AP National News

By DENISE LAVOIE Associated Press GLENNS, Va. (AP) — A Black activist and educator is making her presence known as a third-party candidate in the…

By STEVE PEOPLES AP National Political Writer NEWPORT NEWS, Va. (AP) — Terry McAuliffe won Virginia’s 2013 governor’s race by embracing his own…

By DENISE LAVOIE Associated Press GLENNS, Va. (AP) — A Black activist and educator is making her presence known as a third-party candidate in…

By SARAH RANKIN Associated Press RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Skeptical Virginia Republicans have come around to Glenn Youngkin, the party’s…

By STEVE PEOPLES AP National Political Writer NEWPORT NEWS, Va. (AP) — Terry McAuliffe won Virginia’s 2013 governor’s race by embracing his own…

By KATHLEEN RONAYNE Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s plan to ban new oil and gas wells within 3,200…

By MARY CLARE JALONICK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The House has voted to hold Steve Bannon, a longtime ally and aide to former President…

By MARIA CHENG AP Medical Writer British officials have identified a relative of the delta variant. It’s not a variant of interest or concern,…

By KRISTIN M. HALL AP Entertainment Writer NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — DJ supergroup Swedish House Mafia, known for bringing house music to the masses…

By PIERRE-RICHARD LUXAMA and MATÍAS DELACROIX Associated Press PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — A U.S. religious organization whose 17 members were…

BEIJING (AP) — China’s capital Beijing has begun offering booster shots against COVID-19, four months before the city and surrounding regions…

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BEIJING (AP) — An official Chinese newspaper says a troubled developer whose struggle to avoid a multibillion-dollar debt default is rattling…

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Qantas Airways has brought forward its plans to restart international travel from Sydney…

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Carlos Ghosn, the former auto industry superstar whose career screeched to a halt with his arrest…

By RONALD BLUM Associated Press Bernard Haitink, a Dutch conductor of refinement and grace who led the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra for 27 years and…

By MARK THIESSEN Associated Press ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — An Alabama native whom a judge alleged was “leading the charge” during the Jan. 6…

By NICK PERRY Associated Press WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — New Zealand’s government has set an ambitious target of fully vaccinating 90% of…

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s administration has proposed banning new oil and gas wells within 3,200 feet of sites…

TACOMA, Wash. (AP) — Police say four people were killed in a shooting in Tacoma, Washington, and police were searching for at least one suspect.…

By MORGAN LEE and WALTER BERRY Associated Press SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — A prop firearm discharged by veteran actor Alec Baldwin, who is producing and…

By BRITTANY PETERSON and SUMAN NAISHADHAM The Associated Press DENVER (AP) — NASA launched an online platform Thursday with data on how much water…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Two foreigners were killed and three wounded in a shooting in the Mexican Caribbean resort town of Tulum. Authorities said…

By WILL WEISSERT Associated Press DUMFRIES, Va. (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris has traveled to the Washington suburbs to campaign for…

By KEN RITTER Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — A Las Vegas businessman is facing criminal charges of voting twice in the November 2020 election,…

By JOSH BOAK and MARTIN CRUTSINGER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. financial regulators are acknowledging climate change to be a serious…

SUPERIOR, Neb. (AP) — The Nebraska State Patrol says a man who was fired from a grain elevator returned later in the day and shot three people,…

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Ohio’s debut of its new license plate failed to take off after the illustration of a banner in flight was attached to…

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) — A Virginia museum is proposing to melt down a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee that was the focus of a violent…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. special envoy for Myanmar is warning that the country is already facing “an…

By ALEX VEIGA and LYNN ELBER Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Netflix employees walked out Wednesday in protest of Dave Chappelle’s special…

By REBECCA BOONE Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — A new report from the Institute for Research and Education on Human Rights says a far-right…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal regulators say flight attendants should get more rest between shifts. The Federal Aviation Administration proposed…

By CURT ANDERSON Associated Press ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — Authorities say remains found in a Florida wilderness park are those of Brian…

By CLAUDIA LAUER MEDIA, Pa. (AP) — The narrative that passengers watched a man rape a woman on a train in suburban Philadelphia last week and…

By LINDSAY WHITEHURST and SOPHIA EPPOLITO Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A federal civil rights investigation found widespread racial…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Buckingham Palace says Queen Elizabeth II spent a night in a hospital after being advised by her…

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Police say a mural honoring Black tennis legend and Richmond, Virginia, native Arthur Ashe has been defaced with insignias…

By LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press A man who pleaded guilty to writing threatening social media posts in connection with the riot at the U.S.…

CLARE, Mich. (AP) — Authorities have arrested a woman whom they had been seeking in the deaths of four people in central Michigan. The Mount…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican experts say they have detected the ruins of almost 2,500 pre-Hispanic structures and 80 burial sites on just one-sixth…

By DÁNICA COTO Associated Press SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — A police superintendent in Jamaica has told The Associated Press that authorities…

By JOSHUA GOODMAN Associated Press MIAMI (AP) — Federal prosecutors have unveiled criminal charges against an alleged corruption ring accused of…

By BOB CHRISTIE Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Democratic Arizona Sen. Kyrsten Sinema is facing more defections from the broad base of support she…

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — President Joe Biden is set to return to Virginia for his second campaign stop with fellow Democrat Terry McAuliffe as the…

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Virginia’s Supreme Court won’t reconsider its decision to allow removing a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee that…

BUNN, N.C. (AP) — A North Carolina town finds itself under siege by buzzards, and nothing local leaders do to scare them off seems to be working.…

By SEAN MURPHY Associated Press OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Republican leaders in Oklahoma are expressing outrage after learning the State Department of…

By GRANT SCHULTE Associated Press OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — The indictment of U.S. Rep. Jeff Fortenberry could have a big impact on the Republican’s…

By BOBBY CAINA CALVAN and ANNE D’INNOCENZIO Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Organizers of a bid to unionize Amazon workers at a distribution…