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NEW DELHI (AP) — India’s central bank has raised its key interest rate to 4.9% from 4.4% to contain fast-rising inflation. Wednesday’s increase…

By SYLVIA HUI Associated Press LONDON (AP) — With British Prime Minister Boris Johnson dealt a heavy blow after surviving a no-confidence vote from…

By ABDUL SATTAR Associated Press QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) — A government official says a speeding bus has veered off a narrow mountain road and…

By KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Song Hae, a South Korean TV presenter who was beloved for decades as the warm-humored…

By AYSE WIETING and SUZAN FRASER Associated Press ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Russia and Turkey say they support a safe corridor in the Black Sea to…

By OMAR FARUK and CARA ANNA Associated Press MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — No mother should have to lose her child. Owliyo Hassan Salaad has watched…

By JONATHAN J. COOPER and JACQUES BILLEAUD Associated Press FLORENCE, Ariz. (AP) — An Arizona man convicted in the 1984 killing of an 8-year-old…

HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — State media say Vietnam’s health minister and the mayor of the capital Hanoi have been arrested in an investigation…

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — NASA is gearing up to launch a research rocket from remote northern Australia this…

By KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman has met with her counterparts from South…

By ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Brittney Griner is easily the most prominent American locked up by a foreign country. But the…

By LISA MASCARO AP Congressional Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) — Rep. Liz Cheney has been thinking lately about her great-great-grandfather, a man…

By BERNAT ARMANGUÉ and YURAS KARMANAU Associated Press BAKHMUT, Ukraine (AP) — Workers pulled scores of bodies from smashed buildings in an…

By DEE-ANN DURBIN AP Business Writer It’s the inflation you’re not supposed to see. From toilet paper to yogurt and coffee to corn chips,…

By HALELUYA HADERO AP Business Writer Amazon says in its second-annual report that it prevented 4 billion bad listings from making it onto its site…

By NASSER KARIMI Associated Press TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — A passenger train has derailed in eastern Iran, killing at least 22 people and injuring 87…

MOUNT SHASTA, Calif. (AP) — Authorities say a mountain climbing guide has died and at least four other people have been injured while trying to…

By ADAM BEAM Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California Gov. Gavin Newsom has cruised to an easy primary victory. Early returns Tuesday…

By DARLENE SUPERVILLE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Jill Biden is urging graduates of a Los Angeles community college to never forget where…

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — The government says Japan’s economy contracted in the first quarter though at a slower rate…

By JONATHAN LANDRUM Jr. AP Entertainment Writer SANTA MONICA, Calif. (AP) — Judy Huth recalled being distraught while describing an allegation that…

By ALAN SUDERMAN and JIM MUSTIAN Associated Press The FBI has seized the electronic data of a retired four-star general who authorities say made…

By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer NEW YORK (AP) — There is only one person who, in the middle of a massive dystopic dinosaur movie, can utter a line…

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Authorities say two drivers were arrested on suspicion of DUI after a motorcyclist went flying off a San Francisco freeway…

PORT ORCHARD, Wash. (AP) — Three men accused of killing a Washington state family five years ago pleaded not guilty Tuesday, as detectives asserted…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Hungarian Ambassador Csaba Korosi has been elected as the next president of the U.N.…

By SAM METZ Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — As the nation awaits a decision from the U.S. Supreme Court regarding a Mississippi law that…

By DEEPA BHARATH Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — An openly transgender cleric from San Francisco, who made history last year with an…

By ASHRAF KHALIL Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Eleven years after her own life was massively altered by gun violence, former congresswoman…

By BROOKE SCHULTZ Report for America HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — The Pennsylvania Senate is advancing legislation that would prohibit transgender women…

By TERRY SPENCER Associated Press FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Rare normalcy has returned to jury selection for Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz…

By TOM FOREMAN Jr. Associated Press A video released by the North Carolina State Highway Patrol shows a motorist had a gun in his hand when he…

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — A 10-year-old Florida girl has been arrested more than a week after authorities say she shot and killed a woman who had gotten…

By LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer The organization behind the Oscars has named Bill Kramer as their new CEO. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and…

By KATE BRUMBACK Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Todd and Julie Chrisley, stars of the reality television show “Chrisley Knows Best,” have been…

HEMET, Calif. (AP) — A small plane has crashed into the backyard of a Southern California home, and authorities say the pilot has been hospitalized…

By LYNN ELBER AP Television Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — The U.S. split from Great Britain is history, but the monarchy still has a hold on its former…

By LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. officials say a Taiwanese F-16 fighter jet made an emergency landing at Daniel K.…

AMHERST, N.Y. (AP) — Police are investigating a fire at a western New York anti-abortion center as a case of arson. CompassCare Chief Executive Jim…

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Albany City Court has been closed for fumigation after hundreds of cockroaches were released during an altercation that broke…

By GEIR MOULSON Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel has defended her approach to Ukraine and Russia during her 16…

By MARCY GORDON AP Business Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — State officials across the nation have taken on Big Tech companies in the courts and state…

DELRAY BEACH, Fla. (AP) — A man convicted of burning tire marks across a gay pride streetscape in South Florida while participating in a rally for…

By TOM MURPHY AP Health Writer The Federal Trade Commission is starting an inquiry into the operations of pharmacy benefit managers who control…

By MATTHEW DALY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. solar manufacturers are considering legal challenges after President Joe Biden declared a…

By The Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Jim Seals, who teamed with fellow musician “Dash” Crofts on such 1970s soft-rock hits as “Summer…

By AAMER MADHANI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Academy Award–winning actor Matthew McConaughey has offered an emotional call on Congress to…

Former Illinois U.S. Rep. John E. Porter has died at the age of 87. In a statement, Porter’s family say he died Friday after a recent…

By KEN SWEET and FATIMA HUSSEIN The Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Meltdowns in the cryptocurrency space are common, but the latest one really…

By KEVIN McGILL Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards has called a special legislative session to draw new…

By LAURAN NEERGAARD AP Medical Writer American adults who haven’t yet gotten vaccinated against COVID-19 may soon get another choice, as advisers…

By JACQUES BILLEAUD Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — An Arizona prisoner has made a last-minute request to the U.S. Supreme Court to delay his…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — The mayor of the Mexican city of Cuernavaca was proudly inaugurating a footbridge over a scenic stream when the span collapsed,…

By JAMES MacPHERSON Associated Press BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — A former North Dakota state senator who resigned following a report that he traded…

By JUAN A. LOZANO Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — Texas’ prison system has temporarily stopped transporting inmates as it investigates how a…

TORONTO (AP) — The head of Toronto’s homicide squad says they have released sketches of a little girl whose body was found in a dumpster in an…

CONYERS, Ga. (AP) — A man accused of fatally shooting Atlanta rapper Trouble has been denied bond after a confrontation that investigators allege…

By GRANT SCHULTE Associated Press OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Abortion-rights opponents are inching closer to a filibuster-proof super-majority in the…

By FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen acknowledged Tuesday that she and Federal Reserve Chair Jerome…

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — An Ohio man serving a life sentence for the shooting deaths of 11 family members, including eight children, on Easter in 1975…

By MARK SHERMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Curbing abortion rights and expanding the right to be armed in public are long-sought goals of…