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By BASSEM MROUE Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — U.S.-backed Kurdish fighters in Syria have liberated a Yazidi woman who had been held by the Islamic…

By AHMED AL-HAJ Associated Press SANAA, Yemen (AP) — Yemen’s internationally recognized presidential council has sacked the prime minister.…

By MICHAEL CASEY Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — Officials in Boston acknowledged getting seven matches for the 2026 World Cup was more than they…

By MARK ANDERSON AP Sports Writer LAS VEGAS (AP) — A meeting scheduled in the 1980s between the NFL and sportsbook directors sparked hope in Las…

By DASHA LITVINOVA Associated Press TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — The first publicly known cases have emerged of Russian authorities penalizing people…

By ROB MAADDI AP Pro Football Writer LAS VEGAS (AP) — Super Bowl opening night evolved into a wacky, circus-like spectacle long before Las Vegas…

By ELÉONORE HUGHES Associated Press RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Rio de Janeiro city authorities have declared a public health emergency in the city…

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Investigators plan to interview two police officers who were working off duty in Nebraska’s largest city when they shot and…

LONDON (AP) — Buckingham Palace says that King Charles III has been diagnosed with a form of cancer and has begun treatment. The palace says the…

LONDON (AP) — Royal officials say King Charles III has been diagnosed with a form of cancer and has begun treatment. Here is the statement from…

By SETH BORENSTEIN AP Science Writer A handful of centuries-old sponges from the Caribbean are causing some scientists to theorize that human-caused…

By TIM REYNOLDS AP Basketball Writer For the first time, the NBA will play on glass. Part of All-Star weekend in Indianapolis — including the…

The Associated Press OXFORD, Mich. (AP) — Jury deliberations are underway in the groundbreaking involuntary manslaughter trial of the Michigan…

By JAMES POLLARD Associated Press/Report for America COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A South Carolina woman who traveled elsewhere for an abortion just days…

By KATHLEEN FOODY Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — A Chicago children’s hospital has been forced to take its networks offline after an unspecified…

PATRICIA LUNA and MANUEL RUEDA Associated Press SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — Volunteers in central Chile tried to remove charred metal, broken glass and…

By KEN SWEET AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The Justice Department says First National Bank discriminated against Black and Latino homebuyers…

By WAYNE PARRY Associated Press ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — A judge has ruled that Atlantic City’s casinos have no legal obligation to stop…

By BERT WILKINSON Associated Press GEORGETOWN, Guyana (AP) — Officials say the U.S. government is increasing its urgent military assistance to…

By ALI SWENSON Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — An Oversight Board is criticizing Facebook owner Meta’s policies on manipulated media as…

By SYLVIE CORBET Associated Press PARIS (AP) — France’s new foreign minister has used his first visit to Israel to urge the government to allow…

SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) — Hundreds of angry farmers took to the streets in Bulgaria’s capital to complain of what they call “the total failure”…

By MIKE SCHNEIDER Associated Press ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Disney wants to keep confidential any proprietary information or trade secrets that comes…

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — Lawyers for Cambodia’s ruling Cambodian People’s Party have filed a lawsuit at the order of the party’s leader,…

Republican U.S. Rep. Victoria Spartz is seeking reelection for Indiana’s 5th Congressional District, about a year after she announced she would…

By CARLA K. JOHNSON AP Medical Writer Two new studies track the effect of police violence on Black Americans. One study ties police-involved deaths…

LAS VEGAS (AP) — A union representing hospitality workers says it has reached a tentative agreement with six more hotel-casinos in downtown Las…

By MATTHEW LEE, WAFAA SHURAFA and SAMY MAGDY Associated Press RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrived in Saudi…

NEW YORK (AP) — The wife of Bruce Willis is working on a guide to caregiving that draws upon her experiences tending to the beloved actor, who has…

By TOM MURPHY AP Health Writer Telemedicine’s early days of handling mostly mild illnesses like sinus infections or cases of pink eye are fading…

PARIS (AP) — The French foreign ministry says it has summoned Russia’s ambassador to France over the deaths of two French nationals working for…

PRISTINA, Kosovo (AP) — Germany’s Defense Minister Boris Pistorius says the country will double its contribution of about 100 troops to the…

By ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — During years of scrutiny from prosecutors, Donald Trump has repeatedly sought to deflect…

By MICHAEL R. BLOOD AP Political Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — A trio of prominent California Democrats is dueling with Republican former baseball star…

By ANDREW WILKS Associated Press ISTANBUL (AP) — Turkey has seen its fifth central bank leader depart in as many years as Hafize Gaye Erkan, the…

LONDON (AP) — Actor Ian Lavender, who played a hapless Home Guard soldier in the classic British sitcom “Dad’s Army,” has died, his agent…

TOKYO (AP) — The Tokyo area has been hit by heavy snow, disrupting trains and grounding flights. Transport officials are cautioning drivers to…

By JUSTIN SPIKE Associated Press BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Lawmakers from the party of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán have boycotted an…

