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By TERRY TANG Associated Press Every Lunar New Year without fail, Kat Lieu’s mother would make her steamed nian gao, which is a sweet rice —…

BEIJING (AP) — China has accused “some Western media” of bias, smears and political manipulation in their coverage of China’s ending…

By BOBBY CAINA CALVAN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — When New York’s first licensed recreational marijuana outlet opened last month, the…

By TOM DAVIES Associated Press INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — A top state lawyer has urged the Indiana Supreme Court to uphold the state’s Republican-backed…

By JOHN O’CONNOR AP Political Writer SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Prison and union officials say 18 employees of a central Illinois prison have…

By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN Associated Press ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Prosecutors say a failed GOP candidate accused of orchestrating a series of…

By ZEKE MILLER AP White House Correspondent CAPITOLA, Calif. (AP) — President Joe Biden walked along the splintered boardwalk of a California beach…

By DANIEL POLITI and FRANKLIN BRICEÑO Associated Press LIMA, Peru (AP) — Police fired tear gas to try to subdue thousands of protesters who poured…

By JOSH BOAK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The countdown toward a possible U.S. government default began Thursday with Treasury implementing…

By KANIS LEUNG Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong’s leader says the city will scrap its mandatory isolation rule for people infected…

By KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea’s rubber-stamp parliament has passed a budget that sustains a high level…

Associated Press LIMA, Peru (AP) — Protesters set fire to the police station and judicial office in the Peruvian town of Macusani Wednesday after…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Israel’s U.N. ambassador is accusing the Palestinians of stabbing a knife into any…

JENIN REFUGEE CAMP, West Bank (AP) — Palestinian officials and media reports say Israeli troops shot and killed a Palestinian schoolteacher and a…

By GAVIN GOOD Associated Press CHAMPAIGN, Ill. (AP) — Mackenzie Holmes scored 30 points and grabbed 10 rebounds and Grace Berger added 18 points to…

By REBECCA SANTANA Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A government program launched Thursday is giving American citizens the chance to play a role…

By AUDREY McAVOY Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — Lawmakers opened a new session of the Hawaii State Legislature with proposals to provide more tax…

By JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — An American consultant has been sentenced to two years in prison for an illicit effort…

SARASOTA, Fla. (AP) — A Florida congressman has been injured in an accident at his home. U.S. Rep. Greg Steube’s office released a short…

BEIJING (AP) — An avalanche trapped vehicles outside a highway tunnel in Tibet, and at least eight people have died. The falling snow and ice…

WASHINGTON (AP) — A lesion removed by surgeons last week from first lady Jill Biden’s left eyelid was a non-cancerous growth, Dr. Kevin…

By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Former President Donald Trump said he has never read any part of a book in which the columnist…

RANCHO CUCAMONGA, Calif. (AP) — Actor Julian Sands, star of several Oscar-nominated films including “A Room With a View,” has been missing for…

By NICK PERRY Associated Press WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, whose empathetic handling of the…

By BRENDAN FARRINGTON Associated Press TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is asking state universities for the number…

WILLAMINA, Ore. (AP) — Authorities say a student and a deputy were treated at a hospital after they likely were exposed to fentanyl at a western…

By ANNE M. PETERSON AP Sports Writer Midfielder Sara Björk Gunnarsdóttir has been awarded more than $88,000 in back pay that was withheld by her…

By KIM CHANDLER Associated Press MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama has changed death penalty procedures to give the prison system longer to carry out…

By MORGAN LEE Associated Press SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — A Santa Fe district attorney will announce Thursday whether charges will be brought in the…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — A Mexican human rights group has launched an online guide for people searching for missing relatives, a real need in a country…

By BEN FINLEY and DENISE LAVOIE Associated Press NEWPORT NEWS, Va. (AP) — When a 6-year-old shot and wounded his first-grade teacher in this…

By LEA SKENE BALTIMORE (AP) — In one of his first high-profile decisions after taking office earlier this month, Baltimore’s new top prosecutor…

By REBECCA BOONE Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Investigators seized stained bedding, strands of what looked like hair and a single glove —…

