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Russian foreign minister visits Caracas and reaffirms support of Venezuela’s Maduro
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has reaffirmed his government’s support for the administration of Venezuelan…
Continue ReadingCARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has reaffirmed his government’s support for the administration of Venezuelan…
Continue ReadingBy DÁNICA COTO Associated Press SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — A judge who investigated the 2021 assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse…
Continue ReadingPHOENIX (AP) — For nearly two decades, it was a mystery who had left “Baby Skylar,” an unidentified newborn found dead inside a Phoenix airport…
Continue ReadingBy HANNAH SCHOENBAUM Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Ruby Franke, a Utah mother of six who gave parenting advice to millions via a…
Continue ReadingBy JESSE BEDAYN and COLLEEN SLEVIN Associated Press DENVER (AP) — Police say a student arrested in the deaths of two people found shot in a…
Continue ReadingBy PATRICK WHITTLE Associated Press PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Maine’s governor says a state-owned site on the coast of Maine will serve as the…
Continue ReadingBy LLAZAR SEMINI Associated Press TIRANA, Albania (AP) — Thousands of supporters of Albania’s opposition have held an anti-government protest…
Continue ReadingBy KEN RITTER Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — A trial date has been pushed back from June to November for a former Los Angeles-area gang leader…
Continue ReadingBy STEVE LeBLANC Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — An American Airlines flight attendant arrested on suspicion of trying to secretly record a…
Continue ReadingBENTON, La. (AP) — Authorities have launched an investigation after a north Louisiana church attended by House Speaker Mike Johnson received mail…
Continue ReadingBy JEAN-YVES KAMALE Associated Press KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — Authorities and a civil society group say extremist rebels in eastern Congo have killed…
Continue ReadingMEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s president has acknowledged the armed forces have taken over yet another civilian role: fixing the nation’s…
Continue ReadingBy RUSS BYNUM Associated Press SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — A lawsuit by Black descendants of slaves that challenges zoning changes affecting their island…
Continue ReadingBy JOHN ANTCZAK and PHILIP MARCELO Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Much of saturated California remains under threat of floods as the latest…
Continue ReadingBy MARYCLAIRE DALE and MARK SCOLFORO Associated Press PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A federal appeals court must decide if Pennsylvania voters who put the…
Continue ReadingFAIRFAX, Va. (AP) — Authorities say a man who was injured in a car crash walked out of the northern Virginia hospital where he was being treated…
Continue ReadingMOSCOW (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin has declared that Moscow has no intention to deploy nuclear weapons in space, claiming that the…
Continue ReadingSAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Chris Caray has been hired as a play-by-play announcer for Oakland Athletics games on NBC Sports California, becoming the…
Continue ReadingINDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Authorities in Indianapolis have released the name of a 35-year-old woman who was slain during a shooting that apparently…
Continue ReadingBy STEVE LeBLANC Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — Former U.S. Marine and cryptocurrency attorney John Deaton has announced that he is challenging…
Continue ReadingBy KEN SWEET AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Capital One Financial is betting that Americans will keep shopping and use a credit card to pay for…
Continue ReadingBy FARAI MUTSAKA Associated Press HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — Zimbabwe has started an emergency campaign to inoculate more than 4 million children…
Continue ReadingBy SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Republican businessman and real estate mogul Eric Hovde has launched his bid for the U.S.…
Continue ReadingFERGUSON, Mo. (AP) — Police are investigating a “suspicious” fire in Ferguson, Missouri, that killed a woman and four children. Firefighters…
Continue ReadingBy MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — A new, inclusive stage production of “Peter Pan” flies out on a U.S. tour this month,…
Continue ReadingBy KIM CHANDLER Associated Press MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — The Alabama Supreme Court has ruled that frozen embryos created during fertility…
Continue ReadingBy WAYNE PARRY Associated Press ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — New figures from the gambling industry show America’s commercial casinos won more…
Continue ReadingBy ZEKE MILLER AP White House Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House says it is preparing additional “major sanctions” on Russia in…
Continue ReadingBy CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Nigeria’s defense chief has expressed frustration with what he called the “double…
Continue ReadingBy STEVE PEOPLES AP National Political Writer KIAWAH ISLAND, S.C. (AP) — Nikki Haley’s team is bracing for a home state embarrassment in South…
Continue ReadingBy STEVE PEOPLES AP National Political Writer KIAWAH ISLAND, S.C. (AP) — Nikki Haley’s allies are bracing for a big loss in her home…
Continue ReadingBy JAMIE STENGLE and JOSH BOAK Associated Press MESQUITE, Texas (AP) — As President Joe Biden pushes House Republicans to pass needed aid for…
