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LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) - Bob Baffert's lawyer said Wednesday that a split-sample test of Kentucky Derby winner Medina Spirit came back positive for the presence of the steroid betamethasone, which could...

WASHINGTON (AP) - Free beer is the latest White House-backed incentive for Americans to get vaccinated for COVID-19, as President Joe Biden is announcing a "month of action" Wednesday to get more shot...

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) - Ten years after their first date, Debby Neal-Strickland put on a cream-colored lace gown and married her longtime sweetheart at their Florida church. Two days later, she p...

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Joe Biden called out two fellow Democrats on Tuesday in explaining why he hasn't enacted some of the most ambitious elements of his agenda, noting that slim majorities in t...

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Biden administration on Tuesday formally ended a Trump-era immigration policy that forced asylum-seekers to wait in Mexico for hearings in U.S. immigration court.A seven-page mem...

CANBERRA, Australia (AP) - A ransomware attack on the world's largest meat processing company is disrupting production around the world just weeks after a similar incident shut down a U.S. oil pipelin...

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) - Florida's Republican governor signed a bill Tuesday barring transgender females from playing on public school teams intended for student-athletes born as girls, plunging the s...

TULSA, Okla. (AP) - President Joe Biden is leading Tuesday's remembrance of one of the nation's darkest - and largely forgotten - moments of racial violence, marking the 100th anniversary of the destr...

The Memorial Day weekend has produced the two busiest days for U.S. air travel since early March 2020. About 1.96 million people passed through U.S. airport security checkpoints on Friday, and 1.90 mi...

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - The former Minneapolis police officer convicted of murder in George Floyd's death is scheduled to make an initial appearance Tuesday in federal court to face charges alleging he vio...