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LOS ANGELES (AP) — The 97th Academy Awards will be held March 2. The date announced by the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences on…
Continue ReadingLOS ANGELES (AP) — The 97th Academy Awards will be held March 2. The date announced by the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences on…
Continue ReadingBy WAYNE PARRY Associated Press ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — Add investors to the list of people that opponents of smoking in casinos are enlisting…
Continue ReadingBy DAVID BILLER Associated Press RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Brazil’s Senate has created a commission to investigate soccer match-fixing. The move…
Continue ReadingBy LISA MASCARO, JILL COLVIN and STEPHEN GROVES Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — House Speaker Mike Johnson will meet with Donald Trump for a…
Continue ReadingBy ERIC TUCKER and FARNOUSH AMIRI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The House is considering whether to take up a bill that would reauthorize a…
Continue ReadingBy COLLEEN BARRY Associated Press FLORENCE, Italy (AP) — Amanda Knox is again defending herself in an Italian court in a slander case that has the…
Continue ReadingBy KATHY McCORMACK Associated Press CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — Voters in a New Hampshire town have passed an ordinance addressing what local officials…
Continue ReadingBy ZEN SOO Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — Reporters Without Borders says its representatives was denied entry into Hong Kong, calling it a…
Continue ReadingBy LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer LAS VEGAS (AP) — Margot Robbie has her sights on another toy. The “Barbie” producer and star is making a…
Continue ReadingBy RUSS BYNUM Associated Press A retired U.S. Army colonel who was awarded the Medal of Honor for heroism during the Korean War has died at age 97. A…
Continue ReadingBy BILL BARROW and ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Donald Trump says an Arizona law that criminalizes nearly all abortions goes…
Continue ReadingBy TARA COPP Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The top general for U.S. forces in Europe told Congress Wednesday that Ukraine will be outgunned 10…
Continue ReadingBy SAM METZ Associated Press AMIZMIZ, Morocco (AP) — Communities hit hard by last year’s deadly earthquake in Morocco’s Atlas Mountains…
Continue ReadingLOS ANGELES (AP) — The family of a Nigerian business leader who died in a Southern California helicopter crash that killed five others filed a…
Continue ReadingWASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden says he’s considering a request from Australia to drop the decade-long U.S. push to prosecute Wikileaks…
Continue ReadingDETROIT (AP) — Ford is recalling nearly 43,000 small SUVs because gasoline can leak from the fuel injectors onto hot engine surfaces, increasing…
Continue ReadingPLAINFIELD, Vt. (AP) — Vermont’s Goddard College is closing at the end of the semester after years of declining enrollment and financial…
Continue ReadingBy SAMYA KULLAB and ILLIA NOVIKOV Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Authorities say a Russian attack has hit a grocery store and a pharmacy in…
Continue ReadingATTICA, Kan. (AP) — Investigators in Kansas say a deputy fatally shot an Oklahoma woman who was wielding a knife and scissors and lunged at another…
Continue ReadingBy JACK DURA Associated Press A North Dakota woman has been sentenced to 19 years in prison in connection with the death of a baby who attended her…
Continue ReadingBOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Colombia’s influential former President Álvaro Uribe has denounced as “vengeance” a move by national prosecutors to…
Continue ReadingBERLIN (AP) — A court in Germany has sentenced a 30-year-old man to 13 years in prison for attempted murder for injecting mercury into his…
Continue ReadingBy GABRIELA SÁ PESSOA Associated Press RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Brazil’s government has postponed until April 2025 tourist visa exemptions for…
Continue ReadingBERLIN (AP) — Prosecutors say two Iraqis accused of being members of the Islamic State group and keeping two young Yazidi girls as slaves as well…
Continue ReadingBy COLLEEN LONG Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — For most of her life, Angela Crawford considered herself a fairly conservative Republican —…
Continue ReadingFAYETTEVILLE, Ark. (AP) — Arkansas hired John Calipari as men’s basketball coach on Wednesday, a day after the Hall of Fame coach stepped down…
Continue ReadingBy MICHAEL CANTU Edmunds If you’re in the market for a used car and want to score a nice discount, consider getting a plug-in hybrid vehicle that…
Continue ReadingSchools and government offices were closed Wednesday in some Gulf Coast states, where severe storms were expected to bring the potential for…
Continue ReadingBy NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis has met with a leader of Brazil’s Yanomami people. The shaman, Davi…
Continue ReadingBy DASHA LITVINOVA Associated Press TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Russian authorities have extended the deadline for a preliminary probe into the still…
Continue ReadingBy The Associated Press The Green Bay Packers will play the Philadelphia Eagles when the NFL holds its first regular-season game in Brazil on Sept.…
Continue ReadingBy DASHA LITVINOVA TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Russian authorities have put more Kremlin critics on a wanted list as its crackdown against dissent…
Continue ReadingBy JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press GENEVA (AP) — Switzerland says it will host a high-level international conference in June to help chart a path…
