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By KAREL JANICEK Associated Press PRAGUE (AP) — Slovakia’s government on Friday approved a plan to give Ukraine its fleet of 13 Soviet-era MiG-29…

By SYLVIE CORBET and BARBARA SURK Associated Press PARIS (AP) — Angry protesters took to the streets in Paris and other cities for a second day on…

QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) — Mourners have attended the funeral of a Pakistani female field hockey player who died in a migrant boat crash off Italy’s…

By TOM GOULD Associated Press MAPUTO, Mozambique (AP) — Mozambicans are planning marches across the country to honor Azagaia, a popular protest…

By PREDRAG MILIC Associated Press PODGORICA, Montenegro (AP) — Montenegro is holding a presidential election this weekend that is seen as a test of…

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida says hats off to South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol for…

By STAN CHOE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Wall Street’s week of turmoil closed with drops for stocks. The S&P 500 fell 1.1% Friday, led…

By MICHAEL CASEY and DAVID KOENIG Associated Press LEOMINSTER, Mass. (AP) — The music was blaring on a February afternoon when Francisco Torres…

By NICK PERRY Associated Press WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — New Zealand lawmakers and other workers inside the nation’s Parliament will be…

By LISA MASCARO AP Congressional Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) — Besieged Republican Rep. George Santos arrives on the House floor most days to…

By AUDREY McAVOY Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — Honolulu prosecutors have filed charges against four police officers alleging a cover-up in…

By KANIS LEUNG Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong’s most popular boy band Mirror, a major driving force behind the revival of the local…

BEIJING (AP) — China’s foreign minister has told his Ukrainian counterpart that Beijing is concerned about the grinding conflict there spinning…

By JOHN DANISZEWSKI Associated Press BAGHDAD (AP) — Along the Tigris River, young Iraqi men and women in jeans and sneakers danced with joyous…

CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australia said it’s planning to buy up to 220 Tomahawk cruise missiles from the United States after the U.S. State…

By JOHN DANISZEWSKI Associated Press BAGHDAD (AP) — It’s been 20 years since the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq began March 20, 2003. President George…

By JENNIFER McDERMOTT and JOEAL CALUPITAN Associated Press MALABON, Philippines (AP) — Marilene Capentes pushes a cart along the streets of Malabon…

SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Oregon will temporarily suspend rebates for buying or leasing an electric vehicle for a year starting in May because too many…

SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) — An inmate who organized a daring, elaborate Southern California jailbreak in 2016 was found guilty Thursday of the escape…

BY KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea said Friday it fired an intercontinental ballistic missile to “strike…

By MICHAEL GOLDBERG Associated Press/Report for America JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The former director of a Mississippi nonprofit organization has…

SAN SALVADOR El Salvador’s congress has voted to approve yet another extension of emergency rules allowing police to round up suspected members of…

By BRIAN WITTE Associated Press ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — Maryland Gov. Wes Moore says he’s aiming for “the most full assault on child poverty”…

By JANIE HAR and SOPHIE AUSTIN Associated Press/Report for America SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — The infamous state prison on San Francisco Bay that…

ST. CHARLES. Mo. (AP) — A 70-year-old Missouri man has been convicted of shooting an Amazon delivery driver in the back during an argument over a…

By BECKY BOHRER Associated Press JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — The Biden administration’s approval this week of the largest new oil project in years on…

By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — NFL lawyers want a New York judge to change her mind and agree to let all racial…

By HALELUYA HADERO Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Microsoft is infusing artificial intelligence tools into its suite of office software,…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican authorities have arrested a 14-year-old boy nicknamed “El Chapito” for the drug-related killing of eight people near…

By JEFFREY COLLINS Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina lawmakers have launched an effort to sack the comptroller general for a…

By The Associated Press Federal investigators say an air traffic controller cleared a plane to take off from Sarasota, Florida, while an American…

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The Federal Reserves says cash-short banks have borrowed about $300 billion in…

