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By GRAHAM DUNBAR AP Sports Writer GENEVA (AP) — Real Madrid defender David Alaba has been racially abused on social media after voting for Lionel…

By JOSH BOAK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Commerce Department is opening the application process for computer chip manufacturers to…

By GRANT PECK Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — Thai and U.S. officials have officially opened annual Cobra Gold multinational military exercises,…

BEIJING (AP) — U.S. government bans on Chinese-owned video sharing app TikTok reveal Washington’s own insecurities and are an abuse of state…

By COLLEEN LONG and JOSH BOAK Associated Press VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (AP) — President Joe Biden says GOP lawmakers could put millions of people’s…

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Denmark’s parliament has urged lawmakers and employees with the 179-member assembly against having TikTok on…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s lower house of parliament has approved a 114 trillion yen ($836 billion) budget for the…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is in Belfast to sell his landmark agreement with the European Union…

By IGNATIUS SSUUNA Associated Press KIGALI, Rwanda (AP) — The Protestant Council of Rwanda has directed all health facilities run by its members to…

JERUSALEM (AP) — An ultranationalist ally of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has tendered his resignation as a deputy minister in the new…

By YURI KAGEYAMA Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — The Tokyo Olympic bid-rigging scandal has widened with Japanese advertising giant Dentsu and five…

By SAMYA KULLAB Associated Press KUPIANSK, Ukraine (AP) — A tank carrying Ukrainian infantry speeds toward a target position marked with a metal…

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Asian shares were mixed Wednesday as investors watched for upcoming earnings reports and other…

BEIJING (AP) — China is ordering closer adherence to the dictates of the Communist Party and leader Xi Jinping in legal education before its…

By JENNIFER O’MAHONY Associated Press MADRID (AP) — Spain is building on its reputation in renewable energy to position itself as Europe’s…

By AMY TAXIN Associated Press FRESNO, Calif. (AP) — Mabu saunters across a grassy field and raises his long, gray trunk to wrangle food from a hole…

By ADAM BEAM Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California’s coronavirus emergency declaration is ending. Gov. Gavin Newsom ordered…

By KEN RITTER Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — A former Las Vegas-area elected official will represent himself at trial on a murder charge in the…

By KANIS LEUNG Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong police began searching a landfill Tuesday for evidence related to the grisly killing of…

By JIM GOMEZ Associated Press MANILA, Philippines (AP) — The Philippine president says the main mission of his country’s military has changed to…

By JAE C. HONG, AMY TAXIN and MARK PRATT Associated Press RUNNING SPRINGS, Calif. (AP) — Jennifer Cobb and her husband planned on staying four days…

By SARA BURNETT Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — Chicago is holding a mayoral election Tuesday, but it will likely take weeks — and a runoff…

By KEVIN FREKING and ELLEN KNICKMEYER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A special House committee dedicated to countering China began its work…

By ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON Associated Press MIAMI (AP) — More than half of the residents in the slice of Miami that includes Little Havana were born…

BEIJING (AP) — Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, a close ally of Russian leader Vladimir Putin, is due in Beijing to begin a three-day…

By SARA BURNETT Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — Paul Vallas and Brandon Johnson will meet in a runoff to be the next mayor of Chicago after voters…

By MARK SHERMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Conservative justices holding the Supreme Court’s majority pressed skeptical questions…

By AIJAZ HUSSAIN Associated Press DHANGRI, India (AP) — After seven Hindus were killed in early January in two back-to-back attacks in Dhangri…

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — The remains of a man who had disappeared in southern Argentina earlier this month appear to have been found inside a…

By ISABELLA O’MALLEY Associated Press The record-breaking heat Earth endured during the summer of 2022 will be repeated without a robust…

By RANDALL CHASE Associated Press DOVER, Del. (AP) — Fox Corp. chairman Rupert Murdoch acknowledged that some Fox News commentators endorsed the…

By KANIS LEUNG Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong will lift its mask mandate on Wednesday, ending the city’s last major restriction…

By HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korean ruler Kim Jong Un has called for stronger public solidarity behind his…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Authorities say a leader of a Los Angeles-based fraud operation that stole $18 million in COVID-19 aid money has been extradited…

By SEUNG MIN KIM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House is giving all federal agencies 30 days to wipe TikTok off all government…

By JONATHAN J. COOPER Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Arizona’s Republican-controlled Legislature has for years entertained a host of…

By SUMMER BALLENTINE Associated Press COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — Missouri Republicans who want the state to take over prosecutions of violent crimes in…

By SCOTT SONNER and RIO YAMAT Associated Press RENO, Nev. (AP) — The pilot of a medical transport plane that crashed during a winter storm in…

