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By STEVE REED AP Sports Writer CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Billy Packer, an Emmy award-winning college basketball broadcaster who covered 34 Final Fours…

By KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea says it will continue to restrict the entry of short-term travelers from…

FLINT, Mich. (AP) — A mid-Michigan man says he’s innocent of the charges brought against him in connection with the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot in…

SAN DIEGO (AP) — Powerful Santa Ana winds across Southern California were clocked as high as 112 mph, toppling trees, prompting the closure of San…

By AAMER MADHANI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden has signed off on a two-year extension of a program that protects Hong Kong…

NEW YORK (AP) — A lawyer who purchased gasoline that another lawyer used in firebombing an unoccupied New York City police car during protests over…

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) — A prosecutor has asked a judge not to dismiss a second-degree murder charge against a former Grand Rapids police officer…

By MICHAEL GOLDBERG Associated Press/Report for America JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A newly released report from the Mississippi State Department of…

NEW YORK (AP) — A Jamaican cleric accused of recruiting support for the Islamic State group has been convicted in New York. Abdullah…

By DARLENE SUPERVILLE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden says the nation’s prayers are with two California cities where…

By BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — In less than 48 hours, two gunmen went on shooting rampages at both ends of California that…

By KEN RITTER Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — A federal lawsuit in Nevada is seeking class-action damages for countless hotel patrons who booked…

By RIO YAMAT and ANDREW SELSKY Associated Press SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Police in southern Oregon were searching Thursday for a man accused of torturing…

MIAMI (AP) — Federal authorities have charged 25 people accused of participating in a wire fraud scheme in Florida that they say created an illegal…

By SARAH RANKIN Associated Press RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A Democratic-led Virginia Senate panel has defeated several bills that would have restricted…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Conservative attorney John Eastman, a lead architect of some of former President Donald Trump’s efforts to remain in power…

By JUAN A. LOZANO Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — A group of Texas death row inmates have filed a federal lawsuit against the state’s prison…

By JESSICA GRESKO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh says the public shouldn’t read anything into the…

By SEAN MURPHY Associated Press OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma’s new attorney general is appointing an independent counsel to conduct a…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres says the Nazis tried to rob millions of Jews of…

By BROOKE SCHULTZ Associated Press/Report for America HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Republican state lawmakers are filing an appeal that seeks to overturn…

By LAURAN NEERGAARD AP Medical Writer The U.S. is poised to make COVID-19 vaccinations more like a yearly flu shot, a major shift in strategy despite…

LAFAYETTE, La. (AP) — A Louisiana man has been sentenced to 45 years in prison for the kidnapping and grisly knife attack on a teen in 2020. The…

By DEE-ANN DURBIN AP Business Writer Restaurants are beginning the new year with a recurring problem: labor shortages. Chipotle said Thursday it’s…

By JANIE HAR and AO GAO Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The shooting that left four dead at a California mushroom farm on Monday was at least…

By ELÉONORE HUGHES and EDMAR BARROS Associated Press BOA VISTA, Brazil (AP) — Severe malnutrition and disease, particularly malaria, are…

By MATTHEW BARAKAT Associated Press FALLS CHURCH, Va. (AP) — A northern Virginia man convicted nearly a decade ago of supporting the Islamic State…

By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN Associated Press ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — The U.S. government is offering more money to find a solution for storing or…

By AMANDA SEITZ Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The federal government will allow Medicaid dollars to treat some people in prisons, jails or…

By JEFFREY COLLINS Associated Press The first officer to arrive after Alex Murdaugh called 911 to report his wife and son were seriously hurt noted…

By BABA AHMED Associated Press BAMAKO, Mali (AP) — The U.N. mission in Mali says a court in the West Afican nation’s capital has sentenced a…

BY DREW COSTLEY AP Science Writer Hundreds of climate and environmental groups from around the world released a letter Thursday that decried the…

By AAMER MADHANI and COLLEEN LONG Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. special operations forces have killed a senior Islamic State group…

By WAYNE PARRY Associated Press TOMS RIVER, N.J. (AP) — A proposed settlement between New Jersey and the current owner of a notoriously polluted…

By LARRY NEUMEISTER and BOBBY CAINA CALVAN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — An Islamic extremist who killed eight people with a speeding truck in a…

By COLLEEN SLEVIN Associated Press DENVER (AP) — The Colorado baker who won a partial U.S. Supreme Court victory after refusing to make a gay…

