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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Megan Fox and Machine Gun Kelly are engaged. The actor and rapper have decided to legalize their dramatically eccentric…

By KEVIN McGILL Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A federal court has again rejected a Louisiana pastor’s lawsuit over Gov. John Bel…

By MATTHEW BARAKAT Associated Press LEESBURG, Va. (AP) — A northern Virginia teenager found guilty of sexually assaulting classmates at two…

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (AP) — Virginia’s attorney general says police in Virginia Beach used forged documents linking people’s DNA to a crime…

SAN FRANCISCO More than 80 fact checking organizations are calling on YouTube to address what they say is rampant misinformation on the platform. A…

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Lael Brainard pledged in written remarks to help the Federal Reserve fight a spike in…

WESTBROOK, Maine (AP) — Maine’s rotating ice disk has begun to form again in the Presumpscot River three years after its famous first appearance…

UPPER DARBY, Pa. (AP) — Federal investigators have been poring over the wreckage of a medical helicopter a day after it crash-landed without loss…

By DAVE KOLPACK Associated Press FARGO, N.D. (AP) — North Dakota Attorney General Wayne Stenehjem says a police investigator violated state law by…

By ROB GILLIES Associated Press TORONTO (AP) — Students in Canada’s largest province will return to classrooms Monday, and teachers and staff…

By TODD RICHMOND Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Prosecutors have added dozens of charges against a man accused of driving his SUV through a…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Senior U.N. officials say escalating military action in Yemen displaced more than 15,000…

By TOM MURPHY AP Health Writer Shares of Biogen have tumbled a day after regulators slapped strict limitations on coverage the drugmaker’s new…

By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Ronnie Spector, the cat-eyed, bee-hived rock ‘n’ roll siren who sang such 1960s hits as…

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Republican Rep. Trey Hollingsworth says he won’t seek reelection to the southern Indiana congressional seat that he first…

NEW YORK (AP) — A judge’s ruling against Prince Andrew in a sexual abuse lawsuit is bad news for the British Royal. But it doesn’t say much…

By MICHELLE L. PRICE Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — New York City Mayor Eric Adams is seeking approval from city ethics officers to hire his…

By FARNOUSH AMIRI and ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The House panel investigating the U.S. Capitol insurrection has requested an…

By JAKE SEINER AP Baseball Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Rachel Balkovec was introduced as manager of the New York Yankees’ Low A affiliate in the…

By STEPHEN GROVES Associated Press PIERRE, S.D. (AP) — U.S. Sen. Mike Rounds of South Dakota has repeatedly made it clear that former President…

By JULIE CARR SMYTH Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The Ohio Supreme Court has rejected newly drawn district maps that retained Republican…

By ADRIAN SAINZ Associated Press MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Authorities say two of the men arrested in connection with the slaying of rapper Young Dolph…

By WAYNE PARRY Associated Press NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — Two of New Jersey’s big stated priorities — protecting the environment, and keeping…

By CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — The Nigerian government has lifted its ban on Twitter, seven months after the West African…

By TRISHA THOMAS and NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press GIGLIO, Italy (AP) — Italy is marking the 10th anniversary of the Costa Concordia cruise ship…

By COREY WILLIAMS Associated Press A Michigan teenager charged in a mass shooting that left four students dead at his high school and others wounded…

By EVENS SANON Associated Press PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Flags at half-mast are flapping in the wind as Haiti honors the estimated 316,000…

LONDON (AP) — British police have cordoned off an area outside the BBC’s Broadcasting House in central London after a man was spotted scaling the…

By MARTIN CRUTSINGER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The Federal Reserve says the economy was growing at a modest pace at the end of 2021 but…

By LINDSEY TANNER AP Medical Writer Distrust, misinformation and other factors have combined to produce what authorities say are alarmingly low…

By MARTIN CRUTSINGER and FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. last month posted its smallest monthly budget deficit in two…

MULTAN, Pakistan (AP) — A Pakistani court has sentenced four men to death for their involvement in a car bombing last year that killed four people…

By Associated Press (AP) — Italy on Thursday marks the 10th anniversary of the Costa Concordia cruise ship wreck off the Tuscan island of Giglio.…

By MEG KINNARD Associated Press Officials across the U.S. are again weighing how and whether to impose mask mandates as COVID-19 infections soar and…

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — The city of Indianapolis has effectively denied a request for over $2 million in compensation made by three members of the Sikh…

By JILL COLVIN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Former President Donald Trump says politicians who refuse to say whether they’ve received…

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — A painting by the American modernist Marsden Hartley that had been missing for 40 years has been found in a bank vault.…

BUFFALO, Minn. (AP) — A jury trial has been scheduled for a Minnesota man accused of walking into a medical clinic and opening fire, killing one…

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Starting next month, workers at Universal Orlando’s theme parks will have to be vaccinated or undergo weekly COVID-19…

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. secretary-general says eight nations are losing their voting rights in the General Assembly because of arrears on…

By MATTHEW PERRONE AP Health Writer It’s not yet clear when people infected with omicron become contagious but early data suggests it might be…

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — Attorneys for a woman who left her Alabama home to join the Islamic State terror group plan to continue fighting for her…

By KIMBERLEE KRUESI and JONATHAN MATTISE Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A growing group of Tennessee Republican is proposing a statewide…

By LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Army, for the first time, is offering a maximum enlistment bonus of $50,000 to…

By ELLEN KNICKMEYER and AAMER MADHANI The Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Democrats are proposing new sanctions against Russia if it…

By DAVID A. LIEB Associated Press JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Political divisions about coronavirus policies are evident as state lawmakers across…

GENEVA (AP) — Switzerland’s government is halving the quarantine and self-isolation times required of people who test positive for the…

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A Minnesota judge has agreed to delay a state court trial for three former Minneapolis police officers charged in George…

BOSTON (AP) — Workers have started removing the last tents from a homeless encampment at a Boston intersection known as Mass and Cass. Bulldozers…