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By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United Nations says the world hasn’t seen anything like the unprecedented…

By JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — Maui County is suing major cellular carriers for failing to properly inform police of…

By MATT OTT and PAUL HARLOFF Associated Press Sony Pictures and Apollo Global Management have expressed interest in buying Paramount Global for $26…

By REBECCA SANTANA Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The judge overseeing a pivotal antitrust trial focused on whether Google is stifling…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican authorities have found tents and questioned three people in the case of two Australians and an American who went missing…

By LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A U.S. official says Russia has moved some troops onto an airbase in Niger where a small…

By PETER SMITH Associated Press CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — United Methodist delegates on Thursday removed a 52-year-old declaration from their official…

EAST LANSING, Mich. (AP) — The former leader of the Michigan House and his wife have pleaded not guilty to financial charges arising from an…

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkey has announced that it is suspending all imports and exports to Israel over its ongoing military action in Gaza. A…

NEW YORK (AP) — Fox News anchor Bill Hemmer needed a chain saw to complete one of his latest assignments. Hemmer traveled north for “Battle for…

By MICHAEL GOLDBERG Associated Press/Report for America JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A Mississippi judge granted a request Thursday by the widow of a…

By DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — It is a record fit for a king, but it’s going online for everyone to see. King Charles III gaped…

By BECKY BOHRER and MARK THIESSEN Associated Press JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — The National Transportation Safety Board says a witness saw smoke coming…

By YURAS KARMANAU Associated Press TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Belarus’ exiled opposition leader says that she hasn’t heard from her imprisoned…

NEW YORK (AP) — Billie Jean King’s $5,000 check sure went a long way for women’s sports. King used the money from a sportswoman of the year…

By CORA LEWIS Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The Federal Reserve’s decision Wednesday to keep its benchmark rate at a two-decade high should…

By LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. military said an airstrike in Syria in May 2023 that was targeting an al-Qaida…

By HOLLY RAMER Associated Press BRENTWOOD, N.H. (AP) — Jurors have heard closing arguments in a landmark case seeking to hold the state of New…

By GARY D. ROBERTSON Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A candidate seeking the Republican nomination for a central North Carolina congressional…

By KIM CHANDLER Associated Press MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama has authorized the execution of a second inmate by nitrogen gas. The decision…

By MARK M. MENGONFIA and JESSICA DONATI Associated Press MONROVIA, Liberia (AP) — Liberian President Joseph Boakai has signed an executive order to…

By ERIC OLSON AP Sports Writer An Iowa criminal investigator suggested to colleagues last year that busting college athletes for online sports…

By KATE BRUMBACK Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia’s governor has signed a bill putting new regulations on the production and sale of…

By ALLEN G. BREED and JOCELYN GECKER Associated Press Although it might be tempting to compare the U.S. campus protests to the anti-Vietnam War…

HOUSTON (AP) — Torrential rain has caused flooding in southeastern Texas. Officials in one county are asking residents to leave. Water is being…

By MATTHEW BARAKAT Associated Press ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) — A judge declared a mistrial after a jury said it was deadlocked and couldn’t reach…

By KENYA HUNTER AP Health Writer Pedestrians who are not white ended up in the emergency room for traffic-related injuries at higher rates than white…

By DÁNICA COTO Associated Press PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Gangs in Haiti have laid siege to several neighborhoods in the capital, burning homes…

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — The head of Greece’s extreme far-right Golden Dawn party has been granted conditional early release from prison. He had…

DENVER (AP) — A Colorado dentist charged with killing his wife by putting poison in her protein shakes is now accused of asking a fellow jail…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Exxon Mobil’s $60 billion deal to buy Pioneer Natural Resources has received clearance from the Federal Trade Commission, but…

By DARLENE SUPERVILLE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Jill Biden is holding a special White House dinner to recognize more than 50 of the best…

By GEOFF MULVIHILL Associated Press Two years after a leaked draft of a U.S. Supreme Court opinion signaled that the nation’s abortion…