By STEVE KARNOWSKI Associated Press ST.. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Minnesota regulators said Thursday they’re monitoring the cleanup of a leak of…

By JOEY CAPPELLETTI Associated Press LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Michigan Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer signed legislation Thursday that will…

By DALATOU MAMANE and KRISTA LARSON Associated Press NIAMEY, Niger (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken is seeking to strengthen ties with…

By MATTHEW PERRONE AP Health Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Pfizer’s COVID-19 pill Paxlovid won another vote of confidence from U.S. health advisers…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — A prosecutor in Mexico says there is evidence that some of the six women who went missing on March 7 have been found dead.…

By MAYSOON KHAN Associated Press/Report for America ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — A coalition that includes some of New York’s medical marijuana…

By JOHN O’CONNOR AP Political Writer SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — A former Illinois state corrections officer has been sentenced to 20 years in…

By HOLLY RAMER Associated Press CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — New Hampshire has moved closer to adopting “parents’ bill of rights” legislation.…

By TARA COPP and LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin ordered a number of improvements in access to…

By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Vatican’s No. 3 says Pope Francis gave clear indications to get out of a…

FORT HOOD, Texas (AP) — The U.S. military is investigating the death of a soldier at a Texas Army post that in recent years has struggled with…

By GARY GERARD HAMILTON Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Marcus Samuelsson is keen on leading with intention. That focus is seared into the…

By KEN SWEET AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Eleven of the biggest U.S. banks Thursday announced a $30 billion rescue package for First Republic…

By PREDRAG MILIC Associated Press PODGORICA, Montenegro (AP) — Montenegro’s president has dissolved parliament and paved the way for an early…

By STEPHEN McGRATH and AUREL OBREJA Associated Press CHISINAU, Moldova (AP) — Moldovan lawmakers have voted in favor of a divisive bill that will…

BOSTON (AP) — Boston is pushing forward with plans to discourage the use of fossil fuel in new buildings. Boston Mayor Michelle Wu on Thursday…

BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s defense minister has rejected suggestions that the country’s armed forces are in a state of disarray. Defense Minister…

WILLIAMSBURG, Ky. (AP) — A Kentucky university says it has agreed to a settlement of more than $14 million over the death of a student wrestler…

ANACORTES, Wash. (AP) — Two BNSF trains derailed in separate incidents in Arizona and Washington state on Thursday, with the latter spilling diesel…

ROME (AP) — Tourists in Rome checking out the Pantheon, Italy’s most-visited cultural site, will soon be charged a 5-euro ($5.28) entrance…

By ROB GILLIES Associated Press TORONTO (AP) — Canadian officials say a 16-year-old wounded his mother with a firearm and killed two police…

By MARTINA REBECCA INCHINGOLO Associated Press LONDON (AP) — For Adam Brody, donning the padded superhero suit in “Shazam!” and its sequel is a…

By KRYSTA FAURIA Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Willem Dafoe has said that, for him, the process of making a movie always eclipses the…

By AMY TAXIN Associated Press As river water gushed through a broken levee, thousands of people in a California farming town were forced to evacuate…

By BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Unions representing hundreds of thousands of nurses, ambulance crews and other health care workers…

By The Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran’s bazaars are packed ahead of the Persian New Year next week. But there’s…

By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN Associated Press A former top editor of an Orthodox Jewish newspaper in New York City has been arrested on charges that he…

By MARY CLARE JALONICK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate is taking the first steps toward repealing two measures that give open-ended…

By MATT OTT AP Business Writer The average long-term U.S. mortgage inched back down this week after five straight weeks of increases, good news for…

By SARAH RANKIN Associated Press DINWIDDIE, Va. (AP) — Attorneys for the family of a Black Virginia man who died in law enforcement custody say…

ANKARA Rescue teams have retrieved two more bodies after floods struck two Turkish provinces that were already devastated by last month’s powerful…

By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The late Stephen Sondheim’s last stage musical — an adaptation of two films by…