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By The Associated Press Rodents predicting weather trends. Why? Just as fair a Groundhog Day question, though, is this: Why not? And more…

NEW YORK (AP) — The NBA 2K League is taking its 2023 season to Washington. The league announced Thursday it will play this season at the District…

By AARON MORRISON AP National Writer MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — The sound of the djembe drums started as a low tremble and grew more distinct as the…

By TOM KRISHER and MIKE HOUSEHOLDER Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — Two men who began their careers on factory floors are competing to lead the…

By DIARLEI RODRIGUES and CARLA BRIDI Associated Press RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Rio de Janeiro’s brutal summer heat has reached 50 degrees Celsius…

By MIKE CORDER Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Appeals judges at a European Union-backed court have upheld most of the convictions…

By CHRIS MEGERIAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Real and fake news will collide again at this year’s White House Correspondents’…

BERLIN (AP) — Nine men suspected of involvement in blowing up dozens of cash machines in Germany and stealing some 5.2 million euros (nearly $5.7…

By BRITTNEY J. MILLER, Cedar Rapids Gazette CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (AP) — Amid a major drought in the Western U.S., a proposed solution comes up…

By AUDREY McAVOY Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — A whale that washed ashore in Hawaii over the weekend likely died in part because it ate large…

PARIS (AP) — Interpol says police in southeastern France have arrested a convicted murderer linked to Italy’s most powerful organized crime…

By JIM HEINTZ Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin has attended commemorations of the 80th anniversary of the Soviet…

LONDON (AP) — The U.K. government says it will hold a public inquiry into whether the deadliest bombing in Northern Ireland’s decades of violence…

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — An Iranian director who was arrested last summer, weeks before his latest film was released to widespread…

By JOVANA GEC Associated Press BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Serbia’s populist president has warned during a chaotic parliamentary session that the…

By MICHAEL CASEY Associated Press HILDALE, Utah (AP) — Ayahuasca is a psychedelic tea whose roots go back hundreds of years to ceremonial use by…

By MICHAEL CASEY Associated Press HILDALE, Utah (AP) — The tea tasted bitter and earthy, but Lorenzo Gonzales drank it anyway. On that frigid night…

By KRUTIKA PATHI Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — India’s Gautam Adani was Asia’s richest man when the U.S. short-selling firm…

By CARA ANNA Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Africa’s public health agency says countries with deadly cholera outbreaks on the continent…

By KATE ASHFORD of NerdWallet A new year means changes to Medicare, including updated premiums and deductibles and sometimes big policy moves. In…

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli police have arrested an American tourist after he allegedly knocked down and broke a statue of Jesus in a church in…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The U.K. government says is responding to “deeply shocking” revelations that debt collectors…

By KELVIN CHAN AP Business Writer LONDON (AP) — Global energy giant Shell says annual profits doubled to a record high last year as oil and gas…

By PAUL J. WEBER and KEN MILLER Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Thousands of frustrated Texans shivered in homes without power for a second…

By JAY COHEN AP Sports Writer Back at the very beginning, right when the idea of water polo in Ghana started swimming into reality, Prince Asante got…

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre of Norway says the oil-rich Scandinavian country will become one of the world’s top…

By AAMER MADHANI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is playing host to former President Bill Clinton to mark the 30th…

By LORNE COOK Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Parliament has removed the protective immunity of two lawmakers linked to one of the…

BY AYANNA ALEXANDER Associated Press JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — Not far from the postcard images of Jacksonville — the white sand beaches, the…

By NICOLE WINFIELD, CHRISTINA MALKIA and JEAN-YVES KAMALE Associated Press KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — Pope Francis led Congo’s young people in a…

By LORNE COOK Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — Senior members of the European Union’s executive branch are in Ukraine looking to boost…

By DAVID McHUGH AP Business Writer FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — The European Central Bank has hiked interest rates by another half-point and vows a…

By SUSIE BLANN Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian missiles hit residential areas in an eastern Ukrainian city Thursday for the second…

By RIAZ KHAN Associated Press PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistani police say a suicide bomber who killed 101 people in the northwestern city of…

By KANIS LEUNG Associated Press Hong Kong (AP) — Hong Kong will give away air tickets and vouchers to woo tourists back. The international…

By TIA GOLDENBERG Associated Press TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Israel’s attorney general says Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu must not be involved…

VIENNA (AP) — An Austrian court has convicted four men of terrorist offenses and participation in murder over their alleged links to a sympathizer…

VIENNA (AP) — The Austrian government says it has ordered four diplomats based in Vienna, including two at Moscow’s mission to United Nations…

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran has formally blamed Israel for a drone attack that targeted a military…

By KRUTIKA PATHI and SHEIKH SAALIQ Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — Indian conglomerate Adani Enterprises called off its $2.5 billion share…

By DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The Bank of England has raised interest rates by half a percentage point as it sought to tame…

By RIO YAMAT Associated Press NORTH LAS VEGAS, Nev. (AP) — A former “Dances With Wolves” actor accused of sexually abusing Indigenous girls and…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press London (AP) — U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has angry unions to the left of him, anxious Conservative Party…

