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By CHRISTINE FERNANDO, EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS and JACK DURA Associated Press Republicans are challenging extended mail ballot deadlines in at least two…

By SUZAN FRASER Associated Press ANTAKYA, Turkey (AP) — A year after a powerful earthquake in southern Turkey reduced hundreds of thousands of…

By JAMIE STENGLE Associated Press DALLAS (AP) — The civil rights group founded by the Rev. Jesse Jackson in the 1970s got a new leader for the…

By ANDREW DALTON AP Entertainment Writer WEST HOLLYWOOD, Calif. (AP) — Pearl Jam’s forthcoming album shows the rockers are not mellowing with…

By ABBY SEWELL and MELANIE LIDMAN Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — The prospect of a full-scale war between Israel and Lebanon’s Hezbollah militia…

By JOSH BOAK and EMILY SWANSON Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Stocks are near record highs. Growth was surprisingly strong last year. And…

By MEGAN JANETSKY Associated Press SAN SALVADOR (AP) — To many, El Salvador President Nayib Bukele is a national hero who took on the country’s…

By DAVID HAMILTON AP Technology Writer SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — When Mark Zuckerberg turned at a Senate hearing to address the parents of children…

OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — A U.S. district judge in California dismissed a lawsuit Wednesday that sought to force the Biden administration to do all it…

By DAVID RISING Associated Press LUANG PRABANG, Laos (AP) — Landlocked Laos doesn’t have the famous beaches of its Southeast Asian neighbors, so…

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — The Messenger, an ambitious online news site that billed itself as a nonpartisan digital outlet and spent some $50…

By ISABELLA VOLMERT Associated Press INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — A video taken by a high school student shows an Indiana lawmaker flash a gun to students…

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Officials say 3 people have been killed and 9 were injured in a collapse of a hangar under construction on the grounds of the…

ROME (AP) — Pope Francis has announced the nomination of a new Chinese bishop, the third in less than a week. Bishop Peter Wu Yishun was…

By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — President Vladimir Putin has vowed to drive Ukrainian forces back to reduce the threat of…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — A panel of Supreme Court justices in Mexico has ruled against President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s rules that favored…

By FLORENT BAJRAMI and LLAZAR SEMINI Associated Press PRISTINA, Kosovo (AP) — Kosovo authorities say they will impose the use of the country’s…

By HALELUYA HADERO and ALI SWENSON Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A graphic video from a Pennsylvania man accused of beheading his father that…

By MARGERY A. BECK Associated Press LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A Nebraska lawmaker behind a new law that allows public money to go to private school…

By JACK DURA Associated Press South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem says her administration is considering boosting its support for Texas’ efforts to deter…

By BRUCE SCHREINER Associated Press FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — The Kentucky House has passed a bill instructing public schools to set aside time for a…

By KEN RITTER Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — Nevada’s attorney general has launched a go-it-alone legal fight accusing TikTok, Snapchat and…

By SARA CLINE Associated Press BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry has hinted that the state may explore expanding its methods of…

By MORGAN LEE Associated Press SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — Actor Alec Baldwin has pleaded not guilty to an involuntary manslaughter charge in the fatal…

By STEVE LeBLANC Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey and Boston Mayor Michelle Wu toured a recreational complex…

By JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER Associated Press The University of Idaho says a judge’s ruling helps it move closer to its planned affiliation with…

By SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Wisconsin Elections Commission argues that Democratic presidential candidate Dean…

MIAMI (AP) — The parents of a social media model charged with fatally stabbing her live-in boyfriend in South Florida have been arrested in Texas…