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SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) — A top Bosnian government official and two others have been convicted and given prison sentences over the…

LAS CRUCES, N.M. (AP) — Federal officials have announced the first $196 million of grants in a $1 billion program to repair and replace aging and…

By MEG KINNARD Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Congressman Jim Clyburn is backing a former staffer in her effort to lead South Carolina’s…

LISBON, Portugal (AP) — UEFA president Aleksander Ceferin says soccer bodies and clubs should do more to tackle racist abuse of players. He says…

By RAHIM FAIEZ and EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — The United Nations says it cannot accept a Taliban decision to bar Afghan…

BERLIN (AP) — German airline Lufthansa says it has agreed to sell the remainder of its catering business to European private equity group Aurelius…

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Asian shares were trading mostly lower Thursday as investors turned their attention to upcoming…

By DANICA KIRKA and BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press LONDON (AP) — British media says the husband of former Scottish first minister and Scottish…

BERLIN (AP) — Official figures show that factory orders in Germany surged in February, posting their third successive increase in another promising…

By JARI TANNER Associated Press HELSINKI (AP) — Finland’s outgoing prime minister, Sanna Marin, says she will resign as the leader of her…

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkish officials and media reports say a Guinea-Bissau-flagged cargo ship with 14 crew members on board has sunk off…

By NICK PERRY Associated Press WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — In her final speech to New Zealand’s Parliament, Jacinda Ardern describes in…

By ERIKA KINETZ Associated Press LONDON (AP) — In October, an officer in Russian President Vladimir Putin’s elite personal security service…

By JAMEY KEATEN and DAVID McHUGH Associated Press GENEVA (AP) — The head of UBS has voiced confidence that the Swiss bank will succeed in a…

By MONIKA SCISLOWSKA and VANESSA GERA Associated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy won new pledges of deeper…

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australia’s main opposition party has decided to oppose the government’s model for…

By KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea this month will begin weekly tests of sewage produced by its major cities…

By BASSEM MROUE and JOSEF FEDERMAN Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Suspected Israeli airstrikes in Syria in recent weeks have killed two Iranian…

By ISABEL DeBRE and FARES AKRAM Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Violence resumed for a second straight night in Jerusalem on Wednesday when…

By AUDREY McAVOY Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — Repairing coral reefs after boats run aground. Shielding native forest trees from a killer fungus…

By MICHAEL LIEDTKE AP Technology Writer SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Two trailblazing ride-hailing services are heading toward uncharted territory as they…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Russia’s commissioner for children’s rights, who is being sought for war crimes for…

By LISA MASCARO AP Congressional Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) — The moment will be historic — a U.S. House speaker meeting with the president of…

By NICK PERRY Associated Press WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — New Zealand’s central bank surprised economists on Wednesday by imposing an…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — A Mexican judge ordered that three Mexican immigration officials, a private security guard and a Venezuelan migrant be held for…

By ANIRUDDHA GHOSAL and ASHWINI BHATIA Associated Press KINNAUR, India (AP) — The pickup truck jostled away from the roaring Sutlej River and up…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Stormy Daniels must pay nearly $122,000 of Donald Trump’s legal fees that were racked up in connection with the porn…

By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER, COLLEEN LONG and JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The coverup is worse than the crime, the expression goes.…

By JESSE BEDAYN Associated Press/Report for America DENVER (AP) — Initial results show two of the more moderate Denver mayoral candidates in the…

By TRISHA AHMED Associated Press/Report for America The North Dakota Senate passed a series of bills on Monday that would restrict transgender…

By LISA BAUMANN Associated Press BELLINGHAM, Wash. (AP) — Washington state has purchased a three-year supply of a leading abortion medication in…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — An Indigenous anti-mining activist has been killed in a violent part of western Mexico. Authorities confirmed Tuesday that…

By GARY D. ROBERTSON Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Speculation is rising in the North Carolina legislature that a Democrat is about to…

FORT CAMPBELL, Ky. (AP) — Investigators recovered “black boxes” from two U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopters that crashed last week in…

PANAMA CITY (AP) — A strong 6.3-magnitude earthquake has struck off Panama’s Pacific coast near the town of Boca Chica. The U.S. Geological…

DOUGLASVILLE, Ga. (AP) — A fifth suspect has been arrested in a March 4 mass shooting at a 16th birthday party in suburban Atlanta. Douglas County…

