AP National News

By JIM GOMEZ Associated Press MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Human rights groups have asked the Philippine Commission on Elections to disqualify the…

By BRIAN SLODYSKO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrats became the dominant political force in Virginia over the past decade, but their grip…

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Asian shares are rising, boosted by the announcement from the U.S. Federal Reserve on winding down…

By QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA Associated Press BAGHDAD (AP) — Pro-Iran Shiite militias that emerged as the biggest losers in Iraq’s parliamentary…

By MIKE CATALINI Associated Press TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — New Jersey Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy and Republican Jack Ciattarelli were virtually…

By KEVIN McGILL Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A renowned New Orleans trumpet player has been sentenced to 18 months in prison over a…

By LINDSEY TANNER AP Medical Writer Schoolchildren take the spotlight this week as the U.S. enters a new phase in COVID-19 vaccination aimed at…

By WILL WEISSERT and SARAH RANKIN Associated Press RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy of New Jersey narrowly won reelection in his…

By LAURAN NEERGAARD AP Medical Writer Vaccinations finally are available to U.S. children as young as 5, to the relief of many parents. Shots began…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — China and Russia are urging the U.N. Security Council to end a host of sanctions against…

By JULHAS ALAM and ANIRUDDHA GHOSAL Associated Press SHYAMNAGAR, Bangladesh (AP) — Impacts of climate change from more frequent cyclones to tidal…

By JESSICA GRESKO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court seems ready to strike down a restrictive New York gun permitting law. But…

By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN Associated Press Federal judges have a thorny question to consider when they sentence military veterans who stormed the U.S.…

By JOSH BOAK, ZEKE MILLER, ELLEN KNICKMEYER Associated Press GLASGOW, Scotland (AP) — President Joe Biden demonstrated over five days abroad at two…

By TAMMY WEBBER, MICHAEL TARM and AMY FORLITI Associated Press KENOSHA, Wis. (AP) — The jury at Kyle Rittenhouse’s murder trial over shootings on…

By BEN WALKER AP Baseball Writer HOUSTON (AP) — The Atlanta Braves have won their first World Series championship since 1995, hammering the Houston…

SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — A Southwest Airlines pilot is under investigation for allegedly assaulting a flight attendant at a California bar during an…

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The University of California Hastings College of the Law wants to remove the name of its founder, who sponsored massacres of…

By MATTHEW BARAKAT Associated Press FALLS CHURCH, Va. (AP) — Virginia Republicans have completed a sweep of down-ballot statewide offices with…

By JOSH FUNK AP Business Writer Most workers at Deere & Co. have rejected a contract offer that would have given them 10% raises. Tuesday’s…

NEW YORK (AP) — New York City’s Republican mayoral candidate, Curtis Sliwa, tried to bring one of his many pet cats to his polling place on…

BEIRUT (AP) — Syria’s military says Israel has carried out an air raid that hit a military post on the outskirts of the capital of Damascus,…

By BRYAN ANDERSON Associated Press/Report for America RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Critical race theory has become a lightning rod for Republicans and an…

By STEFANIE DAZIO Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Los Angeles County Sheriff Alex Villanueva said he won’t comply with a mandate requiring…

By GENE JOHNSON Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) — A private prison company has been ordered to pay more than $23 million over lawsuits that accused…

By BECKY BOHRER Associated Press JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — The National Transportation Safety Board says the braking system on a plane that overran a…

By OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A San Francisco police officer has been charged with voluntary manslaughter after a man…

By TERRY TANG Associated Press Two major U.S. cities have elected their first Asian American mayor and a third could join them. Boston’s next mayor…

FAIRFIELD, Calif. (AP) — Police say three people have been arrested in the killing of a 19-year-old woman who was last seen leaving a Halloween…