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By DEE-ANN DURBIN AP Business Writer Chick-fil-A is jumping on the plant-based bandwagon. The Atlanta chain said Thursday that it’s testing its…

By MATT OTT AP Business Writer The average long-term U.S. mortgage rate ticked up slightly this week after four weeks of declines, a possible sign of…

By MICHELLE CHAPMAN AP Business Writer Activist investor Nelson Peltz is calling off a proxy fight with Disney one day after newly returned CEO  Bob…

By LISA MASCARO AP Congressional Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. House voted unanimously Thursday to condemn the Beijing government for…

By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press VATICAN CITY (AP) — The umbrella group of Catholic religious orders in France is demanding church authorities…

NEW YORK MILLS, Minn. (AP) — A man who authorities say fired a shot at a co-worker is facing several charges. Otter Tail County Sheriff Barry…

TAVERNIER, Fla. (AP) — Some 114 Haitian migrants have made landfall in the Florida Keys, continuing an uptick of people making their way from Haiti…

By YURAS KARMANAU Associated Press TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Belarusian authorities have equested a lengthy prison sentence for jailed human rights…

By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Eugene Lee, the six-time Emmy Award-winning production designer for “Saturday Night…

By TASSANEE VEJPONGSA Associated Press Bangkok (AP) — Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim says his government is committed to helping Thailand…

By BRUCE SCHREINER and JIM SALTER Associated Press LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Producers of spirits have new bragging rights in the age-old whiskey vs.…

By KAREEM CHEHAYEB, FAY ABUELGASIM and OMAR ALBAM Associated Press BAB AL-HAWA, Syria (AP) — A small convoy has crossed from Turkey into Syria’s…

By KAY DERVISHI and YESICA BALDERRAMA of The Chronicle of Philanthropy Chronicle of Philanthropy The COVID-19 pandemic greatly accelerated a…

By HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Burt Bacharach, the singularly gifted and popular composer who delighted millions with the…

By AL-HADJI KUDRA MALIRO and MARIA CHENG Associated Press KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — A woman who says she was victimized by a World Health Organization…

By GABRIELA SELSER and AAMER MADHANI Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — President Joe Biden says he is happy 222 Nicaraguan prisoners sent to the…

By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — Russia-U.S. relations are in a state of “unprecedented crisis” without any sign of…

By MICHELLE CHAPMAN AP Business Writer Disney is working on sequels for “Toy Story,” “Frozen” and “Zootopia,” three huge hits as the…

By MATT OTT AP Business Writer More Americans filed for jobless benefits last week, but layoffs remain historically low despite the Federal…

By ROB MAADDI AP Pro Football Writer PHOENIX (AP) — When medical personnel rushed onto the field to save Damar Hamlin’s life after the Buffalo…

By HOLLY MEYER Associated Press The religiously wary, the spiritually curious — and anyone inclined to appeal to a higher power on game day — are…

By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press VATICAN CITY (AP) — Retired Pope Benedict XVI’s second secretary has come out with a new memoir. It’s a…

By GERALD IMRAY AP Sports Writer Ghana international soccer player Christian Atsu is missing after the earthquake in Turkey, his club and agent said…

By JENNIFER O’MAHONY and JOSEF FEDERMAN Associated Press MADRID (AP) — The mayor of Barcelona has severed her city’s official ties with…

By DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The U.K. is giving Northern Ireland more time to form a new power-sharing government, eliminating…

By MOGOMOTSI MAGOME Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has declared a state of disaster with immediate…

By JENNIFER McDERMOTT Associated Press If your image of nuclear power is giant, cylindrical concrete cooling towers pouring out steam on a site that…

By CARA ANNA Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Eritrea’s president in rare public comments has dismissed as “a fantasy” allegations that…

By KELVIN CHAN AP Business Writer LONDON (AP) — Twitter has failed to provide a full report to the European Union on its efforts to combat online…

BRUSSELS (AP) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says he has discovered plans by Russian secret services to destroy Moldova. Speaking to…

By KEN SWEET AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Sam Bankman-Fried, the founder and former CEO of FTX, has been unusually talkative following the…

By DEREK GATOPOULOS Associated Press ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greece’s parliament has banned a far-right political party led by a jailed former…

By BRIAN WITTE Associated Press ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — Maryland Gov. Wes Moore and state lawmakers are scheduled to announce support for measures…

JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — A shallow earthquake has shaken Indonesia’s easternmost province of Papua, killing four people who were unable to…

CAPU MIDIA, Romania (AP) — U.S. and French troops who are in Romania as part of a NATO battlegroup held a military exercise to test the 30-nation…

