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By ADAM SCHRECK Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin signed the final papers Wednesday to annex four regions of…

By JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — Asian stocks were mixed Thursday after strong U.S. hiring dampened hopes the Federal Reserve…

By HANNA ARHIROVA Associated Press ZAPORIZHZHIA, Ukraine (AP) — Alone in his apartment in the Russian-occupied city of Enerhodar in southeastern…

NEW DELHI (AP) — A bus in northern India has plunged into a gorge, killing at least 25 and injuring over a dozen others. Police told the Press…

By The Associated Press Ukrainian basketball players Vika Kovalevska and Vlada Hozalova have found brief sanctuary from the war in their homeland…

By PAT GRAHAM AP Sports Writer The sport of modern pentathlon hopes to stave off Olympic removal by possibly adding “American Ninja Warrior”…

By JUAN A. LOZANO and MICHAEL GRACZYK Associated Press HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) — A Texas death row inmate whose case clarified the role of spiritual…

By JOSH BOAK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is working to create a manufacturing revival — even helping to put factory…

By JOSH BOAK and SEUNG MIN KIM Associated Press FORT MYERS, Florida (AP) — President Joe Biden surveyed the devastation of hurricane-ravaged…

By STEVE PEOPLES AP National Politics Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Leading Republicans are entering the final month of the midterm campaign increasingly…

CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — A former government staffer has testified about being raped by a colleague in the Australian Parliament House and…

By MARCY GORDON AP Business Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Elon Musk’s sudden about face on a $44 billion agreement to acquire Twitter, reversing…

By JOSHUA GOODMAN and DAVID BILLER Associated Press MIAMI (AP) — One of Brazil’s biggest gold refiners, which processes gold suspected of being…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Yet another mother searching for her disappeared child has been killed in Mexico. It’s the fourth murder of a volunteer…

By DAVE COLLINS and PAT EATON-ROBB Associated Press WATERBURY, Conn. (AP) — Alex Jones returned to a Connecticut courthouse Tuesday but is not…

By GABE STERN Associated Press/Report for America RENO, Nev. (AP) — The ACLU’s Nevada chapter filed a lawsuit Tuesday against a rural Nevada…

SEATTLE (AP) — A former Seattle tech worker convicted of several charges related to a massive hack of Capital One bank and other companies in 2019…

TENAFLY, N.J. (AP) — The upcoming Rugby League World Cup will be available in the United States and Canada via pay-per-view on cable and satellite…

MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Motorcycle-riding gunmen have killed a longtime radio commentator in metropolitan Manila in the latest attack on a…

By BOBBY CAINA CALVAN Associated Press PINE ISLAND, Fla. (AP) — Will Peratino and his partner Lauren Stepp would not leave their Pine Island…

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A jury on Tuesday awarded $40,000 to a woman who sued the city of Portland, Oregon, over police use of force at a 2020…

By STEPHEN HAWKINS AP Baseball Writer ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — Aaron Judge has hit his 62nd home run of the season to break Roger Maris’ American…

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Missouri homicide and arson detectives are investigating the deaths of two South American scientists whose bodies were…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The founder and CEO of a software company targeted by election deniers has been arrested on suspicion of stealing personal…

By MAURICIO SAVARESE Associated Press SAO PAULO (AP) — Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro and his rival Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva are starting to…

By TRISHA AHMED Associated Press/Report for America In one photo, Johnny Lauder’s 86-year-old mother is in her Florida home, submerged nearly to…

QUITO, Ecuador (AP) — The death toll from a bloody fight among prison inmates has risen to 16. And Ecuadorian authorities say one of the dead was…

By KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — A malfunctioning South Korean ballistic missile blew up as it plowed into the ground…

By BOB CHRISTIE Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Supporters of abortion rights are suing to keep an old Arizona law that criminalizes nearly all…

By DAVID BAUDER AP Media Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The Weather Channel had its biggest audience in five years on Wednesday, when Hurricane Ian made…

JACKSON, Mich. (AP) — A jury has been seated in the trial of three men charged in connection with a 2020 anti-government plot to kidnap Michigan…

By BILL BARROW Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — In Georgia’s pivotal U.S. Senate race, Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock and his Republican…

ST. CHARLES, Mo. (AP) — Jurors have recommended the death penalty for a St. Louis area man who killed his girlfriend, her two children and her…

By FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The nation’s gross national debt has surpassed $31 trillion, according to a U.S.…

By The Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Amazon is implementing a hiring freeze on the corporate side of its retail business for the rest of the…

By TERRY SPENCER Associated Press FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Prosecutors trying to sentence Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz are trying to…

MIAMI (AP) — A Mexican actor has been convicted in South Florida of fatally punching a man during a road rage confrontation. Court records show a…

By ANDREW DALTON AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — A court filing Tuesday from Angelina Jolie alleges that on a 2016 flight, Brad Pitt…

By WILSON RING Associated Press BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) — A Los Angeles biotech investor has pleaded not guilty in a transcontinental murder-for-hire…

By BOB CHRISTIE Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Arizona Republican Party Chair Kelli Ward refused to answer questions during a deposition of the…

By JOSH FUNK AP Business Writer OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Another union has approved the deal it made with the major freight railroads last month that…

By MADDIE BURAKOFF and SETH BORENSTEIN AP Science Writers This is what it’s like to get “the call” — the Swedish Academy of Sciences ringing…

By ED WHITE Associated Press A Michigan judge threw out felony charges Tuesday against seven people in the Flint water scandal, including two former…

By ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Lawyers for former President Donald Trump asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday to step into…

By SEAN MURPHY Associated Press Writer OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt has signed a bill prohibiting federal funding for transgender…

By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A lawyer for ex-President Donald Trump says her client is “ready and eager” to sit for a…

The Associated Press Elon Musk is offering to go through with his original proposal to buy Twitter for $44 billion. The offer comes just two weeks…

CHICAGO (AP) — A suburban Chicago woman has been charged with first-degree murder more than a week after the death of her 3-year-old nephew, who…

By AAMER MADHANI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. announced its providing an additional $625 million in military aid to Ukraine, a…

NORFOLK, Va. (AP) — The U.S. Navy’s most advanced aircraft carrier has embarked on its first-ever deployment. The U.S.S. Gerald R. Ford will…

By CHRISTINA A. CASSIDY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Former President Donald Trump and his allies have whipped up a relentless campaign of…

By HOLLY RAMER Associated Press HUDSON, N.H. (AP) — Don Bolduc isn’t making a full about-face, but the Republican nominee for Senate in New…

By MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — The asteroid that got smacked by a NASA spacecraft is now being trailed by thousands…

By MANUEL RUEDA Associated Press BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Delegates of Colombia’s government and the nation’s largest remaining guerrilla group…

NEW YORK (AP) — Micron, one of the world’s largest microchip manufacturers, will open a semiconductor plant in New York, promising an investment…

MERCED, Calif. (AP) — A man suspected of kidnapping a Sikh family, including an 8-month-old baby, in central California tried to kill himself…

BOSTON (AP) — Three major medical associations are asking the U.S. attorney general to investigate and prosecute people who are threatening…

By AAMER MADHANI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden spoke with Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida  to discuss their next…

SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) — An explosion in a weapons factory in southern Bulgaria  has killed a 55-year-old man and left two women missing. Health…

By MOGOMOTSI MAGOME Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — South African police have launched a manhunt after a German tourist was shot and killed by…

By DAVID PITT Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A third teenager charged with murder in a drive-by shooting death of a 15-year-old boy…

By JONATHAN MATTISE Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A former Tennessee state trooper has gone missing after he was sentenced for a…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Landon Donovan is teaming with Clint Dempsey again at a World Cup. The pair, who share the American record of 57 international…

By ARSENE KABORE Associated Press OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso (AP) — Protesters are gathering in Burkina Faso’s capital where West African…

By DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Prince William has delivered his first speech as heir to the throne at a wildlife protection summit…

By TOM KRISHER, MATT O’BRIEN, RANDALL CHASE and BARBARA ORTUTAY Associated Press The tumultuous saga of Elon Musk’s on-again off-again…

By RODNEY MUHUMUZA Associated Press KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni fired his son as commander of the nation’s…

NEW YORK (AP) — Naomi Osaka has some life lessons she’d like to share. The tennis star has a deal with HarperCollins Publishers for a…

By MICHAEL GOLDBERG Associated Press/Report for America JACKSON, Miss (AP) — A federal agency has set aside money to help guard Mississippi’s…