to the podium and declared he’s ready to…

HELSINKI (AP) — Sweden’s public radio says it would stop being active on Twitter, but it didn’t blame new labels that Elon Musk’s social…

By HUIZHONG WU Associated Press TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — China has revealed new details of sanctions it previously announced against two U.S. weapons…

By LISA MASCARO, KEVIN FREKING and JOSH BOAK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — House Speaker Kevin McCarthy worked furiously Tuesday to build…

By KRYSTA FAURIA Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Ari Aster really doesn’t want to talk about “Beau Is Afraid.” “This is so not the…