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By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi’s Republican governor has signed a bill to expand the territory of…

By RANDALL CHASE Associated Press DOVER, Del. (AP) — Delaware Gov. John Carney says he will not veto legislation legalizing recreational marijuana…

By The Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — A Los Angeles jury has found “That ’70s Show” actor Danny Masterson guilty of two counts of rape…

By GERALD IMRAY Associated Press CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — South Africa’s Supreme Court of Appeal has upheld a ruling that the…

NEW YORK (AP) — The Federal Election Commission has imposed a $53,100 fine on three committees associated with former New York City Mayor Bill de…

By NICHOLAS RICCARDI Associated Press A fund controlled by a Swiss billionaire who has steered tens of millions of dollars to liberal causes also…

By The Associated Press This week’s new entertainment releases include albums from Smokey Robinson and The National, a live action take on the…

By HANNA ARHIROVA Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — As Ukrainian and Russian troops fight conventional battles on the front lines, Europe’s…

SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — Former Peruvian President Alejandro Toledo Manrique has surrendered to U.S. federal agents to be extradited to Peru. He…

MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) — A new Vermont law that raises the eligibility age for marriage to 18 takes effect in July. Republican Gov. Phil Scott signed…

By HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer KEY WEST, Fla. (AP) — At Books & Books, the nonprofit store Judy Blume and her husband have run for the…

By JULIE WATSON Associated Press LONG BEACH, Calif. (AP) — Engineering faculty at the University of California Los Angeles say they have developed…

MIlWAUKEE (AP) — Prosecutors in Milwaukee have charged a jail guard with misconduct in connection with the in-custody death of an accused killer…

POCATELLO, Idaho (AP) — An early morning fire engulfed much of a large high school in the southern Idaho city of Pocatello on Friday. The Pocatello…

BERLIN (AP) — Nudists in Austria are up in arms about plans for a cable car that would pass over a popular beach on the northern edge of Vienna…

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) — A businessman pleaded guilty Friday to bribing the head of a Michigan marijuana licensing board, the first conviction in…

PARIS (AP) — A Paris court has convicted a Lebanese-Canadian academic in absentia on terrorism charges over a bombing outside a Paris synagogue in…

By STEVE DOUGLAS AP Sports Writer The champagne is on ice for Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney. Soccer is the new love of the Hollywood celebrities…

By CURT ANDERSON Associated Press TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — A North Carolina man accused of shooting and wounding a 6-year-old girl and her parents after…

By JONATHAN LANDRUM Jr. AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Directing a project focused on Tupac’s life was a farfetched idea for…

SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — Chilean President Gabriel Boric has announced a plan to require private companies take Chile’s government on as a partner…

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — A Polish volunteer who died of wounds sustained during a humanitarian mission in eastern Ukraine has been buried in his home…

By DAVE COLLINS Associated Press HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Bullets sprayed out from a speeding car in Connecticut’s capital, killing an innocent…

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. (AP) — An Indiana woman now faces a federal hate crime in the stabbing of an Indiana University student of Chinese descent on a…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japanese LGBTQ activist groups are urging the government to enact an anti-discrimination law and…

By JAMES ROBSON AP Soccer Writer WREXHAM, Wales (AP) — Spoiler alert! Season 2 of “Welcome to Wrexham” is set to get the Hollywood ending the…

By DARLENE SUPERVILLE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Chef Edward Lee says food, at its best, tells a story. And the story he wants told with…

By SUSAN HAIGH Associated Press HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — A historic amount of money is being spent on urban tree planting and maintenance in…

By STEFANIE DAZIO, LARRY FENN and COLLEEN SLEVIN Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Four people found shot to death in an RV in a small Mojave…

By JEROME PUGMIRE AP Sports Writer PARIS (AP) — Four million applications were received for an online lottery where winners get to buy tickets for…

BERLIN (AP) — Daniel Barenboim has been made a citizen of honor of Berlin, months after he ended his three-decade tenure as the general musical…

By SETH BORENSTEIN AP Science Writer Looking back at 2022’s weather with months of analysis, the World Meteorological Organization said last…

By MOGOMOTSI MAGOME Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Police say 10 members of the same family were killed in a mass shooting at a house in…

By SAM MEDNICK Associated Press DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Burkina Faso’s government has opened investigations into allegations of human rights abuses…

By SETH BORENSTEIN, WANJOHI KABUKURU, FABIANO MAISONNAVE and SIBI ARASU Associated Press They fight for Earth. Young and old, famous and not so well…

By JEFFREY SCHAEFFER Associated Press PARIS (AP) — The immense success of the Netflix series “Emily in Paris” has transformed a quiet,…

By SAMUEL PETREQUIN Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — Belgian customs have destroyed more than 2,000 cans of Miller High Life, advertised as the…

By COURTNEY BONNELL Associated Press LONDON (AP) — A group of Credit Suisse investors have sued Swiss financial regulators after a…

By BINAJ GURUBACHARYA Associated Press KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — An Indian climber who was rescued after spending three days trapped in a 300-meter…

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Toyota’s new president Koji Sato has promised what he called an aggressive shift on…

By JOSH FUNK AP Business Writer OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Rail unions want railroads to take some of the billions they’re using every year to buy back…

