AP National News

By PAOLO SANTALUCIA, SETH BORENSTEIN and NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press ROME (AP) — Climate experts say the floods that sent rivers of mud…

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Police shocked a 95-year-old woman with a stun gun as she approached them using a walker…

By MEG KINNARD Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina made it official Friday: He’s running for president.…

By GRANT PECK Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — The official death toll from the powerful cyclone that struck Myanmar has burgeoned to at least 145,…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press HIROSHIMA, Japan (AP) — Holding this week’s Group of Seven summit in Hiroshima, the site of the world’s…

By STAN CHOE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Wall Street drifted to a lower close but still marked its best week since March. The S&P 500…

By DEREK GATOPOULOS and THEODORA TONGAS Associated Press ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greeks will head to the polls on Sunday to elect a leader who will…

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran has executed three men accused of deadly violence during last year’s anti-government protests despite…

BEIJING (AP) — Echoing the crackdown on freedoms in neighboring Hong Kong, the former Portuguese colony of Macao has revised its legal system to…

BEIJING (AP) — Chinese leader Xi Jinping has promised to build more railway and other trade links with Central Asia and proposed jointly developing…

By NICK EL HAJJ Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Who says you cannot reach for the moon? A proposed $5 billion real estate…

By CHEYANNE MUMPHREY AP Education Writer When Kamryn Yanchick graduated, she hoped to decorate her cap with a beaded pattern in honor of her Native…

BERLIN (AP) — Austrian-born actor Helmut Berger, a European movie star in the 1960s and 1970s who rose to prominence with roles in films by Italian…

By KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea will send a 21-member team of government experts to Japan next week to…

BY KANIS LEUNG Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — A Hong Kong court has rejected an activist publisher’s latest effort to use a British lawyer to…

By DEEPTI HAJELA Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — In the polarizing wake of Jordan Neely’s chokehold death at the hands of a fellow New York City…

By CALVIN WOODWARD Associated Press MONTREAL (AP) — In the agonies of the virus that upended most of the world, millions of people from Bogota to…

By HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Salman Rushdie made an emotional and unexpected return to public life Thursday night, attending…

By MARÍA VERZA Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s Popocatepetl volcano rumbled to life again this week, belching out towering…

By HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH Associated Press Jennifer Seeley was glued to her phone, safe at home but terrified nonetheless. There was an active shooter…

By MARGERY A. BECK Associated Press LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — The Nebraska Legislature has passed a bill that combines a 12-week abortion ban with…

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — A 7.7 magnitude earthquake caused a small tsunami to wash ashore on South Pacific islands Friday. No damage has been…

By DARLENE SUPERVILLE and FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — About two-thirds of U.S. adults say they are highly concerned about how…

By SHARON JOHNSON Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — On the weekend in March when Brittany Glover would have turned 34, her mother stood on the same…

By TOM KRISHER AP Auto Writer DETROIT (AP) — More than 33 million people in the United States are driving vehicles that contain a potentially…

By GRANT PECK Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — State media in Myanmar say at least 54 people were killed and more than 185,000 buildings damaged by…

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A wrongful death lawsuit accuses several establishments of overserving the alleged drunken driver who police say slammed into…

By BRADY McCOMBS and SAM METZ Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A Utah woman who wrote a children’s book about grief after her husband’s…

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Rhode Island Gov. Daniel McKee signed a bill into law Thursday that would let state funds be used to pay for health…

SARASOTA, Fla. (AP) — Hundreds of New College of Florida students, family members and friends gathered at an off-campus art gallery for an…

By JOHN WAWROW AP Sports Writer PITTSFORD, N.Y. (AP) — Tom Kim has no regrets about the muddy lengths he went to in a bid to retrieve his ball out…

By DAVID HAMILTON Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A lawyer for Twitter owner Elon Musk accused Microsoft of misusing the service’s data and…

ROME (AP) — A car driven by someone with apparent psychiatric problems rushed through a Vatican gate Thursday evening and sped past Swiss Guards…

By ELAINE KURTENBACH and JOSH BOAK Associated Press HIROSHIMA, Japan (AP) — Leaders of the Group of Seven advanced economies are generally united…

By ANDREW DALTON and MORGAN LEE Associated Press SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — Attorneys for the weapons supervisor on the New Mexico film set where Alec…

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma is agreeing to not enforce its ban on gender-affirming medical care for young transgender people for now. The state…

By LINDSAY WHITEHURST and FARNOUSH AMIRI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Former FBI employees accused the bureau of politicization in…

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — An 88-year-old Australian doctor held captive by Islamic extremists in West Africa for…

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The executive committee of Minnesota’s Democratic Farmer Labor Party gave initial approval to bylaws that will permanently…

By ANDREW DeMILLO Associated Press Hundreds of measures targeting transgender people have been proposed in statehouses this year, and several have…

ALBANY, Ore. (AP) — Seven people were killed and multiple others hurt in a crash involving several vehicles Thursday on Interstate 5 in an…

By TERRY TANG and JACQUES BILLEAUD Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — The trial for Kari Lake’s only remaining legal claim in her challenge to…

By SOPHIE AUSTIN Associated Press/Report for America SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California lawmakers blocked two big environmental bills Thursday:…

By TARA COPP and LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon has overestimated the value of the weapons it has sent to Ukraine…

WAHPETON, N.D. (AP) — A North Dakota man pleaded guilty to manslaughter after he hit and ran over an 18-year-old at a street dance. Shannon Brandt,…