By ALI SWENSON Associated Press A movement to retrofit telephone kiosks with defibrillators across the U.K. is more than a decade old and didn’t…

By LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A government lawyer says the Capitol riot was the culmination of weeks of preparation and…

By SAM METZ Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah lawmakers wasted no time this week before returning to an issue that has become a popular…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Authorities in western Mexico say they have launched a search for two activists who went missing after their vehicle was found…

By JOHN O’CONNOR AP Political Writer SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Legal challenges to Illinois’ semiautomatic weapons ban have begun. A federal…

By MATTHEW LEE and LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. is finalizing a massive package of military aid for Ukraine that…

By BOBBY CAINA CALVAN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The U.S. government’s star witness in a corruption trial over the broadcasting rights to…

By ADRIAN SAINZ Associated Press MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — The U.S. Justice Department says it has opened a civil rights investigation into the arrest…

By TERRY SPENCER Associated Press FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — More than four years after gunmen killed emerging rap star XXXTentacion during a…

NEW YORK (AP) — A bestselling author of crime stories and other nonfiction works is working on a book about the stabbing deaths last fall of four…

By RIO YAMAT Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — A new report released this month in Nevada says state auditors in 2022 found a troubling pattern of…

By R.J. RICO Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Authorities say they killed a man who shot and injured a Georgia state trooper as law enforcement…

By JAMES POLLARD Associated Press/Report for America COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — The South Carolina Supreme Court is set for an all-male bench for the…

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — A Rhode Island man who had more than 200 guns and thousands of rounds of ammunition at his home has pleaded guilty to lying…

By DANICA COTO Associated Press SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Lawyers for sprinter Usain Bolt say more than $12.7 million is missing from his…

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. General Assembly has elected Inger Andersen of Denmark to a second four-year term as executive director of the…

By JIM MUSTIAN and MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump’s former lawyer, Michael Cohen, said he met for 2½ hours…

By KYLE HIGHTOWER AP Sports Writer Chris Ford, a member of the Boston Celtics 1981 championship team, a longtime NBA coach and the player credited…

By MICHAEL LIEDTKE AP Technology Writer SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Elon Musk was alternately depicted in a San Francisco courtroom as a liar who…

MILAN (AP) — German airline Lufthansa says it has submitted an offer for a minority stake in Italy’s ITA Airways Spa, formerly Alitalia. The…

By LEAH WILLINGHAM Associated Press CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — West Virginia’s Republican-controlled House has passed a proposal to reduce the…

By JUSTIN KABUMBA Associated Press GOMA, Congo (AP) — Police in eastern Congo have fired tear gas at demonstrators who were protesting the arrival…

CAMDEN, N.J. (AP) — Campbell’s Soup Co. plans to spend about $50 million to upgrade of its headquarters in New Jersey as it consolidates the…

By CHRISTINA A. CASSIDY Associated Press Two years since the attack on the U.S. Capitol, a series of drive-by shootings targeting Democrats in New…

By MARK THIESSEN and PATRICK WHITTLE Associated Press ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — A polar bear chased several residents around a tiny, isolated Alaska…

BANGOR, Maine (AP) — A Maine newspaper that was criticized for publishing an edited version of Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream”…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s president said Wednesday his government will consider a plea by imprisoned drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman to…

By CHRIS MEGERIAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris is heading to Florida on Sunday to speak about abortion on the…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is pushing ahead with a contentious plan to remove all remaining…

By DAVID CRARY AP National Writer Anti-abortion activists will have multiple reasons to celebrate — and some reasons for unease — when they…

BROVARY, Ukraine (AP) — A helicopter crash that killed Ukraine’s interior minister and about a dozen other people is the latest devastating…

By ERIC TUCKER and JOSH BOAK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A Russian national who founded a cryptocurrency exchange the Justice Department…

The latest survey by the Michigan Department of Natural Resources shows gray wolves are holding their own in the state. An analysis of data collected…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration will provide $125 million for parts and other supplies to help repair crews in Ukraine keep up with…

By MARK PRATT Associated Press The husband of a Massachusetts woman who has been missing since New Year’s Day went online to look up ways to…

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell tested positive Wednesday for COVID-19 and is…