AP National News

By ANDREW SELSKY Associated Press SALEM, Ore. (AP) — A school district in Oregon has quietly rescinded its ban on educators displaying symbols of…

By TERRY SPENCER Associated Press FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — More than four years after gunmen killed emerging rap star XXXTentacion during a…

By DAVID FISCHER The Associated Press MIAMI (AP) — Hip hop artist Flo Rida has been awarded $82.6 million after a South Florida jury found that…

By JEAN-YVES KAMALE Associated Press KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — The United Nations says mass graves containing the bodies of 49 civilians have been…

By SAMYA KULLAB Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — The International Atomic Energy Agency says it is placing teams of experts at all of…

By MATTHEW LEE AP Diplomatic Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States and Turkey are looking to brush aside differences that have strained…

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. General Assembly has elected Inger Andersen of Denmark to a second four-year term as executive director of the…

By KYLE HIGHTOWER AP Sports Writer Chris Ford, a member of the Boston Celtics 1981 championship team, a longtime NBA coach and the player credited…

By BOBBY CAINA CALVAN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The U.S. government’s star witness in a corruption trial over the broadcasting rights to…

By PAOLA FLORES and DANIEL POLITI Associated Press LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) — Protesters in Bolivia have lifted the blockades that had largely isolated…

By BEN FINLEY and DENISE LAVOIE Associated Press NEWPORT NEWS, Va. (AP) — When a 6-year-old shot and wounded his first-grade teacher in this…

By DANICA COTO Associated Press SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Lawyers for sprinter Usain Bolt say more than $12.7 million is missing from his…

By JIM MUSTIAN and MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump’s former lawyer, Michael Cohen, said he met for 2½ hours…

By MICHAEL LIEDTKE AP Technology Writer SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Elon Musk was depicted Wednesday as either a liar who callously jeopardized the…

By JUSTIN KABUMBA Associated Press GOMA, Congo (AP) — Police in eastern Congo have fired tear gas at demonstrators who were protesting the arrival…

By SEAN MURPHY Associated Press Writer OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma’s new attorney general is seeking to slow the state’s pace of…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s president said Wednesday his government will consider a plea by imprisoned drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman to…

NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — A government spokesperson says Cyprus has stripped 222 wealthy investors and their family members of citizenship. The…

By JOHN O’CONNOR AP Political Writer SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Legal challenges to Illinois’ semiautomatic weapons ban have begun. A federal…

By ERIC TUCKER and JOSH BOAK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A Russian national who founded a cryptocurrency exchange the Justice Department…