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By MEG KINNARD Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A top Republican operative who worked as an adviser on Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s…

By FARNOUSH AMIRI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republicans are demanding testimony and documents from two former Manhattan prosecutors…

MILWAUKEE (AP) — Milwaukee police say a 15-year-old boy has been arrested in connection with a shooting that killed another boy of the same age and…

By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — It all started on a late morning on a highway. A camera panned to the cab of a large…

By MAURICIO SAVARESE Associated Press SAO PAULO (AP) — A Brazilian government watchdog is giving former President Jair Bolsonaro five working days…

PANAMA CITY (AP) — Panama’s government said Wednesday that 50,000 migrants crossed the treacherous Darien Gap linking Colombia and Panama in the…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The Palestinians and Israel have clashed over the future intentions of Prime Minister…

SEATTLE (AP) — Starbucks workers and their supporters rallied outside the company’s Seattle headquarters Wednesday to protest what they describe…

By JAY COHEN and STEPHEN WHYNO AP Sports Writers A National Hockey League team with a Russian player has decided against wearing special warmup…

By GEOFF MULVIHILL Associated Press The U.S. abortion landscape is far from settled nine months after the U.S. Supreme Court ended the nationwide…

By MEAD GRUVER Associated Press CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — A woman was arrested on charges of setting fire to a building in Wyoming that was being…

ST. LOUIS (AP) — An escape-artist bear from Missouri is headed to a Texas zoo with a moat in hopes it will put an end to his wandering. The St.…

By VICTOR R. CAIVANO Associated Press URQUIZA, Argentina (AP) — The ground crackles as Guillermo Cuitino walks across dry farmland that should be…

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says he will prevent the passage of a proposal by a powerful ally in his governing…

By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN and LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal prosecutors disclosed Wednesday that a witness expected to…

By ANDREW DALTON AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — California prosecutors on Wednesday dropped domestic violence charges against Justin…

By RANDALL CHASE Associated Press WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — Lawyers for Fox News and a voting machine company are tangling over the high bar to prove…

By ALEX VEIGA AP Business Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Actress Lindsay Lohan, rapper Akon and several other celebrities have agreed to pay tens of…

WOODLAWN, Md. (AP) — Maryland State Police say six people were killed when a passenger vehicle pulled into a work zone along the Baltimore beltway…

By MIKE CATALINI Associated Press TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — New Jersey’s statehouse building, part of which dates to the 1700s and was once called a…

OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — The former warden of an abuse-plagued federal women’s prison in the San Francisco Bay Area has been sentenced to nearly…

PASADENA, Texas (AP) — Officials are investigating an explosion and fire at a chemical plant in suburban Houston that injured one person. It is not…

By STEPHEN R. GROVES Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A bipartisan consensus that Congress should act to toughen regulations on railroads is…

By JUAN A. LOZANO Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — One of the six oil executives with a Texas-based company who was imprisoned five years in…

By JOHN O’CONNOR AP Political Writer SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — The last of three ex-correctional officers convicted in the beating death of an…

By ADRIAN SAINZ Associated Press MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Officials say two employees of a rural west Tennessee town that resisted a takeover attempt…

By ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal appeals court in a sealed order Wednesday directed a lawyer for Donald Trump to turn…

By JOEY CAPPELLETTI Associated Press LANSING, Mich. (AP) — The Michigan Republican Party’s social media posts are being called “hateful”…

By ELLEN KNICKMEYER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A new World Bank report puts the cost of Ukraine’s recovery and rebuilding from Russia’s…

By ANDREW SELSKY Associated Press SALEM, Ore. (AP) — More than 119,000 people have been injured by tear gas and other chemical irritants around the…

By AHMED AL-HAJ Associated Press SANAA, Yemen (AP) — Yemeni security officials say that at least 16 forces have been killed in renewed fighting in…

By TOM MURPHY AP Health Writer Moderna’s CEO is defending a plan to more than quadruple the company’s COVID-19 vaccine price. But he also says…

By MORGAN LEE Associated Press No one is objecting to a settlement agreement to resolve allegations of workplace safety violations in the 2021…

