AP National News

By LISA MASCARO, DARLENE SUPERVILLE and ALAN FRAM Associated Press SCRANTON, Pa. (AP) — The White House is floating new plans for ways to pay for…

By DÁNICA COTO and PIERRE-RICHARD LUXAMA Associated Press PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Efforts to win the return of 17 members of a U.S.-based…

TOKYO (AP) — A volcano in southern Japan is erupting with a massive column of gray smoke billowing into the sky. The Japan Meteorological Agency…

By IRIS SAMUELS Associated Press/Report for America CASCADE, Mont. (AP) — For the first time in 30 years, the Census has awarded Montana a second…

By DÉBORA ÁLVARES and DIANE JEANTET Associated Press BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — A Brazilian Senate report has recommended pursuing crimes against…

By MARY CLARE JALONICK and FARNOUSH AMIRI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A House committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection has…

CHULA VISTA, Calif. (AP) — A Southern California man has been arrested on suspicion of killing his wife nine months ago, and her family is pleading…

By MARK THIESSEN Associated Press ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — The case against a rural Alaska man who federal authorities say threatened to kill the…

By JOSH FUNK AP Business Writer OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Union Pacific and its labor unions are suing each other to determine whether the railroad has…

By NICK PERRY Associated Press WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — An emergency call made by a 4-year-old New Zealand boy asking for police to come over…

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — San Francisco police say a man who fell to his death from the upper level of a basketball arena is believed to have “leapt…

By DÉBORA ÁLVARES and DIANE JEANTET Associated Press BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — Brazilian senators are discussing details of an investigative…

By AUDREY McAVOY Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — Hawaii’s governor says COVID-19 case counts and hospitalizations have declined to the point…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Texas congressmen are complaining about the Mexican government’s attempts to limit competition in the electrical power sector.…

By JACQUES BILLEAUD Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — A judge refused to reduce the 30-year prison sentence for an Arizona man convicted of helping…

By DAVID KOENIG AP Airlines Writer DALLAS (AP) — Southwest Airlines is backing away from a plan to put unvaccinated workers on unpaid leave. A…

GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — Former soldiers who are demanding a war-time bonus  for serving in Guatemala’s 1960-1996 civil war have burst onto the…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Thirty top business leaders are seeking to encourage private investment to help the U.N.…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Fox News anchor Neil Cavuto tested positive for COVID-19, which he says is surprising but made him grateful that he was…

TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — No bull: Tucson police had to respond Tuesday morning to reports of a bull roaming a neighborhood near an elementary school.…

By JONATHAN J. COOPER Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — The Biden administration is threatening to revoke the authority for three…

By KEN MILLER Associated Press OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A group of Oklahoma students and educators are challenging the constitutionality of a law that…

By SOPHIA TAREEN and DON BABWIN Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — Chicago Police Superintendent David Brown says that 21 officers have been placed on…

By STEPHEN WHYNO AP Sports Writer Several months after COVID-19 vaccinations were made widely available in the United States, vaccination status…

By KEN RITTER Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — Entertainer Flavor Flav’s attorneys say he will fight a misdemeanor domestic battery charge…

By JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Former President Donald Trump wants to countersue a former “Apprentice” contestant who…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department says a Maryland couple arrested earlier this month on charges of trying to sell information about…

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — A 30-year-old coach in an AAU girl’s basketball program founded by a former WNBA player has been charged with child…

By KIM CHANDLER Associated Press MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama will be the third state to carry out a death sentence during the COVID-19 pandemic…

By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — An associate of Rudy Giuliani has just a few hours to decide whether to testify at his own…

By TOM KRISHER AP Auto Writer DETROIT (AP) — A former California pollution regulator is being nominated to run the nation’s highway safety…

By THOMAS BEAUMONT Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The first Black chair of Iowa’s Democratic Party says he received a series of racist…

Associated Press ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — The family of a Florida college student who detectives say was killed by a handyman at an apartment complex…

A Montana man has been charged with with killing his girlfriend by running over her in his pickup truck during an alcohol-fueled argument. Missoula…

By DAVID SHARP Associated Press PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to block a vaccine requirement for Maine health care…

By HALELUYA HADERO AP Business Writer The David Prize, an annual $1 million award for select New York City residents, has announced its five winners…

By MICHAEL CASEY Associated Press Retired U.S. Rep. Bill Zeliff has died at age 85 after a career in which he helped lead the investigation of the…

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A Mississippi man has admitted filing a false claim that an FBI agent and others owed him $500,000 for refusing to drop state…

By DAVID BAUDER AP Media Writer NEW YORK (AP) — CBS won its first week of the still-new television season, this time by dominating non-sports…

By ZEKE MILLER and DAVID KOENIG Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden’s most aggressive move yet to combat the COVID-19 pandemic…

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — San Francisco’s mayor has announced that the city will hand out cash awards of up to $100,000 for information leading to the…

By BARBARA ORTUTAY AP Technology Writer Netflix has posted sharply higher third-quarter earnings thanks to a stronger slate of titles. Those include…

JIM MUSTIAN Associated Press (AP) — A former Mexican federal police commander has admitted he took hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes to…

TYLER, Texas (AP) — A Texas nurse has been convicted of capital murder in the deaths of four patients who died after prosecutors say he injected…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Department of Homeland Security says Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas has tested positive for COVID-19. A DHS statement says the…

BENTON HARBOR, Mich. (AP) — Michigan’s governor has visited Benton Harbor to listen to residents who have been urged to use bottled water…

By MICHELLE LIU Associated Press/Report for America COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A prominent civil rights attorney is calling on a South Carolina…

LONDON (AP) — Dozens of nations particularly vulnerable to the effects of global warming have laid out their key demands ahead of the upcoming U.N.…