The Associated Press

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Updated: 5 hours ago
|By The Associated Press and NAJIB JOIBAIN, JACK JEFFERY and LEE KEATH Associated Press
Israeli forces are battling Hamas militants across Gaza after expanding their ground offensive to its second-largest city.
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|By The Associated Press and TARA COPP Associated Press
The Air Force said it was unknown how long the aircraft would be grounded.
Updated: 7 hours ago
|By The Associated Press
The City and Borough of Wrangell on Wednesday said the decision to end the search for Derek Heller followed “15 days of tireless and exhaustive efforts” by search and rescue teams.
Updated: 7 hours ago
|By The Associated Press and BILL BARROW and JONATHAN J. COOPER
The four Republican presidential candidates debating Wednesday night mostly targeted each other instead of Donald Trump.
Updated: 8 hours ago
|By The Associated Press
The body of Sergio Brown's mother, 73-year-old Myrtle Brown, was discovered Sept. 16 near a creek in Maywood, about 12 miles (19 kilometers) west of Chicago.
Updated: 8 hours ago
|By The Associated Press
A deputy U.S. marshal was detained in the United Kingdom on suspicion of acting inappropriately while intoxicated on a flight from New York, the agency said Wednesday.
Updated: 9 hours ago
|By The Associated Press and ZEKE MILLER, AAMER MADHANI and STEPHEN GROVES Associated Press
Biden said Republicans who are insisting on border policy changes as a condition for voting for the aid “are playing chicken with our national security,” even as he expressed openness to some changes.
Updated: 9 hours ago
|By The Associated Press and MICHAEL R. BLOOD
McCarthy is the only speaker in history to be voted out of the job.
Updated: 9 hours ago
|By The Associated Press and NICHOLAS RICCARDI and CHRISTINE FERNANDO Associated Press
The former president has condemned the lawsuits as “anti-democratic” and designed to block voters from having their say.
Updated: 10 hours ago
|By The Associated Press and JIM VERTUNO and ACACIA CORONADO
In all, four who died were found in two homes in Austin and two others were found in a home more than 80 miles away in the San Antonio area.
Updated: 10 hours ago
|By The Associated Press and GABE STERN
In December 2020, six Nevada GOP members signed certificates falsely stating that Trump won Nevada and sent them to Congress and the National Archives, where they were ultimately ignored.
Updated: 10 hours ago
|By The Associated Press and LINDSAY WHITEHURST
Hunter Biden has insisted that he will only testify to the House if it’s in public, but top Republicans told him that their subpoena for a closed-door deposition on Dec. 13 is non-negotiable.
Updated: 11 hours ago
|By The Associated Press and DEE-ANN DURBIN
The burger giant said Wednesday that it aims to have 50,000 restaurants in operation worldwide by the end of 2027.
Updated: 11 hours ago
|By The Associated Press and MATTHEW PERRONE AP Health Writer
Administration officials indicated Wednesday the process will continue into next year.
Updated: 13 hours ago
|By The Associated Press and COLLEEN LONG, SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN and HALLIE GOLDEN Associated Press
President Biden signed an executive order on Wednesday that aims to make it easier for Native Americans to access federal funding and have greater autonomy over how to invest those funds.
Updated: 14 hours ago
|By The Associated Press and MEG KINNARD and STEVE PEOPLES
Former United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis appear to be leading the fight for a distant second place, yet conservative entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy and former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie are still factors.
Updated: 14 hours ago
|By The Associated Press and LYNN ELBER
Lear fashioned bold and controversial comedies that were embraced by TV sitcom viewers who long had to watch the evening news to find out what was going on in the world.
US files war crime charges against Russians accused of torturing an American in the Ukraine invasion
Updated: 15 hours ago
|By The Associated Press and LINDSAY WHITEHURST and ERIC TUCKER
The American said the Russian soldiers had abducted him, stripped him naked, pointed a gun at his head and badly beaten him.
Updated: 16 hours ago
|By The Associated Press
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has said that contaminated cinnamon is the likely source of the lead.
Updated: 16 hours ago
|By The Associated Press
David Schultz’s semi-truck was found two weeks ago on a rural highway in northwest Iowa, its trailer still filled with baby pigs he was transporting.
Updated: 17 hours ago
|By The Associated Press
The pictures show a young humpback whale breaching in front of the Space Needle, capturing a rare display of wildlife next to a major city.
Updated: 23 hours ago
|By The Associated Press and TARA COPP and MARI YAMAGUCHI
The CV-22B Osprey crashed on Nov. 29 during a training mission.
Updated: Dec. 6, 2023 at 1:09 AM CST
|By The Associated Press and ANDREW DALTON
The 78% approval from the members of SAG-AFTRA was no certainty, with some prominent members voicing dissent on the deal.
Updated: Dec. 5, 2023 at 11:34 PM CST
|By The Associated Press and WAFAA SHURAFA, JACK JEFFERY and SAMY MAGDY Associated Press
New orders to evacuate areas around Khan Younis are squeezing people into ever-smaller areas of the already tiny coastal strip.
Updated: Dec. 5, 2023 at 8:09 PM CST
|By The Associated Press and MATTHEW BARAKAT and BEN FINLEY Associated Press
All officers escaped serious injury, but it was unclear what happened to the suspect who was inside when it was leveled by the explosion Monday night, Arlington County, Virginia, police spokesperson Ashley Savage said.
Updated: Dec. 5, 2023 at 7:57 PM CST
|By The Associated Press
Denny Laine was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, as a member of the Moody Blues, in 2018.
Updated: Dec. 5, 2023 at 7:12 PM CST
|By The Associated Press
Joseph Emerson is scheduled to be arraigned Thursday on 83 charges of recklessly endangering another person — for each person who was on the plane — and one charge of endangering an aircraft.
