AP National News

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — U.S. Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield is heading to Brazil next week, following up on…

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — San Francisco is repealing a ban on city-funded travel to 30 states that it says restrict abortion, voting and LGBTQ rights…

By DARLENE SUPERVILLE and FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Actor Angelina Jolie, home improvement duo Chip and Joanna Gaines and…

By KIMBERLEE KRUESI Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The Justice Department has filed a lawsuit challenging Tennessee’s new law banning…

By JOHN HANNA AP Political Writer TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A Kansas board is telling high schools and middle schools that must see transgender…

By MATTHEW PERRONE AP Health Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. health officials on Wednesday approved the first pill made from healthy bacteria found…

By ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal appeals court on Wednesday night moved former Vice President Mike Pence closer to…

By ANDREW DALTON AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — An attorney for Danny Masterson challenged his former longtime girlfriend during…

By LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer LAS VEGAS (AP) — Universal started out its CinemaCon presentation with the big one: New footage from Christopher…

By DAVID BAUDER AP Media Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Tucker Carlson emerged Wednesday, two days after Fox News fired him, with a two-minute,…

By NICK PERRY Associated Press WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — New Zealand Prime Minister Chris Hipkins has planted a native totara tree in…

By AMANDA SEITZ Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The federal government wrote duplicate checks to doctors who provided care for veterans, costing…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s president acknowledged Wednesday he did “briefly faint” over the weekend before he was diagnosed with COVID-19,…

SOLEDAD, Calif. (AP) — Rapper MoneySign Suede has died after he was stabbed in a shower at a California prison, authorities and his attorney said.…

By BOBBY CAINA CALVAN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Fox News agreed Wednesday to hand over thousands of documents to voting machine company…

By KEVIN FREKING Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republicans are pushing their top priorities in a bill to raise the debt limit. The GOP…

By ANTHONY IZAGUIRRE Associated Press TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Disney sued Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Wednesday over the Republican’s…

By ADAM BEAM Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Democrats in the California Senate on Wednesday said they want to raise taxes on some of…

Associated Press WINNIPEG, Manitoba (AP) — Lawyers for Canadian fashion mogul Peter Nygard have asked the Manitoba Court of Appeal to reconsider a…

By LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A Fugees rapper accused in multimillion-dollar political conspiracies spanning two…

By MICHAEL GOLDBERG Associated Press/Report for America CONWAY, Miss. (AP) — A man who escaped from a Mississippi jail and is suspected in a Monday…

By MAURICIO SAVARESE and DAVID BILLER Associated Press SAO PAULO (AP) — A federal judge in Brazil on Wednesday ordered a temporary suspension of…

By JENNIFER PELTZ and MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A writer has told a jury that Donald Trump raped her after she accompanied…

By COLLEEN SLEVIN Associated Press BRIGHTON, Colo. (AP) — A Colorado man who shot and killed a 13-year-old boy after a road rage confrontation and…

HELENA, Mont. (AP) — Montana transgender lawmaker Zooey Zephyr was silenced by her Republican colleagues on Wednesday in a vote that bars her from…

By ED WHITE Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — Eleven people have been charged in Michigan in a scheme to evade air-pollution rules by tampering with…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. special envoy for Haiti is urging immediate deployment of a specialized…

By AMY BETH HANSON, SAM METZ and MATTHEW BROWN Associated Press HELENA, Mont. (AP) — Montana Republicans barred transgender lawmaker Zooey Zephyr…

By MATT O’BRIEN AP Technology Writer It’s not “game over” yet for Microsoft’s quest to buy the video game maker Activision Blizzard,…

By JESSICA GRESKO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court spoke is speaking with one voice in response to recent criticism of the…

By MICHELLE CHAPMAN AP Business Writer First Republic Bank’s stock continued to slide Wednesday, an ongoing rout that has erased 60% of its…

By MAURICIO SAVARESE AP Sports Writer SAO PAULO (AP) — A Brazilian dictionary has added “Pelé” as an adjective to use when describing someone…

By JAKE OFFENHARTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The co-founder of a fundraising group linked to Steve Bannon that promised to help Donald Trump…

By NICOLAE DUMITRACHE Associated Press IZMAIL, Ukraine (AP) — U.S. and European officials have toured Ukraine’s southern port of Izmail, a…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — British lawmakers have approved a sweeping bill that will dramatically curb migrants’ ability to…

By DENISE LAVOIE AP Legal Affairs Writer RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A prosecutor has asked a judge to approve a request to put seven sheriff’s deputies…

By JOHN LEICESTER Associated Press PARIS (AP) — People in France with disabilities have protested by showing how difficult and frustrating it is…

By JASON DEAREN Associated Press Writer GAINESVILLE, Fla. (AP) — Dozens of robed Ku Klux Klansmen gathered around a burning cross in a remote field…

By MICHAEL LIEDTKE AP Technology Writer SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Disgraced Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes has avoided starting her more than 11-year…

By EVELYNE MUSAMBI Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — The latest death toll in Kenya’s cult investigation has risen to 95 as the government…

By JIM SALTER and SUMMER BALLENTINE Associated Press CLAYTON, Mo. (AP) — A Missouri judge has temporarily halted a first-of-its-kind rule…

By SCOTT McFETRIDGE and TODD RICHMOND Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Some residents along the swelling Upper Mississippi River evacuated…

By COLLEEN LONG Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The remains of a U.S. Army corporal killed during the Korean War and posthumously awarded the…

MOSCOW (AP) — Imprisoned Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny says he could be handed a life sentence on a set of new extremism and terrorism…

By CLIFF BRUNT AP Sports Writer The outrage, frustration and emotional trauma Jahi Jones felt as he watched video of police murdering George Floyd…

By JOHN FLESHER AP Environmental Writer TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) — A company that tears down closed nuclear power plants wants to do in Michigan…

By LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Jurors have begun deliberating the case of former Proud Boys extremist group leader…

By JENNIFER O’MAHONY Associated Press MADRID (AP) — Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has met with Spain’s Prime Minister…

LEMONT, Ill. (AP) — Authorities say a man killed in an explosion at a suburban Chicago petroleum refinery was working at the plant as a contractor…