By HELENA ALVES Associated Press LISBON (AP) — Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has arrived in Portugal amid heightened tensions with…

By MATT O’BRIEN and KATHLEEN FOODY Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — Twitter has long been a way for people to keep track of tornado watches,…

BERLIN (AP) — A former head of the Catholic German Bishops’ Conference is giving up the country’s highest honor following scathing criticism…

By DAVID KLEPPER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The song is simple and tinny, but that hasn’t stopped it from being embraced by former…

MOSCOW (AP) — Russia’s military acknowledged that a bomb accidentally dropped by one of its warplanes caused a powerful blast in a Russian…

By JOSH BOAK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden plans to sign an executive order that would create the White House Office of…

By BRIAN MELLEY and JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — U.K. Deputy Prime Minister Dominic Raab has resigned after an investigation into…

BEIJING (AP) — China’s foreign minister has warned Taiwan and its supporters that they are “playing with fire” if they go against Beijing’s…

By JUSTIN SPIKE Associated Press BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Food prices have risen dramatically across Europe in recent months, but Hungary has seen…

By BHARATHA MALLAWARACHI Associated Press COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Thousands of Sri Lankans are holding a protest in the capital, demanding…

By KANIS LEUNG Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong’s Roman Catholic bishop says he has invited the state-appointed archbishop of Beijing…

By DAMIAN J. TROISE AP Business Writer Stocks remained listless in afternoon trading on Wall Street Friday as investors close out a quiet week of…

By The Associated Press KHARTOUM, Sudan (AP) — Sudan’s top general says the military is committed to a transition to civilian rule, in his first…

By MORGAN LEE and ANDREW DALTON Associated Press SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — Prosecutors on Friday formally dismissed an involuntary manslaughter charge…

By YURI KAGEYAMA and STEPHEN WADE Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — The first verdicts in the sprawling Tokyo Olympic bribery scandal have been handed…

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Fox Corp. chief executive Lachlan Murdoch on Friday dropped his defamation lawsuit…

By JIM MUSTIAN Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A federal judge refused Friday to recuse himself from the New Orleans Roman Catholic bankruptcy…

By MAURICIO SAVARESE AP Sports Writer SAO PAULO (AP) — Hamilton Moreira is a huge fan of Brazil’s Corinthians, one of the country’s top…

By MARÍA VERZA Associated Press CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico (AP) — When a fire broke out at a Mexican immigration detention facility last month,…

CHRISTOPHER WEBER Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Two men who served nearly 17 years in prison after being wrongly convicted of attempted…

By MEG KINNARD Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — As the 2024 Republican field begins to take shape, the potential of a faceoff between Nikki…

By NICK PERRY Associated Press WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Britain’s Foreign Secretary James Cleverly is cutting a Pacific tour short to…

By LISA MASCARO AP Congressional Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) — House Speaker Kevin McCarthy is working to round up the Republican votes needed to…

By SEUNG MIN KIM and EMILY SWANSON Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A poll shows only about half of Democrats think President Joe Biden should…

By JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — Court documents say a Hawaii shooting that killed two people and wounded three others…

By KEN RITTER Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — Families of people killed in the Las Vegas Strip massacre in October 2017 will receive shares of…

By PRASHANT RANGNEKAR, Press Trust of India KOCHI, India (AP) — Following the devastating 2017 Cyclone Ockhi that ravaged several parts of Kerala…

Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden will host Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. for talks at the White House next month…

VENTURA, Calif. (AP) — A man accused of intentionally ramming his car into a group of California high school students, killing one and injuring…

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Regulators say California will provide 100% of the water requested by cities and farms for the first time in years thanks…

By ADAM BEAM and TOM KRISHER Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Attorneys general in 17 states on Thursday urged the federal government to…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — After almost 4 1/2 years of trying, Mexico’s president said Thursday he has finally sold the unwanted presidential jet — to…

By HOLLY RAMER Associated Press HENNIKER, N.H. (AP) — Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie delivered his opening arguments against Donald Trump on…

By JOHN HANNA AP Political Writer TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas’ Democratic governor has vetoed a sweeping set of anti-transgender measures that…

By SARA BURNETT Associated Press Conservative talk radio host Larry Elder, who sought to replace the California governor in a failed 2021 recall…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — A man has been shot to death at a Starbucks coffee shop in an upscale neighborhood of Mexico City, and police say he apparently…

By NICOLE WINFIELD and FRANCESCO STATI Associated Press ROME (AP) — A Texas-born princess piled her four yapping bichon frise dogs into a taxi…

By AMY BETH HANSON Associated Press HELENA, Mont. (AP) — A transgender Montana lawmaker was silenced for a second day Friday as her Republican…

By MEG KINNARD Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A major anti-abortion group blasted former President Donald Trump on the issue Thursday,…

By JUAN A. LOZANO Associated Press GALVESTON, Texas (AP) — Family members of those killed and wounded during a 2018 attack on a Texas high school…

DADEVILLE, Ala. (AP) — Investigators on Thursday charged a sixth person with reckless murder in connection with a deadly shooting at a Sweet 16…

By ROB GILLIES Associated Press TORONTO (AP) — A cargo container with gold and other items worth over $20 million Canadian (US$14.8 million) was…