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By DARLENE SUPERVILLE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — First lady Jill Biden and Yuko Kishida, the wife of Japan’s prime minister, have…

By PATRICK ORSAGOS and JOHN SEEWER Associated Press AKRON, Ohio (AP) — An Ohio grand jury declined to indict eight police officers who fired 94…

By ANDREW DALTON AP Entertainment Writer The widow of singer Chris Cornell and his former bandmates in Soundgarden said Monday that they have…

NEW YORK (AP) — Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai is working on a new memoir, the latest book by the young activist from Pakistan known for her…

By CARLA BRIDI and AAMER MADHANI Associated Press BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov on Monday expressed gratitude…

By SOPHIE AUSTIN and DAMIAN DOVARGANES Associated Press/Report for America PALM SPRINGS, Calif. (AP) — As a child, Lawrance W. McFarland lived on a…

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel’s president appealed for national unity as the country marked the beginning of Holocaust Remembrance Day after months of…

By MIKE SCHNEIDER Associated Press ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Gov. Ron DeSantis and Florida lawmakers ratcheted up pressure on Walt Disney World on…

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — A 13-year-old boy had to be freed from a claw machine after he climbed inside hoping to score a prize, according to an…

BROOKFIELD, Vt. (AP) — Edward Koren, a longtime cartoonist for The New Yorker magazine, known for his hairy, huminoid creatures, has died. Koren…

By ELLEN KNICKMEYER Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — World Bank meetings in Washington were supposed to be a first step in a new era of…

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — A television station is reporting that a convicted serial rapist has been sentenced to more than 150 years in prison.…

LONDON (AP) — U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak says he wants to reverse an anti-math mindset and require the subject for students until they are 18.…

By LARRY NEUMEISTER and ERIC TUCKER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Two men were arrested Monday on charges that they helped establish a secret…

By LISA MASCARO AP Congressional Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) — House Speaker Kevin McCarthy is pledging to pass legislation to raise the…

By JESSICA GRESKO Associated Press LANCASTER, Pa. (AP) — The Supreme Court this week is hearing the case of a religious mail carrier who refused to…

JERUSALEM (AP) — Researchers say that antisemitism rose in the U.S. in 2022 and shows little sign of abating worldwide as political radicals have…

ONTARIO, Oregon (AP) — Authorities have arrested a man suspected of fatally shooting an eastern Oregon reserve police officer after a car chase…

By HARM VENHUIZEN Associated Press/Report for America MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The defrocked Roman Catholic cardinal who became the face of the…

By KIM CHANDLER and JEFF AMY Associated Press DADEVILLE, Ala. (AP) — Alabama officials are asking the public to aid in their investigation of a…

By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A federal judge has rejected Donald Trump’s latest attempt to delay his rape trial,…

By STEVE KARNOWSKI Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The Minnesota Court of Appeals on Monday upheld former Minneapolis police officer Derek…

By SYLVIE CORBET Associated Press PARIS (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron says that he heard people’s anger over raising the retirement age…

By RAF CASERT and ALEKSANDAR FURTULA Associated Press HALLE, Belgium (AP) — Rain or shine, there is no way to keep budding flowers down. And from…

By JOHN FLESHER AP Environmental Writer TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) — Scientists say many North American bats are in trouble. A report by experts…

By GERALD IMRAY Associated Press CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — The corruption trial of former South African President Jacob Zuma has been…

By DAVID BAUDER, RANDALL CHASE and GEOFF MULVIHILL Associated Press WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — The Delaware judge overseeing a voting machine…

By VANESSA GERA Associated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Slovakia has become the third European Union country to ban food imports from Ukraine. The…

By MIKE CORDER Associated Press ZOETERMEER, Netherlands (AP) — The Dutch national intelligence agency has painted a grim picture of a growing…

CONSHOKOCKEN, Pa. (AP) — David’s Bridal has filed for bankruptcy protection, the second time for the chain in the past five years. The…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press Japanese police say they have confiscated metal tubes, tools and possible gunpowder from the home of a man…

By RAHIM FAIEZ Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — Afghan authorities say they are closing education centers supported by non-governmental groups in…

By MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer SOUTH PADRE ISLAND, Texas (AP) — SpaceX called off the first launch attempt of its giant rocket Monday after a…

