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By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Chair Jerome Powell indicated that the Federal Reserve will likely forgo an increase…

By BRUCE SCHREINER Associated Press FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — The general election campaign for Kentucky governor is off to a feisty start. Democrats…

By ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — FBI officials repeatedly violated their own standards when they searched a vast repository of…

By DEEPTI HAJELA Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — In the polarizing wake of Jordan Neely’s chokehold death at the hands of a fellow New York City…

LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. (AP) — No more premium stay in a galaxy far, far away: Disney World’s “Star Wars: Galactic Starcruiser” hotel is…

By ADRIAN SAINZ Associated Press MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — A Tennessee judge has continued to temporarily block the release of more video footage and…

By DASHA LITVINOVA Associated Press TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — While the world awaits Ukraine’s spring battlefield offensive, its leader, Volodymyr…

By LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer Nicole Holofcener found a fast friend in Julia Louis-Dreyfus a decade ago, when she cast her as a kind of alter-ego in…

By LISA MASCARO, FARNOUSH AMIRI and ZEKE MILLER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Debt limit talks between the White House and House Republicans…

By ANTHONY IZAGUIRRE Associated Press TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — The parents of three transgender children in Florida are trying to get a federal…

By BETH HARRIS AP Sports Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Brittney Griner stood for the national anthem before her first regular-season WNBA game since…

By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN, LINDSAY WHITEHURST and ALANNA DURKIN RICHER Associated Press A Washington, D.C. police officer was arrested Friday on charges…

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press ABOARD THE USS PAUL HAMILTON IN THE STRAIT OF HORMUZ (AP) — The Mideast-based chiefs of the U.S., British and…

By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Ten studio albums done, the Dave Matthews Band finds itself in a good place, maybe even at…

PEZINOK, Slovakia (AP) — A court in Slovakia has acquitted for a second time a businessman accused of masterminding the 2018 slaying of an…

By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer CANNES, France (AP) — As the Cannes Film Festival crowd stood in rapturous applause, a visibly moved Harrison Ford…

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — An aide to Polish President Andrzej Duda says that the object that entered Poland’s airspace last year and was found in…

TBILISI, Georgia (AP) — Direct flights have resumed between Russia and Georgia amid protests and sharp criticism from the South Caucasus…

MOSCOW (AP) — The Russian branch of the environmental group Greenpeace on Friday says it is closing after authorities declared Greenpeace…

By JOVANA GEC and DUSAN STOJANOVIC Associated Press BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Tens of thousands of people rallied in Serbia on Friday for a third…

By BABAR DOGAR Associated Press LAHORE, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistan’s former Prime Minister Imran Khan has dialed down his campaign of defiance,…

By JIM SALTER Associated Press ST. LOUIS (AP) — Republican Missouri Gov. Mike Parson on Friday named Gabe Gore, a former assistant U.S. attorney,…

By KATE BRUMBACK Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — The Atlanta prosecutor investigating whether then-President Donald Trump and others broke the law…

By ZENEL ZHINIPOTOKU and LLAZAR SEMINI Associated Press MITROVICA, Kosovo (AP) — A new mayor has been sworn in in northern Kosovo after a vote that…

MORAINE, Ohio (AP) — Authorities say a feud over a woman led a man to fatally shoot his coworker at a General Motors engine factory in Ohio.…

By KAREEM CHEHAYEB Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanon has received an Interpol notice for the country’s embattled central bank governor who…

MILAN (AP) — Former Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi has been released from a Milan hospital, a month and a half after he was admitted with a lung…

CAIRO (AP) — Sudan’s top army general has fired the country’s paramilitary leader, his former ally turned rival, as the deputy of the…

BEIJING (AP) — China says Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin will visit Beijing next week for talks, marking the latest exchange in a…

By STEPHEN WHYNO AP Sports Writer BALTIMORE (AP) — Brad Cox-trained First Mission has been scratched from the Preakness on the advice of…

By OLIVIA CHEN of NerdWallet As more states adopt pay transparency laws, many small businesses will need to comply with legislation if they or the…

By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer CANNES, France (AP) — Sean Penn has strongly backed the current Hollywood screenwriters strike while speaking at the…

CALGARY, Alberta (AP) — Canada’s second-largest airline WestJet and its pilots union say they have reached a last-minute deal to avert a strike…

By PAN PYLAS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Andy Rourke, bass guitarist of The Smiths, one of the most influential British bands of the 1980s, has…

