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By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The head of the U.N. body promoting development is warning that the COVID-19 pandemic,…

FORT GORDON, Ga. (AP) — Authorities say a lightning strike at an Army post in Georgia has left one soldier dead and nine others injured. Fort…

By MARÍA VERZA Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — It was a dramatic moment at the end of Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s…

NEW YORK (AP) — William “Poogie” Hart, a founder of the Grammy-winning trio the Delfonics who helped write and sang a soft lead tenor on such…

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — Authorities say an American Airlines flight headed with 56 people for Nashville, Tennessee, from Florida had to be diverted…

By JUAN A. LOZANO Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — The family of a 9-year-old Houston girl who died after she was shot by a man who had opened fire…

BELLA VISTA, Ark. (AP) — A $6.3 million settlement has been reached in a lawsuit over an underground fire at a dumping site in northwest Arkansas.…

By JOHN FLESHER AP Environmental Writer GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) — Federal regulators have canceled a policy that weakened their authority to…

A lawyer says a civil rights advocate and former president of the North Carolina branch of the NAACP has been found dead. Attorney Mark Cummings says…

By SEUNG MIN KIM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden says that U.S. military officials believe it’s “not a good idea” for…

By STEFANIE DAZIO Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Video shows a Southern California police officer shoot and kill a Black man who was running…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Two U.S. tourists have been injured by a crocodile at Mexico’s Puerto Vallarta resort when one went swimming in the ocean at…

By DAVE KOLPACK Associated Press FARGO, N.D. (AP) — The North Dakota attorney general’s office says a motion seeking to block enforcement of…

ST. LOUIS (AP) — A 26-year-old man has been convicted of killing a retired St. Louis police captain in 2020 during a violent night sparked by…

By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The trial of R. Kelly’s manager opened Tuesday on charges that he forced the cancellation of…

By BRUCE SCHREINER Associated Press Plans to build an aluminum mill in Kentucky have taken a new turn. A steel producer says it will construct and…

By STEVE KARNOWSKI Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Police have released body-camera video from a six-hour standoff that ended with officers…

By DAVID PORTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A national jewelry retailer that allegedly tricked active-duty servicemembers into buying…

BY SONIA PÉREZ D. Associated Press GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — The U.S. State Department has named 60 current and former officials, as well as some…

By JONATHAN MATTISE Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A federal magistrate judge has ordered an attorney suing a private prison firm over an…