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By DAVE COLLINS Associated Press Baimadajie Angwang thought he would be reinstated to his dream job as a New York City police officer after federal…

By ANDREW DALTON AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — M. Emmet Walsh, the character actor who brought his unmistakable face and unsettling…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The nearly year-long conflict between Sudan’s military and paramilitary forces has put…

DENVER (AP) — Authorities have identified two homicide victims found at a former hotel in Denver that was converted into a homeless shelter, as…

KENNER, La. (AP) — Former New Orleans Saints receiver Michael Thomas has been accepted into a pretrial diversion program that could help him avoid…

By STEFANIE DAZIO, RONALD BLUM and BETH HARRIS Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Shohei Ohtani’s interpreter and close friend has been fired by…

By SARAH RANKIN Associated Press RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Top legislators in the Virginia House of Delegates are disputing Republican Gov. Glenn…

By The Associated Press A Texas man is accused of trying to sneak on board a flight by taking a photo of another passenger’s boarding pass, and…

By KEVIN FREKING Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Congressional leaders from both parties looked to put a positive light on a $1.2 trillion…

JOHNSON CITY, Texas (AP) — Angela Chao, a shipping industry CEO and sister-in-law to Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, was intoxicated when…

By JEFFREY COLLINS Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Republicans in the South Carolina House have given key approval to a bill expanding a…

By MAYSOON KHAN Associated Press/Report for America ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York lawmakers have passed a bill that would expand the state’s…

By KIM CHANDLER Associated Press MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey has signed legislation that would ban diversity, equity and…

By MICHAEL LIEDTKE AP Technology Writer SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Reddit will enter a new era as a publicly traded company with a market value of $6.4…

By JEFF AMY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia senators are giving final approval to $6,500 vouchers funding for private school tuition and…

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama lawmakers have advanced legislation that would prohibit teacher-led discussions on sexual orientation and gender…

HOUSTON (AP) — Three boys, ages 11, 12 and 16, and dubbed the “Little Rascals,” have been arrested for robbing a bank in Houston. Harris County…

TULALIP, Wash. (AP) — Washington Gov. Jay Inslee has signed a multimillion-dollar measure to send state money to tribes and Indigenous people in…

By KEVIN McGILL Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The federal appeals court that heard arguments over a Texas law that would allow the state to…

By MARGERY A. BECK Associated Press A bill that would have held school librarians and teachers criminally responsible for providing “obscene…

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — President Joe Biden’s top foreign policy adviser Jake Sullivan sought to reassure Ukrainians during an unannounced visit to…

PITTSBURGH (AP) — The United Steelworkers Union has endorsed President Joe Biden, giving him support from another large labor union. The…

By JEFF AMY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia lawmakers have made it harder for workers at companies getting state economic incentives to…

By JIM SALTER Associated Press The Missouri Supreme Court on Wednesday declined to halt the execution of Brian Dorsey, who is scheduled to die next…

By LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — New FBI statistics show violent crime in the U.S. dropping again last year, continuing a…

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuela’s top prosecutor says arrest warrants have been issued for the manager and eight other staffers of the…

By SUMAN NAISHADHAM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — An expected long legal battle has begun over a new rule that requires companies to disclose…

By MARGERY A. BECK Associated Press A Nebraska lawmaker is now the subject of a sexual harassment investigation. The announcement from the…

MAYNARDVILLE, Tennessee (AP) — A fisherman at a lake in northeast Tennessee caught a surprise at the end of his line when he pulled up a 3- to…

By LARRY NEUMEISTER and MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A federal judge has suggested Michael Cohen has committed perjury under…

By YURAS KARMANAU Associated Press TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Belarusian authorities say they have launched dozens of raids to target those suspected…

By STEVE PEOPLES and JULIE CARR SMYTH Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Donald Trump got what he wanted when former car dealer Bernie Moreno…

KEY WEST, Fla. (AP) — A wrecked seagoing vessel discovered decades ago off the Florida Keys has recently been identified as a British warship that…

TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Detroit Lions defensive back Cameron Sutton is wanted on a Florida domestic violence warrant. The Hillsborough County…

By CAROLYN THOMPSON Associated Press HAMBURG, N.Y. (AP) — The owner of an alligator recently seized by conservation officers in New York is…

By DAVE SKRETTA AP Basketball Writer OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Aly Khalifa will set his alarm for 4:30 a.m. Thursday, a witching hour for a college kid if…

By JONATHAN MATTISE Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Republican lawmakers across the country were already jockeying to inject their states…

