AP National News

By GRANT SCHULTE Assoicated Press LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Nebraska Gov. Pete Ricketts has appointed a conservative banker to replace former state Sen.…

YORK, Neb. (AP) — Authorities in southeastern Nebraska say a man trying to smoke drugs in a bus bathroom accidentally set himself and the bus on…

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — A former state attorney in north Florida has pleaded guilty to participating in a bribery and extortion scheme. Court…

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas Gov. Greg Abbott is lashing out at the local prosecutor in his state’s capital, floating the possibility of clemency…

PRAGUE (AP) — The Czech government has agreed to further ease coronavirus restrictions as the wave of infections caused by the highly transmissible…

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — The Kansas City Police Department has agreed to pay a $900,000 settlement to a Black man who was wrongly arrested when he…

AL-KHADER, West Bank (AP) — A large crowd of mourners buried a 14-year-old Palestinian boy in the occupied West Bank, a day after he was shot dead…

By STEVE KARNOWSKI and AMY FORLITI Associated Press ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Twelve people began deliberations Wednesday in the federal trial of…

By DASHA LITVINOVA Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — As the West sounds the alarm about the Kremlin ordering troops into eastern Ukraine and decries…

By LISA MASCARO AP Congressional Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Congress is largely backing President Joe Biden’s decision to impose…

By MATTHEW BROWN Associated Press HARDIN, Mont. (AP) — Economists say the costs of climate change are growing as global warming happens more…

NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — An 18th-century icon that a British officer spirited out of war-wracked Cyprus in 1974 has been returned to the island’s…

By GARY D. ROBERTSON Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Candidate filing in North Carolina will resume Thursday as scheduled now that the state…

By CARA ANNA Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Ethnic Tigrayan peacekeepers with a United Nations peacekeeping mission say the U.N. is failing…

By ANITA SNOW Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Customs and Border Protection officials say a Mexican migrant who died of gunshot wounds after a…

By RUSS BYNUM Associated Press BRUNSWICK, Ga. (AP) — Back-to-back convictions of the men who chased and killed Ahmaud Arbery have bolstered civil…

By NOMAAN MERCHANT and HANNAH FINGERHUT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A new poll finds little support among Americans for a major U.S. role in…

By CURT ANDERSON Associated Press ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — More than 80 rescued Florida manatees are in rehabilitation centers across the U.S.…

By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Creating the first Tears for Fears album of new material in 17 years didn’t initially go…