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LAS CRUCES, N.M. (AP) — Federal officials have announced the first $196 million of grants in a $1 billion program to repair and replace aging and…

By MEG KINNARD Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Congressman Jim Clyburn is backing a former staffer in her effort to lead South Carolina’s…

LISBON, Portugal (AP) — UEFA president Aleksander Ceferin says soccer bodies and clubs should do more to tackle racist abuse of players. He says…

By RAHIM FAIEZ and EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — The United Nations says it cannot accept a Taliban decision to bar Afghan…

BERLIN (AP) — German airline Lufthansa says it has agreed to sell the remainder of its catering business to European private equity group Aurelius…

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Asian shares were trading mostly lower Thursday as investors turned their attention to upcoming…

By DANICA KIRKA and BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press LONDON (AP) — British media says the husband of former Scottish first minister and Scottish…

BERLIN (AP) — Official figures show that factory orders in Germany surged in February, posting their third successive increase in another promising…

By JARI TANNER Associated Press HELSINKI (AP) — Finland’s outgoing prime minister, Sanna Marin, says she will resign as the leader of her…

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkish officials and media reports say a Guinea-Bissau-flagged cargo ship with 14 crew members on board has sunk off…

By NICK PERRY Associated Press WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — In her final speech to New Zealand’s Parliament, Jacinda Ardern describes in…

By ERIKA KINETZ Associated Press LONDON (AP) — In October, an officer in Russian President Vladimir Putin’s elite personal security service…

By JAMEY KEATEN and DAVID McHUGH Associated Press GENEVA (AP) — The head of UBS has voiced confidence that the Swiss bank will succeed in a…

By MONIKA SCISLOWSKA and VANESSA GERA Associated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy won new pledges of deeper…

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australia’s main opposition party has decided to oppose the government’s model for…

By KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea this month will begin weekly tests of sewage produced by its major cities…

By BASSEM MROUE and JOSEF FEDERMAN Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Suspected Israeli airstrikes in Syria in recent weeks have killed two Iranian…

By ISABEL DeBRE and FARES AKRAM Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Violence resumed for a second straight night in Jerusalem on Wednesday when…

By AUDREY McAVOY Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — Repairing coral reefs after boats run aground. Shielding native forest trees from a killer fungus…

By MICHAEL LIEDTKE AP Technology Writer SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Two trailblazing ride-hailing services are heading toward uncharted territory as they…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Russia’s commissioner for children’s rights, who is being sought for war crimes for…

By LISA MASCARO AP Congressional Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) — The moment will be historic — a U.S. House speaker meeting with the president of…

By NICK PERRY Associated Press WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — New Zealand’s central bank surprised economists on Wednesday by imposing an…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — A Mexican judge ordered that three Mexican immigration officials, a private security guard and a Venezuelan migrant be held for…

By ANIRUDDHA GHOSAL and ASHWINI BHATIA Associated Press KINNAUR, India (AP) — The pickup truck jostled away from the roaring Sutlej River and up…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Stormy Daniels must pay nearly $122,000 of Donald Trump’s legal fees that were racked up in connection with the porn…

By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER, COLLEEN LONG and JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The coverup is worse than the crime, the expression goes.…

By JESSE BEDAYN Associated Press/Report for America DENVER (AP) — Initial results show two of the more moderate Denver mayoral candidates in the…

By TRISHA AHMED Associated Press/Report for America The North Dakota Senate passed a series of bills on Monday that would restrict transgender…

By LISA BAUMANN Associated Press BELLINGHAM, Wash. (AP) — Washington state has purchased a three-year supply of a leading abortion medication in…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — An Indigenous anti-mining activist has been killed in a violent part of western Mexico. Authorities confirmed Tuesday that…

By GARY D. ROBERTSON Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Speculation is rising in the North Carolina legislature that a Democrat is about to…

FORT CAMPBELL, Ky. (AP) — Investigators recovered “black boxes” from two U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopters that crashed last week in…

PANAMA CITY (AP) — A strong 6.3-magnitude earthquake has struck off Panama’s Pacific coast near the town of Boca Chica. The U.S. Geological…

DOUGLASVILLE, Ga. (AP) — A fifth suspect has been arrested in a March 4 mass shooting at a 16th birthday party in suburban Atlanta. Douglas County…

By JAMES POLLARD Associated Press/Report for America COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A federal complaint has accused the South Carolina agency tasked with…

By DAVID BAUDER AP Media Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Hours of breathless news coverage of Donald Trump’s arraignment represented history for the…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s president has announced a deal to buy 13 of the power plants operated by the Spanish company Iberdrola in the country…

By JOHN HANNA and ANDREW DeMILLO Associated Press TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A Kansas bill to impose some of the nation’s broadest bathroom…