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By SAMUEL PETREQUIN Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — Police officers in Belgium have arrested eight people during counterterrorism raids across the…

By JOHN LEICESTER Associated Press PARIS (AP) — A proposed French law for the 2024 Paris Olympics that critics contend will open the door for…

By JOSEF FEDERMAN Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu put his contentious judicial overhaul plan on hold this week,…

By The Associated Press Russian President Vladimir Putin has announced that he intends to deploy tactical nuclear weapons on the territory of…

By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press ROCCA DI PAPA, Italy (AP) — The findings of an initial expert report were astonishing: One of the 20th…

By JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — Asian stocks were mixed Wednesday as anxiety about the global financial system began to fade…

By JOHN LEICESTER Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — “Attention. Air raid alert,” the voice says with a Jedi knight’s gravitas. “Proceed…

By LISA RATHKE Associated Press BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) — One hand-crocheted blanket came with a note saying “Welcome to the USA” and advising…

By SETH BORENSTEIN AP Science Writer A new study says warming will fuel more supercells in the United States and that those storms will move eastward…

By MICHAEL GOLDBERG and ROBERT BUMSTED Associated Press ROLLING FORK, Miss. (AP) — Queen’terica Jones found her mother’s lifeless body…

By JEFF AMY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — A new Georgia commission to discipline and remove wayward prosecutors would be the latest move by…

By JONATHAN MATTISE Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The shooter who killed three students and three staff members at a Christian school in…

By SAM METZ and CHRISTOPHER WEBER Associated Press PARK CITY, Utah (AP) — Skiers have likely noticed signs at mountain resorts across the country…

By DOUG FEINBERG AP Basketball Writer SEATTLE (AP) — An undefeated South Carolina team led by star Aliyah Boston and guided by vaunted Dawn Staley,…

MOSCOW (AP) — Moscow test-fired anti-ship missiles in the Sea of Japan, Russia’s Defense Ministry said Tuesday, with two boats launching a…

By NINIEK KARMINI Associated Press JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesia could lose its chance to host a global youth soccer tournament, and its…

By SIBI ARASU and ANIRUDDHA GHOSAL Associated Press BENGALURU, India (AP) — Gautam Adani and his companies lost tens of billions of dollars and…

By KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has called for his nuclear scientists to increase…

By TRISHA AHMED Associated Press A pediatric surgeon who left The Covenant School in Nashville moments before a shooter opened fire, killing six…

SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) — The Central American nation of El Salvador has finished a full year under anti-gang emergency measures that were…

By JAKE BLEIBERG Associated Press DALLAS (AP) — A prominent civil rights attorney was arrested in a Dallas suburb during a demonstration in memory…

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — The Idaho Senate on Monday voted 22-12 to pass a bill criminalizing gender-affirming healthcare for minors, one month after the…

HAVANA (AP) — Cuba’s government reported Monday that abstention in National Assembly elections was 24.1%, a figure some analysts said…

By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN Associated Press ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham on Monday signed legislation to provide free school…

By SEAN MURPHY Associated Press OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma’s top prosecutor and defense attorneys are both seeking another delay in the…

By JACQUES BILLEAUD Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — A vow by Arizona’s governor not to proceed with any executions amid lingering questions…

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Jury selection has begun in the trial of a U.S. Army sergeant charged with murder in the 2020 fatal shooting of an armed…

By ADAM BEAM Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California lawmakers have approved the nation’s first penalty for price gouging at…

PLEASANT VIEW, Tenn. (AP) — Authorities have revised the number of youths killed in a Tennessee highway crash over the weekend, saying that four…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s president has defended the insertion of what teachers have long considered grammatical errors into grade-school…

By GARY D. ROBERTSON Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper has signed a Medicaid expansion law that was a…

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The nation’s top financial regulator is asserting that Silicon Valley Bank’s own…

By MORGAN LEE Associated Press SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — A New Mexico judge says Santa Fe’s district attorney shouldn’t serve as co-counsel in the…

By MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Scientists have discovered a new and renewable source of water on the moon for…

By HARM VENHUIZEN Associated Press/Report for America MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Administrators at a Wisconsin elementary school stopped a first-grade…

BAXTER SPRINGS, Kan. (AP) — The family of a toddler fatally shot by a police officer during a standoff between her father and law enforcement has…

By MICHAEL WEISSENSTEIN Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. Security Council has declined a Russian request to investigate the blasts…

BY ANTHONY IZAGUIRRE Associated Press TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has signed legislation to allow all K-12 students in the…

CLEVELAND (AP) — Two men accused of stuffing fish with lead weights and fish fillets in an attempt to win an Ohio fishing tournament last fall have…

WYNDMERE, N.D. (AP) — A Canadian Pacific train derailed in rural North Dakota Sunday night and spilled hazardous materials. But local authorities…

By MIKE CATALINI Associated Press New Jersey’s attorney general said Monday that his office has taken control of the police department in the…

By AMANCAI BIRABEN Associated Press South Dakota’s House has failed to override Gov. Kristi Noem’s recent veto of a bill that would have created…

By MICHAEL LIEDTKE AP Technology Writer To use, or not to use, Bard? That is the Shakespearean question an Associated Press reporter sought to answer…

