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By KYLE HIGHTOWER AP Sports Writer BOSTON (AP) — The Boston Celtics have looked elimination in the face four times this postseason and still…

By MARC LEVY Associated Press HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — A hard-right Pennsylvania state lawmaker said Thursday night that he will not challenge…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A California man who spent 33 years in prison for attempted murder has been declared innocent and freed, the Los Angeles County…

By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN Associated Press ALBUQUERQUE, N.M (AP) — Virgin Galactic completed what is expected to be its final test flight Thursday…

SEATTLE (AP) — A man convicted of murder in the death of a 16-year-old girl at her Washington high school over 30 years ago will likely spend the…

By GRACE GARCES BORDALLO and JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER Associated Press HAGATNA, Guam (AP) — Chainsaws buzzed Friday as neighbors helped neighbors…

By STEVE KARNOWSKI Associated Press ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Gov. Tim Walz has vetoed a bill that would have mandated higher pay and job security for…

FORT PIERRE, S.D. (AP) — The South Dakota State Fire Marshal’s Office is investigating a house explosion that killed an infant and her…

By JOHN HANNA AP Political Writer TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Leaders of Kansas’ Republican-controlled Legislature have backed off a threat to sue the…

By MICHAEL GOLDBERG Associated Press/Report for America JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Three former police officers who were indicted by a Mississippi grand…

By FABIOLA SÁNCHEZ Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — The owner of a northern Mexico coal mine where 10 miners died last year has been arrested.…

By MEAD GRUVER Associated Press CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — An appeals court is sending a plan to allow continued cattle grazing in a vast, mountainous…

By STEVE KARNOWSKI Associated Press ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Minnesota workers will be entitled to paid time off when they’re seriously ill or…

By TOM KRISHER AP Auto Writer DETROIT (AP) — All of Ford Motor Co.’s current and future electric vehicles will have access to about 12,000…

By ANDREW DALTON AP Entertainment Writer A Los Angeles County judge on Thursday said she will dismiss a lawsuit that the stars of 1968’s…

CLEVELAND (AP) — A former school dance teacher in Cleveland faces up to life prison after being convicted Thursday of raping six teenage students…

By ACACIA CORONADO and JAKE BLEIBERG Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton teetered on the brink of impeachment…

By SEAN MURPHY Associated Press OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The Oklahoma Legislature has overridden Gov. Kevin Stitt’s veto of a bill that would…

By ASHRAF KHALIL Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — An internal investigation has concluded that U.S. Park Police used unnecessary force in a…

Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Shares of Nvidia, already one of the world’s most valuable companies, skyrocketed Thursday after the…

By CLAIRE RUSH Associated Press/Report for America PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Portland will remove tents blocking sidewalks under a tentative settlement…

By LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The training program for Navy SEALs is plagued by widespread failures in medical care, poor…

By SEUNG MIN KIM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden has made a deliberate decision to go quiet as his team gets down to the…

MOSCOW (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin says “strictly technical” issues remain in resolving one of the main disputes between Armenia…

By JOHN RABY Associated Press CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A logging company hoping to build a pesticide facility in West Virginia has withdrawn an…

By SAM METZ Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Prosecutors have widened their case against members of a small polygamous group that resides…

Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. is imposing sanctions on the leader of Russia’s Wagner paramilitary group in Mali. The Treasury…

By KATE BRUMBACK Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — A judge in Georgia has dismissed the murder and child cruelty charges against a man whose toddler…

By HARM VENHUIZEN Associated Press/Report for America MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Police in Wisconsin say drugs laced with fentanyl that killed one person…

By BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press LONDON (AP) — A Jamaican man who volunteered for the Royal Air Force and flew bombing missions in World War II was…

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) — Academy Award-winning actor Tom Hanks told graduates of Harvard University to be superheroes in their defense of truth and…

By DARLENE SUPERVILLE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden has announced a new government strategy to fight hate, bias and…

By COLLEEN LONG Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden on Thursday – the third anniversary of George Floyd’s murder –…

By RONALD BLUM Associated Press Gustavo Dudamel surprisingly announced his resignation as music director of the Paris Opéra, two seasons into a…

PARIS (AP) — French judicial authorities say magistrates have filed preliminary charges against maritime rescue personnel in a probe of the sinking…

By GERALD IMRAY and IGNATIUS SSUNA Associated Press CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — One of the most wanted suspects in Rwanda’s genocide, a…

By LOLITA C. BALDOR and TARA COPP Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said Thursday that European allies are…

By RANDALL CHASE Associated Press DOVER, Del. (AP) — A Delaware woman is facing decades in prison after pleading guilty to killing her 3-year-old…

By LAURAN NEERGAARD AP Medical Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — About 10% of people appear to suffer long COVID after an omicron infection, a lower…

By SETH BORENSTEIN AP Science Writer Two clashing climatic behemoths, one natural and one with human fingerprints, will square off this summer to…

By MATTHEW PERRONE AP Health Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Pfizer received full approval on Thursday for its COVID-19 pill Paxlovid that’s been…

By JOVANA GEC Associated Press BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — A U.S. senator says he hopes Serbia adopts Western sanctions against Russia over the…

By KIMBERLEE KRUESI Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A federal lawsuit alleges that Tennessee’s decision to deny its employees…

By KRISTIN M. HALL AP Entertainment Writer NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — In 1976, a young Tina Turner, bloodied and beaten by her husband and musical…

By LOUISE DIXON Associated Press ANTIBES, France (AP) — The attention at the Cannes Film Festival turns Thursday to the glitzy amfAR gala to raise…

By PAUL WISEMAN and CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writers WASHINGTON (AP) — With one of three major rating agencies warning that America’s AAA…

