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By BRUCE SCHREINER and DYLAN LOVAN Associated Press FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — The U.S. Department of Justice says it will investigate conditions in…

By KEVIN FREKING and BRIAN SLODYSKO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A new political action committee has begun pouring money into a key Oregon…

By ELLEN KNICKMEYER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Secretary of State Antony Blinken has removed Cuba from the State Department’s short…

By DAVID KLEPPER and ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Top U.S. security officials say America’s foreign adversaries will again seek…

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has signed a bill making climate change a lesser priority under state law and banning offshore…

By DOUG FERGUSON AP Golf Writer Rory McIlroy has all the momentum he could want heading into the PGA Championship as he tries to end a drought in the…

By RIO YAMAT Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — The iconic Mirage hotel-casino on the Las Vegas Strip will shut its doors this summer after more…

By MARK SHERMAN and KEVIN McGILL Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Wednesday ordered Louisiana to hold congressional…

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — A Texas man accused of fatally shooting two New Mexico women and taking one of their children and seriously injuring…

By BRUCE SHIPKOWSKI Associated Press Authorities say a police pursuit that went through two states and involved two separate shootouts with law…

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Actor Angie Harmon has filed a lawsuit against Instacart and a former Instacart shopper who fatally shot her dog in March…

By LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The number of reported sexual assaults across the military decreased last year, and a…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Arrests for illegally crossing the U.S. border from Mexico fell more than 6% in April to the fourth lowest month of the Biden…

By KEN SWEET AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Visa has announced major changes to how its credit and debit cards will operate in the U.S.…

HOUSTON (AP) — Astros pitcher Ronel Blanco received a 10-game suspension Wednesday for violating Major League Baseball rules prohibiting foreign…

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The Port of New Orleans’ president and chief executive officer has resigned to pursue an opportunity in the private sector.…

By MARK THIESSEN Associated Press ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Musher and dog trainer Rick Mackey has died. He won the grueling Iditarod Trail Sled Dog…

By DAVID KOENIG AP Airlines Writer Congress has passed a bill that is designed to add more safety inspectors at aircraft factories and to give air…

By ED WHITE Associated Press Pro-Palestinian protesters wearing masks pitched tents and placed fake bloody corpses outside the home of a University…

OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — San Francisco Bay Area voters will weigh in on the recall of another politically progressive prosecutor in November. Alameda…

NEW YORK (AP) — The U.S. Open men’s final will shift to ABC from ESPN this year but the women’s title match will remain on the cable outlet a…

By NOREEN NASIR Associated Press Dawud Assad still has nightmares of the day Jewish militias attacked his village of Deir Yassin outside Jerusalem 76…

By WAYNE PARRY Associated Press OCEAN GROVE, N.J. (AP) — In this seaside community that calls itself “God’s Square Mile at the Jersey…

By PETER SMITH and HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH Associated Press Kansas City Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker may have stirred controversy in some quarters for…

By COLLEEN SLEVIN Associated Press GOLDEN, Colo. (AP) — A second teen pleaded guilty on Wednesday in the death of a 20-year-old driver who was hit…

NEW YORK (AP) — The New York Giants are appearing on a new version of “Hard Knocks.” The Giants, HBO, NFL Films, Skydance Sports announced…

By MATTHEW LEE AP Diplomatic Writer KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Fresh from a day of delivering optimistic prognoses about how Ukraine would fare in the…

By AHMED AL-HAJ and FATMA KHALED Associated Press SANAA, Yemen (AP) — Yemeni authorities have deployed security forces and armored vehicles across…

By JILL COLVIN and ZEKE MILLER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden and Donald Trump have agreed to participate in two general…

By SUMAN NAISHADHAM and ROB GILLIES Associated Press The threat of a wildfire near Canada’s oil sands hub of Fort McMurray, Alberta, appeared to be…