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By GILLIAN FLACCUS Associated Press PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Oregon’s tough, voter-approved gun control law remains temporarily blocked.…

By JIM SALTER and HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH Associated Press O’FALLON, Mo. (AP) — As of Thursday, it’s lawful for adults to possess and use…

By JEFF McMILLAN Associated Press The Colorado Springs gay bar shooting suspect’s assertion of being nonbinary has put gender identity and pronouns…

By RONALD BLUM and JAY COHEN AP Baseball Writers SAN DIEGO (AP) — The San Diego Padres and Xander Bogaerts agreed to a blockbuster $280 million,…

CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australia’s government says it is seeking assurances from Indonesia that the man convicted of making the bombs used in…

By CHRIS MEGERIAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris needed to get to the U.S. Senate to break a tie. But first she…

By MARY CLARE JALONICK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The House gave final approval Thursday to legislation protecting same-sex marriages, a…

By HANNAH FINGERHUT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Fresh off his party’s better-than-anticipated performance in the midterm elections,…

TOKYO (AP) — Japan has reported its economy contracted less than previously thought in the last quarter, weathering the country’s latest big…

RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — The Palestinian Health Ministry says Israeli forces have killed four Palestinians in separate incidents in the occupied…

By FRANKLIN BRICEÑO and JOSHUA GOODMAN Associated Press LIMA, Peru (AP) — Peru’s ousted President Pedro Castillo rose to power 17 months ago…

By WANJOHI KABUKURU, BRIAN INGANGA and DESMOND TIRO Associated Press ARCHERS POST, Kenya (AP) — In Kenya’s sweltering northern Samburu…

By KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea’s government has expanded its back-to-work orders against thousands of…

By KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission will investigate the cases of…

By JEFFREY COLLINS Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — The South Carolina county where Carolina Panthers owner David Tepper started building and…

By MORGAN LEE Associated Press SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — The U.S. government says it will appeal a court ruling that would lift asylum restrictions…

By ARLEIGH RODGERS Associated Press/Report for America INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Indiana’s attorney general on Wednesday sued Chinese-owned social…

By JONATHAN LANDRUM Jr. AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — For once, Charlize Theron has begun to witness more women in power roles with…

JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — A strong and deep earthquake shook Indonesia’s capital and other parts of the main island Java. High-rises in Jakarta,…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican authorities say seven suspects and one soldier are dead after a shootout between the army and suspected drug cartel…

SEATTLE (AP) — After more than half a century, the last Boeing 747 has rolled out of a Washington state factory. The jumbo jet has been used as a…

GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — A court in Guatemala has convicted former President Otto Pérez Molina and his vice president, Roxana Baldetti, on fraud and…

By SEUNG MIN KIM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is calling again for a ban on so-called assault weapons, calling it…

By GILLIAN FLACCUS Associated Press PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — The first-ever U.S. auction of leases to develop commercial-scale floating wind farms in…

By REBECCA BOONE Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Police are asking for help finding the occupant of a car that was seen near where four…

By DENISE LAVOIE Associated Press RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A Virginia sheriff’s deputy who killed the family members of a 15-year-old California girl…

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The U.S. Senate has confirmed Jerry Blackwell — one of the prosecutors who helped convict a former Minneapolis police officer…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — After years of delay, the U.N. body overseeing economic development and social issues…

By BRUCE SCHREINER Associated Press FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Kentucky’s governor says Democrats have a better chance of connecting with rural…

By NARDOS HAILE and SHARON JOHNSON ATLANTA, Ga (AP) — Ludacris and Mercedes-Benz have surprised schoolchildren in Atlanta with more than 500 new…

By FRANK BAJAK AP Technology Writer BOSTON (AP) — Apple has embarked on its latest privacy-enhancing move. The tech giant says it will now offer…

DALLAS (AP) — Dallas police say a 12-year-old boy has been arrested and charged with murder in a hit-and-run car crash that killed an 82-year-old…

By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN Associated Press ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Many decisions by New Mexico’s most powerful regulatory panel have had direct…

