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By KIM TONG-HYUNG and HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea took a step toward improving ties with its traditional…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The former chairman of Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign, Paul Manafort, has agreed to pay $3.15 million to settle a…

By YURI KAGEYAMA Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Hit Japanese manga “One Piece” is coming to Netflix as a live-action series — a development…

The U.S. government says Exxon Mobil violated federal law for failing to take sufficient action as five hangman’s nooses were displayed at a…

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Former Idaho Gov. Phil Batt, a Republican known for signing an agreement with the federal government to remove nuclear waste…

LINDENHURST, N.Y. (AP) — Authorities say a small plane trying to return to a Long Island airport after the pilot reported smoke in the cockpit…

Ricou Browning, a skilled swimmer best known for his underwater role as the Gill Man in the quintessential 3D black-and-white 1950s monster movie…

FREDERICK, Md. (AP) — Authorities say police in Frederick, Maryland, fatally shot a man with a knife during a weekend encounter after he ignored…

AMHERST, Mass. (AP) — The University of Massachusetts is warning about a TikTok drinking trend after 28 ambulances were summoned to off-campus…

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian shelling destroyed homes and killed one person in northern Ukraine’s Kharkiv province, the region’s…

NORRISTOWN, Pa. (AP) — A New Jersey woman has been sentenced to 12 to 24 years in prison in the death of a firefighter struck along with two other…

By SAMY MAGDY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — Egyptian authorities say a cargo vessel ran aground in the Suez Canal but traffic through the global…

WILLOW, Alaska (AP) — The race to Nome began Sunday for 33 mushers in this year’s Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race in Alaska. Jessie Holmes. an…

DOUGLASVILLE, Ga. (AP) — Authorities say a Georgia shooting has killed two of the more than 100 teenagers who had gathered at a house party…

PHOENIX (AP) — Authorities say two more children have died from their injuries suffered in a northwest Phoenix condominium fire. Phoenix Fire…

By REGINA GARCIA CANO Associated Press CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Valerie Torres’ mother has tried to shield her from the worst of Venezuela’s…

SPRINGFIELD, Ohio (AP) — Authorities in Ohio say there is no indication of any risk to public health from the derailment of a Norfolk Southern…

By LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer “ Creed III ” punched above its weight at the domestic box office in its first weekend in theaters. The MGM…

By KAWEEWIT KAEWJINDA Associated Press MAE SAI, Thailand (AP) — Mourners have filled a temple chamber for a final prayer session in northern…

By ILAN BEN ZION Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli Cabinet ministers have advanced a bill that would allow Prime Minister Benjamin…

MOSCOW (AP) — A shootout between Azerbaijani soldiers and Nagorno-Karabakh region police has killed at least three people. The two sides gave…

By GIOVANNA DELL’ORTO Associated Press HIALEAH, Florida (AP) — A few days after selling all she had to flee Cuba with her three children on a…

By LINDSEY TANNER AP Medical Writer Many states have enacted or contemplated limits or outright bans on transgender medical treatment, with…

CAIRO (AP) — Egypt has sentenced 14 people, including rights activists, to prison terms ranging between five and 15 years on terrorism-related…

CAIRO (AP) — Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi has met with Iraq’s prime minister in Cairo as the two countries seek to deepen their…

By KANIS LEUNG Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — A Hong Kong pro-democracy group says the national security police stopped activists from joining a…

By GARY FIELDS Associated Press LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — TJ King had candidates and causes to support, but couldn’t vote in Nebraska’s last…

COX’S BAZAR, Bangladesh (AP) — A massive fire at a crammed refugee camp for Rohingya Muslims in southern Bangladesh has left thousands of the…

BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Serbian police say a fire in a southwestern town has killed four children and injured their parents. The fire broke out…

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A crisis over suspected poisonings targeting Iranian schoolgirls escalated…

By CHRISTINA LARSON and PATRICK WHITTLE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — For the first time, United Nations members have agreed on a unified…

By RENATA BRITO and PAOLO SANTALUCIA Associated Press STECCATO DI CUTRO, Italy (AP) — “Italy here we come!” cheered the young men, in Urdu and…

By MARK ANDERSON AP Sports Writer LAS VEGAS (AP) — Jon Jones ended a three-year sabbatical from the UFC, moved up to its highest weight class and…

BEIJING (AP) — BGI Group, one of the world’s biggest genetics analysis companies, has said it never would be involved in human rights abuses…

