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By JOHN O’CONNOR AP Political Writer SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — A former Illinois state corrections officer has been sentenced to 20 years in…

By HOLLY RAMER Associated Press CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — New Hampshire has moved closer to adopting “parents’ bill of rights” legislation.…

By TARA COPP and LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin ordered a number of improvements in access to…

By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Vatican’s No. 3 says Pope Francis gave clear indications to get out of a…

FORT HOOD, Texas (AP) — The U.S. military is investigating the death of a soldier at a Texas Army post that in recent years has struggled with…

By GARY GERARD HAMILTON Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Marcus Samuelsson is keen on leading with intention. That focus is seared into the…

By KEN SWEET AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Eleven of the biggest U.S. banks Thursday announced a $30 billion rescue package for First Republic…

By PREDRAG MILIC Associated Press PODGORICA, Montenegro (AP) — Montenegro’s president has dissolved parliament and paved the way for an early…

By STEPHEN McGRATH and AUREL OBREJA Associated Press CHISINAU, Moldova (AP) — Moldovan lawmakers have voted in favor of a divisive bill that will…

BOSTON (AP) — Boston is pushing forward with plans to discourage the use of fossil fuel in new buildings. Boston Mayor Michelle Wu on Thursday…

BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s defense minister has rejected suggestions that the country’s armed forces are in a state of disarray. Defense Minister…

WILLIAMSBURG, Ky. (AP) — A Kentucky university says it has agreed to a settlement of more than $14 million over the death of a student wrestler…

ANACORTES, Wash. (AP) — Two BNSF trains derailed in separate incidents in Arizona and Washington state on Thursday, with the latter spilling diesel…

ROME (AP) — Tourists in Rome checking out the Pantheon, Italy’s most-visited cultural site, will soon be charged a 5-euro ($5.28) entrance…

By ROB GILLIES Associated Press TORONTO (AP) — Canadian officials say a 16-year-old wounded his mother with a firearm and killed two police…

By MARTINA REBECCA INCHINGOLO Associated Press LONDON (AP) — For Adam Brody, donning the padded superhero suit in “Shazam!” and its sequel is a…

By KRYSTA FAURIA Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Willem Dafoe has said that, for him, the process of making a movie always eclipses the…

By AMY TAXIN Associated Press As river water gushed through a broken levee, thousands of people in a California farming town were forced to evacuate…

By BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Unions representing hundreds of thousands of nurses, ambulance crews and other health care workers…

By The Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran’s bazaars are packed ahead of the Persian New Year next week. But there’s…

By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN Associated Press A former top editor of an Orthodox Jewish newspaper in New York City has been arrested on charges that he…

By MARY CLARE JALONICK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate is taking the first steps toward repealing two measures that give open-ended…

By MATT OTT AP Business Writer The average long-term U.S. mortgage inched back down this week after five straight weeks of increases, good news for…

By SARAH RANKIN Associated Press DINWIDDIE, Va. (AP) — Attorneys for the family of a Black Virginia man who died in law enforcement custody say…

ANKARA Rescue teams have retrieved two more bodies after floods struck two Turkish provinces that were already devastated by last month’s powerful…

By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The late Stephen Sondheim’s last stage musical — an adaptation of two films by…

HOMESTEAD, Florida (AP) — A member of the U.S. Army Parachute Team has died after sustaining injuries during a training jump at Homestead Air…

By DASHA LITVINOVA Associated Press TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — A court in Russia has affirmed the right of a man mobilized to fight in Ukraine to…

By MANUEL RUEDA Associated Press BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Rescue operations at a coal mine in central Colombia that collapsed earlier this week have…

By BABACAR DIONE Associated Press DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Authorities have forcibly removed Senegal’s opposition leader Ousmane Sonko from his…

SINGAPORE (AP) — United States Indo-Pacific Command chief Adm. John Aquilino says that Washington does not seek to contain China, nor seek…