By DAVID SHARP Associated Press AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — The Maine House has selected Democrat Rachel Talbot Ross to be its first Black speaker in a…

SAN DIEGO (AP) — Prosecutors say former Buffalo Bills punter Matt Araiza will not be charged in connection with an alleged gang rape of a…

By TARA COPP and MATT O’BRIEN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Google, Oracle, Microsoft and Amazon will share in the Pentagon’s $9…

By RUSS BYNUM Associated Press SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — A member of President Joe Biden’s Cabinet is urging Georgia officials to deny permits for…

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) — The NCAA has granted an extra year of eligibility to Virginia football players whose eligibility has expired in the…

By JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — It has been about a week-and-a-half since the world’s largest volcano began…

SAN ANTONIO (AP) — A former Border Patrol agent who confessed to killing four sex workers in 2018 was convicted Wednesday of capital murder, after…

By COLLEEN SLEVIN AND JIM MUSTIAN Associated Press DENVER (AP) — Authorities said the person who would later kill five at a Colorado gay nightclub…

PARADISE, Texas (AP) — A 7-year-old Texas girl who was found dead last week after she was reported missing from her home is being remembered as…

By KAREN MATTHEWS Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — New York City Mayor Eric Adams is such an enemy of rats that he once called a press conference…

By MAYSOON KHAN Associated Press/Report for America ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — In an election in which Republicans underperformed nationally, Lester Chang…

By LISA MASCARO AP Congressional Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) — For Senate Democrats, an oh-so-slim 51-49 majority never sounded so good. Sen.…

By SEAN MURPHY Associated Press OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A five-member Oklahoma board has decided that a man convicted in the shotgun slayings of an…

By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer NEW YORK (AP) — In both Steven Spielberg’s “The Fabelmans” and Kelly Reichardt’s upcoming “Showing Up,”…

By E. EDUARDO CASTILLO and JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin acknowledged Wednesday that his…

By JOHN FLESHER Associated Press TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) — A state judge has ordered five men to stand trial on charges involving a foiled plot…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Britain’s Conservative government has approved the U.K.’s first new coal mine in three decades.…

By ANTHONY IZAGUIRRE Associated Press TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Florida’s Supreme Court is considering a case that will decide whether police…

WASHINGTON (AP) — A published report says lawyers for former President Donald Trump found at least two items marked as classified during a recent…

By DENISE LAVOIE Associated Press RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — One day in the 1970s, Paul Fleisher and his wife were walking through a department store…

By DAVID BAUDER and LYNN ELBER AP Entertainment Writers NEW YORK (AP) — What was the most shocking TV moment of 2022? Well, it had to be The Slap,…

By JONATHAN LANDRUM Jr. AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — 2 Chainz wants to capitalize off the NFL’s huge “Thursday Night Football”…

By JANIE McCAULEY AP Sports Writer SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The family of a former University of California-San Diego rower who killed himself in…

CAIRO (AP) — The U.S. secretary of state has warned Sudanese leaders that America will impose a travel ban on any individuals who threaten to…

BERLIN (AP) — Police in western Germany are appealing for help in cracking a potentially very cold case. Authorities say about 60 containers of…

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli soldiers have shot and killed a Palestinian militant who opened fire at them in the occupied West Bank. The army says the…

By LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer Documentaries about Brooke Shields, Judy Blume and Michael J. Fox, films from veteran directors like Nicole…

By FRANKLIN BRICEÑO Associated Press LIMA, Peru (AP) — The president of Peru was ousted by Congress and arrested on a charge of rebellion…

By CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Experts raised concerns over a new policy announced by the Central Bank of Nigeria that…

PARIS (AP) — French animal rights activists have protested against what they say are broad exceptions to a new legislation that was meant to ban…

MOSCOW (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin has described the country’s nuclear arsenals as a deterrent factor in the Ukrainian conflict but…

By ANDREW WELSH-HUGGINS and JULIE CARR SMYTH Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The Ohio Supreme Court has ruled in favor of state efforts to…

