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BAKER, Fla. (AP) — A woman died after she was thrown from a horse at a rodeo in the Florida panhandle. Authorities said Sunday the 56-year-old…

By HALELUYA HADERO and RIO YAMAT Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — Is the metaverse closer than we think? It depends on who you ask at CES, where…

By ANDREW DeMILLO Associated Press LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Republican Sarah Huckabee Sanders says she wants to keep the focus on Arkansas as she…

By KEN SWEET AP Business Writer NASSAU, Bahamas (AP) — Dressed in a canary blue suit on a warm December night, sweat dripping from his brow, Bishop…

HIGH POINT, N.C. (AP) — Police say five people were found dead in a North Carolina home after one of them apparently killed the other four and took…

By TOUSSAINT N’GOTTA Associated Press ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast (AP) — Forty six Ivorian soldiers who were detained for six months in Mali have…

By HANNA ARHIROVA Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — The Russian military claimed Sunday to have carried out deadly missile strikes on barracks…

By HARM VENHUIZEN Associated Press/Report for America MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Socialism is back in the Wisconsin Legislature after decades without…

By ANDREW MELDRUM Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian soldiers, family and mourners gathered in frigid weather in Kyiv on Sunday to pay…

By JULIE CARR SMYTH and MARK SCOLFORO Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — As Republican infighting debilitates Washington, lawmakers at some…

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — The U.S. Geological Survey says a 7.0 magnitude earthquake shook the Pacific archipelago of Vanuatu on Sunday,…

By HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH Associated Press MISSION, Kan. (AP) — When Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick asked Texas colleges to disavow critical race theory, the…

By JOHN LEICESTER Associated Press LE PECQ, France (AP) — The question for France’s president about his teenage romance with a teacher at his…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Prince Harry defended his decision to publish a memoir that lays bare rifts inside Britain’s royal…

By JESSE BEDAYN Associated Press/Report for America RIFLE, Colo. (AP) — Debbie Hartman voted for Lauren Boebert for Congress in 2020 and again in…

By SAMY MAGDY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — A senior Egyptian official says at least six people were killed when an apartment building collapsed in…

By BABACAR DIONE Associated Press DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — At least 40 people were killed and dozens injured in a bus crash in central Senegal, the…

By ANDREW DAMPF AP Sports Writer KRANJSKA GORA, Slovenia (AP) — The emotions came pouring out of Mikaela Shiffrin when she matched Lindsey Vonn’s…

By SHONAL GANGULY Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — More than 2,000 members of the LGBTQ community and their supporters have returned to New Delhi…

By COLLEEN LONG Associated Press EL PASO, Texas (AP) — President Joe Biden walked a muddy stretch of the U.S.-Mexico border and inspected a busy…

By CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Police in southern Nigeria say gunmen have abducted several passengers at a train station.…

BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraqi authorities have reopened Baghdad’s heavily fortified Green Zone in an attempt to ease traffic jams in the capital. The…

By FRANK JORDANS Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Climate activists are pledging to defend a tiny village in western Germany from being bulldozed for…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida begins a weeklong trip to strengthen military ties with…

By JOVANA GEC Associated Press BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Serbia’s president says NATO-led peacekeepers in Kosovo have rejected its demand for…

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — California was hit with more turbulent weather Sunday as thunderstorms, snow and damaging winds swept into the northern part…

By JOSEF FEDERMAN Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — The Palestinian foreign minister says Israel has revoked his travel permit, part of a series of…

By FRANCES D’EMILIO Associated Press VATICAN CITY (AP) — The public can now visit the tomb of Pope Benedict XVI in the grottoes under St.…

By MOGOMOTSI MAGOME Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — South Africa’s ruling African National Congress party on Sunday marks its 111th…

By FRANK JORDANS Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Two Iranian men have been detained in Germany following a tip from U.S. security officials that at…

By TIA GOLDENBERG Associated Press TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — U.S. lawyer Alan Dershowitz says he cannot defend sweeping judicial reforms planned by…

By JIM GOMEZ and AARON FAVILA Associated Press MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Thousands of Catholic devotees have joined a night procession through…

By ASHOK SHARMA Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — Indian police have arrested an unruly airline passenger following a complaint by a woman aboard…

BEIJING (AP) — A traffic accident in southern China killed 19 people and injured 20 others early Sunday as the annual Lunar New Year holiday travel…

By GENE JOHNSON Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) — The public school district in Seattle is suing the tech giants behind TikTok, Instagram, Facebook,…

BEIJING (AP) — After years of separation from his wife in mainland China, Hong Kong resident Cheung Seng-bun made sure to be among the first in…

By ANDRES LEIGHTON and ELLIOT SPAGAT Associated Press EL PASO, Texas (AP) — Several hundred people marched through the streets of El Paso on…

FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — A former U.S. defense intelligence analyst who was convicted of spying for Cuba more than 20 years ago has been released…

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Nevada authorities say an SUV clipped the wing of a small plane after the aircraft made an emergency landing on a highway north of…

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Elon Musk has urged a federal judge to shift a trial in a shareholder lawsuit out of…

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The Philadelphia Phillies acquired All-Star reliever Gregory Soto and utility player Kody Clemens, son of seven-time Cy Young…

By JOHN WAWROW AP Sports Writer ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. (AP) — Doctors described Damar Hamlin’s neurological function as “excellent” Saturday, as…

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Utility officials say no natural gas leaks were found around an explosion that left three homes destroyed in a northeast…

SHLOMO MOR TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Thousands of Israelis are protesting plans by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government that opponents…

BERLIN (AP) — The head of the United Nations human rights office has called Saturday for a prompt and transparent investigation into the deaths of…

NEW YORK (AP) — The union representing a group of nurses at a New York City hospital has reached a tentative contract agreement with its…

