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By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer CANNES, France (AP) — Francis Ford Coppola will soon premiere at the Cannes Film Festival a film on which he has…

By MAKIYA SEMINERA Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Republican lawmakers in North Carolina are pushing forward with their plan to repeal a…

By ELÉONORE HUGHES Associated Press RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Brazil’s biggest pop star, Anitta, has released a music video depicting rituals of the…

By BEN FINLEY Associated Press The Dali container ship experienced a near perfect storm of calamities before it struck Baltimore’s Francis…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The Sudanese people “are trapped in an inferno of brutal violence” with famine,…

By BRUCE SHIPKOWSKI Associated Press Authorities say a police pursuit that went through two states and involved two separate shootouts with law…

By FREIDA FRISARO Associated Press FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — A bus carrying people to work in a watermelon field in central Florida was…

By HANNAH FINGERHUT and GEOFF MULVIHILL Associated Press A new abortion clinic is going to open in southeast Kansas this fall, bolstering the…

By RANDALL CHASE Associated Press DOVER, Del. (AP) — A federal judge says Delaware’s vanity license plate program is unconstitutional because it…

By MARK STEVENSON Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — Michelin-starred chef Arturo Rivera Martinez stands over an insanely hot grill at the first…

By DAVID A. LIEB Associated Press Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly vetoed a measure Wednesday that could have earmarked up to $5 million for gun-detection…

By OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Family members of a Navy veteran who died after a police officer pressed a knee to his…

The Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Financial disclosure reports for the president and vice president are out and they show Vice President…

CHICAGO (AP) — A consultant the Chicago Blackhawks hired to improve relations with American Indian tribes is accusing the team, its charity…

By BRUCE SCHREINER and DYLAN LOVAN Associated Press FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — The U.S. Department of Justice says it will investigate conditions in…

By KEVIN FREKING and BRIAN SLODYSKO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A new political action committee has begun pouring money into a key Oregon…

By ELLEN KNICKMEYER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Secretary of State Antony Blinken has removed Cuba from the State Department’s short…

By DAVID KLEPPER and ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Top U.S. security officials say America’s foreign adversaries will again seek…

By DOUG FERGUSON AP Golf Writer Rory McIlroy has all the momentum he could want heading into the PGA Championship as he tries to end a drought in the…

By RIO YAMAT Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — The iconic Mirage hotel-casino on the Las Vegas Strip will shut its doors this summer, the end of an…

By MARK SHERMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court has ordered Louisiana to hold congressional elections using a House map with a…

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Authorities say a Texas man accused of fatally shooting two New Mexico women and taking one of their children is now…

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Actor Angie Harmon has filed a lawsuit against Instacart and a former Instacart shopper who fatally shot her dog in March…

By LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The number of reported sexual assaults across the military decreased last year, and a…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Arrests for illegally crossing the U.S. border from Mexico fell more than 6% in April to the fourth lowest month of the Biden…

By KEN SWEET AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Visa has announced major changes to how its credit and debit cards will operate in the U.S.…

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has signed a bill making climate change a lesser priority under state law and banning offshore…

By KRISTIE RIEKEN AP Sports Writer HOUSTON (AP) — Astros starter Ronel Blanco has received a 10-game suspension for violating MLB’s prohibitions…

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The Port of New Orleans’ president and chief executive officer has resigned to pursue an opportunity in the private sector.…

By MARK THIESSEN Associated Press ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Musher and dog trainer Rick Mackey has died. He won the grueling Iditarod Trail Sled Dog…

By DAVID KOENIG AP Airlines Writer Congress has passed a bill that is designed to add more safety inspectors at aircraft factories and to give air…

By ED WHITE Associated Press Pro-Palestinian protesters wearing masks pitched tents and placed fake bloody corpses outside the home of a University…

OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — San Francisco Bay Area voters will weigh in on the recall of another politically progressive prosecutor in November. Alameda…

NEW YORK (AP) — The U.S. Open men’s final will shift to ABC from ESPN this year but the women’s title match will remain on the cable outlet a…

By NOREEN NASIR Associated Press Dawud Assad still has nightmares of the day Jewish militias attacked his village of Deir Yassin outside Jerusalem 76…

By WAYNE PARRY Associated Press OCEAN GROVE, N.J. (AP) — In this seaside community that calls itself “God’s Square Mile at the Jersey…

Associated Press Kansas City Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker may have stirred controversy in some quarters for his proclamations of conservative…

By COLLEEN SLEVIN Associated Press GOLDEN, Colo. (AP) — A second teen has pleaded guilty in the death of a 20-year-old driver who was hit in the…

NEW YORK (AP) — The New York Giants are appearing on a new version of “Hard Knocks.” The Giants, HBO, NFL Films, Skydance Sports announced…

By MATTHEW LEE AP Diplomatic Writer KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, an amateur musician, may have thought he had the…

BY AHMED AL-HAJ and FATMA KHALED ASSOCIATED PRESS SANAA, Yemen (AP) — Yemeni authorities have deployed security forces and armored vehicles across…

By JILL COLVIN and ZEKE MILLER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden and Donald Trump have agreed to participate in two general…

EDMONTON, Alberta (AP) — Candian officials say favorable winds are expected to push an “out of control” wildfire away from Canada’s oil sand…

By JOE REEDY AP Sports Writer Netflix and the NFL announced a three-year deal for the streaming giant to carry games on Christmas Day. Netflix will…

