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MADRID (AP) — Spanish police say that two officers have been killed when a speedboat suspected of belonging to drug smugglers smashed into their…

By JUSTIN SPIKE Associated Press BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Hundreds of antifascist activists have gathered in Hungary’s capital to oppose an…

By The Associated Press Super Bowl 58 in Las Vegas on Sunday is shaping up to be quite a doozy. The Kansas City Chiefs will try to become…

By JUSTIN SPIKE Associated Press BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Hungary’s conservative president has resigned amid public outcry over a pardon she…

By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Mary J. Blige, Mariah Carey, Cher, Lenny Kravitz, the late Sinéad O’Connor and heavy…

LATTINGTOWN, N.Y. (AP) — The wife and daughter of John Gotti Jr., the namesake son of notorious New York mob boss John “Dapper Don” Gotti, are…

By BERT WILKINSON Associated Press GEORGETOWN, Guyana (AP) — Guyana’s government says it has satellite imagery evidence from friendly western…

BAKER, Calif. (AP) — Authorities say a helicopter carrying six people has crashed near a small town in southern California’s Mojave Desert.…

By CORA LEWIS Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A strong performance in financial markets, particularly an outsize gain for the stock market in…

By CIARÁN FAHEY AP Sports Writer ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast (AP) — Sébastien Haller could lead Ivory Coast to the Africa Cup of Nations title one year…

By BRIAN P. D. HANNON Associated Press U.S. Sen. Chris Coons and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz were seeing double when they met in Washington, D.C.,…

By LAURAN NEERGAARD AP Medical Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Any parent who’s ever called one of their children by the other’s name — or even the…

NAPLES, Fla. (AP) — Federal authorities have launched an investigation to determine why a private jet tried to make an emergency landing on a…

By JAMES ROBSON AP Soccer Writer DOHA, Qatar (AP) — The enduring image of the 2022 World Cup was Lionel Messi holding aloft soccer’s biggest…

BERLIN (AP) — Swiss police say three Dutch citizens have been found dead in western Switzerland after an apparent hiking accident. Police said in a…

By CHRISTOPHER BODEEN Associated Press TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — With fireworks, feasts and red envelopes stuffed with cash for the kids, numerous…

By BALINT SZLANKO Associated Press Violence has continued this week in the Gaza Strip as well as across the broader Middle East. The U.S.…

By JONEL ALECCIA AP Health Writer There’ll be lots of parties across the country for this weekend’s Super Bowl between the San Francisco…

By WAYNE PARRY Associated Press ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — Here are some basics on how betting on the Super Bowl works. The point spread is the…

By EDNA TARIGAN Associated Press JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — The three candidates in Indonesia’s presidential election have held their final…

ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan has hit back at criticism over the conduct of its parliamentary elections, which were held amid sporadic militant attacks…

By RIAZAT BUTT LAHORE, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistan held parliamentary election l ast Thursday, with 44 parties fighting for a share of 266 seats in…

By FOSTER KLUG Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Will she make it? Taylor Swift’s last song will still be ringing in the ears of thousands of…

By NAJIB JOBAIN and SAMY MAGDY Associated Press RAFAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — A hospital official and AP journalists say Israeli airstrikes have killed…

By SAMYA KULLAB Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — A Russian drone strike on Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second largest city, killed at least seven…

By DAVID BILLER Associated Press RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Behemoth sound trucks known as electric trios are a fixture of Brazil’s Carnival…

By NINIEK KARMINI Associated Press JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — As the world’s third-largest democracy prepares for national elections on…

By LEANNE ITALIE AP Lifestyles Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Valentine’s Day is one of those holidays that haters love to hate. It feels forced,…

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…