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By CAROLE FELDMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Education Secretary Miguel Cardona says he’s ashamed the United States is…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. Security Council has voted by a narrow margin to extend an arms embargo on…

OXFORD, Mich. (AP) — Hundreds of students at Oxford High School in Michigan walked out to show their support for students and families in Uvalde,…

CHRISTIANSBURG, Va. (AP) — Prosecutors in the murder trial of a former Virginia Tech football player have rested their case. On Thursday,…

By KRISHAN FRANCIS Associated Press COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lanka’s prime minister says that he will quickly prepare an economic reform…

By WAYNE PARRY Associated Press ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — This summer is a crucial one for Atlantic City as it tries to recover lost business…

By CARA ANNA Associated Press BUCHA, Ukraine (AP) — As he listened to his father die, the boy lay still on the asphalt. His elbow hurt where a…

By DEREK GATOPOULOS Associated Press ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greece has told the head of the United Nations that Turkey is directly challenging its…

By MICHAEL BIESECKER, ERIKA KINETZ and BEATRICE DUPUY Associated Press LVIV, Ukraine (AP) — For a month now, Russian forces have repeatedly…

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) — New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern told Harvard University gradates that the flood of disinformation spread and…

By COLLIN BINKLEY, ANNIE MA and JOCELYN GECKER Associated Press A day after the school massacre in Texas, Ohio teacher Renee Coley thought her sixth…

By WILLIAM J. KOLE Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — It took more than three centuries, but the last Salem “witch” who wasn’t has been…

BERLIN (AP) — Russia has received a frosty reception at the start of an international conference on managing and protecting Antarctica. The 10-day…

By ASHIFA KASSAM Associated Press MADRID (AP) — Spain’s parliament has voted to approve a bill that makes consent a key determinant in sexual…

By NICHOLAS PAPHITIS Associated Press ATHENS, Greece (AP) — A Greek official says the crude oil cargo of an Iranian-flagged tanker that was stopped…

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt has signed a bill requiring public school students to use only the bathroom of the sex listed on…

By ROB GILLIES and FRANK JORDANS Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Government officials say Western allies are considering whether to allow Russian…

By CHRIS MEGERIAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden has been intimately involved in some of the gun control movement’s…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Average long-term U.S. mortgage rates fell this week for the second week in a row, though interest rates on the key 30-year home…

By FARNOUSH AMIRI and LISA MASCARO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A bipartisan group of senators is trying to find a compromise on gun…

PRAGUE (AP) — The Czech capital has stripped a Soviet World War II commander of his honorary Prague citizenship. The Prague City Council ’s…

LUDINGTON, Mich. (AP) — A coal-powered passenger steamship on Lake Michigan that’s the last of its kind in the U.S. will stop using coal to fuel…

By JESSICA GRESKO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — With mass shootings in Texas, New York and California fresh in Americans’ mind, the Supreme…

NORFOLK, Va. (AP) — A painting project is to blame for an odor that affected some cruise ship passengers in Virginia and prompted the U.S. Coast…

By LYNN ELBER AP Television Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Ellen DeGeneres brought her nearly two-decade daytime talk show to an end Thursday with a…

By MATTHEW BARAKAT Associated Press FALLS CHURCH, Va. (AP) — Amber Heard told jurors Thursday that a harassment campaign waged against her by…

By PAUL WISEMAN AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Stagflation. It was the dreaded “S word” of the 1970s. For Americans of a certain age, it…

By LAURA UNGAR AP Science Writer The coronavirus mutant that is now dominant in the United States is a member of the omicron family but scientists…

By IMAD ISSEID Associated Press RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — The Palestinian Authority on Thursday announced the results of its investigation into…

By GARY D. ROBERTSON Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Pat McCrory’s political career has taken quite a turn in the past decade. The…

MADRID (AP) — A court in Spain has dismissed Colombian singer Shakira’s appeal in a tax fraud case. The ruling issued Thursday paves the way for…

By MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Former President Donald Trump must answer questions under oath in the New York attorney…

By ELLIOT SPAGAT and STEPHEN GROVES Associated Press UVALDE, Texas (AP) — Jacklyn Cazares hadn’t yet reached her 10th birthday, but she was…

COBB COUNTY, Ga. (AP) — Voters in an affluent suburban Atlanta county have rejected ballot measures that would have turned three mostly white areas…

By JEAN-YVES KAMALE Associated Press KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — Congo military officials said that the M23 rebels closed in on a major military camp in…

