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By DARLENE SUPERVILLE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Thunder and lightning delayed the start of the Easter egg roll at the White House for 90…

By SETH BORENSTEIN AP Science Writer The periodical cicadas that are about to infest two parts of the United States aren’t just plentiful,…

By SETH BORENSTEIN AP Science Writer Trillions of evolution’s bizarro wonders, red-eyed periodical cicadas that have pumps in their heads and…

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A nearly $1 billion Powerball jackpot will tempt lottery players who think they just might hit it rich after three months…

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greek authorities say dozens of migrants found in a wooden boat on the Mediterranean Sea between northern Africa and southern…

MOSCOW (AP) — Russia’s top security agency said Monday it has broken up what it called a “terrorist cell” in southern Russia…

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — A woman has died and a child has been injured in southern Poland when strong winds toppled trees. A spokesman for…

BEIJING (AP) — Indonesian President-elect Prabowo Subianto pledged to continue his country’s “friendly policy” toward China as he met with…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — A contentious new law against hate speech has come into force in Scotland. It’s being praised…

By LEA SKENE and TASSANEE VEJPONGSA Associated Press BALTIMORE (AP) — The U.S. Coast Guard is preparing a temporary, alternate channel for…

TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Former Taiwanese President Ma Ying-jeou is visiting China to help build social and cultural links on a trip that might…

NEW YORK (AP) — James Patterson is launching a true crime series on the streaming service Fox Nation. “Unsolved With James Patterson,” hosted…

By STAN CHOE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Who do you have winning your college basketball bracket? The head of AT&T’s marketing is…

ISLAMABAD (AP) — Officials say a Pakistani appeals court has suspended a 14-year prison sentence for former Prime Minister Imran Khan and his wife…

By KATE ASHFORD of NerdWallet Only about 1 in 8 adults know when they’ll be eligible for full retirement benefits through Social Security,…

Authorities in Russia’s Far East have called off a rescue effort for 13 workers trapped deep underground in a collapsed gold mine and declared them…

Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — UPS will become the primary air cargo provider for the United States Postal Service. The Atlanta shipping company…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — British royalty and the media can be an explosive mix, as recent weeks of speculation over the…

ANDREW WILKS ISTANBUL (AP) — Turkey is coming to terms with the opposition’s unexpected success in local elections that saw it outperform…

By TOM KRISHER AP Auto Writer DETROIT (AP) — In September, Hyundai and Kia issued a recall of 3.4 million vehicles in the United States with an…

By DAVID McHUGH Associated Press FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — Germany has legalized the possession of small amounts of marijuana. The new law took…

By TOM KRISHER AP Auto Writer DETROIT (AP) — In September, Hyundai and Kia issued a recall of 3.4 million of its vehicles in the United States with…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s imperial family has made an Instagram debut with a barrage of posts, hoping to shake off…

ISLAMABAD (AP) — An old land mine found by children in eastern Afghanistan has exploded while they were playing with it, killing nine children. A…

BEIJING (AP) — The French foreign minister has pressed China on trade issues and the war in Ukraine ahead of a planned visit to France by Chinese…

By SHEIKH SAALIQ Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — The world’s largest democratic election could also be one of its most consequential. With a…

NEW DELHI (AP) — A court in Indian has placed a top opposition leader in two weeks of judicial detention after his 10 days in the custody of a…

ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistani officials say the bodies of five Chinese nationals who were killed last week in a suicide bombing in northwestern…

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Police say a man was killed and five other people were injured during a shooting inside a Nashville, Tennessee, restaurant.…

By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer BANGKOK (AP) — A World Bank report says Asian economies are not doing as well as they could and growth in…

By LAURAN NEERGAARD AP Medical Writer PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A racially biased test delayed Black patients from getting a kidney transplant and now…

By WAFAA SHURAFA and SAMY MAGDY Associated Press DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Palestinian residents say the Israeli military has withdrawn from…

By HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea’s president has vowed not to back down in the face of vehement protests…

By DIANE JEANTET, DAVID BILLER and GABRIELA SÁ PESSOA Associated Press RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Brazil’s federal police have arrested the chief of…

