AP National News

By MARÍA VERZA Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s government says over 2,000 migrants were kidnapped by smuggling gangs and drug…

HONOLULU (AP) — The U.S. military says an investigation found that a spill of about 1,300 gallons of fire suppressant at a fuel facility in Hawaii…

By REBECCA SANTANA Associated Press BROWNSVILLE, Texas (AP) — U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said Friday that authorities…

By AARON BRACY Associated Press PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A spectator was taken to a trauma center after falling over a protective railing and into the…

By DAVID A. LIEB Associated Press JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — New mothers could get a full year of Medicaid health-care coverage under legislation…

By DANIEL POLITI Associated Press BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Paraguayan police on Friday detained Paraguayo Cubas, a far-right populist who…

By MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A video recording of former President Donald Trump being questioned about the rape allegations…

By TERRY SPENCER Associated Press FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Three Colombian nationals are facing U.S. charges accusing them of drugging two…

By JAKE OFFENHARTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The potential criminal charges against a U.S. Marine veteran who put Jordan Neely in a fatal…

By BECKY BOHRER and BEATRICE DUPUY Associated Press Several scaleless fish with fanged jaws and huge eyes that can be found more than a mile deep in…

By BERENICE BAUTISTA Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — Years ago, Mexican chef Elena Reygadas of the restaurant Rosetta wondered why Mexican…

By SAMY MAGDY Associated Press ASWAN, Egypt (AP) — Sudan’s two warring generals sent their envoys on Friday to Saudi Arabia for talks aimed at…

By JEFF AMY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp has signed a bill into law creating a new commission empowered to discipline…

By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A Kentucky man with a long criminal record was sentenced Friday to a record-setting 14…

By MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A judge known for his care and cautiousness in presiding over litigation in the aftermath of…

By JUAN A. LOZANO, PAUL J. WEBER and JAKE BLEIBERG Associated Press CLEVELAND, Texas (AP) — The end of a manhunt in Texas for a gunman accused of…

By JOHN RABY Associated Press CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A West Virginia judge has been suspended for six months without pay and fined $5,000 after…

By OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — An anthropology professor at the University of California, Berkeley, whose identity as…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United Nations is seeking yet again to reassure the Afghan people that it won’t…

By ED WHITE Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — A Michigan agency that investigates complaints against lawyers is taking action against nine attorneys…

By GEOFF MULVIHILL Associated Press Indiana Gov. Eric Holcomb this week signed into a law a requirement that schools notify a parent when their…

By MARK SHERMAN and SEAN MURPHY WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Friday blocked Oklahoma from executing death row inmate Richard Glossip for…

KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) — Relatives are demanding justice for a 6-year-old boy who was killed outside his Kansas home in a drive-by shooting that…

By BETH HARRIS AP Racing Writer LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — The cast of characters for the 149th Kentucky Derby was rewritten in the days before the…

By MUNIR AHMED Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — The Pakistani president has assured Beijing’s top diplomat that his country will boost…

By MIKE STOBBE AP Medical Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is resigning. Dr. Rochelle Walensky…

DENALI NATIONAL PARK AND PRESERVE, Alaska (AP) — Officials in Alaska say a Denali National Park and Preserve employee died when he was caught in an…

By MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer Stargazers in Asia and Australia had the best seats for the year’s first lunar eclipse. The four-hour…

By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN Associated Press ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Native Americans whose relatives have gone missing or been killed wore red on…

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden celebrated Cinco de Mayo on Friday by stepping out for quesadilla and tacos at a food hall in Washington. His…

A threat by the owner of private Russian military company Wagner on Friday to withdraw his fighters from the battle to seize an eastern Ukrainian…

By STEVE LeBLANC Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — A former Boston high school dean serving a 26-year sentence in state prison for shooting a student…

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A 16-year-old high school senior in New Orleans who received scholarship offers from 149 colleges and universities totaling $10…

By DASHA LITVINOVA Associated Press TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — A Moscow court has ordered pretrial detention for a theater director facing charges of…

By KATHY McCORMACK Associated Press CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — A historical marker dedicated to a New Hampshire labor activist who championed women’s…

By MARIA CHENG AP Medical Writer LONDON (AP) — The World Health Organization downgraded its assessment of the coronavirus pandemic on Friday,…

By MATTHEW PERRONE AP Health Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. health regulators are weighing the first-ever request to make a birth control pill…

MARQUETTE, Mich. (AP) — The National Weather Service says a record May snowfall buried parts of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula under more than 2 feet…

By TARA COPP and LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is expected to announce Air Force Gen. CQ Brown Jr.,  a…

PARIS (AP) — Lionel Messi has apologized to Paris Saint-Germain and his teammates for going to Saudi Arabia on an unauthorized trip that resulted…

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s Foreign Ministry has summoned the Russian ambassador in protest after a former Russian official suggested that…