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KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — The Kansas City, Missouri, Fire Department is under a federal investigation for alleged racial discrimination. A Kansas…

By MARK STEVENSON Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — The kind of mass threats and extortion of lime growers in the western Mexico that sparked a…

By JOHN FLESHER AP Environmental Writer TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) — A federal judge has approved an updated Great Lakes fishing agreement between…

GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — The Organization of American States’ human rights commission is asking Guatemala to provide protection for Bernardo…

By BERT WILKINSON Associated Press GEORGETOWN, Guyana (AP) — Guyana president Irfaan Ali on Thursday lashed out at the descendants of European…

By EMMA BURROWS LONDON (AP) — News that Russia’s Wagner mercenary chief was believed dead in a plane crash has dominated world reports, along…

By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A former death row inmate in Mississippi will be resentenced a second time because…

By JONATHAN MATTISE and KIMBERLEE KRUESI Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee Republican lawmakers have hit an impasse just a few…

By HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH Associated Press Dennis Rader, the BTK serial killer whose self-given nickname stands for “Bind, Torture, Kill,” played…

By DARLENE SUPERVILLE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Joan Lowy, a veteran Washington journalist who spent the final decade of her career…

By JILL COLVIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Former Vice President Mike Pence says viewers should expect to see the same, more combative…

By JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER and GENE JOHNSON Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — Maui County sued Hawaiian Electric Company on Thursday over the fires…

By JOHN RABY Associated Press CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — Prosecutors have asked a federal court to set plea hearings for two corrections officers on…

By FABIANO MAISONNAVE Associated Press RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Summer is still four months away in the Southern Hemisphere but Brazil is contending…

By ELLEN KNICKMEYER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. will start training Ukrainian pilots to fly U.S.-made F-16 fighter jets, beginning…

CHICAGO (AP) — A federal jury in Chicago has convicted a former chief of staff to longtime Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan of lying under…

By MICHAEL R. BLOOD Associated Press A California judge is rejecting an environmental group’s lawsuit that sought to block the state’s…

NICHOLASVILLE, Ky. (AP) — A grand jury in Kentucky has declined to indict a police officer in the fatal shooting of an armed Black man during a…

By BRUCE SCHREINER Associated Press LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear says building roads and bridges shouldn’t be a partisan…

MISSOULA, Mont. (AP) — A Montana man has been sentenced to more than two years in federal prison for threatening to kill U.S. Sen. Jon Tester.…

By RUSS BYNUM Associated Press A Donald Trump supporter who surrendered to Georgia authorities on charges he conspired with the former president and…

BUNNELL, Fla. (AP) — Florida school district officials have apologized for an elementary school assembly in which Black students were singled out…

Associated Press RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has left the Sao Paulo hospital where he underwent a series of…

By SETH BORENSTEIN AP Science Writer Economists calculate that the world’s corporations produce so much climate change pollution,  it could…

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — A former customer service manager at a U.S. Postal Service office in Indianapolis has been sentenced to 40 months in federal…

By MATTHEW BARAKAT Associated Press ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) — A Russian geneticist living in Virginia has been sentenced to probation in federal court…

By JOCELYN NOVECK AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — As Israel’s first and only female prime minister, Golda Meir may have broken a glass…