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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Storms producing tornadoes, damaging wind gusts, and hail up to the size of golf balls were moving through several southern states Friday night with widespread damage and injuries reported in Mississippi from a large tornado.
Updated: 4 hours ago
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Residents were urged to avoid the area of the factory about 60 miles northwest of Philadelphia.
Updated: 4 hours ago
|By The Associated Press and JOHN MARSHALL AP Basketball Writer
March has gone from madness to unprecedented.
Updated: 5 hours ago
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Darrion Trammell and San Diego State used a dominant defensive performance to knock top overall seed Alabama out of the NCAA Tournament on Friday night, bottling up All-America freshman Brandon Miller in a 71-64 victory in the Sweet 16.
Updated: 5 hours ago
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Police in South Texas said Friday that two migrants were found dead and at least 10 were hospitalized after authorities received a call that they were “suffocating” in a train car traveling near the U.S.-Mexico border.
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Nijel Pack and Miami hit shots from near and far against the stingiest defense in the country to beat Houston 89-75 on Friday night in the Sweet 16, leaving the NCAA Tournament without a single No. 1 seed among its final eight teams for the first time since seeding began in 1979.
Updated: 6 hours ago
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A 17-year-old has been charged with kidnapping two migrants whose rescue from a Houston hotel by FBI agents ended in gunfire that killed another suspect.
Updated: 7 hours ago
|By The Associated Press and DAVE COLLINS and DAVID SHARP
The National Transportation Safety Board said the pilots were responding to several warnings in the cockpit of the Bombardier jet that diverted to a Connecticut airport on March 3.
Updated: 7 hours ago
|By The Associated Press
The Los Angeles Unified School District and union leaders said Friday they reached a deal on pay raises for bus drivers, custodians and other support staff after a three-day strike that shut down the nation’s second-largest school system.
Updated: 7 hours ago
|By The Associated Press and SAM METZ Associated Press
Gwyneth Paltrow took the stand on Friday to testify in a trial over a ski crash at a Utah ski resort, where a man claims that the movie star’s recklessness on the slope caused broken ribs, brain damage and lasting physical injuries.
Updated: 7 hours ago
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“Alvin, I am going to kill you,” the letter said, according to a person familiar with the matter.
Updated: 8 hours ago
|By The Associated Press and CARA ANNA and IGNATIUS SSUUNA
Rwanda’s government has commuted the 25-year sentence of Paul Rusesabagina, who inspired the film “Hotel Rwanda” for saving hundreds of countrymen from genocide but was convicted of terrorism offenses years later in a widely criticized trial.
Updated: 8 hours ago
|By The Associated Press and JOSH BOAK and ROB GILLIES
President Joe Biden and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Friday celebrated the close, “inseparable” U.S.-Canada relationship and vowed that the two nations remain committed to defending Ukraine as it tries to repel a Russian invasion that has no end in sight.
Updated: 9 hours ago
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A Minnesota utility began shutting down a nuclear power plant near Minneapolis on Friday after failing to stop the release of radioactive material it says is not dangerous but has prompted concerns among nearby residents.
Updated: 10 hours ago
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A deputy shot and killed a man Friday morning who was suspected of carrying a grenade in his hand in south Tacoma, according to the Pierce County Sheriff’s Department.
Updated: 11 hours ago
|By The Associated Press and LOU KESTEN, BASSEM MROUE AND JON GAMBRELL
President Joe Biden said Friday that the U.S. would respond “forcefully” to protect its personnel after U.S. forces retaliated with airstrikes on sites in Syria used by groups affiliated with Iran’s Revolutionary Guard following an attack Thursday by a suspected Iranian-made drone that killed a U.S. contractor and wounded six other Americans in northeast Syria.
Updated: 11 hours ago
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Walter C. Cole, better known as the iconic drag queen who performed for decades as Darcelle XV, has died of natural causes in Portland, Oregon. Cole was 92.
Updated: 12 hours ago
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The return of Russians Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitri Petelin and NASA’s Frank Rubio was delayed after the Soyuz capsule they planned to ride in developed a coolant leak while docked to the space station.
Updated: 12 hours ago
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Michigan, long known as a mainstay of organized labor, on Friday became the first state in decades to repeal a union-restricting law known as “right-to-work” that was passed over a decade ago by a Republican-controlled Legislature.
Updated: 13 hours ago
|By The Associated Press and BRUCE SCHREINER
The veto by Gov. Andy Beshear comes as he seeks reelection to a second term this year in Republican-trending Kentucky.
Updated: 14 hours ago
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An airline passenger who helped tackle a man trying stab a flight attendant with a broken metal spoon was honored Friday by his hometown police department in New Hampshire.
Updated: 14 hours ago
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Four of five former Memphis police officers charged in the killing of Tyre Nichols, a Black man who was handcuffed, brutally beaten and ignored by first responders for crucial minutes despite being barely conscious, can no longer work as law enforcement in Tennessee.
Updated: 15 hours ago
|By The Associated Press
Aiden Fucci was 14 when he stabbed 13-year-old Tristyn Bailey more than a hundred times on Mother’s Day in 2021.
Updated: 16 hours ago
|By The Associated Press and STEPHEN R. GROVES
Republican House Speaker Kevin McCarthy has made the bill — labeled the Parents’ Bill of Rights Act — a top priority during the early weeks of his tenure atop the House.
Updated: 16 hours ago
|By The Associated Press
California has been battered by storm after storm since late December.
Updated: 18 hours ago
|By The Associated Press and MICHAEL TARM
Idaho lawmakers passed a bill this week seeking to add the state to the list of those authorizing firing squads, which currently includes Mississippi, Utah, Oklahoma and South Carolina.
