RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) - At a time of warming U.S.-Brazil relations, a diplomatic dilemma of sorts has emerged for the American ambassador: how much to embrace a polarizing president. Brazil has long prided itself on keeping a distance from the U.S., w...

A roundup of some of the most popular but completely untrue stories and visuals of the week. None of these are legit, even though they were shared widely on social media. The Associated Press checked them out. Here are the facts: ___ CLAIM: There is...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - Tension was thick in the air. After 10 consecutive votes in which another man had garnered more support than Larry Householder's favored candidate to be the next Ohio House speaker, Householder leaned back quietly in his chair,...

In the four months since Joe Biden effectively won the Democratic presidential nomination, he has focused on consolidating the party's divergent and often warring factions. As the closing stretch of the campaign nears, that effort will expand to inc...

GUATEMALA CITY (AP) - In Guatemala, death threats have driven two anti-corruption prosecutors from the country in the past year, and their unit's leader has a protective order from a regional human rights commission because he is constantly harassed...

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - Indiana's Republican delegates are casting ballots as the time nears to select who will run for state attorney general in November. The spotlight is on incumbent Indiana Attorney Curtis Hill, who must convince delegates that he d...

WASHINGTON - As Joe Biden pushes ahead with his search for a running mate, Sen. Tammy Duckworth, a Hoffman Estates Democrat, has quietly emerged as a serious contender, according to three people with knowledge of the selection process, one of severa...

A librarian from Michigan has been selected to helm the Glenview Public Library now that its longtime director has retired. The library's board of trustees approved the hiring of Lindsey Dorfman 7-0 at a meeting Monday, held remotely. Dorfman, who s...

ULAANBAATAR, Mongolia (AP) - Mongolians were voting in parliamentary elections Wednesday across the vast, lightly populated country, a U.S. ally squeezed between authoritarian governments in China and Russia. The polls are being held amid considera...

ATLANTA (AP) - Scores of mourners Tuesday paid their final respects to Rayshard Brooks at the Atlanta church where the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. used to preach, taking part in a funeral filled with historical echoes and a tragic sense that Black A...