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

By ERIKA KINETZ Associated Press LONDON (AP) — On Oct. 14, a Russian engineer named Gleb Karakulov boarded a flight from Kazakhstan to Turkey with…

By ERIKA KINETZ Associated Press LONDON (AP) — On Oct. 14, a Russian engineer named Gleb Karakulov boarded a flight from Kazakhstan to Turkey with…

By ERICA HUNZINGER AP Sports Writer Sports leagues and teams often use Pride nights to raise the visibility and acceptance of LGBTQ+ people — as…

By MATTHEW BARAKAT Associated Press FALLS CHURCH, Va. (AP) — A northern Virginia man convicted on terrorism charges as a teenager has been sent…

By PAUL WISEMAN AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. job openings slipped to 9.9 million in February, fewest since May 2021  and a sign that…

By MOGOMOTSI MAGOME Associated Press PRETORIA, South Africa (AP) — More than 200 protesters in South Africa have demonstrated at the Uganda High…

By LLAZAR SEMINI Associated Press TIRANA, Albania (AP) — Albania is hosting an international forum aimed at promoting sustainable tourism as a main…

By YURAS KARMANAU Associated Press TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — A prominent Polish minority activist has been released from custody in Belarus after the…

MOSCOW (AP) — A Russian businessman who made a daring escape from house arrest in Italy where he was nabbed on a U.S. warrant for breaching Western…

By JONATHAN LANDRUM Jr. AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Travis Kelce is living his best life: On the heels of winning the Super Bowl and…

By KIMBERLEE KRUESI Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee Republican lawmakers took the first steps Monday to expel three Democratic…

KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) — Foreign veterinarians visited a sickly elephant at a southern Pakistani zoo Tuesday amid widespread concern over her…

PARIS (AP) — The French government has approved a key budget bill presented as the country’s biggest military spending spree in more than 50…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Images captured by a robotic probe inside one of the three melted reactors at Japan’s wrecked…

By RAF CASERT and MIKE CORDER Associated Press THE HAGUE (AP) — Amsterdam’s Schiphol, one of the top airports in Europe, announced Tuesday it…

By PAT EATON-ROBB Associated Press STORRS, Conn. (AP) — UConn coach Dan Hurley let the moment envelope him Tuesday on the 40-mile ride from Bradley…

LONDON Britain’s privacy watchdog hit TikTok with a multimillion-dollar penalty on Tuesday for a slew of data protection breaches, including…

YASMINE MOSIMANN Associated Press IRBIL, Iraq (AP) — A final agreement has been reached to resume oil exports from Iraq’s northern Kurdish region…

By MICHELLE CHAPMAN AP Business Writer Richard Branson’s Virgin Orbit is filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection after a failed mission…

By CHANELLE BESSETTE of NerdWallet If you earned a bank sign-up bonus or interest, you need to set aside some of it for taxes. Your tax bracket will…

By JARI TANNER and KOSTYA MANENKOV Associated Press HELSINKI (AP) — The selling points of the charming bed-and-breakfast are its century-old…

NEW DELHI (AP) — An avalanche swept away a group of tourists in the Himalayas in northeastern India on Tuesday, killing at least seven and injuring…

STOCKHOLM (AP) — Sweden’s domestic security agency says five men have been arrested on suspicion of aiding and abetting terrorist offenses.…

By MATTHEW DALY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden’s administration is making $450 million available for solar farms and…

ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan’s Supreme Court has ruled that a decision to delay provincial elections was unconstitutional. Ali Zafar, the attorney…

By DAVID BRANDT AP Sports Writer The Cinderellas certainly had their moments in this March Madness. More than a few, actually. In the end, it was a…

BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s main opposition party says it will seek a parliamentary inquiry into Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s handling of a tax evasion…

By RAF CASERT and SAMUEL PETREQUIN Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union’s foreign policy chief has lashed out at China for its…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press BELFAST, Northern Ireland (AP) — It has been 25 years since the striking of the Good Friday Agreement, the…

By ZEKE MILLER AP White House Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden said Tuesday it remains to be seen if artificial intelligence is…

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Human rights groups have applauded Malaysia’s move to scrap the mandatory death penalty as a major step forward in…

By DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Nigel Lawson, the tax-cutting U.K. Treasury chief under the late Margaret Thatcher and a lion of…

By MAHMOUD ILLEAN and FARES AKRAM Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli police have stormed the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem’s Old City,…

By HUIZHONG WU Associated Press TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Taiwan defied threats of retaliation by China ahead of an expected meeting between the…

By NICK PERRY Associated Press WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — After stepping down as New Zealand’s prime minister in January, Jacinda Ardern is…

By JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press ZURICH (AP) — Credit Suisse shareholders on Tuesday upbraided the Swiss bank’s leaders for years of…

