AP National News

By FRANCES D’EMILIO Associated Press ROME (AP) — The head of the U.N. food aid agency says the drought-stricken island nation of Madagascar…

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The judge who presided over the trial of Derek Chauvin has made public the names of jurors who convicted the former Minneapolis…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A TV station says a Los Angeles police helicopter recorded images of what appeared to be a human-shaped inflatable toy floating…

HUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif. (AP) — A month after a Southern California offshore oil spill, environmental advocates say they plan to sue the federal…

By MATTHEW BROWN Associated Press BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — The Interior Department is preparing to offer oil and gas lease sales on large tracts of…

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — The city of Louisville will pay a total of $3.65 million to seven people who say they were sexually abused by police.…

By TALI ARBEL AP Technology Writer The U.S. Department of Justice is suing to block a $2.2 billion book publishing deal that would have reshaped the…

By GENE JOHNSON Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) — Moderate candidates were leading in early Seattle election returns following a months-long debate…

By EMILIO MORENATTI and JOSEPH WILSON Associated Press LAS MANCHAS DE ABAJO, Canary Islands (AP) — Antonio Álvarez lost his home and two business.…

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The Dutch health council is advising the government to begin giving COVID-19 vaccine booster shots to everybody 60…

By JEFFREY COLLINS Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A South Carolina judge has frozen the assets of prominent attorney Alex Murdaugh as he…

By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Singer and songwriter Aimee Mann has written a cast album for a musical that may never…

By RUSS BYNUM Associated Press BRUNSWICK, Ga. (AP) — It’s hard to overstate the importance that the video of Ahmaud Arbery’s slaying…

MONUMENT, Colo. (AP) — Colorado authorities say they believe a man killed his wife and two of his children last weekend in an affluent community…

By CARA ANNA and AAMER MADHANI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden says he’s moving to cut out Ethiopia from a U.S. trade…

BERLIN (AP) — Outgoing German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s center-right party is turning to a ballot of its entire membership to choose a new…

ENCINITAS, Calif. (AP) — The bloom of a giant and stinky Sumatran flower nicknamed a “corpse plant” because it smells like a dead body is huge…

By MICHAEL BALSAMO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration is rolling out a new initiative aimed at reducing suicides by gun…

By LAURAN NEERGAARD and MIKE STOBBE AP Medical Writers US health officials have given the final OK to Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine for children as…

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — A Polish hospital says doctors and midwives did everything they could to save the lives of a pregnant woman and her fetus in…

By The Associated Press The Asian Development Bank says it has won commitments of $665 million to support climate-related projects in Southeast Asia.…

By GRANT PECK Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — Former U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Bill Richardson, on a humanitarian mission to strife-torn Myanmar,…

By JOSEPH KRAUSS and JACK JEFFERY Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Palestinian families in a tense neighborhood of Jerusalem have rejected an…

By The Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Cardi B has won five American Music Awards and performed on the telecast during her career so far. Next…

By MICHELLE L. PRICE Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Former police captain Eric Adams easily won the race for New York mayor, and Boston elected…

GAINESVILLE, Fla. (AP) — The University of Florida has been asked by its accrediting body to explain how denying a request by three professors to…

By TOM KRISHER AP Auto Writer DETROIT (AP) — Tesla has issued a recall that automatically sent a software update fixing a safety problem in its…

By STEPHEN McGRATH Associated Press BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — Romania has reported a record daily number of 591 COVID-19 deaths amid a persistently…

By TIA GOLDENBERG Associated Press TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Israel’s energy minister has been able to attend the global climate summit after…