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By STEVE KARNOWSKI and JIM SALTER Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A white ex-police officer convicted of manslaughter after mistaking her…

By DAVID KLEPPER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The song is simple and tinny, but that hasn’t stopped it from being embraced by former…

By DAVE COLLINS Associated Press A crash involving a fuel delivery truck and a car sparked a spectacular fire on a major Connecticut highway bridge…

By SUSAN HAIGH Associated Press HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — While Ameen Taylor feels fortunate he has a cooling tree cover in the front and back yards…

By GERALD IMRAY Associated Press CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — South Africa’s Supreme Court of Appeal has upheld a ruling that the…

NEW YORK (AP) — The Federal Election Commission has imposed a $53,100 fine on three committees associated with former New York City Mayor Bill de…

By STEFANIE DAZIO and LARRY FENN Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — The U.S. is setting a record pace for mass killings in 2023, replaying the…

SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — Former Peruvian President Alejandro Toledo Manrique surrendered to U.S. federal agents Friday to be extradited to Peru,…

By HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer KEY WEST, Fla. (AP) — At Books & Books, the nonprofit store Judy Blume and her husband have run for the…

MIlWAUKEE (AP) — Prosecutors in Milwaukee have charged a jail guard with misconduct in connection with the in-custody death of an accused killer…

By HANNA ARHIROVA Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — As Ukrainian and Russian troops fight conventional battles on the front lines, Europe’s…

By JOCELYN NOVECK AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Last year, it took 275,000 bright pink roses to adorn the Metropolitan Museum of Art for the…

POCATELLO, Idaho (AP) — An early morning fire engulfed much of a large high school in the southern Idaho city of Pocatello on Friday. The Pocatello…

BERLIN (AP) — Nudists in Austria are up in arms about plans for a cable car that would pass over a popular beach on the northern edge of Vienna…

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) — A businessman pleaded guilty Friday to bribing the head of a Michigan marijuana licensing board, the first conviction in…

By MATT O’BRIEN and KATHLEEN FOODY Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — Twitter has long been a way for people to keep track of tornado watches,…

By LOLITA C. BALDOR, MATTHEW LEE and TARA COPP Associated Press RAMSTEIN AIR BASE, Germany (AP) — The Pentagon has deployed forces and is…

PARIS (AP) — A Paris court has convicted a Lebanese-Canadian academic in absentia on terrorism charges over a bombing outside a Paris synagogue in…

By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge reprimanded an attorney whose withdrawal from a Jan. 6 defendant’s…

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Iowa lawmakers have passed a sweeping education bill limiting instruction on gender identity and sexual orientation,…

By CURT ANDERSON Associated Press TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — A North Carolina man accused of shooting and wounding a 6-year-old girl and her parents after…

By JEAN-YVES KAMALE Associated Press KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — Congolese lawmakers say 14 people drowned in a lake on the border between Zambia and…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida has donated religious offerings to a Tokyo shrine that China…

PARIS (AP) — French Open tournament director Amélie Mauresmo says night sessions at this year’s event will begin 30 minutes earlier. Late…

By GLENN GAMBOA AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, French President Emmanuel Macron, and European…

By DAVE COLLINS Associated Press HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Authorities in Connecticut’s capital say a 12-year-old bystander was killed and three…

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. (AP) — An Indiana woman now faces a federal hate crime in the stabbing of an Indiana University student of Chinese descent on a…

By SAM MEDNICK Associated Press DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Burkina Faso’s government has opened investigations into allegations of human rights abuses…

By DARLENE SUPERVILLE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Chef Edward Lee says food, at its best, tells a story. And the story he wants told with…

BERLIN (AP) — A Swiss auction house that sold a composite Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton for over $5 million this week said Friday that the new owner,…

MOSCOW (AP) — Russia’s military acknowledged that a bomb accidentally dropped by one of its warplanes caused a powerful blast in a Russian…

By JONATHAN MATTISE Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Chances are shrinking fast for a key gun-control proposal to make it out of the…

By SETH BORENSTEIN, WANJOHI KABUKURU, FABIANO MAISONNAVE and SIBI ARASU Associated Press They fight for Earth. Young and old, famous and not so well…