Continue ReadingBy JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press GENEVA (AP) — The Swiss government has announced steps to bolster its “too big to fail” rules aimed to avoid…
Continue ReadingBy HOWARD FENDRICH AP Tennis Writer Two-time Grand Slam champion Simona Halep tells The Associated Press she was nervous while flying to her first…
Continue ReadingBy SETH BORENSTEIN and JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press OXFORD, England (AP) — The United Nations climate chief says humanity has only two years left…
Continue ReadingPARIS (AP) — France’s government has presented a bill to allow adults with terminal cancer or other end-of-life illness to take lethal…
Continue ReadingBy LEANNE ITALIE AP Lifestyles Writer NEW YORK (AP) — It’s the stuff of movies: Two friends vow to marry each other if they’re not…
Continue ReadingATHENS, Greece (AP) — Rescuers on the eastern Greek island of Chios have recovered the bodies of three girls who died after a boat carrying…
Continue ReadingBy BRUCE SCHREINER Associated Press FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Kentucky’s Democratic governor has vetoed a GOP-backed criminal justice bill that would…
Continue ReadingNEW YORK (AP) — Marisha Pessl’s first adult novel in more than a decade is a psychological thriller with the kinds of intricate clues and…
Continue ReadingJessica Alba, who shot to fame in the James Cameron television series “Dark Angel,” as well as films such as “Sin City” and the “Fantastic…
Continue ReadingBy KAREEM CHEHAYEB Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Officials say a Lebanese man sanctioned by the U.S. for his alleged links with Palestinian group…
Continue ReadingGIOVANNA DELL’ORTO Associated Press COMITANCILLO, Guatemala (AP) — Every night for nearly two years, Glendy Aracely Ramírez has prayed by…
Continue ReadingBy ERICK KAGLAN Associated Press LOME, Togo (AP) — Togo’s government says a planned three-day protest over the arrest of opposition figures and…
Continue ReadingBy EVELYNE MUSAMBI Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Ethiopia’s state-appointed rights commission is calling for an investigation into the…
Continue ReadingBy ROBERT YOON Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden will face Democratic voters this Saturday in a pair of nominating contests in…
Continue ReadingBy JAE BRATTON of NerdWallet Conversations about money often require sensitivity and patience, especially when the person across the table is an…
Continue ReadingBy KATHERINE ROTH Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — There are lots of things college students and their parents should keep in mind before filing…
Continue ReadingCOPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Denmark’s government says it wants a court of law to dissolve the Danish arm of the Bandidos motorcycle club. Justice…
Continue ReadingBy LORNE COOK Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — Lawmakers are to vote on a major revamp of the European Union’s migration laws. The aim is to end…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press BEIJING (AP) — Chinese President Xi Jinping has met with former Taiwanese President Ma Ying-jeou in Beijing in a bid to promote…
Continue ReadingBy SAMUEL PETREQUIN Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — Russian businessmen Mikhail Fridman and Petr Aven won a court case Wednesday over a European…
Continue ReadingMOSCOW (AP) — Russia’s second attempt to test-launch a new heavy-lift rocket from its Far Eastern space complex has been aborted. The launch of…
Continue ReadingBANGKOK (AP) — Thailand’s Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin has revealed details of his government’s plan to stimulate the economy by giving…
Continue ReadingMONACO (AP) — Track and field is set to become the first sport to introduce prize money at the Olympics, with World Athletics saying Wednesday it…
Continue ReadingBy AAMER MADHANI and ZEKE MILLER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is set to host Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida on…
Continue ReadingBy MICHAEL PHILLIS Associated Press The Environmental Protection Agency on Wednesday announced its first-ever limits for several common types of…
Continue ReadingBy CORA LEWIS Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Internet service providers will be required to be more transparent about the cost and performance of…
Continue ReadingBy GIADA ZAMPANO Associated Press ROME (AP) — Search and rescue operations are underway at a hydroelectric plant close to the northern Italian city…
Continue ReadingBy ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer BANGKOK (AP) — China’s Finance Ministry has denounced a report by Fitch Ratings that kept its…
Continue ReadingBy COLLEEN BARRY Associated Press FLORENCE, Italy (AP) — A Florence appeals court on Wednesday opens a new slander trial against Amanda Knox based…
Continue ReadingBy TIA GOLDENBERG and WAFAA SHURAFA Associated Press TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — U.S. President Joe Biden has called Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin…
Continue ReadingBy ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer BANGKOK (AP) — Shares were mixed Wednesday in Asia after U.S. stock indexes held at a near standstill ahead…
Continue ReadingBy ANDREI POPOVICIU Associated Press PIKINE, Senegal (AP) — A new approach in Senegal is mixing a small number of hard-of-hearing students into…
Continue ReadingTEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei reiterated on Wednesday a promise to retaliate against Israel over the killings…
Continue ReadingBy JOVANA GEC Associated Press LAPOVO, Serbia (AP) — Zeljko Ilicic saved his first horse from certain death 12 years ago and found his calling. The…