By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — China’s defense minister has toured the top Russian military academy on a visit to the…

By LINDSEY TANNER and ANGIE WANG Associated Press Anxiety over academics. Post-lockdown malaise. Social media angst. Study after study says American…

ROME (AP) — The doctors caring for former Premier Silvio Berlusconi in a Milan hospital, where he is recovering from a lung infection, say his…

By KANIS LEUNG Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong’s Roman Catholic bishop arrived in Beijing on Monday, marking the first visit to the…

ROME (AP) — Italian police have scooped up two tons of cocaine that was wrapped in protective plastic and bobbing in the sea off eastern Sicily.…

By FRANCES D’EMILIO Associated Press ROME (AP) — Italy’s right-wing government is pressing ahead with plans to crack down on migrants after…

LONDON (AP) — Senegalese singer-songwriter Baaba Maal has been named a goodwill ambassador for the U.N. Covention to Combat Desertification. Maal…

By OLIVIA SANCHEZ, The Hechinger Report NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — It’s almost 4 p.m. at the Nashville branch of the Tennessee College of Applied…

BANGKOK (AP) — Officials in Thailand say a freak storm in the country’s south has capsized a dozen fishing boats and killed at least three…

By JIMMY GOLEN AP Sports Writer BOSTON (AP) — Defending Boston Marathon champion Evans Chebet wasn’t focused on beating Eliud Kipchoge, the…

By LIZ WESTON of NerdWallet If you’re going to need a home loan in retirement — to buy your next house or replace the mortgage you’ve got —…

BERLIN (AP) — German Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s wife says she is stepping down as the education minister of the region where the couple lives,…

By ALI ABDUL-HASSAN and ABBY SEWELL Associated Press BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraq has offered to mediate between Ukraine and Russia to try resolve the war…

By TERESA M. WALKER AP Sports Writer Anthony Davis scared Los Angeles Lakers fans by grabbing at his right shoulder and saying he couldn’t move his…

By STEPHEN WHYNO AP Hockey Writer The NHL playoffs are going on without Sidney Crosby and Alex Ovechkin for the first time since their rookie year in…

By COREY WILLIAMS Associated Press DEARBORN, Mich. (AP) — A lot was happening in March 1965 in the bungalow in Selma, Alabama, that then-4-year-old…

BRATISLAVA, Slovakia (AP) — Slovakia has delivered the remaining nine of the 13 Soviet-era MiG-29 fighter jets that it promised to Ukraine. The…

By THALIA BEATY Associated Press Every day, Americans donate their time, skills and energy to their communities by volunteering with nonprofit…

By The Associated Press A Russian court has convicted top opposition figure Vladimir Kara-Murza, Jr. of treason for publicly denouncing Moscow’s…

By RIAZ KHAN Associated Press PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistani police say a Chinese national has been arrested on blasphemy charges after he…

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A Saudi-led military coalition has freed 104 more prisoners captured in Yemen’s war, a unilateral release…

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong says her country is working to stabilize…

PARIS (AP) — France’s government is sounding the alarm about the growing risk of forest fires because of climate change, as hundreds of…

By JACK JEFFERY and SAMY MAGDY Associated Press KHARTOUM, Sudan (AP) — As explosions and gunfire thundered outside, Sudanese in the capital…

By NICOLAS VAUX-MONTAGNY Associated Press PARIS (AP) — A French court has acquitted Airbus and Air France of manslaughter charges over the 2009…

BERLIN (AP) — Former Chancellor Angela Merkel is to be decorated with Germany’s highest possible honor in recognition of her near-record 16 years…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press BELFAST, Northern Ireland (AP) — Former U.S. President Bill Clinton and past leaders of the U.K. and Ireland…

By GRANT PECK Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — Myanmar’s military government has granted amnesty to more than 3,000 prisoners to mark the…

By MARGARET STAFFORD and JIM SALTER Associated Press KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — An 84-year-old white man in Kansas City, Missouri, was charged Monday…

By SAMY MAGDY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — Tensions have been brewing for weeks between Sudan’s two most powerful generals, who just 18…

By THALIA BEATY and GLENN GAMBOA Associated Press CASA of Lexington has tried just about everything to find volunteers to serve as advocates for…