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JERUSALEM (AP) — Thousands of Christian pilgrims have participated in Palm Sunday celebrations in Jerusalem at the start of the Holy Week.…

By COREY WILLIAMS Associated Press City leaders in Grand Rapids insist policing reforms and outreach to the Black community ensured protests…

By ABBY SEWELL and YASMINE MOSIMANN BEIRUT (AP) — Authorities in Iraq’s semi-autonomous northern region say they have reached a deal with the…

By CLAIRE RUSH Associated Press/Report for America PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — In the wake of an elementary school shooting in Tennessee earlier this…

By ANNE D’INNOCENZIO AP Retail Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Companies from toothpaste makers to even discounters are adding more premium items like…

By ADRIAN SAINZ, ANDREW DeMILLO and BEN FINLEY Associated Press WYNNE, Ark. (AP) — Residents across a wide swath of the U.S. raced Sunday to assess…

ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan says there is no trade with Israel after a Jewish businessman in the southern city of Karachi went viral for tweeting…

By CHRIS MEGERIAN Associated Press LUSAKA, Zambia (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris may have traveled halfway around the world to reach this…

By MARÍA TERESA HERNÁNDEZ Associated Press CHIHUAHUA, Mexico (AP) — Marcela Castro’s office in Chihuahua is more than 100 miles from the…

By AYANNA ALEXANDER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Patti Chang walked into her polling place in Chicago earlier this year, anxious about how…

By MICHELLE L. PRICE Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Chris Christie, one of the only 2016 presidential candidates to seriously consider taking on…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI and HUIZHONG WU Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s foreign minister has protested in a meeting with his Chinese counterpart…

By HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump has made history so many times. The first president without government or military…

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — An official in Burundi says the bodies of 13 gold miners have been recovered from two pits in which they were trapped by…

By MATT SEDENSKY AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — His name has been plastered on this city’s tabloids, bolted to its buildings and cemented to…

By ANDREW DeMILLO Associated Press The days after the shooting at a Nashville Christian school that killed six people have been marked by…

By KARL RITTER Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — A top Ukrainian official on Sunday outlined a series of steps the government in Kyiv would…

By TOM GOULD Associated Press QUELIMANE, Mozambique (AP) — Weeks after massive Cyclone Freddy hit Mozambique for a second time, the still-flooded…

By JARI TANNER Associated Press HELSINKI (AP) — Finland’s main conservative party claimed victory in parliamentary elections Sunday in a…

By MIKE CORDER Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — An international arrest warrant for President Vladimir Putin raises the prospect of…

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Police say three people were killed and three others were wounded in a weekend shooting involving biker gangs in an Oklahoma…

By KRISTIN M. HALL AP Entertainment Writer NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — “Son of a Sinner” singer Jelly Roll was the big winner at the CMT Music…

By PREDRAG MILIC Associated Press PODGORICA, Montenegro (AP) — Economy expert and political novice Jakov Milatovic has declared victory in…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Police in Los Angeles say one person is dead and three others were injured in a shooting during a drug deal outside a shopping…

VESELIN TOSHKOV Associated Press SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) — A reformist coalition led by former Prime Minister Kiril Petkov is the likely winner of…

By ERIC TUCKER and MATTHEW LEE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Secretary of State Antony Blinken urged his Russian counterpart, in a rare phone…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Two people died and a girl was injured after the hot air balloon they were riding in caught fire near Mexico City. Officials in…

By JOHN LEICESTER Associated Press PARIS (AP) — The wheels may be about to come off Paris’ ubiquitous for-hire electric scooters. Zipping…

By JOHN MARSHALL AP Basketball Writer HOUSTON (AP) — San Diego State’s vaunted defense staggered well into the second half as free-flowing…

By ABBY SEWELL Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Syrian state media says Israeli airstrikes have hit several sites in Syria’s Homs province,…

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — An Arizona man was found guilty of killing four people in Minnesota and leaving their bodies in an SUV in Wisconsin. A jury on…

PHOENIX (AP) — Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs must appear in court Thursday in her effort to halt pending executions. A Maricopa County Superior Court…

GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen and the Guatemalan President Alejandro Giammattei toured the archaeological site of Tikal on…

By DAVE SKRETTA AP Basketball Writer Shaka Smart was voted the AP men’s basketball coach of the year after leading Marquette to regular-season…

TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Tens of thousands of Israelis are protesting a controversial plan to revamp the country’s legal system, despite Prime…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Kaley Cuoco is flying high after giving birth to her first child. The star of “ The Flight Attendant ” and “ The Big Bang…

MARATHON, Fla. (AP) — A Florida teenager and an Atlanta woman won the overall men’s and women’s divisions Saturday at a footrace across the…

By JAVIER CORDOBA Associated Press LIMON, Costa Rica (AP) — In this colorful Caribbean port, where cruise ship passengers are whisked to jungle…

WASHINGTON (AP) — ABC’s “This Week” — Joe Tacopina, a lawyer for former President Donald Trump; former Gov. Asa Hutchinson, R-Ark.; Eric…

PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistani police say a Sikh and a Christian have been shot dead in separate targeted attacks in the northwest city of…

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Three current and former former executives of a shipbuilder that constructs vessels for the U.S. Navy have been indicted on…

ISLAMABAD (AP) — The Pakistani army says four of its soldiers were killed in a militant attack by Iran-based fighters. Saturday’s attack took…