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By KELVIN CHAN and HALELUYA HADERO Associated Press The battle between the U.S. and China over TikTok comes into full view on Thursday when the…

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Swedish lawmakers have overwhelmingly voted in favor of Sweden joining NATO. The 349-seat Riksdagen, or parliament,…

BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — An official says a Romanian court has ruled for the fourth time to extend by 30 days the preventative arrest of Andrew…

Associated Press SAO PAULO (AP) — Federal police raided locations in several states to crack down on a crime gang accused of plotting…

By RODNEY MUHUMUZA Associated Press KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — The U.N.’s top human rights official is urging Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni to…

By MADDIE BURAKOFF AP Science Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Nearly 200 years after Ludwig van Beethoven’s death, researchers pulled DNA from strands…

By JEFFREY COLLINS and LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Authorities in South Carolina say a former soldier shot and killed…

BERLIN (AP) — German authorities have arrested a Syrian man accused of belonging to a unit of the Islamic State group in his homeland that…

By DAVID KOENIG AP Airlines Writer The fate of President Joe Biden’s pick to run the Federal Aviation Administration is in doubt. On Wednesday,…

NEW YORK (AP) — Questlove has own book imprint and is launching it with a memoir by one of the world’s most influential and enigmatic musicians,…

By MICHELLE L. PRICE Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — At this point during the last presidential election in 2020, more than 15 Democrats had…

By JESSIE WARDARSKI Associated Press PITTSBURGH (AP) — Scattered in crates, dirty and difficult to read, the gospel music of composer Charles Henry…

By JOCELYN GECKER and COLLIN BINKLEY AP Education Writers SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Bus drivers shuttle America’s children to schools where cafeteria…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s governmental human rights agency says four soldiers opened fire without justification on a pickup truck in the…

By VANESSA GERA ASSOCIATED PRESS WARSAW, Poland (AP) — The Israeli and Polish foreign ministers have met in a step that they are hailing as a…

CAIRO (AP) — The World Bank says it has approved a $7 billion loan to support Egypt’s push to empower the private sector and enhance its efforts…

By SUMAN NAISHADHAM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A 5,000-mile seaweed belt lurking in the Atlantic Ocean is expected in the next few months…

By BASSEM MROUE Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanese security forces are firing tear gas to disperse hundreds of protesters who tried to break…

By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The glitzy, fictional Broadway musical about the life of Marilyn Monroe that formed the…

BANGKOK (AP) — Police in Thailand have cordoned off a neighborhood in a city south of the capital and trapped a gunman inside his home after he…

By KELVIN CHAN, HALELUYA HADERO and FARNOUSH AMIRI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — TikTok is ramping up a public relations campaign to fend off…

MADRID (AP) — Spain’s parliament has dismissed an attempt by the far-right Vox party to topple the governing leftist coalition by voting…

By JOHN ANTCZAK and CHRISTOPHER WEBER Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — A rare tornado touched down in a Los Angeles suburb on Wednesday, ripping…

By SUZAN FRASER Associated Press ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkey’s pro-Kurdish political party and its allies say they won’t field a candidate to…

By ISABELLA O’MALLEY Associated Press Laundry detergent bottles are looking a little different these days. A growing number of companies are…

NEWPORT NEWS, Va. (AP) — Authorities say two inmates in a Virginia jail used primitive tools to create a hole in the wall of their cell and escape…

By HILAIRE ZON Associated Press ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast (AP) — In Nigeria’s teeming city of Lagos, children in the Makoko area swim and play in…

By HUIZHONG WU Associated Press TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Chinese leader Xi Jinping just concluded a three-day visit with Russian President Vladimir…

BRATISLAVA, Slovakia (AP) — The United States has offered Slovakia 12 new military helicopters as compensation for the MiG-29 fighter jets the…

By SAM KEMMIS of NerdWallet Travel experts say they aren’t seeing any dip in travel demand for the busy summer season or shoulder seasons, but…

By SHEIKH SAALIQ and KRUTIKA PATHI Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — Indian police are searching for a separatist leader who has revived calls for…

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Ethiopian lawmakers have removed the Tigray Peoples Liberation Front from the country’s list of designated terror groups…

By DAVID McHUGH AP Business Writer FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — European Central Bank head Christine Lagarde says future interest rate decisions are…

By MICHAEL CANTU Edmunds Electric vehicles, or EVs, had their best-selling year in 2022. Their market share surpassed 5% according to Edmunds data,…

BERLIN (AP) — A prominent German environmental group said Wednesday that it’s suing Facebook’s parent company Meta over persistent…

By SYLVIE CORBET and ELAINE GANLEY Associated Press PARIS (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron is stubbornly resisting growing discontent on the…

BEIJING (AP) — China says President Xi Jinping’s just-concluded visit to Russia was a “journey of friendship, cooperation and peace.” The…

DOHA, Qatar (AP) — A building has collapsed in Qatar’s capital, killing at least one person, and searchers have been looking through the rubble…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Former U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson has insisted “hand on heart” that he did not lie to…

STEPHEN WADE TOKYO (AP) — Japanese television stuck to its live coverage from Miami for almost two hours after Japan defeated the United States 3-2…

By DAVID McHUGH AP Business Writer FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — The IMF and Ukraine have agreed on a new loan package to support the…

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Japan’s prime minister has pledged to provide Poland with development support to help the European country assist…

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — An Australian jury has retired to consider their verdicts following the six-week trial of a former principal of a…

By DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Britain’s inflation rate has risen for the first time in four months in February. The new figures…

ISLAMABAD (AP) — An overnight raid by Taliban forces in Afghanistan’s capital has killed three members of the extremist Islamic State group. A…

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Asian shares were mostly lower Thursday after the Federal Reserve raised a key interest rate,…

