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By AARON BEARD AP Sports Writer The costs keep adding up for families trying to pay for their children to play in youth sports in North America.…

By LISA MASCARO AP Congressional Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republicans will meet privately with Donald Trump as the former president…

By DAVE COLLINS Associated Press NEWTOWN, Conn. (AP) — The children who survived the 2012 shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown,…

By MOGOMOTSI MAGOME Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — South Africa’s third biggest political party, led by former president Jacob Zuma, has…

By RUSS BYNUM Associated Press SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — The king and queen of the Netherlands are taking a day of their U.S. trip to visit Savannah,…

By KIMBERLEE KRUESI Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A school district in eastern Tennessee has agreed to implement changes after a federal…

By MIKE HOUSEHOLDER and COREY WILLIAMS Associated Press GRAND BLANC TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) — A mid-Michigan couple and a lawyer from the west side of…

By TRÂN NGUYỄN Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California Democratic lawmakers are fast-tracking a bill aiming to crack down on…

By GRANT PECK Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — Reports from Myanmar say its military has been emptying villages on the outskirts of the capital of…

By MICHAEL CASEY Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — A defense contractor is being sued over allegations that it discriminated against older workers in…

By FARNOUSH AMIRI and MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg is scheduled to testify before…

By NICHOLAS RICCARDI Associated Press The far right racked up wins across much of Europe in the EU Parliamentary elections that just concluded.…

By LISA RATHKE Associated Press Fifty-three years after a private plane carrying five men disappeared on a snowy Vermont night, experts believe they…

By KAREN MATTHEWS Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The conservationist group known as NYC Audubon has changed its name to NYC Bird Alliance to…

By JULIA FRANKEL and JACK JEFFERY Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — The resignation of a senior member of Israel’s war Cabinet was a dramatic…

By WYATTE GRANTHAM-PHILIPS AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — United Auto Workers president Shawn Fain is under investigation by a court-appointed…

ATLANTA (AP) — A Georgia judge has ordered a lawyer for rapper Young Thug to spend the next 10 weekends in jail after finding him in contempt.…

Associated Press TIARET, Algeria (AP) — Violent riots erupted in a drought-stricken Algerian desert city last weekend after months of water…

By KEN SWEET AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Apple Inc. plans to add several new features to Apple Pay and Apple Wallet later this year that…

ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp is on his way to South Korea in his sixth overseas trip as governor. The Republican left late Monday for a…

LONDON (AP) — Animal rights activists pasted a cartoon image over a portrait of King Charles III on Tuesday at a London art gallery, the latest in…

Russian warships have conducted drills in the Atlantic while en route to Cuba. It’s part of Moscow’s efforts to project power amid the…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s historic Chapultepec Castle has been seen flying the Targaryen flag, and officials in Mexico aren’t amused. The…

By JOHN ANTCZAK Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Police have thwarted attempts by pro-Palestinian demonstrators to set up a new encampment at…

PARIS (AP) — The Palace of Versailles has been briefly evacuated after plumes of smoke were spotted amid construction work near the Marble Court,…

By NICHOLAS PAPHITIS Associated Press ATHENS, Greece (AP) — A big, round, 4,000-year-old stone building discovered on a Cretan hilltop is puzzling…

By STEPHEN WHYNO AP Hockey Writer While Canada has seen a steep decline in children playing hockey in the sport’s birthplace, the United States…

By STEPHEN WHYNO AP Hockey Writer BRAMPTON, Ontario (AP) — In 2022, a veteran of the Bauer Hockey equipment giant said the number of kids playing…

By ROB MAADDI AP Pro Football Writer The NFL’s dedication to expanding flag football starts at the top. Commissioner Roger Goodell has been fully…

By KATHY McCORMACK Associated Press CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — Pamela Smart, who is serving life in prison for plotting with her teenage student to have…

By NICHOLAS RICCARDI Associated Press A new poll finds that people around the globe have greater confidence in President Joe Biden to do the right…

By DOUG FEINBERG AP Basketball Writer USA Basketball says experience was a major reason Caitlin Clark was left off the U.S. Olympic roster that was…

By JIM SALTER Associated Press ST. LOUIS (AP) — With his execution drawing near, Missouri inmate David Hosier is “accepting his fate.”…

By PETER SMITH Associated Press INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — More than 10,000 voting representatives gathered Tuesday for the opening of the Southern…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — A powerful Japanese business lobby is calling on the government to quickly revise its civil law to…

SAULT STE. MARIE, Mich. (AP) — The U.S. Coast Guard is backing away from a weekend report that a ship may have struck something in Lake Superior…

By MICHAEL PHILLIS, JIM SALTER and CAMILLE FASSETT Associated Press WEST ALTON, Mo. (AP) — Commerce along the Mississippi River has evolved over…

By MAE ANDERSON AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — “Buy now, pay later” services are a popular way that shoppers pay for goods. Because…

By MICHAEL PHILLIS, JIM SALTER and CAMILLE FASSETT Associated Press WEST ALTON, Mo. (AP) — Devastating flooding, driven in part by climate change,…

By SYLVIA HUI Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Iceland’s government says it has issued a license to the North Atlantic nation’s last fin whaling…

By JOE REEDY AP Sports Writer Warner Bros. Discovery and the French Tennis Federation made official on Tuesday what had been revealed over the…

By TERRY SPENCER Associated Press FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Four Florida police officers have been indicted in connection with a 2019 shootout…

