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By ALBERT AJI and ABDULRAHMAN ZEYAD Associated Press Damascus (AP) — The Syrian military says Israeli airstrikes have hit several sites on the…

By LEANNE ITALIE AP Lifestyles Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Tommy Hilfiger threw himself a welcome home party Friday night at Grand Central’s Oyster…

By CHRISTOPHER WEBER Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Among those paying tribute to MC5 guitarist Wayne Kramer are prison reform advocates. They…

By SABINA NIKSIC Associated Press SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) — War-scarred Sarajevo is looking back to happier times from February 1984 as…

By MICHAEL ELSEN-ROONEY of Chalkbeat NEW YORK (AP) — Derry Oliver was in fifth grade when she first talked to her mom about seeing a therapist. She…

By MICHAEL GOLDBERG Associated Press/Report for America JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Diversity initiatives would be defunded or banned from universities…

By STEVE PEOPLES, ZEKE MILLER and SEUNG MIN KIM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrats have been reminded of President Joe Biden’s…

By NOREEN NASIR Associated Press Dozens of Indigenous activists have traveled to Las Vegas to gather outside the Super Bowl and demand the Kansas…

By DÉBORA REY Associated Press BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — A Catholic laywoman who lived in 18th-century Argentina and joined the Jesuits in…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — U.N. experts say they are investigating 58 suspected North Korean cyberattacks between…

By SAM MEDNICK Associated Press DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Senegalese President Macky Sall defended his decision to postpone elections as violent…

EL CAJON, Calif. (AP) — A nurse at a California jail has been found not guilty of involuntary manslaughter in the 2019 death of an inmate who…

By MICHELLE CHAPMAN AP Business Writer Hershey is cautioning on its 2024 profit growth as the company contends with rising cocoa costs that are…

By JOE REEDY AP Sports Writer The doink cam is one of many innovations that CBS will use during Sunday’s NFL title game between Kansas City and San…

By AAMER MADHANI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House is downplaying sharp criticism from President Joe Biden and a senior national…

NEW YORK (AP) — In a story published February 7, 2024, about the color red, The Associated Press erroneously reported the name of San Francisco…

By PATRICK WHITTLE and NICK PERRY Associated Press SACO, Maine (AP) — A shelter-in-place order remains in effect for the downtown area of Saco,…

HOUSTON (AP) — A Texas woman who pleaded guilty to threatening a federal judge in Florida who is overseeing the criminal case against former…

By LISA MASCARO and KEVIN FREKING Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Senate is slogging past far-right Republican opposition to helping…

Associated Press SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. (AP) — Authorities in the Phoenix suburb of Scottsdale say they won’t charge a gallery owner whose racist…

JOLIET, Ill. (AP) — Authorities in Illinois say a Minnesota man charged in the stabbing death of a 15-year-old suburban Chicago girl more than 50…

By ALMA SOLÍS Associated Press PANAMA CITY (AP) — Not a 10-year prison sentence for money laundering nor going into political asylum in…

WASHINGTON (AP) — ABC’s “This Week” — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu; Sen. Chris Coons, D-Del.; Gov. Brian Kemp, R-Ga. ___…

TONTITOWN, Ark. (AP) — Two Michigan men are being held on multiple charges after police said the pair led officers on a high-speed case through…

By JONATHAN LANDRUM Jr. AP Entertainment LAS VEGAS (AP) — Actor Scarlett Johansson and NFL legend Dan Marino come from different professions, but…

By JOSH FUNK Associated Press OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Nebraska’s largest city won’t be able to enforce its ban on guns in public places like…

By JESSE BEDAYN and COLLEEN SLEVIN Associated Press DENVER (AP) — Court documents say a county coroner reported suspicions about bodies being…

BOSTON (AP) — The Dartmouth men’s basketball team has scheduled a March 5 election to determine whether the players will unionize. That would be…

By SARAH RANKIN and MATTHEW BARAKAT Associated Press RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Legislation underpinning a plan to relocate the NBA’s Washington…

NEW YORK (AP) — A man accused of stalking Taylor Swift after being spotted multiple times outside the singer’s Manhattan townhouse was found…

By CAROLYN THOMPSON Associated Press BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — A federal lawsuit accuses National Guard members of sexually exploiting migrants at a…

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Prosecutors have filed two murder charges against an Indianapolis man following the stabbing deaths days apart of two women in…

By JOE REEDY AP Sports Writer Amazon Prime Video will carry an NFL postseason game next season, people familiar with the matter confirmed to The…

By KATHY McCORMACK Associated Press CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — The estranged wife of a New Hampshire man accused of killing his 5-year-old daughter has…

By ELLEN KNICKMEYER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A new directive by President Joe Biden is appearing to ease a split among Democrats over his…

MALIBU, Calif. (AP) — An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 4.6 has struck the Southern California coast near Malibu. The quake struck at…

By ELÉONORE HUGHES Associated Press RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — To thunderous applause, Rio de Janeiro’s mayor coronated King Momo, marking the…

By ERIC TUCKER and ALANNA DURKIN RICHER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The release of a harshly critical Justice Department special counsel…

By PATRICK ORSAGOS Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A city in central Ohio has agreed to a settlement with one of its former K9 officers and…

By JOSH BOAK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Colin Jost, the co-anchor of Weekend Update on “Saturday Night Live,” will get a chance…

By JEFF AMY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — The Republican leading a specially-appointed Georgia state Senate committee that’s supposed to…