GENEVA (AP) — Police say a German climber has died after falling some 500 meters (1,640 feet) in the Alps in southern Switzerland. The accident…

By SYLVIE CORBET The Associated Press PARIS (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron will have to muster all his diplomatic adeptness and political…

ISLAMABAD (AP) — The Taliban says their forces in Afghanistan have killed six members of the extremist Islamic State group during a raid in the…

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Asian shares were trading mixed Wednesday following a decline on Wall Street after reports on the…

By PETER SMITH Associated Press BELFAST, Northern Ireland (AP) — Teenagers from Catholic and Protestant youth groups lit candles on a Belfast…

By PETER SMITH Associated Press BELFAST, Northern Ireland (AP) — Teenagers from Catholic and Protestant youth groups lit candles on a Belfast…

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australia’s central bank has left its benchmark interest rate on hold at 3.6% at its…

By PETER DEJONG and MIKE CORDER Associated Press VOORSCHOTEN, Netherlands (AP) — A passenger train has slammed into a construction crane and…

By SCOTT McFETRIDGE and SEAN MURPHY Associated Press Writer DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — People still sorting through the wreckage of their homes after…

By BASSEM MROUE Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — A drone strike carried out by the American-led coalition in northwestern Syria has killed a senior…

By SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A Democratic-backed Milwaukee judge won the high stakes Wisconsin Supreme Court race Tuesday,…

By SARA BURNETT Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — Brandon Johnson, a union organizer and former teacher, was elected as Chicago’s next mayor…

By GENE JOHNSON Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) — A plan announced last week to return Lolita, a killer whale held captive for more than a…

By COLLEEN LONG and MICHAEL BALSAMO Associated Press Former President Donald Trump is set to appear in a New York City courtroom on charges related…

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australia has become the last of the “Five Eyes” security partners to ban the…

By EDDIE PELLS AP National Writer HOUSTON (AP) — After six games and 240 minutes of pure dominance that ran through March, then part of April, it…

By SARAH BRUMFIELD and LEA SKENE Associated Press BALTIMORE (AP) — A former Maryland political aide wanted on corruption charges died Monday after…

SURREY, British Columbia (AP) — A suspect accused of slashing a person’s throat on a bus in the Canadian province of British Columbia has been…

NEW YORK (AP) — New York City police have arrested two men in connection with two killings that investigators believe were part of a series of…

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A Washington state man accused of entering the U.S. Capitol with a pro-Trump mob during the Jan. 6 deadly insurrection has…

By NICK PERRY Associated Press WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — A powerful earthquake in Papua New Guinea has killed four people and destroyed more…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Russia’s U.N. ambassador is dismissing U.S. and European Union descriptions of its…

By TRISHA AHMED Associated Press/Report for America MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Viewers of the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources EagleCam were…

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — A man convicted of breaking into a woman’s Florida Panhandle apartment and fatally stabbing her 37 times in 1986 is set…

By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer BANGKOK (AP) — The Asian Development Bank says China’s recovery from the pandemic and strong demand…

By JOSHUA GOODMAN Associated Press Writer MIAMI (AP) — The new representative of Venezuela’s opposition in the U.S. is urging the Biden…

NEW YORK (AP) — Novels by Geraldine Brooks and Lan Samantha Chang and poetry by Saeed Jones are among this year’s winners of the Anisfield-Wolf…

By COLLEEN SLEVIN Associated Press DENVER (AP) — A prosecutor says a Colorado woman knew what she was doing when she stabbed her young stepson 18…

WASHINGTON (AP) — First lady Jill Biden said Monday that she wants the defeated Iowa women’s basketball team to be invited to the White House in…

PARADISE, Mont. (AP) — Crews could face a difficult task cleaning up a 25-car train derailment in western Montana that spilled numerous cases of…

By JOSH FUNK AP Business Writer OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A lawsuit says Union Pacific routinely hires private investigators to check out employees’…

By MEGAN JANETSKY Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — Belize has reaffirmed its diplomatic ties with Taiwan, the second country to do so in a week…

By The Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Leonardo DiCaprio testified Monday at the trial of former Fugee rapper Prakazrel “Pras” Michel, who is…

By HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH Associated Press The president of a private Minnesota university says she’s retiring next year. She had been…

By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN Associated Press The FBI says a man charged with storming the U.S. Capitol was stationed on a Navy aircraft carrier when he…

By DAVE COLLINS Associated Press HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Veterans’ advocacy groups have sued the U.S. Department of Defense seeking records of…

By BECKY BOHRER Associated Press JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — Opponents of a major oil project on Alaska’s petroleum-rich North Slope lost the first…

BEIRUT (AP) — Syrian state media says Israel has staged airstrikes on the southern suburbs of the Syrian capital of Damascus killing two civilians.…