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By ZIMO ZHONG Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — Asian markets were mostly lower on Wednesday after U.S. stocks held near their record levels in a…

By HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH, SUMMER BALLENTINE and JIM SALTER Associated Press KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Court documents say the man accused of firing…

By TIA GOLDENBERG, WAFAA SHURAFA and SAMY MAGDY Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel and Hamas played down chances of an imminent breakthrough…

By JOCELYN GECKER AP Education Writer SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — In California, a high school teacher complains that students watch Netflix on their…

By ANDREW DeMILLO and JOHN HANNA Associated Press TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Efforts in Republican-led states to write definitions of male and female into…

By COLLEEN LONG, KEVIN FREKING and DARLENE SUPERVILLE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Congressional leaders emerged from an “intense” Oval…

By JANIE HAR Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Supervisors in San Francisco formally apologized Tuesday to African Americans and their…

By SEUNG MIN KIM and COREY WILLIAMS Associated Press DEARBORN, Mich. (AP) — President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump won the Michigan…

By DASHA LITVINOVA Associated Press TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Vladimir Kara-Murza could only laugh when officials in Penal Colony No. 6 inexplicably…

By SUSAN HAIGH Associated Press The mayor of Connecticut’s most populous city has won a do-over election, months after a judge threw out the result…

By JAMES BROOKS and JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press GENEVA (AP) — The century-old Geneva motor show is back in action for the first time in five…

PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistani police say a senior officer and two wanted Taliban members were killed in an intense shootout when officers…

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — A photographer told police he was punched in the face by Taylor Swift’s father on the…

By MORGAN LEE Associated Press SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — Testimony at trial Monday turned emotional and argumentative as an eyewitness recounted the…

NEW YORK (AP) — Sean “Diddy” Combs was sued Monday by a music producer who accused the hip-hop mogul of sexually assaulting him and forcing him…

By JUAN A. LOZANO Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — A lawsuit filed by one of the sons of the owner of the Houston Texans that had sought to have her…

By JONATHAN MATTISE Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Republicans in the Tennessee House have voted to advance a bill that would prevent…

SAN DIEGO (AP) — A federal judge struck down a California law banning possession of club-like weapons, reversing his previous ruling from three…

By JONATHAN MATTISE Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee lawmakers have passed a bill requiring that public and private schools…

By FRANKLIN BRICEÑO Associated Press LIMA, Peru (AP) — Peru has declared a health emergency in most of its provinces due to a growing number of…

By HANNAH SCHOENBAUM Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The Utah House has blocked a bill that would have banned teachers from using their…

By JONATHAN MATTISE Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The GOP-led Tennessee House has passed a bill that would largely ban displaying pride…

By BRUCE SCHREINER and DYLAN LOVAN Associated Press FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — The Kentucky Senate has voted to lay the foundation to attract nuclear…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — More than two-thirds of the U.N. Security Council’s members have demanded that the…

By BRUCE SCHREINER Associated Press FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Legislation aimed at easing Kentucky’s near-total abortion ban by creating limited…

By JILL COLVIN and DAVID FISCHER Associated Press MIAMI (AP) — Emergency crews responded Monday after a letter containing an unidentified white…

By WAYNE PARRY Associated Press ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — The Mohegan tribe says it will end its management of Atlantic City’s Resorts casino at…

By MARK THIESSEN Associated Press ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — A shooting that killed two adults and severely wounded two others has stunned a tiny…

REGINA, Saskatchewan (AP) — A case of old hockey cards possibly containing the game’s Great One has fetched more than $3.7 million after it was…

By ANTHONY IZAGUIRRE Associated Press ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Democrats in the New York Legislature are rejecting a congressional map drawn by the…