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By STEVE LeBLANC Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — Those convicted of misdemeanor marijuana possession charges in Massachusetts would see their…
Continue ReadingBy STEVE LeBLANC Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — Those convicted of misdemeanor marijuana possession charges in Massachusetts would see their…
Continue ReadingBy KAREEM CHEHAYEB Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — An Israeli drone strike targeting a car in southern Lebanon near the coastal city of Tyre has…
Continue ReadingBy MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOMIOKA, Japan (AP) — Japanese officials say the U.S. and Japanese militaries will resume flights of Osprey…
Continue ReadingBy MEG KINNARD Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump have officially secured the requisite…
Continue ReadingMEXICO CITY (AP) — A prominent journalist in western Mexico who was abducted by armed men has been found alive and well. The fate of radio and…
Continue ReadingNASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Police in Tennessee are searching for a University of Missouri student who was last seen by friends at a Nashville bar…
Continue ReadingBy HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — A South Korean Christian aid group says that a South Korean national held in Russia on…
Continue ReadingBy MARIA SHERMAN AP Music Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Jelly Roll, Kelsea Ballerini, Lainey Wilson, Megan Moroney, and Cody Johnson are the leading…
Continue ReadingBy FLORENT BAJRAMI and LLAZAR SEMINI Associated Press PRISTINA, Kosovo (AP) — A senior U.S. official has reassured top officials in Kosovo that the…
Continue ReadingBy ABBY SEWELL Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Three and a half years after hundreds of tons of improperly stored ammonium nitrate ignited at the…
Continue ReadingBy LUIS ANDRES HENAO Associated Press EL COBRE, Cuba (AP) — One religious icon unites Cubans: The Virgin of Charity of Cobre. Cuba’s patron…
Continue ReadingLONDON (AP) — The British government will introduce legislation to quash the wrongful convictions of hundreds of Post Office branch managers in…
Continue ReadingBy MEGAN JANETSKY, VICTOR R. CAIVANO & RODRIGO ABD Associated Press TUSAQUILLAS, Argentina (AP) — Irene Leonor Flores de Callata, 68, treks…
Continue ReadingBy LUIS ANDRES HENAO and GIOVANNA DELL’ORTO Associated Press EL COBRE, Cuba (AP) — Ramon Nieblas fixed his tearful eyes on the small golden…
Continue ReadingNEW YORK (AP) — Longtime newsman Chris Wallace isn’t only thinking about this year’s presidential election. The CNN anchor has written a book…
Continue ReadingBy JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — A minister in Britain’s Conservative government says the party does not plan to give back 10…
Continue ReadingBy FARAI MUTSAKA Associated Press HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — Zimbabwe, Africa’s largest tobacco producer, has begun its annual tobacco-selling…
Continue ReadingBy MICHAEL CANTU Edmunds The electric three-row SUV segment is small but quickly growing. The all-new Kia EV9 is one of the latest electric family…
Continue ReadingLONDON (AP) — Adidas said Wednesday that it’s donated or is planning to give away more than $150 million to groups fighting antisemitism and…
Continue ReadingBy GERALD IMRAY Associated Press CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — The Coptic Orthodox Church said three monks have been killed in an attack at a…
Continue ReadingBy BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Karl Wallinger, the multi-instrumentalist and solo force behind the band World Party and former…
Continue ReadingBy RONITA CHOUDHURI-WADE of NerdWallet Maximalism is a design trend emphasizing more color, texture and one-of-a-kind pieces. However, filling your…
Continue ReadingGRUENHEIDE, Germany (AP) — Tesla CEO Elon Musk is visiting the electric car maker’s first European plant as production resumes at the factory…
Continue ReadingMADRID (AP) — Spanish police say they have arrested six members of gang that specialized in burgling footballers’ home in and around Madrid. A…
Continue ReadingCOPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Denmark’s government wants to increase the number of Danes doing military service by making conscription…
Continue ReadingBy JANIE McCAULEY AP Baseball Writer OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Daulton Jefferies is trying to come back from a second Tommy John surgery at age 28. A…
Continue ReadingBy JAY COHEN AP Baseball Writer GLENDALE, Ariz. (AP) — There is a bridge that runs from Tommy John and Dr. Frank Jobe in 1974, all the way to…
Continue ReadingBy MARK SCOLFORO Associated Press GORDONVILLE, Pa. (AP) — Spring in southcentral Pennsylvania brings an annual tradition in Amish communities: mud…
Continue ReadingBy LIUDAS DAPKUS Associated Press VILNIUS, Lithuania (AP) — Leonid Volkov, the late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny’s close associate…
Continue ReadingBy JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A U.S. Congress-mandated group cut short a fact-finding mission to Saudi Arabia…
Continue ReadingBy JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Coming nearly straight from the Oscars with a truck full of Kenergy, Ryan Gosling and Emily Blunt…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press President Vladimir Putin said that Russia is ready to use nuclear weapons if there is a threat to Russian statehood, sovereignty, or…
Continue ReadingBy YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Asian shares mostly rose Wednesday, encouraged by a record rally on Wall Street that was led by…
