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By MATT OTT Associated Press The number of Americans applying for jobless benefits last week inched up but largely stayed at historically low levels…

By ANNE D’INNOCENZIO AP Retail Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Shoppers picked up their spending in February after a pullback the previous month,…

ZAGREB, Croatia (AP) — Croatia’s parliament has dissolved to pave the way for a parliamentary election later this year. All 143 of a total of 151…

By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis says he has no plans to resign and isn’t suffering from any health problems…

By GIOVANNA DELL’ORTO and DARREN SANDS Associated Press MIAMI (AP) — Neglect, abandonment and destruction have been the fate of thousands of…

By JONATHAN LANDRUM Jr. AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — A new Hulu documentary takes a look at the legendary street party Freaknik held…

By GEIR MOULSON Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — German lawmakers have rejected a new call by the opposition for the government to send Taurus…

BERLIN (AP) — An 80-year-old former officer with communist East Germany’s secret police, the Stasi, has gone on trial over the killing of a…

By PAN PYLAS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Organizers of the Glastonbury Festival have announced the line-up so far for arguably the world’s…

EAST HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — A 1-year-old boy has been fatally bitten by a dog in Connecticut. Police responded just after 3 p.m. Wednesday to a…

By MARK M. MENGONFIA Associated Press MONROVIA, Liberia (AP) — Liberians are gathering to mark a decade since the country was hit by a devastating…

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Europe’s oldest monarch, King Harald V of Norway, who received a permanent pacemaker earlier this week, has been…

By MIKE CORDER Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Anti-Islam lawmaker Geert Wilders says it is unfair and “constitutionally wrong”…

By RAF CASERT Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union is embroiled in a damaging legal standoff between its legislature and its…

By JAN M. OLSEN Associated Press COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — The inhabitants of Copenhagen’s freewheeling Christiania neighborhood are planning to…

DENVER (AP) — A major snowstorm is hitting Colorado, closing numerous schools and government offices and shutting down sections of highways leading…

By JOSEPH WILSON Associated Press BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Spain’s Parliament is set to give its initial approval Thursday to a controversial…

By EMMA BURROWS Associated Press Ukraine fired at least eight missiles at Russia’s Belgorod border region, killing one person and wounding six,…

By SAMUEL PETREQUIN AP Sports Writer BRUSSELS (AP) — The Belgian soccer federation has unveiled new home and away kits for its male and female…

By TARA COPP and LISA MASCARO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. CQ Brown is visiting U.S. weapon factories in Oklahoma…

By SAMUEL PETREQUIN Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — A unit of about 30 soldiers belonging to Belgium’s armed forces will be dismantled after…

BRUSSELS (AP) — Farmers have disrupted traffic around Europe’s second biggest port of Antwerp and two other Belgian harbors during yet another…

By RALPH D. RUSSO and LINLEY SANDERS Associated Press More than half of Americans say they are against college athletes unionizing, though younger…

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Yemen’s Houthi rebels claim to have a new, hypersonic missile in their…

By RONALD BLUM AP Baseball Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Tommy John surgery, like baseball itself, is evolving to increase success and sometimes speed…

By KANIS LEUNG Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — Three former organizers of Hong Kong’s annual vigil in remembrance of the 1989 Tiananmen Square…

By NINIEK KARMINI Associated Press JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — The camps of the two presidential candidates who appear to have lost in Indonesia’s…

By JOSH BOAK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is coming out in opposition to the planned sale of U.S. Steel to Nippon Steel…

By HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Bannings and attempted bannings of books continue to hit record highs. That’s according…

PODGORICA, Montenegro (AP) — A moderately strong earthquake has shaken Montenegro and neighboring countries, but there are no reports of casualties…

LONDON (AP) — The British government on Thursday published an official definition of “extremism.” Groups that get the label will be barred from…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — A Japanese high court has ruled that denying same-sex marriage is unconstitutional and called for…

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Asian shares are mixed Thursday in lackluster trading. Japan’s Nikkei 225 reversed course…

By RISHI LEKHI and ASHOK SHARMA Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — Indian farmers are protesting in the Indian capital to press their demand for new…

By CURT ANDERSON Associated Press Math enthusiasts around the world, from college kids to rocket scientists, celebrate Pi Day on Thursday, which is…

By SIMINA MISTREANU Associated Press TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — City officials in eastern China have apologized to local journalists after authorities…

By JULIA FRANKEL Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — A brother contemplated suicide. A sister stopped going to school. A father barely speaks. With…

By ED WHITE Associated Press PONTIAC, Mich. (AP) — A jury in Michigan is set to resume deliberations in a trial that will determine whether another…

By ALI SWENSON and KELVIN CHAN Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Artificial intelligence is supercharging the threat of election disinformation…

By JIM HEINTZ Associated Press TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — As Vladimir Putin heads for another six-year term as Russia’s president, there’s little…

BANGKOK (AP) — Thailand’s paroled former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra has launched a series of public appearances with an early morning…

