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ANDERSON, Calif. (AP) — Police say a car has smashed into a Northern California preschool, sending 19 children and an employee to the hospital. Two…

By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The Republican-controlled Mississippi House has divided largely along lines of race…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — One-time Nicaragua presidential aspirant Cristiana Chamorro and one of her brothers were among five people formally placed on…

By DON THOMPSON Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A Northern California woman whose disappearance and mysterious reappearance set off a…

By MSTYSLAV CHERNOV Associated Press MARIUPOL, Ukraine (AP) — A man in the Ukraine port city of Mariupol collapses in grief as he mourns the death…

NEWPORT, R.I. (AP) — A stretch of the iconic oceanside Cliff Walk in Newport, Rhode Island has been closed to the public after a 20-foot section…

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Janet Jackson, Kevin Hart and Nicki Minaj are among the headliners announced for this summer’s Essence Festival of Culture.…

By JUAN A. LOZANO Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — A Texas inmate who was scheduled to be the first to be executed by the state this year received a…

By SAM METZ and LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — In one of the driest states in the nation, Republican lawmakers have…

By DEE-ANN DURBIN AP Business Writer Two U.S. university campuses are losing their food-delivery robots for now because of Russia’s invasion of…

PIERRE, S.D. (AP) — A South Dakota lawmaker who is running for governor is facing backlash after he used a derogatory term for a woman during a…

By ANTHONY IZAGUIRRE Associated Press TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Abortions after 15 weeks would be banned in Florida under a proposal Republican…

By COLLEEN LONG and DARLENE SUPERVILLE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden has given victims of workplace sexual assault or…

By MARLON GONZÁLEZ Associated Press TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) — A federal prosecutor in Honduras says an anti-corruption team from the Attorney…

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas is appealing a judge’s ruling that prevents the state from investigating a transgender teenager’s parents over…

By ANDREW SELSKY Associated Press SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Farmworkers in Oregon would earn overtime pay for the first time in the state under a bill…

By GILLIAN FLACCUS Associated Press PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Climatologists in the U.S. Pacific Northwest warn that much of Oregon and parts of Idaho…

By KEVIN McGILL Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A South Carolina mother has traveled to New Orleans in hopes of learning more about her the…

By WAYNE PARRY Associated Press ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — New Jersey gambling regulators have fined DraftKings $150,000 for allowing a Florida man…

By LOLITA C. BALDOR and ROBERT BURNS Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A massive Russian military convoy has sat, largely stalled about 15 miles…