BEIJING (AP) — China is warning against the introduction of “geopolitical games” in the South Pacific following the announcement that U.S.…

LONDON (AP) — Britain’s government has unveiled its long-awaited semiconductor strategy. It’s catching up with similar efforts by Western…

By BASSEM MROUE Associated Press JEDDAH, Saudi Arabia (AP) — Saudi Arabia is hosting an Arab League summit that is welcoming back Syrian President…

By PAOLO SANTALUCIA, SETH BORENSTEIN and NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press ROME (AP) — The floods that sent rivers of mud tearing through towns in…

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Police shocked a 95-year-old woman with a stun gun as she approached them using a walker…

By MEG KINNARD Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina made it official Friday: He’s running for president.…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press HIROSHIMA, Japan (AP) — Holding this week’s Group of Seven summit in Hiroshima, the site of the world’s…

By STAN CHOE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Wall Street’s best week since March ran out of steam Friday as worries rose about the U.S.…

By DEREK GATOPOULOS and THEODORA TONGAS Associated Press ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greeks will head to the polls on Sunday to elect a leader who will…

BEIJING (AP) — Echoing the crackdown on freedoms in neighboring Hong Kong, the former Portuguese colony of Macao has revised its legal system to…

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran has executed three men accused of deadly violence during last year’s anti-government protests despite…

BEIJING (AP) — Chinese leader Xi Jinping has promised to build more railway and other trade links with Central Asia and proposed jointly developing…

BY KANIS LEUNG Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — A Hong Kong court has rejected an activist publisher’s latest effort to use a British lawyer to…

By NICK EL HAJJ Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A proposed $5 billion real estate project wants to take skyscraper-studded…

By NICK PERRY Associated Press WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — New Zealand police have lowered the confirmed death toll from a Wellington hostel…

By CHEYANNE MUMPHREY AP Education Writer When Kamryn Yanchick graduated, she hoped to decorate her cap with a beaded pattern in honor of her Native…

By MARÍA VERZA Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s Popocatepetl volcano rumbled to life again this week, belching out towering…

By HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH Associated Press Social media has law enforcement facing increasing pressure to release information fast amid a surge of…

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — A 7.7 magnitude earthquake caused a small tsunami to wash ashore on South Pacific islands Friday. No damage has been…

By TARA COPP Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — For months, Western allies have shipped billions of dollars worth of weapons systems and ammunition…

By MARGERY A. BECK Associated Press LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — The Nebraska Legislature has passed a bill that combines a 12-week abortion ban with…

By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER and ERIC TUCKER Associated Press A Massachusetts Air National Guard member charged with leaking highly classified military…

By SHARON JOHNSON Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — On the weekend in March when Brittany Glover would have turned 34, her mother stood on the same…

By ARNIE STAPLETON AP Sports Writer DENVER (AP) — Jamal Murray scored 23 of his 37 points in the fourth quarter, propelling the Denver Nuggets to a…

By LISA MASCARO AP Congressional Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) — Top negotiators from the White House have met over the debt limit with House…

By GRANT PECK Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — State media in Myanmar say at least 54 people were killed and more than 185,000 buildings damaged by…

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A wrongful death lawsuit accuses several establishments of overserving the alleged drunken driver who police say slammed into…

QUITO, Ecuador (AP) — Ecuador’s Constitutional Court has rejected multiple challenges that sought to invalidate President Guillermo Lasso…

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Rhode Island Gov. Daniel McKee signed a bill into law Thursday that would let state funds be used to pay for health…

By SOPHIE AUSTIN Associated Press/Report for America SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California legislative committees in the Assembly and Senate blocked…

By JOHN WAWROW AP Sports Writer PITTSFORD, N.Y. (AP) — Tom Kim has no regrets about the muddy lengths he went to in a bid to retrieve his ball out…

By BRADY McCOMBS and SAM METZ Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A Utah woman who wrote a children’s book about grief after her husband’s…

By DAVID HAMILTON Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A lawyer for Twitter owner Elon Musk accused Microsoft of misusing the service’s data and…

By ELAINE KURTENBACH and JOSH BOAK Associated Press HIROSHIMA, Japan (AP) — Leaders of the Group of Seven advanced economies are generally united…

By ANDREW DALTON and MORGAN LEE Associated Press SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — Attorneys for the weapons supervisor on the New Mexico film set where Alec…