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NEW YORK (AP) — Prosecutors’ star witness in the hush money case against Donald Trump is returning to the witness stand as defense lawyers try to…

By ILLIA NOVIKOV Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Military officials in Ukraine say their units locked in street battles with the Kremlin’s…

By EDNA TARIGAN Associated Press JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesian authorities have raised the alert level for Mount Ibu, a volcano in North…

By SOPHIKO MEGRELIDZE Associated Press TBILISI, Georgia (AP) — Georgian President Salome Zourabichvili said Thursday a “foreign influence” bill…

BERLIN (AP) — German lawmakers have lifted the immunity from prosecution of one of the far-right Alternative for Germany party’s top candidates…

By COREY WILLIAMS and MIKE SCHNEIDER Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — U.S. Census Bureau estimates show America’s Northeast and Midwest cities…

By MARGIE MASON and ROBIN McDOWELL Associated Press A sweeping Associated Press investigation into prison labor in the United States found that…

By MARGIE MASON and ROBIN McDOWELL Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Blas Sanchez was nearing the end of a 20-year stretch in an Arizona prison when…

Violence has raged across New Caledonia for the third consecutive day, hours after France imposed a state of emergency in the French Pacific…

By JOHN O’CONNOR AP Political Writer SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — In Illinois, 114,000 people are banned from owning guns because of legal…

NONTHABURI, Thailand (AP) — Dozens of pro-cannabis advocates in Thailand gathered at the health ministry on Thursday to oppose the government’s…

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greece’s coast guard says 42 people have been rescued while another three are missing after a boat believed to have been…

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — A South Korean court ruled in favor of the government’s contentious plan to drastically boost medical school admissions…

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Finland’s national carrier Finnair is resuming flights to Estonia’s second largest city in June after two of its…

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Japanese automaker Honda is reaffirming its commitment to electric vehicles, investing 10 trillion…

KELVIN CHAN AP Business Writer LONDON (AP) — Auto technology has evolved. Many newer cars use wireless key fobs and push-button starters. The…

By SOPHENG CHEANG and DAVID RISING Associated Press SVAY CHOK, Cambodia (AP) — Cambodia and China have begun 15-day military exercises as questions…

By JACK JEFFERY Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — At first, it seemed like the kind of shooting that has become all too common in the…

ZAGREB, Croatia (AP) — A car carrying migrants has skidded off road and slammed into a wall in southern Croatia, killing four people and injuring…

BERLIN (AP) — Authorities say a fire at a residential building in western Germany has left three people dead and two others with life-threatening…

By VERONICA ANDREA SAUCHELLI, MARIA GRAZIA MURRU and GIADA ZAMPANO Associated Press RIETI, Italy (AP) — Ella Anthony knew it was time to leave her…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — A U.N. resolution sponsored by Germany and Rwanda to establish an annual day to…

BANSKA BYSTRICA, Slovakia (AP) — A hospital official says Slovakian Prime Minister Robert Fico is in stable but serious condition after being shot…

By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer Asian shares were mostly higher on Thursday after U.S. stocks rallied to records on hopes that inflation is…

By LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. military finished installing a floating pier for the Gaza Strip on Thursday, with…

By MOLLY QUELL Associated Press THE HAGUE (AP) — The United Nations’ top court opens two days of hearings on Thursday into a request from South…

By JIM GOMEZ Associated Press MANILA, Philippines (AP) — More than 100 Filipino activists on wooden boats have decided not to sail closer to a…

Savannah Gankiewicz of Hawaii has been crowned Miss USA 2023, more than a week after the previous titleholder resigned citing her mental health.…

By PATRICK WHITTLE Associated Press AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — An independent commission investigating Maine’s deadliest mass shooting is…

By MOLLY QUELL and RAF CASERT Associated Press THE HAGUE (AP) — Anti-Islam firebrand Geert Wilders and three other party leaders have agreed on a…

By PHILIP MARCELO Associated Press EAST MEADOW, N.Y. (AP) — A towering stadium boasting 34,000 seats and a precisely trimmed field of soft Kentucky…

By HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — PEN America will gather Thursday night for its annual gala, a high-profile event raised even…

NEW YORK (AP) — ESPN’s broadcast of the Connecticut Sun’s game against Caitlin Clark and the Indiana Fever had the highest viewership for a…

By HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH Associated Press TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The lesson on diversity started slowly in a first-grade classroom in Topeka, where…

By TARA COPP and CLAUDIA LAUER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — In 2020, the top enlisted leader of the Air Force went public with his fear of…

By HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH Associated Press TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The lesson on diversity started slowly in a first-grade classroom in Topeka, where…

By REGINA GARCIA CANO Associated Press SABANA DE MENDOZA, Venezuela (AP) — At an intersection packed in four directions, rallygoers scream and…

By BILL BARROW and MATT BROWN Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — President Joe Biden will have his most direct engagement with college students since…

VENTURA, Calif. (AP) — A judge has decided that a Southern California college professor will stand trial for involuntary manslaughter and battery…

By MARIA SHERMAN AP Music Writer The 2024 Academy of Country Music Awards will take place Thursday at the Ford Center at The Star in Frisco, Texas,…

By MICHAEL R. SISAK, JAKE OFFENHARTZ, JENNIFER PELTZ and ALANNA DURKIN RICHER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Prosecutors’ star witness will…

By The Associated Press Russian President Vladimir Putin’s visit to China underlines an increasingly close partnership between the two allies.…

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Japan has reported that its economy contracted at an annual rate of 2% in the first quarter of the…

