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By HANNA ARHIROVA Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — With next year’s Paris Olympics on the horizon and Russia’s invasion looking more…

By EVELYNE MUSAMBI Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — A Kenyan former policeman has been sentenced to death for the murder of a human rights…

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — The prime ministers of the three Baltic countries have urged the International Olympic Committee to ban Russian athletes…

BERLIN (AP) — Ukraine could add old Leopard 1 battle tanks from German defense industry stocks to deliveries of modern tanks that Germany and other…

BRUSSELS (AP) — NATO is calling on Russia to respect the only treaty it has with the United States to keep a lid on nuclear weapons expansion. The…

LONDON (AP) — A man who was arrested on the grounds of Windsor Castle with a loaded crossbow pleaded guilty to treason on Friday for planning to…

MILAN (AP) — Italian news agency ANSA has reported that the bodies of eight migrants have been recovered by the coast guard during an operation…

By PAUL J. WEBER and DAVID SHARP Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Widespread power outages in the Texas capital stretched into a third day…

MARSEILLE, France (AP) — The Olympic flame is going for a sail. Instead of arriving overland the symbolic flame alighting the 2024 Paris Games will…

By DEREK GATOPOULOS Associated Press ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greece’s government is seeking to ban a far-right political party led by a jailed…

By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER and MICHAEL KUNZELMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Appearing before a federal judge after pleading guilty to a felony…

By HOPE YEN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Nearly 50 businesses and nonprofits including rideshare companies Uber and Lyft and industrial giant…

LJUBLJANA, Slovenia (AP) — Police say a bus has overturned in northeastern Slovenia, killing three people and injuring several others. The accident…

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkey has railed against a group of Western countries that temporarily shut their consulates in Istanbul, for a second day.…

By SUSIE BLANN Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Top European Union officials were due to meet Friday in Kyiv with Ukrainian President…

By MIKE CORDER Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — A landmark exhibition on slavery in the Dutch colonial era that was first staged at…

By NICOLE WINFIELD and DENG MACHOL Associated Press JUBA, South Sudan (AP) — Pope Francis, on a novel ecumenical peace mission to the world’s…

By KRUTIKA PATHI Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — Trading in shares in troubled Adani Enterprises gyrated Friday as the flagship company of…

By MATTHEW LEE AP Diplomatic Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — A huge, high-altitude Chinese balloon sailed across the U.S. on Friday, drawing severe…

BERLIN (AP) — Police say one boy was killed and another seriously injured when they were hit by a freight train in western Germany. The boys, ages…

By MUNIR AHMED Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan’s military says security forces have killed two insurgents during a raid of a…

By KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — A South Korean court has sentenced a former justice minister, Cho Kuk, to two years in…

By TIM REYNOLDS AP Basketball Writer LeBron James is soon going to be in the NBA record books as the most prolific scorer ever. But for all his…

By SAMYA KULLAB Associated Press BELARUS BORDER, Ukraine (AP) — The reconnaissance drones fly several times a day from Ukrainian positions deep…

By ILAN BEN ZION Associated Press BETHLEHEM, West Bank (AP) — An ivory spoon dating back 2,700 years that was recently repatriated to the…

By SAMY MAGDY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — The United States has stepped up pressure on Middle East allies to expel the Wagner Group, a military…

By STAN CHOE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Wall Street’s rally hit a wall after a surprisingly strong jobs report fueled worries about…

BY JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The ongoing trial of a U.S. citizen charged with serving as a sniper and weapons trainer for the…

By STEPHEN GROVES and AMANCAI BIRABEN Associated Press PIERRE, S.D. (AP) — The conversation between a state senator and a legislative aide started…

By CHRISTOPHER SHERMAN Associated Press PUERTO PEÑASCO, Mexico (AP) — Mexico plans to power up the first phase of a huge solar energy project in…

HONG KONG (AP) — Travel between Hong Kong and China will no longer require COVID-19 PCR tests nor be held to a daily limit as both places seek to…

By STEVE PEOPLES, THOMAS BEAUMONT and ANTHONY IZAGUIRRE Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis may be months away from…

By SHEIKH SAALIQ Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — Utkarsh Saxena and Ananya Kotia’s love story began just like any other college romance. Except…

By SYLVIA HUI Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Former British Prime Minister Liz Truss will join the former leaders of Australia and Belgium at a…

By PAUL WISEMAN AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — America’s employers added a robust 517,000 jobs in January, a surprisingly strong gain in…

By ZEN SOO AP Technology Writer HONG KONG (AP) — A grinding crackdown that wiped billions of dollars of value off Chinese technology companies is…

HIGHLAND PARK, Mich. (AP) — Authorities searching for three aspiring rappers who have been missing for nearly two weeks found “multiple bodies”…

By JULIE WATSON and BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Police in Culver City, California, on Thursday released body camera footage…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. special envoy for Iraq is urging the country’s new government to keep…

By SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A newly released audio recording offers a behind-the-scenes look at how former President…

By NINIEK KARMINI Associated Press JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Southeast Asian foreign ministers are meeting in Indonesia for talks overshadowed by…

PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — A rescue official in northwest Pakistan says a head-on collision between a passenger bus and a speeding truck trailer…

SAN DIEGO (AP) — A former U.S. Navy captain who was caught up in a massive contracting scandal has been sentenced to 2 1/2 years in federal prison…

By JOHN HANNA Associated Press TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas plans to give $304 million in taxpayer-funded incentives to a semiconductor company in…

