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By PETER SMITH Associated Press A fact-finding commission of the Episcopal Church will research the history of the denomination’s role in operating…

By JAMES POLLARD Associated Press/Report for America COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Republican Gov. Henry McMaster of South Carolina signed an executive…

By LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer Reese Witherspoon was an early champion of “Where the Crawdads Sing,” a coming-of-age story, romance and courtroom…

By CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Nigerian authorities on Monday admitted shortcomings in security at a jail in the…

By NOMAAN MERCHANT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge on Monday declined to delay the upcoming trial of Steve Bannon, a one-time…

By SETH BORENSTEIN AP Science Writer Our view of the universe just expanded: The first image from NASA’s new space telescope unveiled Monday is…

By ANITA SNOW Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Latino students should be a federal funding priority after they fell behind during the coronavirus…

RENO A 70-year-old Nevada man has been charged in the 1982 killing of a 5-year-old girl who disappeared while walking to her kindergarten class in…

ROME (AP) — Italy’s Premier Mario Draghi is meeting with Italy’s president to discuss the future of his government amid simmering tensions…

HIGHLAND PARK, Ill. (AP) — One week after a shooting at a Fourth of July parade that left seven dead, the Chicago suburb of Highland Park held a…

By JADE LE DELEY and BARBARA SURK Associated Press PARIS (AP) — French lawmakers have failed to pass a no-confidence motion requested by a leftist…

JERUSALEM (AP) — The U.S. says it is still seeking the extradition of a Palestinian woman in Jordan convicted of aiding a suicide bomber in…

By AADIT TAMBE, STEPHEN NEUKAM, KATE SELTZER, RACHEL LOGAN, HENRY KUCZYNSKI, EMMETT GARTNER, TRISHA AHMED, ABBY ZIMMARDI, MICHAEL PURDIE, SHREYA…

By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A member of “The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City” has pleaded guilty to a fraud…

By DENISE LAVOIE and SARAH RANKIN Associated Press RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Two men charged in connection with what police have said was a thwarted…

By HOLLY RAMER Associated Press CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — A judge has consolidated hundreds of lawsuits alleging physical and sexual abuse at New…

By BHARATHA MALLAWARACHI Associated Press COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Hundreds of Sri Lankans jostled Monday to use the vast array of exercise…

By STEFANIE DAZIO Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — A former Olympic volleyball player was attacked Friday in downtown Los Angeles when a man…

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Two trains collided Monday morning in South Carolina, causing one of them to derail and leaving two railway employees…