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COLUMBIA FALLS, Maine (AP) — A family with an audacious plan to build the world’s tallest flagpole as a centerpiece for a billion-dollar project…

WASHINGTON (AP) — ABC’s “This Week” — National security adviser Jake Sullivan; House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y.; Sen. JD…

HONOLULU (AP) — The U.S. Coast Guard is asking mariners for help in finding a 60-year-old man sailing from California to Hawaii. The Coast Guard…

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A federal lawsuit says a woman who died last February shouldn’t have been discharged from a Tennessee hospital, forced to…

By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN Associated Press ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — The police chief in New Mexico’s largest city vowed Friday that the Albuquerque…

By ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Prosecutors in the classified documents case against former President Donald Trump have told a…

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Argentina’s Chamber of Deputies has approved in general terms a sweeping package of reforms proposed by…

By JUAN A. LOZANO Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — It was just another routine day of inspecting shipping containers at the Port of Houston for U.S.…

HAVANA (AP) — Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel removed the country’s economy minister on Friday, according to state media, following a…

NEW YORK (AP) — Wayne Kramer, the co-founder of the protopunk Detroit band the MC5 that thrashed out such hardcore anthems as “Kick Out the…

By TODD RICHMOND Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Wisconsin Supreme Court will allow U.S. Rep. Dean Phillips to add his name to the…

By MICHAEL CASEY Associated Press A Rhode Island city has approved the first state-sanctioned safe injection site, a place where people can use…

By MARK SHERMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court is allowing West Point to continue taking race into account in admissions,…

By ANDREW DeMILLO Associated Press LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — The chair of Arkansas’ parole board has resigned after personnel records revealed…

By WYATTE GRANTHAM-PHILIPS AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Target says it will stop selling a product dedicated to Civil Rights icons after a…

By SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Wisconsin Supreme Court on Friday agreed to hear Democratic Gov. Tony Evers’ lawsuit…

BOSTON (AP) — The Massachusetts Registry of Motor Vehicles says it has downgraded the licenses of more than two dozen commercial drivers in the…

By RICHARD LARDNER and AARON KESSLER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — An Associated Press analysis of new Federal Election Commission filings…

By ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge in Washington formally postponed Donald Trump’s March trial on charges of…

By STEPHEN WHYNO AP Hockey Writer TORONTO (AP) — NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman says the league will wait for the judicial process to play out…

By DAVE SKRETTA AP Sports Writer Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce says he is ready for the Super Bowl circus to begin when his team arrives in Las Vegas…

By MATTHEW BROWN and TODD RICHMOND Associated Press Federal wildlife officials on Friday rejected requests from conservation groups to restore…

By MICHAEL LIEDTKE AP Technology Writer SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Apple’s hotly anticipated Vision Pro headset is hitting store shelves. That means…

WHITING, Ind. (AP) — BP says power has been restored a sprawling oil refinery in northwest Indiana following an outage that prompted the company to…

KENNETT SQUARE, Pa. (AP) — A district judge in Pennsylvania says prosecutors have sufficient grounds to continue to press escape and other charges…

By The Associated Press A judge on Feb. 13 will hear a request by the attorneys general of Tennessee and Virginia for a preliminary injunction that…

By MORGAN LEE Associated Press SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — New Mexico Democrats who control the Legislature want to make it a crime to pose as a fake…

By ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department has announced that it is seizing more than 500,000 barrels of…

REBECCA SANTANA Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas says he is “totally focused on the work” that…

By SARA CLINE Associated Press BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Louisiana State University head football coach Brian Kelly helped release back into the wild…