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By KEVIN FREKING Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican Sen. Rick Scott of Florida has amended a plan to overhaul how the federal government…

By LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer Stella Stevens, a prominent leading lady in 1960s and 70s comedies perhaps best known for playing the object of Jerry…

By TARA COPP Associated Press ABOARD A US MILITARY AIRCRAFT (AP) — The Pentagon says the first class of 635 Ukrainian fighters has finished a…

By SCOTT McFETRIDGE Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The founder of an educational program for at-risk teenagers in Des Moines says he…

By ROB GILLIES Associated Press TORONTO (AP) — A public commission says Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government met the “very high…

By JEFFREY COLLINS Associated Press Prosecutors have presented a detailed timeline of what they think happened the night Alex Murdaugh’s wife…

By PATRICK ORSAGOS and JOHN SEEWER Associated Press EAST PALESTINE, Ohio (AP) — A plume of chemicals that spilled into the Ohio River after a fiery…

Penn Entertainment Inc. has closed on its acquisition of Barstool Sports. Penn paid about $388 million for the remaining stake in Barstool that it…

By MATTHEW DALY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration is defending its response to a freight train derailment in Ohio that…

By DÁNICA COTO Associated Press SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Tourists in the Bahamas witnessed a rare standoff between a dog and a shark this…

By RANDALL CHASE Associated Press WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — To millions of viewers, Fox News hosts gave allies of former President Donald Trump a…

By LINDSEY TANNER AP Medical Writer Pennsylvania Democratic Senator John Fetterman is seeking treatment for severe depression months after having a…

By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Attorneys for Donald Trump want to ban from his upcoming civil rape trial the “Access…

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — A top Federal Reserve official downplayed recent signs that the economy is…

By TARA COPP and LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. military said Friday that it has ended its search for airborne…

By DOUG FERGUSON AP Golf Writer A federal judge has ruled the PGA Tour can require documents and depositions from the Saudi Arabia wealth fund and…

By FARNOUSH AMIRI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Several Biden Cabinet members have received a letter from House Republicans as they launch the…

BEIRUT (AP) — The U.S. military says a helicopter raid conducted by its armed forces in northeast Syria has left a senior leader with the Islamic…

By BOBBY CAINA CALVAN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Three years ago, YiJie Ye was on a routine delivery run in Brooklyn on his motorized scooter…

By GRAHAM DUNBAR AP Sports Writer GENEVA (AP) — The sale of Manchester United is set to test European rules designed to protect soccer’s…

By CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Nigeria’s top police official says at least 400,000 security forces are being deployed to…

By The Associated Press Bruce Willis’ family has announced that he has been diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia. The announcement Thursday came…

By The Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Hollywood is gearing up for the 95th Academy Awards, where “Everything Everywhere All at Once” comes in…

By The Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Alan Gilbert has agreed to a five-year contract extension as chief conductor of the Elbphilharmonie…

By KWIYEON HA and MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Former leaders from Australia, Britain and Belgium have called for a tougher…

By JOSEPH WILSON Associated Press BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Barcelona’s reputation as one of soccer’s elite is in danger because of a…

By JOHN RABY Associated Press Authorities in West Virginia say the body of an infant has been found in a submerged car after floodwaters swept…

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — A top prosecutor in Jamaica has ruled that Prime Minister Andrew Holness won’t face charges over possible conflict…

By FLORENT BAJRAMI and LLAZAR SEMINI Associated Press PRISTINA, Kosovo (AP) — Europe’s youngest country, Kosovo, on Friday launched festivities…

By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin is hosting neighboring ally Belarus’ leader for talks on…

By ASHOK SHARMA Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — India’s Finance Ministry accused the BBC of tax evasion on Friday, saying that it had not fully…

By KAREN MATTHEWS and BEN FINLEY Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A power outage in a terminal of New York’s John F. Kennedy International…

WANJOHI KABUKURU Associated Press MOMBASA, Kenya (AP) — Two weeks after Tropical Cyclone Cheneso devastated Madagascar, killing 30 people, the…

By MUNIR AHMED Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — Economists say cash-strapped Pakistan’s latest plan for economic recovery is likely to take a…

By NOMAAN MERCHANT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — One of the newest members of the House Intelligence Committee was herself once an officer…

LONDON (AP) — A former security guard at the British Embassy in Berlin has been sentenced to more than 13 years in prison for putting U.K.…

BRUSSELS (AP) — European Union lawmakers have condemned the International Olympic Committee’s decision to allow Russian and Belarusian athletes…

LJUBLJANA, Slovenia (AP) — Police say an explosion at a fireworks company in central Slovenia has killed at least one person and seriously injured…

LONDON (AP) — TikTok said Friday that it’s planning two more European data centers, as the popular Chinese-owned video sharing app seeks to…

By MOGOMOTSI MAGOME Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Russia, China and South Africa are set to begin naval drills off South Africa’s Indian…

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — A powerful storm over the North Sea hit northern Europe and led to dozens of train and ferry cancellations Friday in…

By KARL RITTER Associated Press MUNICH (AP) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy urged Western allies Friday to quicken their military support…

By FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen will travel to India next week to attend Group of 20 finance…

PARIS (AP) — The lower house of France’s parliament is debating a contested pension bill aimed at raising the country’s retirement age from 62…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida has met with LGBTQ representatives and offered an apology…

By TANYA TITOVA, EMRAH GUREL and ANDREW WILKS Associated Press SAMANDAG, Turkey (AP) — Hundreds of thousands of people are seeking shelter after…

By JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press GENEVA (AP) — Chinese envoys have defended Beijing’s treatment of Hong Kong and Muslim minorities during an…

By DAVID KLEPPER and STEPHEN McGRATH Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Facebook allowed an exiled Moldovan oligarch with ties to the Kremlin to…

By MIKE SCHNEIDER Associated Press U.S. cities and towns that have challenged their 2020 census population figures appear to be winning only small…

By MAURICIO SAVARESE and DAVID BILLER Associated Press RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Brazil’s Carnival is back. Glittery and outrageous costumes were…

AMSTERDAM (AP) — The company that owns one of Europe’s busiest aviation hubs, Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport, slumped to a net loss of 77…

By The Associated Press The war in Ukraine has killed thousands, forced millions to flee their homes, reduced entire cities to rubble and fueled…

By STAN CHOE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Wall Street closed another bumpy week with a mixed performance on Friday amid worries that…

By ANDREW SELSKY Associated Press SALEM, Ore. (AP) — An armed takeover of a federal wildlife refuge. Over 100 straight days of racial justice…

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — The death toll from New Zealand’s cyclone has reached eight with more than 4,500 people still unaccounted for four…

By ADRIAN SAINZ and JONATHAN MATTISE Associated Press MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Five former Memphis police officers pleaded not guilty Friday to…

By SAM METZ Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — In the 1990s, Dallas Mavericks point guard Derek Harper famously shot down an offer to be traded…

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The Abu Dhabi National Oil Company’s gas processing firm plans to sell 4% of its shares to local investors in…

By YURI KAGEYAMA Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — A trial looking into bribery at the Tokyo Olympic organizing committee has begun. The former head of…

TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Taiwan’s Defense Ministry says it found a Chinese weather balloon on one of its outlying islands, amid U.S. accusations…

By LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press LIMA, Ohio (AP) — Thousands of miles from the front lines, a sprawling manufacturing plant in the small…

By MICHELLE L. PRICE and MARY CLARE JALONICK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — He twice voted in favor of convicting former President Donald Trump…

By KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea’s defense minister insists the country’s soldiers didn’t commit any…

By MICHELLE L. PRICE and MARY CLARE JALONICK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — He twice voted in favor of convicting former President Donald Trump…

By PIYUSH NAGPAL Associated Press MORIGAON, India (AP) — Standing outside the local police station in her village in northeast India, 19-year-old…

By MARY CLARE JALONICK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — When Patrick Kennedy was in Congress, he would sneak in his treatments for substance…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s space agency has aborted the launch of the first of its new flagship series H3 rockets…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Prosecutors say a Southern California motorcycle club founder who killed three people in 1980 has been ordered to be released…

By PAUL J. WEBER Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott offered no hints about whether he might run for president…

VAN BUREN TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) — Officials say a train hauling hazardous materials derailed near Detroit, but none spilled. The Norfolk Southern…

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Protesters in Iran have marched through the streets of multiple cities…

TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — Arizona Department of Public Safety officials say this week’s deadly truck accident that caused a hazardous materials…

By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN Associated Press ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — A helicopter with a shooter will fly over a portion of the vast Gila Wilderness in…

By SARA CLINE Associated Press BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Authorities say a white Louisiana police officer has been arrested for fatally shooting an…

By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A federal judge showed growing impatience Thursday with FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried’s use…

ELLSWORTH, Wis. (AP) — A western Wisconsin nurse accused of amputating a hospice patient’s frostbitten foot without his consent and without…

By TRISHA AHMED Associated Press/Report for America Two separate bills that would prohibit public libraries from displaying “explicit sexual…

By EDITH M. LEDERER and MATTHEW LEE Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — A Palestinian-backed U.N. resolution that could be put to a vote in the…

By JACQUES BILLEAUD Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — An Arizona appeals court has rejected Republican Kari Lake’s challenge of her defeat in the…

By JUAN A. LOZANO Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — A spokesperson for the Texas prison system says a man who had been on the state’s death row…

By BRUCE SCHREINER Associated Press FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — The Kentucky Senate has voted to allow teachers to refuse to refer to transgender…

By MANUEL RUEDA Associated Press BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — The presidents of Colombia and Venezuela have met on their border to sign an agreement…

By JESSE BEDAYN Associated Press/Report for America DENVER (AP) — Colorado lawmakers have proposed a bill to study whether a type of charcoal could…

BALTIMORE (AP) — Professional boxer Gervonta Davis pleaded guilty Thursday to charges stemming from a November 2020 hit-and-run that left four…

REDWOOD CITY, Calif. (AP) — A farmworker charged with killing seven people last month in back-to-back shootings at two Northern California mushroom…