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By OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Nine current or former Northern California police officers were charged Thursday in a…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican immigration officials say they have found two migrants dead in the desert near the Texas border, and are looking for two…

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Authorities in the Dominican Republic say it could take months to identify all of the 28 victims who died in a…

By JONATHAN MATTISE Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A district attorney in Tennessee has said his office has dropped 30 to 40 cases…

GATLINBURG, Tenn. (AP) — Victims of a deadly 2016 wildfire that began in Great Smoky Mountains National Park before it burned through a Tennessee…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. rights chief says North Korea is increasing its repression of human rights and…

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Lack of rain and hot conditions in central New Mexico are leaving one of North America’s longest rivers in dire…

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — The New Hampshire attorney general says a sheriff has been arrested and charged with eight felonies as part an investigation…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — The U.S. government says it is formally requesting a dispute settlement panel in its ongoing fight over Mexico’s limits on…

WASHINGTON (AP) — A Florida man who used a flagpole to attack officers who were trying to defend the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, was sentenced…

By DIANE JEANTET Associated Press RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — A Brazilian hacker claimed at a congressional hearing Thursday that then-President Jair…

By AMANCAI BIRABEN Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — After a flock of 15 wild Canada geese mistakenly landed in the Los Angeles Tar Pit’s hot…

PROVO, Utah (AP) — A utility worker threatened at gunpoint five years ago by a Utah man who was killed last week by FBI agents seeking to arrest…

EVANSTON, Ill. (AP) — Approximately 1,000 former Northwestern University athletes have sent a letter condemning hazing while defending the…

By JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press GENEVA (AP) — A new scientific study suggests the world should start preparing to protect the ecosystems that…

By JUAN A. LOZANO Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — Police continue to search for the person who sexually assaulted and then killed an 11-year-old…

ERIE, Pa. (AP) — Contract negotiations between the country’s largest locomotive manufacturer and its striking unions are continuing in Erie,…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican investigators have found four burned and decapitated bodies that may be related to the horrifying case of five kidnapped…

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — A strong earthquake followed quickly by a strong aftershock shook Colombia’s capital and other major cities Thursday,…

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Researchers have concluded there is a “rare but real risk” that an earthquake-produced tsunami could inundate parts of…

By JONATHAN LANDRUM Jr. AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — BET won’t be sold after all: Paramount Global decided against selling the…

By ISSAM ADWAN Associated Press GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — The global cat cafe trend, where people pay to have coffee and hang out with cats, has…

By TRISHA AHMED Associated Press/Report for America MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Minneapolis City Council members have narrowly passed a measure that would…

SHIRLEY, Mass. (AP) — A large ice chunk fell from the sky and hit a house in Massachusetts on Sunday, damaging the roof of the home. Jeff Ilg said…

By CHRISTOPHER SHERMAN Associated Press GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — Guatemalans will select a new president Sunday between former first lady Sandra…

By ALEX VEIGA and MATT OTT AP Business Writers The average long-term U.S. mortgage rate climbed this week to its highest level in more than 20 years,…

By REGINA GARCIA CANO Associated Press GUAYAQUIL, Ecuador (AP) — Ecuadorians will choose a new president Sunday, less than two weeks after the…

By AAMER MADHANI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is set to welcome the leaders of Japan and South Korea for the first summit…

By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS Associated Press BROOKHAVEN, Miss. (AP) — Citing errors by police, a Mississippi judge declared a mistrial Thursday in the…

By ANNE M. PETERSON AP Sports Writer Twila Kilgore will serve as interim coach of the U.S. women’s national team following the resignation of coach…

By JACK DURA Associated Press BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — Dramatic video footage of a shooting ambush last month in Fargo that left one police officer…

By FARNOUSH AMIRI Associated Press SCRANTON, Pa. (AP) — President Joe Biden has traveled to Pennsylvania to privately pay his respects to the…

LONDON (AP) — Britain’s prime minister says that he plans to meet with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman at the “earliest…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Hurricane Hilary strengthened into a major storm Thursday evening off Mexico’s Pacific coast, and it could bring heavy rain to…

By AAMER MADHANI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The top White House lawyer will leave next month after a nearly three-year run helping…

By MIKE CORDER Associated Press AMSTERDAM (AP) — The city where Anne Frank wrote her World War II diary while hiding with her family from the…

By YURAS KARMANAU Associated Press TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Chinese Defense Minister Li Shangfu has visited Belarus and said his country would…

TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — State labor officials have temporarily shut down more than two dozen Boston Market restaurants in New Jersey after finding…

By RIAZAT BUTT Associated Press KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — A Taliban official says women lose value if their faces are visible to men in public, and…

MOSCOW (AP) — Russian authorities have charged one of the leaders of a prominent independent election monitoring group with being involved with an…

By KARL RITTER and JAN M. OLSEN Associated Press STOCKHOLM (AP) — Sweden has raised its terror alert to the second-highest level. The move comes…

By ABBY SEWELL BEIRUT (AP) — Two weeks after clashes between armed factions in Lebanon’s largest Palestinian refugee camp ended, militants are…