The Associated Press
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The Associated Press is an independent global news organization dedicated to factual reporting. Founded in 1846, AP today remains the most trusted source of fast, accurate, unbiased news in all formats and the essential provider of the technology and services vital to the news business.
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|By The Associated Press
Last week’s twister destroyed roughly 300 homes and businesses in Rolling Fork and the nearby town of Silver City, leaving mounds of wreckage full of lumber, bricks and twisted metal.
Updated: 11 minutes ago
|By The Associated Press and MICHAEL GOLDBERG and LISA BAUMANN Associated Press
The hazardous forecast is a result of strong southerly winds transporting copious amounts of moisture from the Gulf of Mexico north.
Updated: 14 minutes ago
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Pope Francis is expected to be discharged on Saturday from the Rome hospital where he is being treated for bronchitis as his recovery proceeds in a “normal” way, and the pontiff even had pizza for dinner, the Vatican said.
Updated: 16 minutes ago
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The leader of Belarus spoke during his state-of-the-nation address on Friday, amid escalating tensions over the conflict in Ukraine.
Updated: 1 hour ago
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David Halls has pleaded no contest to a misdemeanor charge of negligent or unsafe use of a deadly weapon, pending a court review of the plea proposal.
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President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that Bucha, a town near Kyiv, stands as a symbol of the atrocities the Russian military has committed since its full-scale invasion began in February 2022.
Updated: 1 hour ago
|By The Associated Press and MOGOMOTSI MAGOME and GERALD IMRAY Associated Press
Pistorius, a multiple Paralympic champion who made history by running against able-bodied athletes at the 2012 Olympics, was convicted of murder for the Valentine’s Day 2013 shooting of Reeva Steenkamp at his home.
Updated: 7 hours ago
|By The Associated Press and MICHAEL R. SISAK, ERIC TUCKER and COLLEEN LONG Associated Press
Donald Trump has been indicted by a Manhattan grand jury, prosecutors and defense lawyers said Thursday, making him the first former U.S. president to face a criminal charge and jolting his bid to retake the White House next year.
Updated: 7 hours ago
|By The Associated Press and JILL COLVIN Associated Press
Trump is expected to surrender to authorities next week on charges connected to hush money payments made during the 2016 presidential campaign to women who alleged extramarital sexual encounters.
Updated: 9 hours ago
|By The Associated Press and TRAVIS LOLLER and ADRIAN SAINZ
Heartbreaking new details continued to emerge about the lives of the three adults and three 9-year-old students who police say were killed during the shooting Monday at The Covenant School.
Updated: 9 hours ago
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Trump faces a string of other inquiries as he campaigns for another term in 2024.
Updated: 9 hours ago
|By The Associated Press and jENNIFER PELTZ
Former President Donald Trump was indicted on charges involving payments made during his 2016 presidential campaign to silence claims of an extramarital sexual encounter, his lawyers confirmed Thursday.
Updated: 9 hours ago
|By The Associated Press
As Donald Trump fought his way to victory in the 2016 presidential campaign, key allies tried to smooth his bumpy path by paying off two women who had been thinking of going public with allegations of extramarital encounters with the Republican.
Updated: 10 hours ago
|By The Associated Press
The high-stakes gambler who opened fire on a concert crowd on the Las Vegas Strip, killing 60 and injuring hundreds more, was angry over how the casinos were treating him despite his high-roller status, according to FBI documents made public this week.
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|By The Associated Press
U.S. authorities on Thursday said they arrested a Washington state man who made more than 20 “swatting” calls around the country and in Canada, prompting real emergency responses to his fake reports of bombs, shootings or other threats.
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Gwyneth Paltrow won her court battle over a 2016 ski collision at a posh Utah ski resort after a jury decided Thursday that the movie star wasn’t at fault for the crash.
Updated: 10 hours ago
|By The Associated Press
Russian media says a court in Moscow ordered a Wall Street Journal reporter to remain behind bars pending an investigation on spying charges.
Updated: 10 hours ago
|By The Associated Press and KIMBERLEE KRUESI and TRAVIS LOLLER
One caller told a dispatcher that she could hear gunshots as she hid in the closet of the The Covenant School’s art room.
Updated: 11 hours ago
|By The Associated Press
House Republicans on Thursday approved a sprawling energy package that seeks to undo virtually all of President Joe Biden’s agenda to address climate change.
Updated: 12 hours ago
|By The Associated Press and MARÍA VERZA and MARK STEVENSON
Officials say the six include three officials from the National Immigration Institute, two private security guards contracted by the agency and the person accused of starting the fire.
Updated: 13 hours ago
|By The Associated Press and LINDSAY WHITEHURST and STEFANIE DAZIO
The Maryland base was locked down after the person was reportedly seen near the base’s housing area, according to the base’s Facebook page.
Updated: 13 hours ago
|By The Associated Press and FREIDA FRISARO
Officials say the plan is to transport Lolita by plane to Pacific waters off Washington state, where she will initially swim inside a large net while trainers and veterinarians teach her how to catch fish.
Updated: 13 hours ago
|By The Associated Press
This latest derailment in Raymond, Minnesota, happened as the nation has been increasingly focused on railroad safety.
Updated: 14 hours ago
|By The Associated Press
One person was wounded in a shooting that sparked an hourslong lockdown at a North Carolina community college on Thursday, police said.
