AP National News

By AMY BETH HANSON Associated Press HELENA, Mont. (AP) — Planned Parenthood of Montana filed a preemptive lawsuit seeking to stop legislation that…

By BEN FINLEY and DENISE LAVOIE Associated Press NEWPORT NEWS, Va. (AP) — A grand jury in Virginia has indicted the mother of a 6-year-old boy who…

By CARLA BRIDI and MAURICIO SAVARESE Associated Press BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva finishes the first 100 days of his third…

Jailed Kremlin opponent Vladimir Kara-Murza Jr. is likening judicial proceedings against him to the sham Stalin-era and later proceedings that…

By MATTHEW LEE AP Diplomatic Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration formally determined Monday that a Wall Street Journal reporter…

BRUNSWICK, Ga. (AP) — A Mexican citizen has been sentenced to life in a U.S. prison for killing a man who reported him and his brother to…

By PATRICK WHITTLE Associated Press PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Hundreds of asylum seekers have filed into a basketball arena in Portland as Maine’s…

PARIS (AP) — Comments by French President Emmanuel Macron over Europe’s priorities on Taiwan have raised questions over the EU’s relationship…

By The Associated Press This week’s new entertainment releases include albums from Metallica and Natalie Merchant, Jeremy Renner’s four-part…

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday reversed his decision to fire his defense minister over criticism of the…

By JUAN A. LOZANO Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — The sentencing trial has begun for a former Houston-area high school football coach convicted…

By SAMY MAGDY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — Saudi Arabia’s ambassador to Yemen says his trip to the Houthi-held capital of Sanaa was aimed at…

By PAUL J. WEBER Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The Justice Department on Monday appealed a Texas court ruling that would halt approval of a…

By TARA COPP and LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The online leaks of scores of highly classified documents about the Ukraine…

SALEM, Ore. (AP) — An Oregon State Police trooper exchanged gunfire with a man who was holding the driver of a semitrailer at gunpoint Monday…

By MAYSOON KHAN Associated Press/Report for America ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York state lawmakers passed another week-long extension for the…

GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. (AP) — A former Colorado county clerk accused of illegally accessing her election system has avoided jail time for a…

WREXHAM, Wales (AP) — Ryan Reynolds punched the air before turning to embrace Rob McElhenney as the Hollywood stars moved a big step closer to…

KENDLETON, Texas (AP) — Kansas City Southern Railroad says three of its tank cars derailed but remained upright in a Southeast Texas rail yard. A…

By MIKE SCHNEIDER Associated Press ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — A high school along Florida’s Atlantic Coast has removed a graphic novel based on the…

By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Makoto Shinkai was never the same filmmaker after the 2011 earthquake stuck Japan. When the tsunami…

BENTONVILLE, Ark. (AP) — The bodies of a jam band musician and his adult son were recovered from an Arkansas lake more than three weeks after the…

By HANNA ARHIROVA Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — More than 200 Russian and Ukrainian soldiers have returned home in a prisoner swap, the…

LONDONDERRY, Northern Ireland (AP) — Officials say demonstrators opposing the Good Friday peace agreement that ended three decades of hostilities…

By STEPHEN WHYNO AP Sports Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The Washington Commanders have settled a lawsuit with the District of Columbia attorney…

By NARDOS HAILE Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Hilary Swank has given birth to twins — a boy and a girl. The 48-year-old “Million Dollar…

By AMY TAXIN Associated Press During California’s prolonged, wet winter, beekeeper Gene Brandi said he had to spend twice as much money on a…

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal was expected to be discharged from a hospital Monday following what he called successful…

By HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — When President Joe Biden visits Ireland this week, he will mark the 25th anniversary of the…

By DOUG FEINBERG AP Basketball Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The WNBA is adding charter flights for the entire playoffs and back-to-back regular season…

By DARLENE SUPERVILLE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Not even the annual White House Easter Egg Roll is safe from presidential politics.…

By MIKE SCHNEIDER and SIBI ARASU Associated Press India will surpass China’s population this month. Or maybe in July. Or, perhaps it’s…

NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. (AP) — Thousands of professors, part-time lecturers and graduate student workers at New Jersey’s flagship university went…

ISLAMABAD (AP) — The U.N. food agency says it urgently needs $800 million for the next six months to help Afghans, with the country at the highest…

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis renews his call to pray for peace on Easter Monday, celebrating the Regina Coeli prayer in St. Peter’s Square.…

ROME (AP) — The condition of former Italian premier Silvio Berlucsconi, hospitalized in intensive care for a lung infection, is progressively…

By ABDUL SATTAR Associated Press QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) — A government spokesman says two roadside bombings targeting police vehicles in volatile…

By GIADA ZAMPANO Associated Press ROME (AP) — German aid group ResQship says at least two migrants have died and about 20 others are missing after…

By REBECCA GRIESBACH, AL.com PHENIX CITY, Ala. (AP) — A decade after dropping out, Briana Mathis, a 30-year-old mother of two, is navigating her…

PARIS (AP) — French local authorities say the death toll from Sunday’s avalanche in the French Alps has risen to six, including two mountain…

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — The Taliban have banned families and women from restaurants with gardens or green spaces in Afghanistan’s northwestern…

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — The new governor of Japan’s central bank has signaled, once again, that he plans no drastic…

By JOHN SEEWER Associated Press A grand jury in Ohio will hear evidence this week to decide whether police officers should face criminal charges in…