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By CHRISTINA A. CASSIDY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — House Democrats are offering a new proposal to update the landmark Voting Rights Act. The…

By MOGOMOTSI MAGOME Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Health activists in Africa have slammed Johnson & Johnson for exporting vaccines…

By CARLOS VALDEZ and JOSHUA GOODMAN Associated Press LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) — Bolivia’s past interim government came to power by sidestepping…

By ZEINA KARAM and AYA BATRAWY Associated Press Many women in Afghanistan remain at home because they are too terrified to venture into a new world…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg has announced that he and husband Chasten have become parents.  Buttigieg, the first…

By STEPHEN GROVES Associated Press SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — A witness to an incident last week involving MyPillow chief executive Mike Lindell says…

MILWAUKEE (AP) — The family of one of the two men fatally shot during a demonstration against police violence in Kenosha, Wisconsin, has filed a…

By CURT ANDERSON AP Legal Affairs Writer ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — A Florida judge has refused to close pretrial hearings to the media and public…

JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — A ship that sank four decades ago off Kodiak Island has suddenly started leaking diesel fuel, and last month’s…

BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Serbia’s autocratic leader Aleksandar Vucic has challenged Twitter to close his account like it did with Donald…

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — A jury has acquitted a Little Rock police officer who was accused of using excessive force in the 2016 fatal shooting of a…

By COREY WILLIAMS Associated Press Automaker FCA US has been fined $30 million after admitting that it paid off leaders of the United Auto Workers to…

ATLANTA (AP) — In a story published Aug. 17, 2021, about Georgia’s State Election Board planning to appoint a panel to review Fulton County’s…

PHOENIX (AP) — In a story published August 17, 2021, about a lawsuit seeking to overturn provisions of a new Arizona abortion law, The Associated…

By DAVID PITT Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — State Fairs in Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Minnesota and Wisconsin are offering COVID-19…

By MATTHEW LEE, ASHRAF KHALIL and GARY FIELDS Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Multiple federal agencies that operated in Afghanistan and worked…

Associated Press NOUAKCHOTT, Mauritania (AP) — The Mauritanian Coast Guard has rescued a group of seven migrants from a stranded boat in the…

By GEOFF MULVIHILL Associated Press A member of the family that owns Purdue Pharma has told a court that the family will not contribute billions to…

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — A former North Carolina state lawmaker has received probation and a $1,000 fine after pleading guilty a year ago to an…