CINCINNATI (AP) — Cincinnati Bengals running back Joe Mixon has been charged in a warrant with pointing a gun at a woman and threatening her,…

By ELLEN KNICKMEYER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A onetime al-Qaida courier has been released after serving more than 16 years at the…

By ELÉONORE HUGHES and MAURICIO SAVARESE Associated Press RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — A Brazilian magazine on Thursday released audio of a senator…

By SUMAN NAISHADHAM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Fifteen Native American tribes will get a total of $580 million in federal money this year…

By JUAN A. LOZANO Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — A judge has delayed next week’s scheduled execution of a man convicted of killing three…

CHESTERFIELD TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) — A Michigan man says he was left with a $1,000 bill after his 6-year-old son ordered a virtual smorgasbord of…

By KEVIN McGILL Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The American Civil Liberties Union in Louisiana is pointing to recent court settlements as…

By TARA COPP and LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. is tracking a suspected Chinese surveillance balloon that has been…

CHICAGO (AP) — A Chicago woman has been accused of keeping her mother’s dead body in a freezer for nearly two years while living in a nearby…

By JUAN A. LOZANO Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — Authorities say a teenager who had been involved in a shooting with Houston police fled into a…

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Officials say a second high school student has died following a shooting over the weekend at a hookah lounge in Austin, Texas,…

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australian tennis star Nick Kyrgios apologized for shoving a former girlfriend to the…

By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Amid a struggling water system, the Mississippi House has voted to further restrict…

By MICHAEL R. BLOOD AP Political Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Nancy Pelosi has made an early pick in California’s 2024 U.S. Senate race —…

GEORGETOWN, Guyana (AP) — A Guyanese court has handed down death sentences for two men found guilty of high seas piracy attacks that killed seven…

By MICHAEL GOLDBERG Associated Press/Report for America JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A former University of Mississippi chancellor says Republican Gov.…

By LEA SKENE Associated Press BALTIMORE (AP) — A Baltimore grandmother faces criminal charges for failing to secure the gun that her 9-year-old…

By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Bryan Adams may have nabbed his first Grammy nomination in over two decades, but he…

By HALELUYA HADERO AP Business Writer NEW York (AP) — Amazon reported worse-than-expected profits, but its revenue beat expectations boosted by…

HOOD RIVER, Ore. (AP) — Gunshots broke out as police in Hood River, Oregon, responded to a call at a home in the scenic vacation town, prompting an…

By URI BLAU of Shomrim and MIKE CATALINI of The Associated Press LAKEWOOD, N.J. (AP) — An Israeli group that assists Jewish prisoners convicted in…

By LEA SKENE Associated Press ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — The protracted legal odyssey of Adnan Syed, whose murder case rose to prominence through the…

By TARA COPP, MATTHEW LEE and LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — After months of agonizing, the U.S has agreed to send…

By GRAHAM DUNBAR AP Sports Writer GENEVA (AP) — The International Olympic Committee has stepped up efforts to explain its position on trying to…

By BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Emergency calls to Monterey Park police after a dance hall shooting killed 11 people and…

By ED WHITE Associated Press A former leader of the Michigan state House had his phone seized as part of a federal investigation that included grand…

NEW YORK (AP) — Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank is planning a book on the House of Representatives, and it will not be flattering. Little,…

By KRYSTA FAURIA Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — For Kim Petras, 2022 was a big year. The singer-songwriter received her first Grammy…

NEW YORK (AP) — Hindenburg Research is a financial research firm with an explosive name and a track record of sending the stock prices of its…

By FRED GOODALL AP Sports Writer TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Tom Brady’s future figures to be busy. The seven-time Super Bowl-winning quarterback’s…

By BEN FINLEY Associated Press The former principal of the Virginia elementary school where a 6-year-old shot his teacher was not aware of reports…

By KAREN MATTHEWS and WAYNE PARRY Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A published report says federal authorities are investigating whether embattled…

SYRACUSE, N.Y. (AP) — Federal prosecutors say a New York man has pleaded guilty to making threatening phone calls to Republican Congresswoman…

BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s interior minister says she plans to run for governor of her home state this fall but to remain the country’s top…

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma’s new attorney general has apologized to one of Gov. Kevin Stitt’s former cabinet secretaries for his…

By STEFANIE DAZIO Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Police on Thursday said there isn’t any evidence that a mass shooting was planned by a…

By JUSTIN SPIKE Associated Press BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Hungary’s foreign minister says what the United States ambassador to Budapest…

By ILAN BEN ZION and SAMY MAGDY Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel’s foreign minister says the country expects to fully normalize ties…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders will deliver the Republican address to the nation in response to President Joe Biden’s…

By CURT ANDERSON Associated Press TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — It’s been six years since Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band embarked on a major…

By LEANNE ITALIE Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Whether looking for love or a casual encounter, 3 in 10 U.S. adults say they have used a dating…

By MATT OTT AP Business Writer The average long-term U.S. mortgage rate declined for the fourth week in a row, a sign of relative stability that…

By STEVE LeBLANC Associated Press CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) — Award-winning actor and bestselling author Bob Odenkirk was feted Thursday as 2023 Man of…

By MARYCLAIRE DALE and TED SHAFFREY Associated Press SAYREVILLE, N.J. (AP) — Authorities say a New Jersey borough councilwoman was found shot to…

By MIKE STOBBE AP Medical Writer NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. health officials said Thursday a company is recalling its over-the-counter eye drops that…