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By GONZALO SOLANO and MANUEL RUEDA Associated Press QUITO, Ecuador (AP) — Ecuador has started to ration electricity in its main cities as a drought…

MANITOWOC, Wis. (AP) — A man who was caring for a 3-year-old Wisconsin boy when he vanished in late February has pleaded not guilty to a charge of…

CHICAGO (AP) — A Chicago woman accused of luring a pregnant teenager to her home and cutting her baby from her womb with a butcher knife nearly…

NEW YORK (AP) — Will Bynum, who played for the Detroit Pistons for six season, has been sentenced to 18 months in prison for his conviction in a…

By JEFFREY COLLINS Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A report from the South Carolina Senate says state Treasurer Curtis Loftis nearly put the…

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — The mayor of North Carolina’s capital city has announced that she wouldn’t seek reelection this fall. Mary-Ann Baldwin has…

By HOLLY RAMER Associated Press BRENTWOOD, N.H. (AP) — Jurors deciding whether to hold the state of New Hampshire accountable for alleged abuse at…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán now claims he can’t get phone calls or visits in the maximum security U.S. prison where the…

NEW YORK (AP) — A former shoemaker has pleaded guilty to allegations that he had an illegal gambling operation for the Mafia at his shop in…

PHENIX CITY, Ala. (AP) — A man who kidnapped, raped and killed a 5-year-old Georgia girl has been given four death sentences for the crime. An…

By CLAIRE RUSH Associated Press Idaho families with transgender children are desperately scrambling for solutions as a state law banning…

By ANNE D’INNOCENZIO and WYATTE GRANTHAM-PHILIPS AP Business Writers NEW YORK (AP) — Shares of Dr. Martens have plunged after the iconic…

By SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A lawsuit in Wisconsin argues that voters with disabilities should be able to cast their…

By HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH Associated Press KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — An attorney says a former Kansas City-area pharmacist who has been incarcerated…

By JULIA FRANKEL and JACK JEFFERY Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel is vowing to retaliate against Iran, risking further expanding the…

By JILL COLVIN and BILL BARROW Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Fresh from a Manhattan courtroom, Donald Trump visited a New York bodega where a…

TORONTO (AP) — Authorities in Canada say they have made arrests in the theft of a cargo container that included gold and other items worth over 20…

By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Civil rights attorney Ben Crump is demanding that police in a small town in…

By JIM SALTER Associated Press ST. LOUIS (AP) — Strong storms have caused damage in parts of the middle U.S. and spawned tornadoes in Kansas and…

By MATTHEW BARAKAT Associated Press ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) — An Army general who investigated the abuse of prisoners 20 years ago at Iraq’s…

By SUMMER BALLENTINE Associated Press JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — A Missouri ethics panel is at an impasse over reported misconduct by the powerful…

By JIMMY GOLEN By JIMMY GOLEN AP Sports Writer (AP) — Boston Marathon winner Sisay Lemma says he expects to be on the Ethiopian roster for the…

By ISABELLA VOLMERT Associated Press INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Michelle Lennis grew up playing basketball in Indiana as a born-and-raised Purdue fan. But…

By JEFF AMY Associated Press Three district attorneys in Georgia are asking a judge to strike down a law creating a commission to discipline and…

By LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer Participant, the activist film and television studio that has financed Oscar winners and socially conscious…

By EVELYNE MUSAMBI Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — A United Nations-backed gathering has raised pledges of almost $630 million for…

By SOPHIA TAREEN Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — Ukraine Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal has made multiple stops in Chicago aimed at drumming up…

DETROIT (AP) — On the eve of a vote on union representation at Volkswagen’s Tennessee factory, Gov. Bill Lee and some other southern…

By CARLOS MUREITHI Associated Press The world installed 117 gigawatts of new wind power capacity in 2023, a 50% increase from the year before, making…

By HOWARD FENDRICH and EDDIE PELLS AP National Writers NEW YORK (AP) — Athletes in plenty of sports compete for plenty of cash. Olympians? Not so…