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By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. Security Council is urging Sudan’s warring parties to halt hostilities during…

By DÁNICA COTO Associated Press SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Scores of foreigners are stranded in Haiti, unable to leave the country under siege…

By JONEL ALECCIA AP Health Writer The popular weight-loss drug Wegovy can now be used to reduce the risk of stroke, heart attacks and other serious…

BY FARAI MUTSAKA Associated Press HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — The State Department has accused Zimbabwean authorities of harassing and detaining…

By KATE BRUMBACK and JEFF AMY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — A progressive Democrat and a Republican who briefly worked in Donald Trump’s…

By AMY BETH HANSON Associated Press HELENA, Mont. (AP) — Republican U.S. Rep. Matt Rosendale of Montana has dropped his reelection bid, citing…

By ANITA SNOW Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Arizona officials say a Saudi-owned company they targeted over its use of virtually unfettered…

By JESSE BEDAYN Associated Press/Report for America DENVER (AP) — Prosecutors said more cremated remains were found at the home of a Colorado…

By NICHOLAS RICCARDI and JUSTIN SPIKE Associated Press Former President Donald Trump is meeting with Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, a…

By DAVE COLLINS Associated Press A Connecticut state trooper who shot a 19-year-old man to death in a stolen car in 2020 has testified that he…

By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández was convicted Friday in New York of charges…

By SETH BORENSTEIN AP Science Writer Across much of America and especially in the normally chilly north, the country went through the winter months…

By ARIANA CUBILLOS Associated Press Ariana Cubillos is an Associated Press photojournalist based in Caracas, Venezuela. She was based in Haiti from…

By ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A Pentagon study released Friday that examined reported sightings of UFOs over nearly the last…

MEGAN JANETSKY Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — Women across Latin America are bathing their city streets in purple in commemoration of…

By THOMAS BEAUMONT Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The third-party presidential movement No Labels has decided to field a presidential…

By LISA RATHKE Associated Press BENNINGTON, Vt. (AP) — A Vermont man has pleaded guilty to a reduced charge in the June crash that killed actor…

By ED WHITE Associated Press PONTIAC, Mich. (AP) — A gun shop employee has testified in the trial of the father of a Michigan school shooter. Cammy…

TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — A New Jersey high school that lost a state basketball tournament game when referees wrongly overturned a buzzer-beating basket…

By PETER SMITH Associated Press The status of a federal investigation into a leading Southern Baptist agency’s handling of sexual abuse is unclear.…

By LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press The Justice Department says a former Oklahoma police officer convicted in the sexual assault of a woman during…

By JAKE OFFENHARTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The first “NYPD: Most Wanted” video was meant to be intimidating. Over a pounding…

ROME (AP) — Pope Francis appears to be in good form as he made his first parish visit outside the Vatican this year. He delivered his homily and…

By TAIWO ADEBAYO Associated Press ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — The kidnapping of 287 grade school students by gunmen in northwestern Nigeria this week was…

By JOSH BOAK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is all-in on calling out “shrinkflation.” The term applies to a seemingly…

By ADRIAN SAINZ Associated Press MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — A judge has indefinitely postponed the state court trial of four former Memphis officers…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — A student from a rural Mexican teachers’ college where 43 youths disappeared in 2014 has died in a confrontation with police.…

Two former Texas deputies have been found not guilty in the death of a Black motorist who was shot several times with a stun gun following a police…

MIAMI (AP) — The NXXT Golf mini tour for women has updated its eligibility policy to require all players to be a biological female at birth. The…

By STEVE PEOPLES and MICHELLE L. PRICE Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — GOP officials have voted to install Donald Trump’s handpicked chair of the…

HOUSTON (AP) — Passengers had to be evacuated from a United Airlines plane after it rolled off a runway in Houston and ended up stuck in a grassy…

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — At least one fertility clinic in Alabama has resumed in vitro fertilization treatments. News outlets report that Alabama…

By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A lawyer for Donald Trump says the former president has secured a bond sufficient to support…

By MATTHEW PERRONE AP Health Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The maker of a much-debated drug for Lou Gehrig’s disease said it failed to help…

By DAVID A. LIEB Associated Press Mass shootings at schools have prompted a growing number of states to encourage digital mapping to aid emergency…

By SUMMER BALLENTINE and NICK INGRAM Associated Press KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Celebrities, artists and tens of thousands of fans proud to call…

NEW YORK (AP) — Natalie Portman and Benjamin Millepied have divorced after 11 years of marriage and two children. The Oscar-winning actor and…

