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By ALI SWENSON and MICHAEL KUNZELMAN Associated Press The man who bludgeoned former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s husband with a hammer last…

TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Estonia’s ruling Reform Party has reelected Prime Minister Kaja Kallas as its chairperson and confirmed her staying on as…

By KATHY McCORMACK Associated Press CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — Officials say a shooter killed a state security guard in the lobby of New Hampshire’s…

By DANIEL POLITI Associated Press BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Both cheers and jeers for Argentina’s right-wing presidential candidate…

REYKJAVIK, Iceland (AP) — People in southwest Iceland remained on edge Saturday, waiting to see whether a volcano rumbling under the Reykjanes…

By MATT O’BRIEN AP Technology Writer Country singers, romance novelists, video game artists and voice actors are appealing to the U.S.…

By JAMIE STENGLE, LM OTERO and KENDRIA LaFLEUR Associated Press OFF THE COAST OF GALVESTON, Texas (AP) — Far off the Texas coast there is a…

By CHRISTINA LARSON AP Science Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Department of Agriculture has updated its “plant hardiness zone map” for the…

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine’s military says its troops are working to push back Russian forces positioned on the east bank of the Dnieper…

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — A 23-year-old Taylor Swift fan died at the singer’s Eras Tour concert in Rio de Janeiro Friday night, according to a…

By LISA MASCARO AP Congressional Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) — By most accounts, Speaker Mike Johnson inherited a House Republican majority in…

By DANIEL SHAILER Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — Residents in the northern Mexican state of Sonora are battling a new train line that…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — U.K. Treasury chief Jeremy Hunt says the government can afford to lower some taxes now that…

By MALAK HARB Associated Press ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The first planeload of Palestinian children wounded in the Israel-Hamas war…

By MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer SpaceX is prepping its mega rocket for a test flight meant to circle the world. Liftoff for Starship is set for…

BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency says an Israeli drone has fired two missiles at an aluminum plant outside the market town…

PARIS (AP) — The Paris prosecutor’s office says a French senator has been handed preliminary charges for drugging another lawmaker with the…

BERLIN (AP) — Austrian President Alexander van der Bellen has had an unusual encounter during an official visit to Moldova when the country’s…

BEIJING (AP) — Australia has accused the Chinese navy of likely causing minor injuries to Australian naval divers by operating its sonar while they…

By YURI KAGEYAMA Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Daisaku Ikeda, who headed Soka Gakkai, a Japanese Buddhist organization, that includes Herbie…

By NAJIB JOBAIN, SAMY MAGDY and DAVID RISING Associated Press KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza Strip (AP) — Internet and phone service has been partially restored…

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press Jordan’s foreign minister has offered blistering criticism of Israel’s war on Hamas in the Gaza Strip,…

By ROB GILLIES Associated Press HALIFAX, Nova Scotia (AP) — A Canadian security forum will present an award Saturday to the people of Israel…

By TOM KRISHER AP Auto Writer DETROIT (AP) — The United Auto Workers union has overwhelmingly ratified a new contract with Ford, a pact that, along…

By SARA CLINE Associated Press BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — While Louisiana’s gubernatorial election was decided in October, voters will cast ballot…

By HANNA ARHIROVA Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — When Tymofii Postoiuk and his friends set up an online fundraising effort for Ukraine,…

By GENE JOHNSON and ED KOMENDA Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) — Election officials around the country are stocking up on the overdose reversal…

By JOSEPH WILSON Associated Press BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — A new museum in Barcelona is offering a second chance to controversial artworks that have…

By LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Iranian-backed militants in Iraq and Syria have long battled with U.S. and coalition forces,…

By THOMAS BEAUMONT and HANNAH FINGERHUT Associated Press FORT DODGE, Iowa (AP) — Former President Donald Trump will campaign Saturday in…

By MEGAN JANETSKY Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — The Miss Universe competition hosted by El Salvador is the latest spectacle touted by…

By BISWAJEET BANERJEE Associated Press LUCKNOW, India (AP) — Forty workers are trapped in a collapsed road tunnel in northern India for a seventh…

By DAVID BILLER and DANIEL POLITI BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — In the run-up to the tightly contested Argentina presidential election runoff…

