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By FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. has imposed sanctions on three people and four firms — across Iran, the United Arab…

By MICHAEL GOLDBERG Associated Press/Report for America JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A federal lawsuit claims inmates at a Mississippi prison were forced…

By JEFFREY COLLINS Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — The South Carolina House has given key approval to a bill allowing liquor stores to open…

By BRUCE SHIPKOWSKI and SAMANTHA HENDRICKSON Associated Press/Report For America COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Prosecutors in the murder trial of a former…

By MICHAEL MAROT AP Sports Writer INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — The signs are all around downtown Indianapolis now. NBA All-Star weekend has finally arrived.…

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A former Philadelphia police inspector has been acquitted of assault in the use of a baton during an encounter with a protester…

By BASSEM MROUE and JON GAMBRELL Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — The slow-simmering cross-border conflict between Lebanon’s Hezbollah militant…

ST. LOUIS (AP) — A St. Louis man has been sentenced to 60 years in prison for a series of carjackings, including one in which a high school…

By CARLOS MUREITHI Associated Press A team of scientists says extreme wind and rain may contribute to bigger and worse desert locust outbreaks. A…

By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The 29-year-old filmmaker Sean Wang can’t believe it, himself, but he’s going to the…

By MICHAEL CASEY Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — Federal authorities announced they have charged over 40 gang members in Boston with a range of…

By VANESSA GERA Associated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Estonia’s foreign minister says NATO has about three or four years to strengthen its…

By REGINA GARCIA CANO Associated Press CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Representatives of nearly 10 human rights organizations have held a press…

By ELLEN KNICKMEYER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The head of the House Intelligence Committee says he has information about a serious…

SKOPJE, North Macedonia (AP) — North Macedonia’s parliament speaker has formally set early parliamentary and presidential elections in the…

By SARAH RANKIN Associated Press RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A GOP legislative effort to prevent Virginia children from using the video-sharing app TikTok…

By MATT BROWN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Black History Month was celebrated in the nation’s capital with dueling events on Tuesday…

The Associated Press Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce says he went too far when he bumped into coach Andy Reid and screamed at him during…

By The Associated Press PIERRE, S.D. (AP) — Former South Dakota Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg is urging the state Supreme Court to dismiss an…

GLEN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) — William Post, a Michigan man who played an important role in the development of Pop-Tarts, has died at age 96. Post died…

PLATTSBURGH, N.Y. (AP) — Police said they believe a shooting at a northern New York hospital may have narrowly been avoided after a disgruntled…

By PATRICK WHITTLE Associated Press PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — A coalition of environmental groups is suing the federal government to try to force the…

PARIS (AP) — A Paris appeals court upheld a guilty verdict against former French President Nicolas Sarkozy for illegal campaign financing in his…

By MARYCLAIRE DALE Associated Press PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The Bayer Corporation has spent more than $10 billion to settle lawsuits that claim the…

By AMANDA SEITZ Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Cybersecurity experts are warning that hospitals around the country are at risk for attacks like…

By HOLLY RAMER Associated Press CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — I came. I saw. I Concord. A New Hampshire lawmaker wants to amend state law to include an…

By JOHN BOHNENKAMP Associated Press IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — Fans who want to be able to say they were in the arena when Caitlin Clark set the NCAA…

By LISA MASCARO and STEPHEN GROVES Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican Speaker Mike Johnson says the U.S. House will not feel…

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s National Security Bureau says the country’s president has met the CEO of U.S. manufacturer Lockheed Martin…

By COREY WILLIAMS Associated Press A Michigan Republican accused of participating in a fake elector plot after the 2020 presidential election has…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — A Japan space agency official says an unmanned spacecraft that landed on the moon last month has…

MANASSAS, Va. (AP) — Police in northern Virginia fatally shot a man with a knife suspected of stabbing two people inside a training center for…

By JEFF AMY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — A nuclear power plant in Georgia has begun splitting atoms in the second of its two new reactors, in a…

By MATT OTT AP Business Writer Lyft shares jumped 62% after the bell Tuesday thanks in part to a typo in the ride-hailing company’s earnings…