By BRIAN P. D. HANNON and HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH Associated Press Judy Heumann, a renowned activist who helped secure legislation protecting the…

China has expanded its defense budget by 7.2%, up slightly from last year’s 7.1% rate of increase. That marks the eighth consecutive year of…

The Associated Press Prosecutors and attorneys for FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried are requesting the disgraced cryptocurrency entrepreneur be allowed…

By CARLA BRIDI Associated Press BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — Brazil’s former president Jair Bolsonaro says he did nothing illegal following reports…

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (AP) — A 76-year-old woman accused of fatally shooting her terminally ill husband in a Florida hospital was released from jail.…

NEW YORK (AP) — New York City police are continuing their search for a suspect wearing a full-body protective suit who shot and killed a…

By DEMETRIS NELLAS and COSTAS KANTOURIS Associated Press ATHENS, Greece (AP) — The station master involved in Greece’s deadliest train crash…

TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Tens of thousands of Israelis are protesting Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s contentious plan to overhaul the legal…

By SOPHIE AUSTIN Associated Press/Report for America SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California’s reparations task force still has not made key…

SANTA ROSA, Calif. (AP) — Detectives say a fight involving three students at a Northern California high school began with an argument outside art…

FREDERICK, Md. (AP) — A tanker truck hauling a flammable liquid crashed on a Maryland highway Saturday and caught fire, killing the driver and…

By AAMER MADHANI and FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — The Biden administration is close to tightening rules on some overseas…

By WILL WEISSERT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Self-help author Marianne Williamson, whose 2020 White House campaign featured more quirky…

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Two supporters of President Donald Trump arrested after driving a Hummer with guns and ammunition to a Philadelphia…

By AMY TAXIN Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — When his 17-year-old son and friend headed off for a 10-day trek in the Southern California…

By BRUCE SCHREINER, DAVID SHARP and COREY WILLIAMS Associated Press Cleanup began in battered parts of the South and Midwest after a sprawling storm…

By BOUAZZA BEN BOUAZZA Associated Press TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — Thousands of people have marched through Tunisia’s capital to decry an expanding…

By DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — A group of European countries expressed “grave concern” Saturday that recent violence in the…

TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — A mistrial was declared after a jury in southern Arizona was unable to reach a verdict on a murder charge against a man…

By ELENA BECATOROS Associated Press BUCHA, Ukraine (AP) — Clutching flowers and wiping away tears, relatives, neighbors and friends of eight men…

By DÁNICA COTO Associated Press SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Paul Pierrilus was deported two years ago from the U.S. to Haiti where he has been…

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — An Ohio police officer who shot and killed a Black man as he lay in bed in his home last summer is no longer on the force.…

By FAZAL TAWAB Associated Press QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) — The sister and a friend of a Pakistani national soccer team player who died in a migrant…

By COREY WILLIAMS Associated Press PONTIAC, Mich. (AP) — A Michigan judge has ruled that staff and administrators at Oxford High School cannot be…

PARIS (AP) — French authorities say a bus carrying 40 elementary school students home from a trip to the French Alps plunged down a wooded slope…

By MARK THIESSEN Associated Press ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — The Iditarod dog sled race started Saturday with a fan-friendly ceremonial run through…

By JEAN-YVES KAMALE Associated Press KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — Congo’s leader is urging French President Emmanuel Macron to back sanctions…

WINDSOR LOCKS, Conn. (AP) — A business jet was buffeted by severe turbulence over New England, causing a rare passenger death and forcing the…

By KEVIN SCHEMBRI ORLAND Associated Press VALLETTA, Malta (AP) — Less than a week after a deadly migrant shipwreck off Italy, five European Union…

By SEAN MURPHY Associated Press OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Tens of thousands of Texans from the bustling Dallas-Fort Worth area routinely drive across…

By DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Britain has reasserted its sovereignty over the Falkland Islands after Argentina pulled out of a…

By MSTYSLAV CHERNOV Associated Press KHROMOVE, Ukraine (AP) — Pressure from Russian forces mounted Saturday on Ukrainians hunkered down in Bakhmut,…

By OMAR FARUK Associated Press MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — The director of a hospital in a disputed city in the Somaliland region says at least 145…

By STEPHANIE LIECHTENSTEIN and JOSEPH KRAUSS Associated Press VIENNA (AP) — The head of the U.N.’s nuclear agency said Saturday that Iran…