By JAMES POLLARD Associated Press/Report for America COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A federal complaint has accused the South Carolina agency tasked with…

By DAVID BAUDER AP Media Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Hours of breathless news coverage of Donald Trump’s arraignment represented history for the…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s president has announced a deal to buy 13 of the power plants operated by the Spanish company Iberdrola in the country…

By JOHN HANNA and ANDREW DeMILLO Associated Press TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A Kansas bill to impose some of the nation’s broadest bathroom…

By BRIAN WITTE and LEA SKENE Associated Press ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — The three-week manhunt for a former top aide to Maryland’s governor has ended…

KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) — A former researcher who was accused of hiding work he was doing in China while employed by the University of Kansas is…

CANTON, Ga. (AP) — A Georgia school board member, who is also a retired professional wrestler, is accused of verbally harassing a transgender woman…

By The Associated Press Klaus Teuber, creator of the hugely popular Catan board game in which players compete to build settlements on a fictional…

By DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — King Charles III’s wife has been officially identified as Queen Camilla for the first time, with…

BOSTON (AP) — Pittsburgh Pirates catcher Austin Hedges was placed on the seven-day concussion injured list. The 30-year-old Hedges played in the…

By JOHN HANNA AP Political Writer TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas lawmakers have given final passage to a bill that could subject doctors to lawsuits or…

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — A former University of Alabama basketball player has pleaded not guilty to a capital murder charge filed against him after…

By RAHIM FAIEZ Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — U.N. officials say that female Afghan employees of the United Nations have been banned from…

By RALPH D. RUSSO AP College Sports Writer The attorneys who beat the NCAA in the Supreme Court have filed a new class-action antitrust lawsuit…

By WAYNE PARRY Associated Press ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — A federal scientific agency says New Jersey’s first offshore wind farm may…

By MICHAEL LIEDTKE AP Technology Writer SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A federal jury has awarded nearly $3.2 million in damages to a Black former worker at…

By TRAVIS LOLLER and JONATHAN MATTISE Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Mike Hill, a 61-year-old custodian who was among the six people…

By FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — New IRS Commissioner Danny Werfel delivered a tax-season pledge Tuesday that the agency will…

By MICHAEL PHILLIS Associated Press Some 9.2 million lead pipes carry water into homes across the U.S., with more in Florida than any other state,…

By MATTHEW PERRONE AP Health Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The manufacturer of eyedrops recently linked to deaths and injuries lacked measures to assure…

By HALLIE GOLDEN Associated Press A judge in Montana refused to dismiss a lawsuit that alleges the state’s unique constitutional requirement to…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s president has asked his Chinese counterpart for help in halting chemicals from China used by Mexican drug dealers to…

By MARTÍN ADAMES ALCÁNTARA Associated Press SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic (AP) — A judge in the Dominican Republic on Tuesday ordered an…

By ARLEIGH RODGERS and TOM DAVIES Associated Press INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Indiana’s governor hasn’t said if he will allow an impending ban all…

NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — A former U.S. Army major and his wife who prosecutors say routinely beat their young foster children and denied them food and…

By TIM REYNOLDS AP Basketball Writer MIAMI (AP) — The arena where the Miami Heat play their home games now has yet another new name after…

By BOBBY CAINA CALVAN and DEEPTI HAJELA Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A small park built on a site that was once a swampy, sewage-filled pond…

By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press ROME (AP) — Italy’s infrastructure minister is seeking to rally international interest in Italy’s latest…

By TOM KRISHER AP Auto Writer DETROIT (AP) — About 5,000 white-collar workers at General Motors took the company’s buyout offers, which the…

SOMERSET, Ky. (AP) — A Kentucky high school football player who suffered a head injury during a scrimmage last week has died. The Kentucky High…

By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — So many people want to get out of jury duty because they think it’s boring or a waste of…

NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — Spain’s prime minister says Europe must “re-industrialize” to become more self-sufficient and less dependent on third…

By DARLENE SUPERVILLE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden says he’s looking forward to hosting the NCAA men’s and…

By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The founder of the student loan assistance startup company Frank that J.P. Morgan Chase…

MANILA, Philippines (AP) — A strong offshore earthquake has jolted eastern Philippine provinces and seismologists have warned villagers living by…