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By CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — The United Nations office in Nigeria says at least 200 people, mostly women and children…

By DEE-ANN DURBIN AP Business Writer Gum makers are trying to figure out what will make Americans start chewing again. Generational habits, health…

By JOSH BOAK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is going into his third State of the Union address with an expanded plan to…

By The Associated Press The guest list for President Joe Biden’s State of the Union address speaks volumes about what Democrats and Republicans…

By MICHAEL LIEDTKE AP Technology Writer Apple is opening small cracks in the iPhone’s digital fortress as part of a regulatory clampdown in Europe…

By KIRSTEN GRIESHABER Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Millions of travelers across Germany are being affected by strikes again after two unions…

HOUSTON (AP) — A United flight from Houston to Fort Myers, Texas, was forced turn around Monday after one of the plane’s engines caught fire.…

By DAVID RISING Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — The top American diplomat for East Asia and the Pacific is criticizing China for using intimidation…

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim says that the United States has become more…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — As Japan prepares to mark the 13th anniversary of its worst-ever nuclear disaster, the man in…

By ZEN SOO Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — China’s exports and imports for the first two months of the year beat estimates, an indication that…

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Asian shares were trading mixed Thursday, after Wall Street recovered some losses from the day…

By BARRY HATTON Associated Press LISBON, Portugal (AP) — Corruption is a key issue in Portugal’s early general election on Sunday.…

By JAMIE STENGLE Associated Press DALLAS (AP) — Once again, most Americans will set their clocks forward by one hour this weekend, losing perhaps a…

By MORGAN LEE Associated Press SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — Now that jurors in New Mexico have convicted a movie weapons supervisor of involuntary…

By SAM METZ Associated Press RABAT, Morocco (AP) — Climate change and a yearslong drought have forced Morocco’s famous public baths to close…

By MORGAN LEE and ANREW DALTON Associated Press SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — The trial and conviction of a movie armorer in connection with a fatal…

By JONEL ALECCIA AP Health Writer Millions of Americans who have dropped pounds and boosted their health using popular obesity drugs like Wegovy are…

By DAVID SHARP and PATRICK WHITTLE Associated Press AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — Robert Card, an Army reservist who shot and killed 18 people in Maine…

By KANIS LEUNG Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — Criticizing laws or chanting anti-government slogans can be enough to jail someone for sedition in…

BY JOEAL CALUPITAN AND AARON FAVILA Associated Press ABOARD BRP SINDANGAN (AP) — It was a heart-pounding moment far out in the disputed South China…

By REGINA GARCIA CANO Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — Women across the world will demand equal pay, reproductive rights, education, justice,…

By DAVID McHUGH AP Business Writer FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — Europe’s energy crisis sparked by Russia’s war in Ukraine has eased.…

By AYSE WIETING and SUZAN FRASER Associated Press ISTANBUL (AP) — At least 71 women have been killed in Turkey this year as activists say the…

By ED WHITE Associated Press PONTIAC, Mich. (AP) — Jurors will soon hear opening statements and the first batch of witnesses in the trial of the…

By ACACIA CORONADO Associated Press UVALDE, Texas (AP) — Nearly two years after the deadly school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, that left 19 children…

By DASHA LITVINOVA Associated Press TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — It’s not just opposition politicians who are targeted in the crackdown by Russian…

By BILL BARROW and WILL WEISSERT Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Joe Biden and Donald Trump each won the White House by razor-thin margins in key…

By TODD RICHMOND Associated Press RACINE, Wis. (AP) — An unusually warm winter has left the Great Lakes all but devoid of ice and sent scientists…

By DEEPTI HAJELA and WYATTE GRANTHAM-PHILIPS Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Once upon a time, there was a brief outage on some social media…

By ERIC RISBERG and JANIE HAR Associated Press NAPA COUNTY, Calif. (AP) — Brilliant yellow and gold mustard is carpeting Northern California’s…

By ZEKE MILLER and SEUNG MIN KIM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is set to use his State of the Union address to promote his…

