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By The Associated Press Russia under President Vladimir Putin has been closing in on those who challenge the Kremlin. Protesters and activists have…

ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — Major League Baseball will play its 2025 All-Star Game in Atlanta, four years after moving the game from Truist Park to…

By SONIA PÉREZ D. Associated Press GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — Guatemalan prosecutors say they will seek to strip President-elect Bernardo Arévalo and…

By ADRIAN SAINZ Associated Press MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Lawyers for Memphis Grizzlies guard Ja Morant are allowed to argue that he was acting in…

By MICHAEL GOLDBERG Associated Press/Report for America JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A prominent civil rights lawyer says Mississippi authorities buried a…

By LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A man who pleaded guilty to assaulting Democratic Rep. Angie Craig of Minnesota in the…

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Puerto Rico’s government has signed a multimillion-dollar contract with a Texas-based company to build a marina for…

SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) — Thousands of Bulgarian football supporters have taken to the streets of the capital, Sofia, in protest over the management…

By HALELUYA HADERO AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Want to buy a car on Amazon? Well, now you might get your chance. The e-commerce giant will…

By ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Republican chairman of the House Intelligence Committee is calling for the renewal of a key…

LONDON (AP) — The World Health Organization and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention say measles deaths globally spiked by more than…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — An all-new Subaru Forester, a Lucid electric SUV, and a revamped Toyota Camry are among the new automobiles that will be on…

HOUSTON (AP) — Authorities say they arrested a 25-year-old man near Houston in the fatal shooting of his aunt and her mother and the sexual assault…

By HOWARD FENDRICH AP Tennis Writer Rafael Nadal says he is sure he’ll be returning to competition after missing nearly all of 2023 with a hip…

By MAYSOON KHAN Associated Press/Report for America ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New Yorkers who’ve committed crimes in the past will get their…

LONDON (AP) — Five low-ranked tennis players — four from Mexico and one from Guatemala — have been suspended for corruption linked to a…

By WAYNE PARRY Associated Press ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — Investigators were trying Thursday to determine what touched off a fire on the Atlantic…

By FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Treasury has levied a new round of sanctions on firms and ships that used U.S.…

By MATTHEW PERRONE AP Health Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The Indian manufacturer of more than a number of eyedrops subject to a U.S. safety warning…

By MICHELLE CHAPMAN AP Business Writer The WWE is collaborating with the Big 12 Conference for their championship game next month, as the sports…

By YURAS KARMANAU Associated Press TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — A human rights activist in Belarus has gone on hunger strike in prison protesting…

By NATHAN GILLES Columbia Insight SHERWOOD, Ore. (AP) — Deep inside a forest in Oregon’s Willamette Valley stands a dead “Tree of Life.” Its…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — California authorities have arrested a man in connection with the death of a Jewish protester during demonstrations over the…

By JENNA FRYER AP Auto Racing Writer LAS VEGAS (AP) — Formula One has arrived in Las Vegas for a week of parties, concerts, celebrity-packed events…

AKRON, Ohio (AP) — An Ohio man accused of abducting and beating a woman while she was confined for four days in a residential garage last month has…

By SCOTT McFETRIDGE Associated Press ROSSTON, Texas (AP) — For generations, beef has been the most quintessential of American main courses, and a…

By SCOTT McFETRDIGE Associated Press ROSSTON, Texas (AP) — The cattle part as Meredith Ellis edges her small four-wheeler through the herd,…

By VICTORIA MILKO Associated Press If it still seems strange to think of fish growing on farms, it shouldn’t. Aquaculture has been the fastest…

By LAURA UNGAR AP Science Writer A familiar aroma wafted through the Believer Meats test kitchen earlier this year as Research and Development Chef…

By JOSH BOAK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States and 13 partners in the Indo-Pacific region are announcing a signed deal on supply…

By DAVID BAUDER AP Media Writer NEW YORK (AP) — A new report shows that the decline of local news outlets is accelerating despite efforts to help,…

By NINIEK KARMINI and EDNA TARIGAN Associated Press JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Southeast Asian defense ministers have expressed “profound…

WATERBURY, Vt. (AP) — Longtime NASCAR announcer and broadcaster Ken Squier has died. He was 88. Squier died Wednesday night in Waterbury, Vermont,…

By KEVIN FREKING Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The House Ethics panel says it has found “substantial evidence” of lawbreaking by…

By CHRISTINA LARSON AP Science Writer TEKOHAW, Brazil (AP) — Saving the remaining Amazon rainforest in Brazil will require ensuring that the 28…

By ANIRUDDHA GHOSAL, KRISTA LARSON and LAURA UNGAR Associated Press SUKHBAATAR, Mongolia (AP) — The half-crescent moon glowed in the predawn…

By MIKE CORDER Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The United Nations’ top court has ordered the Syrian government to “take all…

By STEPHEN HAWKINS and RONALD BLUM AP Baseball Writers ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — The Oakland Athletics’ move to Las Vegas was unanimously approved…

By DEE-ANN DURBIN and DAVID McHUGH AP Business Writers THORNTON, Colo. (AP) — Lars Obendorfer says he was “badly insulted” after he first began…

By DEE-ANN DURBIN and DAVID McHUGH AP Business Writers THORNTON, Colo. (AP) — Lars Obendorfer says he was “badly insulted” after he first began…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Britain’s interior minister says the U.K. government can revive its blocked plan to send…

