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DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The Mega Millions jackpot increased to $685 million ahead of Friday night’s drawing, giving lottery players a chance…

Associated Press Volkswagen is recalling nearly 42,000 Beetles in the U.S. and Canada because they have potentially dangerous Takata air bag…

By WAYNE PARRY Associated Press ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — Atlantic City’s casinos are betting they can finally put the COVID pandemic behind…

By NICOLE WINFIELD and FRANCES D’EMILIO Associated Press ROME (AP) — The Vatican says Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI is in stable condition and…

ISTANBUL (AP) — Turkish officials say a gas canister explosion at a restaurant in western Turkey has killed seven people. The governor of Aydin…

By JAKE BLEIBERG Associated Press DALLAS (AP) — Southwest Airlines returned to a relatively normal flight schedule Friday, as the focus shifts to…

By WAYNE PARRY Associated Press ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — Did you win money betting on Saint Peter’s, the longest-of-longshots men’s…

By KANIS LEUNG Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong’s leader will have the power to decide whether foreign lawyers can be involved in…

By FARNOUSH AMIRI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Congress has failed so far to create a path to residency for Afghans who worked alongside U.S.…

By ARNO PEDRAM Associated Press PARIS (AP) — When a 38-year-old man anguished over the protests in Iran took his own life in the French city of…

By JOEY CAPPELLETTI and SARA BURNETT Associated Press LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Democrats will be in charge of Michigan’s state government for…

By NINIEK KARMINI Associated Press JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Almost three years after officials announced the first confirmed case of COVID-19 in…

PARIS (AP) — France says it will require negative COVID-19 tests of all passengers arriving from China and is urging French citizens to avoid…

By CARLOS VALDEZ and DANIEL POLITI Associated Press LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) — A judge in Bolivia has sentenced opposition leader Luis Fernando Camacho…

By FELIPE DANA Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese leader Xi Jinping vowed Friday to deepen their…

By ISABEL DEBRE Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel’s military says its prosecutor has filed indictments against two soldiers who allegedly…

ALGIERS, Algeria (AP) — A defense lawyer says a prominent Algerian journalist is behind bars and the offices of his website and radio station have…

BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — Andrew Tate, a divisive social media personality and former professional kickboxer, was detained in Romania on charges of…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Arata Isozaki, a Pritzker-winning Japanese architect known as a post-modern giant who blended…

By ZEN SOO Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — Chinese technology giant Huawei says it has pulled itself out of “crisis mode” following years of…

BEIJING (AP) — China is on a bumpy road back to normal life as schools, shopping malls and restaurants fill up again with the easing of COVID-19…

By HOGIR AL ABDO and KAREEM CHEHAYEB Associated Press RAQQA, Syria (AP) — Marwa Ahmad rarely leaves her run-down house in the Syrian city of Raqqa.…

By HENG SINITH and SOPHENG CHEANG Associated Press POIPET, Cambodia (AP) — The confirmed death toll from a massive fire at a casino hotel complex…

By GRANT PECK Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — A legal official says a court in military-ruled Myanmar has convicted the country’s ousted leader…

By DAMIAN J. TROISE and ALEX VEIGA AP Business Writers Wall Street capped a quiet day of trading with more losses Friday, as it closed the book on…

By MARY CLARE JALONICK, ERIC TUCKER and JILL COLVIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Destroyed documents. Suggestions of pardoning violent…

By MICHAEL BIESECKER and ERIKA KINETZ Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ten months into Russia’s latest invasion of Ukraine, overwhelming…

By MICHAEL R. SISAK, JILL COLVIN and CHRIS RUGABER Associated Press Democrats in Congress released thousands of pages of former President Donald…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japan has started requiring COVID-19 tests for all passengers arriving from China as an emergency…

OTTAWA (AP) — Canada’s Competition Tribunal has rejected an effort by the country’s competition watchdog to block the proposed merger of Rogers…

JURUPA VALLEY, Calif. (AP) — A Southern California sheriff’s deputy was shot and killed Thursday by a man with a violent criminal history during…

BEIJING (AP) — The U.S. military says a Chinese fighter jet flew dangerously close to an Air Force reconnaissance plane over the South China Sea,…

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Indiana has blocked the Chinese-owned social media app TikTok from state devices, its technology office said Thursday. The…

CYPRESS, Calif. (AP) — Snowbirds are a common sight in Southern California in wintertime — except when they’re actually a bird. A snowy owl…