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By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — South Korean experts are looking at the facilities related to slightly radioactive wastewater at…

By SUZAN FRASER Associated Press ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — The Turkish people and economy are being pummeled by sky-high inflation, and many are still…

By FARAI MUTSAKA Associated Press HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — Festus Nyoni picked out a few items in a supermarket in Zimbabwe’s capital, looked at…

By KANIS LEUNG Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong Chief Executive John Lee is condemning an unusual rise in the number of withdrawal…

By GANTRY MEILANA Associated Press DILI, East Timor (AP) — The National Elections Commission says East Timor’s opposition party has won…

By JESSE BEDAYN and COLLEEN SLEVIN Associated Press DENVER (AP) — The parents of a 22-year-old Colorado man killed by a sheriff’s deputy while…

By BINAJ GURUBACHARYA Associated Press KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — Veteran Sherpa guide Kami Rita has scaled Mount Everest for the 28th time Tuesday,…

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A top Russian official who faces sanctions in the West over Moscow’s war on…

By MICHAEL R. BLOOD AP Political Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s ongoing medical struggles have raised a sensitive…

By KAT STAFFORD Associated Press From birth to death, Black Americans fare worse in measures of health compared to their white counterparts. They…

By ANITA SNOW Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Authorities say U.S. Border Patrol agents answering reports of gunfire shot and killed a man on a…

LONDON (AP) — Several dozen youths pelted police with objects and set cars and trash bins ablaze in Cardiff in local unrest that erupted after two…

By KAT STAFFORD Associated Press FREDERICKSBURG, Va. (AP) — Constance Guthrie is not yet dead, but her daughter has begun to plan her funeral. It…

By ANNIE MA Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — To her students who need the most support, India Strother is rarely just “Ms. Strother” —…

By KAT STAFFORD Associated Press HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Amid the balloons, cake and games at his best friend’s birthday party on a farm,…

By KAT STAFFORD Associated Press BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — Angelica Lyons knew it was dangerous for Black women to give birth in America. As a public…

By VALERIA OLIVARES, The Dallas Morning News DALLAS (AP) — Daisy Donjuan’s family never saw the value in college. After graduating from high…

By BECKY BOHRER Associated Press JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — Alaska’s push to become a bigger player in the clean energy market is in the spotlight…

By SAMYA KULLAB Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Two Ukrainian war veterans who lost limbs in the 2014 war with Russia have taken part in a…

PHOENIX (AP) — A judge on Monday dismissed the only remaining legal claim in Republican Kari Lake’s challenge of her loss in last year’s…

By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A federal judge has extended his order temporarily stopping the Mississippi Supreme…

By RICK RYCROFT and ROD McGUIRK Associated Press SYDNEY (AP) — About 20,000 cheering fans have welcomed Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi at a…

By ACHMAD IBRAHIM and NINIEK KARMINI Associated Press BOGOR, Indonesia (AP) — Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi has met his Indonesian counterpart,…

By GARY D. ROBERTSON and HANNAH SCHOENBAUM Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper is embarking on a campaign to beat back…

By MARK THIESSEN Associated Press ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — A man who was walking on tidal mud flats with friends in an Alaska estuary got stuck up…

By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — E. Jean Carroll, the advice columnist who won a $5 million sexual abuse and defamation award…

LAKES OF THE FOUR SEASONS, Ind. (AP) — A hand grenade exploded as a family went through a grandfather’s belongings in Indiana, killing a man…

By CARLOS VALDEZ Associated Press LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) — Pope Francis has sent one of his top sex crimes investigators to Bolivia at a time when…

By JACQUES BILLEAUD Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Taxpayers in metro Phoenix are approaching a milestone in their financial pain from a 2013…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Los Angeles Dodgers announced Monday that a satirical LGBTQ+ group called the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence will again be…

By ADAM BEAM Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California officials say they believe communities living near an ancient freshwater lake…

By AAMER MADHANI and LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden’s decision to allow allies to train Ukrainian…

NEW YORK (AP) — About 160 resident physicians have gone on strike over what they called low pay at a public hospital in New York City. Elmhurst…

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — North Dakota officials are planning a new state park along a scenic gorge near the Canadian border. The Legislature recently…

By JEFFREY COLLINS Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A school shooter serving a life sentence without parole for killing a first grader on a…

By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer CANNES, France (AP) — Todd Haynes’ “May December” is a delicious and disquieting drama laced with comedy…

By TRAVIS LOLLER Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A group of parents at a Christian school in Nashville that recently suffered a school…

By JOSH FUNK Associated Press OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A Nebraska woman pleaded guilty Monday to burning and concealing a fetus after she took medication…

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — A popular Orlando restaurant that regularly features drag shows filed a federal lawsuit against the state of Florida and Gov.…

By MARÍA VERZA Associated Press SANTIAGO XALITZINTLA, Mexico (AP) — At the edge of this town near the Popocatepetl volcano, away from the din of…

By JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — President Joe Biden approved an emergency declaration as an intensifying Super Typhoon…

By LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer Ray Stevenson, who played the villainous British governor in “RRR,” an Asgardian warrior in the “Thor” films,…

By BROOKE SCHULTZ Associated Press/Report for America HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Authorities could temporarily seize firearms and background checks…

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A lawsuit has been filed against medical transport provider American Medical Response West, saying the ambulance company’s…

By MATTHEW PERRONE AP Health Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. health regulators have approved a new nasal spray to reverse overdoses due to fentanyl…

By KATE BRUMBACK Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — An independent autopsy released by lawyers for the family of a man who died in a bedbug-infested…

