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By RISDEL KASASIRA Associated Press KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — Ugandan gay rights activists asked the international community to mount more pressure on…

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Malaysia’s imprisoned former Prime Minister Najib Razak is seeking to serve the rest of his prison term under house…

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Kuwait is holding national elections for the fourth time in as many years as the oil-rich country seeks to break…

By KONSTANTIN TESTORIDES Associated Press SKOPJE, North Macedonia (AP) — North Macedonia’s presidential race kicked off on Thursday, with seven…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — More than 600 British jurists, including three retired judges from the U.K. Supreme Court, are…

BANGKOK (AP) — Myanmar’s main pro-democracy resistance group says its armed wing launched drone attacks on the airport and a military…

By HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea’s president has met the leader of thousands of striking junior doctors…

By HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Former President Bill Clinton has a memoir coming out this fall about his years since leaving…

By CIARÁN GILES Associated Press MADRID (AP) — Spanish authorities say a cruise ship stuck in the northeastern port of Barcelona will be able to…

PARIS (AP) — Lebanon’s billionaire caretaker prime minister has denied all allegations of money laundering after a complaint was formally…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass vowed that cleanup would happen at a home where mounds of garbage and debris had piled up several…

By WILL WEISSERT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The government’s chief human resources agency has issued a new rule making it harder to fire…

By ALEXA ST. JOHN Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is awarding $20 billion in grants for clean energy…

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Tonga’s prime minister says he is open to Beijing’s offer of security support for…

ERIKA KINETZ and SOLOMIIA HERA The Associated Press DOVHENKE, Ukraine (AP) — Yukov says the same thing to all the mothers. He tells them to talk…

By ERIKA KINETZ and SOLOMIIA HERA Associated Press DOVHENKE, Ukraine (AP) — The smell in the car is sick and sweet, the overpowering scent of…

BERLIN (AP) — Austria’s justice minister says she plans to tighten the country’s rules on espionage, which currently is explicitly banned if…

By KELVIN CHAN AP Business Writer Monday’s total solar eclipse might become one of the year’s most filmed and photographed events. As the…

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Asian shares mostly rose Thursday after a firm finish on Wall Street, as expectations remained…

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Indonesian President-elect Prabowo Subianto has held talks with Malaysia’s leader on bolstering bilateral ties as…

BANGKOK (AP) — Panicked passengers have jumped into the sea to escape a raging ferry fire in the Gulf of Thailand, and all 108 people on board are…

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian troops launched waves of Shahed drones against the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv overnight, killing four people and…

By MARIA SHERMAN AP Music Writer It’s never really the end of the road for Kiss. The hard rock quartet have sold their catalog, brand name and IP…

By JOHN HANNA AP Political Writer TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Top Republican lawmakers and the Democratic governor in Kansas have brokered a deal on…

By LORNE COOK Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — NATO will celebrate on Thursday 75 years of collective defense across Europe and North America as…

By The Associated Press Video and photos of suspects in a mass shooting show them apparently being brutalized by Russian security forces — without…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United States and its Western allies are feuding with Russia over its diamond…

By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Federal prosecutors have plenty of stern words to say about 87-year-old British billionaire…

By ADAM BEAM Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California school districts are preparing for the impacts of a new minimum wage for fast…

By SCOTT BAUER Associated Press NEW GLARUS, Wis. (AP) — The Wisconsin Senate race between Democratic Sen. Tammy Baldwin and Republican Eric Hovde…

By MICHAEL HILL Associated Press A New York prosecutor is investigating a slew of abuse complaints made after Netflix started streaming a scathing…

By KIRSTEN GRIESHABER Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — More than 250 Holocaust survivors have joined an international initiative to share their…

By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer LUANG PRABANG, Laos (AP) — Senior finance and central bank officials from Southeast Asia and major…

By FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska (AP) — Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen is headed to a China determined…

By DAVID A. LIEB Associated Press JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Voter rejection of a stadium sales tax plan for the Kansas City Royals and Chiefs has…

By MICHAEL CASEY Associated Press CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — There’s a renewed push to meet kids where they are when it comes to seeing a dentist.…

By SEAN MURPHY Associated Press OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma is preparing to execute a death row inmate for shooting and killing two people in…

By JOHNSON LAI and KANIS LEUNG Associated Press HUALIEN, Taiwan (AP) — Rescuers searched for dozens of people out of contact Thursday a day after…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The Palestinians want the Security Council to vote later this month on their revived…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Authorities say thieves stole as much $30 million in a burglary at a Los Angeles money storage facility in one of the largest…

By PAT EATON-ROBB AP Sports Writer STORRS, Conn. (AP) — Defending national champion UConn’s trip to a second consecutive Final Four is having a…

MONTREAL (AP) — Canadian authorities say they prevented nearly 600 stolen vehicles from being exported overseas after searching 390 shipping…

