AP National News

By YURI KAGEYAMA Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — A musical revolution in Jamaica has a connection with a rhythm pattern that came off a portable…

By JOHN SEEWER Associated Press Toledo, Ohio (AP) — A dozen U.S. Air Force officers have filed a lawsuit against the federal government after the…

By ANDREW DALTON AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — The husband of a cinematographer shot and killed on the set of the film “Rust” says…

By SUMMER BALLENTINE Associated Press COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — A Republican Missouri state senator punished for wearing overalls has ended his…

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Officials say the San Francisco Police Department is no longer using DNA from sexual assault survivors and other victims to…

By JENNIFER PELTZ and EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. Security Council has held an emergency meeting that was…

By KATHLEEN RONAYNE Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Newsom administration officials say they are in no rush to make changes to one of…

PHOENIX (AP) — The Arizona House has approved a bill that penalizes businesses that refuse to do business with firearms companies by barring them…

By ANTHONY IZAGUIRRE Associated Press TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo has been officially confirmed to his position.…

By EVENS SANON Associated Press PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Men wearing Haiti police uniforms have fired into a group of people and killed a…

By MICHAEL R. BLOOD Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — A Los Angeles audit finds that a $1.2 billion program intended to quickly build housing for…

By PAUL J. WEBER The Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has ordered the state’s child welfare agency to investigate…

By FRANK BAJAK AP Technology Writer BOSTON (AP) — Cyberattacks against Ukrainian government websites and affiliated organizations added to the…

By ASHRAF KHALIL Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The number of children in America living in poverty jumped dramatically after just one month…

NEW YORK (AP) — A Manhattan federal judge says lawyers for former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin are seeking a new trial on her defamation claims against…

By ANDREW DALTON AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — A limousine driver testified that in 2013 he was driving Harvey Weinstein around…

MIDLAND, Texas (AP) — A West Texas man has pleaded guilty to hate-crime charges relating to an attack on an Asian family at a warehouse store. In a…

By STEVE KARNOWSKI and AMY FORLITI Associated Press ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — The judge overseeing the federal trial of three former Minneapolis…

By MARK GILLISPIE Associated Press CLEVELAND (AP) — Three men espousing white supremacist and neo-Nazi beliefs have pleaded guilty for their roles…

By BRUCE SCHREINER and PIPER HUDSPETH BLACKBURN Associated Press FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Legislation to put limits on groups that post bail for…