By SAMY MAGDY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — The United States is urging Yemen’s Houthi rebels to release all U.S. Embassy local staffers they had…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — British prosecutors said Thursday they had authorized police to charge actor Kevin Spacey with four…

By MICHAEL TARM AP Legal Affairs Writer CHICAGO (AP) — A 13-year-old boy shot in the back by a Chicago police officer was unarmed and had his arms…

LONDON (AP) — The World Health Organization says the number of new coronavirus cases and deaths are still falling globally after peaking in…

TOKYO (AP) — Thai Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha says a new U.S.-backed economic pact is further proof of how important and relevant Asia is…

By JOCELYN NOVECK AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — After a buzzy, sold-out run and three extensions, “Suffs,” Shaina Taub’s musical…

By MEG KINNARD Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina jurist Michelle Childs is one step closer to confirmation for the federal…

By SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin’s Republican Assembly leader, who will appoint a key member of the state’s…

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Rescuers at the site of a collapsed building in southwestern Iran have recovered five more bodies, bringing the death toll from…

MADRID (AP) — Police in Spain say an explosion at a biodiesel plant has left two people dead and forced 250 children to be evacuated from the area.…

By RAHIM FAIEZ Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — The United Nations’ special rapporteur on human rights in Afghanistan has expressed concern over…

BEIRUT (AP) — Dozens of doctors, nurses and medical personnel have rallied outside the Central Bank in the Lebanese capital of Beirut after…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japan will open its borders to foreign tourists in June for the first time since imposing tight…

By PAUL WISEMAN AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. economy shrank in the first three months of the year even though consumers and…

LIMA, Peru (AP) — A magnitude 7.2 earthquake shook a remote region of southern Peru on Thursday, sending frightened people running into the streets…

By JADE LE DELEY Associated Press PARIS (AP) — Rape accusations against a newly named French minister have galvanized a movement aimed at exposing…

By MATT OTT AP Business Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Fewer Americans applied for jobless aid last week as the number of Americans collecting…

By PETER PRENGAMAN, KELVIN CHAN, HELENA ALVES Associated Press DAVOS, Switzerland (AP) — The World Economic Forum’s annual gathering of CEOs,…

The Associated Press Expedia’s Peter Kern and Warner Bros. Discovery’s David Zaslav are among the top paid CEOs in the S&P 500 index.…

MADRID (AP) — The Spanish government will tighten judicial control over the country’s intelligence agency. Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez made the…

ISTANBUL (AP) — Turkey’s central bank kept its main interest rate unchanged for a fifth month running despite an annual inflation rate of nearly…

By STAN CHOE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Within the eight- and even nine-figure sums trumpeted for CEOs each year, just a small portion is…

NEW YORK (AP) — In a story published May 26, 2022, about CEO Pay, The Associated Press misspelled the first name of Mary Barra, the CEO of General…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — A Tokyo court has begun hearings in a lawsuit seeking nearly $5 million in damages for six people…

By The Associated Press UVALDE, Texas (AP) — Many questions remain to be answered about the elementary school shooting in Uvalde, Texas. But here…

By SUZAN FRASER Associated Press ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkey’s leader has caused a stir by throwing a wrench in Sweden and Finland’s historic…

By JILL LAWLESS and SYLVIA HUI Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Britain’s Conservative government unveiled a 15 billion pound ($19 billion)…

By AIJAZ HUSSAIN Associated Press SRINAGAR, India (AP) — Police in disputed Kashmir have arrested at least 10 people during overnight raids…

By RICARDO MAZALAN and ELENA BECATOROS Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Moscow pressed the West on Thursday to lift sanctions against Russia…

PARIS (AP) — The former president of the Louvre museum has received preliminary charges for alleged antiquities trafficking during his tenure as…

By LLAZAR SEMINI Associated Press TIRANA, Albania (AP) — The office of Albania’s prime minister says the country has offered to NATO a naval…

By JONATHAN LANDRUM Jr. AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Jon Batiste will kick off a series geared toward the Grammy Museum’s…

By ZEKE MILLER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House on Thursday announced more steps to make the antiviral treatment Paxlovid more…

By JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press DAVOS, Switzerland (AP) — German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has expressed hopes for global cooperation on climate…

By FRANK JORDANS Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s energy and climate minister says the Group of Seven wealthy nations can lead the way on…

By MUNIR AHMED Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan’s defiant former Prime Minister Imran Khan cancelled a planned, open-ended sit-in in…