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BRISBANE, Australia: (AP) — Residents have begun evacuating and battening down homes and businesses as the first tropical cyclone of Australia’s…

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s newly elected prime minister, Donald Tusk, is set to deliver his inaugural speech to parliament and present a…

By NAJIB JOBAIN and SAMY MAGDY Associated Press RAFAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israel and the United States were increasingly isolated as they faced…

By MOGOMOTSI MAGOME Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — A South African court has overturned President Cyril Ramaphosa’s decision to recognize…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — A Japanese court has convicted three former servicemen in a sexual assault case that authorities…

By JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A major, long-shot effort is gearing up to mobilize money to save Planet Earth…

Asian markets advanced Tuesday following a positive close on Wall Street. Investors are eagerly awaiting a crucial U.S. inflation report later in the…

ANKARA, Turkey The Turkish Football Federation has suspended all league games in the country after a club president punched the referee in the face…

By AMY BETH HANSON Associated Press Commissioners in a Montana county are expected to vote on whether to remove the election oversight duties from a…

HONG KONG (AP) — A Chinese C919 commercial passenger jet has arrived in Hong Kong in the Chinese-made aircraft’s first foray outside of…

By UZMI ATHAR, Press Trust of India DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — As this year’s global climate talks reach a conclusion, activists are…

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australia says China has lifted import bans on three Australian meat suppliers in…

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim has appointed a technocrat as second finance minister in a Cabinet shuffle…

PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — Officials say a suicide bomber has detonated his explosive-laden vehicle at a police station’s main gate in northwest…

By LISA MASCARO and STEPHEN GROVES Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy will arrive on Capitol Hill to a…

By COLLIN BINKLEY AP Education Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The university presidents called before a congressional hearing on antisemitism last week…

By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The constitutional right of equal treatment under the law is at the center of a…

By ZEN SOO Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong leader John Lee on Tuesday praised the 27.5% voter turnout in the city’s weekend…

By CURT ANDERSON Associated Press SARASOTA, Fla. (AP) — A Florida school board is scheduled to consider whether to seek the resignation of a…

By BRUCE SCHREINER Associated Press FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear has renewed his oath of office in a ceremony at the state…

By DAVID BAUDER AP Media Writer NEW YORK (AP) — No votes have been cast in the 2024 presidential race yet. But journalists have recently shifted…

By JOEY CAPPELLETTI Associated Press LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer signed legislation this week that repealed a law…

By ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal prosecutors and lawyers for Donald Trump have signaled their desire to invoke the 2016…

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — This year’s steady slowdown in U.S. inflation likely continued in November, though…

By JON GAMBRELL, JAMEY KEATEN, SIBI ARASU and SETH BORENSTEIN Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Hopes for finishing a critical…

By GABRIELA SELSER Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — The director of the Miss Nicaragua pageant, Karen Celebertti, has announced her retirement…

By GRANT PECK Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — Myanmar, already wracked by a brutal civil war, has regained the unenviable title of world’s…

By LINDSEY WASSON and AUDREY McAVOY Associated Press LAHAINA, Hawaii (AP) — The heart of the historic town of Lahaina that burned in a deadly…

By ADRIAN SAINZ Associated Press MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — NBA star Ja Morant testified in court Monday that a teenager hit him in the face with a…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The Palestinians are hoping that a vote in the U.N. General Assembly on a nonbinding…

By JOSH FUNK Associated Press FORT CALHOUN, Neb. (AP) — The fatal weekend stabbing of a Catholic priest inside the church rectory where he lived is…

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Private intelligence firms say a ship off the coast of Yemen in the Red Sea has been attacked. The attack on the…

By ANDREW DeMILLO and AYANNA ALEXANDER Associated Press LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Progressive advocacy groups in Arkansas are asking a full federal…

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — A new federal charge has been filed against a man accused of firing a shotgun into the air outside a synagogue in upstate New…

By MARTHA BELLISLE Associated Press TACOMA, Wash. (AP) — A prosecutor trying three Tacoma, Washington, police officers in the death of Manuel Ellis…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The top U.N. official in Congo is warning the Security Council that tensions between…

ARLINGTON, Va. (AP) — Boeing is promoting a woman to one of its top jobs, putting her in the discussion about possible successors to current CEO…

By PHILIP MARCELO Associated Press Prosecutors say in a court filing that former U.S. Rep. George Santos is in plea negotiations to settle his…

By RALPH D. RUSSO AP College Football Writer Heisman Trophy winner Jayden Daniels from LSU was one of seven players in either their fifth or sixth…

By HUIZHONG WU Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — Chinese President Xi Jinping will arrive in Vietnam on Tuesday seeking to further deepen ties with…

By ANNE D’INNOCENZIO AP Retail Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Toy maker Hasbro is cutting about 1,100 jobs, or 20% of its workforce. The job cuts…

By LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Hunter Biden is pushing back against gun charges filed against him, challenging the case…

By JAKE BLEIBERG Associated Press DALLAS (AP) — Texas prosecutors have dropped murder charges against two people in the fatal stabbing of a…

NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) — A person briefly hung a Palestinian flag from a Hanukkah menorah in a public area in Connecticut, prompting widespread…

By ED WHITE Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — A judge has formally dismissed misdemeanor charges against former Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder in the…

By MATTHEW BROWN and AMY BETH HANSON Associated Press BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — A Montana woman who police say repeatedly drove through a group of…

By COREY WILLIAMS Associated Press Three Chilean nationals have been arrested in connection with a series of burglaries of mansions and other…

By MORGAN LEE Associated Press SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — New Mexico is bracing for the possibility that a bonanza in oil income for the nation’s…

NEW YORK (AP) — A six-story corner of a Bronx apartment building has collapsed, leaving apartments exposed like a stack of shelves. There’s…

By HOLLY RAMER Associated Press CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — A former New Hampshire state senator is fighting allegations that he fraudulently obtained a…

HOUSTON (AP) — Longtime U.S. Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee has announced she’ll seek reelection to Congress in 2024. The Democrat announced Monday…

By MORGAN LEE Associated Press SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — New Mexico could become an early political testing ground for an unconventional proposal to…

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin’s Democratic attorney general promises to defend a potential Donald Trump victory next year in the swing…

By JONATHAN MATTISE, HOLLY MEYER and TRAVIS LOLLER Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — In March 2020, a tornado destroyed the Rev. Jacques…

By DAVID SHARP Associated Press PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — A brain sample from a gunman who killed 18 people in Maine has been sent to a lab in…

By MAYSOON KHAN Associated Press/Report for America ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York Democrats say the state will spend $1 billion to expand research…

By MICHAEL GOLDBERG Associated Press/Report for America JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A third family says they recently discovered a relative was buried in…

By JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A man recently cleared in the gruesome 1995 killing of a subway token booth clerk is suing New…

By GEOFF MULVIHILL Associated Press When the U.S. Supreme Court undid the nationwide right to abortion last year, it did not remove the issue from…

By GISELA SALOMON Associated Press MIAMI (AP) — The Biden administration says it will impose visa restrictions on nearly 300 Guatemalan lawmakers,…

By COLLIN BINKLEY AP Education Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — As lawmakers and donors push for the ouster of Harvard President Claudine Gay, hundreds of…