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By ACACIA CORONADO Report for America/Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has signed redrawn voting maps that pave a safer…

By REBECCA BOONE and KEITH RIDLER Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Police in Boise, Idaho, say two people were killed and four injured in a…

By ASHRAF KHALIL Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The number of households receiving emergency rental assistance has increased steadily in recent…

By JOSH BOAK Associated Press To help pay for his big economic and social agenda, President Joe Biden is looking to go where the big money is and…

By CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — Local authorities and police say at least 18 worshippers have been killed by gunmen who…

By LOLITA C. BALDOR and ROBERT BURNS Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. officials say they believe Iran was behind the drone attack last week…

By MATTHEW LEE AP Diplomatic Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration has suspended $700 million in financial assistance to Sudan…

By BOBBY CAINA CALVAN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The National Labor Relations Board says there’s sufficient interest to form a union at…

By KEN SWEET AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The Treasury Department has hired a former JPMorgan Chase executive to head a new government…

By REBECCA BOONE Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — The founder of a far-right anti-government group says a report estimating the…

By RUSS BYNUM Associated Press BRUNSWICK, Ga. (AP) — The final giant chunk of an overturned cargo ship has been removed from waters along the coast…

By LISA MASCARO, DARLENE SUPERVILLE and ALAN FRAM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Democrats’ idea for a new billionaires’ tax to help…

By LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press Tumbling COVID-19 case counts have some schools around the U.S. considering relaxing their mask rules, but…

By DAVID BILLER Associated Press RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Facebook and Instagram have removed from their platforms a live broadcast that Brazil’s…

By CURT ANDERSON Associated Press ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — A family lawyer says the initial autopsy on the remains of Brian Laundrie did not…

By ELLIOT SPAGAT Associated Press Congressional investigators say two Border Patrol agents were fired from among 60 found to have committed…

By TOM KRISHER AP Auto Writer DETROIT (AP) — Hertz has announced that it will buy 100,000 electric vehicles from Tesla. It’s one of the…

CAIRO (AP) — Egypt’s president says he will not extend the state of emergency that had been imposed across the country for more than four years.…

COLUMBUS, OHIO (AP) — Ohio printed out 35,000 new license plates before realizing a banner depicted on the plate was attached to the wrong end of…

By TOM HAYS Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A lawyer for Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman says the U.S. conspiracy conviction of the notorious…

By EDGAR H. CLEMENTE Associated Press HUIXTLA, Mexico (AP) — More than 2,000 mostly Central American migrants were walking along a highway in…

By ZEKE MILLER and DAVID KOENIG Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Children under 18 and people from dozens of countries with a shortage of…

By RUSS BYNUM Associated Press BRUNSWICK, Ga. (AP) — Jury selection in the trial of three men charged with chasing and killing Ahmaud Arbery has…

AMSTERDAM (AP) — The European Medicines Agency said a booster dose of Moderna’s coronavirus vaccine “can be considered” in people aged 18 and…

By JOHN HANNA AP Political Writer TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A Wichita Republican who once was one of the Kansas Legislature’s most powerful lawmakers…

By KIMBERLEE KRUESI and JONATHAN MATTISE Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A Tennessee state senator and a Nashville social club owner have…

By SAMY MAGDY and LEE KEATH Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — Monday’s military coup in Sudan threatens to wreck the country’s fragile transition…

By JOHN SEEWER Associated Press A U.S. court order says the offspring of hippos once owned by Colombian drug kingpin Pablo Escobar can be recognized…

By DAVID McHUGH AP Business Writer FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — A senior energy adviser to President Joe Biden urged Russia to supply more natural gas…

By DAVID BILLER Associated Press RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Brazil’s Vice President Hamilton Mourão has said that the government will accelerate its…

By ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Relatives of more than two dozen American hostages and wrongful detainees held overseas are…

By DON BABWIN Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — Authorities say a North Carolina native who moved to Chicago was one of the victims of John Wayne…

DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Syria has accused Israel of carrying out an attack in the country’s south, without offering details. A war monitor said an…

By PATRICK WHITTLE Associated Press PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — A group of scientists and ocean life advocates says a type of whale that is one of the…

By MATTHEW LEE AP Diplomatic Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration says diplomatic efforts to get Iran back to nuclear negotiations are…

By MIKE SCHNEIDER Associated Press Boston is planning to challenge the results of the 2020 Census. The city says the once-a-decade head count…

By GRANT PECK Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — Rare demonstrations in support of Myanmar’s military-installed government have been held in several…

CHESTER, S.C. (AP) — Investigators say a U.S. Army soldier has been brought back to South Carolina from Germany to face charges he killed his…

By DENISE LAVOIE Associated Press RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Jury selection has begun at a civil trial in Charlottesville, Virginia to determine whether…

By BABA AHMED Associated Press BAMAKO, Mali (AP) — Mali’s transitional government has ordered an envoy of the 15-nation West African regional…

By LAURAN NEERGAARD AP Medical Writer Moderna says its low-dose COVID-19 vaccine is safe and appears to work in 6- to 11-year-olds. It is the second…

By SAMUEL PETREQUIN Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — Nine EU countries, including heavyweight Germany, have joined forces to say they will not…

By VANESSA GERA Associated Press WARSAW (AP) — A European Union official has said that there is “no place for rhetoric referring to war” among…

LONDON (AP) — The British government is looking to give millions of low-pay workers an inflation-busting pay increase next year. The government…

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The Dutch government is seeking advice from a panel of experts on whether it needs to reintroduce COVID-19…

By FRANK JORDANS Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Officials say a target for rich countries to provide poor nations with $100 billion in aid each…

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — People in Estonia no longer can use negative test results to obtain the coronavirus certificates needed to attend…

By JON GAMBRELL and JIM GOMEZ Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Apple threatened to pull Facebook and Instagram from its app…

By ALAN SUDERMAN Associated Press RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Microsoft says the same Russia-backed hackers responsible for the 2020 SolarWinds breach…

JERUSALEM (AP) — An Israeli court has ordered a 6-year-old boy who survived a cable car crash in Italy to be returned to his relatives there amid a…