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By ZEN SOO AP Technology Writer SINGAPORE (AP) — As the aviation sector seeks ways to make air travel less polluting and more sustainable,…

By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer Japan’s benchmark Nikkei 225 index has surged past the record it set in 1989 before its financial bubble…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Los Angeles City Ethics Commission has rejected a proposed settlement between the city and former CBS executive Les Moonves.…

By KEVIN FREKING and SIMINA MISTREANU Associated Press TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — A group of United States Congress members are praising Taiwan’s…

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Israel has intercepted an apparent attack by Houthi rebels near the port city…

By EMMA BURROWS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Yulia Navalnaya used to avoid the cameras, staying in the background while her husband, Russian…

By LLAZAR SEMINI Associated Press TIRANA, Albania (AP) — Albania’s Parliament votes Thursday on a deal with Italy to hold thousands of migrants…

By SAMYA KULLAB and SUSIE BLANN Associated Press LYMAN, Ukraine (AP) — When the Russian army invaded two years ago, Ukrainian men zealously rushed…

By SAMYA KULLAB and SUSIE BLANN Associated Press LYMAN, Ukraine (AP) — When the Russian army mounted a full-scale invasion two years ago, Ukrainian…

By MORGAN LEE Associate Press SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — Attorneys prepared to make opening statements Thursday at the first trial related to the fatal…

By JUAN A. LOZANO Associated Press ANAHUAC, Texas (AP) — A trial is set to be held Thursday to determine if a Black high school student in Texas…

By ASTRID SÚAREZ Associated Press MEDELLIN, Colombia (AP) — The lush valley enveloping Medellin was once the heart of a brutal war involving the…

By MEAD GRUVER Associated Press A Colorado man who died after getting bitten by a Gila monster was hardly alone in having the gnarly looking lizard…

By CLAIRE RUSH Associated Press PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Kendra Sawyer spoke with her dad from the Deschutes County jail and told him she loved him.…

By MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump could be at risk of losing some of his prized properties if he can’t pay his…

By JOHN ANTCZAK Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — California’s rainy season got off to a slow start but gained momentum with storms that…

By THALIA BEATY Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A women’s organization in Mumbai, India, is training a chatbot powered by artificial…

By GARY D. ROBERTSON Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Education funding litigation that originated 30 years ago is returning to North…

By BILL BARROW Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Nikki Haley ‘s best-case scenario for her home state’s Republican primary might…

BEIJING (AP) — Two people are dead after a massive container ship crashed into a bridge near the port of Guangzhou in southern China early…

By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer BANGKOK (AP) — Japan’s Nikkei 225 share benchmark surged Thursday to an all-time high, bypassing its…

By JULIE WATSON Associated Press SAN DIEGO (AP) — China plans to send a new pair of giant pandas to the San Diego Zoo, renewing its longstanding…

By SIBI ARASU Associated Press BENGALURU, India (AP) — India is renewing its push to add rooftop solar to meet the needs of a fast-growing nation…

SYDNEY (AP) — A taekwondo instructor has been charged from his hospital bed with three counts of murder over the deaths of a 7-year-old student and…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Authorities say a Minnesota man has been arrested on suspicion of killing a 31-year-old woman who was beaten, bound and stuffed…

By JEFF AMY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Republican senators in Georgia want to cull sexually explicit books from schools, ban sex education for…

By JONATHAN LANDRUM JR. AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Some of Hollywood’s most prominent filmmakers have purchased a 93-year-old…

By KIM CHANDLER Associated Press MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama is seeking to put a second inmate to death using nitrogen gas. The move comes a…

By AAMER MADHANI and COLLEEN LONG Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — President Joe Biden called Russian President Vladimir Putin a “crazy…

DENVER (AP) — A large Martin Luther King Jr. memorial in Denver has been vandalized. Police are trying to determine if racial bias was involved.…

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — A retired Catholic bishop has been charged with sexual offenses including child abuse…

By KEVIN FREKING Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Some of the U.S. Congress’ staunchest critics of China are visiting Taiwan in a show of…

BOISE, Idaho. (AP) — More than 50 Idaho obstetricians have stopped practicing in the state since a near-total abortion ban took effect in August…

By MICHAEL LIEDTKE AP Technology Writer SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — Two tech CEOs scrambling to produce more of the sophisticated chips needed for…

By SEUNG MIN KIM and COLLEEN LONG Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House is considering using provisions of federal immigration law…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — For the second time in five years, federal charges against alleged members of a violent white supremacist group accused of…

By RIO YAMAT Associated Press Russia’s main domestic intelligence agency has arrested a woman with dual U.S. and Russian citizenship on charges…

By SOPHIE AUSTIN Associated Press/Report for America SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California’s Legislative Black Caucus is pushing for lawmakers…

EASTON, Pa. (AP) — Two Pennsylvania brothers sentenced to life in the slayings of their parents and younger brother almost three decades ago have…

MIAMI (AP) — South Florida rapper Kodak Black has been freed from jail after a federal judge sentenced him to time served for a probation…

