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Does Spain’s popular Eurovision song ‘Zorra’ insult women or defend them?
By CIARÁN GILES Associated Press MADRID (AP) — The title of Spain’s Eurovision song “Zorra” can be translated as an anti-female slur,…
Continue ReadingBy CIARÁN GILES Associated Press MADRID (AP) — The title of Spain’s Eurovision song “Zorra” can be translated as an anti-female slur,…
Continue ReadingNEW YORK (AP) — “The Girl on the Train” author Paula Hawkins has a new thriller out this fall, and will release it through a new publisher.…
Continue ReadingBy NINIEK KARMINI Associated Press JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Separatist rebels in Indonesia’s restive Papua region have expressed their readiness…
Continue ReadingBy JOSH JACQUOT Edmunds Maximizing your car’s trade-in value can add thousands to the bottom line in a new-car transaction. We share tips that will…
Continue ReadingKUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Malaysia says the Thai government and Muslim separatist rebels in southern Thailand have agreed in principle to a…
Continue ReadingBy RIO YAMAT Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — Las Vegas proposed to the NFL in December 2021. “Let’s just marry these brands, and let’s…
Continue ReadingTOKYO (AP) — Japanese officials say a stray dog attacked 11 people, most of them children playing in a park, causing minor injuries. Fire…
Continue ReadingBy MAE ANDERSON and WYATTE GRANTHAM-PHILIPS AP Business Writers NEW YORK (AP) — If you watch the Super Bowl for the commercials, you no longer have…
Continue ReadingMOSCOW (AP) — The upper house of Russia’s parliament has endorsed a bill that would allow authorities to confiscate money, valuables and other…
Continue ReadingPARIS (AP) — France is paying tribute Wednesday to French victims of Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack, in a national ceremony led by President Emmanuel…
Continue ReadingBy The Associated Press The U.N.’s World Food Program says it is aiming aims to reach up to 3 million Ethiopians affected by climate change and…
Continue ReadingBy JOSH BOAK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration is making plans to name a top White House aide as the director of the…
Continue ReadingBy JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press GENEVA (AP) — The U.N. humanitarian aid and refugee agencies are appealing for $4.1 billion in international…
Continue ReadingCOPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Swedish officials say they have decided to close their investigation into the September 2022 explosions on the Nord…
Continue ReadingBERLIN (AP) — Ground staff for Lufthansa have walked off the job at five major German airports, causing the airline to cancel hundreds of flights.…
Continue ReadingBy ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer BANGKOK (AP) — Chinese and U.S. officials have met in Beijing for talks on tough issues dividing the two…
Continue ReadingBy LORNE COOK Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — The U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees in Gaza is teetering on the brink of financial collapse.…
Continue ReadingBy ILLIA NOVIKOV Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Authorities say Russia has fired cruise and ballistic missiles and Shahed-type drones at…
Continue ReadingKUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — A lawyer for Malaysia’s ex-Prime Minister Najib Razak says he is disapppinted he wasn’t given a full royal pardon…
Continue ReadingBy RIAZAT BUTT Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan’s 127 million voters get to elect a new parliament on Thursday. The elections are…
Continue ReadingQUETTA, Pakistan (AP) — A bomb exploded at an election office of an independent candidate in southwest Pakistan on Wednesday, the day before…
Continue ReadingBy MATTHEW LEE, WAFAA SHURAFA and SAMY MAGDY Associated Press TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken was set to meet…
Continue ReadingBy MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japanese officials say a pod of killer whales that was trapped in drift ice off the northern main…
Continue ReadingBy YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Asian shares were mostly higher Wednesday, tracking gains on Wall Street, although Tokyo’s…
Continue ReadingBy HALLIE GOLDEN Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) — Adult dancers in Washington state are fighting for statewide worker protections that advocates say…
Continue ReadingMANILA, Philippines (AP) — A landslide has struck buses and houses in a gold-mining village in the southern Philippines and a search is underway…
Continue ReadingBy STEFANIE DAZIO and JULIE WATSON Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — A storm that parked itself over Southern California for days, unleashing…
Continue ReadingBy DAVID HAMILTON AP Technology Writer SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — When it comes to dealing with a Florida college student who uses public data and social…
Continue ReadingBy ROBERT YOON Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden has easily won Tuesday’s Democratic presidential primary in Nevada, his…
Continue ReadingBy ROBERT YOON Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The top vote-getter in Tuesday’s Republican presidential primary in Nevada wasn’t former U.N.…
Continue ReadingBy JESSE BEDAYN and MICHAEL CASEY Associated Press/Report for America DENVER (AP) — A new Harvard University study found that half of U.S. renters…
Continue ReadingBy WAFAA SHURAFA and SAMY MAGDY Associated Press DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Zainab al-Zein was forced to make a desperate decision: Feed her…
Continue ReadingBy BIANCA VÁZQUEZ TONESS AP Education Writer Trenace Dorsey-Hollins’ 5-year-old daughter was sick a lot last year. Dorsey-Hollins followed school…
