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ISLAMABAD (AP) — The reclusive top leader of the Taliban has released a message lauding the changes in Afghanistan since the Taliban takeover and…

By HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — J-Hope, a member of K-pop sensation BTS, entered a South Korean boot camp Tuesday to…

By JOHN PYE AP Sports Writer BRISBANE, Australia (AP) — Andrew Liveris has spent a year putting in the groundwork to make the Brisbane Olympics a…

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Michelle Yeoh says she is looking for new challenges including as a producer, as she credited perseverance, hard work…

By NASSER KARIMI Associated Press TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran’s president has reiterated threats against Israel while marking the country’s annual…

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israelis have ground to a halt for a nationwide moment of silence in remembrance of the 6 million Jewish victims of the Holocaust…

By The Associated Press A Russian judge ruled Tuesday that American journalist Evan Gershkovich must remain behind bars on espionage charges in a…

By KIRSTEN GRIESHABER Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Assia Gorban was 7 years old when the Germans occupied her hometown of Mogilev-Podolsky in…

By RIAZ KHAN Associated Press PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — Officials say a massive landslide triggered by lightning amid rain has struck a key highway…

By ISABEL DEBRE Associated Press QALANDIYA CHECKPOINT, West Bank (AP) — For many Palestinians, the journey to one of Islam’s most sacred…

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Asian shares were trading mixed Wednesday, as investors took a wait-and-see attitude ahead of…

JERUSALEM (AP) — Police say a suspected shooting attack by a Palestinian gunman in Jerusalem wounded two Israeli men. Tuesday’s shooting was…

By ADAM PEMBLE Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin visited command posts of the Kremlin’s forces fighting in…

By KATHY McCORMACK and ROBERT F. BUKATY Associated Press CONWAY, N.H. (AP) — Bakery owner Sean Young was thrilled when high school art students…

By JULIE WATSON Associated Press SAN DIEGO (AP) — As an ambassador for rats, it’s never easy to win over the public. But Runa at the San Diego…

By SAMANTHA HENDRICKSON Associated Press/Report For America COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Norfolk Southern’s CEO is set to testify before an Ohio Senate…

By KRUTIKA PATHI Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — Apple Inc. opened its first flagship store in India in a much-anticipated launch Tuesday that…

By MICHELLE L. PRICE and BRIAN SLODYSKO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Long before ballots are tallied and reliable polls are conducted, one of…

By JESSICA GRESKO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Supreme Court justices seemed in broad agreement that businesses can’t cite minor costs or…

By FOSTER KLUG, MATTHEW LEE and MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press KARUIZAWA, Japan (AP) — Group of Seven foreign ministers vowed to intensify…

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — A transgender female player has been blocked from joining the second-tier of Australia’s women’s national…

BEIJING (AP) — China’s economic growth accelerated in the latest quarter as consumer flocked back to shops and restaurants following the…

By JOSHUA GOODMAN Associated Press MIAMI (AP) — An outside investigation determined that the head of the Organization of American States showed…

By MICHAEL R. BLOOD AP Political Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Democratic Mayor Karen Bass, who was elected in November after promising to take on the…

By GAURAV SAINI, Press Trust of India VYPIN ISLAND, India (AP) — On the receding shorelines of low-lying Vypin Island off India’s western coast,…

BERKELEY, Calif. (AP) — A federal appeals court on Monday overturned Berkeley, California’s first-in-the-nation ban on natural gas in new…

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Kuwait’s crown prince has said its parliament again will be dissolved and new elections planned for the…

By KIMBERLEE KRUESI and JONATHAN MATTISE Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee lawmakers are pushing to adjourn by the end of the week…

By TRÂN NGUYỄN Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A Silicon Valley councilmember delayed entering his pleas Monday on criminal charges for…

HEBRON, N.Y. (AP) — A woman looking for a friend’s house in upstate New York was shot to death after the car she was riding in mistakenly…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — The Mexican Navy said Monday it is using ships and a plane to search for three Americans who went missing along with their…

By JUAN A. LOZANO Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — Authorities say a second teenager has been charged with kidnapping several migrants and allegedly…

By MARY CLARE JALONICK and KEVIN FREKING Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrats’ efforts to temporarily replace California Sen. Dianne…

By ADAM BEAM Associated Press YUBA CITY, Calif. (AP) — Authorities in Northern California have arrested more than a dozen people they say are…

By JOHN RABY Associated Press CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A health provider has dropped a lawsuit seeking to overturn West Virginia’s near-total…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Unionized film and television writers have voted overwhelmingly to give their leaders the authority to call a strike if…

By SAMY MAGDY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — At the Khartoum Teaching Hospital, people wounded during street battles flowed into the wards. Supplies…

NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. Rep. George Santos has announced that he’s running for reelection. The New York Republican has faced criticism and ridicule…

By JOHN SEEWER Associated Press The deadly police shooting of Jayland Walker, a 25-year-old Black man, by eight officers last summer sparked protests…

By LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A Fugees rapper on trial in a multimillion-dollar campaign finance and foreign influence…

By ROB GILLIES Associated Press TORONTO (AP) — The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation paused its use of Twitter on Monday after the social media…

SANDWICH ACADEMY GRANT TOWNSHIP, Maine (AP) — Officials say a rail line where three locomotives and six train cars derailed over the weekend has…

By SEAN MURPHY Associated Press Writer OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma’s governor is seeking the resignation of four county officials after a…

