AP National News

By AARON MORRISON, HELEN WIEFFERING and NOREEN NASIR Associated Press The nation’s military academies provide a key pipeline into the leadership of…

By HANNAH FINGERHUT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — As the conservative-leaning Supreme Court this week signaled that it may dramatically limit…

By MARK SHERMAN and JESSICA GRESKO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — We’ve been here before, with the fate of abortion rights throughout the…

By STEVE KARNOWSKI and AMY FORLITI Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A mostly white jury has been seated for the trial of a former Minnesota…

By PAUL J. WEBER and MARK SHERMAN Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The state of Texas is offering a glimpse in real time of what would be a…

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — America’s unemployment rate tumbled last month to its lowest point since the…

By MENELAOS HADJICOSTIS and NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — Pope Francis denounced the “indifference” that the West…

By KEVIN FREKING and LISA MASCARO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden has signed into law the stopgap spending bill that will…

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australia’s opposition leader says the nation would set a more ambitious target of…

By KEN MORITSUGU Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — China and the United States are tussling over President Joe Biden’s upcoming democracy…

By KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea is tightening recently relaxed restrictions on social gatherings as it…

By CHRISTOPHER WEBER Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Authorities in Los Angeles announced more than a dozen arrests in recent smash-and-grab…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press United Nations (AP) — The U.N. General Assembly is urging all nations to observe a truce during the Beijing…

By MARINA VILLENEUVE Associated Press ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York officials have disclosed that the U.S. Department of Justice began a civil…

By JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — Chinese ride-hailing service Didi Global Inc. says it will pull out of the New York Stock…

By BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — A California official says the state’s landmark law mandating women be placed on corporate…

By NICHOLAS K. GERANIOS Associated Press SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — Jake Dickert has been introduced as the new head football coach at Washington State…

By NICHOLAS K. GERANIOS Associated Press Officials in Oregon are asking for help locating the person or persons responsible for poisoning an entire…

By SAM METZ AP / Report for America CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) — State workers enrolled in public employee healthcare plans in Nevada will be charged…

By MEG KINNARD Associated Press CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — Former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley is drawing on her native South…

By ALEXANDRA JAFFE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden has helped light the National Christmas Tree on the Ellipse near the…

By JEFF AMY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia’s former insurance commissioner is beginning a seven-year prison sentence. Jim Beck was…

ATLANTA (AP) — A sheriff says a 14-year-old Georgia girl was killed when her younger brother was trying to sell a homemade gun and he fired a shot…

By MIKE CATALINI Associated Press TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — Disorder and confusion erupted outside the New Jersey Assembly as Republican lawmakers…

LYNCHBURG, Va. (AP) — Court records and campus officials say a Liberty University associate professor has been charged with sexual battery and…

By TODD RICHMOND Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Milwaukee County’s top prosecutor says a young assistant in his office sought $1,000…

A former Arizona nurse was sentenced to 10 years in prison for sexually assaulting an incapacitated woman at a long-term care facility where she…

By DAVID EGGERT Associated Press LANSING, Mich. (AP) — A judge has ordered nine lawyers allied with former President Donald Trump to pay Detroit…

By STEPHEN WADE and HOWARD FENDRICH AP Sports Writers The stand the women’s professional tennis tour is taking in China over concern about…

By The Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Paul Thomas Anderson’s “Licorice Pizza” has been named the best film of the year by the National…

By PAUL J. WEBER and MARK SHERMAN Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The state of Texas is offering a glimpse in real time of what would be a…

By MARK SHERMAN and JESSICA GRESKO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — We’ve been here before, with the fate of abortion rights throughout the…

By JOHN FLESHER AP Environmental Writer Oil giant BP has agreed to pay a $512,450 penalty and reduce soot emissions from its Whiting refinery in…

By KEN RITTER Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — The fraternity that organized a charity boxing match where a UNLV student competitor collapsed and…

By TALI ARBEL AP Technology Writer The Federal Trade Commission has sued to block graphics chip maker Nvidia’s $40 billion purchase of chip…

By JENNIFER McDERMOTT Associated Press PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — U.S. Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm said Thursday that the administration’s…

By WAYNE PARRY Associated Press SECAUCUS, N.J. (AP) — If you’ve turned on a television in the last three years, chances are you’ve been…

MISSOULA, Mont. (AP) — As many as 900 bison from Yellowstone National Park could be shot by hunters, sent to slaughter or placed in quarantine this…

By DAVID A. LIEB and GEOFF MULVIHILL Associated Press Tens of millions of workers across the U.S. are in limbo as federal courts have issued…

By MICHAEL BALSAMO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee is lambasting the director of the beleaguered…

By TOM DAVIES Associated Press INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — A lawyer for women who say they were drunkenly groped by Indiana’s former attorney general has…

By DARLENE SUPERVILLE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden will be in the house for the Kennedy Center Honors on Sunday. Biden…

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) — A 29-year-old man has been arrested in the death of philanthropist Jacqueline Avant, who was fatally shot at the…

By TOM KRISHER AP Auto Writer DETROIT (AP) — Members of the United Auto Workers union have overwhelmingly approved picking their leaders by direct…

By MARK SCOLFORO Associated Press HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Federal prosecutors say a Pittsburgh synagogue massacre defendant’s statements at the…

By STEPHEN GROVES Associated Press SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — A South Dakota judge has sentenced a woman to 10 years in the state prison system for…