Associated Press CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice appointed his wife to the state school board this week. First Lady Cathy…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press After former President Donald Trump gave his victory speech early Wednesday, at the Palm Beach Convention Center, dozens of his…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Democratic freshman Rep. Don Davis has won reelection, defending his seat from a challenge by Republican…
Continue ReadingMOSCOW (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday congratulated Donald Trump on his election victory in his first public comment on the…
Continue ReadingDemocratic Rep. Donald Davis won reelection to a U.S. House seat representing North Carolina on Thursday. Davis ran in territory that became less…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press Chuck and Cathie Baldwin were driving in the dark early on Election Day to work a shift at their polling place in rural Missouri…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — New Mexico’s governor declared an emergency Thursday after a powerful winter storm left tens of…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) — A former health care worker who illegally accessed the health records of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — A judge is blocking a Georgia county from approving larger homes in a tiny community of Black slave…
Continue ReadingAP Health Writer Federal health officials on Thursday called for more testing of employees on farms with bird flu after a new study showed that some…
Continue ReadingMANKATO, Minn. (AP) — A Minnesota man was convicted Thursday in the killing of his girlfriend. Madeline Kingsbury’s 2023 disappearance…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press MADRID (AP) — Spain’s catastrophic floods have left behind staggering devastation and despair. But the numbers associated with…
Continue ReadingAP Business Writer The average rate on a 30-year mortgage in the U.S. rose for the sixth straight week, returning to its highest level since early…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Democrat Laura Gillen has defeated U.S. Rep. Anthony D’Esposito on Long Island, unseating the Republican…
Continue ReadingPLYMOUTH, N.H. (AP) — Officials say state police fatally shot a man armed with a rifle who had barricaded himself inside a New Hampshire…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press/Report for America RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Democratic U.S. Rep. Gerry Connolly of Virginia said Thursday that he is battling…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — Three U.S. House seats in Nevada will remain under Democratic control after a sweeping win Thursday for the…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s Defense Minister Gen Nakatani was welcomed aboard a South Korean warship during its port call near Tokyo on…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — Thousands are protesting in Mozambique’s capital and police are responding by firing tear gas and…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — An Appalachian mayor has won an 11-candidate scramble for a Kentucky Senate seat left vacant by the…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press Republican Jeff Hurd has won the U.S. House seat in Colorado that Rep. Lauren Boebert left. Hurd’s victory fulfills the…
Continue ReadingDemocratic Rep. Dina Titus won reelection to a U.S. House seat representing Nevada on Thursday. The Las Vegas district picked up Republican-leaning…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California’s Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom, a fierce critic of former President Donald Trump, on…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press EVESHAM, N.J. (AP) — Firefighters are battling blazes in the parched New Jersey Pinelands, where they say conditions are the…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press Questions about sexual orientation and gender identity, and changes to queries about race and ethnicity, are on track to be on the…
Continue ReadingBELLAIRE, Mich. (AP) — A high-profile election official in Michigan has lost a write-in campaign to keep her job. Sheryl Guy has been the clerk in…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Police say they have detained two people after someone repeatedly fired at cars on a busy highway near North…
Continue ReadingDANBURY, Conn. (AP) — Caroline Ellison, a former top executive in Sam Bankman-Fried ’s fallen FTX cryptocurrency empire, began her two-year…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press Forty-three monkeys escaped from a compound used for medical research in South Carolina but the nearby police chief said there is…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — A jury has begun deliberating the fate of an Indiana man charged in the 2017 killings of two teenage…
Continue ReadingAP Science Writer Carbon pollution from private jets has soared in the past five years, with most of those small planes spewing more heat-trapping…
Continue ReadingAP Science Writer When a volcanic eruption buried the ancient city of Pompeii, the last desperate moments of its citizens were preserved in stone for…
Continue ReadingBOWLING GREEN, Ky. (AP) — Two Kentucky police officers who were injured in a shooting fatally shot a suspect when he gained control of an…
Continue ReadingMEXICO CITY (AP) — Police in a southern Mexico region rife with drug cartel violence have found 11 bodies, including two minors, dumped by a…
Continue ReadingDemocratic Rep. Val Hoyle won reelection to a U.S. House seat representing Oregon on Thursday. Hoyle, a first-term congresswoman, defeated Republican…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press BOSTON (AP) — A giant Norway spruce that will serve as this year’s Rockefeller Center Christmas tree was en route to New York…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — For the last six years, Mexico bragged about its oft-questioned policy of “hugs, not bullets,” in which the…
Continue ReadingIndependent Sen. Angus King won a third term in the U.S. Senate representing Maine on Thursday, turning back challenges from a former Republican…
Continue ReadingPRAGUE (AP) — The Czech central bank has cut its key interest rate for the eighth time in a row as inflation remains low and the economy is making…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press BIG PINE KEY, Fla. (AP) — The world’s only Key deer, the smallest subspecies of the white-tailed deer, are found in piney…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump won the presidency after holding tight to his core base of voters and slightly expanding his…
Continue ReadingATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greece’s foreign minister says his country has established a foundation of trust with Turkey ahead of a visit by the…
Continue ReadingCHILI, N.Y. (AP) — Police say one person was critically injured as a bus with more than two dozen passengers aboard rolled over on a highway in…
Continue ReadingCOPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Two Swedish teenagers who were arrested in connection with last month’s predawn explosions near the Israeli…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press PARIS (AP) — Paris’s Notre Dame cathedral, whose historic bells were silenced following 2019’s devastating fire, will soon…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iranians, like many around the world, are divided on what Donald Trump’s next presidency will bring:…
Continue ReadingAP Business Writer The number of Americans applying for jobless aid ticked up last week but layoffs remain at historically low levels. The Labor…
Continue ReadingBERLIN (AP) — Germany’s federal prosecutor office said it arrested an American citizen who allegedly spied for China. The office said that the…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — South Africa has closed its border again with Mozambique, where post-election protests have escalated, leading…
Continue ReadingLONDON (AP) — A British Parliament member has been charged with assault after video showed him beating a man in the street. Prosecutors said…
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