By ADAM BEAM Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Weeks of historic rainfall in California won’t be enough to end a severe drought, but…

By KATHRYN POST Religion News Service (RNS) — When actor Daniel Franzese visited Jerusalem in November, he looked for God in all the usual places.…

By JAMES POLLARD Associated Press/Report for America COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — An abortion ban is once more beginning to move through the South…

By COLLEEN LONG, JILL COLVIN and ZEKE MILLER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The National Archives has asked former U.S. presidents and vice…

By TOM KRISHER AP Auto Writer DETROIT (AP) — A federal grand jury in Los Angeles is gathering evidence in a criminal investigation of Goodyear…

By SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A liberal judge running in a pivotal race to determine majority control of the Wisconsin…

By MIKE CORDER Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — International Criminal Court judges have cleared the way for the court’s…

By STEVE KARNOWSKI Associated Press ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — The Biden administration has moved to protect the pristine Boundary Waters Canoe Area…

By MICHAEL TARM AP Legal Affairs Writer CHICAGO (AP) — Illinois prosecutors have told a judge they are presenting evidence to a grand jury for a…

By MIKE SCHNEIDER Associated Press A Middle Eastern and North African category would be added to U.S. federal surveys and censuses, and changes would…

MIAMI (AP) — Two former South Florida police officers turned themselves in to face felony charges over the beating of a homeless man who had been…

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A federal jury has found that a white Ohio police officer did not violate a Black teenager’s civil rights when he shot and…

SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) — Bulgaria’s foreign minister says his country may suspend joint projects with North Macedonia over the beating of a…

By MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. Rep. George Santos’ campaign committee has told federal regulators it hired a new…

By QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA and ABBY SEWELL BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraqi Kurdish authorities are pushing back against a decision by Iraq’s top court that…

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — A 3-year-old girl has died more than two weeks after she was seriously injured in an Indianapolis apartment fire that killed…

By JILL COLVIN and BARBARA ORTUTAY Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Meta’s decision to soon reinstate Donald Trump’s Facebook account comes…

By TRAVIS LOLLER Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee State University is hoping to make history after their marching band was…

PITTSBURGH (AP) — Investigators looking into the collapse of a Pittsburgh bridge nearly one year ago are looking closely at damage to the legs of…

By MATT OTT AP Business Writer The average long-term U.S. mortgage rate fell to its lowest level in more than four months, giving some relief to…

By MARK ANDERSON AP Sports Writer LAS VEGAS (AP) — The Oakland Athletics have spent years trying to get a new stadium while watching Bay Area…

By MICHAEL R. BLOOD Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Democratic Rep. Adam Schiff, who rose to national prominence as the lead prosecutor in…

PARIS (AP) — In a story published January 26, 2023, about French citizens detained in Iran, The Associated Press erroneously reported that prisoner…

By TALES AZZONI AP Sports Writer MADRID (AP) — A dummy of Real Madrid forward Vinícius Júnior has been hanged from a highway bridge hours before…

By CHALIDA EKVITTHAYAVECHNUKUL Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — A court in Thailand sentenced a 27-year-old political activist to 28 years in prison…

By ERIC TUCKER and FRANK BAJAK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Attorney General Merrick Garland and other U.S. officials say the FBI and…

By MATTHEW LEE AP Diplomatic Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Secretary of State Antony Blinken will travel to Egypt, Israel and the West Bank this weekend…

By JULIE CARR SMYTH Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The corruption trial of former Ohio House Speaker Larry Householder is temporarily…

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The second consecutive quarter of economic growth that the government reported…

By WANJOHI KABUKURU Associated Press MOMBASA, Kenya (AP) — The Tanzanian government is seizing livestock from Indigenous Maasai herders in the…

SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) — Pramod Mittal, the younger brother of Indian steel magnate Lakshmi Mittal, has been charged in Bosnia with…

By GIOVANNA DELL’ORTO Associated Press LONGYEARBYEN, Norway (AP) — The warm glow of Svalbard Kirke’s lights gleams on the mountain slope…

By THOMAS ADAMSON AP Fashion Writer PARIS (AP) — The experimentalism and audacity of 1980s club kids inspired Valentino in one of the last…

By GIOVANNA DELL’ORTO Associated Press LONGYEARBYEN, Norway (AP) — The warm glow of Svalbard Kirke’s lights gleams on the snow-covered…