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By HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — “American Fiction” is an entertaining movie, authors and publishers say. And it has a lot…
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By HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — “American Fiction” is an entertaining movie, authors and publishers say. And it has a lot…
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By Aishwarya S Iyer, Vedika Sud, Sugam Pokharel, Michelle Velez and Jessie Yeung, CNN (CNN) — Seven men are now in custody in India for the…
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By JOSEPH WILSON Associated Press BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Spain’s Catalonia region rolled out this week a pioneering women’s health initiative…
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By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — A California man was arrested and charged Monday with allegedly smuggling potent, planet-heating greenhouse…
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By JOCELYN NOVECK AP National Writer Japanese architect Riken Yamamoto is the 2024 winner of the Pritzker Architecture Prize, the highest honor in…
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By BARRY HATTON Associated Press Uncrewed, remote-controlled boats have been around since the end of World War II. Late last century, technological…
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PRISTINA, Kosovo (AP) — A Kosovo court has sentenced a man to three-and-a-half years in prison for planning attacks. A Pristina court statement…
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THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The International Criminal Court has issued arrest warrants for two high-ranking Russian military officers on charges…
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SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) — Germany’s foreign minister says Western Balkans countries joining the European Union is a “geopolitical…
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By SAMY MAGDY, TIA GOLDENBERG and WAFAA SHURAFA Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — Three days of negotiations with Hamas over a cease-fire in Gaza and…
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By JIM VERTUNO Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A Texas attorney general acquitted of corruption charges at a historic impeachment trial last…
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LONDON (AP) — British officials say that Kate, the Princess of Wales, will attend a Trooping the Color ceremony in June. It is her first confirmed…
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MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Former Philippine first lady Imelda Marcos, the mother of the country’s current president and the widow of an…
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LONDON (AP) — What’s arguably the most famous wet shirt in television history is up for sale. Water not included. The white linen garment worn by…
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By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — China’s blueprint for its economy in 2024 is replete with goals and promises, but…
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WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Polish media have reported three unidentified objects looking like weather balloons have been found in northeastern Poland,…
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Target, a barometer of the American consumer, said its sales last year fell for the first time since 2016. Now it’s predicting a sluggish 2024 as…
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By ELIZABETH AYOOLA of NerdWallet Becoming self-employed can be an exciting journey, but it’s also possible to make expensive mistakes. These…
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BERLIN (AP) — Production at a Tesla electric vehicle plant near Berlin came to a standstill and workers were evacuated after a power outage that…
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By RAF CASERT Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — Top European Union officials have outlined ambitious plans to boost its defense industry at an…
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CNN By AJ Willingham, CNN (CNN) — There’s cutting cable and then there’s literally cutting cable: Telecom cables running along the bottom…
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By AJ Willingham, CNN (CNN) — There’s cutting cable and then there’s literally cutting cable: Telecom cables running along the bottom of…
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By KIRSTEN GRIESHABER Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s defense minister says a military officer used an unsecured phone line at a…
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By SHEIKH SAALIQ Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — Police in India have arrested three men in the alleged gang rape of a foreign tourist, in a case…
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ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkish police have detained seven more people suspected of selling information to the Israeli spy agency Mossad, the latest…
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By Svitlana Vlasova and Brad Lendon, CNN (CNN) — Ukraine’s military on Tuesday claimed another successful attack on a Russian warship,…
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NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Two planes collided midair above the Nairobi National Park, sending the smaller plane crashing in the park and killing two…
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WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Officials in Poland say a military tracked vehicle ran over two Polish soldiers, killing one and seriously injuring the…
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By KEN SWEET and JOSH BOAK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The Biden administration is moving to cap credit card late fees at $8. It’s the…
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ROME (AP) — The United Nations says that women who run farms and rural households in poor countries suffer more from climate change and are…
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By ILLIA NOVIKOV Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine claims it has sunk another Russian warship in the Black Sea using high-tech sea…
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By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Singapore’s prime minister says Southeast Asian countries’ quest to reach agreement…