By MICHAEL GOLDBERG Associated Press/Report for America JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — After years of refusing to expand Medicaid, some of Mississippi’s…

By GENE JOHNSON Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) — Prosecutors in Washington state said Wednesday they will not file felony charges against a Seattle…

DETROIT (AP) — Toyota is recalling about 280,000 pickup trucks and SUVs in the U.S. The recall is to fix a transmission problem that can let the…

By KEVIN McGILL Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A federal judge says the New Orleans Police Department’s progress in complying with an…

CHICAGO (AP) — United Airlines is gearing up to resume flights to Israel early next month. United said Wednesday that it will start flying between…

By SCOTT BAUER and TODD RICHMOND Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Green Bay schools has released the recording of its first Black…

By BRUCE SCHREINER Associated Press FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — The Kentucky Senate has endorsed a proposed constitutional change to limit a governor’s…

By COLLEEN SLEVIN Associated Press DENVER (AP) — An American founder of a Haitian orphanage who is accused of sexually abusing four boys there more…

By JONEL ALECCIA AP Health Writer Smartwatches and smart rings that claim to measure blood sugar levels without piercing the skin could be dangerous…

By STEVE KARNOWSKI Associated Press ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — A federal judge on Wednesday affirmed a $5 million arbitration award against MyPillow…

By DARLENE SUPERVILLE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Former President Jimmy Carter has another distinction to his name. The 99-year-old is the…

NEW YORK (AP) — Federal prosecutors say a leader of a Japan-based crime syndicate conspired to traffic uranium and plutonium from Myanmar in the…

By MATTHEW BROWN Associated Press BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — A U.S. appeals court on Wednesday struck down a moratorium on coal leasing from federal…

By ANITA SNOW Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — The Republican prosecutor of Arizona’s most populous county says she opposes the extradition of a…

By MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — An old Earth-observing satellite has fallen out of orbit and harmlessly burned up.…

By LAURAN NEERGAARD AP Medical Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — A study of older adults in China offers a closer look at the dominolike sequence of brain…

By JAMIE STENGLE Associated Press Five days after 11-year-old Audrii Cunningham went missing, her body was found in a Texas river near her home. A…

HONOLULU (AP) — Hawaii state and county officials are requesting about $1 billion from the Legislature to help cover Maui wildfire recovery…

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Former NFL running back Marshawn Lynch has resolved a Las Vegas drunken driving case without a trial or DUI conviction. A city…

By JESSE BEDAYN Associated Press/Report for America DENVER (AP) — Colorado state lawmakers have voted to introduce a bill to better regulate the…

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — The transcripts of a 2006 grand jury that investigated Jeffrey Epstein’s sexual assaults of underage girls would be…

By LEAH WILLINGHAM Associated Press CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — West Virginia’s Republican-controlled House of Delegates has voted to allow teachers…

By BRIAN SLODYSKO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump’s mythic ability to raise massive sums of political cash may be on a collision…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Beyoncé made history once again: The superstar singer has become the first Black woman to top Billboard’s country music…

By DÁNICA COTO Associated Press SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — An attorney for Haitian President Jovenel Moïse’s widow, who was indicted in his…

HANOVER Dartmouth College will honor the memory of its winningest football coach by adding his name to its athletic complex next fall. Buddy Teevens,…

By CLAUDIA LAUER Associated Press PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The Justice Department says a suspect in a plot to kill an Iranian American author and…

By LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal prosecutors say the explosive allegations at the center of an impeachment inquiry…

By STEVE LeBLANC Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — Appeals Court Associate Justice Gabrielle R. Wolohojian, a former romantic partner of Massachusetts…

By SAM METZ Associated Press RABAT, Morocco (AP) — Spain’s prime minister has visited Morocco as the two nations reckon with a spike in…

By MICHAEL CASEY Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — Harvard University has condemned what it called a “flagrantly antisemitic cartoon” posted on…

By BRUCE SCHREINER Associated Press FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Gay rights advocates are pushing back against a measure to broaden Kentucky’s religious…

By KIM CHANDLER Associated Press MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — A large Alabama hospital has paused in vitro fertilization treatments as health care…

AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — Maine would become the 27th state to ban paramilitary training under a bill narrowly passed by the state’s House of…

By KATHY McCORMACK Associated Press CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — A jury has begun deliberations in the case of a New Hampshire man charged with…

By MATTHEW DALY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court’s conservative majority appears skeptical of the federal government’s…

By TERRY SPENCER Associated Press FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — A  family trip to a Florida beach turned tragic when a 5-year-old Indiana girl…

By DAVE COLLINS Associated Press The 88-year-old mother of Connecticut mother-of-five Jennifer Dulos has testified at a murder conspiracy trial that…

By PATRICK WHITTLE Associated Press PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Maine’s governor has rolled out legislation she says will prevent dangerous people…

By LAURA UNGAR AP Science Writer The Alabama Supreme Court recently ruled that frozen embryos can be considered children under state law. This is…