PHOENIX (AP) — An Arizona man who fled the United States years ago while on probation for sex crime convictions was arrested earlier this month in France, where he was charged with sexually assaulting a child, authorities said. Michael Robert Wiseman, 51, was living in Kilstett in ...

By JAIMIE DING and JULIE WATSON Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — An unusually strong storm system called an atmospheric river was dousing Southern California on Friday and was expected to continue dumping heavy rain over the region for days as forecasters warned of rockslides and ...

By JOSH FUNK AP Business Writer OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — New data the Agriculture Department released Friday created serious doubts about whether China will really buy millions of bushels of American soybeans like the Trump administration touted last month after a high-stakes meeting between ...

By JIM MUSTIAN, BRIAN SLODYSKO and MATT BROWN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department posted pardons online bearing identical copies of President Donald Trump's signature before quietly correcting them this week after what the agency called a "technical error." The ...

By COLLEEN SLEVIN Associated Press DENVER (AP) — The Trump administration is seeking a transfer from state prison to federal custody of a former Colorado county clerk who has become a hero to election conspiracy theorists, the state and one of her lawyers said Friday. The Colorado ...

By WILL WEISSERT and CHRIS MEGERIAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said Friday that he had successfully eased hostilities between Cambodia and Thailand, saying that he'd been able to preserve a previous, U.S.-brokered ceasefire that had appeared to be breaking ...

By ERIK VERDUZCO Associated Press CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Officials and community leaders opposing a pending federal immigration crackdown in North Carolina's largest city characterized it Friday as an invasion and urged Charlotte residents to protest peacefully and record agents' actions ...

By JEFFREY COLLINS Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A South Carolina firing squad has executed a man Friday, the third person to die by that method in the state this year. Three prison employees, all with live ammunition, volunteered to carry out the execution of Stephen Bryant, ...

By RIO YAMAT and JOSH FUNK Associated Press The Federal Aviation Administration on Friday halved the number of flights that U.S. airlines must cut from their schedules at 40 airports as the country's aviation system recovers from a shortage of air traffic controllers during the record ...

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — The forecasts are eye-popping: utilities saying they'll need two or three times more electricity within a few years to power massive new data centers that are feeding a fast-growing AI economy. But the challenges — some say the impossibility — of building new power ...

Vital federal funding is on the way for Head Start centers that were thrown into crisis by the government shutdown, but it could take time before some children who rely on the federal program can return to preschool. Some centers that missed out on federal payments had to furlough staff. ...

SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic (AP) — Baseball and bets go hand-in-hand in the Dominican Republic, where professional athletes, musicians and even legislators go public with their wagers. But for every legal bet in the Caribbean country, officials say there are countless more illegal ...

President Donald Trump's call for Republicans to redraw U.S. House districts ahead of next year's election has triggered an unusual outbreak of mid-decade gerrymandering among both Republican- and Democratic-led states. Democrats need to gain just three seats to wrest control of the House away ...

A judge said Friday that he planned to approve a deal for OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma and members of the Sackler family who own the company to settle thousands of lawsuits over the toll of opioids, allowing money to start flowing to victims as soon as next spring. U.S. Bankruptcy Court Judge ...

By JACK DURA Associated Press BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — A fatigue crack in the Keystone Pipeline led to an oil spill in North Dakota earlier this year that released thousands of barrels of oil onto farmland, according to the pipeline operator. In a quarterly report released Thursday, South ...

By DAVID KLEPPER and MATT O'BRIEN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A team of researchers has uncovered what they say is the first reported use of artificial intelligence to direct a hacking campaign in a largely automated fashion. The AI company Anthropic said this week that it ...

By SAFIYAH RIDDLE Associated Press It was a foggy October afternoon on the central California coast when the Marine Mammal Center got a call on their public hotline: there were distressed cries coming from the frigid waters in Morro Bay. The center's experts were able to determine that ...

By JONEL ALECCIA AP Health Writer Nearly two dozen babies in 13 states have been sickened in a growing outbreak of infantile botulism linked to recalled ByHeart infant formula, federal health officials said Friday. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration reported 23 cases of confirmed or ...

By GEOFF MULVIHILL Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A federal bankruptcy court judge on Friday said he will approve OxyContin-maker Purdue Pharma's latest deal to settle thousands of lawsuits over the toll of opioids that includes some money for thousands of victims of the epidemic. The ...

By DEEPTI HAJELA Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The images are as current as now and as old as a century ago: people in custody, sometimes behind bars, at times in shackles, under the watchful eyes of those in charge. Sometimes as backdrops, sometimes in the foreground, always at the ...