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By KAWEEWIT KAEWJINDA Associated Press CHIANG RAI, Thailand (AP) — To the chant of Buddhist prayers, friends and family of one of the soccer boys…

By NICOLAS GARRIGA and BARBARA SURK Associated Press PARIS (AP) — Organizers of next year’s Paris Olympics promised relatively modest prices…

By JARI TANNER Associated Press TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Estonia is preparing to hold a general election that will determine whether it can sustain…

By TOM KRISHER and MARK THIESSEN Associated Press TOK, Alaska (AP) — Alaska’s rugged and frigid interior, where it can get as cold as minus 50…

By HANNA ARHIROVA Associated Press KRYVYI RIH, Ukraine (AP) — The pops of welding torches and the piercing whine of angle grinders fill the…

BEIJING (AP) — China says increases in its defense budget have been “appropriate and reasonable” and are aimed at meeting the complex security…

By STEPHEN GROVES Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Sen. Sherrod Brown has survived a decade of statewide Democratic losses in Ohio by building a…

By PAUL J. WEBER and KEN MILLER Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Republican U.S. Rep. Tony Gonzales of Texas was censured Saturday in a rare…

ITALY, Texas (AP) — News reports say three children have been killed and two other children wounded in an attack at a home in Texas on Friday…

By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer A year after Will Smith smacked him on the Academy Awards stage, Chris Rock finally gave his rebuttal in a forceful…

By JAMES POLLARD Associated Press/Report for America WALTERBORO, S.C. (AP) — Walterboro native Danny Murdaugh is ready for his small South Carolina…

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — A prosecutor says three Indianapolis men have been convicted of murder and other charges in the fatal shooting of three young…

By DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Two senior clergymen in Jerusalem have consecrated the holy oil that will be used to anoint King…

By ASTRID SUÁREZ Associated Press BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Colombian President Gustavo Petro has asked prosecutors to investigate accusations made…

By SAM METZ Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah Gov. Spencer Cox said Friday that he plans to sign a measure that would effectively ban…

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Child protective services had opened an investigation of a Utah man over alleged child abuse and threats to his family just…

By REBECCA BOONE Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Defense attorneys for a man accused of stabbing four University of Idaho students to death…

By JILL COLVIN and MICHELLE L. PRICE Associated Press OXON HILL, Md. (AP) — Leading Republicans took veiled jabs at Donald Trump at an annual…

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (AP) — A judge has sentenced an Iowa man convicted of killing his parents and sister to three consecutive life sentences without…

NEW YORK (AP) — A man has been sentenced to 18 months in prison after pleading guilty to a federal hate crime conspiracy charge in a series of…

WASHINGTON (AP) — ABC’s “This Week” — Sens. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, and Dan Sullivan, R-Alaska; Democratic presidential candidate Marianne…

By BOBBY CAINA CALVAN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Federal jurors in New York are preparing to start deliberations on the fates of two former…

TORONTO (AP) — Canadian police have announced arrests in an international labor trafficking ring. York Region police say than 60 Mexican nationals…

By ASHRAF KHALIL and GARY FIELDS Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The expected move next week in Congress to overturn District of Columbia laws…

By MARGARET STAFFORD Associated Press A lawsuit filed by a Muslim advocacy group alleges that corrections officers at a Missouri prison used pepper…

By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN Associated Press A New York man has pleaded guilty to stealing a badge and radio from a police officer who was brutally beaten…

By ADRIAN SAINZ Associated Press MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — A former Memphis Fire Department emergency medical technician told a Tennessee board Friday…

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. (AP) — Hoosier rocker John Mellencamp is donating an archived collection of his life and work to Indiana University. IU President…

GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. (AP) — A former Colorado clerk who has become a hero to election conspiracy theorists has been convicted of a misdemeanor…

DETROIT (AP) — Former Michigan State University basketball star Keith Damon Appling has been sentenced in the death of a Detroit man. Prosecutors…

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — A video released by a Tennessee prosecutor shows the death of a Black man in a Memphis jail after he was beaten during a…

ATHENS, Ga. (AP) — Georgia’s Stegeman Coliseum has been closed for repairs after a small piece of concrete fell from the ceiling of the nearly…

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards is traveling to Asia for a weeklong series of meetings with business leaders and…

RENO, Nev. (AP) — The company that owns the medical transport aircraft that crashed in northern Nevada last week, killing all five people aboard,…

PUNTA GORDA, Fla. (AP) — Health officials say a person in southwest Florida has died after being infected with an extremely rare brain-eating…

By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER Associated Press Prosecutors produced no direct evidence linking South Carolina attorney Alex Murdaugh to the killings of his…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — A Mexican official says her government thought Arizona rancher George Alan Kelly should have faced first-degree murder charges…

By TARA COPP Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Two former Iraq and Afghanistan War-era defense secretaries are recommending that the government…

By LISA RATHKE Associated Press MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) — Vermont’s leading Roman Catholic bishop testified Friday against a bill that would…

By JOHN ANTCZAK Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Some residents stranded in Southern California mountain communities by a huge snowfall could be…

By TOM MURPHY AP Health Writer Walgreens says it will not start selling an abortion pill in 20 states that had warned of legal consequences if it did…

By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A former U.S. Army private from Kentucky who was devoted to a violent extremist group has been…

By MARK STEVENSON MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico is seeking to avoid potential trade sanctions this week for failing to stop the near-extinction of the…

