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By KATE BRUMBACK Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — A Georgia judge has ordered the partial release later this week of a report by a special grand…

By DAVID SHARP Associated Press AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — Many Mainers know Democratic Gov. Janet Mills as a level-headed leader, a pragmatic…

By MICHELLE CHAPMAN AP Business Writer The Walt Disney Co. is planning to add an Avatar experience to Disneyland and explore other opportunities at…

By ANDREW DAMPF AP Sports Writer MERIBEL, France (AP) — When Paula Moltzan finished second behind Mikaela Shiffrin for the U.S. ski team’s first…

BERLIN (AP) — A German newspaper critic had animal feces smeared on her face by a ballet director in the city of Hannover after he apparently took…

BY RAFAL NIEDZIELSKI Associated Press SWIETOSZOW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s president and defense minister have met with Polish and foreign…

PRAGUE, Czech Republic (AP) — Czech Republic midfielder Jakub Jankto posted a video on social media on Monday saying he is gay, making him one of…

By MEGAN JANETSKY and FERNANDA PESCE Associated Press PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Nadia hushes the crying 3-month-old baby swaddled in her arms,…

By FRANK JORDANS Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s main opposition party is celebrating its victory in a Berlin state election re-run made…

BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s main opposition party has launched an effort to expel from its ranks a former head of the country’s intelligence…

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Arne Treholt, the former Norwegian Foreign Ministry official who was convicted of spying for the Soviet Union in what…

By The Associated Press More than four in ten Jews in the United States feel their status in America is less secure than it was a year earlier,…

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Norway’s intelligence serivce says Russia is the main security threat for Norway and Europe. The domestic security…

By JESSE BEDAYN Associated Press/Report for America DENVER (AP) — On Colorado’s northeastern plains, where the pencil-straight horizon divides…

By COLLEEN BARRY Associated Press MILAN (AP) — Former Premier Silvio Berlusconi has once again put himself at odds with Premier Giorgia Meloni by…

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A Kansas City police officer was hit by gunfire and wounded at the department’s headquarters shortly after the Chiefs won…

LONDON (AP) — “Killing Eve” star Jodie Comer has been named best actor at London’s WhatsOnStage awards. Female performers dominated the…

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi has offered a monologue of praise for…

SAMYA KULLAB and YURAS KARMANAU Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Fierce battles raged outside Bakhmut as Russian forces pushed their advance…

By SAMY MAGDY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — A leading rights group has urged the U.S. and Libya to clarify the legality of a surprise extradition…

By ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House is defending the shootdowns of three unidentified objects in as many days even as…

By ANDREW DAMPF AP Sports Writer COURCHEVEL, France (AP) — Overall World Cup winners Mikaela Shiffrin, Federica Brignone and Aleksander Aamodt…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Britain has announced a security review after several unidentified objects were shot down in the…

By WAYNE PARRY Associated Press TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — For years, some New Jersey lawmakers have introduced bills that would ban smoking in Atlantic…

By BARRY HATTON Associated Press LISBON, Portugal (AP) — A committee looking into historic child sex abuse in the Portuguese Catholic Church says…

SYDNEY (AP) — A retired Australian judge investigating the convictions of a mother in the deaths of her four children has been told there is a…

By JOSEF FEDERMAN Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Tens of thousands of Israelis protested outside the parliament building in Jerusalem in a show…

By DAVID McHUGH AP Business Writer FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — Europe’s economic prospects are looking up, at least a little. The European…

SYDNEY (AP) — The wife of a former U.S. military pilot accused by the United States of illegally training Chinese aviators says her husband is…

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Koji Sato, appointed the next president at Japan’s top automaker Toyota, has outlined a…

By BABAR DOGAR Associated Press LAHORE, Pakistan (AP) — Officials say Pakistan’s police have arrested at least 50 suspects in a mob lynching of a…

By SOPHENG CHEANG Associated Press PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — One of Cambodia’s last free media outlets has ceased operations after Prime…

By MEHMET GUZEL, SUZAN FRASER and SARAH EL DEEB Associated Press ADIYAMAN, Turkey (AP) — The desperate search for earthquake survivors in Turkey…

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Fourteen years after a financial crisis nearly brought Dubai to its knees,…

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Dubai again is planning for the takeoff of flying taxis in this futuristic…

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A pro-reform newspaper says Iran has relased an award-winning filmmaker more than six months after arresting him…

By MEG KINNARD and STEVE PEOPLES Associated Press CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — Few have navigated the turbulent politics of the Trump era like Nikki…

By DAVID KLEPPER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — After seeing promising results in Eastern Europe, Google will initiate a new campaign in…

By JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — Asian stock markets sank Monday ahead of a U.S. inflation update that traders worry might lead to…

By DAVID BAUDER AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — U2 is returning to the concert stage later this year for the first time since 2019 but…

By JONATHAN LANDRUM Jr. AP Entertainment Writer GLENDALE, Ariz. (AP) — Rihanna was pregnant with her second child as she performed her Super Bowl…