By MIKE SCHNEIDER Associated Press ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — More people moved to a county rich with citrus groves located between two of Florida’s…

By JOEY CAPPELLETTI Associated Press SAGINAW, Mich. (AP) — President Joe Biden will travel to Michigan’s premier bellwether county of Saginaw…

By JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER Associated Press KANEOHE, Hawaii (AP) — A pinky and thumb extended with the remaining fingers curled down: That’s the…

By SEAN MURPHY Associated Press WILSON, Okla. (AP) — Before Oklahoma became one of the last places in the U.S. to outlaw cockfighting in 2002, it…

By ASTRID SUÁREZ Associated Press COSCUEZ, Colombia (AP) — Deep inside mountain tunnels where the heat is so intense it causes headaches, women…

By ERIC TUCKER, ALANNA DURKIN RICHER and TERRY SPENCER Associated Press FORT PIERCE, Fla. (AP) — A federal judge will hear arguments Thursday on…

By MARK THIESSEN Associated Press ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — For the past five years, Alaska’s annual Iditarod sled dog race has gone off mostly…

By DIDI TANG Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Since its inception, TikTok has been intended only for non-Chinese markets, unavailable in mainland…

SYDNEY (AP) — Rescuers say falling rocks inside a gold mine in Australia killed one worker and left another with life-threatening injuries. Another…

By SOPHIA TAREEN Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — An open seat to lead the nation’s second-largest prosecutor’s office has become one of the…

By DARLENE SUPERVILLE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris plans to tour a clinic in Minnesota that performs abortions…

By SYLVIA HUI Associated Press LONDON (AP) — After four decades in fashion, the queen of the catwalk is getting her own exhibition. The Victoria…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — A U.N. report says many countries are bouncing back from the COVID-19 pandemic, but the…

By HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea says leader Kim Jong Un has joined his troops in training to operate newly…

FLANDREAU, S.D. (AP) — South Dakota prosecutors will seek the death penalty for a Sioux Falls man charged in the death of a deputy who was struck…

IRVINE, Calif. (AP) — Authorities say people have been injured during law enforcement exercises at an FBI training facility in Southern California.…

By MIKE SCHNEIDER Associated Press ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — The shakeup of Walt Disney World’s governing district more than a year after it was taken…

HAMILTON, Mont. (AP) — A Utah man died after being caught in an avalanche while backcountry skiing in western Montana, Ravalli County officials…

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Federal prosecutors have charged a former rideshare driver in connection with an antisemitic attack on a passenger at San…

SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) — Patriarch Neophyte of Bulgaria, who was the first elected head of the Orthodox Church in the post-communist Balkan country,…

PHOENIX (AP) — A Massachusetts man has been sentenced three years and six months in federal prison for making an online threat to bomb then-Arizona…

By ANITA SNOW Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Public health officials in Arizona’s most populous county report they confirmed a staggering 645…

By The Associated Press The nation’s chief accident investigator says she’s gone to the top of Boeing — the company’s CEO — and…

By MICHAEL RUBINKAM and MARC LEVY Associated Press SCRANTON, Pa. (AP) — Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro is unveiling a plan to fight climate change.…

TRAPPE, Pa. (AP) — George Parker Widman, a longtime Associated Press photographer and 1988 Pulitzer finalist, has died at the age of 79.  An…

By JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — Authorities say a man accused of dousing a woman with acid in Hawaii last year…

By SEAN MURPHY Associated Press OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The death of a Oklahoma high school student who was nonbinary who died the day after a fight…

By GARY D. ROBERTSON Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A federal trial over North Carolina’s photo voter dentification law remains set for…

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — A boat carrying 91 migrants has reached a small island south of Crete that is seeing a spike in the arrival of people…

By RONALD BLUM Associated Press James Conlon will retire as music director of the Los Angeles Opera at the end of the 2025-26 season, ending a…

A federal judge has found the city of Flint, Michigan, in contempt for failing to comply with a court order that spelled out the steps it needed to…

By MATT O’BRIEN AP Technology Writer The popular artificial intelligence image-generator Midjourney has started blocking its users from…

By BEN FINLEY Associated Press NORFOLK, Va. (AP) — The U.S. government could end its legal fight against a planned expedition to the Titanic…

By SUMMER BALLENTINE Associated Press JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Adult women who left marriages they entered as minors are calling on Missouri…

By DAVE COLLINS Associated Press A prosecutor has told a jury that a Connecticut state trooper’s fatal shooting of the 19-year-old man who had just…

By JIM SALTER Associated Press ST. LOUIS (AP) — Volatile weather is expected to hone in on parts of Kansas and Missouri Wednesday night, and the…

BY FARAI MUTSAKA Associated Press HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — Zimbabwe police say they have rescued dozens of children used as labor at a religious…

By LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Hunter Biden could face trial in Delaware on federal firearms charges as soon as June, in…