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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…

TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — A New Jersey Republican candidate for U.S. Senate was arrested in 2020 and charged with driving under the influence of alcohol…

By CARLA K. JOHNSON AP Medical Writer A blood test for colon cancer performed well in a study published Wednesday, offering a new kind of screening…

By PAN PYLAS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The U.K. government says it will back legislation banning foreign state ownership of British newspapers…

By STEPHANIE LIECHTENSTEIN Associated Press VIENNA (AP) — The Austrian government says that it has ordered two diplomats from Russia’s…

By LAURAN NEERGAARD AP Medical Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Researchers revved up immune cells that shrank an extremely aggressive type of brain tumor…

By JACK DURA and JOSH FUNK Associated Press A Democratic legislator is calling for an inquiry into South Dakota Republican Gov. Kristi Noem’s trip…

By TARA COPP Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Air Force is reporting the first data on cancer diagnoses among troops who worked with nuclear…

By JEFF AMY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia House Speaker Jon Burns is leaning into the push to pass a voucher plan funding private school…

By DAVID HAMILTON AP Business Writer SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Elon Musk has abruptly canceled “The Don Lemon Show” a talk show on his social media…

By CHEVEL JOHNSON RODRIGUE Associated Press Civil rights activist Dorie Ann Ladner has died at age 81. Joyce Ladner confirms her sister died…

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Universities of Wisconsin regents have selected a New Hampshire provost to replace UW-La Crosse Chancellor Joe Gow. Gow…

NEW YORK (AP) — The retired Concorde jet that belongs to New York’s Intrepid Museum will return to its home on a west side pier after a…

By MIKE CORDER Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Dutch soccer star Quincy Promes has reportedly been arrested by authorities in Dubai…

By JOHN HANNA Associated Press TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas will pay $1 million to settle a lawsuit over the 2015 murder of a 7-year-old boy who…

By MATTHEW BROWN Associated Press BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — Federal prosecutors say a Montana rancher illegally used tissue and testicles from wild…

By RUSS BYNUM Associated Press SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — Attorneys plan to refile a lawsuit over zoning changes that they say threaten one of the…

By JONATHAN J. COOPER Associated Press Robert F. Kennedy Jr. plans to announce a running mate for his independent presidential campaign on March 26…

By RUTH ALONGA Associated Press GOMA, Congo (AP) — A senior United Nations official says intensifying violence in Congo’s eastern region has…

MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — The European Union’s maritime security force says it is tracking a Bangladesh-flagged cargo vessel that was boarded by…

By JOSEPH WILSON Associated Press BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — The regional president of Catalonia has called an early election for May 12 after his…

BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — A judge has acquitted a New York state trooper who was charged with manslaughter after shooting an unarmed motorist to death…

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis is ordering more than 250 law enforcement officers and soldiers to the Florida Keys to help…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Robotaxis will begin cruising the streets of Los Angeles on Thursday when Google spinoff Waymo starts offering free rides to…

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Federal prosecutors say three men from Kansas City, Missouri, face firearms charges, including gun trafficking, after an…