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By RODNEY MUHUMUZA Associated Press KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — A Ugandan lawmaker on Tuesday introduced draft legislation that he said seeks to…

By SUSIE BLANN Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Drones that the Kremlin said were launched by Ukraine flew deep inside Russian territory,…

GENEVA (AP) — Swiss regulators have found that Credit Suisse made a “serious breach” of law in connection with a now-bankrupt firm linked to…

By HALELUYA HADERO Associated Press The United States is ratcheting up national security concerns about TikTok, mandating that all federal employees…

PARIS (AP) — French soccer federation president Noël Le Graët has resigned. A government audit found he no longer had the legitimacy to lead…

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Norway’s energy minister has met with activists who are now blocking the entrance to several ministries in Oslo to…

By SYLVIA HUI Associated Press LONDON (AP) — British police were urgently searching for a two-month-old baby Tuesday after officers arrested the…

BEIJING (AP) — China is pushing back at renewed suggestions the COVID-19 pandemic could have been the result of a lab leak, saying it has been…

By MENELAOS HADJICOSTIS Associated Press NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — Cyprus’ new president has affirmed the island nation’s Western foreign policy…

Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli authorities says the motorist killed by a suspected Palestinian gunman in the occupied West Bank held…

By KELVIN CHAN Associated Press BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — The man credited with inventing the cellphone 50 years ago had only one concern then about…

BEIJING (AP) — China says it will soon begin training foreign astronauts for trips to its newly completed orbiting space station. In an interview…

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…