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By MATT O’BRIEN AP Technology Writer Microsoft is ready to take its new Bing chatbot mainstream — less than a week after making major fixes…

By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — Both houses of Russia’s parliament have quickly endorsed President Vladimir Putin’s…

By LAETITIA BEZAIN Associated Press ANTANANARIVO, Madagascar (AP) — A weakened Cyclone Freddy which pummeled Madagascar Tuesday night with heavy…

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Dutch prosecutors have dropped their case against a man who had been suspected of involvement in supplying automatic…

By ILAN BEN ZION Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel’s parliament has advanced a bill that would enable lawmakers to overturn a Supreme…

BERLIN (AP) — A closely watched survey shows that German business confidence has strengthened for a fourth consecutive month as managers look past…

By ELIZA HAVERSTOCK of NerdWallet As in-person classes resume around the globe, American high school seniors are increasingly applying to undergrad…

NEW YORK (AP) — Beverly Gage’s J. Edgar Hoover biography “G-Man,” Robert Samuels’ and Toluse Olorunnipa’s “His Name is George Floyd”…

MADRID (AP) — The next Latin Grammy Awards gala will be held in southern Spain, leaving the United States for the first time. Latin Recording…

By MUNIR AHED and RAHIM FAIEZ Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistani officials say the country’s defense minister is in Afghanistan and…

By MICHAEL CANTU Edmunds Both the Honda CR-V hybrid and Kia Sportage Hybrid have been redesigned for 2023. The CR-V has enjoyed its time as the king…

By JOSEF FEDERMAN and AREF TUFAHA Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — The Israeli military said Palestinian militants fired six rockets from the Gaza…

BEIJING (AP) — An open pit mine collapsed in China’s northern Inner Mongolia region on Wednesday, killing at least two people and leaving…

By DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — A British woman whose U.K. citizenship was revoked after she traveled to Syria to join the so-called…

By JESSICA GRESKO and MARK SHERMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court seemed skeptical Wednesday of a lawsuit trying to hold…

TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — A Dutch-flagged container vessel en route from Lithuania to neighboring Latvia caught fire in the Baltic Sea, prompting the…

BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Police in Spain have detained the father of two sisters who were victims of so-called “honor killings” while visiting…

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Hybe, the South Korean entertainment company behind K-pop sensation BTS, says it has completed its acquisition of a 14.8%…

BERLIN (AP) — Germany says it is expelling two Iranian diplomats over the death sentence imposed in Iran against one of its citizens. Authorities…

By RENATA BRITO Associated Press BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Nearly one million people applied for international protection in the European Union in…

By GEIR MOULSON Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Nearly a year after Chancellor Olaf Scholz declared Russia’s invasion of Ukraine a “turning…

By AMANCAI BIRABEN and JIM SALTER Associated Press PIERRE, S.D. (AP) — A brutal winter storm closed interstate highways from Arizona to Wyoming…

By JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — Asian stock markets rose Thursday following Wall Street’s biggest one-day decline in two…

BEIJING (AP) — China has sharply criticized a visit to Taiwan by a senior Pentagon official and reaffirmed sanctions against Lockheed Martin and a…

By OMAR FARUK Associated Press MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — Security forces in Somalia have ended a siege by al-Shabab extremists that killed 10…

By ANDREW DALTON AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — A Los Angeles judge on Wednesday sentenced the man convicted of gunning down Nipsey…

By COLLEEN SLEVIN Associated Press COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — The 22-year-old accused of carrying out the deadly mass shooting at a gay…

By FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — One month into the invasion of Ukraine, President Joe Biden declared that sanctions against…

By AAMER MADHANI and ZEKE MILLER Associated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — President Joe Biden closed out his wartime visit to Europe on Wednesday,…

MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Philippine police officials say a search is underway for two motorcycle-riding men who shot and killed a New Zealand man…

By SIBI ARASU and ELAINE KURTENBACH Associated Press BENGALURU, India (AP) — Top financial leaders from the Group of 20 leading economies are…