By JOVANA GEC Associated Press BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Serbian lawmakers have voted into office a new government that reinstated two pro-Russia…

By JEFFREY COLLINS Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina’s ban on abortions after roughly six weeks is back in court and centered…

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Billie Jean King is a 39-time Grand Slam champion and an equal rights champion — and now she’s getting the Breakfast of…

BRATISLAVA, Slovakia (AP) — Thousands have rallied in the Slovak capital to protest – again – a controversial overhaul of the country’s…

By DOUG FERGUSON AP Golf Writer Tiger Woods is headed to the U.S. Open after receiving the first of what likely will be many special exemptions.…

BRUSSELS (AP) — NATO countries say they are deeply concerned by a campaign of hybrid activities on the military alliance’s soil they attribute to…

By KIM CHANDLER Associated Press MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama lawmakers gave final approval to legislation to ensure President Joe Biden will…

CHICAGO (AP) — Police say a 22-year-old man has been arrested in the fatal shooting of a Chicago police officer who was slain while off-duty and…

By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A Georgia business owner who repeatedly attacked law enforcement during the Jan. 6, 2021,…

By MAKIYA SEMINERA Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A House bill ordering North Carolina sheriffs and jailers to comply with federal…

By BRUCE SHIPKOWSKI Associated Press A Pennsylvania nurse who administered lethal or potentially lethal doses of insulin to numerous patients pleaded…

By AMANDA SEITZ Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Halle Berry is joining a group of bipartisan senators to push for legislation that would put…

By AAMER MADHANI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House says Russia is shipping refined petroleum to North Korea at levels that exceed…

By KRYSTA FAURIA Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — When Jessica Pratt released her debut self-titled album in 2011, the singer-songwriter was…

SHERMAN, Texas (AP) — A Texas school board has accepted a voluntary separation agreement with its superintendent who was suspended after removing a…

By ALEXA ST. JOHN Associated Press President Joe Biden on Thursday expanded two national monuments in California following calls from tribal nations,…

NORWALK, Conn. (AP) — Both sides of I-95, the East Coast’s main north-south highway, have been shut down in southwestern Connecticut. It follows…

By CHRISTINA LARSON AP Science Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — An orangutan appeared to treat a wound with medicine from a tropical plant— the latest…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian energy workers are struggling to repair the damage from intensifying airstrikes…

LONDON (AP) — Prince William and his wife, Kate, have marked their daughter Charlotte’s 9th birthday by posting a picture of her smiling for the…

By SEUNG MIN KIM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden has called Japan and India “xenophobic” countries that do not welcome…

FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — Police in Fort Worth, Texas, says four children are among six people wounded in a drive-by shooting at an apartment…

NEW YORK (AP) — A festival celebrating Asian American literary works that was suddenly canceled last year by the Smithsonian Institution is getting…

By BINAJ GURUBACHARYA Associated Press KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — Broadband internet are disrupted in many parts of Nepal as Indian vendors from whom…

LONDON (AP) — A British police officer has pleaded guilty to terror charges for showing support on social media for Hamas. West Yorkshire constable…

By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The first serious effort by Mississippi’s Republican-led Legislature to expand…

By REBECCA SANTANA Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A bipartisan group of senators wants restrictions on the use of facial recognition technology…

By The Associated Press Arrests continue on campuses around the U.S. as police dismantle camps of students protesting Israel’s war in Gaza. At…

By JONATHAN LANDRUM Jr. AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Mary J. Blige is bringing her mission to empower women beyond her music to her…

By MATT OTT AP Business Writer The number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits was unchanged last week and remains historically low as the…

PRAGUE (AP) — The Czech Republic’s central bank has cut its key interest rate for the fourth straight time as inflation dropped and the economy…

By SYLVIE CORBET Associated Press PARIS (AP) — French officials inaugurated on Thursday a huge storage basin meant to keep cleaner the River Seine,…