By MARK STEVENSON Associated Press CELAYA, Mexico (AP) — Welcome to what might be the most dangerous place to be a police officer in North America.…

NEW DELHI (AP) — Prime Minister Narendra Modi is making his first official visit to Kashmir’s main city since India stripped the disputed…

BEIJING (AP) — China’s foreign minister is accusing the U.S. of devising tactics to suppress China’s rise and he has criticized the Biden…

By SARAH RANKIN Associated Press RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A top Democratic Virginia lawmaker is vowing to keep language enabling a proposed relocation…

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Australian and Vietnamese prime ministers have discussed ways of improving an already…

By SETH BORENSTEIN AP Science Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Scientists calculate that for the ninth straight month Earth has obliterated global heat…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Britain has circulated a draft U.N. resolution calling for an immediate cessation of…

By EILEEN NG Associated Press KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Over the past decade, Grace Subathirai Nathan graduated from law school, got married,…

By JULIE CARR SMYTH Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A fractious three-way Republican primary for the chance to unseat Democratic U.S. Sen.…

By ROB GILLIES Associated Press TORONTO (AP) — The Canadian government has reached a settlement with one of two Canadians who were detained in…

By HANNAH SCHOENBAUM Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — For the second time in a decade, a decision by the Utah Republican Party to select its…

By ADAM BEAM Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California voters have settled House primaries across the state. But all eyes are on a…

By THOMAS BEAUMONT and STEVE PEOPLES Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The third-party presidential movement No Labels is expected to move this…

BY MATTHEW BARAKAT Associated Press LEESBURG, Va. (AP) — A judge has set aside a guilty verdict against a former Virginia school system…

By MARK THIESSEN Associated Press ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Five-time Iditarod champion Dallas Seavey’s path to a possible record-breaking…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascón has advanced to a runoff in his reelection bid. Gascón faced 11 challengers…

By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN Associated Press ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — A U.S. judge on Wednesday sentenced four family members to life in prison for…

By HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea says leader Kim Jong Un has called for greater war fighting capabilities…

By BRUCE SCHREINER Associated Press FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — A bill that will undo efforts in Kentucky’s two largest cities to ban landlords from…

By BRENDAN FARRINGTON Associated Press TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Florida lawmakers have sent Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis a bill to ban or…

By ELLIOT SPAGAT Associated Press SAN DIEGO (AP) — In his victory speech Tuesday, former president Donald Trump echoed false statements on social…

By GARY D. ROBERTSON Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina’s public schools superintendent and some state legislators won’t be…

LAS VEGAS (AP) — A retired professional wrestler and former congressional candidate is being sought in the death of a man injured last year at a…

By JOSH FUNK AP Business Writer The head of the National Transportation Safety Board told Congress Wednesday that the decision to blow open five tank…

In Hollywood, actor Kevin Bacon is a big star. In Wisconsin’s Kenosha County, Kevin Bacon is one big pig! The 450-pound porker wandered away from…

By KEN RITTER Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — Federal airport security officials have unveiled a passenger self-screening checkpoint at Harry…

By MATTHEW DALY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Twenty-five Republican-led states have joined lawsuits challenging a new Biden administration…

By STEVE LeBLANC Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — Massachusetts House lawmakers have approved a proposal that would limit how long homeless people…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Constitution spells it out clearly in Article II, Section 3: The president “shall from time to time give to the…

By FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A new forever postage stamp bearing the portrait of former U.S. First Lady Betty Ford was…

By BRIAN WITTE Associated Press ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — Abortion clinics in Maryland could pay for enhanced security and greater access through a…

By JEFF AMY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Some Georgia senators want to punish cities and counties that they say are illegally harboring…

By SOPHIA TAREEN Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — Chicago police are undergoing fresh training on handling large-scale protests and First Amendment…

Associated Press A Southern Baptist Convention leader said Wednesday the U.S. Department of Justice has ended its investigation of the…

By VALERIE GONZALEZ Associated Press MCALLEN, TX (AP) — SpaceX is set to acquire public land from Texas after the Texas Parks and Wildlife…

