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By JIWON SONG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korean police say a governing party lawmaker is being treated at a Seoul hospital…

By The Associated Press Investigators searching the site where a Russian military transport plane crashed in a border region near Ukraine reportedly…

NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — An official says one of the five children who were hospitalized in Cyprus after being rescued from a rickety boat along with…

By MARTHA BELLISLE Associated Press U.S. Biathlon national champion Joanne Reid was sexually harassed and abused for years by a ski-wax technician…

By KEIRAN SMITH Associated Press SYDNEY (AP) — On Friday, the tiny Pacific island nation of Tuvalu heads to the polls in an election that’s being…

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Asian shares were mostly higher on Thursday, with Chinese stocks extending gains after Beijing…

By CHRISTOPHER BODEEN Associated Press TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — A bipartisan delegation from the United States Congress is reaffirming the…

TOKYO (AP) — Weather officials in Japan predicted more heavy snow Thursday, a day after nearly 800 vehicles were trapped for fours on an expressway…

By JULIA FRANKEL Associated Press AL-MAZRA’A ASH-SHARQIYA, West Bank (AP) — The fatal shooting of an American-Palestinian teen driving a pickup…

By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer BANGKOK (AP) — China’s central bank has announced new rules meant to expand access to commercial bank…

By KIM CHANDLER Associated Press MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama will attempt to put an inmate to death with nitrogen gas on Thursday night, a…

By JENNIFER PELTZ and LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Former President Donald Trump could return to a New York courtroom Thursday…

By LINDSAY WHITEHURST and MICHAEL KUNZELMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A Trump White House official convicted of contempt of Congress for…

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Two monuments symbolizing Australia’s colonial past have been damaged by protesters ahead of an increasingly…

By PATRICK WHITTLE Associated Press AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — A commission investigating a mass shooting that killed 18 people in Maine last year is…

By GABE STERN Associated Press/Report for America RENO, Nev. (AP) — Nevada’s Republican delegates are essentially locked in for Donald Trump…

By TOM ODULA Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — A rhinoceros is pregnant through embryo transfer in the first successful use of a method that…

By DAVID McHUGH AP Business Writer FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — The European Central Bank will likely keep interest rates unchanged Thursday. Its…

By WAYNE PARRY Associated Press NORTH WILDWOOD, N.J. (AP) — In the age-old battle of man versus nature, nature usually wins. It sure seems to be…

By MICHAEL R. BLOOD AP Political Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Long-suffering California Republicans will see something on the March ballot that might…

By PAUL WISEMAN AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The government is expected Thursday to report that the U.S. gross domestic product — the…

FORT SMITH, Northwest Territories (AP) — Canadian authorities say the death toll from a small plane crash in Canada’s Northwest Territories…

By KANIS LEUNG Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong’s top court has restored a prominent detained activist’s conviction over a…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — A man has been convicted of murder and other crimes for carrying out the arson attack on an anime…

MONMOUTH JUNCTION, N.J. (AP) — Authorities in New Jersey say law enforcement officers have killed a man in a shootout while trying to arrest him on…

BRISBANE, Australia (AP) — Residents have begun battening down homes and businesses with Tropical Cyclone Kirrily forecast to cross the Australian…

By LEAH WILLINGHAM Associated Press CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — West Virginia’s Republican-dominated Legislature is pushing forward a slate of…

SAN JOSE, Costa Rica (AP) — Costa Rica’s Supreme Court of Justice says it was no longer obligatory to place the paternal surname before the…

By GENE JOHNSON Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) — Seattle has agreed to pay $10 million to 50 demonstrators who sued over the police department’s…

DENVER (AP) — A motorcyclist who authorities say posted a video of himself on YouTube speeding from Colorado Springs to the Denver metro area on…

By FRANK BAJAK AP Technology Writer BOSTON (AP) — Hewlett Packard Enterprise says suspected state-backed Russian hackers broke into its email…

By KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea said Thursday it conducted its first flight test of a new cruise missile,…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Russia’s top diplomat is accusing the United States, South Korea and Japan of…

By DAVID SHARP Associated Press PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Maine’s top court is declining to hear an appeal over former President Donald…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — The bullet-ridden bodies of two detectives have been found on the outskirts of Taxco, a colonial town in central Mexico that…

By JAMES POLLARD Associated Press/Report for America COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — The Republican governor of South Carolina has had harsh words for labor…

OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — In-N-Out Burger will close its only restaurant in Oakland, California, because of a wave of car break-ins, property damage,…

By JOE REEDY and ROB MAADDI and LARRY LAGE AP Sports Writers COSTA MESA, Calif. (AP) — Jim Harbaugh will be the head coach of the Los Angeles…

By JOEY CAPPELLETTI Associated Press LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer will call on lawmakers to pass increased investments in…

By ELLEN KNICKMEYER Associated Press FORT MEADE, Md. (AP) — Relatives of some of the more than 200 people killed in 2002 bombings on the resort…

By MATTHEW BROWN Associated Press BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — A Montana felon previously convicted of killing eagles to sell their parts on the black…

By MEG KINNARD Associated Press NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — Despite losing both Iowa and New Hampshire to Donald Trump,Nikki Haley is…

By DEVI SHASTRI AP Health Writer MILWAUKEE (AP) — A new estimate shows hearing loss affects approximately 37.9 million Americans and is more common…