By MARK BANCHEREAU Associated Press DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Production has started at Senegal’s first offshore oil project. The Australian…

By PAUL WISEMAN AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The World Bank has upgraded its outlook for the global economy, estimating that it will…

by BARBARA SURK Associated Press NICE, France (AP) — French opposition parties on the left and the right are scrambling to form alliances for the…

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — In her first television interview since she was assaulted last week, Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen says…

By HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Author David Wroblewski has reached special status among contemporary authors: a two-time…

DERA ISLAMAIL KHAN, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistan’s authorities say security forces have killed 11 militants in an overnight operation in a former…

By GABRIELA AOUN ANGUEIRA Associated Press HEALDSBURG, Calif. (AP) — The humanitarian organization Direct Relief is helping community health…

By KEVIN McGILL NEW ORLEANS Scientists using more modern methods of measuring the carcinogen ethylene oxide have found much higher levels of the…

CAIRO (AP) — The U.N. International Organization for Migration says a boat carrying migrants sank off the coast of Yemen, leaving at least 49 dead…

By MIKE CORDER Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Far-right leader Geert Wilders says the four parties negotiating to form a coalition…

By MARK SHERMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Fifty years ago, three of the justices Richard Nixon appointed to the Supreme Court joined in an…

By LISA MASCARO AP Congressional Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) — A group of House Democrats is warning about the far-right Project 2025 agenda for…

By MATTHEW LEE and ABBY SEWELL Associated Press TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Secretary of State Antony Blinken says the U.N. Security Council’s vote…

MOSCOW (AP) — Russia and its ally Belarus have launched a second stage of drills intended to train their troops in tactical nuclear weapons, part…

GENEVA (AP) — The U.N. human rights office is citing possible war crimes by Israeli forces and Palestinian armed groups in connection with a deadly…

ISLAMABAD (AP) — The World Bank has approved $1 billion for the construction of Pakistan’s biggest Dasu hydropower project, which is being built…

By MIKE CORDER Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The International Criminal Court’s chief prosecutor is appealing for information…

By HYUNG-JIN KIM and KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea has started blaring propaganda loudspeaker broadcasts at…

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — The U.S. State Department has removed restrictions on the transfer of American weapons and training to a high-profile…

By CIARÁN FAHEY AP Sports Writer BERLIN (AP) — When Germany hosted the 2006 World Cup, it unleashed an unexpected burst of national pride across…

By GREGORY GONDWE and GERALD IMRAY Associated Press BLANTYRE, Malawi (AP) — Soldiers, police officers and forest rangers continued to search…

TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Taiwanese authorities are investigating how an alleged former Chinese naval officer sailed a small boat into a strategic…

By ZIMO ZHONG Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — Asian stocks were mixed on Tuesday in a busy week with several top-tier reports on U.S. inflation…

By GABE STERN Associated Press RENO, Nev. (AP) — Retired Army Capt. Sam Brown hopes a late endorsement from former President Donald Trump will help…

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — China’s Premier Li Qiang will visit Australia on Saturday. Australian Prime Minister…

By TERRY TANG Associated Press In the Philippines, where colonial rule under Spain and later the United States endured for nearly four centuries,…

By CHARLOTTE GRAHAM-McLAY Associated Press WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Police in New Zealand offered an 80,000 New Zealand dollar reward and…

BANGKOK (AP) — Hundreds of caged animals died after a fire struck Chatuchak Weekend Market, one of the most famous markets in Thailand’s capital.…

By LAURIE KELLMAN Associated Press LONDON (AP) — He has no political experience. No high-profile endorsements. No party affiliation. What Fidias…

By SUDHIN THANAWALA Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — The king and queen of the Netherlands have begun a four-day tour of the U.S. in Atlanta. During…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Rishi Sunak doesn’t know whether he’ll still be Britain’s prime minister the day after next…

By HANNAH SCHOENBAUM Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah Gov. Spencer Cox is set to debate his primary challenger in a face-to-face duel…

By MIKE SCHNEIDER Associated Press ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — A new attraction starring the first Black Disney princess is opening at the company’s…

By MICHAEL GOLDBERG Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A Minneapolis police officer who was killed while responding to a shooting call will be…

BERLIN (AP) — Germany is hosting a conference to gather support for Ukraine’s recovery from the destruction wreaked by Russia’s war. It will…

By PAOLA FLORES Associated Press TRINIDAD PAMPA, Bolivia (AP) — If it were anywhere else in South America, the nondescript house with buckets of…

By KEN MORITSUGU and DIDI TANG Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — Four instructors from Iowa’s Cornell College teaching at Beihua University in…

A remarkable array of women is challenging the Sacra Corona Unita, Italy’s fourth main organized crime group that operates in southern Puglia, the…

By TARA COPP Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A House subcommittee is holding a hearing on the troubled safety record of the Osprey aircraft and…

By SCOTT McFETRIDGE Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — As the U.S. dairy industry confronts a bird flu outbreak, with cases reported at…

By BILL BARROW Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Groups pushing tighter gun laws have been building political muscle through multiple elections,…

By RANDALL CHASE, CLAUDIA LAUER, MICHAEL KUNZELMAN and ALANNA DURKIN RICHER Associated Press WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — Jurors will resume…

ROME (AP) — The popular image of the Italian mob has been made famous by movies like “The Godfather” but the reality of organized crime in…