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By FAZAL TAWAB Associated Press QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) — The sister and a friend of a Pakistani national soccer team player who died in a migrant…

By COREY WILLIAMS Associated Press PONTIAC, Mich. (AP) — A Michigan judge has ruled that staff and administrators at Oxford High School cannot be…

PARIS (AP) — French authorities say a bus carrying 40 elementary school students home from a trip to the French Alps plunged down a wooded slope…

By MARK THIESSEN Associated Press ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — The Iditarod dog sled race started Saturday with a fan-friendly ceremonial run through…

By JEAN-YVES KAMALE Associated Press KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — Congo’s leader is urging French President Emmanuel Macron to back sanctions…

WINDSOR LOCKS, Conn. (AP) — A business jet was buffeted by severe turbulence over New England, causing a rare passenger death and forcing the…

By KEVIN SCHEMBRI ORLAND Associated Press VALLETTA, Malta (AP) — Less than a week after a deadly migrant shipwreck off Italy, five European Union…

By SEAN MURPHY Associated Press OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Tens of thousands of Texans from the bustling Dallas-Fort Worth area routinely drive across…

By DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Britain has reasserted its sovereignty over the Falkland Islands after Argentina pulled out of a…

By MSTYSLAV CHERNOV Associated Press KHROMOVE, Ukraine (AP) — Pressure from Russian forces mounted Saturday on Ukrainians hunkered down in Bakhmut,…

By OMAR FARUK Associated Press MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — The director of a hospital in a disputed city in the Somaliland region says at least 145…

By STEPHANIE LIECHTENSTEIN and JOSEPH KRAUSS Associated Press VIENNA (AP) — The head of the U.N.’s nuclear agency said Saturday that Iran…

By KAWEEWIT KAEWJINDA Associated Press CHIANG RAI, Thailand (AP) — To the chant of Buddhist prayers, friends and family of one of the soccer boys…

By NICOLAS GARRIGA and BARBARA SURK Associated Press PARIS (AP) — Organizers of next year’s Paris Olympics promised relatively modest prices…

By JARI TANNER Associated Press TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Estonia is preparing to hold a general election that will determine whether it can sustain…

By TOM KRISHER and MARK THIESSEN Associated Press TOK, Alaska (AP) — Alaska’s rugged and frigid interior, where it can get as cold as minus 50…

By HANNA ARHIROVA Associated Press KRYVYI RIH, Ukraine (AP) — The pops of welding torches and the piercing whine of angle grinders fill the…

BEIJING (AP) — China says increases in its defense budget have been “appropriate and reasonable” and are aimed at meeting the complex security…

By STEPHEN GROVES Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Sen. Sherrod Brown has survived a decade of statewide Democratic losses in Ohio by building a…

By PAUL J. WEBER and KEN MILLER Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Republican U.S. Rep. Tony Gonzales of Texas was censured Saturday in a rare…

ITALY, Texas (AP) — News reports say three children have been killed and two other children wounded in an attack at a home in Texas on Friday…

By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer A year after Will Smith smacked him on the Academy Awards stage, Chris Rock finally gave his rebuttal in a forceful…

By JAMES POLLARD Associated Press/Report for America WALTERBORO, S.C. (AP) — Walterboro native Danny Murdaugh is ready for his small South Carolina…

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — A prosecutor says three Indianapolis men have been convicted of murder and other charges in the fatal shooting of three young…

By DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Two senior clergymen in Jerusalem have consecrated the holy oil that will be used to anoint King…

By ASTRID SUÁREZ Associated Press BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Colombian President Gustavo Petro has asked prosecutors to investigate accusations made…

By SAM METZ Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah Gov. Spencer Cox said Friday that he plans to sign a measure that would effectively ban…

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Child protective services had opened an investigation of a Utah man over alleged child abuse and threats to his family just…

By REBECCA BOONE Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Defense attorneys for a man accused of stabbing four University of Idaho students to death…

By JILL COLVIN and MICHELLE L. PRICE Associated Press OXON HILL, Md. (AP) — Leading Republicans took veiled jabs at Donald Trump at an annual…

