AP National News

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Asian shares were trading mixed Wednesday following a decline on Wall Street after reports on the…

By BASSEM MROUE and JOSEF FEDERMAN Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Suspected Israeli airstrikes in Syria in recent weeks have killed two Iranian…

By MEGAN JANETSKY Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — Belize has reaffirmed its diplomatic ties with Taiwan, the second country to do so in a week…

By ISABEL DeBRE and FARES AKRAM Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Violence resumed for a second straight night in Jerusalem on Wednesday when…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — A Mexican judge ordered that three Mexican immigration officials, a private security guard and a Venezuelan migrant be held for…

By AUDREY McAVOY Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — Repairing coral reefs after boats run aground. Shielding native forest trees from a killer fungus…

By MICHAEL LIEDTKE AP Technology Writer SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Two trailblazing ride-hailing services are heading toward uncharted territory as they…

By TED ANTHONY AP National Writer Whatever people think of Donald Trump, it’s undeniable that he can still command attention. That was obvious…

By LISA MASCARO AP Congressional Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) — The moment was historic — a U.S. House speaker meeting Wednesday with the…

By ANIRUDDHA GHOSAL and ASHWINI BHATIA Associated Press KINNAUR, India (AP) — The pickup truck jostled away from the roaring Sutlej River and up…

By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER, COLLEEN LONG and JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The cover-up is worse than the crime, the expression…

By LISA BAUMANN Associated Press BELLINGHAM, Wash. (AP) — Washington state has purchased a three-year supply of a leading abortion medication in…

By TRAVIS LOLLER and JONATHAN MATTISE Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Mike Hill, a 61-year-old custodian who was among the six people…

By TRISHA AHMED Associated Press/Report for America The North Dakota Senate passed a series of bills on Monday that would restrict transgender…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — An Indigenous anti-mining activist has been killed in a violent part of western Mexico. Authorities confirmed Tuesday that…

By GARY D. ROBERTSON Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Speculation is rising in the North Carolina legislature that a Democrat is about to…

FORT CAMPBELL, Ky. (AP) — Investigators recovered “black boxes” from two U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopters that crashed last week in…

DOUGLASVILLE, Ga. (AP) — A fifth suspect has been arrested in a March 4 mass shooting at a 16th birthday party in suburban Atlanta. Douglas County…

By MICHELLE L. PRICE Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — For the first time in history, a former U.S. president has appeared in court as a criminal…

By JAMES POLLARD Associated Press/Report for America COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A federal complaint has accused the South Carolina agency tasked with…

By DAVID BAUDER AP Media Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Hours of breathless news coverage of Donald Trump’s arraignment represented history for the…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s president has announced a deal to buy 13 of the power plants operated by the Spanish company Iberdrola in the country…

By JOHN HANNA and ANDREW DeMILLO Associated Press TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A Kansas bill to impose some of the nation’s broadest bathroom…

By DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — King Charles III’s wife has been officially identified as Queen Camilla for the first time, with…

SAULT STE. MARIE, Mich. (AP) — Authorities say a woman intentionally set a house fire last month that killed her and her three young children in…

NEW YORK (AP) — Percival Everett and Ling Ma, already two of the year’s most honored writers, are among eight winners of the lucrative…

CANTON, Ga. (AP) — A Georgia school board member, who is also a retired professional wrestler, is accused of verbally harassing a transgender woman…

By The Associated Press Klaus Teuber, creator of the hugely popular Catan board game in which players compete to build settlements on a fictional…

BOSTON (AP) — Pittsburgh Pirates catcher Austin Hedges was placed on the seven-day concussion injured list. The 30-year-old Hedges played in the…

By COLLEEN SLEVIN Associated Press DENVER (AP) — The Colorado Supreme Court is considering whether a law allowing people who were sexually abused…

By KIMBERLEE KRUESI and JONATHAN MATTISE Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee Republicans are on track to oust three Democratic House…

By The Associated Press Lawyers representing an American reporter who was arrested in Russia on spying charges have met with him in a Moscow prison…

By JOHN HANNA AP Political Writer TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas lawmakers have given final passage to a bill that could subject doctors to lawsuits or…

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — A former University of Alabama basketball player has pleaded not guilty to a capital murder charge filed against him after…

By RALPH D. RUSSO AP College Sports Writer The attorneys who beat the NCAA in the Supreme Court have filed a new class-action antitrust lawsuit…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican authorities say the killings of four men in the resort of Cancun is probably related to drug gang rivalries. The…

DETROIT (AP) — General Motors rode strong first-quarter sales of the Chevrolet Bolt to bump crosstown rival Ford out of second place in the U.S.…

By JESSE BEDAYN Associated Press/Report for America DENVER (AP) — Initial results show two of the more moderate Denver mayoral candidates in the…

By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A self-exiled Chinese businessman charged in a billion-dollar fraud was labeled sociopathic by…

By HALLIE GOLDEN Associated Press A judge in Montana refused to dismiss a lawsuit that alleges the state’s unique constitutional requirement to…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s president asked his Chinese counterpart for help Tuesday in halting chemicals from China used by Mexican drug dealers…

By MARTÍN ADAMES ALCÁNTARA Associated Press SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic (AP) — A judge in the Dominican Republic on Tuesday ordered an…

By ARLEIGH RODGERS and TOM DAVIES Associated Press INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Indiana’s governor hasn’t said if he will allow an impending ban all…