By JULIE CARR SMYTH Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Republican Matt Dolan has landed the endorsement of former U.S. Sen. Rob Portman in the…

By MICHELLE CHAPMAN AP Business Writer As WWE gears up for its biggest annual premium live event next month, the company continues to harness the…

By JOSH BOAK, SEUNG MIN KIM and WILL WEISSERT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Fresh off his defiant State of the Union address, President Joe…

VILNIUS, Lithuania (AP) — Exiled Belarusian opposition leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya on Friday marched to the country’s embassy in Lithuania,…

By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A federal appeals court has reinstated bribery and fraud charges against former New York Lt.…

KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) — The younger brother of Super Bowl-winning Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes has been sentenced to six…

By ADRIANA MORGA Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Tax season is underway in the U.S. Filing taxes can be a daunting task that’s often left until…

By COLLEEN BARRY AP Business Writer MILAN (AP) — A new survey says one-third of Italians have reduced their consumption of extra virgin olive oil…

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Authorities say a suspected attack by Yemen’s Houthi rebels set off explosions ahead of a vessel in the Gulf…

By BASSEM MROUE and GHAITH AL-SAYED Associated Press IDLIB, Syria (AP) — A powerful al-Qaida-linked group that dominates much of rebel-held…

By ROB MAADDI AP Pro Football Writer Kirk Cousins will be a free agent for the first time since the Vikings gave him the first fully-guaranteed…

By MELINA WALLING Associated Press DEERBROOK, Wis. (AP) — This year’s warmer winter temperatures have allowed some maple syrup producers across…

By MELINA WALLING Associated Press EVANSTON, Ill. (AP) — For several years now, students have been tracking sap production of maple trees in a…

By JEFF MARTIN Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — With an unscripted clash between President Joe Biden and a Georgia congresswoman at Thursday…

By ROBERT YOON Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Former President Donald Trump has his hopes set that Republican voters in Mississippi and three…

By KIRSTEN GRIESHABER Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s top prosecutor has taken over the investigation into an alleged arson attack on…

By MARIA SHERMAN and GARY GERARD HAMILTON Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Throughout the billion-dollar “Barbie” film, an instrumental…

By ROBERT YOON Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Emerging from their big wins on Super Tuesday, President Joe Biden and former President Donald…

By CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Security forces are searching large forests in Nigeria’s northwest region for nearly 300…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Former U.S. Rep. George Santos, who was expelled from Congress in December and faces federal charges of defrauding donors to his…

By ROBERT YOON Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Voters in Washington state might put former President Donald Trump over the top in his bid for…

By AYSE WIETING and SUZAN FRASER Associated Press ISTANBUL (AP) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is in Istanbul for talks with Turkish…

By ROBERT YOON Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Hawaii Republicans will hold caucuses Tuesday to cast votes in a presidential nomination contest…

By TARA COPP Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The military has greenlighted its Osprey to return to flight, three months after a part failure led…

By SHEIKH SAALIQ Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — Indian authorities say they are in talks with Russia’s government about the return of…

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Thousands of protesters have gathered in central Athens to oppose government plans to introduce privately run universities,…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Former British Prime Minister Theresa May says she will quit as a lawmaker when an election is…

GENEVA (AP) — The U.N. human rights office says in a report published Friday that the establishment and expansion of Israeli settlements in the…

By KEN MORITSUGU Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — The divide between China and Europe over the war in Ukraine was on display this week. As a Chinese…

By ELAINE KURTENBACH Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — China has reported large increases in arrests and cases of phone and internet scams last year,…

By NOHA ELHENNAWY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — Over 230 million women and girls have undergone female genital mutilation, most of whom live in…

By MENELAOS HADJICOSTIS Associated Press NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — A top European Union official is in Cyprus on Friday to inspect preparations to…

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A U.N. fact-finding mission says Iran is responsible for the “physical…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Akira Toriyama, the creator of the best-selling Dragon Ball and other popular anime who influenced…

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Asian shares were mostly higher Friday, after U.S. stocks climbed to records, with easier interest…

By MARIAM FAM Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — Observant Muslims the world over will soon be united in a ritual of daily fasting from dawn to sunset…

ATLANTA (AP) — Naomi Barber King, a civil rights activist who was married to the younger brother of the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., has died at…

By LAURAN NEERGAARD AP Medical Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Losing an hour of sleep as daylight saving time kicks in can do more than leave you tired…

By CHRISTINA LARSON AP Science Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Researchers and citizen scientists will observe how animals’ routines at several zoos…

By HUIZHONG WU Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — Ten years on, families of Chinese passengers on the missing Malaysian Airline flight still are…