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NEW YORK (AP) — Colman Domingo, fresh off his Oscar nomination, has joined the upcoming Michael Jackson biopic “Michael” to play the pop…

By MIKE CORDER Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — In the aftermath of World War II and the murder by Nazi Germany of 6 million Jews in…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Four municipal police officers are dead following an ambush-style attack on a road in Mexico in the north-central state of…

By MARC LEVY Associated Press HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro has a new slogan that’s not fit for kids’ ears. Shapiro…

SAMY MAGDY CAIRO (AP) — Israel and Egypt are engaged in an increasingly public spat over a narrow strip of land between Egypt and Gaza. That strip…

By JOSH BOAK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden will host Japan’s Prime Minister Fumio Kishida for a state visit on April 10,…

By TERRY SPENCER Associated Press WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — The family of an 85-year-old Florida woman who was killed by an alligator last year…

Herbert Coward, known for his “Toothless Man” role in the movie “Deliverance,” died Wednesday in a crash on a western North Carolina…

BY FRANCIS KOKUTSE Associated Press ACCRA, Ghana (AP) — A high court in Ghana has sentenced to death six people, including three soldiers, after…

TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) — A 350-pound black bear is dead months after captivating a northern Michigan neighborhood in May by perching in a tree.…

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) — Michigan’s Court of Appeals has ruled that a former police officer should go to trial for a murder charge in the…

By AAMER MADHANI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. government privately warned Iran that the Islamic State group’s affiliate in…

By JOEY CAPPELLETTI Associated Press LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Attorneys for the Republican National Committee say Michigan GOP Chairperson Kristina…

PERRY, Iowa (AP) — Middle school students in Perry, Iowa, have returned to classes for the first time since a 17-year-old opened fire in a shared…

By JEFF AMY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia’s state House and Senate are pursuing separate bills to remove computerized codes from most…

By THOMAS ADAMSON AP Fashion Writer PARIS (AP) — Fendi, under Kim Jones, has presented a mesmerizing collection blending minimalist futurism with…

MOSCOW (AP) — A Russian state news agency says Russia’s science and higher education ministry has dismissed the head of a prestigious…

By MATT BROWN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The White House’s chief diversity and inclusion officer is departing the White House after three…

By ED WHITE Associated Press PONTIAC, Mich. (AP) — Jurors in Michigan have heard opening statements in the trial of the mother of a school shooter.…

By MUNIR AHMED Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan has accused neighboring India’s intelligence agency of involvement in the extrajudicial…

By DAVID BAUDER AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — No one will confuse musician John Leventhal with being the hot new thing. The six-time…

RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) — A federal jury in South Dakota has convicted two men on several charges related to the 2022 kidnapping of an FBI employee.…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — The operator of the tsunami-hit nuclear plant in Fukushima has announced a delay of several more…

By PAT EATON-ROBB Associated Press A group of transgender veterans filed a lawsuit Thursday seeking to force the Department of Veteran Affairs to pay…

By TODD RICHMOND Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Republicans who control the Wisconsin state Assembly are set to pass a bill that would call…

By MATTHEW PERRONE AP Health Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The maker of Robitussin cough syrup is recalling several lots of its medicine due to…

SKOPJE, North Macedonia (AP) — North Macedonia’s prime minister and his cabinet have formally submitted their resignations to parliament, paving…

By TARA COPP and QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States and Iraq will soon begin formal talks soon to transition…

JOLIET, Ill. (AP) — Authorities say the girlfriend of a man suspected of fatally shooting seven relatives and an eighth person last weekend in a…

By ALEXA ST. JOHN Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — A group of more than 4,700 auto dealers in the United States have sent a letter to President Joe…

By KEN MORITSUGU Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — China has accused the U.S. of abusing international law with its military maneuvers in the western…

By KIRSTEN GRIESHABER Associated press BERLIN (AP) — At least 1,259 people working for the Protestant Church of Germany have committed sexual…

By JAN M. OLSEN Associated Press COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — A Danish report says that adoptions of children from South Korea in the 1970s and 1980s…

