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SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A judge has temporarily blocked the state of California from implementing a landmark new law aimed at raising wages and…

By CLAIRE RUSH Associated Press/Report for America PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Hundreds of defendants in Oregon who were convicted of crimes by…

By JACQUES BILLEAUD Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — An Arizona court has ruled that abortion doctors cannot be prosecuted under a pre-statehood law…

By CAMILLE RODRIGUEZ MONTILLA and MANUEL RUEDA Associarted Press CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — For three years, Juan Guaidó led the Venezuelan…

LONDON (AP) — Saudi Arabian soccer club Al Nassr has announced the signing of Cristiano Ronaldo, ending speculation about the five-time Ballon…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. General Assembly has asked the U.N.’s highest judicial body to give its…

By GARY D. ROBERTSON Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina utility regulators have told Duke Energy Corp. to carry out a series of…

By JOHN HANNA AP Political Writer TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Incoming Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach agreed to help pay a $30,000 penalty to resolve…

By AUDREY McAVOY Associated Press The U.S. government says it received one bid for the right to drill offshore for oil and gas in Alaska’s Cook…

EVERETT, Wash. (AP) — A man accused of carrying guns into a Washington state courthouse, triggering a lockdown and standoff earlier this month, is…

By HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea fired three short-range ballistic missiles toward its eastern waters in its…

By LIZZIE KNIGHT Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Queen guitarist Brian May is now a “Sir.” May, who also has a doctorate in astrophysics and is…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A woman who has previously said Steven Tyler had an illicit sexual relationship with her when she was a teenager is now suing…

LAS VEGAS (AP) — MGM Resorts International has sold land on the Las Vegas Strip that was the site of the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S.…

BERLIN (AP) — Chancellor Olaf Scholz is celebrating Germany’s progress in freeing itself from reliance on Russian gas, urging people to keep…

BY ASHRAW SWEILAM Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — Egyptian officials say suspected Islamic militants have attacked a police checkpoint in Egypt’s…

By BABA AHMED Associated Press TIMBUKTU, Mali (AP) — The prosecutor general for the African nation of Mali says 46 soldiers from Ivory Coast have…

By JOANNA KOZLOWSKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Those at the forefront of the U.K.’s response to Russia’s war in Ukraine joined…

By MARY CLARE JALONICK and LISA MASCARO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Virginia Thomas, the wife of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas,…

HAMILTON, Ontario (AP) — Ontario officials say there was no evidence of working smoke alarms in a Hamilton house that caught fire, claiming the…