By JOSH DUBOW AP Sports Writer OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Oakland Athletics broadcaster Glen Kuiper was let go by NBC Sports California after using a…

HOLLY, Mich. (AP) — A team of wranglers — including one on horseback — chased down and captured a wayward steer named Lester across several…

ST. LOUIS (AP) — Rick Hummel, an esteemed writer who covered the St. Louis Cardinals and Major League Baseball for five decades for the…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. envoy for Sudan is urging the country’s warring generals to honor a…

By KIRSTEN GRIESHABER Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has sharply criticized climate activists as “nutty” for…

BOSTON (AP) — Rick Hoyt, who with his father pushing his wheelchair became a fixture at the Boston Marathon and other races for decades, has died.…

LISBON (AP) — Portuguese police have said they will resume searching for Madeleine McCann, the British toddler who disappeared in the country’s…

By MARGERY A. BECK and JOSH FUNK Associated Press LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Republican Nebraska Gov. Jim Pillen signed a bill Monday that bans abortion…

By MEG KINNARD Associated Press NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — As Sen. Tim Scott enters the 2024 GOP presidential field, he will be eager to…

By SUMAN NAISHADHAM and KEN RITTER Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — Arizona, Nevada and California said Monday they’re willing to cut back on…

By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer CANNES, France (AP) — The Cannes Film Festival is on, which means stopwatches are out. Nowhere are the length of…

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Puerto Rico’s government says it will decentralize its Education Department to better serve students.…

By JEFFREY COLLINS Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Authorities say a 37-year-old mother drowned one of her daughters in their South Carolina…

By LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Air Force says it is looking at ways to better control access to classified information.…

By WAYNE PARRY Associated Press NORTH WILDWOOD, N.J. (AP) — Heavy equipment crews are moving sand along a stretch of badly eroded beach in North…

PORT CHARLOTTE, Fla. (AP) — A man in Florida lost his arm after being attacked by an alligator behind a bar. The Florida Fish and Wildlife…

By BHARATHA MALLAWARACHI Associated Press COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Chinese petroleum giant Sinopec has signed an agreement with Sri Lanka to enter…

By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — When Jason Bateman, Will Arnett and Sean Hayes get together, they can instantly tell if…

By TERRY TANG Associated Press May is Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, but artist and baker Jasmine Cho brings attention to AAPIs…

By SUSIE BLANN Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian officials claimed that Ukrainian military saboteurs launched an attack across the…

By STEVE KARNOWSKI Associated Press ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Minnesota  Attorney General Keith Ellison reveals in a new book how worried prosecutors…

By RANDALL CHASE Associated Press DOVER, Del. (AP) — Democratic Sen. Tom Carper of Delaware says he will not seek reelection to a fifth term in the…

By BASSEM MROUE Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Judicial officials say the office of the Lebanese public prosecutor has summoned the country’s…

By HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Leaders of South Korea and the European Union have agreed to increase pressure on…

By JINTAMAS SAKSORNCHAI Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — Thailand’s opposition Move Forward Party, the top vote-getter in last week’s national…

By MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — The International Space Station rolled out the welcome mat Monday for two Saudi…

BERLIN (AP) — The German government is rejecting criticism that it pushed to weaken existing commitments for phasing out natural gas at a summit of…

By KELVIN CHAN AP Business Writer LONDON (AP) — The European Union slapped Meta with a record $1.3 billion privacy fine Monday and ordered it to…

By AMANDA SEITZ Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — One woman had to carry her baby, missing much of her skull, for months knowing she’d bury…

By FABIANO MAISONNAVE CARAUARI, Brazil (AP) — In a remote corner of the Amazon, Brazilian ecologists are trying to succeed where a lack of…

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A house fire in Abu Dhabi has killed six people and injured seven on Monday. The UAE Capital’s Civil Defense…

By KEN SWEET AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Venmo will officially allow teenagers to open an account with their parents’ permission, the…

By FRANK JORDANS Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — The head of Germany’s domestic intelligence agency warned Monday of a rise in anti-government…

By GIOVANNA DELL’ORTO Associated Press HOLMAN, N.M. (AP) — On a spring Saturday afternoon, two “hermanos” knelt to pray in the chapel of…

SANGER, Calif. (AP) — Rescuers who recovered the body of an 8-year-old girl Sunday were searching for her 4-year-old brother after the siblings…

By BISWAJEET BANERJEE and SIBI ARASU Associated Press LUCKNOW, India (AP) — Swathes of India are bracing for more scorching heat, with New Delhi…

By JIM HEINTZ Associated Press TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — The Belarusian state news agency on Monday reported that a dissident journalist who was…

By TALES AZZONI AP Sports Writer MADRID (AP) — One after another, the racial insults kept coming. The “monkey” chants outside one stadium, the…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — “Brokeback Mountain” was a star-making story onscreen. It may turn out to be the same onstage.…

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — As tensions with Iran have escalated over its nuclear program, the U.S.…

GENEVA (AP) — The U.N. weather agency reported Monday that nearly 12,000 extreme weather, climate and water-related events over much of the past…

By MUNIR AHMED Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — A Pakistani court has ordered the release of an associate of former Prime Minister Imran Khan from…

By PAUL WISEMAN AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — If the debt crisis roiling Washington were eventually to send the United States crashing into…

By DOUG FERGUSON AP Golf Writer PITTSFORD, N.Y. (AP) — Brooks Koepka now has five major championships with his two-shot win at the PGA…

By CLAUDIA LAUER and HALELUYA HADERO Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A sharp uptick in thefts of Hyundais and Kias over the past two years has…