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Published on December 31, 2024 - Page 4
NEW YORK (AP) -- Linda Lavin, a Tony Award-winning stage actor who became a working class icon as a paper-hat wearing waitress on the TV sitcom "...
Published on December 31, 2024 - Page 5
PLAINS, Ga. (AP) -- Johnny Jones found out about Jimmy Carter's death within a matter of minutes. That's how it works in a small town, even for a...
Published on December 31, 2024 - Page 20
The Taliban say they will close all national and foreign nongovernmental groups in Afghanistan employing women, the latest crackdown on women's...
Published on December 31, 2024 - Page 20
The world population increased by more than 71 million people in 2024 and will be 8.09 billion people on New Year's Day, according to U.S. Census...
Published on December 30, 2024 - Page 3
Officials assessed the damage on Sunday after a strong storm system moved across the southern U.S. over the weekend, spawning tornadoes and killing...
Published on December 30, 2024 - Page 4
ATLANTA (AP) -- Jimmy Carter, the peanut farmer who tried to restore virtue to the White House after the Watergate scandal and Vietnam War, then...
Published on December 30, 2024 - Page 4
Charles F. Dolan, who founded some of the most prominent U.S. media companies including Home Box Office Inc. and Cablevision Systems Corp., has died...
Published on December 30, 2024 - Page 4
Three firefighters and a dozen passengers were injured in Florida on Saturday when a fire truck with its lights flashing drove around rail crossing...
Published on December 30, 2024 - Page 8
Azerbaijan's President Ilham Aliyev said Sunday that the Azerbaijani airliner that crashed last week was shot down by Russia, albeit unintentionally...
Published on December 29, 2024 - Page 3
Cases of a wretched stomach bug are surging in parts of the United States this winter, according to government data.
The most recent numbers from the...
Published on December 29, 2024 - Page 4
WASHINGTON (AP) -- An American schoolteacher arrested in Russia on drug charges more than three years ago has been designated by the U.S. government...
Published on December 29, 2024 - Page 5
HAHNVILLE, La. (AP) -- A missing 14-year-old Tennessee girl has been found safe in the Louisiana woods, where authorities say she was left by a man...
Published on December 29, 2024 - Page 5
FRESNO, Calif. (AP) -- California Justice Department officials are investigating the death of a man who was shot by his parole officer in the early...
Published on December 29, 2024 - Page 8
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Associated Press Writers
Abortion has become slightly more common despite bans or deep restrictions in most Republican-controlled...
Published on December 28, 2024 - Page 3
DENVER (AP) -- A Colorado man is facing possible bias-motivated charges for allegedly attacking a television news reporter after demanding to know...
Published on December 28, 2024 - Page 3
People around the world suffered an average of 41 extra days of dangerous heat this year because of human-caused climate change, according to a group...
Published on December 28, 2024 - Page 4
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) -- One of the two owls rescued by a Minnesota woman in a story that went viral this week has died, but the other is still...
Published on December 28, 2024 - Page 4
A genetic analysis suggests the bird flu virus mutated inside a Louisiana patient who contracted the nation's first severe case of the illness, the U...
Published on December 28, 2024 - Page 4
HONOLULU (AP) -- Warren Upton, the oldest living survivor of the 1941 Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and the last remaining survivor of the USS Utah...
Published on December 28, 2024 - Page 5
NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- A 93-year-old former Catholic priest sentenced to life in prison earlier this month for raping a teenage boy has died, Louisiana...
Published on December 28, 2024 - Page 8
The United States saw an 18.1% increase in homelessness this year, a dramatic rise driven mostly by a lack of affordable housing as well as...
Published on December 27, 2024 - Page 8
DENVER (AP) -- A 7-year-old boy who died in a shooting that left 24 bullet holes in a home on a tribal reservation in Colorado was lying next to his...
Published on December 27, 2024 - Page 8
SCOTTSBLUFF, Neb. (AP) -- A Nebraska man is getting the title to his home back, years after losing it over a $588 tax debt, one of his lawyers said...
Published on December 26, 2024 - Page 3
Annabell Whelan woke up Tuesday and frantically checked on her holiday overnight guest -- Nowl the snowy owl, who she rescued from the grille of a...
Published on December 26, 2024 - Page 4
Richard Perry, a hitmaking record producer with a flair for both standards and contemporary sounds whose many successes included Carly Simon's "You'...
Published on December 26, 2024 - Page 7
HONOLULU (AP) -- A Hawaii crime boss who died in federal detention this month was killed by an opioid overdose, Honolulu's medical examiner said...
Published on December 26, 2024 - Page 7
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) -- An Oregon house cat died after eating pet food that tested positive for bird flu, Oregon authorities said, prompting a recall...
Published on December 26, 2024 - Page 7
SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) -- The conclusion of a criminal case against Alec Baldwin in the fatal shooting of a cinematographer clears the way for a related...
Published on December 26, 2024 - Page 8
NEW YORK (AP) -- Blake Lively's claims "It Ends With Us" director and co-star Justin Baldoni unleashed a smear campaign against her have gained...
Published on December 25, 2024 - Page 2
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The House Ethics Committee on Monday accused Matt Gaetz of "regularly" paying for sex, including with a 17-year-old girl, and...