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — California braced for more stormy weather with rain beginning to sweep into the northern part the state on Saturday. The…

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Critics are attacking the Diocese of Des Moines’ new gender-identity policies, calling them hateful and…

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Leading Chinese financial technology provider Ant Group has announced that its…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Two subway trains collided between two stations Saturday in Mexico City, killing at least one person and injuring 41,…

By LISA MASCARO AP Congressional Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican Kevin McCarthy is the new House speaker, but as bruising as it was for…

By JAMES BROOKS Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — The past year has been difficult for startups everywhere, but running a company in Ukraine during…

By LEANNE ITALIE AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — A year after their mighty fall, the battered, 80-year-old Golden Globes are back on NBC.…

RIVER FOREST, Ill. (AP) — A suburban Chicago college postponed two men’s basketball games after five players went to a hospital following a…

By KATE BRUMBACK Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Rapper Young Thug, accused by prosecutors of co-founding a criminal street gang responsible for…

MOUNT HOLLY, N.J. (AP) — A New Jersey woman who pleaded guilty to helping her boyfriend spread a feel-good story about a homeless veteran that…

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Police have arrested six men following a funeral for a 19-year-old man who was shot at the Mall of America last month. The…

By TOM MURPHY AP Health Writer Joan Cohrs missed her chance to grab a prescription at her usual drugstore by about 30 seconds. Cohrs walked up to the…

By DENISE LAVOIE Associated Press RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A Virginia teacher who was critically injured when she was was shot by a 6-year-old student…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Allies of Britain’s royal family pushed back Saturday against claims made by Prince Harry in his…

By LEAH WILLINGHAM Associated Press CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A West Virginia journalist lost her job last month after she reported about alleged…

By HANNA ARHIROVA Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Packing a cathedral for Orthodox Christmas, hundreds of worshippers heard the service in…

KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) — Afghanistan’s embassy in Pakistan says hundreds of its nationals have been released from a Karachi prison. Pakistani…

By JOHN ZENOR AP Sports Writer The intersection of prayer and sports has been especially prominent in the aftermath of Damar Hamlin’s frightening…

By COLLEEN LONG and MARIA VERZA Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — It’s been a big week for U.S.-Mexico relations, and that was even before…

By BEN FINLEY Associated Press NORFOLK, Va. (AP) — A U.S. Army lieutenant who was pepper sprayed, struck and handcuffed by police in Virginia but…

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — The U.N. says one of its top officials has met with the Taliban-led government’s higher education minister, who…

By LAURAN NEERGAARD and MATTHEW PERRONE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A new Alzheimer’s drug is hitting the market — the first with…

By JOHN HANNA AP Political Writer TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas’ recently reelected Democratic governor and Republican lawmakers are headed for a…

By HANNAH SCHOENBAUM Associated Press/Report for America After a midterm election and record flow of anti-transgender legislation last year,…

PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — Police say militants have killed a constable in Pakistan’s northwest after they opened fire on the security van he…

By OMAR FARUK Associated Press MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — Somalia’s government claims that the al-Shabab extremist group has for the first time…

By BISWAJEET BANERJEE Associated Press LUCKNOW, India (AP) — Authorities in an Indian Himalayan town have stopped construction activities and…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is gathering government ministers, medics and health service…

By HANNA ARHIROVA and ANDREW MELDRUM Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine’s president praised the United States for including…

CAIRO (AP) — Egypt’s state-run news agency says the roof of a three-story apartment building has collapsed in the Mediterranean city of…

By BOUBKAR BENZEBAT and FLORIAN BRUNET Associated Press PARIS (AP) — Thousands of Kurds from around France and Europe marched in Paris to show…

By MARY CLARE JALONICK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — It was the extraordinary moment that brought House Republicans to the brink — and…

By ADRIANA MORGA, JAMES BROOKS and RIO YAMAT Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — Tech companies are showing off their latest products at CES,…

By JIM GOMEZ Associated Press MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. has cut short the term of the military chief of…

By SAM METZ and CLAUDIA LAUER Associated Press ENOCH, Utah (AP) — City leaders in a small Utah town choked up this week as they expressed shock…

By MATTHEW LEE AP Diplomatic Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s new government is little more than a week old…

By CHRISTOPHER SHERMAN, MARK STEVENSON and FABIOLA SÁNCHEZ Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s capture of a son of former Sinaloa…

By LINDSEY TANNER AP Medical Writer Quick on-the-field emergency care from well-rehearsed medical personnel is widely credited with helping save…

By JOHN O’CONNOR AP Political Writer SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Illinois House Democrats working in a lame-duck session left town for a weekend…

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Another Mega Millions drawing, another night without a big winner. No one hit all six numbers and won the estimated $940…

BEIJING (AP) — China has suspended or closed the social media accounts of more than 1,000 critics of the government’s policies on the COVID-19…

By MEG KINNARD Associated Press The extended drama over picking the next House speaker has put the normally understated position of House clerk in…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department is investigating after a deputy drew a gun and threatened to shoot the driver of a…

By AMY BETH HANSON Associated Press HELENA, Mont. (AP) — A white state lawmaker in Montana is questioning whether land set aside long ago for…

By KEVIN FREKING Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Six GOP members-elect remain opposed to Rep. Kevin McCarthy going into a late-night vote to…

By SAM METZ and COLLEEN SLEVIN Associated Press ENOCH, Utah (AP) — A Utah man who fatally shot his five children, mother-in-law and wife and then…

By MARGARET STAFFORD and JOHN HANNA Associated Press TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The Kansas Bureau of Investigation says a lengthy investigation into…

By BECKY BOHRER Associated Press JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — Bear hunters in Alaska would no longer be able to use bait, such as pastries, dog food or…