Updated: 14 hours ago
|By The Associated Press
Floridians will be able to carry concealed guns without a permit under a bill the Legislature sent to Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis. The governor, who is considering a presidential run, has said the issue is one of his priorities.
Updated: 15 hours ago
|By The Associated Press
The president tweeted a photo of him with Hamlin in the Oval Office and said it was an honor to meet Hamlin and his family.
Updated: 15 hours ago
|By The Associated Press and NICOLE WINFIELD
The 86-year-old pope, who had part of one lung removed as a young man, ate breakfast, read the newspapers and was working from his hospital room at Rome’s Gemelli hospital, according to a statement from spokesman Matteo Bruni.
Updated: 15 hours ago
|By The Associated Press
Weeks after the failure of two banks, President Joe Biden called Thursday for independent regulatory agencies to impose tighter rules on the financial system, telling them that they can act under current law without additional steps taken by Congress.
Updated: 15 hours ago
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Former President Jair Bolsonaro returned Thursday to Brazil after a three-month stint in Florida following his election loss, and the right-wing populist told supporters he doesn’t think leftists will be in power in Brazil for long.
Updated: 15 hours ago
|By The Associated Press
Human remains found in a storage unit have been identified as those of a former police chief.
Updated: 15 hours ago
|By The Associated Press and PAUL J. WEBER
It's a decision that opponents say could jeopardize preventive screenings for millions of Americans.
Updated: 16 hours ago
|By The Associated Press
A Pentagon spokesman said the six were in addition to the death of an American contractor and the wounding of six troops and another contractor in the two separate attacks.
Updated: 17 hours ago
|By The Associated Press
The country’s gun violence problem was thrust into the national conversation again this week after a shooter killed 3 children and 3 adults at a Christian school in Tennessee; nobody who was shot survived.
Updated: 18 hours ago
|By The Associated Press
It’s the latest accusation that Russia, desperate for weaponry and restricted by sanctions and export controls, is turning to “rogue” nations to help it continue to prosecute the 13-month-old war.
Updated: 19 hours ago
|By The Associated Press and NICOLE WINFIELD
The Vatican repudiates the Doctrine of Discovery theory that, backed by papal decree, legitimized the colonial seizure of Native land.
Updated: 20 hours ago
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The court’s judgments are final and legally binding.
Updated: 21 hours ago
|By The Associated Press
Russian President Vladimir Putin suspended the country's participation in the New START treaty last month.
Updated: 21 hours ago
|By The Associated Press
One expert expects the average list price for used cars to continue to rise through at least the summer.
Updated: 22 hours ago
|By The Associated Press
The confidence and spending of consumers, who fuel the bulk of U.S. economic growth, remains relatively solid.
Updated: Mar. 30, 2023 at 5:07 AM CDT
|By The Associated Press and SEUNG MIN KIM and LISA MASCARO
It marks the second time in the new Congress that the Biden administration has signaled opposition to a Republican measure, only to soften his stance and let the legislation eventually become law.
Updated: Mar. 30, 2023 at 12:07 AM CDT
|By The Associated Press
The man who inspired the film “Hotel Rwanda” and was freed by Rwanda last week from a terrorism sentence is set to arrive Wednesday in the United States, where will reunite with his family after being held for more than two years, according to a person familiar with the matter.
Updated: Mar. 29, 2023 at 11:23 PM CDT
|By The Associated Press and DAVID KOENIG AP Airlines Writer
The legislation would let the TSA ban people convicted or fined for assaulting or interfering with airline crew members.
Updated: Mar. 29, 2023 at 9:37 PM CDT
|By The Associated Press
Last week, Gwyneth Paltrow took the stand and insisted the ski collision wasn’t her fault.
Updated: Mar. 29, 2023 at 9:09 PM CDT
|By The Associated Press
Immigration authorities said they released 15 women when the fire broke out, but have not explained why no men were let out.
Updated: Mar. 29, 2023 at 9:05 PM CDT
|By The Associated Press and TRAVIS LOLLER, KIMBERLEE KRUESI and DENISE LAVOIE Associated Press
Hundreds of people have gathered at a candlelight vigil to mourn the three children and three adults slain in a school shooting in Nashville.
Updated: Mar. 29, 2023 at 8:18 PM CDT
|By The Associated Press
West Virginia Republican Gov. Jim Justice on Wednesday signed a bill banning gender-affirming care for minors, joining at least 10 other states that have enacted laws restricting or outlawing medically supported treatments for transgender youth.
Updated: Mar. 29, 2023 at 8:12 PM CDT
|By The Associated Press
In a statement, Disney said all agreements were above board and took place in public.
Updated: Mar. 29, 2023 at 7:58 PM CDT
|By The Associated Press
Republican lawmakers in Kentucky on Wednesday swept aside the Democratic governor’s veto of a bill regulating some of the most personal aspects of life for transgender young people — from banning access to gender-affirming health care to restricting the bathrooms they can use.
Updated: Mar. 29, 2023 at 7:24 PM CDT
|By The Associated Press
China threatened retaliation on Wednesday if U.S. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy meets with Taiwan’s president during her upcoming trip through Los Angeles.
Updated: Mar. 29, 2023 at 6:52 PM CDT
|By The Associated Press and MARY CLARE JALONICK
The bill would block and prohibit U.S. transactions with TikTok’s parent company, Beijing-based ByteDance Ltd., within 30 days.
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