Continue ReadingBy EMILY SCHULTHEIS Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Thousands of travelers across Germany have found themselves stranded after ground staff walked…
Continue ReadingWASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court has rejected an appeal from Sidney Powell and other lawyers allied with former President Donald Trump over…
Continue ReadingWASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court has left in place the admissions policy at an elite public high school in Virginia, despite claims that it…
Continue ReadingLONDON (AP) — Prince William, the heir to the British throne, has called for an end to fighting in the Gaza Strip as soon as possible. He stopped…
Continue ReadingBy TARA COPP Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Air Force Special Operations Command says it knows what failed on its CV-22B Osprey leading to…
Continue ReadingDALLAS (AP) — American Airlines is raising bag fees and pushing customers to buy tickets directly from the airline if they want to earn…
Continue ReadingBy JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The Beatles are getting the big-screen biopic treatment in a Fab Four of movies that will give each…
Continue ReadingMOSCOW (AP) — A court in the Russian capital ruled Tuesday to keep Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich in custody pending his trial on…
Continue ReadingTHE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — An Amsterdam court has rejected Russia’s final argument in a years-long legal battle over a $50 billion arbitration…
Continue ReadingBy DEREK GATOPOULOS Associated Press ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greece’s Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has insisted that the rule of law in the…
Continue ReadingBy PAN PYLAS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The British government’s top lawyer has referred to the U.K.’s Court of Appeal the sentence handed…
Continue ReadingBy PHILIP MARCELO Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández is facing charges that he ran his impoverished…
Continue ReadingCAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — South Africa’s unemployment rate rose to 32.1% in the fourth quarter of 2023. It is the highest in the world.…
Continue ReadingBy LOUISE DIXON Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Stephen Fry and Lena Dunham play a convincing father and daughter in German director Julia von…
Continue ReadingBy OLEG CETINIC Associated Press PARIS (AP) — A strike at the Eiffel Tower over poor financial management has turned away visitors for the second…
Continue ReadingLONDON (AP) — A UK based think-tank says Russia is rebuilding its capacity to destabilize European countries and extend its influence in the Middle…
Continue ReadingBy PAN PYLAS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — London police said that they “strongly believe” that they have pulled out from the River Thames the…
Continue ReadingBy LORNE COOK Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — Senior European Union officials are welcoming a plan by Poland’s new government to address…
Continue ReadingBy ALANA BENSON of NerdWallet For years millennials have been treated like broke kids, which might have had some truth to it. But these days,…
Continue ReadingWARSAW, Poland (AP) — Polish farmers have blocked border crossings with Ukraine as they intensify nationwide protest against the import of…
Continue ReadingBy EMMA BURROWS Associated Press Russian President Vladimir Putin did not see the video in which Alexei Navalny’s widow vowed to continue his…
Continue ReadingBy MIKE CORDER Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — South Africa has argued at the United Nations’ top court that Israel is responsible…
Continue ReadingLONDON (AP) — A website run by Lockbit, a prolific ransomware syndicate behind cyberattacks around the world, has been taken over by law…
Continue ReadingBy HANNA ARHIROVA Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Delays in weapons deliveries from Western allies to Ukraine are opening a door for Russian…
Continue ReadingBELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Police say a car crash in southern Serbia has killed three migrants and injured 11 others. A police statement says officers…
Continue ReadingWASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration says it is distributing another $5.8 billion for water infrastructure projects around the country, paid…
Continue ReadingBy AAMER MADHANI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is California-bound as he looks to soak up more cash for his reelection bid…
Continue ReadingBy CIARÁN GILES Associated Press MADRID (AP) — Spanish police said Tuesday they suspect the bullet-riddled body of a man found in an eastern town…
Continue ReadingATHENS, Greece (AP) — Farmers from around Greece are traveling to Athens in tractor convoys to demand more financial concessions from the…
Continue ReadingBy YURI KAGEYAMA Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Hirotake Yano, who founded the retail chain Daiso known for 100-yen shops, Japan’s equivalent of…
Continue ReadingBy JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Despite a month of U.S.-led airstrikes, Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi rebels…
Continue ReadingBy BOUBACAR DIALLO Associated Press CONAKRY, Guinea (AP) — Guinea’s military rulers say they have dissolved the government and will appoint a…
Continue ReadingBy JUSTIN SPIKE Associated Press BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — A vote in Hungary’s parliament on ratifying Sweden’s bid to join NATO could come as…
Continue ReadingBy WAFAA SHURAFA and SAMY MAGDY Associated Press RAFAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israel ordered new evacuations from parts of Gaza City on Tuesday, as a…
