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BY MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — David Byrne’s “American Utopia” may have gone from Broadway but the Talking Heads…

By BOBBY ROSS Jr. Associated Press COLLEYVILLE, Texas (AP) — A year ago, Jeff Cohen and three others survived a hostage standoff at their Reform…

By MICHELLE L. PRICE Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — New York Democratic Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand has kicked off her reelection campaign. The…

LONDON (AP) — Members of the royal family appeared in public Thursday for the first time since the publication of Prince Harry’s explosive…

By MATT OTT AP Business Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. applications for unemployment benefits fell last week to their lowest level in 15 weeks as…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japanese prosecutors are expected to formally charge the suspect in the assassination of former…

WASHINGTON (AP) — A little over a year after being celebrated at the Kennedy Center, Joni Mitchell will return to Washington for another lifetime…

By ANDREW MELDRUM Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia says its forces are edging closer to capturing a salt-mining town in eastern…

MACCLESFIELD, England (AP) — A soccer team in England’s eighth tier has granted its main striker a period of leave so he can appear on the new…

By SAMUEL PETREQUIN Associated Press KIRUNA, Sweden (AP) — The beginning of the end of Europe’s dependency on China for precious rare earth…

MADRID (AP) — A Spanish judge has dropped sedition charges against former Catalan President Carles Puigdemont for his role in the region’s…

By SHONAL GANGULY Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — India’s army chief says the border situation with China is stable but unpredictable after a…

By KRISHAN FRANCIS Associated Press COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lanka’s Supreme Court has ruled that inaction by the country’s former…

By NICOLAE DUMITRACHE AND STEPHEN McGRATH Associated Press BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — Romania’s anti-organized crime agency has carried out…

By ZEKE MILLER AP White House Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris’ husband, Doug Emhoff, is set to visit Poland and…

BERLIN (AP) — The European Union’s highest court says travelers whose package tours were ruined by the imposition of restrictions to combat…

By JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Thousands of nurses at two New York City hospitals ended a three-day strike Thursday after…

By JUSTIN SPIKE Associated Press BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — A Hungarian government minister says the country will take legal action against the…

By STEVE PEOPLES, ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON and ANTHONY IZAGUIRRE Associated Press TAVERNIER, Fla. (AP) — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis highlighted illegal…

By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis will deliver a final send-off for Cardinal George Pell during a funeral Mass…

By BABA AHMED Associated Press BAMAKO, Mali (AP) — The Malian army says 14 soldiers have been killed and nearly a dozen wounded in coordinated…

TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., the biggest contract manufacturer of processor chips for smartphones and other…

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — The University of Memphis plans to retire the jersey of former basketball player Lorenzen Wright during a game next month,…

By TIA GOLDENBERG Associated Press TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Former top Israeli legal officials have spoken out against sweeping changes to the…

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Pakistan’s prime minister says that the United Arab Emirates agreed to extend…

By KAREL JANICEK Associated Press PRAGUE (AP) — Populist billionaire Andrej Babis is leading a field of eight candidates hoping to succeed Milos…

LUETZERATH, Germany (AP) — Police are pressing ahead with the clearance of a condemned village in western Germany where activists are vowing to…

By AMY BETH HANSON Associated Press HELENA, Mont. (AP) — Officials in Republican-controlled Montana want to require authorization before the…

By JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — An industry group says China’s auto sales rose 9.5% in 2022 as electric vehicle purchases…

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Australia has pulled out of an upcoming men’s one-day international cricket series against Afghanistan. Cricket…

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — The Islamic State group has claimed responsibility for a deadly bombing that killed at least five people near the Foreign…

By HANNA ARHIROVA Associated Press A POWER PLANT, Ukraine (AP) — Around some of their precious transformers — the ones that still work, buzzing…

By BEN FINLEY and DENISE LAVOIE Associated Press NEWPORT NEWS, Va. (AP) — The shooting of a first-grade teacher by a 6-year-old boy has plunged the…

