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By MADDIE BURAKOFF and DREW COSTLEY After a catastrophic 38-train car derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, some officials are raising concerns about a…

By RONALD BLUM Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — At a cost of more than $1 million, the Metropolitan Opera has built duplicate sets for Francois…

FORT MYERS, Fla. (AP) — A Florida man has been sentenced to seven years and three months in federal prison for stealing more than $2.6 million in…

By MARGARET STAFFORD Associated Press KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — The American Civil Liberties Union of Missouri and two library associations are suing…

By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN Associated Press A film-industry weapons supervisor made her first formal court appearance Friday on a felony charge in the…

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — The United Nations says a powerful gang has taken over numerous communities in central Haiti in recent weeks and has…

By LEA SKENE Associated Press BALTIMORE (AP) — A judge on Friday ordered the release of a redacted version of an investigative report detailing sex…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Russia and Ukraine faced off at the U.N. Security Council on the first anniversary of…

By REBECCA BOONE Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Some top officials in Idaho are raising alarms over the Republican attorney general’s…

By ZEKE MILLER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is aiming to draw a contrast between his health care priorities and those of…

By JOEY CAPPELLETTI Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — Republican Rep. John James of Michigan is opting against a campaign for the Senate seat being…

BROOKSVILLE, Fla. (AP) — A former U.S. Marine is being hailed as a hero Friday for finding a 2-year-old boy who had been missing since wandering…

By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Yes, “Cocaine Bear” is a real movie. And it might be a hit. Since the trailer first debuted for…

By ALICIA RANCILIO Associated Press Thirteen years after “Party Down” was canceled by Starz, the series is back with a six-episode third season…

By DARLENE SUPERVILLE Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — U.S. first lady Jill Biden gave one of the clearest indications yet that President Joe…

By COLLEEN BARRY AP Fashion Writer MILAN (AP) — Milan designers have tapped female power on the third day of Milan Fashion Week, previewing…

By KEVIN McGILL Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A federal appeals court has struck down a federal rule requiring Gulf of Mexico charter boat…

By DAVID SHARP Associated Press BATH, Maine (AP) — The U.S. Navy appears to have learned its lesson after cramming too much technology onto ships,…

By ED WHITE Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — A man was released Friday after serving nearly 21 years in a Michigan prison, freed from a life…

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (AP) — A 76-year-old woman accused of fatally shooting her terminally ill husband in a Florida hospital is asking to be…

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Can the Federal Reserve keep raising interest rates and defeat the nation’s worst bout…

By JOCELYN NOVECK AP National Writer Austin Butler, you may have heard, has taken a bit of flack for sounding too much like Elvis now that he’s…

CHICAGO (AP) — State labor officials are investigating an Illinois-based pharmaceutical company’s decision to abruptly close all of its…

By CURT ANDERSON Associated Press ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — A Florida man accused in 2020 of plotting terror attacks in the U.S. has pleaded…

By BASSEM MROUE Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanon’s struggling banks have decided to suspend their strike for one week, following a request…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Three members of the Scottish parliament will battle to become leader of the governing Scottish…

By JEFFREY COLLINS Associated Press The prosecutor took disgraced South Carolina attorney Alex Murdaugh step-by-step Friday through a timeline of the…

By MIKE CORDER Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — A Dutch parliamentary inquiry has released a damning report into the government’s…

By FATIMA HUSSEIN and LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration is declaring its solidarity with Ukraine by…

By JIM GOMEZ Associated Press MANILA, Philippines (AP) — A group of European parliamentarians says the Philippines’ chances of retaining special…

By PAUL WISEMAN AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The Federal Reserve’s preferred inflation gauge rose last month at its fastest pace…

By WANJOHI KABUKURU Associated Press MOMBASA, Kenya (AP) — A damaging tropical cyclone dumped “dangerous and exceptional rainfall levels” over…

By ALFIAN KARTONO and EDNA TARIGAN Associated Press JAYAPURA, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesian police say 10 people have been killed and more than 20…

By DEE-ANN DURBIN AP Business Writer Cosori is recalling more than 2 million air fryers sold in the U.S., Canada and Mexico because their wire…

LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) — The Russian anti-doping agency has appealed to the Court of Arbitration for Sport in the case of Kamila Valieva. The…

By CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Officials in Nigeria are making final preparations on the eve of elections amid concerns…

By MOGOMOTSI MAGOME Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — South Africa’s troubled state-owned power utility Eskom has appointed an interim chief…

By MIKE CORDER Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — A “people’s court” without legal powers has confirmed an indictment against…

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Malaysia will raise development spending and plans new taxes for the wealthy in a smaller budget plan this year, as…

By COLLEEN BARRY AP Fashion Writer MILAN (AP) — Sexiness is in the air at Milan Fashion Week, where brands are encouraging people to show some skin…

By JOHN O’CONNOR AP Political Writer SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Illinois’ governor is planning to outline an expansive attack on what…

By MATTHEW LEE AP Diplomatic Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Secretary of State Antony Blinken will travel to Central and South Asia next week for…

By LOLITA C. BALDOR and TARA COPP Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon is announcing a new package of long-term security assistance for…

By DEREK GATOPOULOS and THEODORA TONGAS Associated Press VOULIAGMENI, Greece (AP) — European Union officials have pledged continued support to…

BERLIN (AP) — A German court has rejected a farmer’s bid to force automaker Volkswagen to end the sale of vehicles with combustion engines by…

By MUNIR AHMED Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — Officials say two Pakistani brothers who were held by the United States at the Guantanamo Bay…

JERUSALEM (AP) — Palestinian health officials say Israeli settlers have shot and seriously wounded two Palestinians in the northern occupied West…

By DARLENE SUPERVILLE Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — U.S. first lady Jill Biden said Friday that she feels a kinship with Africans during…

By The Associated Press MARINKA, Ukraine (AP) — Although Friday marks the grim first anniversary of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine,…

BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s national statistics office says that the country’s economy shrank by 0.4% in last year’s fourth quarter.…

By ISABEL DEBRE Associated Press GIVAT HAREL, West Bank (AP) — One day in the fall of 1998, Shivi Drori, a young farmer fresh out of the Israeli…

By JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press GENEVA (AP) — Quantifying the toll of Russia’s war in Ukraine remains an elusive goal a year into the conflict.…

By HANNA ARHIROVA Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — The anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is particularly poignant for women…

By STAN CHOE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks are falling on Wall Street Friday as dispiriting evidence keeps piling up to show inflation…

By JANIE HAR Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — When Miya Iwataki and other Japanese Americans fought in the 1980s for the U.S. government to…

By SIBI ARASU Associated Press BENGALURU, India (AP) — Tensions over Russia’s war on Ukraine have flared at meetings of finance ministers and…

By NG HAN GUAN Associated Press ALXA LEAGUE, China (AP) — Work crews trying to find 47 people missing after a collapse at an open-pit mine in…

NEW YORK (AP) — One of the oldest artist residency programs in the U.S. has a new executive director. In a statement Friday, MacDowell announced…

By STEVE LeBLANC Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — As Connecticut state Rep. Quentin Williams was driving home from the governor’s inauguration…

By JOHN ANTCZAK, AMY TAXIN and ED WHITE Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Heavy snow and rain pounded California and other parts of the West on…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — A news photographer is dead after he was stabbed and beaten in an attack in the northern Mexico border state of Baja California.…