CENTRAL ISLIP, N.Y. (AP) — An MS-13 gang member has admitted to participating in the brutal killing of four young men on Long Island in 2017. Edwin…

VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) — Plans are underway to airlift a stranded killer whale calf out of a remote tidal lagoon off Canada’s…

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Idaho lawmakers have passed a series of bills targeting LGBTQ+ residents this year, including two this week that prevent public…

VICTORVILLE, Calif. (AP) — Authorities say Southern California sheriff’s deputies shot and killed a 17-year-old boy with mental health issues…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — A Mexican drug cartel not only forced vendors to buy chicken at wildly inflated prices — they sold them chicken “not fit for…

By JAKE OFFENHARTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — An artificial intelligence-powered chatbot meant to help small business owners in New York City…

DALLAS (AP) — Authorities say a man who shot someone to death at a Muslim-owned tire shop in Dallas has been sentenced to 37 years in prison on…

BY MATTHEW BARAKAT Associated Press FAIRFAX, Va. (AP) — A northern Virginia town has been excluded from a countywide police training academy after…

MOSCOW (AP) — Russia’s defense minister has warned his French counterpart against deploying troops to Ukraine in a rare phone call and noted that…

By ISABELLA VOLMERT Associated Press INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Indiana state House Democratic leader Phil GiaQuinta is running to be Fort Wayne’s…

By MICHAEL R. BLOOD Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — An environmental group is challenging the U.S. Energy Department’s decision to award…

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. (AP) — A major South Korean computer chipmaker said Wednesday it plans to spend more than $3.87 billion in Indiana to build a…

By ED WHITE Associated Press PONTIAC, Mich. (AP) — Prosecutors in Michigan are recommending at least 10 years in prison for two parents who are the…

By PHILIP MARCELO Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The New York City Marathon organizers will soon have to pay a bridge toll, just like every other…

By HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH Associated Press MISSION, Kan. (AP) — A man who was briefly handcuffed but not charged in the shooting at the Kansas City…

By JESSE BEDAYN Associated Press/Report for America DENVER (AP) — A wolf has killed a calf in Colorado, wildlife officials said Wednesday,…

By CHRIS MEGERIAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A Palestinian American doctor who has volunteered in Gaza walked out of a meeting with…

By SEAN MURPHY Associated Press A poultry facility in Michigan and egg producer in Texas both reported outbreaks of avian flu this week. The latest…

By MARGERY A. BECK Associated Press An outside investigator has found that a Nebraska lawmaker who invoked the name of a colleague while reading a…

BOSTON (AP) — A Massachusetts council has approved Gov. Maura Healey’s plan to pardon tens of thousands of people convicted of misdemeanor…

By MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A judge has rejected Donald Trump’s bid to delay his April 15 hush money criminal…

By DAVE SKRETTA AP Sports Writer KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Kansas City Chiefs wide receiver Rashee Rice says he is taking “full responsibility”…

By STEPHANY MATAT Associated Press FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — U.S. Sen. Rick Scott is spending millions of campaign dollars on ads focused on…

By ELLEN KNICKMEYER and LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A top U.S. commander in the Middle East is acknowledging concern about…

By JILL COLVIN and WILL WEISSERT Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump has routinely faced protesters as a candidate eight years ago and…

By ISABEL DEBRE Associated Press BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Argentina says that it had cut 15,000 state jobs as part of President Javier…

By MICHELLE L. PRICE Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump and the Republican Party say they raised more than $65.6 million in March as the…

By HANNAH FINGERHUT Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — An explicit requirement that Iowa’s state, county and local decision-making bodies…

By JOEY CAPPELLETTI Associated Press GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) — Donald Trump traveled to Michigan and Wisconsin and used the recent death of a…

By ACACIA CORONADO Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A attorney defending Texas’ plans to arrest migrants who enter the U.S. illegally told a…

By CHARLES ODUM AP Sports Writer SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — Just in time for the 50-year anniversary of Hank Aaron’s record 715th home run, Charlie…

By The Associated Press The average price paid for a ticket on the resale market this week was twice as high for the NCAA women’s Final Four…

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — An audit conducted by the Postal Service’s inspector general found significant problems at a new regional processing…

By SCOTT McFETRIDGE Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Crews could next week begin ripping out a groundbreaking art installation bordering a…

By BRETT MARTEL AP Sports Writer Bayou Barbie is WNBA bound. LSU star Angel Reese formally declared for the WNBA draft less than two days after the…

By WAYNE PARRY Associated Press The company that owns New Jersey’s three nuclear power plants says it will seek federal approval to operate them…

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — The owner of Arkansas Derby winner Muth has sued Churchill Downs Inc. and is seeking a temporary injunction against what it…

Associated press BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — European Council President Charles Michel has traveled to Romania’s capital for talks with several…