By TSVANGIRAYI MUKWAZHI Associated Press KASAMA, Zambia (AP) — Bridget Chanda is intent on helping educate Zambia’s deaf community about climate…

By AUDREY McAVOY Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — A University of Hawaii study examining the health effects of last year’s deadly wildfires on…

By PAUL NEWBERRY AP Sports Writer It’s not a rock. It’s the Athens Rock Lobsters. Ah-ah-ah-ah! The minor-league hockey team that will begin play…

By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer CANNES, France (AP) — Francis Ford Coppola will soon premiere at the Cannes Film Festival a film on which he has…

By MAKIYA SEMINERA Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Republican lawmakers in North Carolina are pushing forward with their plan to repeal a…

By ELÉONORE HUGHES Associated Press RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Brazil’s biggest pop star, Anitta, has released a music video depicting rituals of the…

By BEN FINLEY Associated Press The Dali container ship experienced a near perfect storm of calamities before it struck Baltimore’s Francis…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The Sudanese people “are trapped in an inferno of brutal violence” with famine,…

By BRUCE SHIPKOWSKI Associated Press Authorities say a police pursuit that went through two states and involved two separate shootouts with law…

By FREIDA FRISARO Associated Press FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — A bus carrying people to work in a watermelon field in central Florida was…

By HANNAH FINGERHUT and GEOFF MULVIHILL Associated Press A new abortion clinic is going to open in southeast Kansas this fall, bolstering the…

By RANDALL CHASE Associated Press DOVER, Del. (AP) — A federal judge says Delaware’s vanity license plate program is unconstitutional because it…

By MARK STEVENSON Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — Michelin-starred chef Arturo Rivera Martinez stands over an insanely hot grill at the first…

By DAVID A. LIEB Associated Press Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly vetoed a measure Wednesday that could have earmarked up to $5 million for gun-detection…

By OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Family members of a Navy veteran who died after a police officer pressed a knee to his…

The Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Financial disclosure reports for the president and vice president are out and they show Vice President…

CHICAGO (AP) — A consultant the Chicago Blackhawks hired to improve relations with American Indian tribes is accusing the team, its charity…

By BRUCE SCHREINER and DYLAN LOVAN Associated Press FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — The U.S. Department of Justice says it will investigate conditions in…

By KEVIN FREKING and BRIAN SLODYSKO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A new political action committee has begun pouring money into a key Oregon…

By ELLEN KNICKMEYER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Secretary of State Antony Blinken has removed Cuba from the State Department’s short…

By DAVID KLEPPER and ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Top U.S. security officials say America’s foreign adversaries will again seek…

By DOUG FERGUSON AP Golf Writer Rory McIlroy has all the momentum he could want heading into the PGA Championship as he tries to end a drought in the…

By RIO YAMAT Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — The iconic Mirage hotel-casino on the Las Vegas Strip will shut its doors this summer, the end of an…

By MARK SHERMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court has ordered Louisiana to hold congressional elections using a House map with a…

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Authorities say a Texas man accused of fatally shooting two New Mexico women and taking one of their children is now…

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Actor Angie Harmon has filed a lawsuit against Instacart and a former Instacart shopper who fatally shot her dog in March…

By LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The number of reported sexual assaults across the military decreased last year, and a…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Arrests for illegally crossing the U.S. border from Mexico fell more than 6% in April to the fourth lowest month of the Biden…

By KEN SWEET AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Visa has announced major changes to how its credit and debit cards will operate in the U.S.…

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has signed a bill making climate change a lesser priority under state law and banning offshore…

By KRISTIE RIEKEN AP Sports Writer HOUSTON (AP) — Astros starter Ronel Blanco has received a 10-game suspension for violating MLB’s prohibitions…

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The Port of New Orleans’ president and chief executive officer has resigned to pursue an opportunity in the private sector.…

By MARK THIESSEN Associated Press ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Musher and dog trainer Rick Mackey has died. He won the grueling Iditarod Trail Sled Dog…

By DAVID KOENIG AP Airlines Writer Congress has passed a bill that is designed to add more safety inspectors at aircraft factories and to give air…

By ED WHITE Associated Press Pro-Palestinian protesters wearing masks pitched tents and placed fake bloody corpses outside the home of a University…

OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — San Francisco Bay Area voters will weigh in on the recall of another politically progressive prosecutor in November. Alameda…

NEW YORK (AP) — The U.S. Open men’s final will shift to ABC from ESPN this year but the women’s title match will remain on the cable outlet a…

By NOREEN NASIR Associated Press Dawud Assad still has nightmares of the day Jewish militias attacked his village of Deir Yassin outside Jerusalem 76…

By WAYNE PARRY Associated Press OCEAN GROVE, N.J. (AP) — In this seaside community that calls itself “God’s Square Mile at the Jersey…

Associated Press Kansas City Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker may have stirred controversy in some quarters for his proclamations of conservative…

By COLLEEN SLEVIN Associated Press GOLDEN, Colo. (AP) — A second teen has pleaded guilty in the death of a 20-year-old driver who was hit in the…

NEW YORK (AP) — The New York Giants are appearing on a new version of “Hard Knocks.” The Giants, HBO, NFL Films, Skydance Sports announced…

By MATTHEW LEE AP Diplomatic Writer KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, an amateur musician, may have thought he had the…

BY AHMED AL-HAJ and FATMA KHALED ASSOCIATED PRESS SANAA, Yemen (AP) — Yemeni authorities have deployed security forces and armored vehicles across…

By JILL COLVIN and ZEKE MILLER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden and Donald Trump have agreed to participate in two general…