By JONATHAN J. COOPER Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Arizona Sen. Kyrsten Sinema reported raising just over $2 million in her first full…

By WILSON RING Associated Press BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) — The 45-year-old man on trial for kidnapping a woman and her 4-year-old son in early 2019…

BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) — About 40 workers at the Ben & Jerry’s ice cream shop in the Vermont city where the company was founded have announced…

By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN Associated Press ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Tribal colleges and universities around the U.S. will be able to tap nearly $15…

By TRAVIS LOLLER Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A Tennessee Air National Guardsman has been arrested after federal agents say he…

By DARLENE SUPERVILLE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — First lady Jill Biden and Yuko Kishida, the wife of Japan’s prime minister, have…

By PATRICK ORSAGOS and JOHN SEEWER Associated Press AKRON, Ohio (AP) — An Ohio grand jury declined to indict eight police officers who fired 94…

By ANDREW DALTON AP Entertainment Writer The widow of singer Chris Cornell and his former bandmates in Soundgarden said Monday that they have…

NEW YORK (AP) — Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai is working on a new memoir, the latest book by the young activist from Pakistan known for her…

By CARLA BRIDI and AAMER MADHANI Associated Press BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov on Monday expressed gratitude…

By SOPHIE AUSTIN and DAMIAN DOVARGANES Associated Press/Report for America PALM SPRINGS, Calif. (AP) — As a child, Lawrance W. McFarland lived on a…

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel’s president appealed for national unity as the country marked the beginning of Holocaust Remembrance Day after months of…

By MIKE SCHNEIDER Associated Press ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Gov. Ron DeSantis and Florida lawmakers ratcheted up pressure on Walt Disney World on…

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — A 13-year-old boy had to be freed from a claw machine after he climbed inside hoping to score a prize, according to an…

BROOKFIELD, Vt. (AP) — Edward Koren, a longtime cartoonist for The New Yorker magazine, known for his hairy, huminoid creatures, has died. Koren…

By ELLEN KNICKMEYER Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — World Bank meetings in Washington were supposed to be a first step in a new era of…

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — A television station is reporting that a convicted serial rapist has been sentenced to more than 150 years in prison.…

LONDON (AP) — U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak says he wants to reverse an anti-math mindset and require the subject for students until they are 18.…

By LARRY NEUMEISTER and ERIC TUCKER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Two men were arrested Monday on charges that they helped establish a secret…

By LISA MASCARO AP Congressional Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) — House Speaker Kevin McCarthy is pledging to pass legislation to raise the…

By JESSICA GRESKO Associated Press LANCASTER, Pa. (AP) — The Supreme Court this week is hearing the case of a religious mail carrier who refused to…

JERUSALEM (AP) — Researchers say that antisemitism rose in the U.S. in 2022 and shows little sign of abating worldwide as political radicals have…

ONTARIO, Oregon (AP) — Authorities have arrested a man suspected of fatally shooting an eastern Oregon reserve police officer after a car chase…

By HARM VENHUIZEN Associated Press/Report for America MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The defrocked Roman Catholic cardinal who became the face of the…

By KIM CHANDLER and JEFF AMY Associated Press DADEVILLE, Ala. (AP) — Alabama officials are asking the public to aid in their investigation of a…

By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A federal judge has rejected Donald Trump’s latest attempt to delay his rape trial,…

By STEVE KARNOWSKI Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The Minnesota Court of Appeals on Monday upheld former Minneapolis police officer Derek…

By SYLVIE CORBET Associated Press PARIS (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron says that he heard people’s anger over raising the retirement age…

By RAF CASERT and ALEKSANDAR FURTULA Associated Press HALLE, Belgium (AP) — Rain or shine, there is no way to keep budding flowers down. And from…

By JOHN FLESHER AP Environmental Writer TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) — Scientists say many North American bats are in trouble. A report by experts…

By GERALD IMRAY Associated Press CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — The corruption trial of former South African President Jacob Zuma has been…

By DAVID BAUDER, RANDALL CHASE and GEOFF MULVIHILL Associated Press WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — The Delaware judge overseeing a voting machine…

By VANESSA GERA Associated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Slovakia has become the third European Union country to ban food imports from Ukraine. The…

By MIKE CORDER Associated Press ZOETERMEER, Netherlands (AP) — The Dutch national intelligence agency has painted a grim picture of a growing…

CONSHOKOCKEN, Pa. (AP) — David’s Bridal has filed for bankruptcy protection, the second time for the chain in the past five years. The…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press Japanese police say they have confiscated metal tubes, tools and possible gunpowder from the home of a man…

By RAHIM FAIEZ Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — Afghan authorities say they are closing education centers supported by non-governmental groups in…

By MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer SOUTH PADRE ISLAND, Texas (AP) — SpaceX called off the first launch attempt of its giant rocket Monday after a…

By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — China’s defense minister has toured the top Russian military academy on a visit to the…

By LINDSEY TANNER and ANGIE WANG Associated Press Anxiety over academics. Post-lockdown malaise. Social media angst. Study after study says American…

ROME (AP) — The doctors caring for former Premier Silvio Berlusconi in a Milan hospital, where he is recovering from a lung infection, say his…

By KANIS LEUNG Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong’s Roman Catholic bishop arrived in Beijing on Monday, marking the first visit to the…

ROME (AP) — Italian police have scooped up two tons of cocaine that was wrapped in protective plastic and bobbing in the sea off eastern Sicily.…