By HOLLY RAMER Associated Press CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — The judge has refused to discard a $38 million verdict in the landmark trial about physical…

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — The Federal Aviation Administration says the crash of a single-engine airplane in southeastern Montana killed the pilot and…

By WAYNE PARRY Associated Press ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — Caitlin Clark has helped increase the popularity of women’s basketball, and the…

By MAURICIO SAVARESE and GABRIELA SÁ PESSOA Associated Press SAO PAULO (AP) — The vast flooding that has devastated Brazil’s Rio Grande do Sul…

GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — A Guatemalan court ordered the release Wednesday of journalist José Rubén Zamora, jailed for nearly 2 years on money…

The Associated Press Slovakian Prime Minister Robert Fico is fighting for his life after he was shot by an assailant following a political event. The…

By SOPHIA TAREEN Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — A former warehouse assistant for the Augusta National Golf Club in Georgia has pleaded guilty to…

Associated Press RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — The head of Brazil’s Petrobras is stepping down after a fight over dividends, sending share of the…

GALVESTON, Texas (AP) — Officials say a barge has hit a bridge in Galveston, Texas, spilling oil into surrounding waters and closing the only road…

By GIADA ZAMPANO Associated Press ROME (AP) — A Hungarian court of appeal has upheld a request from an Italian anti-fascist activist to be moved…

By KEVIN McGILL Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A federal appeals court is considering the latest arguments on whether Texas must remove a…

By JOSHUA GOODMAN Associated Press MIAMI (AP) — The son-in-law of a prominent Venezuelan opposition leader has pleaded guilty to money laundering…

by JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The National Security Council says high-level U.S. government envoys raised concerns about…

By SEUNG MIN KIM and COLLEEN LONG The Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration is preparing more changes to the nation’s…

By ANNE D’INNOCENZIO AP Retail Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Americans unexpectedly paused their spending in April from March as inflation continued…

By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Something stopped Michael McDonald from telling his story publicly — him. The Rock &…

By LEA SKENE Associated Press BALTIMORE (AP) — Investigators say the electrical blackouts experienced by the container ship Dali before it left…

By DAN GELSTON AP Sports Writer Emmy winner Paul Walter Hauser is set to take the next step in his professional wrestling career. Hauser has declared…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japan and the United States have signed an arrangement to jointly develop a new type of missile…

POTOSI, Mo. (AP) — A man convicted of killing six women 20 years ago in Kansas City, Missouri, has died. The Missouri Department of Corrections…

By JUSTIN SPIKE Associated Press BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Prime Minister Robert Fico returned to power in Slovakia last year. Having previously…

By STEPHEN WHYNO and PAT GRAHAM AP Sports Writers Five NHL players left their teams this season to receive care from an off-ice assistance program…

By SAM METZ and MASSINISSA BENLAKEHAL Associated Press TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — Two Tunisian journalists are kept in pre-trial detention as…

By THOMAS ADAMSON Associated Press PARIS (AP) — A 30-year-old prisoner nicknamed “The Fly” has become notorious in France overnight after a…

By ADITHI RAMAKRISHNAN AP Science Writer DALLAS (AP) — A new study suggests that the first warm-blooded dinosaurs may have roamed Earth about 180…

By MOGOMOTSI MAGOME Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — South Africa’s president has signed into law a bill that aims to overhaul the…

By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer CANNES, France (AP) — The world of “Mad Max” has lived in George Miller’s head for nearly half a century.…

By VANESSA GERA Associated Press A weekend fire in a shopping center in Warsaw dealt tragedy to many members of Poland’s Vietnamese community.…

By MENELAOS HADJICOSTIS Associated Press NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — Chances of restarting formal talks to mend Cyprus’ decades-long ethnic division…

By ALBERT STUMM Associated Press If you’ve tried meditating but can’t sit still, you’re not alone. Experts say many people try it only once…

By DIDI TANG Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration says the White House is sending an unofficial delegation to Taiwan this…

By MIKE STOBBE AP Medical Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The number of U.S. fatal overdoses fell last year. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention…

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A radical Sunni scholar whose criticisms of Saudi Arabia’s government and the…

JOHNSTON, Iowa (AP) — Officials say a woman who worked at an Iowa center that provides services for troubled youths has died days after she was…

By STEPHEN WHYNO AP Sports Writer BALTIMORE (AP) — Preakness favorite Muth has been ruled out of the second leg of the Triple Crown after spiking a…

By ALEXA ST. JOHN and MELINA WALLING Associated Press DANVILLE, Illinois (AP) — As students across the nation consider jobs that play a role in…

By COLLEEN LONG Associated Press A gag order. Legal wrangling over witness testimony. Angry denouncements of the judge overseeing the case. Some of…

BRATISLAVA, Slovakia (AP) — Slovakia’s populist Prime Minister Robert Fico was wounded in a shooting Wednesday afternoon and taken to hospital.…

By DAVID CRARY, HOLLY MEYER and PETER SMITH Associated Press Twenty years ago, Beth Stroud was defrocked from her beloved job as a United Methodist…

By JUSTIN SPIKE Associated Press BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Hungary will vote against a United Nations resolution commemorating the 1995 genocide of…

By JOSH BOAK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden says he won’t participate in the campaign debates sponsored by a nonpartisan…