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By ELLEN KNICKMEYER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — It’s April 22, 2027, and 72 hours into a first-strike Chinese attack on Taiwan and the…

BANGKOK (AP) — A tornado that tore through two villages in central Myanmar near the capital Naypyitaw has killed eight people and destroyed more…

By HELENA ALVES Associated Press LISBON (AP) — Portugal’s president has welcomed President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva of Brazil on an official…

SYDNEY (AP) — A team of explorers announced it found a sunken Japanese ship that was transporting Allied prisoners of war when it was torpedoed off…

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Tony Award-winning comedian Barry Humphries, internationally renowned for his garish…

MANILA, Philippines (AP) — China’s foreign minister says his country is willing to work with the Philippines to resolve their differences, as…

By OMAR FARUK Associated Press MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — A top army official says Somalia’s military repulsed an attack by jihadi fighters in…

KHARTOUM, Sudan (AP) — American embassy staffers were airlifted from Sudan early Sunday, as forces loyal to rival generals battled for control of…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s defense chief has ordered troops to activate missile interceptors and get ready to shoot…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Two shootings in Washington, D.C., on Friday night resulted in eight people, including a young girl, suffering injuries, the…

By HANNAH FINGERHUT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — An overwhelming majority of people in the United States say they have recently experienced…

By JILL COLVIN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The opening phase of the Republican presidential primary has largely centered on the escalating…

By STEFANIE DAZIO Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — The United States has returned several Peruvian antiquities, including the intricate…

SAN DIEGO (AP) — A former Marine who for years helped smuggle drugs from Mexico into the United States and even tried to get a song written to…

By MATTHEW DALY Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Interior Secretary Deb Haaland defended her department’s approval of the contentious…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A federal grand jury in Los Angeles has indicted a Houston man for allegedly calling the office of California U.S. Rep. Maxine…

By JEFF AMY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Koko Da Doll, an Atlanta woman who gained notice in a documentary about transgender Black women and the…

By KIM CHANDLER Associated Press MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey on Friday announced she replaced her director of early childhood…

By DAVID KOENIG AP Airlines Writer The acting head of the Federal Aviation Administration is leaving this summer, putting pressure on the White House…

By EVA VERGARA and DANIEL POLITI Associated Press SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — The Chilean government’s newly announced plan to have the state take a…

Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — An abandoned and emaciated alligator that was found in a New York City lake and sent to the Bronx Zoo for recovery…

By The Associated Press Here’s a collection curated by The Associated Press’ entertainment journalists of what’s arriving on TV, streaming…

HOUSTON (AP) — A former Houston-area high school football coach on Friday was sentenced for a second time to life in prison in his pregnant…

By CURT ANDERSON Associated Press Returning to Florida to discuss climate change, Vice President Kamala Harris announced Friday that $562 million…

By MICHAEL LIEDTKE AP Technology Writer SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Lyft is preparing to lay off hundreds of employees just days after new CEO David…

By JOHN HANNA AP Political Writer TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly has vetoed anti-diversity and anti-abortion provisions in…

By STEVE KARNOWSKI Associated Press ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — The Minnesota Senate has waded into the culture wars. It has passed bills Friday to make…

By MATTHEW BARAKAT Associated Press FALLS CHURCH, Va. (AP) — The family of a northern Virginia man fatally shot by U.S. Park Police officers has…

By JOCELYN NOVECK AP National Writer Benjamin Millepied’s “Carmen” has little to do with the familiar story from the 1875 Bizet opera about…

By MATTHEW BROWN, AMY BETH HANSON, and SAM METZ Associated Press HELENA, Mont. (AP) — A Montana transgender lawmaker has sued to get back onto the…

BAY MINETTE, Ala. (AP) — Alabama law enforcement officials said Friday they’ve arrested a man accused of murder, eight years after the victim…

By STEVE KARNOWSKI Associated Press ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — An arbitration panel has ordered MyPillow chief executive Mike Lindell to pay $5 million…

By DARLENE SUPERVILLE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Jill Biden hopes a temporary art exhibit at the White House helps educate visitors about…

By COLLEEN SLEVIN Associated Press DENVER (AP) — Colorado is promising not to enforce its new ban on unproven treatments to reverse medication…

By JUAN A. LOZANO Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — A Texas judge has stopped next week’s scheduled execution of a death row inmate who has long…

By ED WHITE Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — A jury has awarded nearly $100 million to the family of a New Jersey man and his son who were killed in…

By JIM MORRIS Associated Press VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) — Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says a massive Volkswagen electric battery…

HAMPTON, N.H (AP) — The U.S. Coast Guard has suspended the search for a fisherman after his boat was found capsized and three companions later…

By PAT EATON-ROBB Associated Press A 74-year-old Connecticut woman suffered bites to her arms and legs when she was attacked by a black bear while…

By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi’s Republican governor has signed a bill to expand the territory of…

By RANDALL CHASE Associated Press DOVER, Del. (AP) — Delaware Gov. John Carney says he will not veto legislation legalizing recreational marijuana…

By The Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — A Los Angeles jury has found “That ’70s Show” actor Danny Masterson guilty of two counts of rape…

By GERALD IMRAY Associated Press CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — South Africa’s Supreme Court of Appeal has upheld a ruling that the…

NEW YORK (AP) — The Federal Election Commission has imposed a $53,100 fine on three committees associated with former New York City Mayor Bill de…

By NICHOLAS RICCARDI Associated Press A fund controlled by a Swiss billionaire who has steered tens of millions of dollars to liberal causes also…

By The Associated Press This week’s new entertainment releases include albums from Smokey Robinson and The National, a live action take on the…

By HANNA ARHIROVA Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — As Ukrainian and Russian troops fight conventional battles on the front lines, Europe’s…

SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — Former Peruvian President Alejandro Toledo Manrique has surrendered to U.S. federal agents to be extradited to Peru. He…

MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) — A new Vermont law that raises the eligibility age for marriage to 18 takes effect in July. Republican Gov. Phil Scott signed…

By HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer KEY WEST, Fla. (AP) — At Books & Books, the nonprofit store Judy Blume and her husband have run for the…

By JULIE WATSON Associated Press LONG BEACH, Calif. (AP) — Engineering faculty at the University of California Los Angeles say they have developed…

MIlWAUKEE (AP) — Prosecutors in Milwaukee have charged a jail guard with misconduct in connection with the in-custody death of an accused killer…

POCATELLO, Idaho (AP) — An early morning fire engulfed much of a large high school in the southern Idaho city of Pocatello on Friday. The Pocatello…

BERLIN (AP) — Nudists in Austria are up in arms about plans for a cable car that would pass over a popular beach on the northern edge of Vienna…

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) — A businessman pleaded guilty Friday to bribing the head of a Michigan marijuana licensing board, the first conviction in…

PARIS (AP) — A Paris court has convicted a Lebanese-Canadian academic in absentia on terrorism charges over a bombing outside a Paris synagogue in…

By STEVE DOUGLAS AP Sports Writer The champagne is on ice for Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney. Soccer is the new love of the Hollywood celebrities…