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|By The Associated Press and EMILIO LUGO and MARIA VERZA
Mexican authorities were working Friday to identify four bodies found on the outskirts of Mexico City as part of the search efforts to locate a married couple who disappeared in May.
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|By The Associated Press and RODRIQUE NGOWI and PATRICK WHITTLE
A fisherman in Massachusetts reeled in and released a nine-foot white shark.
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A large fire has almost completely destroyed a luxury resort in the Dominican Republic, forcing the evacuation of almost 1,700 tourists.
Updated: 5 hours ago
|By The Associated Press and ANDREW DESTIN, AP Sports Writer
The U.S. national soccer team advanced to the knockout round.
Updated: 5 hours ago
|By The Associated Press and JAMIE STENGLE, Associated Press
Former President Barack Obama and former first lady Michelle Obama welcomed the first visitors to their presidential center.
Updated: 9 hours ago
|By The Associated Press and SEUNG MIN KIM and MANUEL BALCE CENETA
President Donald Trump on Friday showed off the new Air Force One, a formerly Qatari-owned jumbo jet that has been converted into the official U.S. presidential aircraft.
Updated: 12 hours ago
|By The Associated Press and BETH HARRIS, Associated Press
James Burrows, who helped create volumes of laughter as a director of more than a thousand episodes of television comedies, has died.
Updated: 16 hours ago
|By The Associated Press
Anne Hathaway is pregnant with her third child. On Friday, the Oscar-winning actor shared an Instagram video showing her baby bump.
Updated: 17 hours ago
|By The Associated Press and ERIN CUNNINGHAM, DAVID RISING and JON GAMBRELL
The American push for high-stakes talks with Iran has hit a snag. Iranian officials didn't travel to Switzerland as planned for the talks and are insisting that fighting in Lebanon must stop first.
Updated: 23 hours ago
|By The Associated Press and ALIA WONG and COLLIN BINKLEY
The Department of Education has announced a reduction in interest rates for federal student loans, describing it as part of a plan to make higher education more affordable.
Updated: Jun. 19, 2026 at 12:49 AM EDT
|By The Associated Press
Federal health officials have issued a recall for alfredo sauce distributed to dozens of U.S. states by a supplier because of potential salmonella contamination
Updated: Jun. 19, 2026 at 12:27 AM EDT
|By The Associated Press and COLLIN BINKLEY and WILL WEISSERT
President Donald Trump has given the Medal of Honor to three veterans, honoring acts of heroism in Vietnam and Afghanistan.
Updated: Jun. 18, 2026 at 9:38 PM EDT
|By The Associated Press
The U.S. military attacked a boat accused of smuggling drugs in the eastern Pacific Ocean, killing three people.
Updated: Jun. 18, 2026 at 6:56 PM EDT
|By The Associated Press and MICHAEL R. SISAK, Associated Press
Luigi Mangione’s lawyers told a judge Thursday that he will no longer be asserting a psychiatric defense.
U.S. lifts blockade of Iran and Iranian supreme leader endorses direct talks with American officials
Updated: Jun. 18, 2026 at 2:43 PM EDT
|By The Associated Press and WILL WEISSERT and SEUNG MIN KIM, Associated Press
Vice President JD Vance has embraced the role of being the chief defender of the agreement he and President Donald Trump signed with Iran over the weekend.
Updated: Jun. 18, 2026 at 2:13 PM EDT
|By The Associated Press
The rapper Mystikal, who received multiple Grammy nominations in the early 2000s, will serve 20 years in prison for raping a woman at his Louisiana home in 2022.
Updated: Jun. 18, 2026 at 10:36 AM EDT
|By The Associated Press
British television personality Jeremy Clarkson revealed on his farm reality show that he has prostate cancer.
Updated: Jun. 18, 2026 at 8:39 AM EDT
|By The Associated Press
U.S. gas prices fell below $4 a gallon on average Thursday, but just barely.
Updated: Jun. 17, 2026 at 11:43 PM EDT
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Tropical Storm Arthur is drenching the southern United States with intense rain that’s expected to cause dangerous flash flooding.
Updated: Jun. 17, 2026 at 11:10 PM EDT
|By The Associated Press and JAKE OFFENHARTZ, Associated Press
A teenager thrown to the ground Wednesday when a Central Park carriage horse bolted away from its driver has died.
Updated: Jun. 17, 2026 at 10:45 PM EDT
|By The Associated Press
Pakistan says that the deal to end the war in Iran is taking ‘immediate effect’ after both sides have signed it, but that there will still be a formal signing ceremony on Friday.
Updated: Jun. 17, 2026 at 9:22 PM EDT
|By The Associated Press and MEG KINNARD
An Oklahoma megachurch minister has withdrawn from a U.S. House runoff after reports that he sent romantic texts to a woman who isn't his wife.
Updated: Jun. 17, 2026 at 7:45 PM EDT
|By The Associated Press and CHRISTOPHER WEBER and KONSTANTIN TOROPIN, Associated Press
Military officials identified all eight people killed in this week’s fiery crash of a B-52 in California.
Updated: Jun. 17, 2026 at 7:44 PM EDT
|By The Associated Press and HALLIE GOLDEN, DAVE COLLINS and RUSS BYNUM
Local officials in Laredo said Wednesday the toll in the fiery crash could have been much worse and credited bystanders for helping police rescue passengers and crew.
Updated: Jun. 17, 2026 at 5:42 PM EDT
|By The Associated Press and GISELA SALOMON, Associated Press
All detainees at an immigration detention center known as “Alligator Alcatraz” have been transferred.
