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HAVANA (AP) — The Roman Catholic archbishop of Boston has met Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel at a time of tense relations between the U.S. and…

By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Six Black farmworkers in Mississippi say their former employer has brought white…

By MATTHEW PERRONE AP Health Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal health officials have delayed a high-stakes decision on whether to permit bestselling…

By KATHLEEN RONAYNE Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — President Joe Biden is set to campaign for California Gov. Gavin Newsom in the final…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Average long-term mortgage rates were marginally higher this week as the recovering economy appeared stalled against the backdrop…

By CURT ANDERSON AP Legal Affairs Writer ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — A federal judge has ruled that Florida’s new “anti-riot” law championed…

By BEN FOX Associated Press NAVAL STATION GUANTANAMO BAY, Cuba (AP) — President Joe Biden turned the page on one legacy of 9/11 when he ended the…

By MARK PRATT Associated Press Beards aren’t just cool and trendy — they might also be an evolutionary development to help protect a man’s…

By MICHAEL BALSAMO and PAUL WEBER Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The Justice Department is suing Texas over a new state law that bans most…

By JAMES MacPHERSON Associated Press BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — Federal and state lawyers will meet next week to negotiate a settlement for money that…

LAFAYETTE, Calif. (AP) — A volunteer crossing guard at a middle school in the San Francisco Bay Area pushed children from the path of a vehicle…

ASHEVILLE, N.C. (AP) — Country singer Brett Eldredge had an encounter with a bear in a garage at a North Carolina home. The Charlotte Observer…

PENSACOLA, Fla. (AP) — Officials say a 34-year-old chief petty officer in the U.S. Navy is accused of locking her husband in their garage and…

By JUAN A. LOZANO Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — Police say a man suspected of killing a family of four and setting their Houston home on fire…

By BECKY BOHRER Associated Press JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency says it will seek to restart a process that could…

By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER Associated Press A civil rights attorney who fought to desegregate Southern schools in the 1960s and was pushed out of his…

By KIM CHANDLER Associated Press MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama will allow an inmate’s pastor to hold his hand during an execution scheduled for…

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Polish opposition politicians are accusing the governing party of putting Poland’s membership in the European Union in…

CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — Former President Donald Trump has endorsed a Wyoming attorney in his bid to unseat U.S. Rep. Liz Cheney, one of his most…

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — A Vietnam veteran charged with bringing 11 Molotov cocktails and other weapons to Washington on the day of the U.S. Capitol…

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — A young giraffe named for a Louisiana football star has died in a zoo in Baton Rouge.  The Baton Rouge zoo says the…

By ANDREW WELSH-HUGGINS and FARNOUSH AMIRI Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The mayor of Columbus, Ohio, says the U.S. Justice Department…

By CURT ANDERSON AP Legal Affairs Writer ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — A Florida sheriff says a chance encounter with a former Marine beset by…

By RICHARD DREW Associated Press Twenty years on, Associated Press photographer Richard Drew still gets asked about the “Falling Man” photograph…

By The Associated Press Michael Constantine, an Emmy Award-winning character actor who reached worldwide fame playing the Windex bottle-toting father…

By AAMER MADHANI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States and Mexico have restarted high-level economic talks after a four-year pause.…

By DAN GELSTON AP Sports Writer The number of movies, documentaries and other entertainment vehicles made about Muhammad Ali would make it seem that…

OLATHE, Kan. (AP) — A suburban Kansas City man has been sentenced to more than 30 years in prison in the killing of his 75-year-old mother, who was…

By MIKE SCHNEIDER Associated Press The state of Alabama has asked to dismiss its lawsuit challenging a controversial statistical method used by the…

DETROIT (AP) — Attorneys for Detroit and the state of Michigan are seeking $204,000 in fees for successfully defending a post-election lawsuit…

ELK POINT, S.D. (AP) — Sheriff’s officials say a man accused of killing four people in Missouri has been found dead in South Dakota. According to…

NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — The withdrawal of a book from Greek Cypriot high school classes over a disputed reference to modern Turkey’s founder…

ST. ANTHONY, Idaho (AP) — A judge has decided an Idaho woman charged with conspiring with her new husband to kill her two children is still not fit…

By MAE ANDERSON AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Small businesses from Louisiana to Connecticut are facing an uncertain recovery after being…

By NICOLAS VAUX-MONTAGNY Associated Press PARIS (AP) — Money that victims of the 2015 Islamic State attacks in Paris are paying in legal fees is…

BERLIN (AP) — A German court says former Volkswagen CEO Martin Winterkorn’s trial on fraud charges in connection with the automaker’s diesel…

By JUSTIN SPIKE Associated Press BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Hungary’s president said Thursday that his government would assist Poland in…

By SUZAN FRASER Associated Press ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkey’s defense minister says the country will never accept Greek moves to extend its…

By TAMMY WEBBER Associated Press MULESHOE, Texas (AP) — To avoid Dust Bowl conditions, more farmers are restoring native grasslands in areas where…

By KANTELE FRANKO and DAVID KLEPPER Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Navigating misinformation is among the challenges educators today face…

By TOM DAVIES Associated Press INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Indiana’s ban on telemedicine consultations between doctors and women seeking abortions and…

By AMY TAXIN and JOHN ANTCZAK Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Los Angeles board of education has voted to require students 12 and older to…

By DAVID KOENIG AP Airlines Writer DALLAS (AP) — The leading U.S. airlines say that the rise in COVID-19 cases is hurting ticket sales and pushing…

CAIRO (AP) — The Suez Canal authorities say a bulk carrier vessel became wedged and briefly blocked traffic in one lane of the crucial global…

By MEG KINNARD Associated Press Twenty Democratic attorneys general have voiced their support for a lawsuit challenging South Carolina’s new…

By DIANE JEANTET and DAVID BILLER Associated Press RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Protesting truckers snarled traffic along highways in many Brazilian…

ROME (AP) — The Italian Coast Guard has rescued 125 migrants who took refuge on the rocky edge of a tiny uninhabited isle after one of their boats…

By WAYNE PARRY Associated Press Imagine a giant all-you-can-eat buffet, row after row of hot, steaming offerings. The thing is, there are only 12…

By MIKE BALSAMO and ALEXANDRA JAFFE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House will withdraw the nomination of a gun-control advocate to…

By ZEKE MILLER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden has announced sweeping new federal vaccine requirements affecting as many as…