By CHRISTINA LARSON AP Science Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Archaeologists have found the earliest direct evidence for horseback riding – an…

By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer NEW YORK (AP) — It’s not always emphasized given that she’s one of the most groundbreaking still photographers of…

BEIRUT (AP) — The World Bank says that Syria has sustained an estimated $5.1 billion in damages in the massive Feb. 6 earthquake that hit northern…

By TARA COPP Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. announced a new $400 million military aid package for Ukraine on Friday that for the first…

By The Associated Press Voters in Oklahoma will decide Tuesday whether it should be legal to possess and grow recreational marijuana in the state.…

By DÁNICA COTO Associated Press SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — A Pennsylvania woman who went missing more than 30 years ago in a case that stumped…

By DARLENE SUPERVILLE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Nearly 60 years after he was recommended for the nation’s highest military award,…

By RONALD BLUM Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Christian Thielemann is leading the Vienna Philharmonic’s six-concert U.S. tour as another…

By JACQUES BILLEAUD Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs vowed Friday that her administration won’t carry out an…

By HALELUYA HADERO and MATTHEW BARAKAT Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Amazon is pausing construction of its second headquarters in Virginia…

By KIRSTEN GRIESHABER Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — “All Quiet on the Western Front,” Germany’s entry at the Academy Awards, shows the…

By ACHMAD IBRAHIM Associated Press JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — A large fire broke out at a fuel storage depot in Indonesia’s capital on Friday,…

By CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Six states in Nigeria have withdrawn a suit asking the country’s Supreme Court to void…

By CHARLES ODUM AP Sports Writer ATLANTA (AP) — Jalen Carter’s next step in his attempts to preserve his status as a top prospect in next…

By SUMAN NAISHADHAM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration on Friday said it would require states to report on cybersecurity…

By SAM MEDNICK Associated Press OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso (AP) — The U.S. Embassy in Congo says the U.S. is offering a reward of up to $5 million…

By REGINA GARCIA CANO Associated Press CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Few Venezuelans have not had their lives touched by migration over the last…

By THOMAS ADAMSON AP Fashion Writer PARIS (AP) — Fragile half-ton cubes of colored confetti lay on Loewe’s white runway at Paris Fashion Week.…

By KIMBERLEE KRUESI, SARAH RANKIN and HILARY POWELL Associated Press BRISTOL, Va. (AP) — The pastors smiled as they held the doors open, grabbing…

QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistani officials say a methane explosion killed six miners at a coal mine in the country’s southwestern…

By MATTHEW BROWN Associated Press DENVER (AP) — U.S. officials will work to restore more large bison herds to Native American lands under a Friday…

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel has acknowledged that an inscription in clay found in the country’s south bearing the name of Darius the Great, ruler of…

By JEFFREY COLLINS and JAMES POLLARD Associated Press WALTERBORO, S.C. (AP) — One of the last pieces of a legal dynasty that doled out justice in…

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — An attorney for former President Donald Trump who worked to overturn his loss in battleground Wisconsin has been reappointed…

By SUMAN NAISHADHAM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Tom Brundy, an alfalfa grower in California’s Imperial Valley, thinks farmers reliant…

BERLIN (AP) — German investigators say they seized weapons, including three hand grenades and a crossbow, from the home of a suspected…

By LLAZAR SEMINI Associated Press TIRANA, Albania (AP) — Thousands of Albanian opposition supporters have protested anew in the capital Tirana,…

By KEN MILLER and STEFANIE DAZIO Associated Press A large storm system took aim at the Northeast on Friday, threatening heavy snow and coastal…

By DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — King Charles III will travel to France and Germany for his first state visits since becoming…

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — A group of airlines including KLM, Delta and easyJet say they are suing the Dutch government over its plans to reduce…

STOCKHOLM (AP) — Swedish telecom equipment maker Ericsson has agreed to plead guilty to U.S. foreign corruption violations and pay more than $206…

By MAJDI MOHAMMED and ISABEL DEBRE Associated Press HAWARA, West Bank (AP) — Protesters say the Israeli military has fired stun grenades and tear…

PODGORICA, Montenegro (AP) — Police say one person has been killed and at least five others were injured when a hand grenade exploded at the…

BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Serbia has denied it has exported arms to Ukraine after Moscow demanded to know how its Balkan ally delivered thousands of…

PARIS (AP) — French prosecutors say Paris Saint-Germain defender Achraf Hakimi was given preliminary charges of rape. The prosecutors office in…

By CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — The Nigeria Police Force says at least 12 people were killed on Friday in an explosion near…

BERLIN (AP) — The Swiss government says Germany wants to buy mothballed Leopard 2 battle tanks from Switzerland to replace tanks that Berlin and…

BRUSSELS (AP) — The Swedish presidency of the European Union’s ministers’ council says the adoption by EU member countries of new…

By VASSILIS KOMMATAS, GIANNIS PAPANIKOS and DEREK GATOPOULOS Associated Press KATERINI, Greece (AP) — The first funeral for victims of a deadly…

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre has met with Indigenous Sami reindeer herders after more than a week of…

By FRANK JORDANS Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Thousands of climate protesters have gathered in Berlin and other German cities to demand tougher…

By YURAS KARMANAU Associated Press TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — A court on Friday sentenced Belarus’ top human rights advocate and one of the winners…