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By SAM KEMMIS of NerdWallet Many frequent travelers amass huge piles of travel points and miles. Yet, unlike saving real money, saving travel rewards…

By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press ROME (AP) — Pope Francis has intervened for the third time to crack down on the celebration of the old Latin…

By BARBARA ORTUTAY AP Technology Writer Twenty-six words tucked into a 1996 law overhauling telecommunications have allowed companies like Facebook,…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — A Japanese startup is planning to launch commercial space viewing balloon flights that it hopes…

By SAMUEL PETREQUIN Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union’s climate czar says Russian President Vladimir Putin unwittingly…

By DEE-ANN DURBIN AP Business Writer Home Depot says it’s investing $1 billion in wage increases for its U.S. and Canadian hourly workers. The…

By FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A top Treasury Department official says Russia’s mounting battlefield losses are…

MANILA, Philippines (AP) — The wreckage of a small plane carrying two Filipino pilots and two Australian passengers has been identified on one of…

By KATE BRUMBACK Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — They were led down a staircase into a garage beneath a downtown Atlanta courthouse, where officers…

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A new complex erected on the shores of the Persian Gulf, in the capital of…

PARIS (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron is advocating for his contested plan to increase the pension eligibility age. Macron visited the…

By ILAN BEN ZION Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel’s president has called on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s coalition to seek…

By KANIS LEUNG and EMILY WANG FUJIYAMA Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — Hong Kong on Tuesday revoked a visa it granted to a Chinese scientist who…

By TALES AZZONI AP Sports Writer MADRID (AP) — A Spanish court has denied Dani Alves’ appeal to be freed on bail while the investigation of a…

By DEREK GATOPOULOS Associated Press ATHENS, Greece (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken has urged NATO allies Greece and Turkey to calm…

By JOSH FUNK Associated Press OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg wants the nation’s freight railroads to immediately act…

By JOSEPH KRAUSS and MALAK HARB Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Traffic has more than doubled last year at Dubai’s airport,…

Staff The Associated Press One year ago, Russia launched Europe’s biggest war since WWII. Russian tanks began rolling into Ukraine, sending…

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — The head of Australia’s domestic spy agency says the nation faces an unprecedented…

By The Associated Press Russian President Vladimir Putin suspended Moscow’s participation in the last remaining nuclear arms control pact with the…

By KIM TONG-HYUNG and HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea’s recent resumption of missile tests underscores its…

ISTANBUL (AP) — The death toll in Turkey and Syria rose to eight in a new and powerful earthquake that struck two weeks after a devastating temblor…

By LYNN BERRY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Western leaders feared for the life of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy a year ago and the…

By KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Human rights advocates are urging South Korea to test hundreds of North Korean…

By JOHN LEICESTER Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — In the final hours before the Russian onslaught, a last grasp at peace. Russian troops…

NEW YORK (AP) — CNN anchor Don Lemon will return to work Wednesday and will receive “formal training” in the aftermath of his on-air comments…

MOMBASA, Kenya (AP) — The International Energy Agency on Tuesday accused fossil fuel industries of doing too little to curb methane emissions and…

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Asian shares declined Wednesday after stocks tumbled on Wall Street as worries persist about…

BERLIN (AP) — A dozen minors filed a lawsuit with Austria’s top court Tuesday seeking to force the government to ensure their constitutional…

By SARAH RANKIN Associated Press RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Virginia voters on Tuesday elected Democrat Jennifer McClellan, a veteran state legislator…

By KEVIN MCGILL Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Sunny skies and warm weather are fueling the fervor on New Orleans streets as the city…

BEIJING (AP) — The foreign minister of China, which has provided strong political backing for Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, says his country…

By MARK SHERMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — In its first case about the federal law that is credited with helping create the modern…

By AAMER MADHANI, ZEKE MILLER and CHRIS MEGERIAN Associated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — President Joe Biden on Tuesday warned of “hard and bitter…

TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — A delegation of U.S. lawmakers has met with Taiwan’s president, who promised to deepen military cooperation between the two…

By ED DAVEY The lush West African rainforests of Liberia are being cut down and illegally exported with the likely collusion of powerful government…