AP National News

By LINDSAY WHITEHURST and DAVID A. LIEB Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — New redistricting maps that largely ignore a voter-approved…

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — The fate of a white Kansas City police detective charged in the fatal shooting of a Black man is now in the hands of a…

By MICHAEL BALSAMO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration is nominating its first set of U.S. Marshals, including the first…

By ANNE D’INNOCENZIO AP Retail Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The National Labor Relations Board has confirmed that a group of Amazon workers in…

By KIMBERLEE KRUESI Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee Attorney General Herbert Slatery says pregnant people in the state will…

By JACQUES BILLEAUD and MICHAEL KUNZELMAN Associated Press A former tech company CEO from suburban Chicago who lost his job after he threw a chair…

By JOSH DUBOW AP Pro Football Writer Former Las Vegas Raiders coach Jon Gruden has sued Commissioner Roger Goodell and the NFL, alleging that a…

By The Associated Press This week’s new entertainment releases include a much-anticipated album from Adele, a documentary about Janet…

By JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — A biological sister of a 6-year-old Hawaii girl reported missing by their adoptive…

By DARLENE SUPERVILLE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — White House press secretary Jen Psaki has resumed daily press briefings after she was…

GARDEN GROVE, Calif. (AP) — Former NBA player Corey Benjamin has issued an apology after seeing a widely-viewed online video showing his teenage…

ARDMORE, Okla. (AP) — Two former Oklahoma police officers face up to 10 years in prison after being convicted of murder for using their stun guns…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. Security Council has extended the mandate of the U.N. peacekeeping force in…

By ALICIA RANCILIO Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Taylor Swift’s short film of “All Too Well,” set to the tune of her expanded and…

By MIKE CATALINI Associated Press RARITAN, N.J. (AP) — New Jersey Republican Jack Ciattarelli says he spoke to Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy and…

HAMPTON TOWNSHIP, N.J. (AP) — State police say a man who traveled to space with William Shatner last month was killed along with another person…

By DAVID PITT Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Two southeast Iowa teenagers have been formally charged with first-degree murder and…

BOSTON (AP) — Members of the union that represents about 200 workers at Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts have voted to hold a one-day strike next…

By JAMIE STENGLE Associated Press DALLAS (AP) — A man is scheduled to go on trial next week in the death of one of 18 women he’s charged with…

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — A powerful Haitian gang leader says he is easing a chokehold on fuel deliveries that has caused a growing crisis for…

By GILLIAN FLACCUS Associated Press PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — The U.S. Coast Guard and local authorities used two helicopters and a rescue swimmer to…

By BRYAN ANDERSON AND GARY D. ROBERTSON Associated Press/Report for America RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Rep. Madison Cawthorn says he’ll run in a…

By ELLEN KNICKMEYER, ANNIRUDDHA GHOSAL and SETH BORENSTEIN Associated Press GLASGOW, Scotland (AP) — In the frantic last hours of U.N. climate…

By EDDIE PELLS AP National Writer DENVER (AP) — Making an Olympic team is hard enough. This winter, those who earn their spots on the U.S. squad…

By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The label “date movie” hasn’t traditionally been applied much to documentaries but filmmakers…

By BEN FINLEY Associated Press CHESAPEAKE, Va. (AP) — Court records show that a man killed by Virginia State Police had been mentally ill for…

By WAYNE PARRY Associated Press ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — A Pennsylvania woman is suing the manufacturer of a popular online slots game.…

By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer NEW YORK (AP) — In Kenneth Branagh’s “Belfast,” a black-and-white, heartfelt memory piece told largely from the…

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — The Alabama Supreme Court says a Minnesota woman seeking more than $360,000 in child support from the estate of one-time…

MOSCOW (AP) — New pandemic restrictions prepared by Russian authorities are set to go into effect next year. Bills outlining the measures were…

BENTON HARBOR, Mich. (AP) — Michigan and local officials have been targeted in a lawsuit over high levels of lead in Benton Harbor’s drinking…

By PATRICK WHITTLE Associated Press PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — A federal court is allowing a team of environmental groups to continue with a lawsuit…

CHICAGO (AP) — Chicago police say they’ve arrested an 18-year-old man in this week’s shooting death of a Chinese student near the…

By MARCELO SILVA DE SOUSA Associated Press RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Detected deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon has risen for a second straight…

By RASHID YAHYA and BASSEM MROUE Associated Press DOHUK, Iraq (AP) — Thousands of people from Middle Eastern nations devastated by conflict have…

LAURENS, S.C. (AP) — A South Carolina man who killed a 2-year-old child found with bruises and bite marks all over his body and signs of sexual…

By AAMER MADHANI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House says President Joe Biden and China’s Xi Jinping will hold their…

By CARA ANNA Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — The United States has imposed sanctions on the military and ruling party of Eritrea over their…

By STEPHEN GROVES Associated Press SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — South Dakota lawmakers are readying to issue a subpoena on Gov. Kristi Noem’s…

By RUSS BYNUM Associated Press BRUNSWICK, Ga. (AP) — A police officer says he would have given Ahmaud Arbery a warning for trespassing inside the…

By MATTHEW BROWN Associated Press BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — U.S. government attorneys have asked a federal judge to uphold a decision from the waning…

By JESSICA MUNDIE Religion News Service For many Christians, the relationship between birds and faith does not stray farther than seeing a dove…

By MARY CLARE JALONICK, MICHAEL BALSAMO and EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Steve Bannon, a longtime ally to former…

NORTH KINGSTOWN, R.I. (AP) — A former high school basketball coach in Rhode Island is under investigation after former players came forward to say…

By MATTHEW LEE AP Diplomatic Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The Gulf nation of Qatar has agreed to represent U.S. interests in Afghanistan following the…

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Americans quit their jobs at a record pace for the second straight month in September,…

VILNIUS, Lithuania (AP) — A court in Lithuania has found two Lithuanian men guilty of spying for Russia by passing information to a Russian…