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By CALEB JONES Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — Monsanto says in court papers that it has agreed to plead guilty to illegally using and storing…

By JEFFREY COLLINS Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A prominent South Carolina attorney who wife and son were gunned down six months ago in…

GALENA, Mo. (AP) — A judge says he will decide next year whether three men charged after a tourist boat sank in Missouri in 2018 will go to trial.…

SEATTLE (AP) — A controversial socialist City Councilmember in Seattle appears to have survived a recall vote by a narrow margin. She had faced…

By MANUEL DE LA CRUZ and EDGAR H. CLEMENTE Associated Press TUXTLA GUTIERREZ, Mexico (AP) — Mexican authorities say at least 53 people are dead and…

By KEVIN FREKING Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate has passed a fast-track plan for raising the debt limit. A key hurdle was cleared…

By PAUL J. WEBER Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A Texas judge has ruled the enforcement scheme behind the nation’s strictest abortion law…

By AMY TAXIN Associated Press MISSION VIEJO, Calif. (AP) — Coronavirus survivors held an emotional reunion at a hospital in Southern California…

NIAGARA FALLS, N.Y. (AP) — Authorities say a car stuck in the icy waters above Niagara Falls was likely driven into the river on purpose. The New…

By BOBBY CAINA CALVAN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Noncitizens in the country’s most populous city are closer to gaining the right to vote in…

By JOSHUA GOODMAN and JIM MUSTIAN Associated Press TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — A once-standout U.S. narcotics agent who used his badge to build a lavish…

MOSCOW (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin has brushed aside complaints about prosecutors’ move to shut down one of the country’s most…

Associated Press DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (AP) — A student at an aeronautical university in Florida was arrested after authorities received tips from…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Travelers love to hate airline fees, and several congressional Democrats say it’s time to regulate the extra charges for…

By MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — NASA’s newest X-ray observatory is circling the world after launching from Kennedy…

By BRUCE SCHREINER Associated Press FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Kentucky’s governor has declared an emergency over the state’s chronic…

By ERIC TUCKER and ZEKE MILLER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal appeals court has ruled against an effort by former President Donald…

By CHRISTOPHER SHERMAN Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — Allegations from the U.S. government that El Salvador President Nayib Bukele’s…

By JOSH FUNK AP Business Writer Newspaper publisher Lee Enterprises has rejected a takeover offer from the Alden Global Capital hedge fund that is…

BOSTON (AP) — A former media company CEO who authorities say paid more than $500,000 to get her two children into elite universities has been…

By ANDREW WELSH-HUGGINS Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Ohio’s capital city has agreed to pay $5.75 million to people injured during…

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice has lost another costly court ruling over his coal companies’ environmental…

By ADAM BEAM Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California truck drivers will soon have to worry about pollution tickets along with…

MARQUETTE, Mich. (AP) — A Catholic diocese in Michigan is asking its pastors to deny baptism, confirmation and other sacraments to transgender and…

By MATTHEW BARAKAT Associated Press FALLS CHURCH, Va. (AP) — Draft maps for new congressional districts in Virginia would provide Democrats a…

By EMMA H. TOBIN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Scientists say fossilized tracks from 120 million years ago show two-legged dinosaurs ran fast.…

By LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer The Sundance Film Festival is returning to the Utah mountains in January armed with documentaries about Bill Cosby,…

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Federal agents have arrested the mayor of one of the wealthiest cities in Puerto Rico on corruption charges.…

By BRIAN WITTE Associated Press ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — The Maryland General Assembly has voted to override Gov. Larry Hogan’s veto of…

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas (AP) — A Texas jury has awarded a largely symbolic settlement of more than $301 billion in a lawsuit against a Corpus Christi…

By CHRISTOPHER WEBER Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — A California woman faces criminal charges for telling her daughter “you better hit…

The Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — Rapper Travis Scott says in an interview that he didn’t know that fans had died at his Astroworld…

By NICHOLAS RICCARDI Associated Press One casualty of this year’s congressional redistricting process across the country is the swing seat in a…

ISLAMABAD (AP) — A spokesman for the Pakistani Taliban says the militant group will not extend a cease-fire agreed to a month ago and accuses the…

By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The Metropolitan Museum of Art is dropping the Sackler name from seven exhibition spaces…

French President Emmanuel Macron has urged Britain to make it easier for people to apply for asylum and harder for people to work illegally to stem…

By SAMUEL PETREQUIN Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — Five mixed-race women who were taken away from their Black mothers in infancy and sued the…

ELIZABETH CITY, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina authorities say a high school student has been taken into custody after he was found carrying a rifle…

By MOGOMOTSI MAGOME Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — South Africa’s regulatory authority has approved the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine as a…

By DEBORA ALVARES Associated Press BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — Brazil will require international travelers who aren’t vaccinated against the…

By ALAN SUDERMAN Associated Press RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A prominent political activist who pushed to end a ban on women driving in Saudi Arabia is…

By BOBBY CAINA CALVAN and MAE ANDERSON Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A surprise year-end decree by Mayor Bill de Blasio that orders virtually…

By DAVID PITT Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The attorney for an Iowa teenager charged with first-degree murder and conspiracy to commit…

By MARK SCOLFORO Associated Press The Penn State trustees on Thursday named the University of Louisville’s president Neeli Bendapudi to succeed…

By GILLIAN FLACCUS Associated Press PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Oregon’s largest city was at the center of the nation’s progressive push to cut…

By WAYNE PARRY Associated Press ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — America’s casinos have won more money this year than ever before, according to figures…

DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Syria’s energy ministry says Damascus will host an Arab energy conference in 2024. The announcement is the latest sign…

BALTIMORE (AP) — A Baltimore jury has convicted a man of first-degree murder in the 2018 stabbing of his wife that he blamed on a panhandler. The…