AP National News

By STEPHEN GROVES Associated Press SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem is defending her administration’s handling of her…

CHICAGO (AP) — An Illinois State Police trooper has died after being shot on the Dan Ryan Expressway on Chicago’s South Side. A spokeswoman for…

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Ohio State’s latest campus crime data shows the university has now tallied over 2,800 instances of alleged, decades-old…

MOSCOW (AP) — Russia’s main domestic security agency has released an extensive list of topics that could trigger the designation of…

SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) — Police in El Salvador have arrested 30 suspects who allegedly shared child pornography photos on the messaging…

By AMY TAXIN Associated Press A U.S. judge has set aside roughly 7,000 visas allowing people who won a lottery aimed at increasing the country’s…

By GERALD IMRAY Associated Press CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — South Africa has launched a new COVID-19 vaccination drive in an attempt to give…

By TOM KRISHER AP Auto Writer DETROIT (AP) — U.S. new vehicle sales tumbled about 26% in September as a global shortage of computer chips worsened,…

By KIM CHANDLER Associated Press MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Amid a national debate over the use of pandemic relief funds, Alabama lawmakers swiftly…

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York health officials have revoked the medical license of a doctor with the cult-like group NXIVM who branded 17 women with…

By KAREN MATTHEWS and JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — An environmental lawyer who waged a years-long campaign against Chevron over…

By CHRISTINA LARSON AP Science Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Letters from the last queen of France to her rumored lover contain redacted phrases that…

By AMY FORLITI and CARLA K. JOHNSON Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The United States has reached its latest heartbreaking pandemic milestone,…

By RUSS BYNUM Associated Press SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — A Georgia judge has ruled that Ahmaud Arbery’s mental health records can’t be used…

By EVENS SANON Associated Press PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — A top U.S. official has apologized for how Haitian migrants were treated along the…

By MATTHEW LEE AP Diplomatic Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Secretary of State Antony Blinken will visit France as the Biden administration tries to…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico wants to declare lithium a “strategic mineral” and reserve any future exploration and mining for the government. The…

By TARIK EL-BARAKAH Associated Presss RABAT, Morocco (AP) — Millions of Moroccan students have returned to school for in-person classes after a…

BERLIN (AP) — The German government has called for the “humane” treatment of migrants at the European Union’s external border with Belarus.…

By DAVE COLLINS Associated Press A Texas judge has found Infowars host and conspiracy theorist Alex Jones liable for damages in three defamation…

By OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ and ADAM BEAM Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — California is poised to impose the nation’s first coronavirus vaccine…

By JONATHAN LANDRUM Jr. AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Charlamagne tha God made a living on radio calling out popular figures like…

By DAVID BILLER Associated Press RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — The number of fires in Brazil’s Amazon during the month of September dropped to the lowest…

By JUSTIN SPIKE Associated Press BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — A lack of answers from Hungary’s government about alleged spying on journalists,…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United Nations chief has informed Ethiopia that it has no legal right to expel seven…

By The Associated Press This week’s new entertainment releases feature music from Grammy-winning songwriter Natalie Hemby and two pop star…

By BEN FINLEY Associated Press NORFOLK, Va. (AP) — The Christian Broadcasting Network says Pat Robertson is stepping down as host of the…

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The giant Powerball jackpot has grown even bigger, with officials raising the estimated payout to $635 million ahead of…

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Grammy-winning bluegrass musician Billy Strings won entertainer of the year at the genre’s top awards show, a major feat for…

By MIKE SCHNEIDER Associated Press Personal property recovered from the destroyed units of a South Florida condo building that collapsed will be…

PAUL DAVENPORT CHANDLER, Ariz. (AP) — Officials in Arizona say two people are dead after their helicopter crashed following a mid-air collision…

By MICHAEL PHILLIS and SUMAN NAISHADHAM Associated Press U.S. officials are rolling out a new flood insurance program they say will more accurately…

By SOPHIKO MEGRELIDZE Associated Press TBILISI, Georgia (AP) — The prime minister of Georgia says former President Mikheil Saakashvili has been…

LISBON, Portugal (AP) — The governments of 15 countries in the Northeast Atlantic have created a new protected area of the sea they say is bigger…

BANGKOK (AP) — A former ally of Aung San Suu Kyi, Myanmar’s leader ousted in a February military takeover, has testified at her corruption trial…

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — A Taliban spokesman says Taliban fighters have raided a hideout of the Islamic State group north of the capital, Kabul,…

By BRUCE SCHREINER Associated Press FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Democratic Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear has launched his run for another term. Beshear…

MOBILE, Ala. (AP) — An Alabama woman has filed suit claiming a hospital’s response to a cyberattack led to the death of her infant daughter.…

By BOUBACAR DIALLO Associated Press CONAKRY, Guinea (AP) — Guinea’s coup leader Col. Mamady Doumbouya has been sworn in as president of the…

By DAVID McHUGH AP Business Writer FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — Daimler’s truck and luxury car businesses are going their separate ways. Daimler…

BERLIN (AP) — Police say a 59-year-old man has died after a piece of ammunition exploded on the edge of a small lake in southern Austria. A…

By HOLLY MEYER The Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A top committee in the Southern Baptist Convention is facing mounting pressure from…

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Media reports say a man in Turkey joined a search party for a missing person not realizing the individual being pursued was…

ST. LOUIS (AP) — A deputy with the St. Louis Sheriff’s Department has been indicted on a second-degree murder charge in the shooting death of a…

By MARTIN CRUTSINGER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. manufacturing growth accelerated in September to the highest level since May…