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By BASSEM MROUE Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanon’s caretaker transportation minister says the contract for a new terminal at the…

PARIS (AP) — A French court of appeal has ruled not to extradite to Ukraine the Ukrainian billionaire businessman Kostyantin Zhevago, who was…

By GISELA SALOMON and DÁNICA COTO Associated Press MIAMI (AP) — The government of Trinidad and Tobago has won a multimillion-dollar verdict in a…

By DAVID BAUDER AP Media Writer NEW YORK (AP) — CNN’s leaders are preaching patience as viewers have been abandoning the network during its…

By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Vatican on Thursday responded to Indigenous demands and formally repudiated the…

By JOSH FUNK and TRISHA AHMED Associated Press PRINSBURG, Minn. (AP) — Hundreds of people had to evacuate their Minnesota town after a train…

By EVELYNE MUSAMBI Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Kenya’s opposition leader Raila Odinga has led thousands of protesters in a third round…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press Japanese LGBTQ activists and supporters have held an inaugural Pride 7 Summit in Tokyo, where they called on Group…

By LORNE COOK Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen says the European Union must be prepared to…

By ELÉONORE HUGHES, CARLA BRIDI and MAURICIO SAVARESE Associated Press BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — Former President Jair Bolsonaro arrived back in…

By KIRSTEN GRIESHABER Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — After schmoozing with Berlin’s political elite in the morning, King Charles III plans to…

By STEPHEN WADE AP Sports Writer FUJISAWA, Japan (AP) — Seiichi Sano was a busy company owner for the early part of his life. But he began anew at…

By CHRISTINA A. CASSIDY and JONATHAN J. COOPER Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — In Arizona’s most populous county, elected officials are bracing…

By NINIEK KARMINI and GRAHAM DUNBAR Associated Press JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesian soccer players and fans have reacted with tears and…

By DAVID RISING Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — An American cybersecurity firm says a Chinese hacking group that is likely state-sponsored and has…

HELSINKI (AP) — Finland’s intelligence agency SUPO says Russia’s spy operations in the Nordic nation have been substantially weakened…

By HOWARD FENDRICH AP National Writer When Andy Roddick agreed to join John McEnroe, Andre Agassi and Michael Chang at the Pickleball Slam, the 2003…

By SAMUEL PETREQUIN Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — European Union countries and negotiators from the EU’s parliament have reached a provisional…

By LIUDAS DAPKUS Associated Press VILNIUS, Lithuania (AP) — France’s top diplomat says that she hopes that the NATO applications of Sweden and…

By GERALD IMRAY Associated Press CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — Former Olympic runner Oscar Pistorius has applied for parole and is expected to…

By MIKE CORDER Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The United Nations’ highest court is set to rule in a case filed by Iran against…

By FRANK JORDANS Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — King Charles III became the first monarch to address Germany’s parliament, the Bundestag, on…

By The Associated Press Russia’s security service arrested an American reporter for The Wall Street Journal on espionage charges, the first…

By SHARON JOHNSON Associated Press FORT CAMPBELL, Ky. (AP) — Nine people were killed in a crash involving two Army Black Hawk helicopters in…

By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press ROME (AP) — Pope Francis has shown a “marked improvement” after being given intravenous antibiotics for a…

By JOSEPH WILSON Associated Press BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Firefighter Manuel Rubio had never seen a blaze like the one that raged for the past week…

BO’AO, China (AP) — China’s new No. 2 leader says its economic recovery improved in March and he promised to stay committed to opening to…

By TIA GOLDENBERG Associated Press HAIFA, Israel (AP) — Amal Oraby is usually a fixture at street protests. But as tens of thousands of Israelis…

LAFAYETTE, Ind. (AP) — A 16-month-old boy was fatally shot by his 5-year-old sibling at a northwestern Indiana apartment, authorities said. The…

By SAM METZ Associated Press PARK CITY, Utah (AP) — Gwyneth Paltrow wasn’t to blame for a 2016 collision with a retired optometrist on a beginner…

SONIA PÉREZ D., MORGAN LEE and CLAUDIO ESCALÓN Associated Press SAN MARTIN JILOTEPEQUE, Guatemala (AP) — The last Ana Marina López heard of her…

CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — The Australian Parliament has created landmark new laws that will make the nation’s biggest greenhouse gas polluters…

By MIKE SCHNEIDER Associated Press The county that encompasses Manhattan added more than 17,000 residents in the year ending last July. That’s…

