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By The Associated Press Kansas City tight end Travis Kelce calls Taylor Swift’s appearance at the Chiefs’ victory over the Chicago Bears…

ISTANBUL (AP) — Turkey’s oldest film festival has been thrown into turmoil after jury members resigned and filmmakers withdrew their work over…

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — The International Monetary Fund says that Sri Lanka has so far failed to make enough progress in boosting tax collection…

By AMY BETH HANSON Associated Press HELENA, Mont. (AP) — A Montana state judge has blocked enforcement of a law to ban gender-affirming medical…

By LISA MASCARO and STEPHEN GROVES Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — As the Senate marches ahead with a bipartisan approach to prevent a…

By THOMAS ADAMSON AP Fashion Writer PARIS (AP) — Paris Fashion Week spring-summer 2024 saw a resonating ’70s influence, mingled with contemporary…

By FARNOUSH AMIRI and MARY CLARE JALONICK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The congressional committee investigating the U.S. Capitol…

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Polish and U.S. officials have signed an agreement in Warsaw for the construction of Poland’s first nuclear power plant.…

By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Theatergoers seeing the Pulitzer Prize-winning play “English” at the Barrington Stage…

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Federal and state officials say the former boyfriend of a central Kentucky woman who disappeared more than eight years ago…

By SAMANTHA HENDRICKSON Associated Press/Report For America COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Ohio’s political map-making commission has unanimously approved…

By JULIA FRANKEL Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel’s internal security agency says it has arrested five Palestinians in a plot allegedly…

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — A former federal prosecutor who helped investigate the origins of the Trump-Russia probe in 2020 before abruptly leaving the…

By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The actor picked to play the iconic, baby-faced flapper Betty Boop in a new stage musical…

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — An estimated $850 million Powerball jackpot will be up for grabs Wednesday night for players willing to risk a couple…

By BASSEM MROUE Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Judicial officials in Lebanon say a military court has sentenced an official with the extremist…

By KIMBERLEE KRUESI Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A federal judge has ruled that a former Tennessee state senator can stay out of prison…

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Bahrain’s military says a third soldier has died of his wounds after an attack by Yemeni rebels on a Bahraini…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Hours after Hollywood’s writers strike officially ended, Bill Maher led the charge back to work by announcing early Wednesday…

By ALANIS THAMES AP Sports Writer One of Trevon Hamlet’s core memories from attending the University of Colorado is living on campus his freshman…

By The Associated Press When seven presidential hopefuls gather at Ronald Reagan’s presidential library for the second Republican debate, expect to…

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Bahrain has sentenced 13 prisoners to an additional three years in prison over a sit-in held in 2021 that prison…

By BROOKE LEFFERTS Associated Pess NEW YORK (AP) — Rachel Bloom was fiddling around with songs and sketches for a new musical stand-up special she…

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Torrential rain sweeping across central Greece has damaged roads, flooded homes and caused power outages on the island of…

REBECCA SANTANA Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration has admitted Israel into a select group of countries whose citizens are…

LONDON (AP) — Scottish authorities have approved a multimillion pound drug consumption room. It’s the first government-backed place in the…

PARIS (AP) — A French government-nominated watchdog body on sexual equality says an online deluge of violent and degrading pornography is sowing…

By MAURICIO SAVARESE Associated Press LAGOA SANTA, Brazil (AP) — When Brazilian soccer player Paulinho scored a goal at the Tokyo Olympics, he…

By KIRSTEN GRIESHABER Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Germany will increase its police patrols along “smuggling routes” on the border with…

By BEN WALKER Associated Press ROCKVILLE, Md. (AP) — Growing up in Maryland in the 1960s, Brooks Robinson was a god. Every kid wanted to wear his…

By KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea says it plans to expel a U.S. soldier who crossed into the country in…

By ANDREW DAMPF AP Sports Writer GUIDONIA MONTECELIO, Italy (AP) — The Ryder Cup’s food scene is decidedly local at the Marco Simone club outside…

DETROIT (AP) — Hyundai and Kia are recalling nearly 3.4 million vehicles and telling owners to park them outside due to the risk of engine…

By JAN M. OLSEN Associated Press COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — A Danish artist who was given a pile of cash by a museum in northern Denmark to create…

By MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer A NASA astronaut and two Russian cosmonauts returned to Earth on Wednesday after being stuck in space for just…

By DAVID RISING Associated Press HANGZHOU, China (AP) — A 13-year-old girl from China has won a gold medal in stakeboarding at the Asian Games. Cui…

BERLIN (AP) — Berlin’s city government says Christian Thielemann has been chosen as the new general music director of the city’s…

By RAF CASERT Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — A prominent Belgian bishop says that the Vatican has been snubbing pleas for years to defrock a…