By JARI TANNER Associated Press HELSINKI (AP) — Finland’s government says it will close four crossing points on its long border with Russia to…

BOSTON (AP) — Demonstrators seeking a ceasefire in Gaza are blocking traffic on the Boston University bridge during rush hour. The group chanted…

By MATT OTT AP Business Writer More Americans filed for jobless claims last week, but the labor market remains broadly healthy in the face of…

GIOVANNA DELL’ORTO Associated Press MIAMI (AP) — When the Rev. Silvio Báez finished his homily on a recent Sunday, applause broke out among the…

By FREIDA FRISARO Associated Press FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — A storm system that formed over the Florida Keys and dumped up to 9 inches of rain…

By KIM COOK Associated Press There’s one room in the home where a lot of holiday memories are made — the kitchen. For years, peak kitchen design…

BERLIN (AP) — Five people including the founder of the Blackwater security firm have gone on trial in Austria, accused of exporting two…

By DASHA LITVINOVA Associated Press TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — A Russian court on Thursday convicted an artist and musician for replacing supermarket…

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — It was the most awkward lie of the day for Rory McIlroy. The four-time major winner’s tee shot on the par-3…

LONDON (AP) — One year after Qatar hosted the men’s World Cup, the gas-rich emirate and soccer body FIFA have been urged by human rights group…

By ROBERT YOON Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Louisiana voters will return to the polls to decide runoff elections in which no candidate…

By MIKE CORDER Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The center-right lawmaker who could become a kingmaker in coalition talks after next…

By MOGOMOTSI MAGOME Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — South African President Cyril Ramaphosa says his country has filed a referral to the…

LONDON (AP) — TikTok and Meta are filing legal challenges against new European Union rules designed to counter the dominance of digital giants and…

By BEN WALKER AP Sports Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Terry R. Taylor, the first female sports editor at The Associated Press who ran the department from…

By MARIA CHENG AP Medical Writer LONDON (AP) — Britain’s medicines regulator has authorized the world’s first gene therapy treatment for sickle…

BY EMMANUEL IGUNZA Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Kenya’s parliament has approved the deployment of 1000 police officers to Haiti to…

LUXEMBOURG (AP) — Luxembourg’s Christian Democrats and free-trade liberals have announced a two-party center-right coalition that will run the…

By CIARÑAN GILES and JOSEPH WILSON Associated Press MADRID (AP) — Spain’s acting prime minister, Pedro Sánchez, is expected to be chosen by a…

By SAMUEL PETREQUIN Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Commission will continue the use of the controversial chemical herbicide…

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The airline Emirates says it will purchase 15 additional Airbus A350-900s worth…

By SARAH TETAUD Associated Press ANTANANARIVO, Madagascar (AP) — People in Madagascar are trickling to polling stations as voting opened in a…

By CHRISTOPHER BODEEN Associated Press TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Perhaps just shaking hands and sitting down together can be enough sometimes. At their…

By MARIA CHENG AP Medical Writer LONDON (AP) — A day after Palestinian authorities called for an evacuation of Gaza’s biggest hospital, Israeli…

BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s national railway operator is running a drastically reduced schedule after a union called a 20-hour strike aimed at…

By WASBIR HUSSAIN Associated Press GUWAHATI, India (AP) — Officials say more than half of the estimated 5,000 refugees who had fled the heavy…

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — British Foreign Secretary David Cameron has met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in his first overseas trip in his…

BERLIN (AP) — The German government says police have raided 54 locations across the country in an investigation of a Hamburg-based center suspected…

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — The Turkish Parliament’s foreign affairs committee is set to debate Sweden’s bid to join NATO, drawing the country closer…

By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer BANGKOK (AP) — Asian shares have retreated after Wall Street added a bit more to its big rally from a day…

By NAJIB JOBAIN and KAREEM CHEHAYEB Associated Press KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israeli forces dropped leaflets warning Palestinians to flee…

By SOPHENG CHEANG and HENG SINITH Associated Press SIEM REAP, Cambodia (AP) — Cambodia has inaugurated its newest and biggest airport, a…

BEIJING (AP) — A fire burned in a coal company building Thursday in a northern Chinese city, killing 25 people and injuring a few dozen more. The…

By DIDI TANG Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Chinese President Xi Jinping signaled late Wednesday that China will send new pandas to the…

By SAMYA KULLAB and NAJIB JOBAIN Associated Press KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza Strip (AP) — The night a blast struck his family’s home in the Gaza…

By JUAN A. LOZANO Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — A Texas inmate convicted of strangling a 5-year-old girl taken from an El Paso store and then…

ATMORE, Ala. (AP) — Alabama is scheduled to execute a man convicted in the killing of a friend’s father during a 1993 robbery. Casey…

By CHRISTOPHER WEBER Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — A fire that erupted in storage yards underneath a Los Angeles freeway has renewed…

By TOM KRISHER AP Auto Writer DETROIT (AP) — About 46,000 United Auto Workers at General Motors on Thursday are expected to wrap up voting on a…

By COLLEEN LONG and AAMER MADHANI Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Fresh off his meeting with the leader of China, President Joe Biden on…

By JIM SALTER Associated Press ST. LOUIS (AP) — A St. Louis judge will hear arguments in a lawsuit challenging Missouri’s abortion ban on the…