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By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — Shares were mixed Tuesday in Asia after China’s premier said the country’s target for…
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By Kathleen Magramo, CNN (CNN) — Singapore is drawing fans from all over Southeast Asia and beyond to Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour, much to the…
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By Rob Frehse, Elizabeth Wolfe, Alisha Ebrahimji and Maria Sole Campinoti, CNN (CNN) — Authorities believe the Michigan vaping supplies…
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By HUIZHONG WU Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — China’s Premier Li Qiang promoted an image of confidence as he announced modest economic growth…
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By ACACIA CORONADO Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas has some competitive U.S. House races on the ballot in Tuesday’s primaries. Among…
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By PAUL J. WEBER and SEAN MURPHY Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Democrats in search of flipping a U.S. Senate seat are watching Texas…
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By JOHN HANNA AP Political Writer TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A repeating of baseless election conspiracy theories in the Republican-controlled Kansas…
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By JANIE HAR Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Voters in San Francisco are weighing in on a pair of public safety measures on Tuesday’s…
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CNN By Caitlin Stephen Hu, David Culver and Jeremy Dupin. Video by David von Blohn and Lacey Russell, CNN Port-au-Prince, Haiti (CNN) — From…
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By STEFANIE DAZIO Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — One of the country’s most progressive prosecutors is set to be tested as he seeks…
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By TRÂN NGUYỄN Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California voters are set to decide on a statewide ballot measure that Gov. Gavin…
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By HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Thousands of striking junior doctors in South Korea are facing proceedings to suspend…
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Control of the U.S. House of Representatives won’t be decided on Tuesday. But voters in California will set the…
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CLINTON TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) — Police were warning people to stay away as an industrial fire with multiple explosions shook a northern Detroit…
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By KIM CHANDLER Associated Press MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama lawmakers, who face public pressure to get in vitro fertilization services…
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KINGSTOWN, St. Vincent (AP) — A judge in the eastern Caribbean island of St. Vincent has ordered the deportation of three men from Grenada…
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By JESSE BEDAYN Associated Press/Report for America DENVER (AP) — Lawmakers in at least seven states are taking big legislative swings to regulate…
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By LISA MASCARO AP Congressional Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate leader Mitch McConnell is the highest-ranking Republican in Congress who…
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By JAMES POLLARD Associated Press/Report for America CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Highway signs welcome drivers entering North Carolina to “the…
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By ANDREW DeMILLO Associated Press LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Arkansas voters could make history in two races for the state Supreme Court in…
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PANAMA CITY, Panama (AP) — Panama’s Electoral Tribunal has disqualified former president Ricardo Martinelli’s candidacy in the country’s May…
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By JOHN LEICESTER Associated Press PARIS (AP) — For the Paris Olympics, it could almost be a new sport: Score points by hunting down mosaics that a…
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By WILL WEISSERT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden and Republican Donald Trump are poised to have the biggest day of the…
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By JEFFREY COLLINS Associated Press Primaries in North Carolina will mark an exceptional change in the state’s U.S. House delegation. Dozens of…
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MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama Republicans will choose who they want to replace the retiring chief justice of the state Supreme Court. Justices…
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By GARY D. ROBERTSON Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina primary voters are choosing potential successors to term-limited…
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By DAVID FISCHER Associated Press MIAMI BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Miami Beach is trying to break up with spring break, but it’s not yet clear whether…
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By ED WHITE Associated Press PONTIAC, Mich. (AP) — A man who purchased a gun with his son four days before the teen used that weapon in a mass…
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By JESSE BEDAYN Associated Press/Report for America DENVER (AP) — Colorado lawmakers have unveiled a bill that would install requirements for…
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Police in Nashville say that multiple people have died after a small plane crashed Monday night near an interstate highway,…
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By Joe Sutton, Elizabeth Wolfe and Eric Levenson, CNN (CNN) — A small plane crashed into the shoulder of Nashville’s Interstate 40 and burst…
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MANILA, Philippines (AP) — The Philippines says Chinese coast guard ships blocked Philippine vessels from a disputed South China Sea shoal, causing…
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SAN DIEGO (AP) — A Southern California man was arrested on suspicion of smuggling refrigerants into the U.S. from Mexico. Federal prosecutors said…
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By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Singapore’s Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong has defended an exclusive deal his…
