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COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Former Ohio State Buckeyes football coach Jim Tressel was confirmed Wednesday as Ohio’s next lieutenant governor. State senators and representatives affirmed Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine’s Monday nomination of Tressel in…

Two top immigration enforcement officials have been reassigned amid frustrations in the Trump administration about the pace of immigration arrests. That's according to two officials with knowledge of the moves who talked to The Associated…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump's former personal attorney Todd Blanche criticized the criminal cases against the Republican president as "partisan lawfare" during his Wednesday confirmation hearing to become the second in command at the…

Authorities say two crew members ejected from a U.S. Navy jet before it crashed off the coast of San Diego and were rescued by a fishing boat. A Coast Guard official says the two occupants of the E/A-18G Growler were picked up by the…

Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs is suing NBC Universal over a documentary that he says falsely accuses him of being a serial murderer who had sex with underage girls as he awaits trial on federal sex trafficking charges. The lawsuit filed Wednesday in…

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Jeanette Wallace Hyde, a longtime activist and fundraiser in North Carolina and national Democratic politics who served in the 1990s as the U.S. ambassador to several Caribbean countries, has died at age 86. Hyde died…

ISLAMABAD (AP) — Turkey's president, accompanied by a high-level delegation, arrived in Pakistan's capital late Wednesday night on a two-day visit to discuss how to boost trade and economic ties between the nations, officials said. When his…

LONDON (AP) — The auction process selling stakes of franchises in English cricket competition The Hundred concluded Wednesday with a deal for 49% of Southern Brave by GMR, the co-owner of Delhi Capitals in the Indian Premier League. GMR…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate Finance Committee approved President Donald Trump’s choice to be America’s top trade negotiator Wednesday, largely along party lines. Jamieson Greer, an attorney and trade official in Trump’s first term, was…

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — President Donald Trump has nominated a longtime oil and gas industry representative to oversee an agency that manages a quarter-billion acres of public land concentrated in western states. Kathleen Sgamma, president…

SAALBACH-HINTERGLEMM, Austria (AP) — At age 40, Italian skier Christof Innerhofer has been around long enough to have competed in three different versions of the combined. First, there was the grueling three-run race that included one…

UNLV senior offensive lineman Ben Christman has died. The university said he was found dead in an off-campus apartment on Tuesday morning. The university said it didn’t have other details and a cause of death would later be determined by…

COCHAPAMBA, Ecuador (AP) — The two candidates vying for Ecuador’s presidency in a second-round run-off never campaigned in Cochapamba. Their faces are nowhere to be seen in this remote Indigenous community in the Ecuadorian highlands. Yet,…

Yoshinobu Yamamoto and Roki Sasaki are the likely starting pitchers for the Los Angeles Dodgers when they face the Chicago Cubs in Tokyo next month, according to manager Dave Roberts. The two Japanese pitchers along with two-way star Shohei…

The White House says court rulings going against President Donald Trump's administration are coming from “judicial activists” on the bench whose decisions amount to a “constitutional crisis.” It's the latest broadside in an escalating…