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By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran’s navy has seized a Marshall Islands-flagged oil tanker in the Gulf of…

By KRISTIN M. HALL AP Entertainment Writer NASHVILLE, Tennessee (AP) — Country superstar and newly minted Rock & Roll Hall of Famer Dolly…

PARIS Protesters have loudly banged pots and pans near a castle where French President Emmanuel Macron was to make a speech. Saucepan protests have…

By MICHELLE L. PRICE Associated Press MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) — Donald Trump is again threatening to skip a presidential debate. The Republican…

By MATT OTT AP Business Writer Applications for unemployment benefits in the U.S. fell last week as the labor market continues to show strength…

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — A court in Norway has sentenced a former contractor of Russian military company the Wagner Group to 14 days in jail for…

By LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon says the number of reported sexual assaults across the military inched up about…

BERLIN (AP) — Prosecutors say a man arrested over last week’s stabbing attack at a gym in western Germany in which four people were wounded is…

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — A museum to Polish pianist and composer Frederic Chopin reopens in Warsaw this week after months of renovations. The museum,…

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The government’s report Thursday that the economy grew at a 1.1% annual rate last…

By JOE McDONALD Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s plan to send an envoy to Ukraine allows his government to deflect…

By PETER DEJONG Associated Press AMSTERDAM (AP) — The Netherlands is celebrating the 56th birthday of King Willem-Alexander with street markets,…

By FRANCES D’EMILIO Associated Press ROME (AP) — Ukraine’s prime minister said he asked Pope Francis during a private Vatican audience…

By BASSEM MROUE Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Iran’s foreign minister says Tehran wants Lebanon’s rivals to reach an agreement to elect a…

LONDON (AP) — Traveling to the FA Cup final at Wembley Stadium in London just got much harder for fans of the two Manchester clubs. The British…

By ROSALIE MURPHY of NerdWallet Starting a business is, famously, very difficult. If you long for entrepreneurship, consider buying an existing…

By HUIZHONG WU Associated Press TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Ya Ya the giant panda landed Thursday afternoon in Shanghai after departing from the Memphis…

By MOSHE EDRI and TIA GOLDENBERG Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Thursday shrugged off Disney’s lawsuit…

By JINTAMAS SAKSORNCHAI Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — Human rights organizations are urging Thailand to improve conditions in its immigration…

By JIM GOMEZ Associated Press ABOARD BRP MALABRIGO (AP) — A Chinese coast guard ship blocked a Philippine patrol vessel steaming into a disputed…

By SUZAN FRASER and FRANK JORDANS Associated Press ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan inaugurated a nuclear power plant…

MADRID (AP) — Spain’s national weather service said temperatures would “reach values typical of summer” across most of the country, with…

By SAMY MAGDY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — Armed fighters have rampaged through a main city in Sudan’s war-ravaged region of Darfur, battling…

By SOPHIE AUSTIN Associated Press/Report for America SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California approved Thursday a first-in-the-nation, ambitious rule…

By LOLITA C. BALDOR, MATTHEW LEE and TARA COPP Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Warring factions trying to seize control of the east African…

By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer Shares advanced in Asia on Friday after Wall Street rallied to its best day since January. Gains in Asian…

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Prosecutors and security service personnel in Poland are investigating the remains of an aerial military object that was…

BEIJING (AP) — China’s military has dispatched a pair of navy ships to take part in joint drills with Singapore’s navy and join in a…

By ROD McGUIRK Asspociated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australia will end a decade-old freeze on the minimum wage for skilled migrant workers…

By PAUL WISEMAN and EVELYNE MUSAMBI Associated Press A restaurant on the outskirts of Nairobi skimps on the size of its chapatis — a flaky, chewy…

By MEHDI EL-AREM and ELAINE GANLEY Associated Press OFF THE COAST OF SFAX, Tunisia (AP) — A young man wearing a baseball cap emblazoned with…

