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By MARK ANDERSON AP Sports Writer LAS VEGAS (AP) — A meeting scheduled in the 1980s between the NFL and sportsbook directors sparked hope in Las…

By DASHA LITVINOVA Associated Press TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — The first publicly known cases have emerged of Russian authorities penalizing people…

By PHILIP MARCELO Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Bob Beckwith, a retired firefighter whose chance encounter with the president amid the rubble of…

By ROB MAADDI AP Pro Football Writer LAS VEGAS (AP) — Brock Purdy went overtime on Super Bowl opening night. The San Francisco 49ers’ second-year…

By ELÉONORE HUGHES Associated Press RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Rio de Janeiro city authorities have declared a public health emergency in the city…

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Investigators plan to interview two police officers who were working off duty in Nebraska’s largest city when they shot and…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Britain’s King Charles III has been diagnosed with cancer and has begun treatment, Buckingham…

LONDON (AP) — Royal officials say King Charles III has been diagnosed with a form of cancer and has begun treatment. Here is the statement from…

By SETH BORENSTEIN AP Science Writer A handful of centuries-old sponges from the Caribbean are causing some scientists to theorize that human-caused…

By JAMES POLLARD Associated Press/Report for America COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A South Carolina woman who traveled elsewhere for an abortion just days…

By TIM REYNOLDS AP Basketball Writer For the first time, the NBA will play on glass. Part of All-Star weekend in Indianapolis — including the…

The Associated Press OXFORD, Mich. (AP) — Jury deliberations are underway in the groundbreaking involuntary manslaughter trial of the Michigan…

By KATHLEEN FOODY Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — A Chicago children’s hospital has been forced to take its networks offline after an unspecified…

By PATRICIA LUNA and MANUEL RUEDA Associated Press SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — Volunteers in central Chile tried to remove charred metal, broken glass…

By KEN SWEET AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The Justice Department says First National Bank discriminated against Black and Latino homebuyers…

By WAYNE PARRY Associated Press ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — A judge has ruled that Atlantic City’s casinos have no legal obligation to stop…

By BERT WILKINSON Associated Press GEORGETOWN, Guyana (AP) — Officials say the U.S. government is increasing its urgent military assistance to…

By ALI SWENSON Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — An oversight board is criticizing Facebook owner Meta’s policies on manipulated media as…

By SYLVIE CORBET Associated Press PARIS (AP) — France’s new foreign minister has used his first visit to Israel to urge the government to allow…

SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) — Hundreds of angry farmers took to the streets in Bulgaria’s capital to complain of what they call “the total failure”…

By MIKE SCHNEIDER Associated Press ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Disney wants to keep confidential any proprietary information or trade secrets that comes…

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — Lawyers for Cambodia’s ruling Cambodian People’s Party have filed a lawsuit at the order of the party’s leader,…

Republican U.S. Rep. Victoria Spartz is seeking reelection for Indiana’s 5th Congressional District, about a year after she announced she would…

By CARLA K. JOHNSON AP Medical Writer Two new studies track the effect of police violence on Black Americans. One study ties police-involved deaths…

LAS VEGAS (AP) — A union representing hospitality workers says it has reached a tentative agreement with six more hotel-casinos in downtown Las…

By MATTHEW LEE, WAFAA SHURAFA and SAMY MAGDY Associated Press RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken met with Saudi…

NEW YORK (AP) — The wife of Bruce Willis is working on a guide to caregiving that draws upon her experiences tending to the beloved actor, who has…

By TOM MURPHY AP Health Writer Telemedicine’s early days of handling mostly mild illnesses like sinus infections or cases of pink eye are fading…

PARIS (AP) — The French foreign ministry says it has summoned Russia’s ambassador to France over the deaths of two French nationals working for…

PRISTINA, Kosovo (AP) — Germany’s Defense Minister Boris Pistorius says the country will double its contribution of about 100 troops to the…