By KATE BRUMBACK Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — The lawyer who initiated the effort to remove Fani Willis from the Georgia election interference…

By JIM VERTUNO Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The Texas Republican primary saw more than a dozen incumbents defeated or forced into…

By the Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — MAX, the streaming service owned by Warner Bros. Discovery and formerly known as HBO Max, is ready to…

By CARLA K. JOHNSON AP Medical Writer A study raises more questions than it answers about how tiny specks of plastic might affect the heart. We…

By JEFF AMY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia House Republicans are backing a bill that would require every eligible police and sheriff’s…

By KATHLEEN FOODY Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — Chicago voters will get the chance this month to decide on a ballot measure that would levy a…

By LEA SKENE Associated Press BALTIMORE (AP) — A Baltimore man has been convicted of first-degree murder in the 2021 deadly shooting ambush of a…

By STAN CHOE and KEN SWEET AP Business Writers NEW YORK (AP) — Embattled New York Community Bancorp is getting a lifeline of more than $1 billion…

By ADAM BEAM Associated PRess SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A wealthy campaign donor of California Gov. Gavin Newsom said his Panera Bread restaurants…

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Luck struck twice for a Kentucky couple who thought they lost a winning Powerball ticket. The Kentucky Lottery said in a…

By MAYSOON KHAN Associated Press/Report for America ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — A federal judge has banned a Florida gun retailer from selling certain gun…

By MARY CLARE JALONICK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — After only a year in the Senate, Katie Britt of Alabama is wielding her influence and…

By ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department says a former software  engineer at Google has been charged with stealing…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s Navy says one of its helicopters crashed into the Pacific shortly after taking off from the deck of a patrol…

By JONEL ALECCIA AP Health Reporter Ground cinnamon sold in U.S. discount stores is contaminated with high levels of lead and should be discarded.…

By LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — With just a few days to go until the 96th Academy Awards on Sunday, the show’s producers are…

By MIKE CORDER Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Citing “widespread starvation” in Gaza, South Africa is urging the United…

By SARA CLINE Associated Press BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Amid a crawfish shortage in Louisiana, Gov. Jeff Landry has issued a disaster declaration…

By AMY TAXIN and BRITTANY PETERSON Associated Press SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) — The seven U.S. states that draw water from the Colorado River basin…

By ED WHITE Associated Press PONTIAC, Mich. (AP) — A jury has been seated in the trial of a man whose son killed four students at a Michigan school…

By FARNOUSH AMIRI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republicans have invited Hunter Biden and his former business associates to appear at a…

By VANESSA GERA Associated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Mourners in Poland have paid tribute to a young Belarusian woman who died after being…

BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Rights activists and members of LGBTQ+ community in Serbia have held a protest following a reported case of police…

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Missouri Gov. Mike Parson has offered his “deepest sympathy” to the family of a 5-year-old girl who was seriously…

By MAE ANDERSON AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — To businesses that rely on social media platforms for advertising, client communication or…

By JAKE OFFENHARTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A Texas man has been arrested on accusations that he schemed to dupe disgraced former…

By MORGAN LEE Associated Press SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — A jury will soon weigh whether a movie weapons supervisor should be held to blame in the fatal…

By JEFFREY COLLINS Associated Press The Rev. Mark Harris has won the Republican nomination for a U.S. House seat in North Carolina, giving the pastor…

By FARNOUSH AMIRI and LINLEY SANDERS Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — As the U.S. navigates involvement in the wars in Ukraine and Gaza, few…

By RONALD BLUM Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A male bastion from its founding in 1842 until 1997, the Vienna Philharmonic has 24 female players…

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Workers had expressed concerns about bending or bowed beams and structural issues before a steel airport hangar under…

By TOM GOULD and GERALD IMRAY Associated Press CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — Aid agencies and local authorities say a surge of new attacks by an…

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Polish military authorities say that a soldier seriously injured during a training exercise has died. The death raises the…