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A Maryland labor lawyer is set to become the first openly gay judge on the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals after winning…

By FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office says it expects the federal government will be…

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The suspect in a Philadelphia mass shooting last summer who had been deemed mentally incompetent is headed to trial after his…

By STEVE KARNOWSKI Associated Press ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — The Minnesota Department of Corrections has penalized a county jail for depriving an…

By COLLEEN LONG Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The news in Texas over local immigration enforcement is so unusual because immigration laws are…

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel is determined to launch an offensive against Hamas in Rafah, Gaza’s southernmost town, a plan that has raised global…

By BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Prince Harry’s lawyer says the cover-up of unlawful information gathering at British tabloids…

By JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — New York state lawyers are urging an appeals court not to buy former President Donald Trump’s…

WOODLAND, Calif. (AP) — Investigators have determined that a 2-year-old California child was fatally struck after a toddler got into the driver’s…

VARNVILLE, S.C. (AP) — Elizabeth “Libby” Murdaugh, the mother of Alex Murdaugh who played an important part in her son’s adamant denials…

By The Associated Press Russia’s Belgorod region has come under increasing Ukrainian attacks this month as the invasion by Moscow grinds into its…

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Armed gangs are launching new attacks in the suburbs of Port-au-Prince, with heavy gunfire echoing across…

By ROBERT YOON Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden goes before Missouri primary voters on Saturday, and much has changed since…

MCKEE, Ky. (AP) — An eastern Kentucky couple has been accused of trying to sell their newborn twin girls. The Jackson County Sheriff’s Department…

BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) — A U.N.-backed independent expert on human rights in Myanmar says the military government is escalating violence against…

By TODD RICHMOND Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A prosecutor is urging jurors to find a former Milwaukee elections official who requested…

By LISA MASCARO AP Congressional Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) — The House impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden is at a crossroad. Without…

By KRYSTA FAURIA Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Fresh off his awards season high after going to the Oscars with his fellow “Poor Things”…

By CURT ANDERSON Associated Press Florida’s homeless will be banned from sleeping in public spaces such as sidewalks and parks under a law signed…

LONDON (AP) — Wales has become the first part of the U.K. to get a Black leader, following the election of Vaughan Gething as first minister.…

By DEREK GATOPOULOS Associated Press ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Voters around the world who worry about growing threats to democratic freedoms should…

By DOUG FEINBERG AP Basketball Writer Iowa star Caitlin Clark has been honored for the third straight season as a first-team Associated Press…

By PREDRAG MILIC Associated Press PODGORICA, Montenegro (AP) — An appeals court in Montenegro has confirmed that cryptocurrency mogul Do Kwon will…

By MIKE CORDER Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The Dutch parliament has named two new go-betweens to lead negotiations to form the…

By MATTHEW DALY and TOM KRISHER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration has announced new automobile emissions standards that…

By MARTHA MENDOZA, MAHESH KUMAR and PIYUSH NAGPAL Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — India is the top supplier of shrimp to the U.S., with…

By JOEY CAPPELLETTI and WILL WEISSERT Associated Press SAGINAW, Mich. (AP) — President Joe Biden headed to Michigan last week to boost his support…

By MARTHA MENDOZA, MAHESH KUMAR and PIYUSH NAGPAL Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Noriko Kuwabara was excited to try a new recipe she’d…

ATLANTA (AP) — The judge overseeing the Georgia election interference case is allowing Donald Trump to appeal a ruling allowing Fulton County…

By MATTHEW BROWN and AMY BETH HANSON Associated Press A Washington state man accused of helping kill thousands of birds is expected to plead guilty…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Prosecutors in the violent western Mexico state of Jalisco say five dead bodies have been found piled in a bulletproof SUV. The…

By NINIEK KARMINI Associated Press JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesia’s electoral commission has announced that Prabowo Subianto, a former…

By NINIEK KARMINI Associated Press JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Former special forces general Prabowo Subianto has been confirmed the victor of…

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Southern Illinois congressman Mike Bost has won the Republican nomination for the state’s 12th Congressional District…

By BRUCE SHIPKOWSKI Associated Press CAMDEN, N.J. (AP) — Residents in the Philadelphia area are about to see a rare site — a battleship floating…

By MOSES NDUNGU and JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — U.N. agencies have warned that electrical and electronic waste is piling up…

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Police in Boise, Idaho, said officers were involved in a shooting at a hospital early Wednesday and are searching for two…

By NICOLE EVATT Associated Press JAMESTOWN, St. Helena (AP) — St. Helena, a small, craggy island in the South Atlantic Ocean, is one of the most…