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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…

By ZEINA KARAM and LUJAIN JO Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanon’s elections brought into parliament 13 new independent lawmakers who hail…

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A gas cylinder explosion in Abu Dhabi earlier this week that injured 120 people killed an Indian and a Pakistani…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s military says Japanese and U.S. forces have conducted a joint fighter jet flight over the…

By JEFF AMY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia voters didn’t get much of a break from election talk on the day after the Tuesday primary…

By DAVE COLLINS and DENISE LAVOIE Associated Press HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Nearly six years after Nathan Carman told authorities his mother drowned…

By MATTHEW BROWN Associated Press BUTTE, Mont. (AP) — When Republican Ryan Zinke first ran for Congress, the former Navy SEAL faced false…

By JOSH BOAK and CHRIS MEGERIAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden has signed an executive order to improve accountability in…

By JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER and ANITA SNOW Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — After guests checked out of a corner room at the Hilton Hawaiian Village…

By MIKE SCHNEIDER Associated Press Ko Im always thought she would live in New York forever. She knew every corner of Manhattan and had worked hard to…

By RACHEL LA CORTE and ANDREW DEMILLO Associated Press OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — Gun control measures are likely going nowhere in Congress, and they…

By SHEIKH SAALIQ and KRUTIKA PATHI Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — For nearly three centuries, Muslims and Hindus in India’s northern Varanasi…

By DAVID KLEPPER and ALI SWENSON Associated Press PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — By now it’s as predictable as the calls for thoughts and prayers: A…

By MUNIR AHMED Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan’s defiant former Prime Minister Imran Khan has warned the government to announce the…

By SARA BURNETT Associated Press Two of the leading candidates for the GOP nomination for Michigan governor will ask the courts to intervene after…

By JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — Asian stock markets were mixed Thursday after notes from the Federal Reserve’s latest…

By BHARATHA MALLAWARACHI Associated Press COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lanka’s new Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe has been sworn in as…

By TODD RICHMOND and SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A Republican member of the Wisconsin Elections Commission is quitting the…

By MOHAMED IBRAHIM Associated Press/Report for America MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The intersection where George Floyd died at the hands of Minneapolis…

By KAT STAFFORD Associated Press Wednesday marked the second anniversary of the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis, which sparked a global…

By JILL COLVIN and JEFF MARTIN Associated Press WOODSTOCK, Ga. (AP) — Donald Trump opened May by lifting a trailing Senate candidate in Ohio to the…

By ACACIA CORONADO and SARA BURNETT Associated Press UVALDE, Texas (AP) — Surrounded by fellow Republicans on a high school stage, Gov. Greg Abbott…

By MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Boeing’s crew taxi returned to Earth from the International Space Station on…

By BECKY BOHRER Associated Press JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is proposing restrictions that would block plans…

MORGAN LEE Associated Press SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — Firefighters have rescued an abandoned newborn elk calf from the ashes of the nation’s largest…

By JAKE BLEIBERG, JIM VERTUNO and ELLIOT SPAGAT Associated Press UVALDE, Texas (AP) — Onlookers urged police officers to charge into the Texas…

By NICK PERRY Associated Press WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — China wants 10 small Pacific nations to endorse a sweeping agreement covering…

By MARK THIESSEN Associated Press SEWARD, Alaska (AP) — In the cold, choppy waters of Alaska’s Resurrection Bay, all eyes were on the gray water,…

By RICARDO MAZALAN Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin is trying to strengthen his control of southern Ukraine…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United States has called for a vote Thursday on a U.N. resolution that would impose…

By MARCY GORDON AP Business Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Twitter will pay a $150 million penalty and put in new safeguards to settle federal…

By MILEXSY DURAN and ANDREA RODRIGUEZ Associated Press VILLA CLARA, Cuba (AP) — A single vessel carrying 842 Haitians who apparently were trying to…

By SEAN MURPHY Associated Press OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt on Wednesday signed into law the nation’s strictest abortion ban,…