By MANUEL RUEDA Associated Press BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — The Red Cross says the number of internally displaced people in Colombia increased…

BATESVILLE, Miss. (AP) — Five people were killed Tuesday evening in Mississippi after a car they were riding in crashed into a barricade on a…

By ADRIANA MORGA and CORA LEWIS Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The Federal Reserve raised its key rate by another quarter point Wednesday,…

LAKE WORTH, Fla. (AP) — Rapper Tekashi 6ix9ine, whose testimony against his own gang helped convict two high-ranking members, was assaulted by…

By ANTHONY IZAGUIRRE Associated Press TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis ‘ administration is moving to forbid classroom…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATION (AP) — The United Nations chief is urging the first world conference on water in more than 45…

By KRYSTA FAURIA Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Celebrity stylist Law Roach helped reinvent Zendaya and turned Celine Dion into a fashion…

By MICHAEL R. SISAK and ERIC TUCKER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Manhattan prosecutors have postponed a scheduled grand jury session in the…

By The Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The Muslim holy month of Ramadan began at sundown on Wednesday, as the faithful prepared…

WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. officials are reporting two more deaths and additional cases of vision loss linked to eyedrops tainted with a drug-resistant…

By VANESSA GERA and DANICA KIRKA Associated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Prince William made a surprise visit to Poland on Wednesday that…

By COLLEEN SLEVIN and JESSE BEDAYN Associated Press DENVER (AP) — A body was found Wednesday night in the Colorado woods near the abandoned car…

BEIRUT (AP) — The leader of Lebanon’s militant Hezbollah group has refused to comment directly on last week’s killing of a man suspected of…

By REGINA GARCIA CANO Associated Press CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Water has long been a luxury in the sprawling low-income neighborhoods that…

By MEGAN JANETSKY and FERNANDA PESCE Associated Press SOYAPANGO, El Salvador (AP) — For the family of 44-year-old Maritza Pacheco, opening a corner…

By MEGAN JANETSKY and FERNANDA PESCE Associated Press SOYAPANGO, El Salvador (AP) — With semiautomatic weapons pressed to their chest, a pack of…

BOSTON (AP) — A Massachusetts man convicted of helping to steal millions of dollars from hundreds of people in online romance scams, often regaling…

By KELVIN CHAN and HALELUYA HADERO Associated Press The battle between the U.S. and China over TikTok comes into full view on Thursday when the…

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Swedish lawmakers have overwhelmingly voted in favor of Sweden joining NATO. The 349-seat Riksdagen, or parliament,…

BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — An official says a Romanian court has ruled for the fourth time to extend by 30 days the preventative arrest of Andrew…

Associated Press SAO PAULO (AP) — Federal police raided locations in several states to crack down on a crime gang accused of plotting…

By RODNEY MUHUMUZA Associated Press KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — The U.N.’s top human rights official is urging Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni to…

By MADDIE BURAKOFF AP Science Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Nearly 200 years after Ludwig van Beethoven’s death, researchers pulled DNA from strands…

By JEFFREY COLLINS and LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Authorities in South Carolina say a former soldier shot and killed…

BERLIN (AP) — German authorities have arrested a Syrian man accused of belonging to a unit of the Islamic State group in his homeland that…

By DAVID KOENIG AP Airlines Writer The fate of President Joe Biden’s pick to run the Federal Aviation Administration is in doubt. On Wednesday,…

NEW YORK (AP) — Questlove has own book imprint and is launching it with a memoir by one of the world’s most influential and enigmatic musicians,…

By MICHELLE L. PRICE Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — At this point during the last presidential election in 2020, more than 15 Democrats had…

By JESSIE WARDARSKI Associated Press PITTSBURGH (AP) — Scattered in crates, dirty and difficult to read, the gospel music of composer Charles Henry…

By JOCELYN GECKER and COLLIN BINKLEY AP Education Writers SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Bus drivers shuttle America’s children to schools where cafeteria…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s governmental human rights agency says four soldiers opened fire without justification on a pickup truck in the…

By VANESSA GERA ASSOCIATED PRESS WARSAW, Poland (AP) — The Israeli and Polish foreign ministers have met in a step that they are hailing as a…