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FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — Switzerland’s central bank has raised its key interest rate as it seeks to combat inflation and said “it cannot be…

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Global shares were mostly lower Thursday following a retreat on Wall Street after the Federal…

By LORNE COOK Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union has summoned the leaders of Serbia and Kosovo for emergency talks to try to bring…

By RAF CASERT Associated Press MECHELEN, Belgium (AP) — The confessionals where generations of Belgians admitted their sins stood stacked in a…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Seventy-five years ago, a ship landed at Tilbury Dock near London, carrying more than 800 passengers…

By RIAZAT BUTT Associated Press MECCA, Saudi Arabia (AP) — Saudi Arabia has ambitious plans to welcome millions more pilgrims to Islam’s…

By MEAD GRUVER Associated Press CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — Abortion pills will remain legal in Wyoming for now, after a judge ruled Thursday that the…

MATADOR, Texas (AP) — A line of severe storms produced multiple tornadoes Wednesday evening on the Rolling Plains in Texas, killing at least three…

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australia’s online safety watchdog has issued a legal notice to Twitter demanding an…

By MARLON GONZÁLEZ Associated Press TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) — Authorities in Honduras began to hand over to relatives the hacked, burned…

By ASHOK SHARMA Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Washington in June was expected to reduce…

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — A federal judge on Wednesday struck down Florida rules championed by Gov. Ron DeSantis restricting Medicaid coverage for…

By LISA MASCARO AP Congressional Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) — Eager to impeach President Joe Biden, hard-right House Republicans forced a vote…

By NICK PERRY Associated Press WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — New Zealanders this week have been debating a thorny health care issue — whether…

By JONEL ALECCIA AP Health Writer When I told friends and family I was reporting on the first chicken meat grown from animal cells, their first…

By MIKE SCHNEIDER Associated Press Without immigration, the white population in the U.S. would have declined last year. Immigration also propelled…

By SAMUEL PETREQUIN and SYLVIE CORBET Associated Press PARIS (AP) — Climate activist Vanessa Nakate has urged rich countries to cancel the debt and…

By GEOFF MULVIHILL, KIMBERLEE KRUESI and CLAIRE SAVAGE Associated Press A year after the U.S. Supreme Court rescinded a five-decade-old right to…

By GEOFF MULVIHILL, KIMBERLEE KRUESI and CLAIRE SAVAGE Associated Press One year ago Saturday, the U.S. Supreme Court rescinded a five-decade-old…

By Michael Liedtke AP Technology Writer SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Microsoft on Thursday will try to gain clearance to complete a $69 billion takeover of…

By RIAZAT BUTT Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — A year on from the floods in Pakistan that killed at least 1,700 people, destroyed millions of…

By RIAZAT BUTT Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — Last summer’s flooding in Pakistan killed at least 1,700 people, destroyed millions of homes,…

By FRANK JORDANS Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — As an international search determined the implosion of a vessel setting out for the underwater…

By MICHAEL R. BLOOD Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Lawyers are continuing to spar in the case of a one-time adviser to former President Donald…

By JIM VERTUNO and PAUL J. WEBER Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas state Sen. Angela Paxton, the wife of Attorney General Ken Paxton, is…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department says it has begun turning over evidence to former President Donald Trump as his lawyers prepare a defense…

CHICAGO (AP) — Chicago police say a 20-year-old man is facing multiple charges in connection with a hit-and-run collision that injured four…

QUNICY, Wash. (AP) — The man accused of fatally shooting two people and wounding several others at a Washington music festival Saturday told police…

By JEFF AMY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia election officials say they would need six to nine months to install new software and hardware…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The PGA Tour said Wednesday that it would appear next month before a Senate subcommittee whose leader asked executives from the…

By KEVIN McGILL Associated Press A federal appeals court says a government agency cannot enforce anti-LGBTQ+ discrimination employment rules against…

By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Federal prosecutors say a former Indiana congressman should serve three years in prison for an…

TULSA, Okla. (AP) — Thousands of residents in Oklahoma and Louisiana remain without electricity as work crews continue to repair power lines…

By MARK THIESSEN and AUDREY McAVOY Associated Press ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — A U.S. appeals court has halted a lower court ruling that would have…

By CLAIRE RUSH Associated Press/Report for America PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Oregon lawmakers on Wednesday officially passed amended versions of the…

NEW YORK (AP) — A former Goldman Sachs investment banker has been convicted of insider trading and obstruction of justice charges. The conviction…

By SCOTT McFETRIDGE Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds has agreed to settle a lawsuit filed by journalists who sought…

By BRIAN WITTE Associated Press ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — Maryland’s Supreme Court has ruled that a firearms expert who testified at a murder…

DENVER (AP) — Seventeen former Major League Baseball scouts who say they were discriminated against because of their age sued the league, its teams…

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — In a story published March 1, 2022, about an investigation into attorney John Eastman, The Associated Press erroneously…

Associated Press WINCHESTER, Va. (AP) — A wild animal trainer featured in the popular Netflix series “Tiger King” has been convicted of…

By SARAH RANKIN Associated Press RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A historic number of state lawmakers were ousted in this week’s Virginia primary, which…