By ASHOK SHARMA Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — India has convened a virtual summit of developing countries to evolve a strategy for a redress of…

By ISABEL DEBRE Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — The Palestinian Health Ministry says the Israeli military shot and killed three Palestinians…

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The United Arab Emirates has named a veteran technocrat who both leads Abu…

By KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korean officials are considering creating a domestic fund to compensate Koreans…

By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer BANGKOK (AP) — Shares advanced Friday in Asia after news that U.S. consumer inflation slowed last month…

By RIAZAT BUTT Associated Press KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Last June, a team of female doctors and nurses drove six hours across mountains, dry…

By REBECCA BOONE Associated Press The man charged in the stabbing deaths of four University of Idaho students will have a preliminary hearing in late…

By BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Lindsy Doan didn’t think the water flowing over the creek crossing on San Marcos Road was…

By SEAN MURPHY Associated Press McALESTER, Okla. (AP) — Oklahoma has executed a man convicted of killing an elderly couple and committing other…

LAHORE, Pakistan (AP) — Officials say a key political ally of Pakistan’s former prime minister has won a confidence vote in the Punjab Assembly…

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Rising U.S. consumer prices moderated again last month, bolstering hopes that…

By CHRIS MEGERIAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — For years, problems with classified materials have been a shortcut to controversy in…

By TARA COPP Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden and other past and present U.S. officials are honoring the late Ash Carter, who…

By NICK PERRY Associated Press WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — The leaders of Australia and neighboring Papua New Guinea say they are finalizing a…

By EDNA TARIGAN and DAVID RISING Associated Press JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Widespread opposition to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine…

By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN Associated Press ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — U.S. border authorities have updated their policy for pursuing smugglers and those…

MEDFORD, Ore. (AP) — One of Oregon’s oldest operating newspapers will shut down by the end of the week. The Mail Tribune’s publisher and…

By STEFANIE DAZIO Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Los Angeles police chief says he is concerned about two recent fatal police shootings,…

By DAVID PEREDA Z. Associated Press LIMA, Peru (AP) — Protests against Peruvian President Dina Boluarte’s government that have left 48 people…

By MICHAEL BALSAMO and ZEKE MILLER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden’s legal team has discovered additional documents…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Colombia’s vice-president listened to members of the Security Council condemn the…

By CURT ANDERSON Associated Press ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — Manatee deaths dropped in 2022 from a record high the year before, but Florida…

By MICHAEL GOLDBERG Associated Press/Report for America JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — TikTok will be banned from all Mississippi-issued government devices…

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A federal appeals court has accepted the government’s request to drop appeals of the sentences of two former Minneapolis…

By TOM KRISHER and DAVID KOENIG Associated Press DALLAS (AP) — Until Wednesday, few travelers had ever heard of a Notice to Air Missions, or NOTAM,…

By KATHY McCORMACK Associated Press CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — A judge denied a request to end parole supervision for the getaway driver in the case of a…

By MICHAEL R. BLOOD AP Political Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Los Angeles City Council is struggling with a still-unfolding racism scandal that…

By The Associated Press Reactions to the death of Jeff Beck, rock innovator and guitar virtuoso who died Wednesday. “The six stringed Warrior is no…

By JOHN HANNA AP Political Writer TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas’ anti-abortion Republican attorney general is asking the state’s highest court to…

By ROB GILLIES Associated Press TORONTO (AP) — Canadian police are asking victims to come forward after a group of eight to 10 teenage girls…

By HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — No, the public has not tired of hearing about Prince Harry. Sales for “Spare” have…

FRISCO, Texas (AP) — Universal Parks & Resorts is bringing a theme park to Texas that will focus on entertaining young children. Officials…

By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Jeff Beck, a guitar virtuoso who pushed the boundaries of blues, jazz and rock ‘n’…

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Authorities say a six-year-old girl has been found dead in a retention pond after going missing from a South Florida…

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — A group of Florida college professors are asking a federal judge to block Gov. Ron DeSantis from requesting spending data…