AP National News

By SUDHIN THANAWALA and JAY REEVES Associated Press Kentucky and Texas have joined a growing list of states that have surpassed their record for…

By LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer James McAvoy and Sharon Horgan didn’t know one another before this year. But the two actors got very familiar very…

By TAMEEM AKHGAR and JOSEPH KRAUSS Associated Press Salgy Baran got the highest score in all of Afghanistan on her university entrance exams this…

ANAMOSA, Iowa (AP) — An inmate who confessed in court to using a hammer to kill a nurse and correctional officer during an escape attempt at an…

LONDON (AP) — A Scottish court has dismissed extradition proceedings against a Catalan politician sought by Spain over Catalonia’s failed…

By STEPHEN McGRATH AND NICOLAE DUMITRACHE Associated Press BRAILA, Romania (AP) — Romania and Japan have celebrated a century of diplomatic…

By MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Blue Origin has launched artwork painted on a capsule and a moon-landing navigation…

By CARLA K. JOHNSON and NICKY FORSTER Associated Press The U.S. is projected to see nearly 100,000 more COVID-19 deaths between now and Dec. 1.…

By SOPHIA TAREEN Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — Illinois will require all educators from kindergarten through college and health care workers to…

AARON MORRISON Associated Press In the nation’s capital on Saturday, multiracial coalitions of civil, human and labor rights leaders are convening…

By ED WHITE Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — A woman fed up with how a Michigan city tracked parking violations has won a major decision from a…

MIAMI (AP) — Tropical Storm Ida has formed in the Caribbean and forecasters say it’s aimed at the U.S. Gulf Coast, prompting Louisiana’s…

By NICHOLAS K. GERANIOS Associated Press SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — State officials have destroyed the first Asian giant hornet nest of the season,…

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Not long ago, anticipation was high that Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell might…

By KRISTIN M. HALL AP Entertainment Writer NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The music industry is moving toward vaccine mandates for concertgoers, but local…

MUSKOGEE, Okla. (AP) — A member of the Seminole Nation in Oklahoma whose case led to a landmark decision on criminal jurisdiction in tribal lands…

MILLINOCKET, Maine (AP) — The U.S. Department of Defense says the remains of a World War II pilot whose body was lost in Europe’s Adriatic…

By JEFFREY COLLINS Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A South Carolina prosecutor whose office was run for decades by a prominent legal family…

By MICHAEL PHILLIS Associated Press ST. LOUIS (AP) — Artists will no longer have to incorporate hunting imagery to win a spot for their work on the…

By STEPHEN GROVES Associated Press FORT PIERRE, S.D. (AP) — A judge has ordered no jail time for South Dakota Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg in a…

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Police in Kenya’s capital say nine people are dead after a crane collapsed at a high-rise construction site in Nairobi. An…

BERLIN (AP) — The German government says Chancellor Angela Merkel has called off a planned weekend visit to Israel because of the situation in…

ISABELLA, Minn. (AP) — A Superior National Forest official says the ongoing drought has created “tinderbox conditions” as firefighters continue…

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Dutch police say a body that washed up on an island in the northern Netherlands is that of an 81-year-old German man…

BERLIN (AP) — Germany publishing company Axel Springer says it has signed a deal to buy the U.S.-based political news site Politico and the tech…

By CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — The Africa director of the World Health Organization says the continent was able to triple…

NEW YORK (AP) — New York Gov. Kathy Hochul introduced state Sen. Brian Benjamin as her choice for lieutenant governor Thursday in the senator’s…

BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanon’s state-run news agency says the judge leading the investigation into last year’s massive explosion at Beirut’s…