Continue ReadingBy MARGERY A. BECK Associated Press OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Conservative activist Charlie Kirk is calling on Nebraska Republicans to put pressure on…
Continue ReadingBy HANNAH SCHOENBAUM Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Reminders of the 2002 Winter Olympics are nestled in every nook and cranny of…
Continue ReadingBy MICHAEL GOLDBERG Associated Press/Report for America JACKSON, Miss (AP) — Six former Mississippi law enforcement officers who pleaded guilty to…
Continue ReadingBy REBECCA BOONE Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Chad Daybell, a self-published doomsday fiction author, is on trial in Idaho in the deaths of…
Continue ReadingBOISE, Idaho (AP) — Opening statements are expected Wednesday in the trial of an Idaho man charged with killing his wife and his…
Continue ReadingBy MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A former longtime executive in Donald Trump’s real estate empire is set to be sentenced for…
Continue ReadingBy CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — An eagerly awaited report Wednesday on consumer prices will show whether inflation is…
Continue ReadingBy NINIEK KARMINI Associated Press JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — The Eid al-Fitr holiday marking the end of the Islamic holy month of Ramadan is being…
Continue ReadingBy JANIE McCAULEY AP Sports Writer STANFORD, Calif. (AP) — Tara VanDerveer, the winningest basketball coach in NCAA history, announced her…
Continue ReadingSEATTLE (AP) — Court documents show a University of Washington football player has been arrested and charged with raping two women in Seattle.…
Continue ReadingHONG KONG (AP) — At least four people were killed and another 12 injured in a fire in a building in Hong Kong. The fire broke out at a building…
Continue ReadingBy JACQUES BILLEAUD and MORGAN LEE Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — The Arizona Supreme Court has delivered a landmark decision in giving the…
Continue ReadingBy DAVID HAMILTON AP Business Reporter SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A Senate subcommittee has opened an investigation into the safety of Boeing jetliners,…
Continue ReadingBy EVELYNE MUSAMBI Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — A public hospital in Kenya’s capital, Nairobi, has laid off 100 doctors who are taking…
Continue ReadingBy LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer LAS VEGAS (AP) — Warner Bros. isn’t resting on its “ Barbie ” laurels: The 100-year studio has its sights on a…
Continue ReadingBy KIM CHANDLER Associated Press MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama’s election’s chief said President Joe Biden could be left off the…
Continue ReadingBy ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The federal judge presiding over the classified documents case against former President Donald…
Continue ReadingBy RIO YAMAT Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — The final curtain will come down this summer on Cirque du Soleil’s long-running Las Vegas show…
Continue ReadingBy KIMBERLEE KRUESI Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee’s GOP-controlled Senate has advanced legislation allowing the death…
Continue ReadingBy MICHAEL R. BLOOD AP Political Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — In a decision that could leave voters doing a double take, a California appeals court…
Continue ReadingBy STEFANIE DAZIO Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Authorities in Southern California say an infant girl and her sister who were found on a busy…
Continue ReadingLOS ANGELES (AP) — Former Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Julio Urías has been charged with five misdemeanors stemming from his arrest last September…
Continue ReadingBy ANTHONY IZAGUIRRE Associated Press ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York City will end its relationship with a medical services company tasked with…
Continue ReadingBy JULIE CARR SMYTH and SAMANTHA HENDRICKSON Associated Press/Report for America COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A former top utility regulator awaiting…
Continue ReadingBy MEAD GRUVER Associated Press Oregon lottery officials say the winner of the eighth-biggest lottery prize in U.S. history won’t be announced for…
Continue ReadingCOLUMBUS, Miss. (AP) — Two Mississippi businessmen have been cleared of all charges in a case where they were accused of fraudulently receiving…
Continue ReadingBy ANDREW DeMILLO Associated Press LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — A top lawmaker says he expects the audit report on the $19,000 lectern purchased for…
Continue ReadingBy JONATHAN MATTISE and KIMBERLEE KRUESI Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Republican lawmakers in Tennessee have cleared a significant…
Continue ReadingBy COLLIN BINKLEY AP Education Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Another group of Republican-led states is suing to block the Biden administration’s new…
Continue ReadingBOISE, Idaho. (AP) — An Air Canada Boeing 737 Max 8 landed safely in Idaho after experiencing an in-flight emergency Tuesday when pilots received a…
Continue ReadingBy GRAHAM LEE BREWER, HALELUYA HADERO and SHAWN CHEN Associated Press Two tribal nations are accusing social media companies of contributing to high…
Continue ReadingBy JOSH FUNK Associated Press The California homeless charity that received $53 million over the years from investors who wanted a private lunch with…
Continue ReadingBy COLLEEN SLEVIN Associated Press DENVER (AP) — The mother of an autistic boy shown being hit and punched by a school bus aide released a copy of…
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