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NEW YORK (AP) — “The Girl on the Train” author Paula Hawkins has a new thriller out this fall, and will release it through a new publisher.…

By NINIEK KARMINI Associated Press JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Separatist rebels in Indonesia’s restive Papua region have expressed their readiness…

By JOSH JACQUOT Edmunds Maximizing your car’s trade-in value can add thousands to the bottom line in a new-car transaction. We share tips that will…

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Malaysia says the Thai government and Muslim separatist rebels in southern Thailand have agreed in principle to a…

By RIO YAMAT Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — Las Vegas proposed to the NFL in December 2021. “Let’s just marry these brands, and let’s…

TOKYO (AP) — Japanese officials say a stray dog attacked 11 people, most of them children playing in a park, causing minor injuries. Fire…

By MAE ANDERSON and WYATTE GRANTHAM-PHILIPS AP Business Writers NEW YORK (AP) — If you watch the Super Bowl for the commercials, you no longer have…

MOSCOW (AP) — The upper house of Russia’s parliament has endorsed a bill that would allow authorities to confiscate money, valuables and other…

PARIS (AP) — France is paying tribute Wednesday to French victims of Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack, in a national ceremony led by President Emmanuel…

By The Associated Press The U.N.’s World Food Program says it is aiming aims to reach up to 3 million Ethiopians affected by climate change and…

By JOSH BOAK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration is making plans to name a top White House aide as the director of the…

By JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press GENEVA (AP) — The U.N. humanitarian aid and refugee agencies are appealing for $4.1 billion in international…

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Swedish officials say they have decided to close their investigation into the September 2022 explosions on the Nord…

BERLIN (AP) — Ground staff for Lufthansa have walked off the job at five major German airports, causing the airline to cancel hundreds of flights.…

By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer BANGKOK (AP) — Chinese and U.S. officials have met in Beijing for talks on tough issues dividing the two…

By LORNE COOK Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — The U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees in Gaza is teetering on the brink of financial collapse.…

By ILLIA NOVIKOV Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Authorities say Russia has fired cruise and ballistic missiles and Shahed-type drones at…

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — A lawyer for Malaysia’s ex-Prime Minister Najib Razak says he is disapppinted he wasn’t given a full royal pardon…

By RIAZAT BUTT Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan’s 127 million voters get to elect a new parliament on Thursday. The elections are…

QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) — A bomb exploded at an election office of an independent candidate in southwest Pakistan on Wednesday, the day before…

By MATTHEW LEE, WAFAA SHURAFA and SAMY MAGDY Associated Press TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken was set to meet…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japanese officials say a pod of killer whales that was trapped in drift ice off the northern main…

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Asian shares were mostly higher Wednesday, tracking gains on Wall Street, although Tokyo’s…

By HALLIE GOLDEN Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) — Adult dancers in Washington state are fighting for statewide worker protections that advocates say…

MANILA, Philippines (AP) — A landslide has struck buses and houses in a gold-mining village in the southern Philippines and a search is underway…

By STEFANIE DAZIO and JULIE WATSON Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — A storm that parked itself over Southern California for days, unleashing…

By DAVID HAMILTON AP Technology Writer SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — When it comes to dealing with a Florida college student who uses public data and social…

By ROBERT YOON Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden has easily won Tuesday’s Democratic presidential primary in Nevada, his…

By ROBERT YOON Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The top vote-getter in Tuesday’s Republican presidential primary in Nevada wasn’t former U.N.…

By JESSE BEDAYN and MICHAEL CASEY Associated Press/Report for America DENVER (AP) — A new Harvard University study found that half of U.S. renters…

By WAFAA SHURAFA and SAMY MAGDY Associated Press DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Zainab al-Zein was forced to make a desperate decision: Feed her…

By BIANCA VÁZQUEZ TONESS AP Education Writer Trenace Dorsey-Hollins’ 5-year-old daughter was sick a lot last year. Dorsey-Hollins followed school…

BANGKOK (AP) — Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Manet has arrived in Thailand’s capital on his first official visit since becoming his country’s…

By LAURIE KELLMAN Associated Press LONDON (AP) — In British history, the secrecy of the monarch’s health has always reigned supreme. The…

By DAVID McHUGH and MATTHEW DALY Associated Press FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — Missiles and drones are flying in the Red Sea, disrupting one of the…

By GEOFF MULVIHILL and KIMBERLEE KRUESI Associated Press The Florida Supreme Court is hearing arguments Wednesday on whether a ballot measure to…

By MARK SHERMAN and NICHOLAS RICCARDI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court has scheduled a special session to hear arguments over…

By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER and ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — All eyes are on the Supreme Court in Donald Trump’s federal 2020…

By DEE-ANN DURBIN AP Business Writer From Flamin’ Hot Cheetos to Sweet Heat Starburst, America’s snacks are getting spicier. Now, Coca-Cola wants…

OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — A suburban Seattle gun shop and its former owner will pay $3 million for selling high-capacity ammunition magazines despite a…

By ALBERT AJI and KAREEM CHEHAYEB Associated Press DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Syria’s military says Israeli airstrikes over the central city of…

By STEVE PEOPLES and BRIAN SLODYSKO Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Republican National Committee Chair Ronna McDaniel has discussed the…