By TRISHA AHMED Associated Press/Report for America The leader of a South Dakota tribe says he will declare a state of emergency on a reservation…

NEW YORK (AP) — Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs and singer Cassie settle lawsuit alleging abuse one day after Cassie sued the powerful music…

By DIDI TANG Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The 92-year-old businessman who represented Taiwan at this week’s summit of Asia-Pacific…

TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Taiwan’s two main opposition parties have failed to agree on a joint candidate for president, once again throwing into…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — After dogs were seen nibbling at human body parts, activists in western Mexico are demanding authorities keep digging at what…

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — A tropical disturbance is moving across the western Caribbean and has knocked out power to thousands in Jamaica as it…

By CAROLYN THOMPSON Associated Press A woman who says Bill Cosby sexually assaulted her when she was a young comedy writer more than 50 years ago is…

By NICHOLAS RICCARDI Associated Press DENVER (AP) — A Colorado judge has found that former President Donald Trump engaged in insurrection related…

By DEVI SHASTRI AP Health Writer Veterinary laboratories in several states are investigating an unusual respiratory illness in dogs. Oregon, Colorado…

WASHINGTON (AP) — ABC’s “This Week” — White House deputy national security adviser Jon Finer; former Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Adm.…

CHICAGO (AP) — Federal safety officials have started an investigation into a Chicago commuter train crash that left almost 40 people injured.…

By SONIA PÉREZ D. Associated Press GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — Guatemala’s Attorney General’s office has formally requested that President-elect…

By HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH Associated Press Two transgender boys are suing the University of Missouri over its decision to stop providing…

By ISABELLA VOLMERT Associated Press INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Court records say an Indiana man accused of intimidating and harassing GOP U.S. Rep Jim…

BALLSTON SPA, N.Y. (AP) — The man accused of kidnapping a 9-year-old girl from a state park in upstate New York park has been charged with sexually…

By FARNOUSH AMIRI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — House Speaker Mike Johnson says he plans to publicly release hours of footage from the Jan. 6,…

By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN Associated Press ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — It’s been a long journey from the forests of Arizona, across the dusty high…

By JONATHAN J. COOPER Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — The political organization No Labels has contemplated requiring a donation of at least $100…

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — A convicted child molester has been found guilty of hacking the jumbotron at the Jacksonville Jaguars’ stadium…

By DIANE JEANTET and LUIS ANDRES HENAO Associated Press RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Welcome to Brazil, Taylor Swift, it’s been waiting for you. As her…

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — Police say several people have been shot at the New Hampshire state psychiatric hospital. State police say there were…

By JIM VERTUNO Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A 35-year-old Texas woman found guilty in the May 2022 shooting death of rising professional…

By KATE BRUMBACK Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — A prosecutor in Georgia is seeking an August trial date for former President Donald Trump and…

By COLLEEN LONG Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — K-pop superstar Rosé has joined U.S. first lady Jill Biden at a mental health event to talk…

By JENNIFER PELTZ and MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The judge in Donald Trump’s civil fraud case has denied his bid for a…

By ALI SWENSON Moms for Liberty has recently reported $2.1 million in total revenue in 2022. That’s more than five times what the conservative…

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The board of ChatGPT-maker Open AI says it has pushed out its co-founder and CEO Sam Altman and replaced him with an interim…

By SEUNG MIN KIM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House is firing back on a recent subpoenas issued by House Republicans targeting…

NEW YORK (AP) — Hip hop legend and marijuana aficionado Snoop Dogg says he’s going to stop smoking. In message posted to social media, the rapper…

By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The Golden Globes have found a new broadcast home at CBS after the troubled awards show lost its…

By BILL BARROW Associated Press Former first lady Rosalynn Carter is in hospice care at home in Plains, Georgia, The Carter Center announced. A…

CINCINNATI (AP) — The Cincinnati Bengals say quarterback Joe Burrow will be out the rest of the season due to a torn ligament in his right wrist.…

By BETH HARRIS AP Racing Writer Hall of Fame jockey Bobby Ussery has died. He was 88. Ussery won the 1967 Kentucky Derby and then crossed the finish…

NEW YORK (AP) — Amazon is cutting hundreds of jobs in the unit that handles its popular voice assistant Alexa as it plows more resources into…

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Associates and children of one of the highest-ranking leaders of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, M. Russell…

