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By MARIA CHENG Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Health officials in Burundi have declared an outbreak of polio linked to the vaccine, the first time…

By REGINA GARCIA CANO Associated Press CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — The U.S. government is pledging more than $171 million for humanitarian and…

By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The estate of rapper Coolio plans to release a studio album later this year that the…

By RUSS BYNUM and BOBBY CAINA CALVAN Associated Press From New York City, to Savannah, Georgia, to the halls of the White House, thousands of people…

By ANITA SNOW Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Led by tough-talking Republican governors weighing presidential runs, Texas and Florida are debating…

By ANDREW WILKS Associated Press ISTANBUL (AP) — Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says his government will move forward with ratifying…

By MICHELLE CHAPMAN AP Business Writer The parent of Silicon Valley Bank filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy a week after the tech-focused bank failed…

GENEVA (AP) — The U.N. human rights chief called on Belarus to end its “systematic repression” of critics and immediately release people held…

BERLIN (AP) — German authorities say police have detained 42 people as part of a crackdown on gangs suspected of blowing up cash machines.…

DETROIT (AP) — Ford is recalling more than 1.5 million vehicles in the U.S. in two actions to fix leaky brake hoses and windshield wiper arms that…

By GEIR MOULSON Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Lawmakers in Germany have agreed to reduce the size of the country’s increasingly bloated…

BEIJING (AP) — China is appealing to other governments to treat its companies fairly after Britain and New Zealand joined the United States in…

PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — Officials say a fire raged through a wooden house in northwest Pakistan, killing 10 people, including women and children.…

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Prince Joachim of Denmark is moving to the United States to take up the post of defense industry attache at the Danish…

By SOPHENG CHEANG Associated Press PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — Centuries-old cultural artifacts that had been illegally smuggled out from Cambodia…

By FLORENT BAJRAMI and LLAZAR SEMINI Associated Press PRISTINA, Kosovo (AP) — A United States envoy has urged Serbia and Kosovo to implement a…

JERUSALEM (AP) — Hundreds of elite officers in Israel’s military reserves say they will not show up for duty starting on Sunday in protest over…

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The government’s response to the failure of two large banks has already involved…

By GERALD HERBERT and KEVIN McGILL Associated Press ATCHAFALAYA NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE, La. (AP) — Officials with the Biden administration have…

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…