Updated: Jun. 17, 2026 at 5:30 PM EDT
|By The Associated Press and ALI SWENSON and MIKE STOBBE
U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has refused to release a cruise ship passenger exposed to hantavirus from the Nebraska quarantine facility where she is being held.
Updated: Jun. 17, 2026 at 4:44 PM EDT
|By The Associated Press
Luigi Mangione will assert a psychiatric defense at his state murder trial in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.
Updated: Jun. 17, 2026 at 4:43 PM EDT
|By The Associated Press
Leaders at the Group of Seven summit have backed U.S. President Donald Trump's tentative agreement with Iran to open the Strait of Hormuz and extend a ceasefire.
Updated: Jun. 17, 2026 at 2:06 PM EDT
|By The Associated Press
Health officials are trying to raise awareness about a life-threatening allergy to meat triggered by tick bites.
Updated: Jun. 17, 2026 at 11:51 AM EDT
|By The Associated Press
A Long Island architect who lived a secret life as the Gilgo Beach serial killer has been sentenced to to life in prison without parole.
Updated: Jun. 17, 2026 at 5:52 AM EDT
|By The Associated Press
The president says he’s delaying Jay Clayton’s nomination to lead the U.S. intelligence community in a bid to force Congress to act on a voter ID bill.
Updated: Jun. 17, 2026 at 2:54 AM EDT
|By The Associated Press and HALLIE GOLDEN Associated Press
A business jet crashed on a highway in Texas, and caught fire, killing one person.
Updated: Jun. 17, 2026 at 12:06 AM EDT
|By The Associated Press and CHRISTOPHER WEBER and JOSH FUNK
All eight people aboard were killed in Monday’s crash of the Boeing B-52 Stratofortress.
Updated: Jun. 17, 2026 at 12:02 AM EDT
|By The Associated Press and DAVE SKRETTA AP Sports Writer
The incredible trio of goals came 20 years to the day that Messi made his World Cup debut for Argentina.
Updated: Jun. 16, 2026 at 10:59 PM EDT
|By The Associated Press
Officials say the suspect in a fatal shooting inside a Delaware hospital has been taken into custody.
Updated: Jun. 16, 2026 at 8:44 PM EDT
|By The Associated Press
Iran’s top diplomat said Tuesday that the tentative deal to end the war with the United States would require Israel to withdraw from Lebanon.
Updated: Jun. 16, 2026 at 8:08 PM EDT
|By The Associated Press
FBI Director Kash Patel says law enforcement officials disrupted “planned attacks” meant to target the UFC cage-fighting show at the White House this past weekend and multiple people are in custody.
Updated: Jun. 16, 2026 at 6:07 PM EDT
|By The Associated Press and DARLENE SUPERVILLE, SYLVIE CORBET and AAMER MADHANI
President Donald Trump and G7 leaders are focusing on the Ukraine war and Trump is considering reimposing sanctions soon on Russian oil shipments.
Updated: Jun. 16, 2026 at 5:51 PM EDT
|By The Associated Press and LISA MASCARO
The effort to stop President Donald Trump’s war against Iran comes as the administration is floating the contours of an agreement that might end the fighting.
Updated: Jun. 16, 2026 at 4:36 PM EDT
|By The Associated Press
A Wisconsin beagle breeding and research facility that’s been the site of recent violent protests is closing, and its remaining dogs are being taken in by a Florida rescue group.
Updated: Jun. 16, 2026 at 3:47 PM EDT
|By The Associated Press
Yum! Brands is selling Pizza Hut in two deals worth $2.7 billion.
Updated: Jun. 16, 2026 at 1:03 PM EDT
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Major League Baseball has warned players about writing on their uniforms after San Francisco starter Landen Roupp and two other pitchers added Bible verses to their Pride Night caps last week.
Updated: Jun. 16, 2026 at 12:14 PM EDT
|By The Associated Press
Even after oil starts flowing again from the Middle East, it could take awhile for consumers to see a difference at local fuel pumps, supermarkets and other places they shop, according to economists and industry analysts.
Updated: Jun. 16, 2026 at 11:44 AM EDT
|By The Associated Press
An endorsement from President Donald Trump is worth a lot in Republican primaries. But is it worth more than $100 million in campaign spending in Georgia?
Updated: Jun. 16, 2026 at 10:48 AM EDT
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Authorities say two people are dead after a BASE jumping accident in a Utah canyon.
Updated: Jun. 16, 2026 at 12:51 AM EDT
|By The Associated Press and Graham Dunbar
A World Cup video review official says his hand gesture resembling a white supremacist sign was caused by an involuntary twitch.
Updated: Jun. 15, 2026 at 11:58 PM EDT
|By The Associated Press and MICHELLE CHAPMAN AP Business Writer
Fox and Roku said that the combined company will become the third-largest player in U.S. television by share of viewing.
Updated: Jun. 15, 2026 at 8:27 PM EDT
|By The Associated Press
Several of the skydivers killed when their plane crashed moments after taking off from a Missouri airfield were experienced jumpers who belonged to a community with a unique bond.
Updated: Jun. 15, 2026 at 8:26 PM EDT
|By The Associated Press
California Gov. Gavin Newsom, a Democrat and longtime political rival of Republican President Donald Trump, said Monday the president ordered the Justice Department to investigate him and his wife.
Updated: Jun. 15, 2026 at 8:26 PM EDT
|By The Associated Press, Christopher Weber and Konstantin Toropin
A B-52 Stratofortress crashed shortly after takeoff Monday morning at a U.S. Air Force base in California, officials said.

























