By SIBI ARASU Associated Press BENGALURU, India (AP) — For years, renewable projects in India have been growing steadily — from small-town…

LANCASTER, Calif. (AP) — Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies say they shot and killed a man armed with two machetes after he charged at…

By MARK THIESSEN Associated Press ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — A man accused of murdering two Alaska Native women recorded images of both of his…

By MICHAEL LIEDTKE AP Technology Writer General Motors’ troubled robotaxi service Cruise has endured a public lashing from a California judge. The…

By TOM ODULA Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Marauding hyenas have killed a man and wounded two people near a university outside the Kenyan…

By MICHAEL CASEY Associated Press CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) — Harvard University’s Hasty Pudding Theatricals has honored Annette Bening as its 2024…

By JEFF AMY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia senators have passed a bill to remove barcodes from ballots. The measure would mandate that…

By SAMANTHA HENDRICKSON Associated Press/Report For America COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A former Ohio sheriff’s deputy testified in a murder trial…

By JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press Rap legend Jam Master Jay lay, mortally wounded, on his studio floor. One of his aides was in pain from a gunshot…

By AIDA SULTANOVA Associated Press BAKU, Azerbaijan (AP) — Azerbaijanis are voting Wednesday in an election almost certain to see incumbent…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — More than 380 mudslides. Nearly half of downtown Los Angeles’ yearly rainfall in just two days. A wind gust of 102 mph…

By DAVE COLLINS Associated Press A witness has testified that the estranged husband of Connecticut mother-of-five Jennifer Dulos pressured him to get…

By JULIA FRANKEL Associated Press RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — Israeli forces have arrested a 46-year-old American-Palestinian woman in the West…

By KEVIN FREKING Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A bill to provide Israel with more military aid has gone down in defeat in the House. The vote…

By KEN RITTER Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — A teachers’ union political group has filed a second legal effort to block taxpayer funds from…

By MARGERY A. BECK Associated Press A bill that would allow teachers and other staff in schools to be armed in the hopes of deterring school…

By MICHAEL GOLDBERG Associated Press/Report for America JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The mother of a 16-year-old who died in a workplace accident at a…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Iraq’s government is focused on avoiding a domestic or regional spillover of the…

By SEAN MURPHY Associated Press OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A couple of major earthquakes in Oklahoma in recent weeks have raised concerns after years of…

By JOE REEDY AP Sports Writer ESPN, Fox and Warner Bros. Discovery announced plans on Tuesday to launch a sports streaming platform in the fall that…

GREENBELT, Md. (AP) — A former top prosecutor for the city of Baltimore has been convicted on one count of mortgage fraud for lying on a loan…

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Portland Audubon has changed its name to the “Bird Alliance of Oregon,” in the latest example of a local chapter to…

By JOEY CAPPELLETTI Associated Press LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Two Democratic lawmakers have introduced a resolution condemning an op-ed piece that…

By JOHN ANTCZAK Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — When rainstorms like this week’s powerful atmospheric river hit California, the earth begins…

MILWAUKEE (AP) — A judge has waived to adult court a 16-year-old boy charged in a shooting after a Juneteenth celebration last year that left six…

By JOHN RABY Associated Press CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A Virginia bank that is seeking to recover more longstanding unpaid business loans to the…

By TARA COPP Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon believes it has identified the mechanical failure in an Osprey aircraft that led to a…

By ANDREW DALTON AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Actor Gina Carano has sued Lucasfilm and its parent The Walt Disney Co. over her 2021…

By BRUCE SCHREINER Associated Press FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Fifteen years ago, bourbon barons poured whiskey out on the Kentucky Capitol steps to…

By COLLEEN BARRY Associated Press MILAN (AP) — Authorities in northern Italy have culled a brown bear they deemed dangerous to humans, drawing…

By DAVID SHARP Associated Press The Postal Service says a mix of environmental initiatives and cost-cutting business practices are going to reduce…

By WILL WEISSERT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is teaming up with predecessors Barack Obama and Bill Clinton next month…

By JONEL ALECCIA AP Health Writer Officials in Ecuador have named a likely source of contaminated ground cinnamon used in fruit pouches tied more…

By RUSS BYNUM Associated Press SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — All of Georgia’s members of Congress have signed a letter that supports studying another…

By KIMBERLEE KRUESI Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A Tennessee legislative staffer has been placed on leave after Democratic state Rep.…

By MEAD GRUVER Associated Press A man accused of faking his own death and fleeing the U.S. to avoid rape charges continued to deny he is the man…

By ELLEN KNICKMEYER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Senators have confirmed a veteran of U.S.-Asian engagement and security as the State…

By MARIA SHERMAN AP Music Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — R&B icon Usher has announced a new North American tour. After two years of his popular Las…

By JEFFREY COLLINS Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Football coaches from South Carolina’s three major school have joined together at…

WAILUKU, Hawaii (AP) — Captains of a Hawaii high school football team whose town was destroyed by a deadly wildfire are going to Super Bowl in Las…

By JEFF AMY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — A bill to require cash bail for 30 additional crimes is headed to Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp’s desk…

By DEE-ANN DURBIN AP Business Writer Red Solo cups – a staple of barbecues and beer pong – are usually synonymous with good times. But on…