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — The former head of Poland’s state broadcaster says he now has a job the World Bank. It’s spurred disbelief in the…

BOSTON (AP) — A Massachusetts man who participated in a scheme to defraud the U.S. government out of about $50 million in tax-free grants intended…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s ruling party has pushed through an electoral reform that reduces funding for the country’s electoral…

By MADDIE BURAKOFF AP Science Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Scientists discovered the oldest known DNA and used it to reveal what life was like 2 million…

By LINDSAY WHITEHURST and ALANNA DURKIN RICHER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The beating death of notorious gangster James “Whitey” Bulger…

By MATTHEW DALY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States will increase exports of liquefied natural gas to Britain under a new…

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Community members are calling for the quick release of body camera video after a Minnesota officer shot and killed a man,…

By JANIE McCAULEY AP Sports Writer SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Sports programs across the county are weighing whether tough coaching styles still have a…

By WANJOHI KABUKURU Associated Press MOMBASA, Kenya (AP) — Reducing waste while boosting recycling and reuse, known as the ‘circular economy,’…

ST. LOUIS (AP) — Three former St. Louis aldermen, including the longtime board president, will go to prison for accepting bribes from a…

By JANIE McCAULEY AP Sports Writer SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Some of Geoff Bond’s rowers loved and appreciated his demanding style. They thrived on…

LONDON (AP) — Time Magazine on Wednesday named Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy its person of the year, awarding him the accolade “for…

By DAMIAN J. TROISE and ALEX VEIGA AP Business Writers Wall Street ended a wobbly day of trading with more losses Wednesday, as a slide in technology…

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Basic services like electricity and telecoms have been restored to key parts of Ethiopia’s Tigray region following the…

By MICHAEL LIEDTKE AP Technology Writer SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — Former Theranos executive Ramesh “Sunny” Balwani was sentenced Wednesday to…

By HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — In 2022, the story of book publishing was often the industry itself. Penguin Random…

By LLAZAR SEMINI Associated Press TIRANA, Albania (AP) — Albania’s last brown bear in captivity was rescued by an international animal welfare…

By JOSEPH WILSON Associated Press BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Spanish police are searching for 14 people who ran from a plane at Barcelona’s airport…

By RAHIM FAIEZ Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — A spokesman says the Taliban authorities have executed an Afghan convicted of killing another man…

By DARLENE SUPERVILLE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Doug Emhoff, the husband of Vice President Kamala Harris, says he’s pained by a rise…

By RONALD BLUM and JAY COHEN AP Baseball Writers SAN DIEGO (AP) — Aaron Judge has issued his ruling: Court remains in session in the Bronx. Judge…

By COLLEEN BARRY Associated Press MILAN (AP) — Italy’s premier opera house has opened its new season with the Russian opera “Boris Godunov.”…

By JOSHUA GOODMAN Associated Press PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — For years, Mark Hager’s job as an observer aboard New England fishing boats made him a…

By MOGOMOTSI MAGOME Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — The convicted killer of South African anti-apartheid leader Chris Hani has been released…

By QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA and ABBY SEWELL Associated Press BAGHDAD (AP) — An Iraqi activist has been sentenced to three years in prison over alleged…

By MUNIR AHMED Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistani investigators say the killing in Kenya of outspoken Pakistani journalist Arshad Sharif…

By MICHELLE CHAPMAN and MATTHEW PERRONE AP Business Writers Embattled vaping company Juul Labs has reached settlements covering thousands of lawsuits…

By JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — When Russian forces launched a military campaign against infrastructure in Ukraine nearly two…

By KATHERINE ROTH Associated Press Handmade holiday cards can be gifts in themselves for both maker and receiver. They’re a way to express…

By ABBY BADACH DOYLE of NerdWallet From rising home prices  to soaring interest rates,  it’s a daunting time to be a home buyer. To achieve…

By DENG MACHOL Associated Press JUBA, South Sudan (AP) — South Sudan’s ruling party has endorsed President Salva Kiir as its candidate for…