Continue ReadingBANGKOK (AP) — Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Manet has arrived in Thailand’s capital on his first official visit since becoming his country’s…
Continue ReadingBy LAURIE KELLMAN Associated Press LONDON (AP) — In British history, the secrecy of the monarch’s health has always reigned supreme. The…
Continue ReadingBy DAVID McHUGH and MATTHEW DALY Associated Press FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — Missiles and drones are flying in the Red Sea, disrupting one of the…
Continue ReadingBy GEOFF MULVIHILL and KIMBERLEE KRUESI Associated Press The Florida Supreme Court is hearing arguments Wednesday on whether a ballot measure to…
Continue ReadingBy MARK SHERMAN and NICHOLAS RICCARDI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court has scheduled a special session to hear arguments over…
Continue ReadingBy ALANNA DURKIN RICHER and ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — All eyes are on the Supreme Court in Donald Trump’s federal 2020…
Continue ReadingBy DEE-ANN DURBIN AP Business Writer From Flamin’ Hot Cheetos to Sweet Heat Starburst, America’s snacks are getting spicier. Now, Coca-Cola wants…
Continue ReadingOLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — A suburban Seattle gun shop and its former owner will pay $3 million for selling high-capacity ammunition magazines despite a…
Continue ReadingBy ALBERT AJI and KAREEM CHEHAYEB Associated Press DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Syria’s military says Israeli airstrikes over the central city of…
Continue ReadingBy STEVE PEOPLES and BRIAN SLODYSKO Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Republican National Committee Chair Ronna McDaniel has discussed the…
Continue ReadingBy SIBI ARASU Associated Press BENGALURU, India (AP) — For years, renewable projects in India have been growing steadily — from small-town…
Continue ReadingLANCASTER, Calif. (AP) — Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies say they shot and killed a man armed with two machetes after he charged at…
Continue ReadingBy MARK THIESSEN Associated Press ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — A man accused of murdering two Alaska Native women recorded images of both of his…
Continue ReadingBy MICHAEL LIEDTKE AP Technology Writer General Motors’ troubled robotaxi service Cruise has endured a public lashing from a California judge. The…
Continue ReadingBy TOM ODULA Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Marauding hyenas have killed a man and wounded two people near a university outside the Kenyan…
Continue ReadingBy MICHAEL CASEY Associated Press CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) — Harvard University’s Hasty Pudding Theatricals has honored Annette Bening as its 2024…
Continue ReadingBy JEFF AMY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia senators have passed a bill to remove barcodes from ballots. The measure would mandate that…
Continue ReadingBy SAMANTHA HENDRICKSON Associated Press/Report For America COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A former Ohio sheriff’s deputy testified in a murder trial…
Continue ReadingBy JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press Rap legend Jam Master Jay lay, mortally wounded, on his studio floor. One of his aides was in pain from a gunshot…
Continue ReadingBy AIDA SULTANOVA Associated Press BAKU, Azerbaijan (AP) — Azerbaijanis are voting Wednesday in an election almost certain to see incumbent…
Continue ReadingLOS ANGELES (AP) — More than 380 mudslides. Nearly half of downtown Los Angeles’ yearly rainfall in just two days. A wind gust of 102 mph…
Continue ReadingBy DAVE COLLINS Associated Press A witness has testified that the estranged husband of Connecticut mother-of-five Jennifer Dulos pressured him to get…
Continue ReadingBy JULIA FRANKEL Associated Press RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — Israeli forces have arrested a 46-year-old American-Palestinian woman in the West…
Continue ReadingBy KEVIN FREKING Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A bill to provide Israel with more military aid has gone down in defeat in the House. The vote…
Continue ReadingBy KEN RITTER Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — A teachers’ union political group has filed a second legal effort to block taxpayer funds from…
Continue ReadingBy MARGERY A. BECK Associated Press A bill that would allow teachers and other staff in schools to be armed in the hopes of deterring school…
Continue ReadingBy MICHAEL GOLDBERG Associated Press/Report for America JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The mother of a 16-year-old who died in a workplace accident at a…
Continue ReadingBy EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Iraq’s government is focused on avoiding a domestic or regional spillover of the…
Continue ReadingBy SEAN MURPHY Associated Press OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A couple of major earthquakes in Oklahoma in recent weeks have raised concerns after years of…
Continue ReadingBy JOE REEDY AP Sports Writer ESPN, Fox and Warner Bros. Discovery announced plans on Tuesday to launch a sports streaming platform in the fall that…
Continue ReadingGREENBELT, Md. (AP) — A former top prosecutor for the city of Baltimore has been convicted on one count of mortgage fraud for lying on a loan…
Continue ReadingPORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Portland Audubon has changed its name to the “Bird Alliance of Oregon,” in the latest example of a local chapter to…
Continue ReadingBy JOEY CAPPELLETTI Associated Press LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Two Democratic lawmakers have introduced a resolution condemning an op-ed piece that…
