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By DAVID A. LIEB Associated Press New York Gov. Kathy Hochul is beginning her term in office with plenty of challenges. But she also is starting with…

By MATTHEW PERRONE AP Health Writer Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine has been given the Food and Drug Administration’s full approval, meaning it has…

HONOLULU (AP) — Hawaii Governor David Ige is asking people not to visit the islands. He said it’s not a good time to travel to the islands and…

NEW YORK (AP) — New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo has granted clemency to six people, including the driver in a fatal 1981 armored truck robbery whose…

NEW YORK (AP) — A man who helped Rudy Giuliani try to unearth damaging information about President Joe Biden in Ukraine is expected to plead guilty…

By MIKE SILVERMAN Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — As opera houses around the country warily resume indoor performances, two of the biggest…

By ALEXANDRA JAFFE Associated Press HANOI (AP) — U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris has delivered a sharp rebuke to China for its incursions in the…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — One of the notorious Arellano Felix brothers has been deported from the United States back to Mexico after serving most of a…

SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) — The U.S. Embassy in El Salvador is warning against swimming off that country’s Pacific coast beaches, citing…

Associated Press LES CAYES, Haiti (AP) — A Haitian Justice official has appointed a new judge to oversee the investigation into the killing of…

The Associated Press New York (AP) — The former president of El Salvador’s soccer federation has pleaded guilty in a U.S. court to a corruption…

LEWISBURG, W.Va. (AP) — West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice won’t be moonlighting as the coach of a boys high school basketball team where he already…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — A Mexican politician who was one of several unsuccessful aspirants for the presidency in the 2018 elections has fled the…

By COLLEEN SLEVIN Associated Press DENVER (AP) — A psychiatrist has recommended that a mentally ill Danish man accused of starting a Colorado…

STONE MOUNTAIN, Ga. (AP) — The board that oversees a park near Atlanta have voted for a new logo that excludes the park’s giant mountainside…

ISABELLA, Minn. (AP) — Authorities have ordered more evacuations near a quickly spreading wildfire that’s one of several burning in northeastern…

By FRANK JORDANS Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Scientists say global warming makes the kind of extreme rainfall that caused deadly flash flooding…

By TOM HAYS Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Another accuser has taken the witness stand on Monday at R. Kelly’s sex-trafficking trial. She…

By AAMER MADHANI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden has honored the 2020 WNBA champions Seattle Storm at the White House. In…

LOS ALAMOS, N.M. (AP) — Drone pilots, beware. Authorities at one of the nation’s top nuclear weapons laboratories issued a warning Monday…

By JEFF AMY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Former football great Herschel Walker has registered to vote in Georgia, a possible prelude to him…

By ACACIA CORONADO Report for America/Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas Republicans are bringing back their voting bill with no changes…

SALIDA, Colo. (AP) — Investigators say an unused .22-caliber round was found next to the bed of a Colorado woman who disappeared last year and…

By ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The speedy Taliban takeover of Afghanistan has revived alarms about a resurgent al-Qaida and new…

BY SAMY MAGDY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — A U.N. official says a boat crowded with dozens of migrants capsized off Libya and at least 17 people…

By TATIANA POLLASTRI and MAURICIO SAVARESE FRANCO DA ROCHA, Brazil (AP) — A fire blamed by Brazilian authorities on an illegal candle balloon is…

By JOHN SEEWER Associated Press TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) — Investigators in Ohio say a piece of metal that flew off the world’s second-tallest roller…

By JONATHAN J. COOPER and BOB CHRISTIE Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — The delivery of a report on the 2020 vote count to Arizona state Senate…

By JONATHAN MATTISE Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A rural Tennessee community was pummeled with up to 17 inches (43 centimeters) of rain…

By COLLIN BINKLEY, GEOFF MULVIHILL, CAMILLE FASSETT and LARRY FENN Associated Press The Biden administration says the historic amount of federal…

By COLLIN BINKLEY, GEOFF MULVIHILL, CAMILLE FASSETT and LARRY FENN Associated Press As the federal government releases historic sums of pandemic aid…

By CHARLENE PELE Associated Press BOLOGNA, Italy (AP) — For more than seven decades, Martin Adler treasured a black-and-white photo of himself as a…

By COREY WILLIAMS Associated Press James White has been named Detroit’s police chief after serving since June 1 as an interim replacement for James…

MOAB, Utah (AP) — Residents of a Utah tourist town near the site where a newlywed couple was recently gunned down while camping say they’re…

By MATTHEW LEE AP Diplomatic Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Two months ago, the leaders of the world’s seven major industrialized democracies met at…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — “Jeopardy!” is back to guest hosts after the resignation of new host Mike Richards, and actor Mayim Bialik will return as…

By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN Associated Press ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Some members of Congress want protections put in place to address ongoing…

By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER Associated Press The leader of the Proud Boys extremist group, Enrique Tarrio, has been sentenced to five months in jail.…

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Connie Hamzy, a rock ‘n’ roll groupie from Arkansas who was immortalized as “sweet, sweet Connie” in the 1973…

NEW YORK (AP) — Ayad Akhtar’s acclaimed novel “Homeland Elegies,” Ben Ehrenreich’s environmental warning “Desert Notebooks” and an…

By MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — NASA is delaying a spacewalk at the International Space Station this week because of…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s state-owned oil company says five workers were killed, two workers are missing and six were injured in a massive…

MATHER, Calif. (AP) — More than 13,500 firefighters are working to contain a dozen large California wildfires that have destroyed hundreds of homes…

By DON BABWIN Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — The parents of two teenage boys have filed a lawsuit alleging their sons were sexually assaulted in a…

BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanon’s government has agreed to pay tens of thousands of poor families cash assistance in U.S. dollars from a World Bank loan as…

By LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A group of Utah parents is suing the state over a law that bans school districts from…

ROME (AP) — Italy’s foreign ministry says an Italian-Moroccan student has been freed by Moroccan authorities after she was detained on blasphemy…

By SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A conservative group filed a redistricting lawsuit with the Wisconsin Supreme Court on Monday,…

By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — A wide Broadway coalition of theater owners, producers, union leaders, creators and casting…

By SOPHIA TAREEN Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — Family members say the Rev. Jesse Jackson and his wife Jacqueline continue to be monitored by…