The Associated Press
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The Associated Press is an independent global news organization dedicated to factual reporting. Founded in 1846, AP today remains the most trusted source of fast, accurate, unbiased news in all formats and the essential provider of the technology and services vital to the news business.
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|By The Associated Press and REBECCA BOONE
Firing squads will be used only if the state cannot obtain the drugs needed for lethal injections — but one death row inmate has already had his scheduled execution postponed multiple times because of drug scarcity.
Updated: 16 minutes ago
|By The Associated Press
The shooting happened on the Lamar High School campus in Arlington outside a school building, news outlets report.
Updated: 20 minutes ago
|By The Associated Press and FREIDA FRISARO
Michael Boatwright, 28, Dedrick Williams, 26, and Trayvon Newsome, 24, were also convicted of armed robbery by a jury that rendered its verdict less than an hour after beginning its eighth day of deliberations.
Updated: 27 minutes ago
|By The Associated Press and SETH BORENSTEIN and FRANK JORDANS
Nations soon have to come up with goals for pollution reduction by 2035, according to the Paris climate agreement.
Updated: 47 minutes ago
|By The Associated Press and JEFF AMY
Lawyers Jennifer Little and Drew Findling wrote that the world watched a special grand jury process “that was confusing, flawed, and at times, blatantly unconstitutional.”
Updated: 1 hour ago
|By The Associated Press
The Labor Department rule ended a Trump-era ban on managers of retirement plans considering factors such as climate change or pending lawsuits when making investment choices.
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First Republic Bank received a $30 billion rescue package from 11 of the biggest U.S. banks last week in an effort to prevent its collapse.
Updated: 1 hour ago
|By The Associated Press and DALATOU MAMANE, ERIC TUCKER and KRISTA LARSON
A senior Biden administration official who briefed reporters on Woodke’s release described the action as the culmination of years of efforts.
Updated: 1 hour ago
|By The Associated Press and MATTHEW LEE
Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced the determination less than a week after he returned from a visit to Ethiopia.
Updated: 2 hours ago
|By The Associated Press and VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV
The two major powers have described Xi’s three-day trip as an opportunity to deepen their “no-limits friendship.”
Updated: 3 hours ago
|By The Associated Press and HALELUYA HADERO
Amazon's CEO says the company will still hire in some strategic areas.
Updated: 3 hours ago
|By The Associated Press and LOLITA C. BALDOR and MATTHEW LEE
The latest package of aid includes a large amount of various types of ammunition, such as rockets for the High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems, and an undisclosed number of fuel tanker trucks and riverine boats.
Updated: 4 hours ago
|By The Associated Press
The Proud Boys trial has lasted significantly longer than the judge and attorneys expected when jury selection began in December.
Updated: 4 hours ago
|By The Associated Press
A Kentucky university has agreed to a settlement of more than $14 million over the death of a student wrestler hours after practice, the school announced.
Updated: 4 hours ago
|By The Associated Press
Such testimony could give the former president an indirect opportunity to make a case that he shouldn’t face criminal charges over hush money paid during his 2016 campaign.
Updated: 5 hours ago
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Proponents of tougher penalties say this crisis is different and that, in most places, the stiffer sentences are intended to punish drug dealers, not just users.
Updated: 7 hours ago
|By The Associated Press and SEUNG MIN KIM
The close attention on an abortion case also shows how stakes are ever-higher in a post-Roe v. Wade world.
Updated: 14 hours ago
|By The Associated Press
A pair of free throws with 23 seconds left gave Mississippi the lead for good, stunning top-seeded Stanford.
Updated: 15 hours ago
|By The Associated Press
Police say there was suspicion regarding the victim’s “sudden illness and death,” and an investigation revealed she was poisoned.
Updated: 15 hours ago
|By The Associated Press and HYUNG-JIN KIM
North Korea says its ballistic missile launch over the weekend simulated a nuclear attack against South Korea.
Updated: 17 hours ago
|By The Associated Press
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg is standing firm against Donald Trump’s increasingly hostile rhetoric, telling his staff that the office won’t be intimidated or deterred as it nears a decision on charging the former president.
Updated: 17 hours ago
|By The Associated Press
A lawyer who previously advised Michael Cohen, the key government witness in the hush money payment investigation into Donald Trump, has been invited to appear Monday before a Manhattan grand jury that is considering potential charges against the former president, according to a person familiar with the matter.
Updated: 18 hours ago
|By The Associated Press
The FDIC said $60 billion in Signature Bank’s loans will remain in receivership and are expected to be sold off in time.
Updated: 18 hours ago
|By The Associated Press
Banking giant UBS is buying troubled rival Credit Suisse for almost $3.25 billion, in a deal orchestrated by regulators in an effort to avoid further market-shaking turmoil in the global banking system.
Updated: 19 hours ago
|By The Associated Press
A skier was killed in an avalanche on Sunday outside a Colorado ski resort boundary, just a day after authorities recovered the body of another avalanche victim, authorities said.
Updated: 20 hours ago
|By The Associated Press
Police believe the vehicle was being driven by a 16-year-old boy when it veered off the Hutchinson River Parkway in Scarsdale, New York, hit a tree and caught fire.
Updated: 20 hours ago
|By The Associated Press
President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden will host the cast of the TV series “Ted Lasso” at the White House on Monday to promote mental health and well-being.
