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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…