By HANNA ARHIROVA Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia has stepped up its missile and drone attacks against Ukraine, killing students and…

By JIM GOMEZ Associated Press MANILA, Philippines (AP) — President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. has defended his decision to allow a larger United States…

By DEREK GATOPOULOS and SRDJAN NEDELJKOVIC Associated Press ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Train services in Greece resumed Wednesday for the first time…

By NINIEK KARMINI Associated Press JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Millions of Muslims in Indonesia are gearing up to celebrate the holy month of…

By MUNIR AHMED AND RAHIM FAIEZ Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — A magnitude 6.5 earthquake that struck much of Pakistan and neighboring…

By MEAD GRUVER Associated Press CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — Abortion will again be legal in Wyoming — at least for now — after a judge on Wednesday…

By JOHN HANNA AP Political Writer TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A Kansas proposal based on the claim that providers leave infants to die when they’re…

By SAM METZ Associated Press PARK CITY, Utah (AP) — Two doctors on Wednesday described X-rays, brain scans and neurological tests documenting the…

By CLAIRE RUSH Associated Press/Report for America PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Oregon lawmakers passed a sweeping $200 million housing and homelessness…

By LINDSEY TANNER AP Medical Writer Missouri’s attorney general says he will issue an emergency regulation that at least temporarily puts strict…

By RONALD BLUM AP Baseball Writer MIAMI (AP) — Shohei Ohtani and Mike Trout had dreamed of this moment, along with millions of fans throughout…

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — The effort to recall Democratic New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell has failed, following an official count of petition…

EL CENTRO, Calif. (AP) — A Mexican man has pleaded guilty to coordinating a smuggling effort that left 13 people dead when their overloaded SUV was…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — A report issued on the eve of the first major U.N. conference on water in over 45 years…

By ANDREW DeMILLO Associated Press LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders on Tuesday signed a law prohibiting transgender…

SEA ISLE CITY, N.J. (AP) — Marine animal welfare officials say eight dolphins have died after they became stranded on a beach in New Jersey. The…

By SEAN MURPHY Associated Press FORT SILL, Okla. (AP) — A group of 65 Ukrainian soldiers are wrapping up their training on the Patriot…

By KIM CHANDLER Associated Press WETUMPKA, Ala. (AP) — A judge reduced the prison sentence from 55 to 30 years for an Alabama man convicted of…

BONIFAY, Fla. (AP) — Authorities say suspended Alabama freshman defensive back Tony Mitchell drove over 141 mph while trying to evade deputies…

MONTREAL (AP) — Family and friends of the presumed victims of a deadly fire in Old Montreal are facing an agonizing wait as a recovery team works…

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — A South Florida deputy accused of using a Taser stun gun on a man and taking his cell phone while the man was trying…

By MEAD GRUVER Associated Press Abortion-rights supporters filed an amended lawsuit Tuesday seeking to block Wyoming’s new abortion pill ban…

By MATTHEW BROWN Associated Press BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — A Montana couple faces charges of murder and tampering with evidence in the 2019…

PARIS (AP) — French journalist Olivier Dubois has been welcomed home by President Emmanuel Macron, one day after he was released in Mali. Dubois…

By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — One Black lawmaker and nine white ones have been chosen to work on final versions of…

By MEG KINNARD Associated Press As he mulls a 2024 presidential bid, former Vice President Mike Pence on Tuesday called for “common sense and…

NEW YORK (AP) — A former judge has decided the First Amendment protection for journalists should not keep prosecutors from seeing most evidence…

By JILL COLVIN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — For 40 years, former President Donald Trump has navigated countless legal investigations without…

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — One of the state’s lead prosecutors who helped convict Derek Chauvin of murder in the May 2020 killing of George Floyd has…

GAINESVILLE, Fla. (AP) — The former Florida lawmaker who sponsored the controversial law critics call “Don’t Say Gay” has pleaded guilty to…

By DÉBORA REY and DANIEL POLITI Associated Press BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — A steakhouse in the trendy Buenos Aires neighborhood of Palermo…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A strong late-season Pacific storm is bringing wind, rain and snow to saturated California as the first full day of spring shows…

By MARK STEVENSON and ARMANDO SOLÍS Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — The number of monarch butterflies wintering in the mountains of central…

By MARGERY A. BECK Associated Press LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Debate that began Tuesday on a Nebraska bill to ban gender-affirming care for minors,…

By DAVID A. LIEB Associated Press JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — The tax-cutting trend is going full force in states even as some are raising concerns…

ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — A lawyer says a 15-year-old arrested in a fatal shooting outside a Dallas-area high school will remain in custody. The…

By KEN MILLER Associated Press OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A divided Oklahoma Supreme Court on Tuesday overturned a portion of the state’s near total…

By RIO YAMAT Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — Nevada’s largest power provider is set to build a new natural gas plant in the state for the…

By GEOFF MULVIHILL Associated Press The failures of two U.S. banks this month meant losses for U.S. public-sector pension systems that invested in…

By MIKE STOBBE AP Medical Writer NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. cases of a dangerous fungus tripled over just three years, and more than half of states have…

By MARK PRATT Associated Press A federal jury has ruled in favor of three men who said in a lawsuit that the former mayor of their small town in…

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — A woman charged with conspiracy and murder in connection with the deaths of her two children and her new husband’s late…

By JOHN RABY Associated Press CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — State police in West Virginia say a trooper used a Taser on a man who walked onto a highway…

By STEPHEN GROVES Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Norfolk Southern’s CEO is offering support for some parts of a bipartisan Senate bill to put…

By BRIAN MAHONEY AP Basketball Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Willis Reed, who dramatically emerged from the locker room minutes before Game 7 of the 1970…