AP National News

By REBECCA BOONE Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — A former Idaho state lawmaker charged with rape has made his first appearance in the case in…

LEXINGTON, Va. (AP) — Authorities say a drunk driver was going 152 mph when he was pulled over in Rockbridge County over the weekend. According to…

By JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press GENEVA (AP) — The chief of the World Health Organization has honored the late Henrietta Lacks, an American woman…

By MATTHEW LEE AP Diplomatic Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States and Israel say they are exploring a “Plan B” for dealing with Iran if…

By STEPHEN McGRATH Associated Press BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — Doctors in Romania’s capital has issued an open letter titled “a cry of…

By MARY CLARE JALONICK and MARIAM FAM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The nomination of a Pakistani-born businessman who’d be the…

SOUTHFIELD, Mich. (AP) — Four people have been charged with involuntary manslaughter, nearly eight years after the death of a man who was pinned to…

By YURAS KARMANAU Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — The Russia-backed separatist authorities in eastern Ukraine are reporting the largest spike…

By MICHAEL BALSAMO and COLLEEN LONG Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge has held the director of the District of Columbia’s…

TYLER, Texas (AP) — Defense attorneys have begun calling witnesses in the capital murder trial of a former nurse accused of killing four patients…

By COLLIN BINKLEY AP Education Writer Thousands of public servants who were rejected from a student loan forgiveness program will get their cases…

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The lavish waxworks temple Madame Tussauds has opened its first Middle East location on a small artificial…

By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Wontons stuffed with collard greens and a cake colored to look like camouflage are features…

By MARK SHERMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court sounds ready to reinstate the death penalty for convicted Boston Marathon…

By STAN CHOE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — With prices surging worldwide for heating oil, natural gas and other fuels, the U.S. government…

By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin says the Kremlin has “constructive” relations with the…

By MEG KINNARD Associated Press Dylann Roof’s chances for a new appellate hearing continue to dwindle. Roof is challenging his death sentence and…

By MATTHEW PERRONE and LAURAN NEERGAARD Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Food and Drug Administration is wrestling with how to decide on…

By KATHLEEN RONAYNE Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California’s high-speed rail project is again facing an uncertain future as…

By MARIA CHENG AP Medical Writer LONDON (AP) — The World Health Organization says officials have begun vaccinating people in eastern Congo against…

By MIKE SCHNEIDER Associated Press ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Two of Florida’s largest cities have ended water emergencies now that COVID-19…

By ANNE D’INNOCENZIO AP Retail Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Moccasin maker Minnetonka is publicly apologizing for making money off of Native…

By ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON Associated Press MIAMI (AP) — Families of COVID-19 patients are asking hospitals to rethink visitor policies a year and a…

By ANDREW DALTON AND LINDSEY BAHR Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — The union representing film and television crews says its 60,000 members will…

ALTAMONTE SPRINGS, Fla. (AP) — Police in central Florida have arrested the 22-year-old father of a toddler who fatally shot his mother while she…

By KATE BRUMBACK Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — A judge has dismissed a lawsuit that alleged fraud in Georgia’s most populous county during the…

By JACK JEFFERY Associated Press RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — Palestinian officials say at least 250 prisoners held by Israel have begun a hunger…

By AYA BATRAWY Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Qatar’s foreign minister says isolating Afghanistan and its new Taliban rulers…

By RONALD BLUM Associated Press Nathalie Stutzmann, the French-born contralto turned conductor, will succeed Robert Spano as music director of the…

By TODD RICHMOND Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — An attorney has filed another lawsuit against a former Wisconsin police officer who fatally…

BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s leaders are paying tribute to its troops who served over nearly 20 years in Afghanistan. The country’s president said…

By RAF CASERT Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — The great Brexit brawl is heading into its next standoff as European Union concessions to improve…

SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) — Hundreds of Bulgarian coal miners and energy workers have staged a protest to demand government guarantees for their jobs…

BALTIMORE (AP) — A Texas man will have to appear in Baltimore to answer a charge of threatening a Maryland doctor who has been a prominent advocate…

By FRANCES D’EMILIO Associated Press ROME (AP) — Italy is wrestling with how to deal with a neo-fascist party that has violently exploited…

PELHAM Ala. (AP) — Alabama communities affected by last week’s flash flooding are still working to clean up the mess and address persistent…

By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN Associated Press A federal judge has blocked Baltimore city officials from banning a conservative Roman Catholic media outlet…

By GLENN GAMBOA AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The Ms. Foundation for Women unveiled $4 million in funding Wednesday for more than 100 groups…

By RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR and CHRISTOPHER RUGABER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Millions of retirees on Social Security will get a 5.9% boost…

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Consumer prices rose 0.4% last month, slightly higher than August’s gain and pushing…

By CANDICE CHOI Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Food companies are coming under renewed pressure to use less salt. U.S. regulators on Wednesday…

NEW YORK (AP) — Author Shannon Messenger can now see the end for her telepathic heroine Sophie and the million-selling middle-grade series…

By ADRIAN SAINZ Associated Press MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Postal workers are back on the job at a sorting facility in Tennessee, hours after a…

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Dutch court documents show that police arrested a 22-year-old man in July on suspicion of threatening to kill…

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkey’s foreign minister has accused Russia and the United States of failing to keep to their promise to restrain…

By HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — A publishing division is being started by the conservative media company the Daily Wire. It…

LAUDERDALE-BY-THE-SEA, Fla. (AP) — Residents of an oceanfront condominium near Fort Lauderdale have been evacuated after authorities said…

MADRID (AP) — Spanish rescuers have saved over 140 migrants on the perilous seaborne route from Africa to the Canary Islands in the Atlantic Ocean.…

BURLINGTON, N.C. (AP) — J.R. Smith stepped into a hornets’ nest in his first college golf tournament and it had nothing to do with his high…

By TOM KRISHER AP Auto Writer DETROIT (AP) — U.S. safety investigators want to know why Tesla didn’t file recall documents when it updated…