AP National News

NEW YORK (AP) — New York City’s Republican mayoral candidate, Curtis Sliwa, tried to bring one of his many pet cats to his polling place on…

BEIRUT (AP) — Syria’s military says Israel has carried out an air raid that hit a military post on the outskirts of the capital of Damascus,…

By BRYAN ANDERSON Associated Press/Report for America RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Critical race theory has become a lightning rod for Republicans and an…

By STEFANIE DAZIO Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Los Angeles County Sheriff Alex Villanueva said he won’t comply with a mandate requiring…

By GENE JOHNSON Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) — A private prison company has been ordered to pay more than $23 million over lawsuits that accused…

By BECKY BOHRER Associated Press JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — The National Transportation Safety Board says the braking system on a plane that overran a…

By OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A San Francisco police officer has been charged with voluntary manslaughter after a man…

By TERRY TANG Associated Press Two major U.S. cities have elected their first Asian American mayor and a third could join them. Boston’s next mayor…

FAIRFIELD, Calif. (AP) — Police say three people have been arrested in the killing of a 19-year-old woman who was last seen leaving a Halloween…

By BOB CHRISTIE Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — The Arizona Supreme Court has unanimously ruled that the Republican-controlled Legislature violated…

By LYNN ELBER AP Television Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Baseball was especially good to Fox, with the Atlanta-Houston World Series lifting the…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican police have found the bullet-ridden bodies of five men and six boys in the western state of Michoacan, where several…

By REBECCA BOONE Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Idaho Division of Public Health Administrator Elke Shaw-Tulloch says the rate of COVID-19…

By MATTHEW DALY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The chairwoman of the House Oversight Committee has issued subpoenas to top executives of…

By MARCY GORDON AP Business Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Break up Big Tech? How about shrinking the tech companies’ shield against liability in…

Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A Florida firefighter who was photographed inside the U.S. Capitol during the Jan. 6 insurrection has pleaded…

By MANUEL RUEDA Associated Press BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Four Latin American countries have announced that they will expand and unite their marine…

GEORGETOWN, Ky. (AP) — Kentucky’s Georgetown College says it has fired the school’s president after reports emerged accusing him of…

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Police smashed their way into a suburban house and rescued a 4-year-old girl whose…

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — UNICEF is warning that schools in Haiti are increasingly at the mercy of gangs, with children becoming targets of…

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — A hearing examiner is recommending that New Mexico regulators reject a proposed merger involving the state’s largest…

By STEPHEN GROVES Associated Press SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — Jean Rounds, the wife of Republican Sen. Mike Rounds of South Dakota, has died in…

LUBBOCK, Texas (AP) — Two postal contractors in West Texas have been charged with stealing thousands of pieces of mail worth more than $4 million.…

By AYA BATRAWY Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The iconic French label Chanel drew throngs of guests and some celebrities to…

By KATHLEEN FOODY Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — Legal experts say the speedy selection process for jurors in the trial of Kyle Rittenhouse in…

MICHAEL BALSAMO and COLLEEN LONG Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Marshals Service says suspects being held in connection with the Jan.…

FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — The trial has been delayed for a former Fort Worth police officer who was charged with murder after shooting a Black woman…

By FARNOUSH AMIRI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Two U.S. congresswomen have renewed demands for U.S. Customs and Border Protection to provide…

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Attorneys for Republican Rep. Jeff Fortenberry of Nebraska have asked a judge to dismiss federal charges accusing him of lying…

BENTON HARBOR, Mich. (AP) — Federal regulators have delivered a tough report to a Michigan city where residents have been urged not to drink the…