By HUIZHONG WU Associated Press TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Their days often began at the crack of dawn. They’d head out to a church, a temple, a park…

By HUIZHONG WU Associated Press TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Their days often began at the crack of dawn. They’d head out to a church, a temple, a park…

By JOHN HANNA AP Political Writer TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas lawmakers are approaching a deadline to pass pending legislation or let it die. The…

By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer BANGKOK (AP) — Asian shares were mixed on Monday, with Shanghai gaining 1% after surveys showed…

By ELLEN KNICKMEYER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Dr. John Nkengasong has spent decades working in Africa on HIV and AIDS, his career…

By WILL WEISSERT and JILL COLVIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The video shared by Donald Trump features horror movie music and footage of…

By JEFFREY COLLINS Associated Press For maybe the last time, convicted killer Alex Murdaugh will shuffle into a courtroom in South Carolina. Murdaugh…

By REBECCA BOONE Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — The trial of a man charged with the deaths of his wife and his girlfriend’s two…

By WILL WEISSERT and JILL COLVIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — In Donald Trump’s speeches and online posts, the Republican presidential…

By ABBY SEWELL and QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA Associated Press BAGHDAD (AP) — A pro basketball team in Iraq is owned by a paramilitary group, and some of…

By STEVE KARNOWSKI Associated Press ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — A ruling that weakened a key part of the Voting Rights Act is spurring lawmakers in…

By The Associated Press This week’s new streaming entertainment releases include albums from hip-hop hitmaker Bryson Tiller and percussion master…

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — A key Japanese central bank report says that sentiment among big manufacturers has sagged but…

By SAMY MAGDY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — The U.S. military says its forces have destroyed two unmanned aerial vehicles in the Houthi-held areas…

By WYATTE GRANTHAM-PHILIPS AP Business Reporter NEW YORK (AP) — The theft of sensitive information belonging to millions of AT&T’s current…

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Traffic is moving again after a stretch of California’s scenic Highway 1 collapsed during an Easter weekend storm, forcing…

DAVENPORT, Okla. (AP) — Authorities and work crews continue to clean up after a train derailment in central Oklahoma overturned 22 rail cars…

By PAT EATON-ROBB AP Sports Writer ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — The Los Angeles Times has edited a column it published last week about the LSU women’s…

NEW YORK (AP) — Kia is recalling more than 427,000 of its Telluride SUVs due to a defect that may cause the cars to roll away while they’re…

By ANDREW DALTON AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Godzilla-King Kong combo stomped on expectations as “Godzilla x Kong: The New…

QUITO, Ecuador (AP) — Ecuador’s Interior Ministry says armed gunmen have attacked a group of people in the coastal city of Guayaquil, killing…

By MIKE PESOLI and JEFFREY COLLINS Associated Press BALTIMORE (AP) — Crews continue the complicated and meticulous operation of removing the steel…

HOUSTON (AP) — Officials say gunfire at two separate Houston-area birthday parties this weekend resulted in two people being fatally shot and three…

SALLISAW, Okla. (AP) — An Oklahoma highway has been reopened following its closure for a few hours on Saturday after a bridge over the Arkansas…

JERUSALEM (AP) — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office says the Israeli leader will undergo surgery on Sunday for a hernia. Netanyahu’s…

PARIS (AP) — French Defense Minister Sébastien Lecornu said France is going to deliver “hundreds” of armored vehicles by the beginning of next…

By THOMAS BEAUMONT and SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin’s presidential primary this Tuesday will clear the way for a…

By JACQUELYN MARTIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Jacquelyn Martin, a photojournalist with The Associated Press in Washington, recalls how she…

By WAFAA SHURAFA and SAMY MAGDY Associated Press DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — An Israeli airstrike has hit a tent camp inside a hospital in…

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Police in Indianapolis say seven young people between the ages of 12 and 17 were wounded in a shooting outside a downtown…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japan says its experts have held talks with Chinese counterparts to try to assuage Beijing’s…

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — A Russian cruise missile strike on infrastructure in Ukraine’s western Lviv region killed one man, officials said Sunday.…

By MICHAEL LIEDTKE AP Technology Writer SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin loved pulling pranks, so much so they…