Updated: 18 hours ago
|By The Associated Press and KARL RITTER
Five people died in Kostiantynivka, a town in eastern Ukraine’s Donetsk province, when a Russian missile hit an aid station.
Updated: 22 hours ago
|By The Associated Press
A man reported his wife missing after their Jeep was swept downstream by swift-moving water.
Updated: 23 hours ago
|By The Associated Press and KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press
Military tensions are at a high point as the pace of both North Korean weapons tests and U.S.-South Korea joint military exercises has accelerated in a cycle of tit-for-tat responses.
Updated: Mar. 23, 2023 at 11:26 PM MST
|By The Associated Press
It wasn’t immediately clear what led up to the mother’s death and the boy’s disappearance.
Updated: Mar. 23, 2023 at 9:12 PM MST
|By The Associated Press
Utah became the first state Thursday to sign into law legislation that attempts to limit teenagers’ access to social media sites.
Updated: Mar. 23, 2023 at 9:01 PM MST
|By The Associated Press and MICHAEL KUNZELMAN and LINDSAY WHITEHURST
The FBI, meanwhile, ended its relationship with the informant this past January after it learned that the person had received a subpoena to testify, an agent said in an affidavit filed in court.
Updated: Mar. 23, 2023 at 7:41 PM MST
|By The Associated Press
Gwyneth Paltrow’s attorneys asked the daughter of a man suing the actor-turned-lifestyle influencer over a 2016 ski collision about missing GoPro camera footage that they called “the most important piece of evidence” in court Thursday.
Updated: Mar. 23, 2023 at 7:20 PM MST
|By The Associated Press and COLLEEN SLEVIN and JESSE BEDAYN
The shooting happened just before 10 a.m. in an office area as Austin Lyle was undergoing a search as part of a “safety plan" that required him to be patted down daily, officials said.
Updated: Mar. 23, 2023 at 6:21 PM MST
|By The Associated Press
President Joe Biden’s order that federal employees get vaccinated against COVID-19 was blocked Thursday by a federal appeals court.
Updated: Mar. 23, 2023 at 5:54 PM MST
|By The Associated Press
The shooting took place early Thursday morning in north Houston.
Updated: Mar. 23, 2023 at 4:45 PM MST
|By The Associated Press and HALELUYA HADERO AND FARNOUSH AMIRI
Shou Zi Chew's testimony came at a crucial time for the company, which has acquired 150 million American users but is under increasing pressure from U.S. officials.
Updated: Mar. 23, 2023 at 4:28 PM MST
|By The Associated Press and MATTHEW BARAKAT
Fairfax County's police chief announced the officer's dismissal and released body camera footage showing the shooting of Timothy McCree Johnson.
Updated: Mar. 23, 2023 at 3:57 PM MST
|By The Associated Press
NASA said it’s rare for an asteroid of its size to come so close to Earth.
Updated: Mar. 23, 2023 at 3:57 PM MST
|By The Associated Press
Misinformation experts warn the images are harbingers of a new reality: waves of fake photos and videos flooding social media after major news events and further muddying fact and fiction at crucial times for society.
Updated: Mar. 23, 2023 at 3:54 PM MST
|By The Associated Press
The Manhattan grand jury investigating Donald Trump over hush money payments met on other matters Thursday, further delaying a vote on whether or not to indict the former president, according to a person familiar with the matter.
Updated: Mar. 23, 2023 at 3:13 PM MST
|By The Associated Press
Unions for service workers at Walt Disney World reached a tentative deal with the company on Thursday that would raise the starting minimum wage from $15 to $18 an hour in a pact that could set the basement for starting pay throughout central Florida’s sprawling tourism industry.
Updated: Mar. 23, 2023 at 3:06 PM MST
|By The Associated Press and JOHN ANTCZAK and CHRISTOPHER WEBER Associated Press
The rare and violent weather came amid a strong late-season Pacific storm that brought damaging winds and more rain and snow to saturated California.
Updated: Mar. 23, 2023 at 3:05 PM MST
|By The Associated Press and Mark Anderson
Former Raiders tight end Foster Moreau announced he has been diagnosed with cancer.
Updated: Mar. 23, 2023 at 3:03 PM MST
|By The Associated Press
The lawyer for a one-time supporter of former President Donald Trump who has been caught up in a Jan. 6 conspiracy theory demanded Thursday that Fox News and host Tucker Carlson retract and apologize for repeated “falsehoods” about the man’s supposed intentions.
Updated: Mar. 23, 2023 at 1:57 PM MST
|By The Associated Press
The affiliated Korean automakers are recalling the vehicles and warning people to park them away from structures until repairs are made.
Updated: Mar. 23, 2023 at 1:28 PM MST
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In a pair of decisions expected to stoke outrage, the World Athletics Council adopted the same rules as swimming did last year.
Updated: Mar. 23, 2023 at 12:44 PM MST
|By The Associated Press
A Pennsylvania woman linked to a far-right extremist movement was sentenced on Thursday to three years in prison for storming the U.S. Capitol, where she invaded then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s office with other rioters.
Updated: Mar. 23, 2023 at 11:45 AM MST
|By The Associated Press
The U.S. military must be ready for a possible confrontation with China, the Pentagon’s leaders said Thursday, pushing Congress to approve the Defense Department’s proposed $842 billion budget, which would modernize the force in Asia and around the world.
Updated: Mar. 23, 2023 at 11:45 AM MST
|By The Associated Press and KARL RITTER
The death toll from a Russian drone attack Wednesday on a high school and dormitories south of Kyiv rose to nine, Ukrainian emergency services reported.
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