Updated: Dec. 5, 2023 at 6:34 PM CST
|By The Associated Press
The first woman on the Supreme Court, O’Connor died Friday at age 93 in Phoenix.
Updated: Dec. 5, 2023 at 6:13 PM CST
|By The Associated Press and CHEYANNE MUMPHREY
The student, Darryl George, said he feels like is being singled out because there are other boys in the school with longer hairstyles than his.
Updated: Dec. 5, 2023 at 5:50 PM CST
|By The Associated Press and KEVIN FREKING
Almost 400 military nominations have been in limbo due to Tuberville’s blanket hold on confirmations and promotions for senior military officers.
Updated: Dec. 5, 2023 at 5:48 PM CST
|By The Associated Press and JENNIFER PELTZ
Testifying for Trump’s defense, a Florida real estate attorney said the club could be sold as a home, notwithstanding decades-old legal documents in which Trump said he intended to forswear its use as anything but a club.
Updated: Dec. 5, 2023 at 5:46 PM CST
|By The Associated Press and By JESSE BEDAYN
At the funeral home, investigators discovered dozens of stacked bodies, some that had death dates as far back as 2019, according to a federal affidavit.
Updated: Dec. 5, 2023 at 5:23 PM CST
|By The Associated Press and ANTHONY IZAGUIRRE
Candidates in the special election will be picked by party leaders, not voters.
Updated: Dec. 5, 2023 at 5:21 PM CST
|By The Associated Press
Spokesman Matthew Miller did not reveal the details of the offer nor why Russia had turned it down.
Updated: Dec. 5, 2023 at 5:09 PM CST
|By The Associated Press and JAKE OFFENHARTZ
Majors' former girlfriend described him as a controlling, manipulative partner who hurled household objects at the wall, tried to control her socially, and repeatedly threatened to take his own life in the aftermath of their fights.
Updated: Dec. 5, 2023 at 2:54 PM CST
|By The Associated Press and CHRIS MEGERIAN and LISA MASCARO
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, a New York Democrat, called Harris’ 32nd tiebreaking vote a “great milestone.”
Updated: Dec. 5, 2023 at 2:02 PM CST
|By The Associated Press
The Supreme Court on Tuesday seemed inclined to uphold a tax on foreign income while leaving questions about a broader, never-enacted tax on wealth for another day.
Updated: Dec. 5, 2023 at 1:50 PM CST
|By The Associated Press and BRIAN MELLEY
The Duke of Sussex has claimed that his safety is jeopardized in part because of hostility toward him and his family on social media and a relentless press that hounds him.
Updated: Dec. 5, 2023 at 11:21 AM CST
|By The Associated Press
For the impeachment probe vote to succeed, nearly all House Republicans will have to vote in favor of the inquiry.
Updated: Dec. 5, 2023 at 11:10 AM CST
|By The Associated Press
Freshman Jordynn Dudley and Jody Brown scored 26 seconds apart in the first half and Florida State beat Stanford 5-1 on Monday night for the program’s fourth national championship — all coming since 2014.
Updated: Dec. 5, 2023 at 10:50 AM CST
|By The Associated Press and RALPH D. RUSSO
In a letter sent to more than 350 Division I schools, Baker said the disparity in resources between the wealthiest schools and other D-I members is standing in the way of reforming college athletics.
Updated: Dec. 5, 2023 at 10:19 AM CST
|By The Associated Press
The health care giant said Tuesday that it will roll out a new reimbursement model designed to make costs more predictable at the drugstore counter.
Updated: Dec. 5, 2023 at 12:12 AM CST
|By The Associated Press and MATTHEW BARAKAT Associated Press
The police had earlier said that they were investigating after someone fired a flare gun from the house.
Updated: Dec. 4, 2023 at 11:09 PM CST
|By The Associated Press and REBECCA BOONE Associated Press
The suspect is being held without bond, charged with two counts of first-degree murder after prosecutors say he shot and killed his pregnant wife.
Updated: Dec. 4, 2023 at 11:07 PM CST
|By The Associated Press and NAJIB JOBAIN, SAMY MAGDY and JACK JEFFERY Associated Press
Israel's expanded ground offensive, following the collapse of a weeklong cease-fire, is aimed at eliminating Gaza’s Hamas rulers.
Updated: Dec. 4, 2023 at 9:31 PM CST
|By The Associated Press and ANTHONY IZAGUIRRE Associated Press
Expelled congressman George Santos hasn't wasted any time working to monetize his situation.
Updated: Dec. 4, 2023 at 9:21 PM CST
|By The Associated Press and LINDSAY WHITEHURST
Prosecutors argue that Hunter Biden doesn’t have enough evidence to support his claims of potential political interference in the criminal investigation against him and urged a judge to reject the subpoena requests.
Updated: Dec. 4, 2023 at 7:49 PM CST
|By The Associated Press
Prosecutors charged a man with four counts of murder in the fatal shootings of three homeless men in Los Angeles and a suburban resident.
Updated: Dec. 4, 2023 at 6:50 PM CST
|By The Associated Press and ZEKE MILLER
The U.S. already has run out of money that it has used to prop up Ukraine’s economy, and “if Ukraine’s economy collapses, they will not be able to keep fighting, full stop,” an official said.
Updated: Dec. 4, 2023 at 6:36 PM CST
|By The Associated Press and RALPH D. RUSSO
LSU’s Jayden Daniels, Oregon’s Bo Nix, Washington’s Michael Penix Jr., transfer quarterbacks who have all played at least five college seasons, and Ohio State receiver Marvin Harrison were announced as the Heisman Trophy finalists on Monday night.