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LONDON (AP) — Two environmental activists have attacked a glass case containing an original copy of the Magna Carta at the British Library, causing…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s defense chief has called for the bolstering of its anti-drone capability after a drone…

By ALEX VEIGA AP Business Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Homeowners have been spending more for renovations in recent years, as high interest rates and…

NEW YORK (AP) — Witness testimony in Donald Trump’s hush money case is set to resume and it caps a feverish few days that saw Stormy Daniels…

By MAURICIO SAVARESE Associated Press CANOAS, Brazil (AP) — Hundreds of volunteers have set up a makeshift dog shelter in an abandoned, roofless…

By ILLIA NOVIKOV Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Authorities say Russia has pounded a town in Ukraine’s northeast with artillery, rockets…

By ROBERT YOON Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Nebraskans will cast presidential primary ballots Tuesday in a reliably Republican state that…

Associated Press GOMA, Congo (AP) — Floods in South Kivu and Tanganyika provinces in eastern Congo have hit nearly half a million people, creating…

By MAYA SWEEDLER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — North Carolina’s lone congressional runoff, in the state’s 13th Congressional District,…

By ROBERT YOON Associated Press ROCKVILLE, Md. (AP) — President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump look to pad their delegate totals in…

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — An Australian judge has extended a ban on social media platform X allowing videos of…

By WAFAA SHURAFA and JOSEPH KRAUSS Associated Press RAFAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Heavy fighting between Israeli troops and Palestinian militants on the…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press MALMO, Sweden (AP) — Eden Golan is in Sweden for the Eurovision Song Contest, but she is not seeing much of the…

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Hond has reported that its profit for the fiscal year through March jumped 70% as its vehicle…

BOSTON (AP) — Police have begun dismantling a pro-Palestinian tent encampment at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. People were being…

By ASHOK SHARMA Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — A top Indian opposition leader has been granted interim bail by the Supreme Court nearly seven…

ZAGREB, Croatia (AP) — Croatian conservative leader Andrej Plenkovic has been formally appointed prime minister-designate for a third consecutive…

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea has vowed to protect its companies operating in other markets after Japanese regulators told LY Corp., which…

By The Associated Press About 110,000 people have fled Rafah in southern Gaza and food and fuel supplies in the area are critically low, a U.N.…

By JOSH BOAK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden White House wants voters to know its differences with Republicans over taxes. The White…

ROME (AP) — Pope Francis has pressed his campaign to urge Italians to have children. He has called for long-term policies to help families and…

By CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Prince Harry and his wife, Meghan, arrived in Nigeria on Friday to champion the Invictus…

By GERALD IMRAY Associated Press CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — Hopes are fading for 44 construction workers buried for days in the rubble of a…

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s Prime Minister Donald Tusk has announced changes in his Cabinet to replace four ministers running for the…

By PAN PYLAS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The  British economy bounced back strongly in the first three months of the year, bringing to an end…

MOSCOW (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin has reappointed Mikhail Mishustin as prime minister for the lower house’s approval. Parliament…

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Stocks in Asia traded higher Friday after a rally on Wall Street that pulled the S&P 500 back…

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iranians are voting in a runoff election for the remaining seats in the country’s parliament after hard-line politicians…

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Sega Sammy is selling its Japanese resort complex Seagaia to Fortress Investment Group of the U.S.…

By MARIA CHENG and JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press GENEVA (AP) — After the devastation of the COVID-19 pandemic, leaders worldwide vowed to do better…

By JIM MUSTIAN Associated Press SHREVEPORT, La. (AP) — Ronald Greene’s deadly arrest on a rural Louisiana roadside in 2019 sparked outrage after…

By REGINA GARCIA CANO Associated Press CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — A few weeks ago, Edmundo González Urrutia was just another grandfather visiting…

By KEN MORITSUGU Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — An annual survey of more than 500 European companies has found that slowing growth in China is…

By ADAM BEAM Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California Gov. Gavin Newsom is preparing to update his budget proposal. Newsom announced a…

By TRÂN NGUYỄN Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California is partnering with five companies to develop generative AI tools to help…

By JACK JEFFERY Associated Press DUMA, West Bank (AP) — Charred homes and cars dot the hilltop West Bank village of Duma, a searing reminder of…

By JOHN RABY Associated Press CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — Two men on opposite sides of the metal barricades during the riot at the U.S. Capitol are…

By EUGENE GARCIA Associated Press NEWPORT BEACH, Calif. (AP) — Scores of sick and starving pelicans have been found in coastal California…

By JOSEPH WILSON Associated Press BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — About 6 million Catalans are called to cast ballots in regional elections on Sunday that…

By DÁNICA COTO Associated Press PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Shunned publicly by politicians and intellectuals for centuries, Vodou is…

By JAKE OFFENHARTZ, JENNIFER PELTZ, MICHAEL R. SISAK and ALANNA DURKIN RICHER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The third week of testimony in…

By HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH and TRISHA AHMED Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — On college campuses across the country, a rallying cry of…

By ZEN SOO AP Technology Writer HONG KONG (AP) — A top Baidu public relations executive has reportedly departed the Chinese technology company…

By JOE REEDY AP Sports Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — The University of California Board of Regents is expected to accept a recommendation that UCLA pay…

INDEPENDENCE, Calif. (AP) — Two climbers reported missing this week on California’s Mount Whitney have been found dead. Sheriff’s officials…

HONOLULU (AP) — Hawaii health officials say testing on west Maui residents shows no evidence of widespread lead exposure from last summer’s…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. General Assembly is expected to vote Friday on a resolution that would grant…

By MICHAEL MAROT AP Sports Writer INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Caitlin Clark walked into her new home arena Thursday night with No. 22 shirts and jerseys…

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Air Vanuatu has filed for bankruptcy protection a day after the South Pacific state-owned carrier cancelled all…

Associated Press WAILUKU, Hawaii (AP) — Maui officials say they will hire an outside expert to analyze how the county’s emergency management…

By COLLEEN SLEVIN Associated Press DENVER (AP) — A man who says he was paralyzed after being hit with a Taser while running from police in Colorado…

By JEFFREY COLLINS Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A bill that would have consolidated six South Carolina heath care agencies and was…

By TOM CANAVAN AP Sports Writer CLIFTON, N.J. (AP) — Nelly Korda is going to have some work to do if she wants to win a record sixth straight LPGA…

By STEPHEN SMITH and SUDHIN THANAWALA Associated Press FORT WALTON BEACH, Fla. (AP) — The family of the U.S. Air Force airman shot and killed by a…

By DAVE COLLINS Associated Press A Chinese billionaire has been sentenced to time served in connection with a scheme to funnel illegal straw…

By MOUTA ALI and EDOUARD TAKADJI Associated Press N’DJAMENA, Chad (AP) — Chad’s military leader, Mahamat Deby Itno, has been declared the…

By MATT BROWN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris has recorded a video commencement message that is being played for…

By MATTHEW BARAKAT Associated Press FAIRFAX, Va. (AP) — A judge must decide whether Virginia law allows frozen embryos to be considered property…

By ANTHONY IZAGUIRRE Associated Press ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York lawmakers may soon change the legal standard that allowed Harvey Weinstein’s…

Associated Press The fatal shooting of a U.S. Air Force airman at his off-base apartment by a Florida sheriff’s deputy brings to mind other…

By GENE JOHNSON Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) — Washington’s attorney general says the Seattle Archdiocese isn’t cooperating in a sex…

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden has welcomed the reigning WNBA champions, the Las Vegas Aces, to the White House, celebrating what he called…

By MARY CLARE JALONICK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate is scrambling to pass a $105 billion bill designed to improve air safety and…

By CHRISTOPHER WEBER Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — A federal judge says a plan to close a troubled prison in California where female inmates…

By ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A senior FBI official says the agency is concerned that foreign adversaries could deploy…

By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A Maine man who admitted trying to kill three police officers with a machete near New…

By JONATHAN MATTISE Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The nation’s largest public utility pledged to be more transparent after it took…

By MARC LEVY Associated Press HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Pennsylvania will join the majority of states that ban motorists from handling a cell phone…

By STEVE LeBLANC Associated Press CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) — Several people have been detained by police at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology…

REBECCA SANTANA Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A new Biden administration rule aims to speed up asylum processing at the southern border,…

By LAURA UNGAR AP Science Writer A new report finds fewer U.S. medical school graduates are applying to residency programs, but the drop is more…

Associated Press One skier was rescued and two remained missing following an avalanche Thursday in the mountains outside of Salt Lake City that…

By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency says it found “insufficient evidence”…

By MARIA SHERMAN AP Music Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Justin Bieber and Hailey Bieber are expecting their first child together. A representative for…

By GABRIELA SÁ PESSOA and MAURICIO SAVARESE Associated Press PORTO ALEGRE, Brazil (AP) — About 24 hours after it was first spotted and with people…

By KATHY McCORMACK Associated Press CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — A New Hampshire man convicted of killing his 5-year-old daughter and moving her corpse…

By JIM VERTUNO Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A top former aide to U.S. Rep. Henry Cuellar and a political and business consultant have…

NEW YORK (AP) — Former Boston Celtics forward Glen “Big Baby” Davis was sentenced to 40 months in a federal prison for his participation in a…

By ANDREW DALTON AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — A judge found Thursday that Beach Boys founder and music luminary Brian Wilson should…

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Utilities looking to finish building a high-voltage power line linking Iowa and Wisconsin have completed a contentious land…

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Xavier University of Louisiana has reversed course and canceled Saturday’s planned commencement address by U.S. Ambassador to…

By JULIE CARR SMYTH Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Lawmakers in Ohio have failed to come to an agreement on adjusting a state election…