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By ERIC TUCKER and FRANK BAJAK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Attorney General Merrick Garland and other U.S. officials say the FBI and…

By MATTHEW LEE AP Diplomatic Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Secretary of State Antony Blinken will travel to Egypt, Israel and the West Bank this weekend…

By JULIE CARR SMYTH Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The corruption trial of former Ohio House Speaker Larry Householder is temporarily…

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The second consecutive quarter of economic growth that the government reported…

By WANJOHI KABUKURU Associated Press MOMBASA, Kenya (AP) — The Tanzanian government is seizing livestock from Indigenous Maasai herders in the…

SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) — Pramod Mittal, the younger brother of Indian steel magnate Lakshmi Mittal, has been charged in Bosnia with…

By GIOVANNA DELL’ORTO Associated Press LONGYEARBYEN, Norway (AP) — The warm glow of Svalbard Kirke’s lights gleams on the mountain slope…

By THOMAS ADAMSON AP Fashion Writer PARIS (AP) — The experimentalism and audacity of 1980s club kids inspired Valentino in one of the last…

By GIOVANNA DELL’ORTO Associated Press LONGYEARBYEN, Norway (AP) — The warm glow of Svalbard Kirke’s lights gleams on the snow-covered…

By EBRAHIM NOROOZI Associated Press KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — A spokesman for the World Food Program says malnutrition rates in Afghanistan are at…

By KATHERINE ROTH Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — There are those for whom recycling and composting are not nearly enough, who have reduced their…

By HOWARD FENDRICH AP Tennis Writer MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Tommy Paul was too little at the time to remember watching Andy Roddick win the…

By JONATHAN LANDRUM Jr. AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Shakira’s two outfits worn during a Super Bowl halftime performance, her…

By SALLY FRENCH of NerdWallet Airline and hotel elite status extensions due to the COVID-19 pandemic are expiring this year, and the companies are…

MOSCOW (AP) — The United States’ new ambassador to Russia, Lynne Tracy, has arrived in Moscow, the U.S. embassy said Thursday. Tracy most…

By HOGIR AL ABDO Associated Press RAQQA, Syria (AP) — Syrian Kurdish-led forces have captured a local commander of the Islamic State group in…

By SAMUEL PETREQUIN Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — Israeli President Isaac Herzog says antisemitism is on the rise in the Western world and he is…

BERLIN (AP) — The German government’s top anti-drugs official has called for tough restrictions on advertising for alcohol, tobacco and sports…

By KIRSTEN GRIESHABER Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Investigating officials say a 33-year-old man arrested on suspicion of fatally stabbing two…

MONTREAL (AP) — Sean Bérubé said he thought it was a joke when he was first asked to help assemble a team of Ukrainian preteen refugees,…

By HOWARD FENDRICH AP Tennis Writer MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — What all seemed so different, so daunting, even, about trying to win a Grand Slam…

By MOGOMOTSI MAGOME Associated Press PRETORIA, South Africa (AP) — U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen has discussed South Africa’s transition…

By SERGIO RODRIGO, JENNIFER O’MAHONY and JOSEPH WILSON Associated Press ALGECIRAS, Spain (AP) — Spanish police have raided the home of a…

KANIS LEUNG HONG KONG (AP) — The U.S. consul general in Hong Kong says about 20% of the Americans living in the city have left over the past two…

BERLIN (AP) — German authorities say they have arrested a second person in connection with a high-profile espionage case that embarrassed…

By The Associated Press From Washington to Berlin to Kyiv, a Western decision to send battle tanks to Ukraine was hailed enthusiastically. Moscow…

By JARI TANNER Associated Press HELSINKI (AP) — Wireless and fixed-network equipment maker Nokia is reporting strong fourth-quarter results on the…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japan has successfully launched a rocket carrying a government intelligence-gathering satellite on…

BEIJING (AP) — A Chinese official says eight people died in the sinking of a cargo ship in waters between Japan and South Korea. The Chinese consul…

By ANDREEA ALEXANDRU and STEPHEN McGRATH Associated Press BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — Andrew Tate, the influential internet personality who is…

BERLIN (AP) — Germany-based software company SAP says it’s cutting up to 3,000 jobs worldwide, or about 2.5% of its workforce. The…

By MANISH SWARUP and ASHOK SHARMA Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — Tens of thousands of people have gathered to watch a parade in the Indian…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI and YURI KAGEYAMA Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Toyota Motor Corp. has announced that its CEO and president, Akio Toyoda, will…

By KAREL JANICEK Associated Press PRAGUE (AP) — Retired army Gen. Petr Pavel is challenging populist billionaire Andrej Babis in the Czech…

By HANNA ARHIROVA and SAMYA KULLAB Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian forces fired another rash of missiles and self-exploding drones in…

By ISABEL DEBRE Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Gaza militants fired rockets and Israel carried out airstrikes early Friday as tensions soared…

By TIA GOLDENBERG Associated Press TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Israel’s tech industry has long been the driving force behind the country’s economy.…

By CARA ANNA Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Witnesses allege that several dozen civilians and fighters have been killed in the latest…

KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — The flight data recorder and cockpit voice recorders recovered from the Jan. 15 plane crash in Nepal are being sent to…

By GENE JOHNSON Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) — An effort to balance what is considered the nation’s most regressive state tax code comes…

By JONATHAN MATTISE Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee officials have conceded that two of the people most responsible for…

By KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Cars slowed and stopped on icy roads and bundled-up commuters gingerly navigated…

By TERRY TANG and DEEPA BHARATH Associated Press MONTEREY PARK, Calif. (AP) — For decades, Monterey Park has been a haven for Asian immigrants…

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australians marked the 235th anniversary of British colonization Thursday with a public…

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australians expect to vote this year in a referendum that would enshrine in the…

By CALVIN WOODWARD Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — On a winter’s day in 1984, a briefcase stuffed with classified government documents…

By DAVID KOENIG AP Airlines Writer FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — Boeing representatives and relatives of some of the passengers killed in two crashes of…

By PAUL WISEMAN AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. economy expanded at a 2.9% annual pace from October through December, ending 2022…

BEIJING (AP) — Rescuers were heading to the site of a magnitude 5.5 earthquake in a region of southwestern China at the base of the Tibetan plateau…

By SCOTT SONNER Associated Press SPARKS, Nev. (AP) — Tesla says it intends to invest $3.6 billion to expand manufacturing capabilities in Nevada…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United Nations is forecasting that global economic growth will fall significantly to…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. special envoy for Haiti says she heard “caution” from the United States and…

By WILL WEISSERT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A Democratic National Committee panel voted Wednesday to give New Hampshire and Georgia more…

By RIO YAMAT Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — A marijuana cultivation and production house near Las Vegas lost its license Tuesday after auditors…

By TARA COPP and LOLITA BALDOR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — For months, U.S. officials balked at sending M1 Abrams tanks to Ukraine,…

By JAMES POLLARD Associated Press/Report for America COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster is pressing forward with efforts to…

By ADAM BEAM Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Footage of the attack on former U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s husband will be…

By DAVID KOENIG AP Airlines Writer DALLAS (AP) — The federal government is investigating whether Southwest Airlines knowingly scheduling more…

By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Jurors in the trial of a man charged with killing eight people along a Manhattan bike path…

By STEFANIE DAZIO, AMY TAXIN and BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press MONTEREY PARK, Calif. (AP) — The police chief in the California city where 20 people…

By MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Of all the questions swirling around U.S. Rep. George Santos, one of the most serious has been…

By JAMIE STENGLE, DEEPA BHARATH and CHRISTOPHER WEBER LOS ANGELES (AP) — Among the 11 people killed when a gunman opened fire during a Lunar New…

DUXBURY, Mass. (AP) — A 32-year-old mother in Massachusetts is expected to be charged in the killing of her two children and the injuring of her…

OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — Abortion rights proposals have been front and center in Olympia, Washington, this week as state lawmakers heard hours of…

By JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — On Ian Schweitzer’s first morning of freedom Wednesday, he woke up in a hotel…

By CLAIRE SAVAGE Associated Press/Report for America CHICAGO (AP) — A central Illinois man has been charged with setting fire to a Planned…

By ELLIOT SPAGAT Associated Press SAN DIEGO (AP) — The Biden administration says U.S. authorities have seen a 97% decline in illegal border…

By MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — An asteroid the size of a delivery truck will whip past Earth on Thursday night, one…

By JEFFREY COLLINS Associated Press After 19 months of speculation, prosecutors finally laid out their evidence Wednesday that Alex Murdaugh killed…

MIAMI (AP) — A man suspected of being the “pillowcase rapist” in connection with a string of South Florida rapes back in the 1980s has been…

By KEN RITTER Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — A Nevada judge decided not to punish Las Vegas police for taking an initial look at a slain…

MALIBU, Calif. (AP) — A small, magnitude-4.2 earthquake centered offshore gave Southern California an early morning wake-up call Wednesday, but…

By BARBARA ORTUTAY and JILL COLVIN The Associated Press Facebook parent Meta said Wednesday it will restore former President Donald Trump ‘s…

By MICHAEL LIEDTKE AP Technology Writer SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s impulsive and sometimes inflammatory usage of Twitter has…

By RICK CALLAHAN and MIKE HOUSEHOLDER Associated Press INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Heavy, wet snow — part of a storm system that spawned tornadoes in the…

By ANDREW SELSKY Associated Press SALEM, Ore. (AP) — A state lawmaker in Oregon is using thousands of pages of redacted documents he sought for…

By FARNOUSH AMIRI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. House is showing its support for protesters in Iran. Lawmakers overwhelmingly…

By SARAH RANKIN Associated Press RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares says a former state parole board chair violated state…

By MATTHEW PERRONE AP Health Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Supporters of abortion rights filed separate lawsuits Wednesday challenging two states’…

SINCLAIR, Wyoming (AP) — Five young women killed in a head-on crash on a Wyoming highway were Arkansas high school students and graduates, school…

By JOHN FLESHER AP Environmental Writer TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) — The Biden administration is temporarily delaying legal protections for two…

NEW YORK (AP) — Justin Bieber’s record-breaking pop hits from “Baby” to “Sorry” are no longer his after the superstar sold the rights…

By HANNAH SCHOENBAUM Associated Press/Report for America RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A lawyer representing the leaders of North Carolina’s state…

By KRISTIN M. HALL AP Entertainment Writer NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Singer Elle King’s rock music has always been banjo-based so her decision…

By JUAN A. LOZANO Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — Federal prosecutors have dropped an immigration charge against an Afghan soldier who’s been…