By MARK SHERMAN and JESSICA GRESKO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court soon could find itself with easy ways out of two…

STOCKHOLM (AP) — Sweden’s central bank has raised a key interest rate and 0.5 percentage points to 3% to combat inflation, saying it “is far…

CAIRO (AP) — Egypt’s statistics bureau says inflation hit a new high in January. It says the annual inflation stood at 26.5% last month, up from…

GENEVA (AP) — Credit Suisse has reported a pre-tax loss of more than 1.3 billion Swiss francs, or about $1.4 billion, in the fourth quarter of last…

MOSCOW (AP) — Authorities say a gas explosion in an apartment building in the Siberian city of Novosibirsk has killed at least 12 people, including…

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Nissan has reported a 55% jump in its October-December profit, as the Japanese automaker gears up…

RAHIM FAIEZ Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — Dozens of Afghans have rushed to the Kabul airport following a rumor that an airlift operation was…

By MATTHEW LEE and ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration says the China balloon shot down by the U.S. was…

By RAF CASERT and SAMUEL PETREQUIN Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — President Volodymyr Zelenskyy asked his Western allies Thursday for more…

By BRIAN MAHONEY AP Basketball Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Kevin Durant’s time in Brooklyn ended Thursday when the Nets traded him to the Phoenix Suns…

By JACK JEFFERY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — Russia’s foreign minister has met with Sudan’s military rulers as the nations seek to deepen…

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australia has rejected a coal mining application based on environmental law for the…

By MOHANED AWAD and JACK JEFFERY Associated Press EL OBEID, Sudan (AP) — A surge in mosquito-borne diseases in recent months has shown the…

By BOBBY CAINA CALVAN Associated Press GARDEN CITY, N.Y. (AP) — On a September day in 2020, New York City Police Officer Baimadajie Angwang kissed…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — The leaders of Japan and the Philippines have agreed to sharply boost their defense ties, allowing…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Pennsylvania Sen. John Fetterman, who had a stroke during his campaign last year, remained hospitalized and undergoing tests…

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Asian shares have fallen after Wall Street retreated for a second day as market watchers…

By JIM GOMEZ Associated Press MANILA, Philippines (AP) — American forces and their allies in Asia are ready for battle after years of joint combat…

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Toyota has reported an 8.1% drop in its net profit in the last quarter as a global shortage of…

By JOSH FUNK Associated Press OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — The fiery derailment of a train carrying toxic chemicals — sending a huge plume of smoke in the…

By JUSTIN SPIKE, GHAITH ALSAYED and ZEYNEP BILGINSOY Associated Press KAHRAMANMARAS, Turkey (AP) — Rescue workers made a final push Thursday to…

By SEUNG MIN KIM, JOSH BOAK and STEVE PEOPLES Associated Press TAMPA, Florida (AP) — President Joe Biden is taking direct aim at Republicans who…

By MATTHEW DALY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden sparked a firestorm in energy circles when he said in Tuesday’s State…

By BIANCA VÁZQUEZ TONESS and SHARON LURYE Associated Press She’d be a senior right now, preparing for graduation in a few months, probably leading…

By ROB GILLIES Associated Press Police have charged a bus driver with first-degree murder after he drove his vehicle at a high speed into a day care…

By DÁNICA COTO Associated Press SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Children are stuck in orphanages across Haiti, unable to leave the increasingly…

By FARAI MUTSAKA and JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press RUSHINGA, Zimbabwe (AP) — While others in her Zimbabwean village agonize over a maize crop…

By JONATHAN LANDRUM Jr. AP Entertainment Writer PHOENIX (AP) — Sheryl Lee Ralph is living a career dream: The “Abbott Elementary” star won her…

By KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and his young daughter have taken center stage at a…

By ADAM BEAM Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A five-year experiment aimed at improving care for some of California’s most at-risk…

SAN DIEGO (AP) — A tiny California mouse now has a big title after winning a Guinness World Records title for longevity. A Pacific pocket mouse…

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australia’s Defense Department will remove surveillance cameras made by Chinese…

By GENE JOHNSON Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) — A U.S. judge has upheld Washington’s residency requirement for involvement in the…

By DAVID BAUDER AP Media Writer NEW YORK (AP) — An estimated 27.3 million people watched President Joe Biden’s State of the Union address on…

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A jury has convicted a Minnesota woman accused of shooting her 6-year-old son nine times and hiding his body in her car trunk.…

By MARC LEVY Associated Press HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Pennsylvania is now the latest state where a judge has found the public school funding system…

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A co-host of “Ear Hustle,” the Pulitzer Prize-nominated podcast produced behind bars, was released from San…