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — The attempted theft of a helicopter ended in wreckage on Wednesday when it crashed at Sacramento Executive Airport,…

By DAVID McHUGH AP Business Writer FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — The European Central Bank has carried through with a large interest rate increase,…

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s president said Thursday that his country plans to give Ukraine around a dozen MiG-29 fighter jets, which would…

By KAREEM CHEHAYEB Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanon’s embattled Central Bank chief has appeared for questioning for the first time before a…

By MATT OTT AP Business Writer Fewer Americans applied for jobless claims last week as the labor market continues to thrive despite the Federal…

LONDON (AP) — British authorities say they’re banning the Chinese-owned video-sharing app TikTok from government mobile phones on security…

By ADAM BEAM Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California will spend about $30 million to build 1,200 small homes across the state this…

By DAVID A. LIEB Associated Press The stakes are higher in Ohio this year for March Madness — and not just because it’s a regional host for…

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A senior Iranian official has visited the United Arab Emirates just days after Tehran agreed to restore…

By DEREK GATOPOULOS Associated Press ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Clashes have broken out in Athens and a southern city during a general strike in Greece…

By RAF CASERT Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union has presented plans to fundamentally revamp its policies on dealing with critical…

By SYLVIA HUI Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Virgin Orbit said Thursday it is pausing all operations amid reports that the company is furloughing…

VIENNA (AP) — Austrian police have issued a terror threat warning for the city of Vienna, saying there was an “abstract” danger for Syrian…

By RASHID YAHYA Associated Press DOHUK, Iraq (AP) — An Iraqi Kurdish counterterrorism agency and a spokesperson for Iraq’s northern…

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — A Polish court has given a life sentence to the man who fatally stabbed the popular mayor of Gdansk in 2019. The killing of…

KIGALI, Rwanda (AP) — The Women’s World Cup is getting 300% increase in prize money for this year’s tournament. The $150 million fund for the…

By TRISNADI MARJAN Associated Press SURABAYA, Indonesia (AP) — An Indonesian court has acquitted two police officials charged with negligence…

By FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A week after the second-largest bank collapse in U.S. history, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen…

By SAM KEMMIS of NerdWallet Sticking with one airline, hotel or car rental brand and avoiding others is the basic premise of brand loyalty. The…

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Polish authorities say the nation’s security services have detained members of a Russian espionage ring. They say that the…

By TAIJING WU Associated Press TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — The founder of the processor chip industry’s biggest manufacturer is warning that U.S.…

TOPOCK, Ariz. (AP) — A freight train carrying corn syrup, not hazardous materials, derailed in western Arizona, near the state’s border with…

By KIRSTEN GRIESHABER Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Chancellor Olaf Scholz says that Germany will have to do a better job at clamping down on…

BEIJING (AP) — China accused the United States on Thursday of spreading disinformation and suppressing TikTok following reports that the Biden…

By HELENA ALVES and BARRY HATTON Associated Press LISBON, Portugal (AP) — Portugal’s center-left Socialist government is set to approve a package…

By BABAR DOGAR and MUNIR AHMED Associated Press LAHORE, Pakistan (AP) — A Pakistani court has rejected former Prime Minister Imran Khan’s…

By ZEN SOO Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — Chinese search giant Baidu has unveiled its artificial intelligence chatbot Ernie Bot, presenting its…

MOSCOW (AP) — A former mayor of Russia’s fourth-largest city has been detained on charges that could land him behind bars as part of…

By FAY ABUELGASIM and KAREEM CHEHAYEB Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — On a recent school day, the Rene Mouawad High School in Beirut was empty, its…

By JUSTIN SPIKE Associated Press BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Thousands of students and other opponents of Hungary’s right-wing government have…

ROME (AP) — Italy’s highest court has ordered a retrial for two American citizens who were convicted in the slaying of an Italian carabiniere…

By THOMAS ADAMSON Associated Press PARIS (AP) — Behind some great men, there is a bigger brother. Claude Monet’s older sibling is the focus of a…