By GRANT PECK Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — A court in military-controlled Myanmar has ordered the family home of ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi,…

BEIJING (AP) — The bodies of the remaining victims of a landslide in southwestern China have been recovered, bringing the death toll to 44 after…

STOCKHOLM (AP) — Swedish media say Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson has agreed to meet with his Hungarian counterpart Viktor Orbán, who invited…

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Several thousand university students and their supporters took part in a protest in central Athens Thursday to oppose plans…

By MATT OTT AP Business Writer More Americans filed jobless benefits last week but layoffs remain at historically low levels despite elevated…

By RAJESH KUMAR SINGH and BISWAJEET BANERJEE Associated Press LUCKNOW, India (AP) — Thousands of Indians have flocked to a recruitment center in…

By SEUNG MIN KIM and SCOTT BAUER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is returning to the critical swing state of Wisconsin to…

By COLLEEN SLEVIN Associated Press DENVER (AP) — The American founder of an orphanage in Haiti who had charges of sexual abuse against him dropped…

By RIAZAT BUTT Associated Press NURPUR NOON, Pakistan (AP) — A Pakistani prime ministerial hopeful says the country must invest in climate…

Six nuns kidnapped in Haiti last week along with two other people have been released, the archbishop of Port-au-Prince told The Associated Press on…

LONDON (AP) — A 32-year-old man who fatally stabbed two college students and a man months from retirement in the England city of Nottingham has…

By ANDREW DALTON AP Entertainment Writer Melanie, the singer-songwriter who rose through the New York folk scene, performed at Woodstock and had a…

By DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Two British museums are returning gold and silver artifacts to Ghana under a long-term loan…

By MOGOMOTSI MAGOME Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — A man has been charged with 76 counts of murder and 86 counts of attempted murder for…

By JONATHAN LANDRUM Jr. AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Billy Idol normally takes advantage of riding his motorcycle on Super Bowl…

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s new pro-European Union government and conservative opposition disagree on whether two opposition politicians…

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkey’s central bank has raised its key interest rate by another 2.5 percentage points. The move was the latest in a…

PARIS Protests by French farmers are snowballing and creeping closer to Paris, ratcheting up pressure for government measures to protect the…

TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — The Moscow City Court has convicted a former Ukraine rebel leader who called President Vladimir Putin cowardly of extremism…

By BINAJ GURUBACHARYA Associated Press KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — Nepal’s top diplomat says his country has asked Russia to send back hundreds of…

By MUNIR AHMED Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — The Pakistani Taliban have pledged not to attack election rallies, saying their targets are…

By ASHOK SHARMA Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — The French president arrived in India on Thursday, where he is expected to meet with Prime…

PARIS (AP) — French police and protesters are preparing for a decision Thursday by France’s Constitutional Council on whether to approve a…

HELSINKI (AP) — Nokia has reported a double-digit decline in sales and a fall in profit in the last three months of 2023. The wireless and…

BRUSSELS (AP) — Antisemitism is on the rise in Belgium since the Hamas attack against Israel that triggered a war in Gaza. According to the latest…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s space agency said Thursday that its first lunar mission hit the tiny patch of the…

PRAGUE (AP) — Czech lawmakers have voted against ratifying an international treaty on women’s rights. Only 34 of the 71 Senators present in the…

By KELVIN CHAN AP Business Writer LONDON (AP) — Apple has rolled out an update to its operating system this week with a feature called Stolen…

By CHRIS MEGERIAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — First lady Jill Biden and Education Secretary Miguel Cardona are bringing together school…

BERLIN (AP) — An Austrian man who had kept his daughter captive for 24 years and raped her thousands of times, fathering seven children with her,…

By JIWON SONG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korean police say a governing party lawmaker is being treated at a Seoul hospital…

By The Associated Press Investigators searching the site where a Russian military transport plane crashed in a border region near Ukraine reportedly…

NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — An official says one of the five children who were hospitalized in Cyprus after being rescued from a rickety boat along with…

By MARTHA BELLISLE Associated Press U.S. Biathlon national champion Joanne Reid was sexually harassed and abused for years by a ski-wax technician…

