AP National News

By RIAZAT BUTT and SHAZIA BHATTI Associated Press RAJANPUR, Pakistan (AP) — The first five months of Shakeela Bibi’s pregnancy were smooth. She…

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A fire that burned through part of Iran’s notorious Evin Prison has damaged…

By KRISTIN M. HALL AP Entertainment Writer NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Early rock pioneer Jerry Lee Lewis and bluegrass performer-turned-country star…

By SABRA AYRES, HANNA ARHIROVA and INNA VARENYTSIA Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Waves of explosives-laden suicide drones struck…

By KATHLEEN RONAYNE Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A California ballot measure that would tax the rich to help put more electric cars…

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — An official has warned that 34,000 homes could be inundated or isolated in Victoria…

By ANDREW DeMILLO Associated Press LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — The nation’s first trial over a state’s ban on gender-confirming care for…

By HANNAH FINGERHUT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — From his home in Collegeville, Pennsylvania, Graeme Dean says there’s plenty that’s…

By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer BANGKOK (AP) — Stocks were mostly higher in Asia on Tuesday after Wall Street rallied in its latest…

By CHRIS MEGERIAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — This year’s midterm elections are playing out as a strange continuation of the last…

By SUDHIN THANAWALA and GARY FIELDS Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Rhonda Briggins spent much of Election Day in 2020 at an Atlanta polling place…

By MICHELLE R. SMITH Associated Press VENICE, Fla. (AP) — It was less than three weeks before the Sarasota County, Florida, school board election…

By MAURICIO SAVARESE Associated Press SAO PAULO (AP) — Brazil’s former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and incumbent Jair Bolsonaro clashed…

By KEN MORITSUGU Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — The overarching theme emerging from China’s ongoing Communist Party congress is one of…

By MARCOS ALEMÁN Associated Press SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) — A Salvadoran judge has ordered the provisional arrest of several retired…

BRISTOL, Conn. (AP) — Connecticut’s Office of the Inspector General has released body camera footage in connection with last week’s shooting in…

SALISBURY, N.C. (AP) — Officials in North Carolina say two people were shot and others were injured as they fled gunfire that broke out at a…

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) — Diplomats are calling on Ethiopia’s federal authorities and their rivals in the northern region of Tigray to agree…

BERLIN (AP) — The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation says it will commit $1.2 billion to the effort to end polio worldwide. The money will be used…

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Omaha’s Henry Doorly Zoo & Aquarium has closed several exhibits and taken other precautions after one of its pelicans died…