By KATE ASHFORD of NerdWallet Only 3 in 10 Medicare beneficiaries shop around during open enrollment, according to a 2022 analysis, and only 1 in 10…

LONDON (AP) — British police say a 15-year-old girl was stabbed to death during Wednesday’s morning rush hour in south London. The Metropolitan…

RHENEN, Netherlands (AP) — Giant panda Fan Xing has began a long journey home — to a country she has never visited. The 3-year-old was given a…

By ILLIA NOVIKOV Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia has accused Ukraine’s Western allies of helping plan and conduct last week’s…

By KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea says it has decided to expel a U.S. soldier who crossed into the country…

By DOUG FERGUSON AP Golf Writer GUIDONIA MONTECELIO, Italy (AP) — Europe is missing a lot of its Ryder Cup stalwarts at Marco Simone because of…

By MICHAEL CANTU Edmunds Are high gas prices burning a hole in your wallet? Then maybe it’s a good time to consider a hybrid vehicle. Hybrids gain…

By JIM GOMEZ Associated Press MANILA, Philippines (AP) — A Philippine admiral says Filipino forces will dismantle any floating barrier that…

By CLIFF BRUNT AP Sports Writer Deion Sanders’ immediate impact after taking over a Colorado football program that won just one game last year…

By JOSEPH WILSON Associated Press BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Barring a last-minute surprise, the leader of Spain’s conservatives will miss on his…

LONDON (AP) — British regulators have approved new oil and gas drilling at a site in the North Sea. The U.K.’s North Sea Transition Authority…

By CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — The French troops who are being forced out of Niger were seen as a key line of defense in…

A total of 192 Azerbaijani troops were killed and over 500 were wounded during Azerbaijan’s offensive in Nagorno-Karabakh last week, the…

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran is claiming that it has successfully put an imaging satellite into space. The state-run IRNA news agency is quoting the…

KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) — Police say a shell of a rocket launcher has apparently accidentally exploded at a home in a remote village in southern…

By MORGAN LEE Associated Press ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Federal prosecutors presented tearful testimony Tuesday from the mother of a sickly toddler…

BERLIN (AP) — The German government has banned a far-right, racist group known for its indoctrination of children. Authorities also raided dozens…

By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Shares in Asia were mostly higher on Wednesday, shrugging off a sharp decline on Wall Street…

By MICHAEL BIESECKER, JENNIFER McDERMOTT and BERNARD CONDON Associated Press Investigators are trying to solve a mystery about the origin of last…

CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — A senior Qatar Airways executive has told an Australian Senate inquiry that there would be no repeat of an incident at…

By MICHAEL BIESECKER, JENNIFER McDERMOTT and BERNARD CONDON Associated Press Melted remains of an old car tire. Heavily burned trees. A charred stump…

By DAVID BAUDER AP Media Writer NEW YORK (AP) — In a new study, Black Americans expressed broad concerns about how they are depicted in the news…

BEIJING (AP) — China’s government has accused Taiwan’s ruling party of seeking independence, a day after the self-governing island’s…

ANIRUDDHA GHOSAL and VICTORIA MILKO Associated Press Hanoi, VIETNAM (AP) — The urgency for Southeast Asian nations to switch to clean energy to…

By MORGAN LEE Associated Press SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — Accusations that New Mexico’s Democratic-led Legislature unfairly diluted the vote of…

By JESSE BEDAYN Associated Press/Report for America BOULDER, Colo. (AP) — Attorneys will begin arguments Wednesday over whether the man accused of…

By MEAD GRUVER Associated Press Republican Utah House Speaker Brad Wilson is poised to formally announce at a Wednesday night rally that he is…

By KIM CHANDLER Associated Press MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama is headed to the first significant revamp of its congressional map in three…

By VANESSA GERA Associated Press KATOWICE, Poland (AP) — Poland’s hard-right Confederation party opened its electoral campaign convention as if…

By LARRY NEUMEISTER and ALANNA DURKIN RICHER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez is due in court to answer to federal…

By JILL COLVIN Associated Press As his Republican rivals gather onstage in California for their second primary debate, former President Donald Trump…

By SAMUEL PETREQUIN Associated Press STRASBOURG, France (AP) — Six Portuguese young adults and children between 11 and 24 years of age are at the…

By WAYNE PARRY Associated Press TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — New Jersey’s Supreme Court is expected to consider whether an Atlantic City casino can get…

By STEVE PEOPLES AP National Political Writer SIMI VALLEY, Calif. (AP) — A growing sense of urgency looms over the Republican Party’s second…

By WILL WEISSERT and STEVE PEOPLES Associated Press SIMI VALLEY, Calf. (AP) — Republicans are meeting for their second presidential debate as top…