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By NICK PERRY Associated Press WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, who became a global icon of the left and…

By JULIE CARR SMYTH Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Former Ohio House Speaker Larry Householder goes on trial next week in a case that…

By TERRY TANG Associated Press Every Lunar New Year without fail, Kat Lieu’s mother would make her steamed nian gao, which is a sweet rice —…

BEIJING (AP) — China has accused “some Western media” of bias, smears and political manipulation in their coverage of China’s ending…

By BOBBY CAINA CALVAN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — When New York’s first licensed recreational marijuana outlet opened last month, the…

By TOM DAVIES Associated Press INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — A top state lawyer has urged the Indiana Supreme Court to uphold the state’s Republican-backed…

By JOHN O’CONNOR AP Political Writer SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Prison and union officials say 18 employees of a central Illinois prison have…

By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN Associated Press ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Prosecutors say a failed GOP candidate accused of orchestrating a series of…

By ZEKE MILLER AP White House Correspondent CAPITOLA, Calif. (AP) — President Joe Biden walked along the splintered boardwalk of a California beach…

By DANIEL POLITI and FRANKLIN BRICEÑO Associated Press LIMA, Peru (AP) — Police fired tear gas to try to subdue thousands of protesters who poured…

By JOSH BOAK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The countdown toward a possible U.S. government default began Thursday with Treasury implementing…

By KANIS LEUNG Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong’s leader says the city will scrap its mandatory isolation rule for people infected…

By KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea’s rubber-stamp parliament has passed a budget that sustains a high level…

Associated Press LIMA, Peru (AP) — Protesters set fire to the police station and judicial office in the Peruvian town of Macusani Wednesday after…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Israel’s U.N. ambassador is accusing the Palestinians of stabbing a knife into any…

JENIN REFUGEE CAMP, West Bank (AP) — Palestinian officials and media reports say Israeli troops shot and killed a Palestinian schoolteacher and a…

By GAVIN GOOD Associated Press CHAMPAIGN, Ill. (AP) — Mackenzie Holmes scored 30 points and grabbed 10 rebounds and Grace Berger added 18 points to…

By REBECCA SANTANA Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A government program launched Thursday is giving American citizens the chance to play a role…

By AUDREY McAVOY Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — Lawmakers opened a new session of the Hawaii State Legislature with proposals to provide more tax…

By JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — An American consultant has been sentenced to two years in prison for an illicit effort…

SARASOTA, Fla. (AP) — A Florida congressman has been injured in an accident at his home. U.S. Rep. Greg Steube’s office released a short…

BEIJING (AP) — An avalanche trapped vehicles outside a highway tunnel in Tibet, and at least eight people have died. The falling snow and ice…

WASHINGTON (AP) — A lesion removed by surgeons last week from first lady Jill Biden’s left eyelid was a non-cancerous growth, Dr. Kevin…

By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Former President Donald Trump said he has never read any part of a book in which the columnist…

RANCHO CUCAMONGA, Calif. (AP) — Actor Julian Sands, star of several Oscar-nominated films including “A Room With a View,” has been missing for…

By NICK PERRY Associated Press WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, whose empathetic handling of the…

By BRENDAN FARRINGTON Associated Press TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is asking state universities for the number…

WILLAMINA, Ore. (AP) — Authorities say a student and a deputy were treated at a hospital after they likely were exposed to fentanyl at a western…

By ANNE M. PETERSON AP Sports Writer Midfielder Sara Björk Gunnarsdóttir has been awarded more than $88,000 in back pay that was withheld by her…

By KIM CHANDLER Associated Press MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama has changed death penalty procedures to give the prison system longer to carry out…

By MORGAN LEE Associated Press SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — A Santa Fe district attorney will announce Thursday whether charges will be brought in the…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — A Mexican human rights group has launched an online guide for people searching for missing relatives, a real need in a country…

By BEN FINLEY and DENISE LAVOIE Associated Press NEWPORT NEWS, Va. (AP) — When a 6-year-old shot and wounded his first-grade teacher in this…

By LEA SKENE BALTIMORE (AP) — In one of his first high-profile decisions after taking office earlier this month, Baltimore’s new top prosecutor…

By REBECCA BOONE Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Investigators seized stained bedding, strands of what looked like hair and a single glove —…

By ALI SWENSON Associated Press A movement to retrofit telephone kiosks with defibrillators across the U.K. is more than a decade old and didn’t…

By LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A government lawyer says the Capitol riot was the culmination of weeks of preparation and…

By SAM METZ Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah lawmakers wasted no time this week before returning to an issue that has become a popular…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Authorities in western Mexico say they have launched a search for two activists who went missing after their vehicle was found…

By JOHN O’CONNOR AP Political Writer SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Legal challenges to Illinois’ semiautomatic weapons ban have begun. A federal…

By MATTHEW LEE and LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. is finalizing a massive package of military aid for Ukraine that…

By BOBBY CAINA CALVAN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The U.S. government’s star witness in a corruption trial over the broadcasting rights to…

By ADRIAN SAINZ Associated Press MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — The U.S. Justice Department says it has opened a civil rights investigation into the arrest…

By TERRY SPENCER Associated Press FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — More than four years after gunmen killed emerging rap star XXXTentacion during a…

NEW YORK (AP) — A bestselling author of crime stories and other nonfiction works is working on a book about the stabbing deaths last fall of four…

By RIO YAMAT Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — A new report released this month in Nevada says state auditors in 2022 found a troubling pattern of…