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (AP) — A judge has sentenced an Iowa man convicted of killing his parents and sister to three consecutive life sentences without…

NEW YORK (AP) — A man has been sentenced to 18 months in prison after pleading guilty to a federal hate crime conspiracy charge in a series of…

WASHINGTON (AP) — ABC’s “This Week” — Sens. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, and Dan Sullivan, R-Alaska; Democratic presidential candidate Marianne…

By BOBBY CAINA CALVAN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Federal jurors in New York are preparing to start deliberations on the fates of two former…

TORONTO (AP) — Canadian police have announced arrests in an international labor trafficking ring. York Region police say than 60 Mexican nationals…

By ASHRAF KHALIL and GARY FIELDS Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The expected move next week in Congress to overturn District of Columbia laws…

By MARGARET STAFFORD Associated Press A lawsuit filed by a Muslim advocacy group alleges that corrections officers at a Missouri prison used pepper…

By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN Associated Press A New York man has pleaded guilty to stealing a badge and radio from a police officer who was brutally beaten…

By ADRIAN SAINZ Associated Press MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — A former Memphis Fire Department emergency medical technician told a Tennessee board Friday…

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. (AP) — Hoosier rocker John Mellencamp is donating an archived collection of his life and work to Indiana University. IU President…

GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. (AP) — A former Colorado clerk who has become a hero to election conspiracy theorists has been convicted of a misdemeanor…

DETROIT (AP) — Former Michigan State University basketball star Keith Damon Appling has been sentenced in the death of a Detroit man. Prosecutors…

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — A video released by a Tennessee prosecutor shows the death of a Black man in a Memphis jail after he was beaten during a…

ATHENS, Ga. (AP) — Georgia’s Stegeman Coliseum has been closed for repairs after a small piece of concrete fell from the ceiling of the nearly…

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards is traveling to Asia for a weeklong series of meetings with business leaders and…

RENO, Nev. (AP) — The company that owns the medical transport aircraft that crashed in northern Nevada last week, killing all five people aboard,…

PUNTA GORDA, Fla. (AP) — Health officials say a person in southwest Florida has died after being infected with an extremely rare brain-eating…

By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER Associated Press Prosecutors produced no direct evidence linking South Carolina attorney Alex Murdaugh to the killings of his…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — A Mexican official says her government thought Arizona rancher George Alan Kelly should have faced first-degree murder charges…

By TARA COPP Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Two former Iraq and Afghanistan War-era defense secretaries are recommending that the government…

By LISA RATHKE Associated Press MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) — Vermont’s leading Roman Catholic bishop testified Friday against a bill that would…

By JOHN ANTCZAK Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Some residents stranded in Southern California mountain communities by a huge snowfall could be…

By TOM MURPHY AP Health Writer Walgreens says it will not start selling an abortion pill in 20 states that had warned of legal consequences if it did…

By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A former U.S. Army private from Kentucky who was devoted to a violent extremist group has been…

By MARK STEVENSON MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico is seeking to avoid potential trade sanctions this week for failing to stop the near-extinction of the…

By CHRISTINA LARSON AP Science Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Archaeologists have found the earliest direct evidence for horseback riding – an…

By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer NEW YORK (AP) — It’s not always emphasized given that she’s one of the most groundbreaking still photographers of…

BEIRUT (AP) — The World Bank says that Syria has sustained an estimated $5.1 billion in damages in the massive Feb. 6 earthquake that hit northern…

By TARA COPP Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. announced a new $400 million military aid package for Ukraine on Friday that for the first…

By The Associated Press Voters in Oklahoma will decide Tuesday whether it should be legal to possess and grow recreational marijuana in the state.…

By DÁNICA COTO Associated Press SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — A Pennsylvania woman who went missing more than 30 years ago in a case that stumped…

By DARLENE SUPERVILLE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Nearly 60 years after he was recommended for the nation’s highest military award,…

By RONALD BLUM Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Christian Thielemann is leading the Vienna Philharmonic’s six-concert U.S. tour as another…

By JACQUES BILLEAUD Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs vowed Friday that her administration won’t carry out an…