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By AUDREY McAVOY Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — A University of Hawaii report says regulatory costs account for more than half of the price of a…
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BEIJING (AP) — China is increasing its defense budget 7.2% this year in a similar increase to last year’s. It’s already the…
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By ELLIOT SPAGAT Associated Press SAN DIEGO (AP) — A union of immigration judges has been ordered to get supervisor approval to speak to anyone…
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By Svitlana Vlasova, CNN (CNN) — Serhiy Haidarzhy is likely alive because his wife Anna fell asleep. Like every night, Anna was in the bedroom…
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YAKIMA, Wash. (AP) — Two snowmobilers have been killed in separate avalanches in Washington state and in Idaho. Two snowmobilers riding in the…
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By MORGAN LEE Associated Press SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — A movie-ammunition supplier has testified at trial that he provided only inert dummy rounds…
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BEIJING (AP) — Chinese Premier Li Qiang has announced that China’s economic growth target for this year is around 5%, in line with last year’s…
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By TIA GOLDENBERG and RAVI NESSMAN Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel has ramped up its criticism of the embattled U.N. agency for…
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By MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump’s lawyers are warning that a gag order sought by New York prosecutors ahead of…
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By MARK THIESSEN Associated Press ANCHORAGEW, Alaska (AP) — A veteran musher had to kill a moose after it injured his dog shortly after the start…
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LAS VEGAS (AP) — Nevada U.S. Sen. Jacky Rosen has announced that she has officially filed for reelection in a presidential battleground state that…
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By HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea has called the ongoing South Korean-U.S. military drills a plot to invade…
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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Some guns will be banned at voting locations, and the waiting period for purchasing firearms is being extended to seven…
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By ARNIE STAPLETON AP Pro Football Writer ENGLEWOOD, Colo. (AP) — Two years ago, Russell Wilson exuberantly declared he intended to play a dozen…
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CLOQUET, Minn. (AP) — Authorities say the man who fatally shot a Super 8 hotel clerk and a guest in a small Minnesota town doesn’t appear to…
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By KEVIN FREKING Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Congressional leaders have invited the prime minister of Japan, Fumio Kishida, to address a…
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By BRUCE SCHREINER Associated Press FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — The Republican-dominated Kentucky House has voted to remove any role for the state’s…
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By ASTRID SUÁREZ and MANUEL RUEDA Associated Press BOGOTÁ, Colombia (AP) — Migrants bound for the U.S. are once again crossing the Darien Gap in…
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By ACACIA CORONADO and LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday temporarily halted a new Texas law…
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department says a civilian U.S. Air Force employee has been charged in federal court in Nebraska with transmitting…
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By Mindy Weisberger, CNN (CNN) — Across sweeping desert vistas, spectacular star dunes stand out. The distinctive mounds are among the tallest…
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By ZEKE MILLER AP White House Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House has lifted its COVID-19 testing requirement for those who plan to be…
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By STEVE KARNOWSKI Associated Press ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Minnesota lawmakers are on the verge of a compromise that will give police officers who…
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BOILING SPRING LAKES, N.C. (AP) — Two people are facing arrest warrants in North Carolina in a poaching case involving hundreds of Venus flytraps.…
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By HANNAH SCHOENBAUM Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Gun violence prevention advocates who gathered Monday at the Utah State Capitol called…
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By ROBERT YOON Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Less than a week after staging rival events on the banks of the Rio Grande River along the…
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By ROBERT YOON Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Voters in North Carolina will decide a full slate of primaries Tuesday, including contested races…
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ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greek authorities say they have rescued 100 migrants found on a smuggling vessel in distress off the country’s southern…
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SAN DIEGO (AP) — The San Diego Fire-Rescue Department says 11 people were hurt over the weekend while trying to climb over a wall that separates…
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By MIKE SCHNEIDER Associated Press ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has a new job for the longtime supporter who has led Walt Disney…
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By MARK ANDERSON AP Sports Writer LAS VEGAS (AP) — Tara VanDerveer managed to compartmentalize her emotions as she chased down and eclipsed Mike…
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By HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH Associated Press A Missouri Girl Scout troop that made bracelets to raise funds for children in Gaza was ordered to stop and…
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By Eric Levenson, CNN (CNN) — A former school bus driver in Utah faces both federal and state arson charges for allegedly lighting his school…
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By DÁNICA COTO Associated Press SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — A key hearing over the future of Puerto Rico’s crumbling power company and its…
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