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By JILL COLVIN Associated Press WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Donald Trump, whose single turbulent term in the White House transformed the Republican Party, tested the resilience of democratic institutions in the U.S. and threatened alliances abroad, will lead the GOP in a third consecutive presidential election after clinching the nomination Tuesday. With wins

By YURI KAGEYAMA Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — A commercial rocket trying to put a satellite into orbit has been intentionally exploded shortly after liftoff in central Japan. The company behind the rocket said the launch was aborted five seconds after liftoff early Wednesday. Space One’s president said the problem that necessitated the decision was

By HUIZHONG WU Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — An explosion caused by a suspected gas leak has ripped through a building in northern China, killing at least two people and injuring 26 others. Authorities said the blast occurred in a fried chicken shop early Wednesday morning in the city of Sanhe, about 39 miles east

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. food agency’s director in Haiti says that 4 million people face “acute food insecurity” and one million of them are one step away from famine. Jean-Martin Bauer told a virtual press conference that he’s “ringing the alarm bell” because the recent increase in

By MARK THIESSEN Associated Press ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Dallas Seavey has made Iditarod history. Seavey won the world’s most famous sled dog race on Tuesday. That’s a record-breaking sixth championship for the Alaska musher. This year’s race started off rough for Seavey. He had to shoot and kill a moose that got tangled up

By JONATHAN J. COOPER Associated Press Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is having conversations with vice presidential candidates as he gets closer to announcing his running mate for his independent presidential bid. Kennedy told The New York Times that NFL quarterback Aaron Rodgers and former Minnesota Gov. Jesse Ventura are at the top of his list.

By DAVID KOENIG AP Airlines Writer Boeing received bad grades in a government audit of manufacturing quality, and the company says it’s making changes to address the situation. The president of the company’s commercial aircraft division detailed the latest steps to correct lapses in quality in a memo to employees on Tuesday. He says Boeing

By ANIRUDDHA GHOSAL Associated Press CAN THO, Vietnam (AP) — Dao Bao Tran and her brother Do Hoang Trung, 11-year-old twins growing up on a rickety houseboat in the Mekong Delta, have dreams. Tran loves K-pop, watches videos at night to learn Korean and would love to visit Seoul. Trung wants to be a singer.

By DENISE LAVOIE and LEA SKENE Associated Press RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Employees of the Richmond Wildlife Center in Virginia are doing their best to act like mother foxes as they feed and care for an orphaned kit that found her way into their care. In a video posted to the center’s Facebook page Tuesday,

By ROBERT YOON and MAYA SWEEDLER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Former President Donald Trump’ s third consecutive stint as the presumptive Republican presidential nominee was made possible by an almost uninterrupted string of lopsided primary and caucus victories and his near sweep of GOP delegates awarded to date. The Associated Press declared Trump the

By ROBERT YOON and MAYA SWEEDLER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden’s path to unofficially clinching the Democratic nomination this year was much shorter and less dramatic than the one he followed in 2020. The Associated Press declared Biden the presumptive nominee after he won the Georgia primary Tuesday and at least 100

By DEEPTI HAJELA Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — It’s been a common refrain when seeking proof that someone’s story or some event actually took place: “Pics, or it didn’t happen.” But in a world where the spread of technology makes photo manipulation as easy as a tap on your phone, the idea that a

By ZEKE MILLER AP White House Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden, who took office aiming to steady a nation convulsed by the coronavirus pandemic and the Jan. 6 insurrection, clinched a second straight Democratic nomination Tuesday and set up an all-but-certain rematch with the predecessor he blames for destabilizing the country. Biden became

By MARGERY A. BECK Associated Press LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Nebraska Gov. Jim Pillen has approved regulations tied to a new Nebraska law restricting gender-affirming care for minors. The approved regulations mostly mirror temporary ones adopted last October, when the law went into effect. They include a seven-day waiting period for anyone under 19 to

By KEVIN McGILL Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A federal appeals court says a Texas law requiring that minors have parental permission to get birth control does not run afoul of a federally funded pregnancy health program known as Title X. Tuesday’s ruling from the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans

By TODD RICHMOND Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Wisconsin Supreme Court has decided to reconsider a ruling limiting the use of absentee ballot drop boxes. The voter mobilization group Priorities USA asked the justices last month to reconsider their 2022 ruling that drop boxes may be placed only in election offices. Conservatives controlled

By HANNAH SCHOENBAUM Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The Utah Department of Corrections is under fire for discriminating against a transgender inmate who the U.S. Department of Justice said was driven to harm herself after she was repeatedly denied hormone therapy. A federal investigation has found that the state corrections department imposed “unnecessary

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Authorities say a third suspect has been arrested in a shooting that wounded eight Philadelphia high school students at a bus stop last week. A fourth person was still being sought. The name of the 19-year-old suspect hasn’t been made public, but police said he will face attempted murder, aggravated assault, and

By ANDREW DALTON AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — A woman has sued director Roman Polanski, alleging he raped her in his home when she was a minor in 1973. The woman aired the allegations, which the 90-year-old Polanski has denied, in a news conference with her attorney, Gloria Allred, on Tuesday. The account

By ALI SWENSON Associated Press Officials in Georgia’s most populous county have removed a banner from their website warning of an “unexpected IT outage” after it created confusion on the final day of voting for the presidential primary. The red banner was actually related to a January cyberattack that temporarily crippled government services in Fulton