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By KIRSTEN GRIESHABER Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Chancellor Olaf Scholz has called on all citizens to defend Germany’s democracy and…

By The Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Officials in Ukraine say Russia has provided no credible evidence to back its claims that their own…

SYDNEY (AP) — Prime Minister Kausea Natano has reportedly lost his seat in parliament in elections on the tiny Pacific island nation of Tuvalu. The…

By JIM GOMEZ Associated Press MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Philippine army says troops killed nine suspected Muslim militants in the volatile south,…

By PETER SMITH Associated Press Devotees of St. Brigid plan to celebrate her Sunday with the scheduled return of a relic associated with the…

By DÁNICA COTO and EVENS SANON Associated Press PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — People across Haiti are wondering what awaits them after a court in…

By ALON BERNSTEIN and JULIA FRANKEL Associated Press ASHKELON, Israel (AP) — Holocaust survivor Gad Partok never thought he’d live to see…

By TERRY CHEA Associated Press PETALUMA, Calif. (AP) — A year after the bird flu led to record egg prices and widespread shortages, the disease…

By DAVID KLEPPER and HUIZHONG WU Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The rumors about vote fraud started swirling as the ballots in Taiwan’s…

By MEG KINNARD and ZEKE MILLER Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Joe Biden doesn’t need to worry about his prospects in South Carolina’s…

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — A group of survivors of Nazi death camps will mark the 79th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp…

MIAMI (AP) — The world’s largest cruise ship is set to begin its maiden voyage from the Port of Miami. Royal Caribbean’s Icon of the Seas is…

By PHILIP MARCELO Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — New York City’s American Museum of Natural History is closing two halls featuring Native…

TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Taiwan’s defense ministry says China sent more than 30 warplanes and a group of navy ships toward the island in a…

By TOM ODULA Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Kenya’s high court has blocked the U.N.-backed deployment of Kenyan police officers to Haiti…

STAMFORD, Conn. (AP) — Wrestling icon Vince McMahon has resigned from WWE’s parent company. Friday’s resignation occurred the day after a…

TACOMA, Wash. (AP) — A Washington state man who made over 20 “swatting” calls around the country and in Canada, prompting emergency responses…

By MATTHEW LEE AP Diplomatic Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration has approved the sale of F-16 fighters jets to Turkey following the…

By COLLEEN SLEVIN Associated Press DENVER (AP) — A prosecutor says an American founder of a Haitian orphanage forced four boys who lived in the…

By KIM CHANDLER Associated Press ATMORE, Ala. (AP) — Witnesses watched through a window at an Alabama prison as Kenneth Eugene Smith became the…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — At first it sounds like a typical case of bad behavior aboard airplanes. The Mexico City International Airport acknowledged in a…

WAUKESHA, Wis. (AP) — One of the two Wisconsin women accused of stabbing a classmate in 2014 to please internet horror character Slender Man is…

OLYMPIC VALLEY, Calif. (AP) — An alleged carjacking suspect was fatally shot by police at a California ski resort near Lake Tahoe. The shooting…

By MARGERY A. BECK Associated Press LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Nebraska is looking to follow in the footsteps of Kentucky in implementing a program that…

LAHAINA, Hawaii (AP) — Hawaii officials have identified the last of the 100 known victims of the wildfire that destroyed Lahaina in August.…

By JOHN O’CONNOR AP Political Writer SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Illinois officials have awarded a prison medical care contract to the same…

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A Kansas town is in uproar after a prized Jackie Robinson statue was stolen from a public park. Wichita police on Friday were…

By JENNA FRYER AP Auto Racing Writer DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Of course Brad Pitt is at the Rolex 24 at Daytona, the most prestigious endurance…

By JACK DURA Associated Press BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — Newly released investigative reports into last year’s deadly ambush of Fargo police…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A federal jury in Los Angeles has found a Russian man who flew on a plane from Denmark to Los Angeles in November without a…

LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Navy is starting to enlist individuals who didn’t graduate from high school or get a…

By ANTHONY IZAGUIRRE Associated Press ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — The U.S. Justice Department has reached a settlement with the state of New York to…

WASHINGTON (AP) — ABC’s “This Week” — Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C.; Gov. Gavin Newsom, D-Calif.; Gen. CQ Brown, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of…

By LISA RATHKE Associated Press MIDDLESEX, Vt. (AP) — Since catastrophic flooding hit Vermont in July and waterlogged crops, some farmers are…

DAYTON, Ohio (AP) — Authorities say an inmate being treated at a hospital in Ohio overpowered a sheriff’s deputy who was guarding him and took…

By MORGAN LEE Associated Press SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — Members of New Mexico’s legislature are the only state lawmakers in the country who aren’t…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A former Los Angeles City Council member has been sentenced to 13 years in prison for a pay-to-play bribery scandal involving…

By ANDREW DALTON AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — A jury has found that celebrity tattoo artist Kat Von D did not violate a…

By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN and LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A prominent defense attorney has pleaded guilty to leaking grand…

ATLANTA (AP) — A once-prominent Atlanta attorney who fatally shot his wife in 2016 as they rode in an SUV has pleaded guilty to a charge of…

