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By BRUCE SCHREINER Associated Press LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — U.S. Sen. Katie Britt says she counts some Democratic colleagues among her best friends…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — The Mexican government is blaming a contractor for a loose railway fitting that caused a train car to derail on the…

By MARGERY A. BECK Associated Press LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Nebraska lawmakers are debating a bill that would raise the state’s sales tax by 1 cent…

By STEVE MEGARGEE AP Sports Writer MILWAUKEE (AP) — Bob Uecker received a hearty ovation from fans chanting “Ueck” when the legendary…

The largest fresh egg producer in the U.S. says it has stopped production at a plant in the Texas Panhandle after bird flu was found in the flock.…

By MENELAOS HADJICOSTIS Associated Press NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — The president of Cyprus says he’s personally asked the head of the European…

By STEFANIE DAZIO Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — A 15-year-old girl who had been kidnapped by her father was following sheriff’s deputies’…

OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — One of the three Tacoma police officers cleared of criminal charges in the 2020 death of a Black man has been hired by a…

By HANNAH FINGERHUT Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Teachers and staff in the rural Iowa district where a deadly school shooting took…

By EVENS SANON Associated Press PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — More than 53,000 people have fled Haiti’s capital in less than three weeks as deadly…

By BRENDAN FARRINGTON Associated Press TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Democrats hope that a ballot measure seeking to preserve abortion rights will put…

By MORGAN LEE and ANTHONY IZAGUIRRE Associated Press SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — A federal judge has ruled that New Mexico election officials violated…

By JONATHAN LANDRUM Jr. AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Travis Kelce is keeping himself busy: On the heels of winning his third Super…

By SEAN MURPHY Associated Press OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma’s attorney general is urging the state’s highest court to stop the…

By MICHAEL MAROT AP Sports Writer INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — The surging interest in women’s college basketball prompted the NCAA to double down on…

NEW YORK (AP) — Claire Jiménez’s “What Happened to Ruthy Ramirez,” a hard-hitting and comic novel set in New York City about a Puerto Rican…

By GLENN GAMBOA AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Several humanitarian aid organizations have suspended operations in Gaza after an Israeli…

By LESLIE AMBRIZ Associated Press ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) — Pepe Aguilar says he feels like a superhero when he puts on his charro suit. And this…

The Associated Press An Israeli airstrike that killed seven aid workers in Gaza reverberated around the world Tuesday. Friends and relatives mourned…

By JACK DURA Associated Press South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem is facing criticism from tribal leaders. It’s the latest in what has been a history…

TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — U.S. Rep. Raúl Grijalva has announced that he has been diagnosed with cancer, but he says he is continuing to work as he…

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greek authorities have ordered an urgent investigation into a woman’s fatal stabbing outside an Athens police precinct…

By ACACIA CORONADO Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The mayor of the Texas city that was the site of one of the deadliest school shootings in…

By YURAS KARMANAU Associated Press TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — A Belarusian human rights group says a well-known activist was arrested on charges…

LONDON (AP) — Police say J.K. Rowling didn’t break the law with tweets criticizing Scotland’s new hate speech law and referring to…

NEW YORK (AP) — Google’s widely used Chrome browser has offered a private browsing mode called “Incognito” for nearly a decade. A legal…

CHARLOTTE, Mich. (AP) — A Michigan woman who was extradited from Italy in connection with the 2002 killing of her husband has been convicted of…

By MIKE HOUSEHOLDER Associated Press ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) — John Sinclair, a poet, music producer and counterculture figure whose lengthy prison…

By The Associated Press Spectators who aren’t near the path of totality or who get cloudy weather on eclipse day can still catch the total…

By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Attorneys say two Mississippi catfish farms have settled a lawsuit over using…

By STEPHEN WHYNO AP Sports Writer While fewer than 1 in 3 head coaches at the top level of men’s college basketball are Black, the Atlantic Coast…

By The Associated Press A look at what happened to the four Black assistant coaches arrested in 2017 as part of the FBI investigation into corruption…

TORONTO (AP) — Comedian Joe Flaherty has died. He was a founding member of the Canadian sketch series “SCTV,″ He was 82. His daughter says…

By MATTHEW PERRONE AP Health Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Anti-smoking groups are suing the U.S. government over a long-awaited ban on menthol…

By MARIA SHERMAN AP Music Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Stevie Wonder, Miranda Lambert, Billie Eilish, Nicki Minaj, Peter Frampton, Katy Perry, Smokey…

By AARON BEARD AP Basketball Writer Black coaches in the top six men’s college basketball leagues are still facing a tough climb in going from…

By EDDIE PELLS AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Four assistant coaches arrested in a 2017 FBI probe designed to clean up college basketball are…

By EDDIE PELLS AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Book Richardson doesn’t sleep much past 5:30 a.m. anymore. That was around the time seven years…

NEW YORK (AP) — More and more businesses are taking advantage of the total solar eclipse set to dim skies across North America next week. In the…

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Firefighters came to the rescue of two people who were trapped under a bridge early when the waters of an Ohio river began…

GENEVA (AP) — Swiss police say three people have been killed and three others injured after a helicopter ferrying a guide and visitors to a…

By ZEKE MILLER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping discussed Taiwan, artificial intelligence…

