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By MICHAEL R. SISAK and JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump obtained hundreds of millions of dollars in loans using…

PITTSBURGH (AP) — A 19-year-old man has pleaded guilty to third-degree murder in the death of a 15-year-old student shot last year in a school van…

By JULIE CARR SMYTH and NICHOLAS RICCARDI Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — After Ohio Republicans bolstered their statehouse majority last…

By JIM VERTUNO AP Sports Writer AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A woman awaiting trial in the killing of professional cyclist Anna Moriah Wilson tried to run…

By COREY WILLIAMS Associated Press Former NFL player Sergio Brown was arrested in Southern California in connection with the death of his mother,…

By MARY CLARE JALONICK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The speaker of the House is normally elected every two years, in January, when the House…

BALTIMORE (AP) — Law enforcement has blocked traffic from entering the Baltimore Washington International Airport terminal. Airport officials cited…

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — An appeals court says California’s ban on higher-capacity magazines can remain in effect while the state fights a lower…

By JAKE BLEIBERG Associated Press DALLAS (AP) — A 13-year-old Texas boy has been convicted on a murder charge stemming from the fatal shooting of a…

By ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON Associated Press MIAMI (AP) — Former President Donald Trump on Wednesday defended his record governing the nation for four…

By LARRY NEUMEISTER and KEN SWEET Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Sam Bankman-Fried’s former top executive has blamed the FTX founder of…

By MICHAEL CASEY and TRISHA AHMED Associated Press An Israeli-American teenager survived a siege on his home by Hamas attackers over the weekend…

By FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Social Security’s cost-of-living increase for 2024 will be announced Thursday. But…

By JOSEPH KRAUSS Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — In the three and a half decades since it began as an underground militant group, Hamas has…

By DANICA KIRKA and AMI BENTOV Associated Press TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — One of those taken hostage is a grandmother who learned Arabic in hopes of…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Two giant rocket motors required to display the retired NASA space shuttle Endeavour as if it’s about to blast off arrived…

STOUGHTON, Mass. (AP) — A confrontational blogger known as “Turtleboy” is facing charges of witness intimidation and conspiracy related a…

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Plans by the Port of South Louisiana to purchase what was once a major New Orleans area shipyard for construction of military…

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal Reserve officials regarded the U.S. economy’s outlook as particularly…

By CAROLYN THOMPSON and HALELUYA HADERO Associated Press New York is bidding to put new controls on social media platforms that state leaders say…

SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) — El Salvador has sent more than 4,000 security forces into three communities on the outskirts of the capital to…

By LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A gun count that had been part of a collapsed plea deal in the Hunter Biden case has been…

ST. CLAIR, Mo. (AP) — A Missouri high school teacher who was suspended after officials discovered that she had performed on a subscription-based…

By ADRIAN SAINZ Associated Press MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Federal officials say two newly established national wildlife refuges in Tennessee and…

By AMY TEIBEL Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — The Hamas-run Gaza Strip is a tiny enclave, measuring 25 miles long and no more than 7 miles wide.…