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuela’s highest court has upheld a ban on running for office that the socialist-led government placed on Maria…

By MATTHEW DALY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration said Friday it is delaying consideration of new natural gas export…

ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast (AP) — The Egyptian Football Association has sacrificed a cow in a bid to bring the national team better fortune at the Africa…

By LEAH WILLINGHAM Associated Press CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A bill that would decriminalize all strips used to test drugs for deadly substances…

RIFLE, Colo. (AP) — Republican U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert’s ex-husband, Jayson Boebert, has been charged with assault and other counts in…

By NOAH TRISTER AP Sports Writer BALTIMORE (AP) — When the Ravens take on the Kansas City Chiefs on Sunday, Baltimore will be back in the spotlight…

By AMY BETH HANSON Associated Press Utah became the latest state to regulate bathroom access for transgender people when the state’s…

By ELLEN KNICKMEYER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A military panel at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba recommended 23 years in detention Friday for two…

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The Mississippi Supreme Court will not consider an appeal from a former Franciscan friar who was convicted in 2022 in the…

By WAYNE PARRY Associated Press ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — A judge has given a green light to a controversial plan to reduce the width of Atlantic…

NORTH BELLMORE, N.Y. (AP) — Authorities have seized about a hundred animals from a Long Island home packed with exotic species — including a…

By SEUNG MIN KIM The Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House is laying out a new set of guidelines to ensure it will be informed any…

By JOEY CAPPELLETI and WILL WEISSERT Associated Press DEARBORN, Mich. (AP) — President Joe Biden’s campaign manager has traveled to Michigan,…

By AAMER MADHANI, MATTHEW LEE and ZEKE MILLER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden has spoken with his Egyptian and Qatari…

By MEG KINNARD Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A super political action committee supporting President Joe Biden’s reelection is aiming to…

By JAVIER CÓRDOBA Associated Press SAN JOSE, Costa Rica (AP) — Many Costa Ricans are welcoming a ruling this week by the country’s Supreme…

NEW YORK (AP) — A preliminary report into a collision between two New York City subway trains earlier this year says that a worker guiding one of…

By KEVIN McGILL Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Closing arguments are underway in the manslaughter retrial of a man who fatally shot former New…

By JEFF AMY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia’s Senate is backing a plan to give the state’s appointed election board the power to…

NEW YORK (AP) — A scourge of pornographic deepfake images generated by artificial intelligence and sexualizing people without their consent has hit…

By WAYNE PARRY Associated Press New Jersey’s public transit agency is scrapping plans for a backup power plant that would have been fueled by…

By OMAR FARUK Associated Press MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — The president of Somalia’s breakaway region of Somaliland has said his government will…

By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer “In the Summers,” an affecting, years-spanning drama about a complicated parent-children relationship, nabbed the…

By MATTHEW BROWN Associated Press An 18th century British painting stolen by mobsters in 1969 has been returned more than a half-century later to the…

By ROB GILLIES Associated Press TORONTO (AP) — The lawyer for a Canadian man accused of selling lethal substances on the internet to people at risk…

LONDONDERRY, N.H. (AP) — Authorities say a small plane crashed in a neighborhood near the Manchester-Boston Regional Airport in New Hampshire…

ST. LOUIS (AP) — A jury has found a St. Louis rapper not guilty of murder after the 19-year-old claimed he was acting in self defense during a 2022…

By ED WHITE Associated Press PONTIAC, Mich. (AP) — Prosecutors are portraying the mother of a Michigan school shooter as an aloof parent more…

By JEFF AMY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia’s state Senate is creating a special committee to investigate Fulton County District Attorney…

TIMONIUM, Md. (AP) — Maryland Rep. C.A. Dutch Ruppersberger says he won’t seek a 12th term in Congress. The 77-year-old Democrat has represented…

By MENELAOS HADJICOSTIS Associated Press NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — The government of ethnically split Cyprus has promised breakaway Turkish Cypriots a…

ST. LOUIS (AP) — A St. Louis man who gained notoriety for pointing a gun at social justice demonstrators as they marched past his home is trying to…

By STEPHEN GROVES Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — House Speaker Mike Johnson is taking a strong stand against a bipartisan Senate deal to pair…

By STEVE REED AP Sports Writer CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — The National Football League has urged teams for years to hire more minority head coaches.…

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — A New Hampshire veteran has admitted to faking his need for a wheelchair for 20 years to claim more than $660,000 in benefits…

By The Associated Press Russian President Vladimir Putin is pledging to make public the findings of Moscow’s investigation into the crash of a…

By FARNOUSH AMIRI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A bipartisan group of lawmakers is raising concerns over a series of recent U.S. military…

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The United Nations’ top court issued a series of orders to Israel to protect Palestinians in Gaza to prevent…

By RYAN J. FOLEY Associated Press IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — Iowa’s Republican governor announced in June 2022 that the state would use $75…

NEW YORK (AP) — A New York City woman has been charged with concealing a corpse after officers discovered a man’s head and body parts in her…

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A man who authorities say picked up a teenager awaiting trial in a homicide case after the youth escaped outside a Philadelphia…