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VANCOUVER, Wash. (AP) — The Pierce County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office says the fatal shooting of Kevin Peterson Jr., a Black man killed by…

By SOPHIA EPPOLITO Associated Press/Report for America SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A Utah reptile center employee is recovering after an alligator yanked…

By JIM MORRIS Associated Press VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) — Lawyers for a senior executive for Chinese communications giant Huawei…

By JAMES ANDERSON Associated Press The summer surge of the highly infectious delta variant of the coronavirus made for a disruptive start of the…

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — It’s video footage that could become some of the defining images of the fall of Kabul: Afghans desperate to escape…

By KATHLEEN RONAYNE Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California Gov. Gavin Newsom is sharpening his message as he hits the campaign trail…

HOUSTON (AP) — The attorney for a 2-year-old girl struck by a foul ball during a 2019 Houston Astros game at Minute Maid Park says the Astros have…

By STEVE KARNOWSKI Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A rapidly growing wildfire in northeastern Minnesota has expanded to at least 1,500 acres…

By JAMES MacPHERSON Associated Press BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — Bakken Energy and Mitsubishi Power Americas say they are acquiring a synthetic natural…

By EUGENE GARCIA Associated Press QUINCY, Calif. (AP) — Firefighters are keeping an eye on a lone, emaciated bear cub that may have lost its mother…

T-Mobile says it is investigating a leak of its data after someone took to an online forum offering to sell the personal information of cellphone…

KALAMAZOO, Mich. (AP) — Authorities say the suspect in the fatal shooting of a sheriff’s deputy in southwestern Michigan had been involved in a…

By ROBERT BURNS AP National Security Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Built and trained at a two-decade cost of $83 billion, Afghan security forces…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. Security Council is calling for an immediate end to violence in Afghanistan…

By BETH HARRIS Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Selma Blair says she’s in remission from multiple sclerosis as a result of undergoing stem…

By BRENDON DERR, RYLEE KIRK, ANNE MICKEY, ALLISON VAUGHN, MCKENNA LEAVENS and LEILANI FITZPATRICK Howard Center for Investigative Journalism…

NEW YORK (AP) — The publisher of such bestsellers as the “What to Expect” books for parents and the “Brain Quest” educational series has…

By BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — New York real estate heir Robert Durst has testified that he lied for years about sending…

By BOBBY CAINA CALVAN and JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press New York (AP) — Vaccine mandates are expanding in New York. The state ordered hospital…

MOSCOW (AP) — Russian officials say the bodies of all eight victims of a tourism helicopter crash in Russia’s far-east region of Kamchatka have…

By KEVIN McGILL Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Planned Parenthood is asking a federal appeals court to reconsider the question of whether the…

By ROB HARRIS AP Global Soccer Writer LONDON (AP) — Former Afghanistan women’s national team captain Khalida Popal can hear the distress and…

By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer CANNES, France (AP) — In Leos Carax’s “Annette,” an enchantingly demented rock opera, Adam Driver sings in some…

DRYDEN TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) — A former Michigan congressman who quit the Republican Party to protest GOP efforts to overturn Joe Biden’s victory…

By HALELUYA HADERO and GLENN GAMBOA AP Business Writers Humanitarian aid is flowing into Haiti following Saturday’s deadly 7.2-magnitude…

BERLIN (AP) — Dozens of German rescue teams are searching for missing people who witnesses say were tossed into a river in Bavaria’s Valley…

CAIRO (AP) — Sudanese leaders have visited a disputed area along the country’s eastern borders with Ethiopia. The visit to al-Fashaqa area comes…

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — The U.S. company Discovery Inc. says it has been granted a Dutch license that would allow it to keep broadcasting its…

By SAM METZ AP / Report for America CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) — Republican Adam Laxalt has filed to run for U.S. Senate in Nevada, setting the stage…

By KRISTIN M. HALL AP Entertainment Writer NASHVILLE, Ten.. (AP) — R&B legend Ray Charles, who helped redefine country music in the Civil…

MOSCOW (AP) — The Russian embassy in Kabul has alleged that Afghan President Ashraf Ghani fled from Kabul with four cars and a helicopter stuffed…

By PAN PYLAS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — British Defense Secretary Ben Wallace has held back tears as he conceded that Britain was unlikely to…

By TODD RICHMOND Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — One of the Catholic church’s top officials and fiercest critics of Pope Francis has…

By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Tune in to catch “Nine Perfect Strangers” and you’ll find drama and suspense. But…

By RALPH D. RUSSO AP College Football Writer Alabama is No. 1 in The Associated Press Top 25 preseason college football poll for fourth time in the…

By HALELUYA HADERO AP Business Writer Edgar Villanueva is on a mission to change philanthropy. The 44-year-old racial justice activist argues…

By SOPHIA TAREEN Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — Five years after Barack Obama chose a Chicago site for his presidential center, construction has…

By SYLVIA HUI and LORNE COOK Associated Press LONDON (AP) — European leaders say they will press for a unified international approach to dealing…

By DARIA LITVINOVA Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — An Afghan military plane crashed in Uzbekistan over the weekend and Uzbek authorities issued…

By VANESSA GERA Associated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s government says its ambassador to Israel will remain in Poland until further…

By SAMYA KULLAB Associated Press A young Afghan woman stands between two worlds at Kabul’s airport, engulfed in panic as thousands of Afghans…

SAN ANTONIO (AP) — A man suspected of shooting five people, three fatally, outside a San Antonio sports bar following an argument has been…

CHICAGO (AP) — Chicago police say a 7-year-old girl was fatally shot and her 6-year-old sister was seriously wounded when someone opened fire as…

By JAY REEVES Associated Press Health officials have an unsteady partner as they try to get more people vaccinated against COVID-19 in the Bible…

BANGKOK (AP) — Thai police and anti-government protesters have clashed for a second straight day in Bangkok as anger over the handling of the…

By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Marc Maron, Bill Maher, Michelle Wolf, Ronny Chieng and Nick Kroll will headline this…

By MATTHEW PERRONE AP Health Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The former head of the Food and Drug Administration says there is a strong case for…

BEIJING (AP) — Chinese prosecutors say Chinese-Canadian pop star Kris Wu has been arrested on suspicion of rape. The high-profile case followed an…

By DARIA LITVINOVA Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — A court in Moscow has sentenced another ally of imprisoned opposition leader Alexei Navalny to…

By VANESSA GERA Associated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — An appellate court in Poland has rejected a lawsuit brought against two Holocaust scholars…