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By JACK DURA Associated Press BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — Construction began in June on the Theodore Roosevelt presidential library planned for the…

By JOSH FUNK AP Business Writer OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — The nation’s largest railroad union wants federal regulators to do more to ensure…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Nicaragua’s government has declared the Jesuit religious order illegal, and ordered the confiscation of all its property.…

By JIM HEINTZ Associated Press Yevgeny Prigozhin made his name as the profane and brutal mercenary boss who in June mounted an armed rebellion that…

By The Associated Press His name was on the manifest of a passenger plane that crashed in Russia. Just two months ago, Yevgeny Prigozhin was leading…

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — An Arkansas dispatcher who was shot in the parking lot of a Little Rock-area ambulance service over the weekend has died.…

By HARUNA UMAR Associated Press MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (AP) — Locals have reported the abduction of 42 women during an attack by Islamic extremist…

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — A U.S. nurse who was kidnapped in Haiti last month with her young daughter spoke via video this week for the first…

PHOENIX (AP) — The Arizona Supreme Court has agreed to review a lower court’s conclusion that abortion doctors can’t be prosecuted under a…

By AMY BETH HANSON Associated Press HELENA, Mont. (AP) — Montana prosecutors are declining to pursue misdemeanor trespassing charges against seven…

YORK, S.C. (AP) — A 50-year-old woman has been sentenced to life in prison for killing her newborn daughter, whose stabbed body was found in a…

KELOWNA, British Columbia (AP) — Firefighters in a scenic region of British Columbia say heavy rain overnight has helped douse wildfires that…

By ACACIA CORONADO and JUAN LOZANO Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Deadly heat that has gripped Texas for much of the summer has spread into…

By JULIE CARR SMYTH Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The Ohio Attorney General’s Office has rejected petition language for a…

LAWRENCEVILLE, Ohio (AP) — The driver of a minivan involved in a crash with an Ohio school bus that left one student dead and more than a score of…

By VICTOR R. CAIVANO and DANIEL POLITI Associated Press LOMA HERMOSA; Argentina (AP) — Argentine authorities have reported a large number of…

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — Known as the Zorro Ranch, a high-desert property once owned by disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein has been sold after two…

By CHRISTOPHER WEBER and RICHARD VOGEL Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — A longtime friend says the California woman killed for apparently…

EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. (AP) — The New York Giants say tight end Tommy Sweeney is stable and alert after collapsing during practice and being carted…

BOZEMAN, Mont. (AP) — A 51-year-old Montana woman who pleaded guilty to torturing and killing her 12-year-old grandson more than three years ago…

NEW YORK (AP) — A woman who killed an 87-year-old Broadway singing coach by shoving her onto a Manhattan sidewalk has avoided a lengthy prison…

By JULIE WALKER and KAREN MATTHEWS Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Officials in New York say a golfer beat a goose to death with a golf club  in…

By CHRISTINA LARSON AP Science Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Most octopuses lead solitary lives. So scientists were startled to find thousands of…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Former Southern California running back Reggie Bush plans to file a defamation lawsuit against the NCAA over a statement made by…

By HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH and SUMMER BALLENTINE Associated Press The BTK serial killer has been named the “prime suspect” in two unsolved killings…

By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN Associated Press ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — A New Mexico judge on Wednesday rejected a request by Alec Baldwin ’s attorneys…