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By JOHN O’CONNOR AP Political Writer SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — A man is facing charges after an Illinois child welfare worker was stabbed to…

ST. LOUIS (AP) — A St. Louis couple who made headlines by waving guns at racial injustice protesters in 2020 is in court trying to get the weapons…

BRADLEY, Ill. (AP) — A judge has denied bail to the second of two people charged with killing one police officer and wounding another at a northern…

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A Richmond man has been refunded the $600 he was charged for an Uber ride that became trapped with hundreds of others on an…

By JONATHAN MATTISE and KIMBERLEE KRUESI Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A top Tennessee House Republican lawmaker has apologized for…

MIAMI (AP) — Hundreds of passengers who embarked on an 11-day cruise from Miami were returned to port after less than two days at sea because of…

LAS VEGAS (AP) — President Joe Biden, former President Barack Obama and congressional leaders will speak at Harry Reid’s funeral in Las Vegas on…

BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — Employees of a Starbucks store in upstate New York who voted to unionize last month have walked off the job. The employees in…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — The governor of Mexico’s Morelos state is denying any links to drug traffickers after a 3-year-old photo surfaced showing…

By BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — A dramatic surge in coronavirus cases has sidelined about 800 Los Angeles city police and…

By MEG KINNARD Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — More earthquakes have struck near South Carolina’s capital city. Wednesday’s 2.6- and…

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal Reserve policymakers at a meeting last month said the U.S. job market was…

By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Just two weeks before it was to be held in Park City, Utah, the Sundance Film Festival is canceling…

By MIKE SCHNEIDER Associated Press A new report from the U.S. Census Bureau shows that parents shared more meals and spent more quality time together…

By MARK PRATT Associated Press A Russian millionaire who U.S. authorities allege participated in a scheme to steal information on computer networks…

By GRAHAM DUNBAR AP Sports Writer GENEVA (AP) — The IOC has promised Olympic teams worldwide that the Winter Games in Beijing will go ahead as…

By ROB GILLIES Associated Press TORONTO (AP) — Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau calls videos of a party on a recent Sunwing Airlines flight…

JERUSALEM (AP) — An Israeli committee has approved plans for building more than 3,500 settler housing units in east Jerusalem, nearly half in a…

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkey has reported its highest number of daily COVID-19 infections since the start of the pandemic as the rapidly-spreading…

By LAURAN NEERGAARD and MIKE STOBBE Associated Press The U.S. is strengthening its COVID-19 booster campaign, endorsing an extra shot for everyone…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Robert Santos has been sworn in as the head of the nation’s largest statistical agency. He became the first Hispanic director…

By RODRIQUE NGOWI, MICHAEL CASEY and DON THOMPSON Associated Press Hospitals across the U.S. are feeling the wrath of the omicron variant and getting…

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Thousands of people have gathered in Las Vegas for a tech conference that’s been scaled back because of COVID-19 precautions.…

By CURT ANDERSON AP Legal Affairs Writer A major lawsuit in the collapse of a Florida beachfront condominium that killed 98 people will go to trial…

By LEAH WILLINGHAM and REBECCA SANTANA Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The oldest World War II veteran in the United States has died at the age…

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkey’s Foreign Ministry says special envoys from Turkey and Armenia will hold their first meeting aimed at…

By ZEKE MILLER and MIKE STOBBE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. health officials say they are not changing the definition of being “fully…