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CHICAGO (AP) — Authorities say a person was detained after jumping a  fence outside the FBI’s Chicago field office and throwing rocks at the…

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — An Alabama inmate scheduled to be put to death by lethal injection next month says the state lost the paperwork he turned…

By YURI KAGEYAMA Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — They’re your run-of-the-mill “salarymen,” as company workers in Japan are called —…

PLANO, Texas (AP) — A woman has been arrested and faces a possible hate crime charge after she was captured on video in a racist rant and assault…

By ANNIE MA Associated Press Gabrielle Perry, a 29-year-old epidemiologist in New Orleans, expects $20,000 of her $135,000 student loan debt to be…

By SCOTT SONNER Associated Press RENO, Nev. (AP) — U.S. wildlife officials say there’s enough evidence a rare fish along the California-Nevada…

By KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea says the latest fever cases detected in its border region with China were…

By HUIZHONG WU Associated Press TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — A U.S. senator has met with Taiwan’s president in Taipei, in the second visit by…

GREENWOOD, Ind. (AP) — Police say an arrest has been made in the fatal shooting of a 16-year-old boy waiting at a suburban Indianapolis school bus…

WATERBURY, Conn. (AP) — A lawyer for conspiracy theorist Alex Jones invoked his right against self-incrimination during a civil court hearing in…

By WILSON RING Associated Press A Connecticut woman with cancer sued Vermont on Thursday for allowing only its own residents to take advantage of a…

By KEVIN McGILL Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A Black man wrongfully convicted as a teenager for a New Orleans rape more than 36 years ago…

EDINBURG, Texas (AP) — A former South Texas mayor has been acquitted of organized election fraud and illegal voting. A Hidalgo County jury…

By OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — San Francisco’s former public works director was sentenced Thursday to seven years in…

ST. LOUIS (AP) — A St. Louis judge has granted a request by a Roman Catholic priest to have a 2014 arrest expunged from his record after a…

By STEFANIE DAZIO and DON THOMPSON Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Homicides in California increased again last year — as did other violent…

By BOB CHRISTIE Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — A judge in Phoenix has ruled that an Arizona initiative expanding voting access and rolling back a…

FURNAS COUNTY, Neb. (AP) — Authorities in Nebraska are trying to determine who released 16 million gallons of water by opening a dam on an…

By DEE-ANN DURBIN AP Business Writer A regional office of the National Labor Relations Board says Starbucks is violating U.S. labor law by…

By COLLIN BINKLEY AP Education Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — For millions of Americans, President Joe Biden’s student loan cancellation offers a…