AP National News

By BRUCE SCHREINER Associated Press LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — The company that owns Churchill Downs racetrack has placed its own big wager by…

By GABRIELA MOLINA Associated Press QUITO, Ecuador (AP) — Ecuador’s president has declared a state of emergency in the prison system following a…

SHREVEPORT, La. (AP) — A Louisiana coroner’s office has released the name of a baby found dead in a lake after his mother allegedly threw him…

By CATHY BUSSEWITZ AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Brace for a rude surprise on your winter heating bills. After years of unusually inexpensive…

By JIM SALTER Associated Press Three Democratic members of Congress have offered deeply personal testimony about their own abortions as a…

By JANET McCONNAUGHEY Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A lawsuit filed by the ACLU of Louisiana is alleging sheriff’s deputies in that…

By DENG MACHOL Associated Press JUBA, South Sudan (AP) — An official says at least 20 people have died in flooding in recent months amid torrential…

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Dubai is opening Expo 2020 in an extravagant ceremony that was delayed a year…

By SIGAL RATNER-ARIAS Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Gloria Estefan has revealed that, at the age of 9, she was sexually abused by someone her…

By ADRIAN SAINZ and REBECCA REYNOLDS Associated Press MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Authorities say a teenage boy was shot and wounded at a school in…

ESSEXVILLE, Mich. (AP) — Police say a Michigan man died with a winning $45,000 lottery ticket in his wallet. Authorities believe Greg Jarvis…

By JEFFREY COLLINS Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina’s Supreme Court has ruled lawmakers can try to prevent local school…

By ADRIAN SAINZ Associated Press MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — A Tennessee state senator has been found guilty of wire fraud in federal court. News outlets…

ST. LOUIS (AP) — A lawyer for a former St. Louis police officer who has twice faced trial on charges in the 2017 beating of a Black undercover…

By GRANT PECK Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — Myanmar’s military-installed government has defended its detention of an American journalist it has…

By PAUL WISEMAN and TOM KRISHER AP Business Writers In an economy upended by the coronavirus, shortages and price spikes have hit everything from…

By CAROLYN THOMPSON Associated Press The nation’s school boards are asking President Joe Biden for federal assistance to investigate and stop a…

By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The hit Broadway show “Aladdin” was canceled Wednesday night when breakthrough COVID-19…

By JESSICA GRESKO and MARK SHERMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court has added five new cases to its calendar for the term that…

PORTAGE, Ind. (AP) — The Environmental Protection Agency says preliminary tests indicate iron-contaminated wastewater that leaked from a…