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By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Mourners paid their respects to Cardinal George Pell in a Sydney cathedral Wednesday a…

By HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Fiction by Percival Everett and Ling Ma, nonfiction by Annie Proulx and biographies of George…

By BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — The widow of a California man fatally shot by police in a Los Angeles suburb last year has…

By JOHN O’CONNOR AP Political Writer SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — An Illinois appellate court has upheld a temporary restraining order on…

By R.J. RICO Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — In the wake of the shooting death of an environmental activist, Atlanta-area officials have reiterated…

CHICAGO (AP) — The body of a 96-year-old woman has been found inside a freezer in a garage behind a northwest Chicago apartment building. The…

By KARL RITTER Associated Press STOCKHOLM (AP) — Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson has denounced activists who burned the Quran and hanged an…

By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer NEW YORK (AP) — After a review of the awards campaign for the indie drama “To Leslie,” the Academy of Motion…

By OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The population of western monarch butterflies wintering along the California coast has…

By SCOTT SONNER Associated Press RENO, Nev. (AP) — General Motors has conditionally agreed to invest $650 million in Lithium Americas in a deal…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The independent U.N. special investigator on Myanmar is warning that the country’s…

By JAMIE STENGLE Associated Press DALLAS (AP) — Two monkeys taken from the Dallas Zoo were found Tuesday in an abandoned home after going missing…

By LISA MASCARO and SEUNG MIN KIM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Not long ago, Joe Biden and Republican leader Kevin McCarthy used to have…

By LISA RATHKE Associated Press Vermont lawmakers are taking testimony on a pair of bills that aim to protect health care workers who provide…

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A judge has dismissed a gender discrimination lawsuit filed by nine former University of Minnesota football players who were…

By LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Conservative and gun-rights groups challenged new federal regulations on pistols with…

By STEVE KARNOWSKI Associated Press ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Gov. Tim Walz has enshrined the right to abortion and other reproductive health care…

By JOSH FUNK Associated Press OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A man with an AR-15-style rifle and more than a dozen ammunition magazines opened fire inside a…

CINCINNATI (AP) — An attorney for former Ohio House Speaker Larry Householder has questioned the fitness of U.S. District Judge Timothy Black to…

By CLAUDIA LAUER Associated Press A car with dark tinted windows circles the block a few times before swerving onto the sidewalk. A handful of armed…

By ERIC TUCKER, ZEKE MILLER and COLLEEN LONG Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The FBI searched President Joe Biden’s former office at the Penn…

By ELLEN KNICKMEYER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration is faulting Russia for failing to allow on-the-ground nuclear…

By ANTHONY IZAGUIRRE Associated Press TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has announced plans to block state colleges from having…

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — An Iranian official says Iran and Russia have taken a key step toward linking their banking systems in a move…

By ARLEIGH RODGERS Associated Press/Report for America INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Indiana’s high court says it will not immediately consider a challenge…

By ANDREW DeMILLO Associated Press LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — An Arkansas House panel has advanced legislation that would prevent transgender people…

NEW YORK (AP) — One of Penguin Random House’s top executives, U.S. CEO Madeline McIntosh, is stepping down. Her decision comes just weeks after…

By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer NEW YORK (AP) — New DC Studios bosses James Gunn and Peter Safran debuted their plans for a revamped and newly unified…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Fifteen grade school students in Mexico have been treated after apparently taking part in an internet “challenge” in which…

By ADRIAN SAINZ and AARON MORRISON Associated Press MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — On the eve of the funeral for Tyre Nichols, who died days after a brutal…

By CATHY BUSSEWITZ AP Energy Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Exxon Mobil posted record annual profits in 2022 as consumers globally struggled with high…

By JOSEPH WILSON Associated Press BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — The European Union’s top court has issued a ruling that allows Spain to make…

By CHRIS O’MEARA Associated Press LAKELAND, Fla. (AP) — The four-door sedan pulled up near an intersection in a central Florida city where…

By CHRISTINA LARSON AP Science Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — A company working on technologies to bring back extinct species has attracted more…

By The Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Will Smith and Martin Lawrence are reteaming for a fourth “Bad Boys” movie, in one of Smith’s most…

WINDHOEK, Namibia (AP) — Rhino poaching in Namibia increased dramatically last year. The country’s environment ministry says nearly twice as…

By FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. is imposing sanctions on a group of people and organizations connected to Myanmar’s…

By MARK LONG AP Sports Writer GAINESVILLE, Fla. (AP) — Jason Jitoboh won’t step foot onto a basketball court without his glasses. And he…

By CLAIRE SAVAGE Associated Press/Report for America CHICAGO (AP) — A judge dismissed sex-abuse charges against R&B singer R. Kelly on Tuesday…

By STEPHEN GROVES Associated Press Former U.S. Senator David Durenberger has died at age 88. Durenberger was a Minnesota Republican who espoused a…

By MATT OTT AP Business Writer American consumers are kicking off 2023 slightly less confident than they were at the end of last year as inflation…

BERLIN (AP) — Doug Emhoff, the husband of U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris, has met Ukrainian refugees at a Berlin synagogue and visited the…

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Dozens of African civil society groups and press associations have called for an independent investigation into the death of…