By ELLEN KNICKMEYER, MICHAEL WEISSENSTEIN and LISA MASCARO Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — In a highly sensitive U.S. visit, Taiwan’s president…

By MATTHEW DALY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republicans have passed a sprawling energy package that would counter virtually all of…

QUITO, Ecuador (AP) — Ecuador’s Constitutional Court ruled Wednesday the opposition-dominated National Assembly can take up the question of…

By JIM GOMEZ Associated Press MANILA, Philippines (AP) — A fire broke out on a ferry in the southern Philippines and raged overnight for eight…

By LEAH WILLINGHAM Associated Press CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A protester arrested for disrupting West Virginia lawmakers as they moved to ban…

By SEUNG MIN KIM and LISA MASCARO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden won’t veto a Republican-led measure to end the national…

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — New Mexico’s special academy for training workers in the film and television industry is a step closer to fruition.…

By RIAZ KHAN Associated Press PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — Taliban militants have killed four police officers and wounded six in a pair of attacks in…

By JAY COHEN AP Sports Writer CHICAGO (AP) — Bulls center Andre Drummond missed the team’s game against the Los Angeles Lakers after he…

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — A judge has ordered the U.S. government to resume regular oil and gas lease sales on federal lands in North Dakota. The order…

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A judge has dismissed a lawsuit filed by an employee of Catholic Charities of Omaha who says she suffered physical and emotional…

CHICAGO (AP) — A Cook County jury has awarded nearly $5 million to the family of an 84-year-old retired teacher who was killed when a police…

Associated Press DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Syrian state media say Israel is staging airstrikes in the Damascus area. Loud explosions were heard over…

By TRISHA AHMED Associated Press/Report for America North Dakota schools would be required to show students high-quality video of how a human fetus…

By LISA BAUMANN Associated Press Actor Melissa Joan Hart said she and her husband helped a class of kindergartners that was fleeing the Nashville…

By JOHN RABY Associated Press CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — West Virginia will no longer allow children and young teens to marry. Republican Gov. Jim…

By ADAM BEAM Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A California lawmaker wants to end a ban on state-funded travel to states with…

SKOPJE, North Macedonia (AP) — Austrian President Alexander Van der Bellen is urging rival political parties in North Macedonia to end a dispute…

By SARAH RANKIN Associated Press NORTH CHESTERFIELD, Va. (AP) — Family, friends and other mourners gathered at a Virginia church to remember Irvo…

By ASHRAF KHALIL Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republicans are accusing Washington, D.C. officials of losing control of the capital…

By JUAN A. LOZANO and ERIC TUCKER Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — The man who inspired the film “Hotel Rwanda” and was freed by Rwanda last…

By STEFANIE DAZIO Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Prosecutors charged seven California Highway Patrol officers and a nurse with involuntary…

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Washington Wizards shooting guard Bradley Beal is facing a possible misdemeanor charge in central Florida. A fan accused the…

By JOSHUA GOODMAN MIAMI (AP) — The former general counsel for Venezuela’s state-owned oil company pleaded guilty in Miami federal court on money…

By RANDALL CHASE AP Business Writer DOVER, Del. (AP) — Attorneys for a group of Tesla shareholders are asking Delaware’s Supreme Court to…

By KEVIN McGILL and MATTHEW BROWN Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Oil companies offered a combined $264 million for drilling rights in federal…

By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — An FBI informant who marched to the U.S. Capitol with fellow Proud Boys members has…

By CURT ANDERSON Associated Press ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — The effort to feed thousands of pounds of lettuce to starving manatees in Florida has…

By RALPH D. RUSSO AP College Sports Writer A congressional hearing targeting what one lawmaker called “NIL chaos” in college sports drifted into…

By BEN FINLEY, ADRIAN SAINZ and HOLLY MEYER Associated Press Details from the rich, full lives of the three adults killed Monday at a Nashville…

By SETH BORENSTEIN AP Science Writer A seemingly relentless series of severe storms, likely with deadly tornadoes, are forecast to rip across parts…

By THOMAS ADAMSON Associated Press PARIS (AP) — Paris sanitation workers are starting to clean up debris from a more than three-week-long strike, a…

By MENELAOS HADJICOSTIS Associated Press NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — Cyprus’ justice minister has unveiled a host of measures to combat fan violence…

By MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The Manhattan grand jury investigating hush money paid on Donald Trump’s behalf is scheduled…

By MATTHEW LEE AP Diplomatic Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration is offering support for the creation of an international court to…