By TIA GOLDENBERG Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s corruption trial has resumed after a…

By SIBI ARASU Associated Press BENGALURU, India (AP) — Asia must rapidly cut fossil fuel subsidies and plow more money into a clean energy…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin has said while visiting Tokyo that he hopes to forge “trusted supply…

By JOHN RABY Associated Press CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — West Virginia Republican Gov. Jim Justice announced Thursday that he is running for Democrat…

By TRÂN NGUYỄN Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Pamela Smith remembers vividly the last time she saw her only son alive. It was 3:18…

By JOHN HANNA AP Political Writer TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas health care providers could face criminal charges over accusations about their care of…

HONOLULU (AP) — The U.S. Coast Guard says it’s searching for a cruise ship passenger from Australia in waters south of Hawaii. The ship…

By AMY BETH HANSON, BRITTANY PETERSON and SAM METZ Associated Press HELENA, Mont. (AP) — Montana lawmaker Zooey Zephyr began her first day in…

By JERRY HARMER Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — Three years ago, tens of thousands of mostly young people in Thailand took to the streets in heated…

By The Associated Press KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Day 2 of the NFL draft is a wrap! There were 16 trades during the second and third rounds,…

By CHRIS MEGERIAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — She swaggered, she jabbed, she inspired. She even joked. Anyone looking for a glimpse of what…

By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER, ERIC TUCKER and TARA COPP Associated Press WORCESTER, Mass. (AP) — The Massachusetts Air National guardsman accused of…

By MIKE STOBBE AP Medical Writer NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. cigarette smoking dropped to another all-time low last year, with 1 in 9 adults saying they…

By PAUL WISEMAN AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Despite surging interest rates, punishing inflation and global turbulence, the U.S. economy…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — U.S. Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield is heading to Brazil next week, following up on…

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — San Francisco is repealing a ban on city-funded travel to 30 states that it says restrict abortion, voting and LGBTQ rights…

By JOHN HANNA AP Political Writer TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A Kansas board is telling high schools and middle schools that must see transgender…

By ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal appeals court on Wednesday night moved former Vice President Mike Pence closer to…

By MAURICIO SAVARESE and DAVID BILLER Associated Press SAO PAULO (AP) — A federal judge in Brazil on Wednesday ordered a temporary suspension of…

By DAVID BAUDER AP Media Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Tucker Carlson emerged Wednesday, two days after Fox News fired him, with a two-minute,…

By NICK PERRY Associated Press WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — New Zealand Prime Minister Chris Hipkins has planted a native totara tree in…

By LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer LAS VEGAS (AP) — Universal started out its CinemaCon presentation with the big one Wednesday in Las Vegas: New…

By AMANDA SEITZ Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The federal government wrote duplicate checks to doctors who provided care for veterans, costing…

SOLEDAD, Calif. (AP) — Rapper MoneySign Suede has died after he was stabbed in a shower at a California prison, authorities and his attorney said.…

By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The 1990s are making a comeback, with scrunchies acceptable again, “Night Court” back…

DADEVILLE, Ala. (AP) — A judge on Wednesday denied bond for five suspect charged with reckless murder in connection with a shooting at a Sweet 16…

By AUDREY McAVOY and JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — A woman accused with her husband of living in Hawaii under the stolen…

By KIMBERLEE KRUESI Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The Justice Department has filed a lawsuit challenging Tennessee’s new law banning…

By DARLENE SUPERVILLE and FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Actor Angelina Jolie, home improvement duo Chip and Joanna Gaines and…

By SARA CLINE Associated Press BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Louisiana lawmakers have advanced a bill that would ban K-12 public school staff from…

By BOBBY CAINA CALVAN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Fox News has agreed to hand over thousands of documents to voting machine company…

By MADDIE BURAKOFF AP Science Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The American Museum of Natural History in New York will soon open its massive new building,…