By KEVIN FREKING Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate is moving toward a final vote on an emergency spending package that would provide…

NAPLES, Fla. (AP) — A small airplane has collided with a vehicle after it made an emergency landing on Interstate 75 in southwest Florida. The…

ST. LOUIS (AP) — A judge has ruled that a former St. Louis police officer was not guilty of assault for shooting a suspected carjacker in 2018,…

By KEVIN McGILL Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Carnival season 2024 is entering its final days in New Orleans with big parades on the…

By NAJIB JOBAIN and LEE KEATH Associated Press RAFAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Gaza’s southernmost town, Rafah, is bursting at the seams. Nearly the…

HONOLULU (AP) — The U.S. Geological Survey said Friday that a magnitude 6.3 earthquake struck just south of the Big Island of Hawaii. The…

By TERRY TANG Associated Press Historically, Asian Americans have been stereotyped as more brains than brawn or “foreigners” when it comes to…

By FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A new IRS inspector general report says the agency continued to give 19 contractors access to…

By The Associated Press Russian President Vladimir Putin sat down in the Kremlin for an interview with former Fox News host Tucker Carlson. For two…

By JACQUES BILLEAUD Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Former Arizona Corrections Director Charles Ryan has been sentenced to probation for his…

By JIM MUSTIAN Associated Press Louisiana prosecutors have quietly dismissed charges against state police troopers who were recorded beating a Black…

By JIM VERTUNO Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas A&M University will close its 20-year-old campus in Qatar by 2028. University board…

By CLIFF BRUNT AP Sports Writer Sherrone Moore joined a rare group of Black coaches given the opportunity to run elite programs when Michigan hired…

By BEN FINLEY Associated Press NORFOLK, Va. (AP) — Toby Keith’s songs accomplished, for some, what great art is intended to: They sustained…

ROME (AP) — A Rome court has ordered that the man convicted in the 2007 murder of British student Meredith Kercher and freed three years ago be…

By RONALD BLUM AP Baseball Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Former New York Mets general manager Billy Eppler was suspended through the 2024 World Series on…

By SETH BORENSTEIN AP Science Writer An abrupt shutdown of Atlantic Ocean currents that could put large parts of Europe in a deep freeze is looking a…

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — A drug possession charge against South Florida rapper Kodak Black was dismissed two months after an arrest, though a…

By ANGELA CHARLTON Associated Press PARIS (AP) — Robert Badinter, who spearheaded the drive to abolish France’s death penalty, has died. He also…

By MARYCLAIRE DALE and MARK SCOLFORO Associated Press PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Investigators looking into a fire outside Philadelphia that left six…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris is slamming the special counsel’s report into President Joe Biden’s mishandling of…

Associated Press JASPER, Ala. (AP) — A radio station manager says the theft of its giant tower has silenced what used to be the voice of a small…

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — The resignation of a Republican lawmaker in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives has put the balance of power back to…

By JON GAMBRELL AND PHIL HOLM Associated Press Israel has identified the southern Gaza city of Rafah as the next target in its military offensive…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Serbia’s president has accused Kosovo’s government at a heated U.N. meeting of…

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Authorities have exhumed the body of the wife of a famed Tennessee sheriff more than a half-century after she was fatally…

By WILL WEISSERT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Democratic National Committee has filed a complaint with the Federal Elections Commission,…

By JONEL ALECCIA AP Health Writer More foods are being recalled in the wake of a deadly outbreak of listeria food poisoning. They include things that…

By SARAH RANKIN Associated Press RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Virginia’s part-time Legislature moves at a quick clip. And its lawmakers expect the same…

By ADRIAN SAINZ Associated Press MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — A judge has ruled that jurors in the trial of two men charged with killing Young Dolph will…

By LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Denis Villeneuve doesn’t feel like he came back to Arrakis for “Dune: Part Two.” In his…

LONDON (AP) — Police say the suspect in a London chemical attack that left a woman hospitalized with life-changing injuries and injured her two…

By DAN GELSTON AP Sports Writer PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Taylor Swift got her singing career started by performing the national anthem at sporting…

FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — German chemical company BASF says it’s speeding up the sale of stakes in two joint ventures in China after its…

By JEFFREY COLLINS Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A former Catholic priest in South Carolina has been sentenced to nearly 22 years in…

By BRIAN WITTE Associated Press ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — Former Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan says he’s running for U.S. Senate. Hogan’s…

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — A second man has pleaded guilty to federal charges in connection with threats and vandalism targeting public radio journalists…

By MIKE STOBBE AP Medical Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Flu is hanging on in the U.S., intensifying in some areas of the country after weeks of an…

By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer NEW YORK (AP) — It wasn’t until 1983 that the first African American, Guion Bluford, reached space. But two decades…

By MOLLY QUELL Associated Press THE HAGUE (AP) — A former prime minister of the Netherlands has died by euthanasia “hand in hand” together with…

By MARK SCOLFORO Associated Press An Ohio city is dropping criminal charges against a pastor over his around-the-clock ministry to the homeless and…

By JULIA FRANKEL Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — The director of the main U.N. aid agency for Palestinians says Israeli restrictions are…

By JAN-YVES KAMALE Associated Press KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — Congolese authorities say at least 18 people were killed Friday when the bus they were…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — A gunman has killed an activist who led a group of volunteers searching for some of Mexico’s more than 100,000 missing…

CHICAGO (AP) — Authorities say an overnight fire caused extensive damage to an iconic Chicago restaurant that’s known for its breakfasts and…