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By SEUNG MIN KIM and JOSH BOAK Associated Press VALHALLA, N.Y. (AP) — President Joe Biden on Wednesday blasted Republican-demanded spending cuts as…

By MATT O’BRIEN AP Technology Writer No sooner did ChatGPT get unleashed than hackers started “jailbreaking” the artificial intelligence…

By JOHN LEICESTER Associated Press PARIS (AP) — Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands, working with Interpol, have launched an international appeal…

DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Syrian state media say a car has exploded close to a police station near the country’s capital of Damascus killing one…

By MUNIR AHMED and RIAZAT BUTT Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan’s government called out the military Wednesday in areas roiled by…

By SUZAN FRASER Associated Press ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — In the year in which the Turkish republic marks its centenary, the country is being closely…

By STAN CHOE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — A mixed day of trading left Wall Street slightly higher on Wednesday after a report showed…

By FARES AKRAM and ILAN BEN ZION Associated Press GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — Palestinian militants fired hundreds of rockets from the Gaza Strip…

By SAMY MAGDY Associated Press ASWAN, Egypt (AP) — Dozens of zoo animals in Sudan’s capital are feared dead after street battles between the…

By NASSER KARIMI and JON GAMBRELL Associated Press TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Billboards across Iran’s capital proclaim that women should wear their…

By JIM VERTUNO Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A U.S. Army sergeant who fatally shot an armed protester at a Black Lives Matter march in…

By JAKE BLEIBERG and GENE JOHNSON Associated Press ALLEN, Texas (AP) — It took four minutes for a neo-Nazi with an arsenal of firearms to kill…

By JIM GOMEZ and EDNA TARIGAN Associated Press LABUAN BAJO, Indonesia (AP) — Southeast Asian leaders condemned an attack on an aid convoy that the…

By JILL COLVIN Associated Press During a contentious CNN town hall Wednesday night, former President Donald Trump dug in on his lies about the 2020…

By JOHN HANNA and MARGARET STAFFORD Associated Press KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Officials in Missouri’s largest city are moving to declare it a…

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Consumer prices in the United States rose again in April, and measures of underlying…

By ASHOK SHARMA Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — People in the southern Indian state of Karnataka are voting in an election where surveys showed…

By VALERIE GONZALEZ Associated Press BROWNSVILLE, Texas (AP) — Two days after eight people were killed when an SUV slammed into a crowd waiting at…

By BRIAN WITTE Associated Press ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — Maryland’s highest court has reversed a ruling by a lower court that the state’s…

MOSCOW (AP) — The death toll from wildfires in Russia’s Ural Mountains has risen to 21, according to Russian state news agency Tass. Wildfires…

By JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — This Buddy Holly no longer has to sigh, “That’ll be the day.” A petit basset griffon…

By JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A bracco Italiano named Lepshi won his breed’s debut at the United States’ most…

ATHENS, Ga. (AP) — Georgia’s national championship football team is declining an invitation to visit the White House. According to a statement…

By ANDREW DALTON AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — A California judge has thrown out key sections of Marilyn Manson’s lawsuit against…

By BOUAZZA BEN BOUAZZA Associated Press TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — A Tunisian naval guard shot and killed a colleague and two civilians Tuesday as he…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A federal agency is proposing a nearly $3.4 million fine for an energy company over a 2021 oil pipeline spill that fouled…

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — A Florida man who was driving his Tesla at least 116 mph before crashing into a house and killing two people in 2021…

By MARK THIESSEN Associated Press ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Two mountain climbers missing in Alaska likely triggered a small avalanche, and…

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Police say an 18-year-old accused of firing the shot that wounded an employee outside a middle school building in northeast Las…

By ACACIA CORONADO and PAUL J. WEBER Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — As a Republican in the Texas Capitol, Sam Harless turned heads: He voted…

By LEA SKENE Associated Press BALTIMORE (AP) — Civil rights attorney Ben Crump has announced plans to file a series of lawsuits on behalf of people…

By LOLITA C. BALDOR, TARA COPP and COLLEEN LONG Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden predicts the U.S.-Mexico border will be…

By BRITTANY PETERSON Associated Press DENVER (AP) — Nearly half of the U.S. West has emerged from drought this spring, but the welcome wet…

DENVER (AP) — A student who shot two administrators at a Denver high school in March before later killing himself had been seen with a gun there in…

By BRUCE SCHREINER Associated Press FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — A GOP candidate has roiled the primary race for Kentucky governor with a comment that if…

By ANDREW DALTON AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — A judge has denied rapper Tory Lanez a new trial. Lanez was convicted of three felonies…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Lawyers say California will pay a $24 million civil rights settlement to the family of a man who died in police custody after…

QUITO, Ecuador (AP) — Ecuador’s opposition-led National Assembly has voted to move forward with impeachment proceedings against President…

By CARLOS VALDEZ Associated Press LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) — The Bolivian general who captured Argentine-Cuban guerrilla leader Ernesto “Che”…

By ED KOMENDA Associated Press OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — Washington Gov. Jay Inslee has signed a law to protect minors seeking gender-affirming care…

By COLLEEN LONG Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. is putting new restrictions into place at its southern border to try to to stop…

By KATHIA MARTÍNEZ Associated Press BAJO CHIQUITO, Panama (AP) — The long wooden boats packed with migrants in orange life jackets arrived one…

By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN Associated Press ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — U.S. nuclear regulators have issued a license for a multibillion-dollar complex in…