Continue ReadingBy JOHN ANTCZAK Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — When rainstorms like this week’s powerful atmospheric river hit California, the earth begins…
Continue ReadingMILWAUKEE (AP) — A judge has waived to adult court a 16-year-old boy charged in a shooting after a Juneteenth celebration last year that left six…
Continue ReadingBy JOHN RABY Associated Press CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A Virginia bank that is seeking to recover more longstanding unpaid business loans to the…
Continue ReadingBy TARA COPP Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon believes it has identified the mechanical failure in an Osprey aircraft that led to a…
Continue ReadingBy ANDREW DALTON AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Actor Gina Carano has sued Lucasfilm and its parent The Walt Disney Co. over her 2021…
Continue ReadingBy BRUCE SCHREINER Associated Press FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Fifteen years ago, bourbon barons poured whiskey out on the Kentucky Capitol steps to…
Continue ReadingBy COLLEEN BARRY Associated Press MILAN (AP) — Authorities in northern Italy have culled a brown bear they deemed dangerous to humans, drawing…
Continue ReadingBy DAVID SHARP Associated Press The Postal Service says a mix of environmental initiatives and cost-cutting business practices are going to reduce…
Continue ReadingBy WILL WEISSERT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is teaming up with predecessors Barack Obama and Bill Clinton next month…
Continue ReadingBy JONEL ALECCIA AP Health Writer Officials in Ecuador have named a likely source of contaminated ground cinnamon used in fruit pouches tied more…
Continue ReadingBy RUSS BYNUM Associated Press SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — All of Georgia’s members of Congress have signed a letter that supports studying another…
Continue ReadingBy KIMBERLEE KRUESI Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A Tennessee legislative staffer has been placed on leave after Democratic state Rep.…
Continue ReadingBy MEAD GRUVER Associated Press A man accused of faking his own death and fleeing the U.S. to avoid rape charges continued to deny he is the man…
Continue ReadingBy ELLEN KNICKMEYER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Senators have confirmed a veteran of U.S.-Asian engagement and security as the State…
Continue ReadingBy MARIA SHERMAN AP Music Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — R&B icon Usher has announced a new North American tour. After two years of his popular Las…
Continue ReadingBy JEFFREY COLLINS Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Football coaches from South Carolina’s three major school have joined together at…
Continue ReadingWAILUKU, Hawaii (AP) — Captains of a Hawaii high school football team whose town was destroyed by a deadly wildfire are going to Super Bowl in Las…
Continue ReadingBy JEFF AMY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — A bill to require cash bail for 30 additional crimes is headed to Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp’s desk…
Continue ReadingBy DEE-ANN DURBIN AP Business Writer Red Solo cups – a staple of barbecues and beer pong – are usually synonymous with good times. But on…
Continue ReadingSTUDIO CITY, Calif. (AP) — A crewmember who was working on the Marvel Studios series “Wonder Man” has died following an accident on set. The…
Continue ReadingLUTSEN, Minn. (AP) — An overnight fire has destroyed the historic Lutsen Lodge on Lake Superior in northern Minnesota. The only staffer present…
Continue ReadingVIÑA DEL MAR, Chile (AP) — Sebastián Piñera, the two-time former president of Chile, who in his second term faced a social upheaval followed by…
Continue ReadingBy DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — King Charles III’s cancer diagnosis heaps more pressure on the British monarchy, which is still…
Continue ReadingBy DAVID KOENIG AP Airlines Writer Bolts that helped secure a panel to the frame of a Boeing 737 Max 9 were missing before the panel blew off the…
Continue ReadingSYDNEY, Nova Scotia (AP) — Some residents in the Canadian Atlantic city of Cape Breton were anxiously awaiting rescue after a huge dump of heavy,…
Continue ReadingOMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A federal judge has approved an agreement between two tribes and an eastern Nebraska county that gives Native American voters a…
Continue ReadingFORT MYERS, Fla. (AP) — Authorities say a deputy shot and killed a man after he took people hostage and claimed to have a bomb at a Florida bank.…
Continue ReadingBy The Associated Press The world premiere stage adaptation of Prince’s film and album “Purple Rain” is set for spring 2025 at an appropriate…
Continue ReadingBy FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The IRS says it expects to collect hundreds of billions of dollars more in overdue and unpaid…
Continue ReadingBy EVENS SANON Associated Press PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — A former rebel leader has made a surprise appearance in Haiti’s capital amid large…
Continue ReadingBy GERALD IMRAY Associated Press CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — A South African court has upheld a ban on leaders of a boisterous opposition party…
Continue ReadingNEW YORK (AP) — Novels by James McBride and Alice McDermott and a short story collection by Jamel Brinkley are among the 10 books on the longlist…
Continue ReadingBy COLLEEN LONG Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Build more border wall. Reinstate tough Trump-era immigration policies. Or simply shut it down.…
Continue ReadingBy JOSH FUNK Associated Press OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Officials have identified the two Omaha police officers who shot and killed two men while working…
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