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By ANTHONY IZAGUIRRE Associated Press TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — The Florida Legislature will meet next week for a special session on property…

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Gov. Greg Abbott has tapped a longtime Republican lawmaker to be Texas’ new elections chief, a pick who could enjoy a…

By ALMUDENA CALATRAVA Associated Press BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Argentine Vice President Cristina Fernández was convicted and sentenced…

By MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump’s company was convicted of tax fraud Tuesday for helping executives dodge taxes…

MILAN (AP) — After 11 days of digging, search teams recovered the final victim from the debris of an enormous landslide on the Italian resort…

BERLIN (AP) — Lawyers for a 97-year-old former secretary to the SS commander of Nazi Germany’s Stutthof concentration camp have asked for…

By JIM SALTER Associated Press The deadline for obtaining the Real ID needed to board a domestic flight has been pushed back again, with the…

By DAVID A. LIEB Associated Press Partisan gerrymandering is back before the U.S. Supreme Court in a case stemming from the latest attempt by North…

LAS CRUCES, N.M. (AP) — New Mexico State University says it is hiring an external, third-party investigator to review the events surrounding last…

CHESAPEAKE, Va. (AP) — The last two patients who were wounded when a Walmart employee in Virginia opened fire on his co-workers in an employee…

By ADRIAN SAINZ Associated Press MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Jim Stewart, the white Tennessee farm boy and fiddle player who co-founded the influential…

By BRIAN WITTE, SCOTT BAUER and JAMES POLLARD Associated Press ANNAPOLIS, Maryland (AP) — Maryland is banning the use of TikTok and certain China…

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s prime minister has backed down from his initial declaration to award bonuses to the national soccer team for…

CAIRO (AP) — Iranian state media says authorities have sentenced five people to death for allegedly killing a paramilitary troop affiliated with…

LONDON (AP) — A man was arrested Tuesday on suspicion of assault after an egg was allegedly hurled towards King Charles III during a visit to a…

By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Apple Music wants to help you and your friends sing along to your favorite songs with a new…

By JONATHAN LANDRUM Jr. AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — While filming “Emancipation,” Will Smith routinely drew inspiration from the…

BERLIN (AP) — A senior German security official says investigators have found no evidence of a religious or political motive for a knife attack on…

STOCKHOLM (AP) — French author Annie Ernaux who won this year’s Nobel Prize in literature, says men need to change their attitudes now, before…

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Police in Minnesota say an officer fatally shot a man who they say displayed a handgun as they were trying to arrest him.…

By ALEX DANIELS of The Chronicle of Philanthropy Chronicle of Philanthropy As more nurses leave their jobs in hospitals and health-care centers,…

By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Brendan Fraser’s performance in “The Whale” has been widely celebrated as a likely Oscar…

TIRANA, Albania (AP) — The leader of the Albanian opposition center-right Democratic Party has been attacked during an anti-government protest held…

By MICHAEL CASEY Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — Environmental leaders are gathering on Montreal to hammer out a framework they hope will help…

By RAHIM FAIEZ Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — Afghan girls will be allowed to take their high school graduation exams this week even though they…

By MOGOMOTSI MAGOME Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — South Africa’s lawmakers have postponed until next week a debate on the damning report…

BRUSSELS (AP) — European Union lawmakers and governments reached a deal Tuesday that would ban the import of products which contribute to…

By HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH Associated Press The COVID-19 pandemic sent Heidi Whitney’s daughter into a tailspin. Suddenly the San Diego middle…

BERLIN (AP) — A 45-year-old German man who had offered babysitting services online has gone on trial in the western city of Cologne accused of…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — A newly founded Japanese semiconductor company aiming to revive Japan’s chip industry has signed…

BANGKOK (AP) — Three Thai railway workers have been killed and four others wounded when a bomb exploded as they were clearing the wreckage of an…

ULAANBAATAR, Mongolia (AP) — Protesters have tried to force their way into Mongolia’s State Palace, incensed by allegations of corruption…

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkey’s foreign minister has again threatened to “take action” against Greece if it continues to deploy weapons on its…

By STEVE PEOPLES and SARAH RANKIN Associated Press RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin swept into office as a Republican revelation…

TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Latvian media authorities have revoked the license of an independent Russian TV channel exiled in the Baltic country for,…

GDYNIA, Poland (AP) — Polish President Andrzej Duda and the country’s defense minister have taken delivery of a first shipment of tanks and…

By EVELYNE MUSAMBI Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Tanzania’s president has canceled Independence Day celebrations scheduled for Friday…

By COSTAS KANTOURIS Associated Press THESSALONIKI, Greece (AP) — Residents of a Roma settlement have lit fires near a police station outside…

BEIJING (AP) — China’s Defense Ministry says the country strictly adheres to a policy of no first use of nuclear weapons “at any time and…

By RAF CASERT Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — A rift between the European Union and member state Hungary has deepened after Budapest vetoed an…

By LEAH WILLINGHAM Associated Press WELCH, W.Va. (AP) — The head of the federal Environmental Protection Agency has visited a West Virginia county…

By JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Drones struck inside Russia’s border with Ukraine on Tuesday in the second day of attacks…

By SAMUEL PETREQUIN and LLAZAR SEMINI TIRANA, Albania (AP) — EU leaders and their Western Balkans counterparts are to meet for talks aimed at…

By KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Members of South Korea’s ruling conservative party have proposed a bill that would…

By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer Shares fell in Asia on Wednesday after Wall Street declined on fears the Federal Reserve will need to keep…

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Authorities say a Memphis police officer was wounded and a man was killed during a shootout following a call about a…

ISLAMABAD (AP) — A Taliban official says a roadside bomb went off near a bus with government employees in northern Afghanistan, killing six people.…

By STEPHEN GROVES Associated Press SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem is trying to win over the Republican-controlled…

By COLLEEN SLEVIN Associated Press COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — The suspect accused of entering a Colorado Springs gay nightclub and killing five…

By AMANDA SEITZ and COLLEEN LONG Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration is still actively searching for ways to safeguard…

By MARY CLARE JALONICK, FARNOUSH AMIRI and LISA MASCARO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Top House and Senate leaders have bestowed…

By BILL BARROW and JEFF AMY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock defeated Republican challenger Herschel Walker in a…

BEIJING (AP) — China’s leaders eulogized the late Jiang Zemin on Tuesday as a loyal Marxist-Leninist who oversaw their country’s rapid economic…

By NICK PERRY Associated Press WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Australia’s central bank has raised its benchmark interest rate by a quarter-point…

By NINIEK KARMINI Associated Press JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesia’s Parliament unanimously voted on Tuesday to ban sex outside of marriage…

FARIBAULT, Minn. (AP) — A southern Minnesota school district has agreed to accept a $1.1 million state grant meant to help curb drug use among…

By ELLIOT SPAGAT Associated Press SAN DIEGO (AP) — The Biden administration says it will expand temporary legal status for Haitians already living…

By KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea has fired a barrage of artillery rounds into waters near rival South Korea…

By ANDREW DALTON and ALICIA RANCILIO Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Kirstie Alley, a two-time Emmy winner whose roles on the TV megahit…

MINEOLA, N.Y. (AP) — A serial slayer known as the “Torso Killer” already convicted of 11 homicides admitted on Monday that he also killed five…

By ROB GILLIES Associated Press TORONTO (AP) — The Canadian branch of Amnesty International says it was the target of a cyberattack sponsored by…

By ED WHITE Associated Press Federal prosecutors say a life prison sentence would be justified for the leader of a plot to kidnap Michigan Gov.…

By JOSH FUNK AP Business Writer OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — The major freight railroads now face pressure from investors to add sick days after Congress…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s troubled Maya Train tourist project will now include a 50-mile (78 kilometer) stretch of elevated trackway…

By MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Jurors in the Trump Organization’s criminal tax fraud trial will continue deliberating for a…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The first attempt to survey the extent of violence and harassment at work around the…

TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) — Honduras has become the second country in Central America to impose a state of exception suspending some…

By BRUCE SCHREINER Associated Press FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear has filed for reelection next year. The Democratic governor is…

By TRAVIS LOLLER Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The family of country singer Naomi Judd has filed a notice seeking to voluntarily dismiss…