By JOHN ANTCZAK and JULIE WATSON Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — A California prosecutor says evidence supports involuntary manslaughter and…

DETROIT (AP) — Unions and Detroit’s three casinos have announced a tentative five-year contract that could end a weekslong strike. A labor…

CHICAGO (AP) — The Chicago Police Board has voted to fire an officer accused of dragging a Black woman out of a car by her hair during unrest at a…

By JOHN LEICESTER Associated Press LE PECQ, France (AP) — Organizers of next year’s Paris Olympics are scaling back the metal tower they plan to…

By ISABELLA VOLMERT Associated Press INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — A federal judge has heard arguments in a lawsuit filed by a group of Indiana residents…

By MICHAEL RUBINKAM Associated Press READING, Pa. (AP) — A judge has rejected a plea agreement for a Pennsylvania woman charged with killing her…

By JAMES POLLARD Associated Press/Report for America BEAUFORT, S.C. (AP) — Alex Murdaugh pleaded guilty Friday to a slew of financial crimes in…

PHOENIX (AP) — Police outside Phoenix say they identified a set of decomposed remains known for 31 years as “Apache Junction Jane Doe” as that…

By MIKE SCHNEIDER Associated Press ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Appointees of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis are seeking communications between Disney and local…

NEW YORK (AP) — George Brown, the co-founder and longtime drummer of Kool & The Gang who helped write such hits as “Too Hot,” “Ladies…

By MARK M. MENGONFIA Associated Press MONROVIA, Liberia (AP) — Election officials in Liberia have released nearly all the results from this…

SALEM, Ind. (AP) — A Louisiana woman accused of involvement in the death of a 5-year-old Atlanta boy whose body was found in a suitcase in Indiana…

By SARAH RANKIN Associated Press RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — University of Virginia officials are further delaying the public release of the findings of…

By MARIA SHERMAN AP Music Writer LAS VEGAS (AP) — At the inaugural Formula One Las Vegas Grand Prix, music and entertainment has taken a front…

By WAYNE PARRY Associated Press ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — New Jersey is moving forward with its offshore wind industry, despite the loss of two…

By BABACAR DIONE Associated Press DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Senegal’s highest court has effectively barred detained opposition leader Ousmane Sonko…

ST. JOSEPH, Mo. (AP) — A man has been found guilty in the death of a woman whose remains were found inside a duffel bag along a rural road in…

By JONEL ALECCIA AP Health Writer The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is screening imports of cinnamon from multiple countries for toxic lead. It…

By RIO YAMAT Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — Four Las Vegas high school students facing murder charges in the fatal beating of their classmate…

By TOM MURPHY AP Health Writer A New York woman who died Sunday from cancer has raised enough money to erase million of dollars in medical debt with…

PARIS (AP) — An expert commission in France has called for removing all time limits on the prosecution of people suspected of raping or sexually…

MENTOR, Ohio (AP) — Authorities say a man facing eviction from a mobile home park in Ohio fatally shot the site’s property manager and two other…

NEW YORK (AP) — Charges have been dropped against a New York City lawmaker who brought a gun to a protest because her gun was apparently…

By DEE-ANN DURBIN AP Business Writer The federal government is delaying a new rule that could make it easier for millions of workers to unionize…

By MIKE STOBBE AP Medical Writer NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. health officials say at least seven states are seeing high levels of the flu and that cases…

MADRID (AP) — The former president of the Spanish soccer federation has been ruled unfit to work in the sport in Spain for three years after he…

By MIKE CORDER Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The U.N. top court has issued an order calling on Azerbaijan to ensure that people…

By COLLEEN SLEVIN Associated Press DENVER (AP) — Six Colorado law enforcement officers have been charged with failing to intervene during a…

By LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer The 1976 book “The Hite Report” was a bestseller from the beginning. Its intimate anecdotes about love, sex,…

By YURAS KARMANAU Associated Press TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — More than 2,400 Ukrainian children aged 6-17 have been taken to Belarus from four…

By JACK DURA Associated Press BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — A federal judge in North Dakota has ruled that the state’s Republican-controlled…

By KELVIN CHAN AP Business Writer Advertisers are fleeing social media platform X over concerns about their ads showing up next to pro-Nazi content…