AP National News

By SEAN MURPHY Associated Press McALESTER, Okla. (AP) — Oklahoma executed a man Thursday for stabbing a Tulsa woman to death with a butcher knife…

By FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Plans by the IRS to test a new electronic free-file tax return system next year have got…

MOSCOW (AP) — A video released Wednesday appears to show Russian mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin for the first time since he led a short-lived…

By JAKE OFFENHARTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — New York City has agreed to pay more than $13 million to settle a civil rights lawsuit brought…

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Wildlife authorities have killed the leader of a pack of dingoes that mauled a jogger on…

MASSAPEQUA PARK, N.Y. (AP) — The wife of the man charged in the deaths of three women whose remains were found along a Long Island beach roadway…

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — A federal appeals court has refused to stop an upcoming execution in Alabama. Sixty-four-year-old James Barber is scheduled…

By KATHY McCORMACK and STEVE PEOPLES Associated Press CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu announced Wednesday that he will not…

By ALI JABAR, ABBY SEWELL and DAVID KEYTON Associated Press BAGHDAD (AP) — Protesters angered by an Iraqi man in Sweden who threatened to burn a…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A Southern California man was convicted Wednesday of blowing up his ex-girlfriend’s spa business with a package bomb in 2018,…

By PAUL NEWBERRY AP National Writer INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — The Soul Cap has gotten the green light from swimming’s top governing body, which…

DELPHI, Ind. (AP) — An Indiana man charged with killing two teenage girls will remain in prison after a judge concluded he’s being treated better…

By JENNA FRYER AP National Writer AUCKLAND, New Zealand (AP) — Security will be heightened ahead of Thursday night’s opening Women’s World Cup…

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Oregon has for years housed hundreds of kids in foster care in hotels, even after promising to curb the practice in a legal…

By STEVE KARNOWSKI Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — An attorney for former Minneapolis police Officer Derek Chauvin says they’ll ask the…

By ANNE M. PETERSON AP Sports Writer A group of more than 100 U.S. soccer players is calling on Congress to improve the U.S. Center for SafeSport,…

By The Associated Press The intense heat hitting much of the globe this summer is continuing. As southern Europe bakes under a heat wave,…

By MICHAEL LIEDTKE AP Technology Writer SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Netflix enjoyed its biggest springtime spurt in subscribers since the early days of…

VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has met with top officials after the longshore union renewed a 72-hour strike…

By PETER SMITH Associated Press PITTSBURGH (AP) — Officer Tim Matson described in federal court Wednesday how a resilient weed helped to restore…

By SUDHIN THANAWALA Associated Press Police are casting doubt on a 25-year-old Alabama woman’s claim that she was kidnapped from the side of an…

By MARIA SHERMAN AP Music Writer Country music star Jason Aldean ‘s latest music video for “Try That In A Small Town,” lasted just one…

By AUDREY McAVOY Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — Tropical Storm Calvin has brought high surf, heavy rain and gusts to parts of Hawaii’s Big…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Interior Department has tapped an official with the federal government’s water management bureau to serve as a deputy…

By ARITZ PARRA and JOSHUA GOODMAN Associated Press MADRID (AP) — A former Venezuelan spymaster close to the country’s late leader Hugo Chávez…

By NICK PERRY and JENNA FRYER Associated Press AUCKLAND, New Zealand (AP) — A gunman opened fire on terrified workers on a construction site in…

By DAVID FISCHER Associated Press MIAMI (AP) — Authorities say a shooting at a South Florida Walmart killed one person and wounded another.…

By SCOTT BAUER and MELISSA WINDER Associated Press KENOSHA, Wis. (AP) — Family members of the U.S. Army private who sprinted across the border into…

By SCOTT SONNER Associated Press RENO, Nev. (AP) — Nearly a dozen wild horses have died in the first 10 days of a big mustang roundup in Nevada,…

By DAVID HAMILTON AP Business Writer SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Elon Musk’s big bet that Tesla price cuts could boost sales and profits amid…

By DOUG FERGUSON AP Golf Writer HOYLAKE, England (AP) — The ever-changing nature of links golf has come to Royal Liverpool for the British Open. A…

NEW YORK (AP) — Marijuana can legally be sold at festivals and other events in New York under a measure approved by state regulators. The…

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel says it will allow all American citizens, including dual-nationality Palestinians from the West Bank and Gaza Strip, to…

By MORGAN LEE Associated Press SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — The former weapons supervisor on the set of the movie “Rust” won’t have to take a…

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — In a story published July 19, 2023, about a North Carolina Pfizer plant that was struck by a tornado, The Associated Press,…

By ZEN SOO Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — Chinese livestreamers have set their sights on selling to TikTok shoppers in the U.S. and Europe. They…

By OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A federal judge on Wednesday denied a motion to move the trial of a man charged in last…

By YURAS KARMANAU Associated Press TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — The Belarus Red Cross has sparked international outrage after its chief told state…

By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER and ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Hush-money payments. Classified records. And now, his efforts to…

By PAT EATON-ROBB Associated Press Wesleyan University in Connecticut has become the latest school to end a policy of giving preferential treatment…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — The State Department says it’s imposing sanctions on two former Salvadoran presidents and dozens of other officials and…

PRAGUE (AP) — The Czech Parliament has approved a defense treaty with the United States. The lower house of Parliament voted 115-18 in favor of the…

By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A military veteran who stormed the U.S. Capitol with a loaded pistol, metal-plated body…

By JANIE HAR Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The president of Stanford University said Wednesday he would resign, citing an independent…

GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — Election observers from the Organization of American States say some Guatemalan political parties and other actors…