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By LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Navy is adding two weeks to boot camp in a major overhaul aimed at improving…

By JANET McCONNAUGHEY Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The Louisiana Supreme Court has upheld a COVID-19 vaccine mandate for the state’s…

By DAISY NGUYEN Associated Press OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — The sister of a slain federal security officer is suing Facebook, alleging the tech giant…

By The Associated Press This week’s new entertainment releases include new albums from Elvis Costello and The Lumineers, and John Cena reprises his…

By DAVID EGGERT Associated Press LANSING, Mich. (AP) — A former Michigan legislative leader is denying allegations that he raped his future…

By LISA RATHKE Associated Press The state of Vermont says investment management company Merrill has agreed to pay $4.5 million to settle allegations…

By STEFANIE DAZIO and BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Coast Guard has announced new safety rules following a deadly blaze that…

By JOSH BOAK Associated Press President Joe Biden enters the midterm election year of 2022 determined to address what economists call a “supply”…

By JUAN A. LOZANO Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — A Houston mother was charged after authorities allege she placed her 13-year-old son in the trunk…

NEW YORK (AP) — “Judge Judy” Sheindlin has given a $5 million donation to New York Law School in Manhattan, where she, her daughter and…

By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer NEW YORK (AP) — As a trailblazing actor to generations of Black performers in Hollywood, Sidney Poitier often spoke…

By HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The publisher of a memoir by Rep. Ruben Gallego of Arizona is correcting a passage about a…

TULSA, Okla. (AP) — A federal judge has sentenced a former Oklahoma police officer to 25 years in prison for the 2014 killing of his daughter’s…

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Prosecutors and defense attorneys for three former Minneapolis officers who are charged in the death of George Floyd are asking…

By JILL COLVIN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — It’s not often that Ted Cruz finds himself having to mend fences with the right. But that was…

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — A Connecticut man has been sentenced to 25 years in prison for sex trafficking at the 2020 Super Bowl in South…

By DÉBORA ÁLVARES Associated Press BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — Brazil is already one of the countries most devastated by COVID-19 and it’s…

By PAUL J. WEBER Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas abortions clinics that were unable to stop the nation’s most restrictive…

By PAUL WISEMAN AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — One of the fastest years of job creation in U.S. history stumbled at the finish line in…

By DARLENE SUPERVILLE and ZEKE MILLER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden announced last month that the federal government will…

By JULIE CARR SMYTH Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Ohio abortion providers have again sued to block a state law requiring that fetal…

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Ethiopia’s government has announced an amnesty for some of the country’s most high-profile political detainees, including…

By MICHAEL RUBINKAM Associated Press One of Pennsylvania’s biggest gas drillers is facing newer allegations of pollution in a rural community where…

NEWBERRYTOWN, Pa. (AP) — Police who pulled over a suspected drunken or drugged driver in Pennsylvania discovered a live deer that had apparently…

By PATTY NIEBERG and LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press LOUISVILLE, Colorado (AP) — In Colorado and other states hit by natural disasters this…

By HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Sidney Poitier, who played roles of such dignity and intelligence that he transformed how Black…

The Associated Press Tributes to Sidney Poitier poured in from Hollywood and elsewhere following the death of the groundbreaking actor and cultural…

By SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A top Republican lawmaker in the presidential battleground state of Wisconsin says there is…

By ZEKE MILLER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden will deliver his first State of the Union address on March 1, the White House…

HOUSTON (AP) — The mother of a 2-year-old girl whose body was found in a Houston bayou in 2020 has pleaded guilty for her role in the child’s…

BERLIN (AP) — A Berlin teacher has been convicted of murder and sentenced to life in prison for the killing of another man that the judge said was…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Authorities in Mexico’s Gulf coast state of Veracruz say a heap of nine bodies has been found piled on a roadside. The…

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Republican Wisconsin lawmakers are pushing for tougher bail policies after a man who is charged with driving his SUV through a…

By SAM METZ AP / Report for America RENO, Nev. (AP) — The challenges facing former U.S. Sen. Dean Heller as he runs for Nevada governor were on…

By ASTRID SUÁREZ Associated Press CALI, Colombia (AP) — For the first time in years, Víctor Escobar stopped taking most of the medicines needed…

CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. (AP) — Rex Dearmont Rust, co-president of the Missouri-based media company Rust Communications, has died. The company’s…

By DARLENE SUPERVILLE and PATTY NIEBERG Associated Press LOUISVILLE, Colo. (AP) — President Joe Biden has visited Colorado to comfort residents…

BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Hundreds of Novak Djokovic’s supporters have gathered at a rally in downtown Belgrade to protest his confinement in…

BRISTOL, Conn. (AP) — Former players David Cone and Eduardo Perez are joining Karl Ravech to form a new broadcast team for ESPN’s “Sunday Night…

By LINDSEY TANNER and MIKE STOBBE AP Medical Writers Hospitalizations of U.S. children under 5 with COVID-19 have soared to unprecedented levels, a…

MOSCOW (AP) — As Kazakhstan struggles to cope with an increasingly violent uprising this week, it has turned for help to a Russian-led security…

BERLIN (AP) — Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer’s office says he has tested positive for the coronavirus after apparently being infected by a…

By KATE BRUMBACK Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia gubernatorial candidate David Perdue and his campaign are challenging a new state law that…

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greece’s Culture Ministry launched an investigation Friday following the online release of a short film showing two men…

By HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Sidney Poitier, who played roles of such dignity and intelligence that he transformed how Black…

By DAVID EGGERT Associated Press LANSING, Mich. (AP) — A ballot drive being launched in Michigan would protect a woman’s right to an abortion…

WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. regulators are shortening the time that people who received Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine have to wait for a booster —…

CHESTER, England (AP) — Manchester City player Benjamin Mendy has been released from prison on bail ahead of his trial on rape charges, which has…

By JEFFREY COLLINS Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Governors across the U.S. took sweeping action during earlier surges of the COVID-19…

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greece’s government has issued a civil mobilization order that will oblige some doctors in the private sector to…