Continue ReadingJAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesia authorities say a fishing boat that was carrying 37 people capsized in rough seas off Indonesia’s Sulawesi…
Continue ReadingBy SIMINA MISTREANU Associated Press TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — His writing won China’s first Nobel Prize for Literature, but is it patriotic enough…
Continue ReadingBy DAKE KANG Associated Press CHENGDU, China (AP) — Some investors in a troubled Chinese trust fund are facing financial ruin under a government…
Continue ReadingBy KELVIN CHAN AP Business Writer LONDON (AP) — European Union lawmakers are set to give final approval to the 27-nation bloc’s artificial…
Continue ReadingBy The Associated Press Vladimir Putin is poised to sweep to another six-year term in this week’s presidential election, even though Russians…
Continue ReadingBy MELANIE LIDMAN Associated Press TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Evangelicals have been among Israel’s fiercest foreign supporters for years. This is…
Continue ReadingBy MARK THIESSEN Associated Press ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Alaska’s annual Iditarod dog sled race ended with a victory for the ages: One of…
Continue ReadingBy CARLA K. JOHNSON AP Medical Writer New artificial intelligence tools are helping doctors communicate with their patients. Some tools answer…
Continue ReadingBy MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOMIOKA, Japan (AP) — The head of the U.N. atomic agency on Wednesday told local Japanese representatives at a…
Continue Readingby ZIMO ZHONG Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — China stocks were mixed Wednesday as the country scrambled to avoid major real estate developer…
Continue ReadingBy EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi Republican Gov. Tate Reeves has signed a new law that will allow women…
Continue ReadingBy RUSS BYNUM Associated Press SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — Savannah, Georgia’s oldest city, is planning a supersized celebration as it marks the…
Continue ReadingBy SAMANTHA HENDRICKSON Associated Press/Report For America COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Republicans vying for candidacy in Ohio’s upcoming March…
Continue ReadingBy OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A San Francisco Bay Area parking lot that sits on top of a sacred tribal shell mound…
Continue ReadingBy LISA MASCARO AP Congressional Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republicans are launching a vast re-investigation of the Jan. 6, 2021 attack…
Continue ReadingBy WILL WEISSERT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is visiting Wisconsin and Michigan, looking to shore up a “blue wall”…
Continue ReadingBy KEVIN FREKING Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A bill that could lead to a ban of the popular video app TikTok is expected to pass the House…
Continue ReadingBy COLLEEN LONG and ZEKE MILLER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Special counsel Robert Hur was thanking the president for his time. He…
Continue ReadingTEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) — Former Honduras first lady Ana García de Hernández says she plans to seek the country’s presidency next year. Her…
Continue ReadingPIERRE, S.D. (AP) — South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem has posted an infomercial-style video on X lavishing praise on a team of dentists outside of her…
Continue ReadingBy JONATHAN LANDRUM Jr. AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Singer Kelly Clarkson and NFL legend Peyton Manning will bring a new flavor to…
Continue ReadingBy WILL WEISSERT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Biden vs. Trump the sequel is unprecedented in the modern era. But November’s…
Continue ReadingBy JILL COLVIN Associated Press WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Donald Trump, whose single turbulent term in the White House transformed the…
Continue ReadingBy YURI KAGEYAMA Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — A rocket touted as Japan’s first from the private sector to go into orbit exploded shortly after…
Continue ReadingBEIJING (AP) — Chinese broadcaster CCTV says rescuers are responding to an explosion in a building in a city outside of Beijing that has killed one…
Continue ReadingBy MANUEL RUEDA Associated Press BOGOTÁ, Colombia (AP) — Colombia’s Supreme Court has selected the nation’s new attorney general following a…
Continue ReadingBy EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. food agency’s director in Haiti says that 4 million people face “acute food…
Continue ReadingBy MARK THIESSEN Associated Press ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Dallas Seavey overcame killing a moose and receiving a time penalty to win the Iditarod…
Continue ReadingBy JONATHAN J. COOPER Associated Press Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is having conversations with vice presidential candidates as he gets closer to…
Continue ReadingBy DAVID KOENIG AP Airlines Writer Boeing received bad grades in a government audit of manufacturing quality, and the company says it’s making…
Continue ReadingBy ANIRUDDHA GHOSAL Associated Press CAN THO, Vietnam (AP) — The lure of the city has always been strong for the poor in Vietnam’s Mekong…
Continue ReadingBy DENISE LAVOIE and LEA SKENE Associated Press RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Employees of the Richmond Wildlife Center in Virginia are doing their best to…
Continue ReadingBy ROBERT YOON and MAYA SWEEDLER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump stands on the brink of unofficially securing the Republican…
Continue ReadingBy ROBERT YOON and MAYA SWEEDLER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden’s path to unofficially clinching the Democratic…