By JIM SALTER and SUMMER BALLENTINE Associated Press CLAYTON, Mo. (AP) — A Missouri judge has temporarily halted a first-of-its-kind rule…

By BARBARA ORTUTAY AP Technology Writer Twitter under its 4/20-friendly owner Elon Musk earlier this year became the first major social media company…

By MATTHEW PERRONE AP Health Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. health officials on Wednesday approved the first pill made from healthy bacteria found…

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The Minneapolis NAACP is suing the city of Minneapolis over allegations that police officers used phony social media accounts to…

By LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A Fugees rapper accused in multimillion-dollar political conspiracies spanning two…

BROWNSBURG, Ind. (AP) — Five staff members at a suburban Indianapolis school have been charged with neglect or failure to report neglect after a…

By NICHOLAS RICCARDI Associated Press MISSOULA, Montana (AP) — In the college town of Missoula, pride flags are as common a sight as the peaks of…

By COLLEEN SLEVIN Associated Press BRIGHTON, Colo. (AP) — A Colorado man who shot and killed a 13-year-old boy after a road rage confrontation and…

HELENA, Mont. (AP) — Montana transgender lawmaker Zooey Zephyr was silenced by her Republican colleagues on Wednesday in a vote that bars her from…

By CURT ANDERSON Associated Press The New College of Florida trustees, newly dominated by conservatives appointed by Gov. Ron DeSantis, has voted to…

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A federal judge in Iowa has ruled against former U.S. Rep. Devin Nunes, who filed lawsuits claiming he was defamed by…

By MATT O’BRIEN AP Technology Writer It’s not “game over” yet for Microsoft’s quest to buy the video game maker Activision Blizzard,…

By JESSICA GRESKO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court spoke is speaking with one voice in response to recent criticism of the…

By EVENS SANON Associated Press PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Police are pledging to crack down on unrelenting gang violence that has paralyzed…

By HALELUYA HADERO Associated Press Amazon is winding down its health-focused Halo devices and membership as the tech giant continues to cut costs.…

By MICHELLE CHAPMAN AP Business Writer First Republic Bank’s stock continued to slide Wednesday, an ongoing rout that has erased 60% of its…

NEW YORK (AP) — Call him the Cedric the Novelist. Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, announced Wednesday that it will publish a novel…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. special envoy for Haiti is urging immediate deployment of a specialized…

By JAKE OFFENHARTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The co-founder of a fundraising group linked to Steve Bannon that promised to help Donald Trump…

By MICHAEL LIEDTKE AP Technology Writer SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Disgraced Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes has avoided starting her more than 11-year…

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Ya Ya the giant panda has begun its trip to China from the Memphis Zoo, where it has spent the past 20 years as part of a…

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — The U.S. government is embarking on an effort to record the oral histories of survivors and descendants of boarding schools…

By SAMY MAGDY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — Large numbers of Sudanese have been massing at a border crossing with Egypt and at a main port,…

By ANTHONY IZAGUIRRE Associated Press TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Disney sued Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Wednesday over the Republican’s…

By HALELUYA HADERO Associated Press Montana’s governor is asking lawmakers to expand the state’s proposed TikTok ban to more social media…

Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s governmental human rights commission has called on ten of the country’s 32 states to get…

By TOM KRISHER AP Auto Writer DETROIT (AP) — Stellantis says it’s offering buyouts to groups of white-collar and unionized employees in the…

By SCOTT McFETRIDGE and TODD RICHMOND Associated Press Communities along the Upper Mississippi River scrambled Wednesday as the always massive river…

By STEPHEN GROVES Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden’s nomination for the next labor secretary, Julie Su, has advanced…

By CLIFF BRUNT AP Sports Writer There is a growing phenomenon at historically Black colleges and universities. HBCUs are adding sports outside the…

By MICHAEL GOLDBERG Associated Press/Report for America CONWAY, Miss. (AP) — A man who escaped from a Mississippi jail and is suspected in a Monday…