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By ELIZABETH AYOOLA of NerdWallet Married couples can benefit from a range of tax breaks in the form of credits and deductions. With the right…

By EVELYNE MUSAMBI Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Kenya’s president has welcomed the U.N. Security Council’s resolution to send a…

KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — Two earthquakes have struck northwest Nepal, sending tremors through the region. There were no immediate reports of any…

By KRUTIKA PATHI Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — The World Bank says South Asia is expected to grow by 5.8% this year, making it the…

By DAVID RISING Associated Press SHAOXING, China (AP) — China has gone out of its way to welcome the Taiwanese athletes at the Asian Games.…

By CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Residents say an explosion and fire at at an illegal oil refinery site in Nigeria’s Niger…

By CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Niger’s junta says at least 29 Nigerien soldiers have been killed by jihadis near the…

BANGKOK (AP) — Media in Thailand are reporting that shoppers fled a major shopping in the center of the Thai capital Bangkok Tuesday afternoon…

YEREVAN, Armenia (AP) — The Armenian parliament has voted to join International Criminal Court, which earlier this year indicted Russian President…

By JUSTIN KABUMBA Associated Press GOMA, Congo (AP) — A Congolese military court has sentenced a colonel to death after soldiers fired upon a crowd…

By SHEIKH SAALIQ Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — Indian police raided the offices of a news website that’s under investigation for allegedly…

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Police detained at least 67 people across Turkey on Tuesday in a sweep targeting people with alleged links to Kurdish…

STOCKHOLM (AP) — Nobels season is resuming on Tuesday with the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm awarding the prize in physics. The…

By MOHAMED SHARUHAN Associated Press MALE, Maldives (AP) — The president-elect of the Maldives says he’s sticking to his campaign promise to…

By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer BANGKOK (AP) — Asian markets declined Tuesday following a mixed session on Wall Street, where buying was…

TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Taiwan has issued a weather alert as Typhoon Koinu is approaching and may make landfall later this week, bringing gales and…

By MADDIE BURAKOFF AP Science Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Scientists are trying to understand how some ancient buildings have lasted for centuries in…

BEIRUT (AP) — Syrian state media has said that the Israeli military carried out airstrikes in a strategic eastern province, wounding two soldiers…

By ASHRAF KHALIL and DIDI TANG Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The National Zoo’s three giant pandas are set to return to China in early…

By MORGAN LEE Associated Press ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Restrictions on carrying guns in public that are tied to an emergency public health order…

NEW YORK (AP) — The leader of the Columbia Journalism Review says he’s leaving that job to work at an organization that encourages news…

By ZEN SOO AP Business Writer HONG KONG (AP) — Shares of debt-laden property developer China Evergrande Group have soared after they resumed…

By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Sam Bankman-Fried once promoted his FTX digital coin exchange as a safe way for regular people…

By SARA BURNETT Associated Press When Ron DeSantis said during last week’s Republican presidential debate that he would support a federal ban on…

By BRENDAN FARRINGTON Associated Press STARKE, Fla. (AP) — A man is scheduled to die by lethal injection after killing two women in 1996 during a…

By MARTHA BELLISLE Associated Press TACOMA, Wash. (AP) — Opening statements are set to begin Tuesday in the trial of three police officers in…

By TALIA RICHMAN of The Dallas Morning News DALLAS (AP) — When Tha Cung looked over his sixth-grade class schedule, he took notice of the math…

By LINDSAY WHITEHURST and CLAUDIA LAUER Associated Press WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — Hunter Biden is due back in a Delaware courtroom. He’s expected…

By MICHAEL TARM AP Legal Affairs Writer CHICAGO (AP) — Fresh details have emerged about the 13 federal executions that were carried out in the…

By MICHAEL R. SISAK and JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — After a fiery first day, lawyers in Donald Trump’s New York business…

By JILL COLVIN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump’s court appearances are no longer distractions from his campaign to return to…

WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. Rep. Henry Cuellar, D-Texas, was carjacked Monday night by three armed attackers, his office said. Cuellar’s chief of…

POINT REYES NATIONAL SEASHORE, Calif. (AP) — Authorities are searching a remote section of California’s Point Reyes National Seashore for a…