Continue ReadingBy ZEKE MILLER AP White House Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden, who took office aiming to steady a nation convulsed by the…
Continue ReadingPHILADELPHIA (AP) — Authorities say a third suspect has been arrested in a shooting that wounded eight Philadelphia high school students at a bus…
Continue ReadingBy MARGERY A. BECK Associated Press LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Nebraska Gov. Jim Pillen has approved regulations tied to a new Nebraska law restricting…
Continue ReadingSEATTLE (AP) — Police say a 54-year-old suburban Seattle woman who had been missing for two weeks was found dead in Mexico, and that a man…
Continue ReadingBy TODD RICHMOND Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Wisconsin Supreme Court has decided to reconsider a ruling limiting the use of absentee…
Continue ReadingBy HANNAH SCHOENBAUM Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The Utah Department of Corrections came under fire Tuesday for discriminating against a…
Continue ReadingBy ANDREW DALTON AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — A woman has sued director Roman Polanski, alleging he raped her in his home when she…
Continue ReadingBy ALI SWENSON Associated Press Officials in Georgia’s most populous county have removed a banner from their website warning of an…
Continue ReadingMONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Former Alabama Republican U.S. Rep. Robert Terry Everett has died. He was 87. Gov. Kay Ivey’s office says he died…
Continue ReadingBy WYATTE GRANTHAM-PHILIPS and GAETANE LEWIS Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The New York Times is fighting off Wordle “clones.” It’s…
Continue ReadingBy LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A federal judge has approved the $92 million bond put up by former President Donald Trump to…
Continue ReadingBUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Argentina’s inflation slowed down for a second consecutive month in February, as right-wing President Javier Milei…
Continue ReadingBy SUMMER BALLENTINE Associated Press JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Some state lawmakers are taking extra steps to prevent noncitizens from voting…
Continue ReadingBy TRÂN NGUYỄN Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Fake gunfire would be banned and advance notice required under proposed legislation to…
Continue ReadingBy LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Four U.S. Army boats, loaded with tons of equipment and steel pier segments, have left…
Continue ReadingBy MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Singer-songwriter Eric Carmen, who fronted the power-pop 1970s band the Raspberries and…
Continue ReadingBy LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Ghislaine Maxwell’s lawyer has asked a federal appeals court to toss out her sex…
Continue ReadingBy BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Karl Wallinger, the multi-instrumentalist and solo force behind the band World Party and former…
Continue ReadingBy ANDREW DeMILLO Associated Press LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Arkansas is no longer allowing residents to use “X” instead of male or female on…
Continue ReadingBy SUDHIN THANAWALA Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Legislation that would ban some citizens of China from owning farmland in Georgia is advancing…
Continue ReadingBy MARGERY A. BECK Associated Press LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Nebraska lawmakers failed to garner the 30 votes needed Tuesday to override Gov. Jim…
Continue ReadingBy The Associated Press Haiti’s future is being planned on two tracks — one involving traditional political power, the other focused on the power…
Continue ReadingTALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Associates of the late opposition leader Alexei Navalny reported on Tuesday night that the politician’s close ally and…
Continue ReadingBY MAYSOON KHAN and ANTHONY IZAGUIRRE Associated Press ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York’s budget season has begun. Democrats who control the state…
Continue ReadingBy HALELUYA HADERO AP Business Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Lawmakers, meet your latest lobbyists: online influencers from TikTok. The platform is once…
Continue ReadingREDWOOD CITY, Calif. (AP) — Scott Peterson appeared virtually in court, nearly 20 years after he was convicted of killing his pregnant wife, Laci,…
Continue ReadingBy JACK DURA Associated Press BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — Advocates for some 200 wild horses roaming North Dakota’s Theodore Roosevelt National Park…
Continue ReadingBy MATT O’BRIEN AP Technology Writer U.S. lawmakers are threatening to ban TikTok but also say they are giving its Chinese parent company a…
Continue ReadingBy MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer The sun is about to pull another disappearing act across North America, turning day into night during a total…
Continue ReadingRIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Brazilian police say several passengers are being held hostage in a bus in Rio de Janeiro, and two were injured from…
Continue ReadingLAS VEGAS (AP) — A former Las Vegas-area elected official accused of killing an investigative journalist will not go on trial next week. A Nevada…
Continue ReadingBy TOM ODULA Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — A Kenyan official says his government is halting plans to deploy at least 1,000 police officers…
Continue ReadingBy EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United States is spearheading the first United Nations resolution on artificial…
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