By ANTHONY IZAGUIRRE and TERRY SPENCER Associated Press TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Florida could make it easier for juries to hand down the death…

By TIA GOLDENBERG Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel’s West Bank settler population now makes up more than half a million people, a…

By NICK PERRY Associated Press WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — The United States has opened an embassy in the Solomon Islands in its latest move to…

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — French naval forces in January seized thousands of assault rifles, machine guns…

By ANDREW SELSKY Associated Press SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Police in rural southwest Oregon were on high alert: A man with a history of kidnapping and…

PUNXSUTAWNEY, Pa. (AP) — A furry critter in a western Pennsylvania town has predicted six more weeks of winter during an annual Groundhog Day…

By MUNIR AHMED Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — Officials say Pakistan’s police have arrested a prominent political ally of a former prime…

By JIM GOMEZ and ELLEN KNICKMEYER Associated Press MANILA, Philippines (AP) — The Philippines says it is allowing U.S. forces to broaden their…

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Sony has appointed a company veteran as its president to lead the Japanese electronics and…

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Asian shares were trading mixed Friday ahead of a closely watched U.S. jobs report that may affect…

By COLLEEN LONG and EMILY SWANSON Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — More U.S. adults disapprove than approve of the way President Joe Biden has…

By CHRIS MEGERIAN, FARNOUSH AMIRI and SEUNG MIN KIM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Members of the Congressional Black Caucus have left a…

By WILL WEISSERT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Bitter divisions dominated a recent national Republican Party gathering. And come this weekend,…

By KEVIN FREKING and LISA MASCARO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republicans have voted to oust Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar from the House…

By CORA LEWIS Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The Federal Reserve raised its key rate by a quarter point Wednesday, bringing it to the highest…

By MARGERY A. BECK Associated Press LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — The Nebraska Legislature’s Health and Human Services Committee took nearly eight hours…

By JAMIE STENGLE Associated Press DALLAS (AP) — The two small monkeys who were found in a vacant house a day after being taken from the Dallas Zoo…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Two people have been accused of stealing nearly $3 million from a wealthy ailing investor, moving into his Malibu beach home and…

By JUAN A. LOZANO Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — Attorneys for a former Houston police officer charged with murder in connection with a deadly…

OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A 5-year-old boy who was attacked by a mountain lion while hiking in rural Northern California with his…

By KEN RITTER Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — A Nevada judge has ruled a Colorado dentist unfit for trial following his arrest last month in what…

NEW YORK (AP) — A federal judge in New York City has ordered an ex-gynecologist to jail as he awaits sentencing, following his conviction for…

By ANDREW SELSKY SALEM, Ore. (AP) — The suspect in a violent kidnapping in Oregon — a man who spent little time behind bars for a similar crime…

By BECKY BOHRER and MATTHEW DALY Associated Press JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — The Biden administration has issued a long-awaited study that recommends…

By LISA MASCARO and SEUNG MIN KIM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy met face-to-face…

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

By RICK RYCROFT and ROD McGUIRK Associated Press SYDNEY (AP) — Mourners at the Sydney funeral for Australian Cardinal George Pell, who was once the…

By ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A lawyer for President Joe Biden’s son, Hunter, asked the Justice Department in a letter…

By COLLEEN LONG and SEUNG MIN KIM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Outgoing White House chief of staff Ron Klain burst into tears Wednesday as he…

By LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The most expansive federal report in over two decades on guns and crime shows a shrinking…

By CARLA BRIDI and ELÉONORE HUGHES Associated Press BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — Brazilian lawmakers have voted to reelect the heads of both the…

By KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea says it’s prepared to counter U.S. military moves with the “most…

By MICHAEL HILL and MAYSOON KHAN Associated Press ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York Gov. Kathy Hochul proposed dramatic spending to help New York City…

By HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH Associated Press Police say the man who was fatally shot by police after entering a Target store in Omaha, Nebraska, armed…

By KIMBERLEE KRUESI Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Republican lawmakers continued to block Democratic lawmakers from questioning the…

By MICHAEL LIEDTKE AP Technology Writer SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Elon Musk’s former chief of staff has testified that the billionaire believed he had…

By PAT EATON-ROBB Associated Press HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — A group of Hispanic lawmakers in Connecticut has proposed that the state follow…

By LEA SKENE Associated Press BALTIMORE (AP) — A weekend shooting in west Baltimore’s Upton neighborhood killed two people and left three others…

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — San Francisco building inspectors have given Twitter’s construction contractor two weeks to submit a corrected building use…

By SAMY MAGDY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — A tanker transporting liquefied natural gas broke down in the Suez Canal on Wednesday but traffic in…

By GISELA SALOMON Associated Press MIAMI (AP) — Four key suspects in the killing of Haiti’s president appear for the first time in U.S. federal…

By CHRISTINA LARSON AP Science Writer SILVA JARDIM, Brazil (AP) — A pioneering campaign to vaccinate endangered monkeys in Brazil against yellow…

CAMBRIDGE, Ohio (AP) — Philadelphia Eagles reserve offensive lineman Josh Sills has been indicted on rape and kidnapping charges that stem from an…