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By JAMES POLLARD and MEG KINNARD Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A lawyer for disgraced South Carolina attorney Alex Murdaugh said Tuesday…

By AMANDA SEITZ Associated Press Washington (AP) — A Twitter employee testified that he spent a sleepless night on Jan. 5, 2021, worrying that…

By MANUEL RUEDA and JOSHUA GOODMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A veteran Afro-Colombian politician who studied in the Soviet Union and fled…

By KEVIN McGILL Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Louisiana authorities have once again been blocked from enforcing a near total ban on abortion,…

By LEAH WILLINGHAM Associated Press CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — Investigators say a helicopter crash that killed six people in West Virginia on June…

By ACACIA CORONADO and PAUL J. WEBER Associated Press UVALDE, Texas (AP) — A new wave of anger swept through Uvalde on Tuesday over surveillance…

By CHRIS MEGERIAN, JOSEF FEDERMAN and AAMER MADHANI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden’s visit to the Middle East comes…

By MATT O’BRIEN Associated Press Twitter sued Tesla CEO Elon Musk on Tuesday, trying to force him to complete his $44 billion takeover of the…

By JANET McCONNAUGHEY Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Federal authorities say 1 million gallons of oil have been collected since April 2019 at…

By CALEB JONES Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — Hawaii Volcanoes National Park on the Big Island has been given new land in a deal that will…

By OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Ann Shulgin, who together with her late husband Alexander Shulgin pioneered the use of…

By JENNIFER PELTZ and TOM HAYS Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A rock memorabilia dealer and two other men are charged with scheming to sell…

FOWLER, Ind. (AP) — A western Indiana man is accused of dismembering his girlfriend with a chain saw and putting her remains in trash bags after…

By DOUG FEINBERG AP Basketball Writer LeBron James is publicly criticizing the United States’ handling of WNBA All-Star Brittney Griner’s case in…

CAIRO (AP) — Several dozen organizations Tuesday called on Egypt to end its crackdown on civil society and allow people to exercise freedom of…

LITHONIA, Ga. (AP) — Authorities say a Georgia man became trapped in a kitchen vent above a pizza restaurant in an Atlanta suburb and had to be cut…

MACON, Ga. (AP) — A Georgia man has been sentenced to 10 years in prison after pleading guilty in February to sexually assaulting a girl while a…

FLORENCE, Ala. (AP) — A prisoner who prompted a nationwide manhunt when he disappeared from an Alabama jail has been charged with killing the jail…

By MICHAEL BALSAMO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Senate has confirmed Steve Dettelbach to run the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco,…