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HOUSTON (AP) — Houston’s former mayor is the Democrats’ pick to succeed the late Texas congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee on the November ballot.…

Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — A Maui judge’s ruling resolves a critical roadblock to finalizing a $4 billion wildfire settlement. Judge Peter…

FOREST PARK, Ga. (AP) — Drug agents say that celery was used to conceal more than 2,300 pounds of methamphetamines at a farmers market south of…

Associated Press WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — A charity working with homeless people in Auckland, New Zealand, unknowingly distributed candies…

Associated Press BENGALURU, India (AP) — The heavy rains that resulted in landslides killing hundreds in southern India last month were made worse…

Associated Press LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Nebraska lawmakers have begun debate on a special session bill to ease soaring property taxes. The relief…

URBANA, Ill. (AP) — An Indianapolis woman has been sentenced to four years in prison after taking part in the straw purchase of a handgun that was…

AP Auto Writer DETROIT (AP) — The United Auto Workers union has filed unfair labor practice charges against Republican presidential nominee Donald…

Associated Press Matt Corey, a Connecticut entrepreneur who unsuccessfully ran for the U.S. House and Senate in the past, has won the Republican…

Associated Press/Report for America AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — An investigation found no evidence of intent to influence 2022 election outcomes in…

Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Three independent and third-party candidates got one step closer to appearing on Georgia’s presidential ballot on…

Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A local clerk failed to realize that new legislative maps moved a rural Wisconsin town into a new district,…

Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. has approved $20 billion in arms sales to Israel, including scores of fighter jets and advanced…

Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The campaign of Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has blamed Iran for a hack it said resulted in…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The long-unsolved 1986 killing of a young Southern California woman has been linked to a convicted serial killer who authorities…

Associated Press Whatever possessed Vice President Kamala Harris to pick Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz as her running mate, it probably wasn’t a desire…

Associated Press/Report for America TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — A manufacturer of “lab-grown” meat has filed a lawsuit challenging a recently…

AP Technology Writer MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. (AP) — Google on Tuesday unveiled its next generation of Pixel phones, providing the maker of Android…

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — San Francisco prosecutors have charged 26 protesters who blocked the Golden Gate Bridge for hours in April to demand a…

Associated Press PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — An 83-foot (25-meter) motor boat that was one of the first refrigerated sardine carriers during the heyday…

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A panel has laid out specifics designed to bring numerous North Carolina state government agencies together to improve…

CANTON, Ohio (AP) — The death of an Ohio man who died in police custody earlier this year has been ruled a homicide. The Stark County Coroner’s…

OCALA, Fla. (AP) — A Florida jury will determine whether a 60-year-old white woman was justified when she fired through the door of her central…

Associated Press KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — A former commander of the Lord’s Resistance Army rebel group has been convicted of dozens of crimes…

Associated Press ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkey’s foreign minister says Ethiopia and Somalia have made “notable progress” in efforts to…

RED LODGE, Mont. (AP) — A black bear mauled and injured a 3-year-old girl in a tent at a private campground in Montana just north of Yellowstone…

Associated Press Alabama’s Mobile-Tensaw Delta is a more-than 400-square-mile (1,036-square-kilometer) expanse of cypress swamps, oxbow lakes,…

Associated Press FERGUSON, Mo. (AP) — Ferguson police have released officer-worn body camera footage showing a protester knocking a Black police…

Associated Press TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A former central Kansas police chief who led a raid last year on a weekly newspaper has been charged with…

Associated Press BAYREUTH, Germany (AP) — Icelandic director Thorleifur Örn Arnarsson’s production of “Tristan und Isolde” at the Bayreuth…

Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — An Ohio police officer was indicted Tuesday on murder and other charges in the shooting of Ta’Kiya Young,…

Associated Press JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Missouri voters will decide in November whether to guarantee a right to abortion with a constitutional…

Associated Press MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Filipino gymnast Carlos Yulo has flown home to a hero’s welcome after winning two gold medals at the…

AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Wholesale price increases in the United States eased in July, suggesting that inflation pressures are further…

ASHBURN, Va. (AP) — A burglary was reported over the weekend at a Virginia campaign office for former President Donald Trump, and authorities are…

Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia said Tuesday that its forces checked an effort by Ukrainian troops to expand a stunning weeklong…

AP Business Writer In 2018, when Chipotle was reeling from multiple food poisoning outbreaks that had sickened 1,100 people, the company called Taco…

Associated Press DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Reem Abu Hayyah, just three months old, was the only member of her family to survive an Israeli…

Associated Press/Report for America SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California Gov. Gavin Newsom is sending letters to school districts, urging them to…

Associated Press SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Tropical Storm Ernesto was poised to become a hurricane shortly after brushing past Puerto Rico late…

JERUSALEM (AP) — Cracks are widening in a public tiff between Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his defense minister. The latest spat…

Associated Press DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — Bangladesh’s former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has issued a call from her self-exile in India for…

Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — In some corners of the Democratic Party, last week felt like déjà vu. The party’s vice-presidential…

Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — A senior U.N. official says Yemen’s Houthi rebels have stormed the headquarters of the U.N. Human Rights Office in…

Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — Officials say Pakistani and Afghan Taliban forces have traded cross-border fire near a key northwestern crossing,…

BERLIN (AP) — The Berlin Zoo has much anticipated news: Meng Meng the panda is pregnant again, months after the first giant pandas born in Germany…

Associated Press ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Firefighters in Greece are battling scattered fires, hoping to end the major wildfire that burned into the…

AP Business Writer Former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris agree on one thing, at least: Both say they want to eliminate…

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Officials and media reports say a teenager wearing a helmet and bulletproof vest randomly stabbed five people at an open-air…

Associated Press JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Para-surfing— a form of surfing that allows people with physical disabilities to ride waves on a board…

Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — A Japanese business executive has returned to Japan after being convicted and released this week after more than a…

Associated Press KHULNA, Bangladesh (AP) — When a mass uprising forced Bangladesh’s longtime prime minister to step down and flee the country…

Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin voters have decided against two constitutional amendments passed by the Republican-controlled…