AP National News

By JOSH DUBOW AP Sports Writer OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — The Oakland Athletics have signed a binding agreement to purchase land for a new retractable…

By STAN CHOE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks on Wall Street dipped Thursday following mixed earnings reports from big companies and more…

By SOPHENG CHEANG Associated Press PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — Cambodian army chief Hun Manet, who is widely expected to replace his father as the…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai says Washington is not seeking to decouple the American…

By ALFIAN KARTONO and NINIEK KARMINI Associated Press JAYAPURA, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesian security forces have recovered the bodies of four…

By SCOTT McFETRIDGE and MICHAEL PHILLIS Associated Press SLATER, Iowa (AP) — There’s a low-tech remedy for the nitrate pollution affecting…

BEIJING (AP) — Hong Kong’s Roman Catholic bishop says he hopes the dioceses of Hong Kong and Beijing will have more exchanges and cooperation.…

By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Not long ago, some were predicting more and more films would be diverted from theaters and sent…

By BIANCA VÁZQUEZ TONESS AP Education Writer ATLANTA (AP) — Michael Crowder stands nervously at the front of his third grade classroom, his…

By HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH Associated Press Move over “Dick and Jane.” A different approach to teaching kids how to read is on the rise. For…

By TERRY CHEA and JANIE HAR Associated Press ANTIOCH, Calif. (AP) — A San Francisco Bay Area city council is undertaking an audit of its troubled…

By MARGARET STAFFORD and JIM SALTER Associated Press LIBERTY, Mo. (AP) — The 84-year old man who shot Ralph Yarl when the Black teenager went to…

By MORGAN LEE Associated Press SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — Filming on the Western movie “Rust” could resume this week in Montana, the production…

By KEN MILLER and JAMIE STENGLE Associated Press DALLAS (AP) — Crews scrambled Thursday to restore power to thousands of residents after tornadoes…

By EDNA TARIGAN and MADDIE BURAKOFF Associated Press JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Under a cloudless sky, 20,000 eclipse chasers crowded a tiny outpost…

ELGIN, Texas (AP) — Authorities say a man shot and wounded two cheerleaders in a Texas supermarket parking lot after one of them said she…

By AMY BETH HANSON Associated Press HELENA, Mont. (AP) — A group of conservative Republican lawmakers in Montana deliberately misgendered a…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s navy has suspended a search for three Americans who went missing along with their sailboat off Mexico’s…

By MIKE SCHNEIDER Associated Press LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. (AP) — The new chair of Disney World’s revamped governing body said Wednesday that new…

WARROAD, Minn. (AP) — Authorities have rescued nine men who entered the United States illegally from Canada and were found in a sub-freezing…

By AUDREY McAVOY Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — State authorities have cited two women for allegedly harming an endangered species of geese…

By STEVE KARNOWSKI Associated Press ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz is drawing stark contrasts between his state and Republican-led…

By MICHAEL HILL Associated Press FORT EDWARD, N.Y. (AP) — The father whose 20-year-old daughter was fatally shot after she and her friends got lost…

By BOBBY CAINA CALVAN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Crews pulled a body from the rubble of a New York City parking garage Wednesday, as building…

By JAVIER CORDOBA Associated Press SAN JOSE, Costa Rica (AP) — Costa Rica’s president is promising to put more police in the streets and he…

By JESSE BEDAYN Associated Press/Report for America DENVER (AP) — A high school student told Colorado state lawmakers he’d work to oust them…

By AHMED AL-HAJ and SAMY MAGDY Associated Press SANAA, Yemen (AP) — A crowd apparently panicked by gunfire and an electrical explosion stampeded at…

By JOHN HANNA AP Political Writer TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas appears likely to keep giving voters three days after polls close to return mail…

By RANDALL CHASE Associated Press DOVER, Del. (AP) — The Boys Scouts of America’s $2.4 billion bankruptcy reorganization plan is formally in…

By FARNOUSH AMIRI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The watchdog for U.S. assistance to Afghanistan warned lawmakers that American aid to the…

DETROIT (AP) — A judge has sentenced a Michigan man to 10 months in prison after he pleaded guilty to two hate crime charges for intimidating and…

By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A lawyer for Donald Trump says a judge should tell jurors at a rape trial next week that his…

By ZEKE MILLER AP White House Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is summoning top Democratic donors to Washington next week as he…

By LISA BAUMANN Associated Press BELLINGHAM, Wash. (AP) — A ban on dozens of semi-automatic rifles cleared the Washington state Legislature on…

By LINDSAY WHITEHURST and MICHAEL KUNZELMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A member of the Proud Boys far-right extremist group who smashed out…

By MICHAEL R. SISAK and LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A federal judge has ruled that House Republicans can question a former…

By FARNOUSH AMIRI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Republican-led House passed a resolution that would block a District of Columbia police…

By WAYNE PARRY Associated Press ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — While two-thirds of the country now offers legal sports betting, only six states offer…

By DAVE COLLINS Associated Press MILFORD, Conn. (AP) — A 26-year old man who used a sword to attack two men in Eastern Connecticut before going on…

By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves has signed bills that he says are designed to “build…

OTTAWA, Ontario (AP) — Canada’s largest federal public-service union and the federal government continue to negotiate as workers go on strike,…

By MEG KINNARD Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Ron DeSantis has yet to enter the 2024 presidential race, but former President Donald Trump…

By ANDREA RODRIGUEZ Associated Press HAVANA (AP) — Cuba’s National Assembly has ratified President Miguel Díaz-Canel for a new five-year term,…

By JOSH BOAK, SEUNG MIN KIM and ZEKE MILLER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — As Washington slow-walks toward a crisis over the national debt,…

By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press ROME (AP) — A Texas-born princess is facing a court-ordered eviction from a Rome villa containing the only…

MACON, Ga. (AP) — Singer and guitarist Otis Redding III has died at age 59. He was the son and namesake of the legendary soul singer Otis Redding.…

By MATTHEW BROWN Associated Press BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — A proposed change to next year’s Montana U.S. Senate primary that was aimed at…