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ROME (AP) — Italy’s Ministry of Culture has banned art loans to the Minneapolis Institute of Art in the United States following a long-running…

VIENNA (AP) — A portrait of a young woman by Gustav Klimt that was long believed to be lost has been sold at an auction in Vienna for 30 million…

By DEVI SHASTRI AP Health Writer Allergy season is here, but it doesn’t have to make you miserable. Experts say people can manage most symptoms…

By GRANT PECK Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — Guerrilla fighters from the main ethnic Karen fighting force battling Myanmar’s military government…

By FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — More than one-quarter of U.S. adults over age 50 say they expect to never retire and 70% are…

By LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — “ Barbenheimer ” is a hard act to follow. The summer of 2023 brought a new enthusiasm for…

By The Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Are you ready for some movies this summer? There’s action-adventure, romance, horror, franchises and…

By ALICIA RANCILIO Associated Press Besides being an accomplished actor, John Lithgow is a Harvard graduate who was a Fulbright Scholar at the London…

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s prosecutor general has told the parliament that powerful Pegasus spyware was used against hundreds of people under…

FAIRFIELD TOWNSHIP, Ohio (AP) — Relatives say a 74-year-old woman charged in the armed robbery of a credit union in Ohio last week is a victim of…

MADRID (AP) — A Spanish judge has agreed to probe allegations of corruption made against the wife of Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez by a…

PARIS (AP) — The head of the Paris airports operator says skies over the French capital will be closed completely for six hours as part of the…

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A teenage suspect who allegedly made derogatory remarks about LGBTQ+ people before opening fire at a backyard punk rock show now…

By LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer Expectations are tempered for the financial prospects of summer of 2024 at the movies. There are fewer superheroes…

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greece’s parliamentary speaker says he will seek criminal charges against a lawmaker who allegedly punched a colleague…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The names of thousands of people held in Japanese American incarceration camps during World War II will be digitized and made…

By KELVIN CHAN AP Business Writer LONDON (AP) — British competition regulators say they’ll scrutinize recent artificial intelligence deals by…

BERLIN (AP) — The German chancellor says Europe must continue to step up its help for Ukraine even after the approval of a big U.S. aid package.…

LONDON (AP) — Welsh police say a suspect has been arrested after three people were injured in a “major incident” at a school in Wales.…

By LAURAN NEERGAARD AP Medical Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Doctors have transplanted a pig kidney into a New Jersey woman who was near death, part of a…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — A team of experts from the U.N. nuclear agency has inspected the tsunami-hit Fukushima Daiichi…

By JONEL ALECCIA AP Health Writer U.S. agriculture officials announced new nutrition standards for school meals that will limit added sugars for the…

NEW YORK (AP) — Penguin Random House is teaming with Amazon MGM Studios on a series of books based on “Wednesday,” the Emmy-winning Netflix hit…

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — A ship near the strategic Bab el-Mandeb Strait has seen an explosion in the distance, marking…

By LORNE COOK Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union says it will investigate whether China is using unfair methods to deprive…

BRATISLAVA, Slovakia (AP) — Slovakia’s government has approved a controversial overhaul of the country’s public radio and television services,…

By DAMIAN J. TROISE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Relentlessly rising auto insurance rates are squeezing car owners and stoking inflation.…

ROME (AP) — Tech giant Cisco Systems has joined Microsoft and IBM in signing onto a Vatican-sponsored pledge to ensure artificial intelligence is…

By ROBERT YOON Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Puerto Rico will hold a Democratic presidential primary, the only opportunity for Democrats on…

LONDON (AP) — Several military horses bolted during routine exercises Wednesday and ran loose through central London, injuring four people and…

JERUSALEM (AP) — Saudi Arabia’s 88-year-old King Salman has entered the hospital Wednesday for what state media described as “routine…

By KEN MORITSUGU Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — Foreign automakers have been caught flat-footed in China by an electric vehicle boom that has…

BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s Cabinet has approved a 4.57% rise in retirees’ pensionsfrom  this summer, an increase that is well above the current…

By The Associated Press A priest who oversaw a memorial service for late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny has been suspended for three years…

TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s public broadcaster says smoke was seen coming from an All Nippon Airways plane as it landed safely at Shin Chitose…

LONDON (AP) — The former leader of Northern Ireland’s biggest unionist party has made his first court appearance on sexual abuse charges dating…

By DAN FRIO Edmunds If you’ve ever spotted cars with chameleon, chrome-like finishes, patterns such as stripes and camouflage, or just an off-beat…

By BOUAZZA BEN BOUAZZA Associated Press TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — The bodies of 19 people have been off the coast of Tunisia, one of the primary points…

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The Biden administration is preparing to announce plans for a new five-year schedule to lease federal offshore tracts for wind…

By The Associated Press The Biden administration is setting new rules on airline fees and refunds. The Transportation Department said Wednesday that…

By BINAJ GURUBACHARYA Associated Press KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — Officials say Nepal’s president asked the emir of Qatar, who is on a two-day visit…

By KRUTIKA PATHI Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — The hugely popular Chinese app TikTok may be forced out of the U.S., where a measure to outlaw…