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Calls for unity have dominated 60th anniversary celebrations for the continent-wide organization that preceded the African…

LONDON (AP) — A car collided Thursday with the gates of Downing Street in central London, where the British prime minister’s home and offices…

By ALI SWENSON Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Two years ago, signing a bill intended to punish Twitter and other major social media companies,…

BERLIN (AP) — Authorities in Berlin say a man has died after an accident involving an old-fashioned jump-on, jump-off elevator in the German…

By MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Steve Bannon, the conservative strategist and longtime ally of Donald Trump, will stand trial…

By LISA MASCARO, STEPHEN GROVES, SEUNG MIN KIM and KEVIN FREKING Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republicans pushed debt ceiling talks to…

By HARM VENHUIZEN Associated Press/Report for America MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Lawmakers in several states are embracing legislation to let children…

By HOWARD FENDRICH AP Tennis Writer PARIS (AP) — Carlos Alcaraz and 22-time Grand Slam champion Novak Djokovic have been placed in the same half of…

By SAM MEDNICK Associated Press DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Sierra Leon’s President Julius Maada Bio says heavy rains felled the centuries-old…

By MUNIR AHMED Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistani police, the family and the employer of a prominent TV journalist, known for his public…

By BINAJ GURUBACHARYA Associated Press KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — One of the greatest mountain guides said Thursday he’s not ready to retire after…

STOCKHOLM (AP) — Sweden-based online fashion retailer Bootz AB says it has blocked 42,000 customers for returning too many items they had…

By GIOVANNA DELL’ORTO Associated Press LAGKADAS, Greece (AP) — Sotirios Gkaintatzis danced across burning coals, his stomping bare feet…

By JEFF McMURRAY Associated Press Delaware’s low elevation mixed with crowded beaches and limited exit routes make the state particularly…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Official figures show the number of people moving to Britain reached a record high of 606,000 in…

By KATE ASHFORD of NerdWallet The COVID-19 public health emergency that started in January 2020 ended on May 11, 2023. When that happened, several…

By YURAS KARMANAU Associated Press TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Russia and Belarus signed a deal Thursday formalizing the deployment of Moscow’s…

By HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea has launched a commercial-grade satellite for the first time as part of its…

By JOSEPH WILSON Associated Press BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Four people accused of hanging an effigy of Real Madrid player Vinícius Júnior off a…

NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — Cyprus authorities say they’re taking extra efforts to ensure flight safety isn’t compromised from Turkish warplanes and…

By SYLVIA HUI Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Britain’s energy regulator says the typical household energy bill will come down by around $495 a…

By BORIS HEGER and ARND WIEGMANN Associated Press KUESNACHT, Switzerland (AP) — In her adoptive country, Tina Turner was more than just a…

By DAVE SKRETTA AP Sports Writer INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Team Penske has struggled at the Indianapolis 500 the past few years, both in qualifying and…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Police said they arrested a man Friday who had holed up in his father’s house armed with a…

WREXHAM, Wales (AP) — Wrexham’s shirts will have a taste of Hollywood next season. The Welsh soccer team has secured its latest celebrity linkup…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — A nuclear watchdog has asked the operator of Japan’s wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant to assess…

By SOPHENG CHEANG Associated Press PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — Cambodia’s top opposition party was barred Thursday from participating in…

By LORI HINNANT and VASILISA STEPANENKO Associated Press LYSOHIRKA, Ukraine (AP) — Damage that has gone unrepaired for months at a Russian-occupied…

by KANIS LEUNG Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — A 21-year-old Hong Kong man has been sentenced to more than five years in prison for participating…

By MEHDI FATTAHI and JON GAMBRELL Associated Press TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran has unveiled what it dubbed the latest iteration of its liquid-fueled…

By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer Asian markets were mixed Friday as a deadline loomed for Congress to reach a deal on the U.S. government debt…

BERLIN (AP) — The German economy has shrunk unexpectedly in the first three months of this year, marking the second quarter of contraction that is…

CAIRO (AP) — A Hong Kong-flagged ship briefly ran aground in Egypt’s vital Suez Canal, though authorities said they were able to refloat it after…

By SUZAN FRASER and AYSE WIETING Associated Press ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Two opposing visions for Turkey’s future are on the ballot when…

FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — More than 500 companies have suspended their business in Russia, and a similar number have withdrawn completely. A…

By DAVID McHUGH AP Business Writer When Russia invaded Ukraine, global companies were quick to respond, some announcing they would get out of Russia…

By JACK JEFFERY Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Mahmoud almost never leaves his small apartment in east Khartoum. Electricity has been out for most…

By TOM DAVIES Associated Press INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — An Indiana board decided Thursday night to reprimand an Indianapolis doctor after finding that…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — On the 75th anniversary of U.N. peacekeeping, the United Nations chief said Thursday…

By SOPHENG CHEANG and GRANT PECK Associated Press PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — A labor union leader who led a long-running strike against…

By FREIDA FRISARO Associated Press LOXAHATCHEE, Fla. (AP) — The 24 bright green baby parrots began chirping and bobbing their heads the second…

By JAMES POLLARD Associated Press/Report for America COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina’s governor has signed a bill banning most abortions…

By MIKE SCHNEIDER Associated Press The United States grew older, faster, last decade. The share of residents 65 or older grew by more than a third…

BEIJING (AP) — Former Houston Rockets star Yao Ming has stepped down as head of China’s struggling national basketball league. The eight-time…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — A new report says the world’s 20 richest countries are fueling forced labor and…

BY ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON Associated Press MIAMI (AP) — Before Donald Trump and Ron DeSantis were leading rivals for the 2024 Republican presidential…