By KEIRAN SMITH Associated Press SYDNEY (AP) — On Friday, the tiny Pacific island nation of Tuvalu heads to the polls in an election that’s being…

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Asian shares were mostly higher on Thursday, with Chinese stocks extending gains after Beijing…

By CHRISTOPHER BODEEN Associated Press TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — A bipartisan delegation from the United States Congress is reaffirming the…

TOKYO (AP) — Weather officials in Japan predicted more heavy snow Thursday, a day after nearly 800 vehicles were trapped for fours on an expressway…

By JULIA FRANKEL Associated Press AL-MAZRA’A ASH-SHARQIYA, West Bank (AP) — The fatal shooting of an American-Palestinian teen driving a pickup…

By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer BANGKOK (AP) — China’s central bank has announced new rules meant to expand access to commercial bank…

By KIM CHANDLER Associated Press MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama will attempt to put an inmate to death with nitrogen gas on Thursday night, a…

By JENNIFER PELTZ and LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Former President Donald Trump could return to a New York courtroom Thursday…

By LINDSAY WHITEHURST and MICHAEL KUNZELMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A Trump White House official convicted of contempt of Congress for…

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Two monuments symbolizing Australia’s colonial past have been damaged by protesters ahead of an increasingly…

By PATRICK WHITTLE Associated Press AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — A commission investigating a mass shooting that killed 18 people in Maine last year is…

By GABE STERN Associated Press/Report for America RENO, Nev. (AP) — Nevada’s Republican delegates are essentially locked in for Donald Trump…

By TOM ODULA Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — A rhinoceros is pregnant through embryo transfer in the first successful use of a method that…

By DAVID McHUGH AP Business Writer FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — The European Central Bank will likely keep interest rates unchanged Thursday. Its…

By WAYNE PARRY Associated Press NORTH WILDWOOD, N.J. (AP) — In the age-old battle of man versus nature, nature usually wins. It sure seems to be…

By MICHAEL R. BLOOD AP Political Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Long-suffering California Republicans will see something on the March ballot that might…

By PAUL WISEMAN AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The government is expected Thursday to report that the U.S. gross domestic product — the…

FORT SMITH, Northwest Territories (AP) — Canadian authorities say the death toll from a small plane crash in Canada’s Northwest Territories…

By KANIS LEUNG Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong’s top court has restored a prominent detained activist’s conviction over a…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — A man has been convicted of murder and other crimes for carrying out the arson attack on an anime…

MONMOUTH JUNCTION, N.J. (AP) — Authorities in New Jersey say law enforcement officers have killed a man in a shootout while trying to arrest him on…

BRISBANE, Australia (AP) — Residents have begun battening down homes and businesses with Tropical Cyclone Kirrily forecast to cross the Australian…

By LEAH WILLINGHAM Associated Press CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — West Virginia’s Republican-dominated Legislature is pushing forward a slate of…

SAN JOSE, Costa Rica (AP) — Costa Rica’s Supreme Court of Justice says it was no longer obligatory to place the paternal surname before the…

By GENE JOHNSON Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) — Seattle has agreed to pay $10 million to 50 demonstrators who sued over the police department’s…

DENVER (AP) — A motorcyclist who authorities say posted a video of himself on YouTube speeding from Colorado Springs to the Denver metro area on…

By FRANK BAJAK AP Technology Writer BOSTON (AP) — Hewlett Packard Enterprise says suspected state-backed Russian hackers broke into its email…

By KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea said Thursday it conducted its first flight test of a new cruise missile,…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Russia’s top diplomat is accusing the United States, South Korea and Japan of…

By DAVID SHARP Associated Press PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Maine’s top court is declining to hear an appeal over former President Donald…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — The bullet-ridden bodies of two detectives have been found on the outskirts of Taxco, a colonial town in central Mexico that…

By JAMES POLLARD Associated Press/Report for America COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — The Republican governor of South Carolina has had harsh words for labor…

OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — In-N-Out Burger will close its only restaurant in Oakland, California, because of a wave of car break-ins, property damage,…