By JUSTIN SPIKE Associated Press BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Hungary’s parliament has approved Finland’s bid to join NATO, ending months of delays…

CHESTERFIELD, Va. (AP) — The Rev. Al Sharpton will deliver the eulogy at the funeral of a 28-year-old Black man who died after he was pinned to the…

By MICHAEL RUBINKAM Associated Press Investigators looking for the cause of a deadly explosion that leveled part of a Pennsylvania chocolate factory…

By JONATHAN MATTISE, TRAVIS LOLLER and HOLLY MEYER Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A former student shot through the doors of a Christian…

By PATRICK WHITTLE Associated Press PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Chipotle Mexican Grill has agreed to pay $240,000 to former employees as part of a…

By ADRIAN SAINZ Associated Press MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Prosecutors will seek the death penalty if a Tennessee man is convicted of first-degree…

By DEEPA BHARATH Associated Press New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft faced the camera during a video call, pointing to a small, sky-blue lapel…

By CHRISTINA MALKIA Associated Press KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — Local authorities in eastern Congo say that at least 17  people have been killed by…

MICHAEL R. SISAK and ERIC TUCKER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The Manhattan grand jury investigating former President Donald Trump over hush…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The remains of a U.S. airman whose plane was shot down over Germany during World War II have been accounted for. The Defense…

By COREY WILLIAMS and JOHN O’CONNOR Associated Press SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Joe James, a Black man, was asleep under a tree when he was…

By PATRICIA OLEAS and CESAR OLMOS Associated Press ALAUSI, Ecuador (AP) — A huge landslide swept over an Andean community in central Ecuador,…

By ANDRE PENNER and CARLA BRIDI Associated Press SAO PAULO (AP) — Officials say a 13-year-old student in Brazil’s biggest city Sao Paulo has…

By MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — The Webb Space Telescope has found no evidence of an atmosphere at one of the seven…

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Officials from Poland and the European Union have discussed artillery munitions manufacturing as part of a new, 2 billion…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court won’t hear a civil rights case brought by the parents of a teenager who was naked and unarmed when he was…

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — Sheriff’s officials say a man who sped away from a traffic stop in Florida last week shot and critically wounded a…

By RONALD BLUM Associated Press PARIS (AP) — Renée Fleming spent decades portraying generals’ wives, a countess and a courtesan. Now she is…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court will decide whether a disabled activist can file disability rights lawsuits against hotels she doesn’t intend…

BERLIN (AP) — Two horses fit for a queen, please. That’s what Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II had asked for as a gift during her state…

ZAPORIZHZHIA, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy met with U.N. atomic energy chief Rafael Mariano Grossi in southern Ukraine on…

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) — Saudi Arabia’s state-owned oil giant Aramco will invest billions of dollars in China’s downstream petrochemicals…

By JONATHAN LANDRUM Jr. AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Whitney Houston’s brother remembers when his young sister listened to their…

By LEAH WILLINGHAM Associated Press CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A new abortion provider is opening this year in Democratic-controlled Maryland —…

By JOSEF FEDERMAN and TIA GOLDENBERG Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s proposed judicial overhaul unleashed…

BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanon’s caretaker prime minister has reversed an unpopular decision made by his office to delay the start of daylight saving time…

By JAMEY KEATEN and SAMY MAGDY Associated Press GENEVA (AP) — U.N.-backed human rights experts say there is evidence that crimes against humanity…

By JOHN HANNA AP Political Writer TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas’ highest court has signaled that it still considers access to abortion a…

By STEVE LeBLANC Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — Massachusetts Democratic U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren has announced she will seek a third term in…

By KIMBERLY PALMER of NerdWallet With prices rising on everyday items, consumers can use their tax refunds — which just over half of filers expect…

By SAM MEDNICK Associated Press DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Burkina Faso’s military junta has suspended French broadcaster, France 24, for interviewing…

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Residents of Greenland have switched to daylight saving time and moved their clocks one hour forward for the very last…

By RAHMAT MIRZA Associated Press LHOKSEUMAWE, Indonesia (AP) — More than 180 disoriented Rohingya Muslims, some of whom need medical attention,…

By GRAHAM DUNBAR AP Sports Writer GENEVA (AP) — A United Nations rights expert advising the International Olympic Committee says Russian athletes…

By PIYUSH NAGPAL and SHONAL GANGULY Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — Members of opposition parties dressed in black disrupted India’s…

By JAMES ROBSON AP Soccer Writer MANCHESTER, England (AP) — The race to buy Manchester United is taking shape. The frontrunners appear to be Qatari…

By MIKE SCHNEIDER Associated Press ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Response rates to federal surveys have been dropping in recent years due to growing public…

By EVELYNE MUSAMBI Associated Press Nairobi, Kenya (AP) — Thousands of anti-government protesters marched on the streets of Kenya’s capital,…

By FARAI MUTSAKA Associated Press HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — In many Western countries, conventional radio has been overtaken by streaming, podcasts…

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — Malaysia and Cambodia have signed two agreements on the employment of Cambodian migrant workers as Malaysian Prime…

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Police in Little Rock, Arkansas say gunfire erupted as a crowd of people gathered along a commercial boulevard southwest…