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By HANNAH SCHOENBAUM Associated Press/Report for America RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina residents can now buy a handgun without getting a…

By FRANCES D’EMILIO Associated Press ROME (AP) — Italy’s government has endorsed legislation that would outlaw laboratory-grown food and…

By TRAVIS LOLLER, KIMBERLEE KRUESI and DENISE LAVOIE Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Hundreds of people have gathered at a candlelight…

By BRUCE SCHREINER Associated Press FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Republican lawmakers in Kentucky on Wednesday swept aside the Democratic governor’s…

By MATT O’BRIEN AP Technology Writer Are tech companies moving too fast in rolling out powerful artificial intelligence technology that could…

By WAYNE PARRY Associated Press ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — Democratic U.S. Senators from four states want federal environmental officials to…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A cold low pressure system spinning off the coast of California sent bands of rain and snow across the state Wednesday, making…

MARYLAND HEIGHTS, Mo. (AP) — Five St. Louis-area police officers are injured after being struck by an SUV driven by a suspected drunken driver.…

By ISABELLA O’MALLEY and DANA BELTAJI Associated Press The countries of the United Nations led by the island nation of Vanuatu adopted what…

SENECA FALLS, N.Y. (AP) — The National Women’s Hall of Fame has announced a new group of inductees. Among the honorees are social justice…

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — A mysterious object found at the bottom of the Baltic Sea, which Danish authorities had hoped could provide clues to the…

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Asian shares were mixed Thursday following a rally on Wall Street as worries over banks following…

By JANIE HAR Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The leader of California’s first-in-the-nation reparations task force on Wednesday said it…

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Investigators in Sweden have determined that a powdered substance found in letters received by several county boards is…

By JULIE PACE and HANNA ARHIROVA Associated Press ON A TRAIN FROM SUMY TO KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine’s president invited his powerful…

By GEOFF MULVIHILL Associated Press The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday approved selling naloxone without a prescription, setting the…

By JAMEY KEATEN and COURTNEY BONNELL Associated Press GENEVA (AP) — Credit Suisse violated a plea agreement with U.S. authorities by failing to…

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — A Swedish court has found 35-year-old woman guilty of war crimes for posting photos of herself with severed heads that…

By MOGOMOTSI MAGOME Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — South African police have launched a manhunt for convicted rapist and murderer Thabo…

BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Commission says a top EU transport official who accepted free flights and accommodation in Qatar has been transferred…

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — An oil tanker owned by a major U.S.-traded transportation company appears to be…

By ELENA BECATOROS Associated Press DNIPRO, Ukraine (AP) — The head of the U.N.’s atomic energy watchdog is warning of the danger of a…

By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — A Russian diplomat says Moscow has suspended sharing any information about its nuclear forces…

By SALLY FRENCH of NerdWallet The Flight Compensation Regulation in the European Union requires airlines to compensate passengers an amount from 250…

By JAN M. OLSEN Associated Press COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Sweden’s Foreign Ministry has summoned Russia’s ambassador after Moscow’s…

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Police say a man in the United Arab Emirates’ sheikhdom of Sharjah jumped off a balcony to his death after…

By AAMER MADHANI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden on Wednesday offered an optimistic outlook on the health of democracy…

BAGUIO, Philippines (AP) — Philippine police say they have seized more than half a ton of suspected methamphetamine concealed in tea bags and…

BO’AO, China (AP) — The chairman of Russian gas producer Gazprom says it is increasing gas supplies to China and expects soon to reach the…

STRASBOURG, France (AP) — Swiss retirees are taking their government to a top European court over what they claim is its failure to take sufficient…

By DAVID A. LIEB Associated Press Public outrage is swift following mass shootings, such as the killing of six people at a Christian elementary…

By OMAR FARUK Associated Press MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — This year’s holy month of Ramadan coincides with the longest drought on record in…

ISLAMABAD (AP) — A top U.S. diplomat says the Taliban must free detained Afghanistan activists, following the arrest of a girls’ education…

By JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press GENEVA (AP) — UBS says it’s bringing back former CEO Sergio Ermotti to lead the Swiss bank as it moves forward…

By JOSEF FEDERMAN Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel’s prime minister has brushed aside criticism of his judicial overhaul plan from…

By JENNIFER O’MAHONY Associated Press MADRID (AP) — Renewable energy investors who lost subsidies promised by Spain are heading to a London…

By KIRSTEN GRIESHABER and DANICA KIRKA Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — King Charles III has arrived in Germany for his first foreign trip as…

By JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — Asian stocks rose Wednesday as anxiety about the global financial system began to fade following…

HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — Vietnam says its economy slowed sharply in the first quarter of this year, hit by rising costs and weaker demand for its…

By CHRIS MEGERIAN and FRANCIS KOKUTSE Associated Press ACCRA, Ghana (AP) — During her visit to Ghana, U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris has…

By ISABEL DEBRE Associated Press AL-AZZA REFUGEE CAMP, West Bank (AP) — In schools across the world, children are halfway into their second…

By FABIOLA SÁNCHEZ and MORGAN LEE Associated Press CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico (AP) — Mexican authorities said Wednesday that eight employees or…

By KATHY McCORMACK Associated Press CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — Vanessa Santiago first met Pamela Smart in 2003 as a fellow prison inmate in New York,…

By HOLLY MEYER and ANNIE MA Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — An alarm blared and lights flashed as a heavily armed assailant stalked the…

By SAM METZ Associated Press PARK CITY, Utah (AP) — Gwyneth Paltrow’s attorneys came close to wrapping up their case on Wednesday by relying…

By JULIE PACE and HANNA ARHIROVA Associated Press ON A TRAIN FROM SUMY TO KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy warned…

By JULIE PACE, HANNA ARHIROVA and JAMES JORDAN Associated Press ON BOARD A TRAIN FROM SUMY TO KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — A team of journalists from The…

By JOSH BOAK and HANNAH FINGERHUT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — In the federal budget standoff, the majority of U.S. adults are asking…

By AUDREY McAVOY Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — Hawaii authorities on Tuesday say they have referred 33 people to U.S. law enforcement after the…

By MARY CLARE JALONICK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate has voted to repeal the decades-old congressional measure that greenlighted…

By DEE-ANN DURBIN AP Business Writer Longtime Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz insisted his company hasn’t broken labor laws and is willing to bargain…

By KEN POWTAK Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — When the Nashville Predators’ team flight took off for Boston, defenseman Ryan McDonagh…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Northern Mexico has developed such a habit of exotic animals and violence, that people not only keep tigers as pets, they steal…

By KIMBERLEE KRUESI and JONATHAN MATTISE Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A federal judge quietly cleared the way to drop the minimum age…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — A U.S. tourist was shot in the leg by unidentified assailants at a resort town on Mexico’s Caribbean coast, prosecutors in the…

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (AP) — Officials in Alabama say a Huntsville police officer has died after being shot and another officer was critically wounded.…

PHOENIX (AP) — A judge has ordered Phoenix to clean up a homeless encampment that spans nearly 10 blocks in the city’s downtown area. Maricopa…

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Officials briefly have ordered a partial evacuation of a South Florida airport as part of a “security-related…

NEW YORK (AP) — New York officials will be able to issue licenses for recreational marijuana dispensaries in some parts of the state now that an…

By MICHAEL RUBINKAM Associated Press Last week’s fatal blast at a Pennsylvania chocolate factory highlighted the combustibility of food plants in…