By ILLIA NOVIKOV Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian officials are expressing thanks for a fresh batch of U.S. military aid that threw…

By MATTHEW LEE AP Diplomatic Writer SHANGHAI (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken has begun a critical trip to China armed with a…

By AAMER MADHANI and SEUNG MIN KIM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden has reached the end of a long, painful battle with…

BERLIN (AP) — A prominent German far-right lawmaker says he will dismiss an assistant who was arrested on suspicion of spying for China, but will…

By The Associated Press A top Russian military official arrested on suspicion of accepting a bribe has been sent to pre-trial detention after…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s first moon lander has survived a third freezing lunar night, Japan’s space agency said…

BEIJING (AP) — China blasted the latest package of U.S. military assistance to Taiwan, saying such funding was pushing the self-governing island…

By ANDY WONG and SIMINA MISTREANU Associated Press JIUQUAN SATELLITE LAUNCH CENTER, China (AP) — China’s space agency is making final…

By ZIMO ZHONG Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — Asian shares have tracked Wall Street’s rally, led by a 2.4% advance for Tokyo’s benchmark…

LONDON (AP) — Novels that tell complex and surprising stories of migration are among six finalists for the 2024 Women’s Prize for Fiction.…

By The Associated Press Germany said Wednesday that it plans to follow several other countries in resuming cooperation with the U.N. relief agency…

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi has arrived in Sri Lanka to inaugurate a hydropower and irrigation project that was long…

By NINIEK KARMINI and FADLAN SYAM Associated Press JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesia’s electoral commission has formally declared Prabowo…

By KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — A high-level North Korean economic delegation was on its way to Iran for what would be…

By JILL LAWLESS and SAMYA KULLAB Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — A big, new package of U.S. military aid will help Ukraine avoid defeat in…

By NICK PERRY and KAREN MATTHEWS Associated Press Dozens of protestors have barricaded themselves inside two buildings on a Northern California…

SYDNEY (AP) — Detectives and secret service agents investigating the stabbing of a bishop in a Sydney church have executed search warrants in the…

By COLLIN BINKLEY, STEVE LeBLANC and BIANCA VÁZQUEZ TONESS Associated Press Students at a growing number of U.S. colleges are gathering in protest…

By JOHN RABY and LEAH WILLINGHAM Associated Press CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — Former West Virginia coal executive Don Blankenship is making another…

By ARMANDO SOLÍS Associated Press VILLA MADERO, Mexico (AP) — As a drought in Mexico drags on, angry subsistence farmers have begun taking direct…

By ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court hears arguments Thursday over whether Donald Trump is immune from prosecution…

By DAVID A. LIEB Associated Press A conservative quest to limit diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives is gaining momentum in state capitals and…

For a third straight week, Democrats at the Arizona Legislature are attempting to repeal the state’s near-total ban on abortions after a court…

By WILL WEISSERT, MICHELLE L. PRICE and CHRIS MEGERIAN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Student protests over the war in Gaza have created a new…

By TERRY TANG Associated Press Like many little girls, a young Kristi Yamaguchi loved playing with Barbie. So, it’s surreal for the decorated…

By LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court will consider Wednesday when doctors can provide abortions during…

The Associated Press After years of attempts to ban the Chinese-owned app, including by former President Donald Trump, a measure to outlaw the…

By SUSAN HAIGH Associated Press HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — New Jersey is incentivizing taxpayers who work from home for New York based employers to sue…

By KONSTANTIN TESTORIDES Associated Press SKOPJE, North Macedonia (AP) — Presidential elections are being held in North Macedonia. The small Balkan…

By ISABELLA VOLMERT Associated Press INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Sen. Mike Braun has missed the final GOP debate in the race to become Indiana’s next…

By The Associated Press The $95 billion foreign aid package approved by the U.S. Congress provides military aid to Ukraine and Israel, replenishes…

By ROBERT YOON Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — In her primary victory Tuesday in Pennsylvania’s 12th Congressional District, first-term…

EL PASO, Texas (AP) — A Texas grand jury has indicted more than 140 migrants on misdemeanor rioting charges over an alleged mass attempt to breach…

By GABE STERN Associated Press/Report for America LAS VEGAS (AP) — The USPS announced on Tuesday it will continue with its plan to reroute…

By HALELUYA HADERO AP Business Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate passed legislation Tuesday that would force TikTok’s China-based parent…

By JONEL ALECCIA AP Health Writer U.S. health officials say samples of pasteurized milk have tested positive for remnants of the bird flu virus that…

By SYLVIA HUI Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Amnesty International says the world is seeing a near breakdown of international law amid flagrant…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — In a frequently tense relationship often defined by a shared border, the United States sent two officials with a different…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A 29-year-old suspect in a break-in at the home of Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass has been charged with burglary and vandalism.…

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — A top court in the eastern Caribbean island of Dominica has struck down colonial-era laws criminalizing gay sex.…

By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A new exhibit inside the federal agency that’s responsible for enforcing the…

By OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The Rev. Cecil Williams, who with his late wife turned Glide Church in San Francisco…