MOSCOW (AP) — The president of Kazakhstan has fired his Cabinet after criticizing its performance. A decree released by President Kassym-Jomart…

By KAVISH HARJAI Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — President Joe Biden recently traveled to North Carolina to promote his goal of affordable…

By KATE ASHFORD of NerdWallet Getting married when you’re an older adult comes with complications: You and your spouse may have assets from years…

MILAN (AP) — Rome police have arrested 14 migrants from nine countries for alleged involvement in unrest in a repatriation center following the…

By DAVID McHUGH AP Business Writer FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — The Dutch parent of pioneering Russian tech company Yandex is selling its operations…

MADRID (AP) — Spain’s marine rescue service says more than 1,000 migrants from sub-Saharan countries have arrived in Spain’s Canary Islands…

By RIAZAT BUTT Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan is holding parliamentary elections this week but many voters are disillusioned and wonder…

By TOM ODULA Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — The head of the United Nations refugee agency says Europe may have to deal with a new flow of…

ISTANBUL (AP) — The Turkish foreign minister says Russian President Vladimir Putin will visit Turkey soon. It would be Putin’s first trip to a…

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — The Pennsylvania state courts agency says some of its online systems are disabled after its website was hit by a cyber…

By JULHAS ALAM Associated Press DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — A Bangladesh official says 95 members of Myanmar’s Border Guard Police have fled their…

By BABACAR DIONE Associated Press DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Senegal’s government has restricted access to the mobile internet as opposition leaders…

LONDON, Ontario (AP) — Authorities have scheduled a news conference to discuss a 2018 case that has led to sexual assault charges against four…

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — An American porn actor who has advocated for Palestinians online during Israel’s war on…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The leaders of the U.K. and Ireland are in Belfast to meet Northern Ireland’s newly revived…

By BASSEM MROUE and KAREEM CHEHAYEB Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — A drone attack on a base housing U.S. troops in eastern Syria killed six allied…

BERLIN (AP) — A union has called on Lufthansa’s ground staff to walk off the job for a day on Wednesday in a pay dispute, the latest of several…

By ILLIA NOVIKOV Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has confirmed that he’s weighing a possible…

By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer BANGKOK (AP) — China’s stock market regulators have renewed their effort to reassure jittery…

By DAVID BAUDER AP Entertainment Writer It’s Taylor Swift’s world, and she just allows us to live in it. After weeks where she attracted…

By KEN SWEET AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Noticeable pockets of Americans _ renters, the poor and middle-income borrowers _ are running up…

By JOSEPH WILSON Associated Press BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Brazilian soccer star Dani Alves goes on trial Monday a year after he allegedly sexually…

By KANIS LEUNG Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong’s sports minister has reiterated the government’s call for an explanation from the…

By STEPHEN WADE AP Sports Writer TOKYO (AP) — It’s all been very messy. We’re talking about Lionel Messi and Inter Miami’s global tour of…

By CHRISTOPHER WEBER Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — The second of back-to-back atmospheric rivers churned slowly through California early…

By MEGAN JANETSKY and MARCOS ALEMÁN Associated Press SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) — Voters in El Salvador appeared to give Nayib Bukele a second…

By JIWON SONG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — A South Korean court has acquitted Samsung Electronics Chairman Lee Jae-yong of financial…

By The Associated Press Boeing says its supplier has discovered another problem with fuselages on its 737 jets that might delay deliveries of about…

By ZIMO ZHONG Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — Asian stocks were mostly lower on Monday, with Chinese shares again leading the declines even after…

By JANIE HAR Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The Democratic mayor of San Francisco is pushing a March 5 ballot measure that would require…

By MICHAEL R. BLOOD AP Political Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Heavily Democratic California might appear an unlikely national battleground. But a…

By RIAZ KHAN Associated Press PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — Authorities say militants have attacked a police station in a former stronghold of the…

By MARC LEVY Associated Press HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Gov. Josh Shapiro will deliver his second budget proposal to Pennsylvania lawmakers with a…

By ABBY SEWELL and GHAITH ALSAYED Associated Press IDLIB, Syria (AP) — Aya al-Sudani, a bubbly toddler with a toothy smile, will mark her first…

By NICHOLAS RICCARDI Associated Press DENVER (AP) — On Thursday, the Supreme Court is scheduled to hear arguments over whether Donald Trump can…

By NICHOLAS RICCARDI Associated Press DENVER (AP) — In the summer of 2020, Gerard Magliocca, like many during the coronavirus pandemic, found…

By ED WHITE Associated Press PONTIAC, Mich. (AP) — A Michigan jury will get instructions from a judge and begin deliberations in an unusual trial…

By SEAN MURPHY Associated Press Writer OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Tribal sovereignty is expected to again be a top issue facing lawmakers and Gov. Kevin…

By The Associated Press This week’s new streaming entertainment releases include “Abbott Elementary” debuting its third season on ABC, Charlie…

By STEPHEN GROVES and MARY CLARE JALONICK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Senators have come out with a carefully negotiated $118 billion…