By SEUNG MIN KIM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden said Monday that “history matters, and Black history matters” during a…

By GABE STERN Associated Press/Report for America RENO, Nev. (AP) — Tesla may receive over $300 million in tax abatements over the next two decades…

By ANITA SNOW Associated Press GOODYEAR, Ariz. (AP) — Police say the crash of a truck into a group of 20 bicyclists on a bridge that killed two and…

By COLLEEN SLEVIN Associated Press DENVER (AP) — Lawyers for a man charged with killing 10 people at a Colorado supermarket in 2021 confirm he has…

By LAURA UNGAR and MARY CLARE JALONICK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A crucial question has eluded governments and health agencies around the…

By FABIANO MAISONNAVE ATALAIA DO NORTE, Brazil (AP) — A delegation from the Brazilian government that includes widows of two slain men who had…

By OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — California Gov. Gavin Newsom says he wants to reform a landmark state environmental law…

CINCINNATI (AP) — The federal government has rested its case in former Republican Ohio House Speaker Larry Householder’s racketeering trial. Over…

By AMANDA SEITZ Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration said Monday that it is creating a new task force to crack down on an…

By MARY CLARE JALONICK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A spokesman for Pennsylvania Sen. John Fetterman says the Democrat is “on a path to…

NEW YORK (AP) — Fox “Media Buzz” anchor Howard Kurtz says he’s been barred by his company from covering Dominion Voting System’s…

EAST PALESTINE, Ohio (AP) — Federal officials say contaminated waste from the site of a fiery train derailment in Ohio have started moving out. The…

PARIS (AP) — World Cup champion Lionel Messi edged Kylian Mbappé again, this time to take FIFA’s best men’s player award on Monday. The best…

By ED WHITE Associated Press A new storm teeming with freezing rain and strong winds is socking Michigan. It’s a fresh challenge for crews that…

By JONATHAN MATTISE and KIMBERLEE KRUESI Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Lawmakers say Tennessee’s top legal chief has voiced…

By LEAH WILLINGHAM Associated Press CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — West Virginia’s GOP supermajority House of Delegates has passed a bill that would…

By ROB GILLIES ASSOCIATED PRESS TORONTO (AP) — Canada is banning TikTok from all government-issued mobile devices and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau…

By MICHAEL WEISSENSTEIN Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United Nations is making a new push to convince Libya’s rival factions to hold…

By GENE JOHNSON Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) — A company that operates a hydroelectric dam near Mount Rainier National Park and its chief…

By ROB GILLIES Associated Press TORONTO (AP) — Canada is banning TikTok from all government-issued mobile devices, reflecting widening worries from…

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A bill moving through West Virginia’s Legislature would give $25,000 in tax credits to former residents who move…

MOSCOW (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin has bestowed a state decoration on Steven Seagal, the American action-movie actor who also holds…

By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — Lawyers for former Roman Catholic Cardinal Theodore McCarrick filed a motion Monday to…

By TERRY SPENCER Associated Press FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — A Florida judge has upheld his acquittal of a nursing home administrator who had…

BERKELEY SPRINGS, W.Va. (AP) — The U.S. was shut out from the top prizes at an annual international water tasting contest in West Virginia. Entries…

By YURAS KARMANAU Associated Press TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Belarusian authorities on Monday demanded lengthy prison terms for the country’s…

By FABIOLA SANCHEZ Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s president lashed out Monday against demonstrators opposed to his plan to cut…

By BARBARA ORTUTAY AP Technology Writer “Once you send that photo, you can’t take it back,” goes the warning to teenagers, often ignoring…

By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — There’s so much darkness awaiting Ben Platt in his new Broadway role these days that…

By AMANDA SEITZ Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal officials say they’re working to cut down on a growing backlog of complaints lodged…

BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — A top European Union official says existing telecom networks aren’t up to the job of handling surging amounts of internet…

By HANNA ARHIROVA Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said Monday her first visit to Ukraine underscored…

By DAVID BAUDER AP Media Writer NEW YORK (AP) — There was a time when the idea of a 44th season of “Survivor” was unimaginable for host Jeff…

By WILL WEISSERT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Bestselling self-help author Marianne Williamson has announced she’s running for president…

By MEG KINNARD Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — President Joe Biden has appointed a former Columbia, South Carolina, mayor to be a top White…

NEW YORK (AP) — New York City’s Department of Transportation swung and missed with a road sign for the Jackie Robinson Parkway that misspelled…

By ANTHONY IZAGUIRRE Associated Press TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Monday signed a bill that gives him control of Walt…