By DAVID HAMILTON AP Business Writer SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The social app Discord, a favorite of gamers, inadvertently stirred internal strife after…

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Officials say a passenger on a Caribbean cruise has been arrested after a hidden camera with video of dozens of…

By STEVE KARNOWSKI Associated Press ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Minnesota is on the verge of banning non-essential uses of “forever chemicals.” And…

By TRISHA AHMED Associated Press/Report for America CHANHASSEN, Minn. (AP) — The late pop superstar Prince is being honored in Minnesota as the…

By BRENDAN FARRINGTON Associated Press TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Teachers will have to write monthly checks if they want to stay in their union…

By TRAVIS LOLLER Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A former Tennessee nurse who was convicted of homicide last year after a medication error…

By DAVID BAUDER AP Media Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Lachlan Murdoch says Fox paid $787 million to settle a lawsuit on its reporting to avoid a divisive…

By AMY BETH HANSON Associated press HELENA, Mont. (AP) — Two transgender children, their families and allied health care providers are challenging…

By KAREN MATTHEWS Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A working photojournalist was among about a dozen people arrested at a protest over last…

By FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States has sanctioned a son of Mexican drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman,…

By JOSH FUNK AP Business Writer OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A former BNSF worker who was named one of the railroad’s employees of the year in 2021 for her…

By JAKE BLEIBERG, GENE JOHNSON and LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press ALLEN, Texas (AP) — The shooter with neo-Nazi leanings who killed eight people…

By SAM METZ Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A children’s book author who prosecutors say killed her husband has been battling with his…

By MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Actor Jonathan Majors was confronted Tuesday with a revised domestic violence charge stemming…

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — A New Mexico judge has awarded $1.15 million to a medic who worked on the “Rust” film set. Cherlyn Schaefer accused prop…

By JOSEF FEDERMAN Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel’s Shin Bet internal security agency is defending its use of a surveillance tool that…

By OMAR ALBAM and ABBY SEWELL Associated Press QORQANYA, Syria (AP) — The U.S. military says it is investigating reports that it killed a civilian…

By The Associated Press Robert De Niro has welcomed another child. The 79-year-old is now the father of seven. A representative for De Niro confirmed…

By ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department says it has disrupted a long-running Russian cyberespionage campaign that…

By RONALD BLUM Associated Press Matthias Pintscher will become music director of the Kansas City Symphony for the 2024-25 season. He was  offered…

By JENNIFER O’MAHONY Associated Press MADRID (AP) — Spain’s Civil Guard says it has arrested 26 people in raids on illegal wells in the…

By LORNE COOK Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — European Union lawmakers investigating the use of Pegasus spyware say they are deeply concerned…

By DÉBORA ÁLVARES Associated Press BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — Rita Lee Jones, Brazil’s million-selling “Queen of Rock” who gained an…

The Associated Press About 8.3 million Hyundais and Kias dating to the 2011 model year can be stolen easily by using just a screwdriver and a USB…

By TOM KRISHER AP Auto Writer Nearly three months ago, Hyundai and Kia unveiled software that was designed to thwart an epidemic of thefts of their…

By JIMMY GOLEN AP Sports Writer WORCESTER, Mass. (AP) — Automatic balls and strikes could soon be coming to the major leagues. Much like the…

By MARK SCOLFORO Associated Press HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Democrats are clinging to a one-seat Pennsylvania House majority but that could change…

By JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press GENEVA (AP) — Christie’s is auctioning a staggering 700 pieces of jewelry from the collection of the late Heidi…

MT. VERNON, Ill. (AP) — Police say a state trooper was wounded in southern Illinois during an exchange of gunfire that left a New Mexico motorist…

By MICHELLE CHAPMAN AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Goldman Sachs will pay $215 million to settle a years-long class action lawsuit that claimed…

By JEROME PUGMIRE and GRAHAM DUNBAR AP Sports Writers PARIS (AP) — With speculation over Lionel Messi’s potential next destination turning into a…

STARKS, La. (AP) — A Louisiana man has been arrested on aggravated assault and battery charges after shooting at children playing hide and seek…

BERLIN (AP) — A highway collision between a long-distance Polish bus and a truck injured dozens of people in eastern Germany, officials in Poland…

By JENNIFER O’MAHONY Associated Press MADRID (AP) — Spain’s Constitutional Court will consider a legal challenge lodged by the far-right…

By NOHA ELHENNAWY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — The death toll from the ongoing clashes in Sudan has risen to 604 people, including civilians.…

NEW YORK (AP) — The next novel from million-selling author Kristin Hannah is a war story set in the 1960s. St. Martin’s Press announced Tuesday…

By GRANT PECK Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — Human Rights Watch has accused Myanmar’s military of using an “enhanced blast” munition known…

By VANESSA GERA Associated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — A large installation representing Russian atrocities in Ukraine blocked the path of…

By KIRSTEN GRIESHABER Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — The German government has presented a proposal for a law that will make it easier for people…

By DALIA RAMIREZ of NerdWallet When you receive an email or mail notice inviting you to join a class-action lawsuit, or notifying you that you’ve…

By TERRY SPENCER Associated Press STUART, Fla. (AP) — A Florida judge appeared skeptical Tuesday to arguments made by an attorney for superstar…

BEIJING (AP) — An unmarried Chinese woman on Tuesday began her final appeal of a hospital’s denial of access to freeze her eggs five years…

By CLAUDIA LAUER Associated Press PHILADELPHIA (AP) — There were no corrections officers assigned specifically to watch the housing unit of a…