By NICOLE WINFIELD and FRANKLIN BRICEÑO Associated Press ROME (AP) — A Peruvian archbishop who sued two journalists over their reports about…

By JIMMY GOLEN AP Sports Writer BOSTON (AP) — Larry Lucchino has died. He was the force behind baseball’s retro ballpark revolution and the…

By RONALD BLUM Associated Press Klaus Mäkelä has been hired to succeed Riccardo Muti as music director of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and will…

By RIO YAMAT Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — From its lavish opening in 1957 on a Las Vegas Boulevard surrounded by wide-open desert, to its…

HOLLOMAN AIR FORCE BASE, N.M. (AP) — An archaeological site that might shed more light on New Mexico’s ancient history has been discovered…

By MARK STEVENSON Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s president says he is mourning a mayoral candidate killed the day before, just…

By JINTAMAS SAKSORNCHAI Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — A deputy chief of Thailand’s national police force involved in many high-profile cases…

NEW YORK (AP) — Wallace Peeples has lived many lives — activist, speechmaker, podcaster, social media influencer — since serving 20 years in…

By SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers vetoed a bill passed by the Republican-controlled Legislature that…

ATLANTA (AP) — Police in Georgia have released the name of the man who they say rammed an SUV into the front gate at the FBI’s Atlanta office. A…

By PAUL WISEMAN AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. job openings barely changed in February, staying at historically high levels in a sign…

By TOM KRISHER AP Auto Writer DETROIT (AP) — Tesla sales fell sharply last quarter as competition increased worldwide, electric vehicle sales…

By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Jon Jon Briones had the best vantage point to watch his daughter, Isa, make her Broadway…

By MAE ANDERSON AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The IRS says it’s making progress with initiatives to claw back money improperly distributed…

By ZEKE MILLER AP White House Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is hosting a small group of Muslim American community leaders at…

By TIM REYNOLDS AP Basketball Writer There were plenty of people at a movie theater in central Iowa on Monday night, though very few of them were…

ISTANBUL (AP) — A fire at an Istanbul nightclub during renovations on Tuesday left 25 people dead and others badly hurt, officials and reports…

By HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Maryse Condé, an acclaimed French-language novelist from Guadeloupe who in novels, stories,…

By TERESA M. WALKER AP Sports Writer NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Jeremiah Armstead moved around so much he wasn’t even eligible to play high school…

By LEA SKENE Associated Press BALTIMORE (AP) — A tugboat pushing a fuel barge was the first vessel to use an alternate channel to bypass the…

By HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Retired Supreme Court Justice Anthony M. Kennedy has a two-volume memoir coming out this fall,…

BERLIN (AP) — Austria’s top security official says the country will step up police checks near its border with Germany after its neighbor…

By DAVE SKRETTA AP Sports Writer KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — The future of the Royals and Chiefs in Kansas City could be shaped Tuesday when voters in…

MOSCOW (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin has vowed to track down the masterminds of the Moscow concert hall attack that left 144 people dead…

By JOSH FUNK AP Business Writer Major freight railroads will have to maintain two-person crews in most circumstances under a new federal rule. The…

By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis has exposed the political “maneuvers” used to sway votes during the two…

By NICK PERRY Associated Press MEREDITH, N.H. (AP) — As more than 2 million graduating high school students from across the United States finalize…

CAIRO (AP) — President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi of Egypt has been sworn in for a third six-year term after being re-elected in a December vote in…

By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Taylor Swift and her Super Bowl-winning boyfriend Travis Kelce, along with Sydney Sweeney,…

By HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH Associated Press Student journalists across the United States have done their bit to cover small town news for years, but a…

By TIA GOLDENBERG Associated Press World Central Kitchen, the food charity founded by celebrity chef José Andrés, called a halt to its work in the…

By LAUREN SCHWAHN of NerdWallet Adding your child as an authorized user on your credit card can be a simple way to start building their credit file.…

By MOGOMOTSI MAGOME Associated Press PRETORIA, South Africa (AP) — South Africa’s parliamentary speaker faces imminent arrest over corruption…

By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press ROME (AP) — The Vatican will publish next week an eagerly awaited document on gender theory and…

GENEVA (AP) — Police say an American teenager and two other people were killed in avalanche near the Swiss resort of Zermatt. One person was flown…

By JESSICA DONATI Associated Press DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Senegal is inaugurating Bassirou Diomaye Faye as its new president, completing the…

By BARRY HATTON Associated Press LISBON, Portugal (AP) — Portugal’s new center-right minority government is due to take office Tuesday. Only one…

LONDON (AP) — Enterprise Minister Simon Coveney, one of Ireland’s highest-profile government members, is stepping down ahead of the election of a…

By ADRIANA MORGA Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Scammers look for ways to trick people into giving them money year-round, but tax season can be…

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Norway is to increase the number of conscripted soldiers from the present 9,000 to 13,500. Norwegian Defense Minister…

BERLIN (AP) — A court says nine suspects, among them a self-styled prince and a former far-right lawmaker, will go on trial next month in the most…

By The Associated Press Russian authorities say Ukrainian drones have attacked industrial facilities in the province of Tatarstan, in what would be…

By JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press GENEVA (AP) — Two managers of a Saudi oil exploration company were going on trial Monday in Switzerland for…

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — A failed Australian taxi-industry disruptor has told a court that Uber began illegally…