BANGKOK (AP) — Thailand’s police commissioner has apologized after seven officers were placed under investigation for allegedly extorting money…

PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — The military says the death toll from a boating accident in a lake in northwest Pakistan over the weekend has reached 51.…

By JIM RENDON of The Chronicle of Philanthropy Chronicle of Philanthropy Over his six years at the Southern Poverty Law Center, Esteban Gil watched…

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Officials in Ohio’s largest city have reached a $225,000 settlement with a man who said police officers used improper force…

BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Parliament’s legal affairs committee has voted unanimously to lift the protective immunity of two lawmakers…

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Police in Nebraska say two officers were wounded and a suspect was killed in a shootout during an attempted burglary. Omaha…

By MEGAN JANETSKY and PIERRE RICHARD LUXAMA Associated Press PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Jimmy Cherizier zips through Haiti’s capital on the…

By The Associated Press The U.S. Justice Department has requested documents from Tesla Inc. related to its Autopilot and “Full Self-Driving”…

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Pay and benefits for America’s workers grew at a healthy but more gradual pace…

By TOM DAVIES Associated Press INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Former Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels says he won’t seek that state’s open U.S. Senate seat…

By SALLY HO and GARANCE BURKE Associated Press PITTSBURGH (AP) — The Justice Department has been scrutinizing a controversial artificial…

By MARÍA TERESA HERNÁNDEZ Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — It is Maximinio Vertiz’ busy season. Dozens of beloved but worn and broken baby…

By ELAINE KURTENBACH Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — Two years after Myanmar’s generals ousted Aung San Suu Kyi’s elected government,…

By BECKY BOHRER and PATRICK WHITTLE Associated Press JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency took an unusually strong step…

By KATE ASHFORD of NerdWallet Nearly a quarter of millennials (22%) are living with their parents, and more than half of those living with them (55%)…

By JOSEF FEDERMAN and MATTHEW LEE Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Tuesday wrapped up a two-day visit to…

By KRUTIKA PATHI Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — Asia’s richest man, Gautam Adani, has seen his companies shed $68 billion in market value in…

By MIKE CORDER Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Azerbaijan is appealing to the United Nations’ highest court to urgently order…

By DAVE SKRETTA AP Sports Writer KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Donna Kelce is going to have to pull out that now-familiar custom jersey — the one with…

By JOSH BOAK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — President Joe Biden has showcased a $292 million mega grant that’ll be used to help build a…

By DAVID McHUGH AP Business Writer FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — Europe’s economy scraped out meager gains at the end of last year as galloping…

BRUSSELS (AP) — More than 10,000 people have protested through central Brussels to demand better working conditions and more pay in the care sector…

By CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Experts are warning that Nigeria’s push to replace its paper money with newly…

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australian police plan to ask a judge to ban gay rights protesters from demonstrating…

By SAMY MAGDY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — Sudanese authorities have released a man convicted of the 2008 killing of a U.S. diplomat in a drive-by…

By SUSIE BLANN Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine won support Tuesday from Baltic nations and Poland in its quest to obtain Western…

By GRANT PECK Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — Human rights monitoring groups say Myanmar’s military is increasingly turning to airstrikes with…

By ELAINE GANLEY, JADE LE DELEY and JOHN LEICESTER Associated Press PARIS (AP) — French authorities say an estimated 1.27 million people have…

By ARSENE KABORE and SAM MEDNICK Associated Press OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso (AP) — Burkina Faso’s government says at least 32 people, including…

By KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin on Tuesday said the United States will increase…

By JAY COHEN AP Sports Writer CHICAGO (AP) — Hall of Fame forward Bobby Hull, who helped the Chicago Blackhawks win the 1961 Stanley Cup Final, has…

By NICOLE WINFIELD, JEAN-YVES KAMALE and CHRISTINA MALKIA Associated Press KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — Pope Francis demanded Tuesday that foreign powers…

By LORNE COOK Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — A decade ago this year, the head of the European Union’s executive branch stood, visibly shaken,…

By JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — Asian stock markets were higher Wednesday after Wall Street rose ahead of what traders hope will…

By MORGAN LEE Associated Press SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — Actor Alec Baldwin and a weapons specialist have been formally charged with involuntary…

By JIM SALTER Associated Press As five Memphis police officers attacked Tyre Nichols with their feet, fists and a baton, others milled around at the…

By THOMAS BEAUMONT Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — By this time four years ago, at least a dozen Democratic presidential hopefuls eager to…

BEIJING (AP) — China has accused the new Czech president of challenging its national sovereignty by affirming ties with self-ruled Taiwan in a…

By RIAZ KHAN Associated Press PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — A suicide bombing that struck inside a mosque at a police and government compound in…

By NICK PERRY Associated Press WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Prime Minister Chris Hipkins says he’s selected a team of lawmakers to lead the…

By KANIS LEUNG Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — Chinese police have prevented a woman from returning to her home in Florida in an effort to compel…

By FABIOLA SÁNCHEZ Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — At least three times a week, Mexico City bus driver Nicolás Cuatencos stops by a stand…

BEIJING (AP) — A survey shows Chinese factory activity rebounded in January, adding to signs the world’s second-largest economy might be…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI and HARUKA NUGA Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg has sharply criticized China for…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A former lecturer at the University of California, Los Angeles accused of threatening students and staff was found mentally…