By STEVE KARNOWSKI and TRISHA AHMED Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A Minnesota state trooper has been charged with murder in the shooting of…

By LAURA UNGAR AP Science Writer Gene therapy has allowed several children born with inherited deafness to hear. A small study published Wednesday…

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Prosecutors want to dismiss death penalty charges against a man charged with fatally shooting an Indianapolis police officer in…

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — The board that oversees Florida’s 12 public universities has voted to ban using state or federal dollars for diversity…

By JUAN A. LOZANO Associated Press ANAHUAC, Texas (AP) — A judge has ordered that a trial be held next month to determine whether a Black high…

JOLIET, Ill. (AP) — Authorities say seven family members who were slain in a Chicago suburb were the mother, brother, three sisters, aunt and uncle…

By VALERIE GONZALEZ Associated Press McALLEN, Texas (AP) — The Biden administration is renewing demands for Texas to give Border Patrol access to a…

By ADRIAN SAINZ Associated Press MASON, Tenn. (AP) — Water services have been restored to the majority of residents in the rural Tennessee town of…

By LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer PARK CITY, Utah (AP) — “Who’s that girl?” has been a common refrain from Sundance Film Festival goers walking…

By TIA GOLDENBERG Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — A 72-year-old Israeli woman held captive by Hamas militants for nearly 50 days has told an…

By BEATRICE DUPUY Associated Press A helicopter team rescued a woman Tuesday morning who was trapped for almost 15 hours atop her overturned pickup…

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — An Alaska fishing charter has paid $900,000 in a settlement with the federal government which alleged one of their guides…

By TOM KRISHER AP Auto Writer DETROIT (AP) — Tesla’s net income more than doubled last quarter due to a one-time tax benefit, even as electric…

By KEN SWEET AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The Biden administration has proposed banning another type of bank “junk fee,” targeting fees…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Congress is getting involved in examining safety at Boeing after a panel blew off a Boeing 737 Max 9 jetliner in midflight. Sen.…

By MATTHEW BARAKAT Associated Press FALLS CHURCH, Va. (AP) — Legislation that would allow a referendum on a northern Virginia casino has cleared a…

By JOHN WAWROW AP Sports Writer ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. (AP) — Stray cats are benefitting from Buffalo Bills kicker Tyler Bass’ field-goal attempt…

CHIPPEWA FALLS, Wis. (AP) — A judge has ruled the case of a 15-year-old Wisconsin boy accused of killing a 10-year-old girl after luring her into…

By MATTHEW DALY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden has vetoed a Republican measure that would have blocked a White House waiver…

By DAVID BAUDER AP Media Writer NEW YORK (AP) — News executives are certainly familiar with Donald Trump as he seeks his third straight Republican…

By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer NEW YORK (AP) — When the Academy Awards passed over Greta Gerwig and Margot Robbie for best director and best actress…

By SUMMER BALLENTINE Associated Press JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Missouri’s Republican Gov. Mike Parson is reflecting on his past wins in his…

NEW YORK (AP) — Court documents say a man charged with stalking after his arrest near singer Taylor Swift’s Manhattan townhouse had been spotted…

By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A new lawsuit says opening a spillway as a flood-control measure in 2019 sent…

By GABE STERN Associated Press/Report for America RENO, Nev. (AP) — A Nevada judge has approved a petition by abortion access advocates as eligible…

By JEFFREY COLLINS Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — The South Carolina Senate has started debate on whether anyone who can legally own a gun…

By ADRIANA MORGA Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Recent mass layoffs from technology and media companies, including eBay, Riot Games and the Los…

By JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — A month before the start of a trial against Honolulu’s former top prosecutor for…

By NICHOLAS RICCARDI and ALI SWENSON Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — GOP presidential frontrunner Donald Trump generally refrains from claiming…

By JONATHAN J. COOPER Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Arizona Republican Party Chairman Jeff DeWit has resigned after he could be heard in a leaked…

By MANUEL VALDES and HALLIE GOLDEN Associated Press OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — The Washington state attorney general has announced a $149.5 million…

By RUSS BYNUM Associated Press SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — The company seeking permits to mine minerals just outside the Okefenokee Swamp’s vast…

By FARAI MUTSAKA Associated Press HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — A Zimbabwean opposition figure who has spent close to 600 days in pretrial detention has…

By KIM CHANDLER Associated Press MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — An Alabama inmate scheduled to be the first person in the United States to be put to death…

By SAMANTHA HENDRICKSON Associated Press/Report for America COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The Republican-dominated Ohio Senate has voted to override GOP…

By JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A judge has refused to toss out Fox News’ claims that voting technology company Smartmatic is…

By MICHAEL CASEY Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — Charles Fried, a former U.S. solicitor general and conservative legal scholar who taught at Harvard…

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A liberal journalist who blogs about Iowa politics has been granted press credentials for the Iowa House of…

By WAYNE PARRY Associated Press ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — Here’s a rare case of a casino losing. Atlantic City’s Ocean Casino Resort…

By COLLEEN LONG Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden have extended an invitation to attend the…

Jesse Bedayn Associated Press/Report for America DENVER (AP) — Republican state Rep. Mike Lynch announced he’s stepping down as minority leader…

ATLANTA (AP) — Authorities say a transit officer shot a man outside a downtown Atlanta commuter station after he stabbed two people and attacked…