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By MARK THIESSEN, ED KOMENDA and AUDREY MCAVOY WAILUKU, Hawaii (AP) — As smoke cleared from the fires in Maui that killed at least 80 people and…

By VALERIE GONZALEZ Associated Press HEBBRONVILLE, Texas (AP) — As one of the worst heat waves on record set in across much of the southern United…

By JAMES POLLARD Associated Press/Report for America PHILLIPS COMMUNITY, S.C. (AP) — All along the South Carolina coast, developers of new homes…

By JAMES POLLARD Associated Press/Report for America PHILLIPS COMMUNITY, S.C. (AP) — The Rev. Elijah Smalls Jr. once grew okra, butter beans and…

By ELLEN KNICKMEYER and TRACY BROWN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — After nearly three weeks of appealing to the United States and other allies…

By NICHOLAS RICCARDI Associated Press DENVER (AP) — This week’s confrontation that ended with FBI agents fatally shooting a 74-year-old Utah man…

BEIJING (AP) — Tens of thousands of people have been evacuated from their homes in China’s southwest after heavy rain caused hillsides to…

By SARA BURNETT Associated Press VAIL, Iowa (AP) — Republican presidential hopeful Vivek Ramaswamy was more than 40 minutes into a town hall in…

By STEVE PEOPLES AP National Political Writer NEW YORK (AP) — As he gears up for reelection, President Joe Biden is already facing questions about…

By RUSS BYNUM Associated Press SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — The historic downtown of Savannah, Georgia, boasts nearly two dozen public squares. All the…

By DAVID KOENIG AP Airlines Writer A judge’s order requiring “religious-liberty training” by a conservative Christian group is stirring…

JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — A walrus calf found on its own miles from the ocean on Alaska’s North Slope last week and who received cuddles as part of…

By EILEEN NG Associated Press KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Malaysian state elections have ended in a return to the status quo, with Prime Minister…

By CARLA BRIDI and MAURICIO SAVARESE Associated Press BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — Brazil’s federal police on Friday alleged former President Jair…

By PAUL J. WEBER Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Authorities say a 3-year-old child riding one of Texas’ migrant buses died while on the…

By JONATHAN MATTISE Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A jury has found a security guard not guilty of charges in a 2018 fatal shooting…

SAN DIEGO (AP) — A Marine at California’s Camp Pendleton has been charged with sexually assaulting a 14-year-old girl who was found in a base…

PHOENIX (AP) — A Massachusetts man has pleaded guilty to sending threats two years ago to Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs when she was the secretary of…

By MATTHEW BROWN and JESSE BEDAYN Associated Press Prosecutors in Utah on Friday declined to file charges against a Salt Lake City police officer who…

By HALLIE GOLDEN and FELICIA FONSECA Associated Press WINNIPEG, Canada (AP) — The Native American Journalists Association has voted to change its…

By JAKE OFFENHARTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The wife of a man charged with killing at least three women found dead on New York’s Long…

By DIANE JEANTET Associated Press RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has unveiled a plan to spend 1 trillion…

By KIMBERLEE KRUESI Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A former Tennessee state senator has been sentenced to 21 months in prison after he…

PENSACOLA, Fla. (AP) — A man has opened fire inside a Home Depot store in the Florida Panhandle, killing a woman. Authorities say deputies and…

WEST HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Body-camera video released by authorities shows a Connecticut police officer fatally shooting a car theft suspect…

DETROIT (AP) — A 37-year-old central Indiana man has been indicted in connection with a telephone threat made to a municipal clerk in Michigan…

By JAKE BLEIBERG Associated Press DALLAS (AP) — The state of Texas is questioning the legal rights of an “unborn child” in arguing against a…

By The Associated Press In Hawaii, firefighters were still working Friday to fully contain devastating wildfires that have killed at least 55 people.…

By MATT SEDENSKY AP National Writer An immigrant cook building a new life. A widow preparing to say goodbye. A couple taking their wedding vows. All…

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Authorities have released the name of the third person killed in a bus crash on a Pennsylvania interstate near the…

By MEG KINNARD Associated Press The appointment of a special counsel to oversee the Justice Department’s probe of Hunter Biden is bringing renewed…

By FRANKLIN BRICEÑO Associated Press LIMA, Peru (AP) — What happens when you take Quechua, the most widely spoken Indigenous language in the…

By ADAM BEAM Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — As wildfires tear through the Hawaiian island of Maui, residents of a Northern California…

By JON GAMBRELL and MATTHEW LEE Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The United States and Iran reached a tentative agreement this…

By ACACIA CORONADO ASSOCIATED PRESS AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A Texas man who was convicted of killing an 8-year-old girl in the 1980s and then run out…

By BRUCE SCHREINER, DYLAN LOVAN and TRAVIS LOLLER Associated Press LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — An overly-ambitious redesign of bus routes for…

By LINDSAY WHITEHURST and LISA MASCARO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Attorney General Merrick Garland appointed a special counsel Friday in…

MIAMI (AP) — Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon, is buying an estate on an exclusive man-made barrier island in Miami known as “Billionaire…

KENOSHA, Wis. (AP) — Police in Kenosha, Wisconsin, have launched an internal investigation after a video posted to social media appears to show an…

By AMY TAXIN Associated Press SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) — A Southern California judge accused of killing his wife during an argument while drunk…

DETROIT (AP) — New versions of the Mustang muscle car will begin shipping next week and more than two thirds of the orders include the big, 5-liter…

By EDITH M. LEDERER and JACK JEFFERY Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United Nations says an environmental disaster has been prevented…

By KAY DERVISHI of The Chronicle of Philanthropy Chronicle of Philanthropy While technology experts sound the alarm on the pace of artificial…

BRIGHTON, Mich. (AP) — A woman who was missing after being seriously injured in a car crash was finally discovered two days later by a police dog…

By KIMBERLEE KRUESI and JONATHAN MATTISE Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Hospital officials have confirmed that Vanderbilt University…

LAHAINA, Hawaii (AP) — Before-and-after satellite images show in unmistakable and stark contrast the devastation that wildfires brought to the…