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By PHILIP MARCELO Associated Press EAST MEADOW, N.Y. (AP) — A towering stadium boasting 34,000 seats and a precisely trimmed field of soft Kentucky…

By HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Like a political convention held amidst an intra-party rift, Thursday night’s PEN America…

NEW YORK (AP) — ESPN’s broadcast of the Connecticut Sun’s game against Caitlin Clark and the Indiana Fever had the highest viewership for a…

By HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH Associated Press TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The lesson on diversity started slowly in a first-grade classroom in Topeka, where…

By TARA COPP and CLAUDIA LAUER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — In 2020, the top enlisted leader of the Air Force went public with his fear of…

By HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH Associated Press TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The lesson on diversity started slowly in a first-grade classroom in Topeka, where…

By REGINA GARCIA CANO Associated Press SABANA DE MENDOZA, Venezuela (AP) — At an intersection packed in four directions, rally-goers scream and…

By BILL BARROW and MATT BROWN Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — President Joe Biden will have his most direct engagement with college students since…

VENTURA, Calif. (AP) — A judge has decided that a Southern California college professor will stand trial for involuntary manslaughter and battery…

By MARIA SHERMAN AP Music Writer It was Lainey Wilson ’s night, in many ways. She took home female artist of the year and the top prize of…

By MICHAEL R. SISAK, JENNIFER PELTZ, JAKE OFFENHARTZ and ALANNA DURKIN RICHER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump’s lawyers accused…

By The Associated Press Russian President Vladimir Putin’s visit to China underlines an increasingly close partnership between the two allies.…

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Japan has reported that its economy contracted at an annual rate of 2% in the first quarter of the…

By TSVANGIRAYI MUKWAZHI Associated Press KASAMA, Zambia (AP) — Every morning, Bridget Chanda places her prosthetic legs beside her bed, pulls on…

By AUDREY McAVOY Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — A University of Hawaii study examining the health effects of last year’s deadly wildfires on…

By PAUL NEWBERRY AP Sports Writer It’s not a rock. It’s the Athens Rock Lobsters. Ah-ah-ah-ah! The minor-league hockey team that will begin play…

By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer CANNES, France (AP) — Francis Ford Coppola on Thursday will premiere at the Cannes Film Festival a film on which he…

By MAKIYA SEMINERA Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Republican lawmakers in North Carolina are pushing forward with their plan to repeal a…

By ELÉONORE HUGHES Associated Press RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Brazil’s biggest pop star, Anitta, has released a music video depicting rituals of the…

By BEN FINLEY Associated Press The Dali container ship experienced a near perfect storm of calamities before it struck Baltimore’s Francis…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The Sudanese people “are trapped in an inferno of brutal violence” with famine,…

FRANKLIN, Tennessee (AP) — Local Tennessee officials say three people are dead after a small plane crashed on Wednesday in Williamson County.…

By FREIDA FRISARO Associated Press FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — A bus carrying people to work in a watermelon field in central Florida was…

By HANNAH FINGERHUT and GEOFF MULVIHILL Associated Press A new abortion clinic will open in southeast Kansas this fall, bolstering the state’s role…

By RANDALL CHASE Associated Press DOVER, Del. (AP) — A federal judge says Delaware’s vanity license plate program is unconstitutional because it…

By MARK STEVENSON Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — Newly minted Michelin-starred chef Arturo Rivera Martínez stood over an insanely hot grill…

By DAVID A. LIEB Associated Press Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly vetoed a measure Wednesday that could have earmarked up to $5 million for gun-detection…

By OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Family members of a Navy veteran who died after a police officer pressed a knee to his…

CHICAGO (AP) — A consultant the Chicago Blackhawks hired to improve relations with American Indian tribes is accusing the team, its charity…

The Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Financial disclosure reports for the president and vice president are out and they show Vice President…