Continue ReadingBy YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Asian shares were trading mixed Tuesday on the second day Chinese markets were open after the…
Continue ReadingBy MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal said his country needs long-range missiles and other…
Continue ReadingBy EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Arab nations are putting to a vote a U.N. resolution demanding an immediate humanitarian…
Continue ReadingBy JIWON SONG and HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korean trainee doctors have collectively walked off their jobs to…
Continue ReadingROME (AP) — Four high-level Egyptian security officials are going on trial in the 2016 abduction, torture and slaying of an Italian doctoral…
Continue ReadingBy JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Julian Assange’s lawyers will begin their final U.K. legal challenge on Tuesday to stop the…
Continue ReadingBy CHRISTOPHER BODEEN Associated Press TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Taiwan on Tuesday protested China’s boarding of a tourist boat, as tensions rise…
Continue ReadingBy NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press VATICAN CITY (AP) — Five years ago this week, Pope Francis convened an unprecedented summit of bishops from…
Continue ReadingBy NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press VATICAN CITY (AP) — One afternoon in mid-December, Pope Francis had a meeting that wasn’t on his official…
Continue ReadingBy JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — In the mid-1970s, the Eagles were working on a spooky, cryptic new song. On a lined yellow pad,…
Continue ReadingBy The Associated Press When the invasion of Ukraine began in February 2022, some analysts predicted it might take as few as three days for Russian…
Continue ReadingBy ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer BANGKOK (AP) — China’s central bank has announced it cut its five-year loan prime rate while leaving…
Continue ReadingBy JAMES POLLARD Associated Press/Report for America COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — The first federal trial over a hate crime based on gender identity is…
Continue ReadingBy MONIKA SCISLOWSKA and RAFAL NIEDZIELSKI Associated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Once banned by rulers dispatched from Moscow, Poland’s stately…
Continue ReadingBy MARC LEVY Associated Press HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Since he became a force in Republican politics, Donald Trump has figured prominently in U.S.…
Continue ReadingBy DANIEL COLE Associated Press TEAHUPO’O, French Polynesia (AP) — The world-famous surf spot of Teahupo’o in Tahiti, French Polynesia,…
Continue ReadingTORONTO (AP) — A flight heading from Toronto to New York City earlier this month had to turn around because of a “burnt electrical smell” in…
Continue ReadingNEW DELHI (AP) — Indian farmers who have been protesting for a week to demand guaranteed crop prices have rejected a proposal from the government,…
Continue ReadingBy ZEN SOO AP Business Writer SINGAPORE (AP) — The Singapore Airshow – Asia’s largest – kicks off Tuesday with an array of aerial…
Continue ReadingBy HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea says Russian President Vladimir Putin has gifted North Korean leader Kim…
Continue ReadingNEW YORK (AP) — Capital One Financial is buying Discover Financial Services for $35 billion, in a deal that would bring together two of the…
Continue ReadingBy MARCOS ALEMÁN and MEGAN JANETSKY Associated Press SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) — El Salvador President Nayib Bukele and his New Ideas party…
Continue ReadingBy JENNA FRYER AP Auto Racing Writer DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (AP) — William Byron launched Hendrick Motorsports’ 40th anniversary season by…
Continue ReadingBy SUMMER BALLENTINE Associated Press COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — Missouri’s Republican-led House has passed a ban on celebratory gunfire in cities…
Continue ReadingBy JOHN HANNA Associated Press A man who died after fatally shooting two police officers and a firefighter in a wooded Minneapolis-area neighborhood…
Continue ReadingSEATTLE (AP) — A woman suffered injuries to her face and neck after a cougar leapt out and “latched onto” her while she was cycling with a…
Continue ReadingBy DÁNICA COTO and EVENS SANON Associated Press PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — A judge investigating the July 2021 assassination of President…
Continue ReadingBy SYLVIA HUI Associated Press LONDON (AP) — British Foreign Secretary David Cameron has toured battle sites of the Falklands War during a visit…
Continue ReadingBy REGINA GARCIA CANO Associated Press CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuela’s government and opposition have repeated their respective defense and…
Continue ReadingWASHINGTON (AP) — Five D.C. United fan groups say they’ll remain quiet for the first four matches this season to protest the Major League…
Continue ReadingBy SYLVIA HUI Associated Press LONDON (AP) — “Saltburn” star Barry Keoghan and “The Crown” actress Olivia Coleman are among celebrities who…
Continue ReadingBEIRUT (AP) — A paramedic official and state media say a building collapsed in a southern suburb of Beirut killing four people and injuring three…
Continue ReadingBUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — A study by the Catholic University of Argentina released over the weekend says that poverty levels in Argentina…
Continue ReadingFORT WAYNE, Ind. (AP) — A 41-year-old man in Indiana is charged with posting threats using interstate communications after allegedly threatening to…
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