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — The city of Memphis has released additional documents tied to the January 2023 fatal beating of Tyre Nichols by five police…

MILAN (AP) — Italian police on Wednesday raided the homes of 24 people under investigation for promoting fascism during a gathering at a restaurant…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican regulators have ordered online retailers Amazon and Mercado Libre to reveal their algorithms, and wall off TV streaming…

By The Associated Press A Moscow court has remanded a German citizen into custody after his arrest for possession of cannabis gummies and accusations…

By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The mild-mannered Franklin — the first Black character in the “Peanuts” comic strip…

By DAVID SHARP Associated Press PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — The tradition of red hearts mysteriously appearing overnight across Maine’s largest city…

By TARA COPP Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A day after his latest hospital stay, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has hosted a virtual meeting…

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — A Scandinavian Airlines plane struck a fence at the Oslo airport on Wednesday, causing minor damage to the aircraft and…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Authorities says three police officers have been shot in Washington and their injuries appear to be non-life-threatening. The…

By TERRY SPENCER Associated Press PARKLAND, Fla. (AP) — The family of a teen murdered at Parkland’s Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School is…

By HUIZHONG WU Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — Taiwan’s Coast Guard says two Chinese fishermen have drowned while being chased by the coast guard…

By The Associated Press Travis Kelce is already making moves in Hollywood. The Super Bowl champ has his first executive producer credit on a new film…

By SAMY MAGDY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Edrogan is in Cairo for talks with his Egyptian counterpart to rally…

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — A South Korean court has convicted three former police officers of destroying internal files and other evidence in an…

PRAGUE (AP) — Former populist Prime Minister Andrej Babis’ retrial started after an appeals court dismissed a previous ruling acquitting him of…

By LOUISE DIXON BERLIN (AP) — The 74th Berlin International Film Festival opens Thursday with the world premiere of “Small Things Like These”…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Activists and members of the LGBTQ+ community have handed out colorful chocolate candy for…

By DARLENE SUPERVILLE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — It’s Valentine’s Day and Jill Biden is again sending her love to Americans…

NEW DELHI (AP) — Protesting Indian farmers have clashed with police for a second consecutive day as tens of thousands tried to march to the capital…

By FRANK BAJAK AP Technology Writer BOSTON (AP) — Microsoft says it had detected and disrupted instances of U.S. adversaries — chiefly Iran and…

By KATE ASHFORD of NerdWallet Many people choose Medicare Advantage plans without exploring their options or noticing what changes their plan may…

BRUSSELS (AP) — NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg says European allies and Canada have ramped up defense spending to record levels.…

SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) — British Foreign Secretary David Cameron has said that nothing is more important now than strong support for Ukraine as it…

By NICK KURCZEWSKI Edmunds The 2024 Chevrolet Colorado proves how transformative the midsize pickup truck market has suddenly become. In a segment…

By The Associated Press Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a law that will allow authorities to confiscate money, valuables and other assets…

By JENNA FRYER AP Auto Racing Writer DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Newly retired NASCAR driver Kevin Harvick  will make his full-time debut as a Fox…

By DEE-ANN DURBIN AP Business Writer Valentine’s Day is meant to celebrate romance and the depths of feeling we have for loved ones. So it may…

By HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH Associated Press Downtown Kansas City is turning into a sea of red for Valentine’s Day as Chiefs fans prepare to celebrate…

By DEE-ANN DURBIN AP Business Writer Valentine’s Day is meant to celebrate romance and the depths of feeling we have for loved ones. So it may…

By NAJIB JOBAIN, SAMY MAGDY and MELANIE LIDMAN Associated Press RAFAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Palestinians have begun evacuating the main hospital in…

By MIKE CORDER Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Former captives and relatives of hostages held since the Oct. 7 attack by Hamas in…

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol’s office says that presumed North Korean hackers breached the personal emails of…

By MAAMOUN YOUSSEF Associated…

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press ABU MUREIKHA, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has given a stump speech for his…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s space agency says its new flagship H3 rocket will have a second test flight on Saturday,…

LONDON (AP) — Inflation in the U.K. held steady at 4% in January as lower food prices helped offset an increase in energy costs. The reading from…