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NEW YORK (AP) — The baseball players’ association has asked a federal court to confirm an arbitrator’s decision denying an attempt by a…

By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer A report by the American Chamber of Commerce in China says that simmering tensions between Beijing and…

By ANIRUDDHA GHOSAL Associated Press LONG AN, Vietnam (AP) — There is one thing that distinguishes 60-year-old Vo Van Van’s rice fields from a…

CHICAGO (AP) — The Chicago Bears have scheduled a Wednesday news conference to announce plans for “a state-of-the-art, publicly owned enclosed…

By JAMIE STENGLE Associated Press DALLAS (AP) — Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is dropping a request for a Seattle hospital to hand over records…

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma City police are investigating the deaths of five people, including at least two children, inside a home on the…

By REBECCA BOONE Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — A judge says defense attorneys for a man charged in the deaths of four University of Idaho…

By JUAN A. LOZANO Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — A legal battle over a lack of air conditioning in Texas prisons is bringing together advocates on…

By ANITA SNOW Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — An Arizona judge declared a mistrial Monday in the case of a rancher accused of fatally shooting a…

By SARAH RANKIN Associated Press NEW KENT, Va. (AP) — A Virginia prosecutor says a former longtime medical director of a Virginia hospital that…

MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Philippine troops have killed the leader of a small Muslim rebel group and eleven of his men blamed for past bombings…

SOUTH MILWAUKEE (AP) — A Milwaukee man charged with killing and mutilating a woman whose body parts washed up on a beach along Lake Michigan has…

By SOPHIE AUSTIN Associated Press/Report for America MODESTO, Calif. (AP) — California will open its first new state park in a decade this summer.…

By MICHAEL GOLDBERG Associated Press/Report for America JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi legislators advanced bills Monday to give voting rights…

LONDON (AP) — British Home Secretary James Cleverly is visiting Italy as part of the U.K. government’s efforts to crack down on migrants arriving…

By KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un supervised salvo launches of the country’s…

By ANDREW DeMILLO Associated Press LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — The head of the U.S. House Judiciary Committee is asking the Bureau of Alcohol,…

By ACACIA CORONADO Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A second person has died after a Texas semitrailer driver this month plowed a stolen…

The Associated Press An independent panel that reviewed the neutrality of the U.N. agency helping Palestinian refugees, after Israel alleged that a…

By MICHAEL CASEY Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — William Strickland, a longtime civil right activist who worked closely with Malcolm X and Jesse…

By STEVE KARNOWSKI Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Police say a Minnesota state senator and former broadcast meteorologist has been arrested in…

By FRANKLIN BRICEÑO Associated Press LIMA, Peru (AP) — A Peruvian psychologist who had an incurable disease that weakened her muscles and left her…

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A warrant for allegations of violating a protective order is no longer pending against a Democratic state representative from…

By GENE JOHNSON Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) — Jury selection is underway in the trial of a suburban Seattle police officer charged with murder in…

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro met with the head of the International Criminal Court as he faces an ongoing…

NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. (AP) — A man accused of vandalizing an Islamic center at New Jersey’s flagship university on the Muslim holiday of…

By HOLLY RAMER Associated Press BRENTWOOD, N.H. (AP) — A lawyer defending the state of New Hampshire against abuse allegations at its youth…

By LEA SKENE Associated Press BALTIMORE (AP) — Baltimore’s mayor and city council are calling for the owner and manager of the cargo ship…

By AMY BETH HANSON and MATTHEW BROWN Associated Press HELENA, Mont. (AP) — A federal jury on Monday said BNSF Railway contributed to the deaths of…

By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER, JENNIFER PELTZ and MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Monday’s opening statements in the first…