By DANIEL SHAILER The Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — Students have marched through downtown Mexico City to mark 55 years since the military…

By TERRY SPENCER Associated Press A Florida sheriff released body camera video Monday that he says shows his officers were justified when they…

PHOENIX (AP) — Sheriff Paul Penzone of Arizona’s Maricopa County says he is resigning in January after serving almost two terms.…

By MAURICIO SAVARESE Associated Press SAO PAULO (AP) — More than 100 dolphins have died in the Brazilian Amazon rainforest in the past week due to…

SEATTLE (AP) — Washington state’s minimum wage will increase 54 cents to $16.28 an hour next year. The Washington Department of Labor and…

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Officials say a Florida death row inmate convicted of killing a deputy and two other people more than 40 years ago has…

By JOHN HANNA, MARK VANCLEAVE and SUMMER BALLENTINE Associated Press TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Body camera video from a central Kansas police…

By JOHN DUERDEN Associated Press Cristiano Ronaldo has scored his first goal in the Asian Champions League in Al-Nassr’s 3-1 win over Istiklol…

Associated Press HOWARD, Colo. (AP) — Colorado Parks and Wildlife arrested a man Saturday on suspicion of killing a mother bear and two cubs in the…

By ALFREDO PEÑA Associated Press CIUDAD MADERO, Mexico (AP) — Father Ángel Vargas was moving pew to pew baptizing children when a tie beam gave…

By FARNOUSH AMIRI and KEVIN FREKING Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican Rep. Matt Gaetz filed a resolution late Monday to oust Kevin…

By LEA SKENE Associated Press BALTIMORE (AP) — The Baltimore City Council has voted to confirm Richard Worley as the city’s new police…

By HANNAH FINGERHUT Associated Press Iowa’s health agency has said it will take steps to develop home and community-based services for children…

GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — Thousands of people have blocked highways across Guatemala in reaction to the attorney general’s office seizing vote…

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A California man who says he was harassed after Elon Musk amplified social media posts that made false claims about him is…

By JOSH FUNK AP Business Writer OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — The federal government has joined more than a dozen former workers in suing Union Pacific over…

By JOHN O’CONNOR Associated Press SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Five people who were killed in a central Illinois crash involving a semitruck…

By MICHAEL R. BLOOD and ADAM BEAM Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — When California Gov. Gavin Newsom needed to fill the U.S. Senate seat of his…

PROVINCETOWN, Mass. (AP) — A 95-year-old painter and his family threatened with eviction from the Provincetown, Massachusetts, dune shack they have…

By DENISE LAVOIE AP Legal Affairs Writer RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A U.S. Army lieutenant who was struck and pepper-sprayed by two police officers…

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Two Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department officers indicted for shooting a Black man who was sleeping in a car outside…

By MICHAEL GOLDBERG Associated Press/Report for America JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Two Republican members of Congress say the federal government should…

KALISPELL, Mont. (AP) — A 73-year-old woman was hospitalized after she was attacked by a bear west of Glacier National Park and just south of the…

By STEVE DOUGLAS AP Sports Writer GUIDONIA MONTECELIO, Italy (AP) — European captain Luke Donald was delivering his Ryder Cup victory speech at…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Banners purportedly from the Sinaloa cartel have appeared in northern Mexico claiming the gang has sworn off the sale and…

By ADRIAN SAINZ Associated Press MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — A judge has denied requests by three former Memphis officers to have separate trials in the…

By SAMY MAGDY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — The United Nations’ top official in divided Libya has called for a unified mechanism to lead the…

BRUNSWICK, Ga. (AP) — A Georgia man has been sentenced to more than five years in federal prison for organizing a scheme that stole nearly $2…

By MAURICIO SAVARESE Associated Press SAO PAULO (AP) — Brazil’s government has started removing people from two Indigenous territories in a move…

By DÁNICA COTO Associated Press SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — The U.N. Security Council has voted to send a multinational force to Haiti led by…

By BRUCE SCHREINER Associated Press FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — A state commission has awarded nearly $14 million in the latest round of funding to…

By DEEPTI HAJELA Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A judge is planning a spring trial for U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez and his wife. The couple are…

By TARA COPP and LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — When U.S. lawmakers approved a spending bill Saturday that averted a widely…