AP National News

By WAYNE PARRY Associated Press ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — Thursday is one the best days of the year for college basketball fans as the annual…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Average long-term U.S. mortgage rates rose this week as the key 30-year loan vaulted over 4% for the first time since May 2019.…

BOSTON (AP) — The Boston Pops orchestra is reviving springtime live performances for the first time since the pandemic began. The orchestra…

By ADAM BEAM Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A long-delayed plan to build a giant lake in Northern California has received a big…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. Security Council on Thursday approved a robust mandate for its political…

TYLER, Texas (AP) — Authorities say a Texas man is in jail on a capital murder charge after he was accused of fatally shooting two dentists at a…

By DAVID PITT Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The Iowa Legislature has been trying for a decade to make it illegal for animal rights…

By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press VATICAN CITY (AP) — A once-powerful cardinal has told a Vatican court that he donated 125,000 euros ($140,000)…

TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has named a 19-mile stretch of the Hackensack River in northern New Jersey to its…

By REGINA GARCIA CANO Associated Press CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Dozens of people are dancing in a neighborhood on the outskirts of…

CAIRO (AP) — Sudanese riot police have fired teargas at thousands who took to the streets in the capital, Khartoum, to protest deteriorating…

By AREEJ HAZBOUN and JOSEPH KRAUSS Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — The three Christian communities that have uneasily shared their holiest site…

CANTON, Ohio (AP) — The family of a Black man who a white Ohio police officer fatally shot without warning on New Year’s Day has sued the…

By ALICIA RANCILIO Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Oscar winners Jared Leto and Anne Hathaway star in the new limited series…

By ZEKE MILLER and LISA MASCARO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden’s plans to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day were scrambled…

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A Tennessee woman charged in the disappearance and death of her 5-year-son has entered a no-contest plea as jurors were…

LONDON (AP) — The BBC has apologized and paid a “substantial” sum to Princess Diana’s private secretary over subterfuge used to get an…

GENEVA (AP) — The U.N.-backed Medicines Patent Pool says that nearly three dozen companies worldwide will soon start making generic versions of…

By LAURAN NEERGAARD AP Medical Writer Scientists are getting their first peek at the genes of nearly 100,000 Americans in what’s considered a…