Nation & World

By Adam Beam Associated Press RIO DELL, Calif. (AP) — A powerful earthquake that residents described as “violent" rocked a rural stretch of the Northern California coast early Tuesday, leaving 11 people injured and 70,000 without…

By Margaret Stafford, Josh Funk and Juan Lozano Associated Press KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A large of swath of the U.S. braced for a dangerous mix of sub-zero temperatures, howling winds and blizzard conditions scheduled to arrive…

By Patrick Wall and Kalyn Belsha Chalkbeat and Annie Ma The Associated Press Mira Ugwuadu felt anxious and depressed when she returned to her high school in Cobb County, Georgia, last fall after months of remote learning, so she…

By Frank Bajak Associated Press Elon Musk’s managerial bomb-throwing at Twitter has so thinned the ranks of software engineers who keep the world’s de-facto public square up and running that industry insiders and programmers who were…

By Cora Lewis Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — President Joe Biden’s plan to provide up to $20,000 in federal student loan forgiveness has been blocked by two federal courts, leaving millions of borrowers wondering what happens next.…

By Eric Tucker and Michael Balsamo Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Attorney General Merrick Garland named a special counsel on Friday to oversee the Justice Department's investigation into the presence of classified documents at…

By Diane Jeantet and Carla Bridi Associated Press BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro on Tuesday did not concede the election he lost to leftist Lula da Silva in a brief speech that marked his first comments…

By Hyung-Jin Kim and Kim Tong-Hyung Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea fired a ballistic missile and hundreds of artillery shells toward the sea Friday and flew warplanes near the tense border with South Korea,…

By Marcia Dunn Associated Press CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A spacecraft that plowed into a small, harmless asteroid millions of miles away succeeded in shifting its orbit, NASA said Tuesday in announcing the results of its…

By Adam Schreck Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian forces showered Ukraine with more missiles and munition-carrying drones Tuesday after widespread strikes killed at least 19 people in an attack the U.N. human rights office…

By Cristiana Mesquita and Curt Anderson Associated Press HAVANA (AP) — Hurricane Ian tore into western Cuba on Tuesday as a major hurricane, with nothing to stop it from intensifying into a catastrophic Category 4 storm before it hits…

By Monica Scislowska and Jan M. Olsen Associated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — A series of unusual leaks on two natural gas pipelines running from Russia under the Baltic Sea to Germany triggered concerns about sabotage Tuesday,…

By Khalil Hamra and Mehmet Guzel Associated Press ISTANBUL (AP) — Military-aged men fled Russia in droves Friday, filling planes and causing traffic jams at border crossings to avoid being rounded up to fight in Ukraine following the…

By Danica Kirka, Jill Lawless and Sylvia Hui Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Queen Elizabeth II, Britain’s longest-reigning monarch and a rock of stability across much of a turbulent century, died Thursday after 70 years on the throne.…

By Paul J. Weber Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A new and worrisome school year began Tuesday in Uvalde. There is new high fencing around the Texas community's public school campuses that still isn't finished, a heavy police…