By EDDIE PELLS AP National Writer New Mexico State’s men’s basketball season came to an abrupt halt Sunday after the release of a police…

By HILARY FOX Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Richard E. Grant is looking forward to hosting next Sunday’s EE BAFTA Film Awards. A huge…

By LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer David Jude Jolicoeur, known widely as Trugoy the Dove and one of the founding members of the Long Island hip-hop trio…

By FRANK JORDANS Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — A new report says climate commitments by companies aren’t always as green as they seem. The…

By DAVID BRANDT AP Sports Writer GLENDALE, Ariz. (AP) — Damar Hamlin has made it to the Super Bowl. The Buffalo Bills safety made his third…

By LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer Howard Bragman, a beloved Hollywood publicist who specialized in crisis relations and whose clients have included…

KATY, Texas (AP) — Officials on Sunday afternoon lifted a shelter-in-place advisory that had been issued in suburban Houston because of a leak of…

By AHMED AL-HAJ The Associated Press SANAA, Yemen (AP) — A court run by Yemen’s Iran-backed rebels on Sunday upheld a five-year sentence against…

SPRINGFIELD, Va. (AP) — Virginia lawmakers are making their final push to build a new FBI headquarters in their state, while Maryland officials try…

CHICAGO (AP) — A prosecutor suggests a gang dispute led to a December shooting near a Chicago high school that left two students dead and two other…

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Police in Louisiana’s capital city have arrested two people for a mass shooting that left 12 others wounded at a…

By SARAH EL DEEB Associated Press ATAREB, Syria (AP) — As rescue operations have largely ceased, residents of areas in northwest Syria struck by a…

By BERT WILKINSON Associated Press GEORGETOWN, Guyana (AP) — Top Caribbean leaders are expected to debate Haiti’s spiraling chaos and its impact…

By MARK STEVENSON Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — It has been nearly two years since the United States began pressing Mexico over labor rights…

MADRID (AP) — Hundreds of thousands of Spaniards have flooded the streets of Madrid to stage the largest protest yet against the regional…

By LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer The third installment in the “Magic Mike” series danced its way to the top of the box office charts this weekend…

LONDON (AP) — British police have charged a 19-year-old man with violent disorder and assaulting an emergency services worker over a protest…

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — A police officer in Minnesota shot and killed a man who allegedly threatened officers with a knife. It happened about 5 p.m.…

By ROB MAADDI AP Pro Football Writer PHOENIX (AP) — From Super Bowl opening night to the night before the big game, the party was on all week long.…

By COLLEEN LONG, LOLITA C. BALDOR and ZEKE MILLER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A U.S. fighter jet shot down an “unidentified object” over…

BEIJING (AP) — The United States Navy and Marine Corps are holding joint exercises in the South China Sea at a time of heightened tensions with…

By HARM VENHUIZEN Associated Press MILWAUKEE (AP) — Recent revelations about Republican election strategies targeting minority communities in…

BERLIN (AP) — The German government wants to temporarily ease visa restrictions for survivors of the earthquake in Turkey and Syria who have close…

By LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — While some Republicans blame the COVID-19 vaccine or “wokeness” for the Army’s…

By MEGAN JANETSKY Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — Pope Francis on Sunday expressed sadness and worry at the news that Bishop Rolando Álvarez,…

By SAMY MAGDY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — Dozens of leaders and senior officials from Arab and Islamic countries have condemned recent Israeli…

By ANDREW DAMPF and GRAHAM DUNBAR AP Sports Writers COURCHEVEL, France (AP) — International Olympic Committee president Thomas Bach says the…

By DEMETRIS NELLAS Associated Press ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greece’s foreign minister is visiting the earthquake-stricken areas of Turkey,…

By SUSIE BLANN Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian forces over the weekend continued to shell Ukrainian cities amid a grinding push to…

By JUSTIN SPIKE, ZEYNEP BILGINSOY and SARAH EL DEEB Associated Press ANTAKYA, Turkey (AP) — Turkish authorities are targeting contractors allegedly…

By MEHMET GUZEL, FAY ABUELGASIM and TANYA TITOVA Associated Press ANTAKYA, Turkey (AP) — When war broke out in Ukraine, Aydin Sisman’s relatives…

By KIRSTEN GRIESHABER Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — The city of Berlin has held a court-ordered rerun of a chaotic 2021 state election that was…

By MENELAOS HADJICOSTIS Associated Press NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — Former foreign minister Nikos Christodoulides was elected as the new president of…

By BEATRICE DUPUY Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Designer Sergio Hudson, known for high-profile clients like Michelle Obama and Beyoncé, has…

By EDDIE PELLS AP National Writer The chancellor at New Mexico State says players on the basketball team were interviewed by school personnel…

By NICK PERRY Associated Press WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Auckland residents hunkered down Monday as they braced for a deluge from Cyclone…

MANAGUA, Nicaragua (AP) — Nicaragua’s ruling Sandinista political machine has mobilized a few thousand of its faithful to celebrate the…