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PITTSBURGH (AP) — Jury selection has concluded in the trial of a man charged with killing 11 worshippers at a Pittsburgh synagogue in the deadliest…

By BRIAN WITTE Associated Press ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — Maryland’s highest court has issued an order to prevent Adnan Syed’s murder…

CLEVELAND (AP) — A former school dance teacher in Cleveland faces up to life prison after being convicted Thursday of raping six teenage students…

By LOLITA C. BALDOR and TARA COPP Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said Thursday that European allies are…

By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press ROME (AP) — The archbishop of Chicago is urging the Illinois attorney general to provide information about…

By JOHN RABY Associated Press CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A Pennsylvania doctor who pleaded guilty in a pain pill prescription scheme in West Virginia…

By STEVE KARNOWSKI Associated Press ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Minnesota workers will be entitled to paid time off when they’re seriously ill or…

By ANDREW DALTON AP Entertainment Writer A Los Angeles County judge on Thursday said she will dismiss a lawsuit that the stars of 1968’s…

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The families of four young men killed and buried on a Pennsylvania farm have settled their wrongful-death lawsuits against the…

MOSCOW (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin says “strictly technical” issues remain in resolving one of the main disputes between Armenia…

By LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The training program for Navy SEALs is plagued by widespread failures in medical care, poor…

By SAM METZ Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Prosecutors have widened their case against members of a small polygamous group that resides…

Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. is imposing sanctions on the leader of Russia’s Wagner paramilitary group in Mali. The Treasury…

By KATE BRUMBACK Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — A judge in Georgia has dismissed the murder and child cruelty charges against a man whose toddler…

By RANDALL CHASE Associated Press DOVER, Del. (AP) — A Delaware woman is facing decades in prison after pleading guilty to killing her 3-year-old…

By HARM VENHUIZEN Associated Press/Report for America MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Police in Wisconsin say drugs laced with fentanyl that killed one person…

By BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press LONDON (AP) — A Jamaican man who volunteered for the Royal Air Force and flew bombing missions in World War II was…

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) — Tom Hanks told graduates of Harvard University on Thursday to be superheroes in their defense of truth and American ideals,…

By DARLENE SUPERVILLE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden has announced a new government strategy to fight hate, bias and…

By COLLEEN LONG Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden on Thursday – the third anniversary of George Floyd’s murder –…

By GERALD IMRAY and IGNATIUS SSUNA Associated Press CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — One of the most wanted suspects in Rwanda’s genocide, a…

DENVER (AP) — A New York woman has been indicted for making threats against LGBTQ  businesses in the Denver area in the days after last…

By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN Associated Press ALBUQUERQUE, N.M (AP) — Virgin Galactic completed what is expected to be its final test flight Thursday…

PHOENIX (AP) — Karrin Taylor Robson, a wealthy Republican businessperson who was seen as the likeliest establishment candidate for a crucial…

By TARA COPP Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Air Force fighter pilot tapped to be the next chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff got his…

FORT PIERRE, S.D. (AP) — The South Dakota State Fire Marshal’s Office is investigating a house explosion that killed an infant and her…

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Two airliners aborted landings at San Francisco International Airport last week after pilots spotted a Southwest Airlines jet…

By LEA SKENE Associated Press BALTIMORE (AP) — During a surprise commencement address to graduates of Johns Hopkins University on Thursday morning,…

By JILL LAWLESS and SYLVIA HUI Associated Press LONDON (AP) — A car collided Thursday with the gates of Downing Street in central London, where the…

By LISA MASCARO, STEPHEN GROVES, SEUNG MIN KIM and KEVIN FREKING Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republicans pushed debt ceiling talks to…

By FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — For all the concern over when the government might run out of money to cover all its bills, it…

By ALI SWENSON Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Two years ago, signing a bill intended to punish Twitter and other major social media companies,…

By SETH BORENSTEIN AP Science Writer Two clashing climatic behemoths, one natural and one with human fingerprints, will square off this summer to…

SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) — Police in El Salvador have arrested the president of soccer club Alianza, as well as other club officials and…

BERLIN (AP) — Authorities in Berlin say a man has died after an accident involving an old-fashioned jump-on, jump-off elevator in the German…

Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Shares of Nvidia, already one of the world’s most valuable companies, skyrocketed Thursday after the…

By MARK SHERMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A unanimous Supreme Court on Thursday gave a 94-year-old Minneapolis woman a new chance to…

By MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Steve Bannon, the conservative strategist and longtime ally of former President Donald Trump,…

By MARK SHERMAN and JESSICA GRESKO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Thursday sharply limited the federal government’s…

By LORI HINNANT and VASILISA STEPANENKO Associated Press LYSOHIRKA, Ukraine (AP) — Damage that has gone unrepaired for months at a Russian-occupied…

By HOWARD FENDRICH AP Tennis Writer PARIS (AP) — Carlos Alcaraz and 22-time Grand Slam champion Novak Djokovic have been placed in the same half of…

By MUNIR AHMED Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistani police, the family and the employer of a prominent TV journalist, known for his public…

By MATT OTT AP Business Writer U.S. applications for jobless claims rose slightly last week but remain at healthy levels as companies seem reticent…

By PAUL WISEMAN AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. economy grew at a lackluster 1.3% annual rate from January through March as…

By BINAJ GURUBACHARYA Associated Press KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — One of the greatest mountain guides said Thursday he’s not ready to retire after…

STOCKHOLM (AP) — Sweden-based online fashion retailer Bootz AB says it has blocked 42,000 customers for returning too many items they had…

By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN, ALANNA DURKIN RICHER and LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Oath Keepers extremist group founder Stewart…

By GIOVANNA DELL’ORTO Associated Press LAGKADAS, Greece (AP) — Sotirios Gkaintatzis danced across burning coals, his stomping bare feet…

By KATE ASHFORD of NerdWallet The COVID-19 public health emergency that started in January 2020 ended on May 11, 2023. When that happened, several…

By YURAS KARMANAU Associated Press TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Russia and Belarus signed a deal Thursday formalizing the deployment of Moscow’s…