Updated: 21 hours ago
|By The Associated Press and KARL RITTER
Putin arrived in Mariupol after visiting Crimea to mark the ninth anniversary of the Black Sea peninsula’s annexation from Ukraine.
Updated: 23 hours ago
|By The Associated Press
Three men and a woman were hospitalized in good condition after being shot when three men opened fire into a Chicago restaurant, police said.
Updated: 24 hours ago
|By The Associated Press
The curfew mainly affects South Beach, the most popular party location for spring breakers.
Updated: 24 hours ago
|By The Associated Press
The sheriff said two men had jumped into Lake Eloise to save a third person from their group, a woman, who was struggling in the water.
Updated: Mar. 19, 2023 at 11:14 AM EDT
|By The Associated Press and TOM MURPHY AP Health Writer
Federal officials estimate that more than 8 million people will lose eligibility and leave Medicaid mainly because their incomes have changed.
Updated: Mar. 19, 2023 at 10:21 AM EDT
|By The Associated Press and HARM VENHUIZEN Associated Press/Report for America
Democratic overhaul measures in states sought to eliminate cash bail and lessen pretrial detention on the premise they do more harm than good.
Updated: Mar. 19, 2023 at 6:19 AM EDT
|By The Associated Press
The bill would restrict public school instruction on human sexuality, sexually transmitted diseases and related topics to grades 6 through 12.
Updated: Mar. 19, 2023 at 12:35 AM EDT
|By The Associated Press and MICHELLE L. PRICE, JILL COLVIN and ERIC TUCKER
Despite no evidence that Manhattan prosecutors have given any official notice to him or his lawyers, Trump declared in a social media post that he expects to be taken into custody on Tuesday.
Updated: Mar. 18, 2023 at 10:08 PM EDT
|By The Associated Press
Fans of longtime play-by-play announcer Jim Nantz should soak up every moment: It’s his final NCAA Tournament.
Updated: Mar. 18, 2023 at 9:25 PM EDT
|By The Associated Press and GONZALO SOLANO
The U.S. Geological Survey reported an earthquake with a magnitude of 6.8 in the country’s coastal Guayas region.
Updated: Mar. 18, 2023 at 9:24 PM EDT
|By The Associated Press
Kansas’ national title defense ended in the second round of NCAA Tournament on Saturday when Arkansas’ Ricky Council IV made five free throws in the closing seconds and the eighth-seeded Razorbacks beat the No. 1 seed Jayhawks 72-71.
Updated: Mar. 18, 2023 at 6:13 PM EDT
|By The Associated Press
Top Republicans, including some of Donald Trump’s potential rivals for the GOP’s 2024 presidential nomination, rushed to his defense Saturday after Trump said he is bracing for possible arrest.
Updated: Mar. 18, 2023 at 6:10 PM EDT
|By The Associated Press
This is the second renewal of separate agreements that Ukraine and Russia signed with the United Nations and Turkey to allow food to leave the Black Sea region.
Updated: Mar. 18, 2023 at 2:58 PM EDT
|By The Associated Press and HOWARD FENDRICH
Novak Djokovic withdrew from tournaments in Florida and California because he still can’t travel to the United States as a foreign citizen who is not vaccinated against COVID-19.
Updated: Mar. 18, 2023 at 1:32 PM EDT
|By The Associated Press
Some Memphis City Council members were upset an officer was allowed to retire before steps could be taken to fire them.
Updated: Mar. 18, 2023 at 1:29 PM EDT
|By The Associated Press
The court specifically accused him Friday of bearing personal responsibility for the abductions of children from Ukraine during Russia’s full-scale invasion of the neighboring country that started almost 13 months ago.
Updated: Mar. 18, 2023 at 12:58 PM EDT
|By The Associated Press
State police said 38-year-old Kristin Potter died after she was attacked Thursday evening by the two Great Danes.
Updated: Mar. 18, 2023 at 11:20 AM EDT
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Emergency dispatchers told reporters that officers responded shortly after 5 a.m. Saturday to an after-hours club called Tha Plug on the city's south side.
Updated: Mar. 18, 2023 at 11:17 AM EDT
|By The Associated Press
Two males were shot Friday night, and one person was detained at the scene, the Miami Beach Police Department tweeted.
Updated: Mar. 18, 2023 at 8:37 AM EDT
|By The Associated Press and DAVID KLEPPER
The accounts, which parroted Kremlin talking points on myriad topics, claimed without evidence that authorities in Ohio were lying about the true impact of the chemical spill.
Updated: Mar. 18, 2023 at 7:33 AM EDT
|By The Associated Press
Tejano musician Fito Olivares, known for songs that were wedding and quinceanera mainstays including the hit “Juana La Cubana,” died Friday.
Updated: Mar. 18, 2023 at 12:12 AM EDT
|By The Associated Press and TOM WITHERS AP Sports Writer
Fairleigh Dickinson became the second No. 16 seed in history to win an NCAA Tournament game, stunning top-seeded Purdue 63-58 behind 19 points from Sean Moore and a relentless, hustling defense on Friday night.
Updated: Mar. 18, 2023 at 12:10 AM EDT
|By The Associated Press and MARK ANDERSON AP Sports Writer
The NCAA March Madness Twitter account posted after Thursday’s late games concluded that only 787 brackets of unspecified millions remained perfect.
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