LONDON (AP) — King Charles III is expected to join the queen and other members of the royal family for an Easter service at Windsor Castle in what…

NEW DELHI (AP) — Thousands of people have attended a rally by an alliance of India’s opposition parties that criticized the government of Prime…

By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press ROME (AP) — Pope Francis overcame concerns about his health to preside over Easter Sunday Mass, leading tens of…

By BRIAN P. D. HANNON Associated Press Longtime U.S. Rep. William D. Delahunt of Massachusetts has died following a long-term illness. His family…

By STEPHEN McGRATH and VESELIN TOSHKOV Associated Press SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) — Romania and Bulgaria partially joined Europe’s Schengen…

BEIRUT (AP) — A car bomb has exploded in a busy market in a northern Syrian town controlled by Turkey-based Syrian opposition fighters, killing at…

TRUCKEE, Calif. (AP) — Police in California say two people died when a small airplane crashed in a California town near the Nevada state line. The…

By FARAI MUTSAKA and GERALD IMRAY Associated Press MANGWE, Zimbabwe (AP) — Delicately and with intense concentration, Zanyiwe Ncube poured her…

BEIJING (AP) — Manufacturing in China expanded in March after contracting for five consecutive months. That’s according to an official survey…

By TERRY CHEA and ADAM BEAM Associated Press LIVERMORE, Calif. (AP) — Most fast food workers in California will be paid at least $20 an hour…

By SHARON LURYE Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A group of students from a New Orleans high school staged a play they developed on the steps of…

By SUZAN FRASER and CINAR KIPER Associated Press ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — The race is on for control of Istanbul and other key cities as Turkey holds…

By LEA SKENE Associated Press BALTIMORE (AP) — Generations of Maryland workers — longshoremen, seafarers, steelworkers and crabbers whose…

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The numbers have been drawn for an estimated $935 million Powerball jackpot that has been growing since the last winner…

By The Associated Press Actor Chance Perdomo has died at age 27 following a motorcycle crash. He rose to fame as a star of “Chilling Adventures of…

By JOSH BOAK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is facing criticism from Donald Trump and religious conservatives for…

By ANUPAM NATH Associated Press GUWAHATI, India (AP) — Anupam Nath has been covering Holi, the Hindu festival of colors, in Guwahati in…

Associated Press SALLISAW, Okla. (AP) — The Oklahoma State Patrol says it closed a highway south of Sallisaw after a barge struck a bridge over the…

SPARKS, Nev. (AP) — Three law enforcement officers in northern Nevada were shot and wounded Friday after a traffic stop in the Reno area quickly…

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Police in Haiti say two men have been hacked to death by a mob who thought they were buying ammunition or guns for…

By JACK DURA Associated Press BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — President Joe Biden has won North Dakota’s Democratic presidential primary. The state party…

By STEFANIE DAZIO Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — An Easter weekend storm has slammed into Southern California, bringing more rain and mountain…

PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — A Pakistani official says heavy rains have killed eight people, mostly children, and injured 12 in the country’s…

By STEPHEN WHYNO AP Hockey Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Washington Capitals defenseman John Carlson is on the verge of reaching the 1,000 NHL games…

DALLAS (AP) — AT&T says it has begun notifying millions of customers about the theft of personal data recently discovered online. The…

FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — Police in Munich say they have stepped up security measures ahead of the Bayern Munich-Borussia Dortmund soccer match on…

By HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH Associated Press MISSION, Kan. (AP) — An office manager at a weekly newspaper in Kansas is the latest employee to sue over…

LONDON (AP) — Cambridge has extended its dominant run in the annual Boat Race with victories in the men’s and women’s events on a polluted…

Associated Press ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Police in Albuquerque, New Mexico, clearly had all the horsepower in a chase captured on bodycam video.…

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) — Harvard University said it has removed human skin from the binding of a 19th century book about the afterlife that has been…

ROME (AP) — Napoli’s players have taken a knee before their Serie A game against Atalanta in a public show of support for teammate Juan Jesus. It…

NEW YORK (AP) — A procession of New York Police Department officers, on foot and driving motorcycles, have escorted the remains of their slain…

By JACK JEFFERY Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel’s military has acknowledged its troops shot dead two Palestinians and wounded a third…