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By ZIMO ZHONG Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — Asian stocks fell Wednesday with most of the markets in the region closed for a holiday. Meanwhile,…

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — South Korean Defense Minister Shin Won-sik says his government is considering sharing…

ISLAMABAD (AP) — The Islamic State group has claimed responsibility for a deadly shooting targeting members of the country’s minority Shiite…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Ryan Gosling and Mikey Day aren’t done playing Beavis and Butt-Head yet — the pair appeared as the characters at the…

By JAKE OFFENHARTZ, JOSEPH B. FREDERICK and STEFANIE DAZIO Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The pro-Palestinian demonstration that paralyzed…

By GERALD IMRAY Associated Press CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — A South African aquarium is stretched beyond capacity after more than 500 baby sea…

By SUMAN NAISHADHAM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A study says the climate phenomenon known as El Nino and not climate change was a key driver…

By KATHLEEN FOODY Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — An agreement between anti-war protesters and Northwestern University has largely ended…

By TERRY TANG Associated Press It has been almost 50 years since the U.S. government established that Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians and Pacific…

By MICHAEL R. BLOOD Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Biden administration’s move to reclassify marijuana as a less dangerous but still…

By STEVE KARNOWSKI Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A Minnesota man who once fought for the Islamic State group in Syria but now expresses…

PHOENIX (AP) — Democrats at the Arizona Legislature are expected to make a final push to repeal the state’s long-dormant ban on nearly all…

BEIJING (AP) — Chinese state broadcaster CCTV says that a section of a highway collapsed in southern China, killing at least 19 people. The area…

By DÁNICA COTO Associated Press PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — A surprise announcement that revealed Haiti’s new prime minister is dividing a…

By TIM SULLIVAN Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — It was the music that changed first. Or maybe that’s just when many people at the pale…

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has announced new funding to help women…

NEW YORK (AP) — Harvey Weinstein is due back in a New York courtroom for the first time since his 2020 rape conviction was overturned by an appeals…

By RIAZAT BUTT Associated Press KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — The Taliban takeover three years ago has sent Afghanistan’s economy into a…

By DAVID FISCHER and STEPHANY MATAT Associated Press BOCA RATON, Fla. (AP) — Florida’s ban on most abortions after six weeks of pregnancy,…

By DEREK GATOPOULOS Associated Press KRYO PIGADI, Greece (AP) — Skimming over miles of hills blackened by wildfires west of Athens, Fire Lt. Col.…

By ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON, SCOTT BAUER and MICHELLE L. PRICE Associated Press WAUKESHA, Wis. (AP) — Donald Trump will use a one-day break from his…

By KENYA HUNTER and KATE BRUMBACK Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — No one disputes that Michelle Wierson crashed her SUV into a car stopped at a…

By ALI SWENSON Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Former President Donald Trump is lamenting the possibility that Columbia University’s…

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — After three straight hotter-than-expected inflation reports, Federal Reserve officials…

By MICHAEL LIEDTKE AP Technology Writer SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The U.S. Justice Department has launched a double-barreled antitrust attack on…

BEIJING (AP) — The first scientist to publish a sequence of the COVID-19 virus in China says he has been allowed back into his lab after days of…

TBILISI, Georgia (AP) — Police in Georgia’s capital have used tear gas and water cannons to disperse protesters who rallied outside the…

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United Nations says over 7 million people in South Sudan are expected to face acute food insecurity or worse during…

BEIJING (AP) — A Chinese spacecraft has returned to Earth with three astronauts who lived for six months on the country’s space station. The…

WESTMORELAND, Kan. (AP) — Authorities say one person died when a tornado ripped through the small northeastern Kansas city of Westmoreland.…

By BOUAZZA BEN BOUAZZA Associated Press TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — Tunisia’s main opposition coalition says it won’t take part in the upcoming…

By SYLVIE CORBET Associated Press PARIS (AP) — Some 40,000 meals will be served each day during the Paris Games to over 15,000 athletes from 200…

By SUSIE BLANN Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — A 98-year-old woman in Ukraine has escaped Russian-occupied territory by walking almost 10…

By JANIE HAR Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A Silicon Valley-backed campaign to build a new city in California for up to 400,000 people says…

By JONATHAN J. COOPER Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — President Joe Biden has made a number of election-year moves intended to appeal to younger…

By STEVE LeBLANC Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — Massachusetts will begin limiting how long homeless families can stay in shelters as the state…

By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The Mississippi House Democratic leader says a Medicaid expansion plan endorsed by…

By WILL WEISSERT and LEAH ASKARINAM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Democratic National Committee’s rulemaking arm has voted to seat New…

By KEVIN McGILL Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A new Louisiana congressional district map giving the state a second majority-Black House…

By GARY D. ROBERTSON Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A federal judge has ruled that some of North Carolina government’s restrictions on…

By TODD RICHMOND Associated Press The U.S. House voted to end federal protection for gray wolves in 48 states, though the bill’s ultimate…

By DAVID KOENIG AP Airlines Writer The Biden administration is out with new guidelines for tax credits for producers of sustainable aviation fuel.…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Officials say 55 people were hurt, two seriously, when a Metro train and a University of Southern California transport bus…

LAS CRUCES, N.M. (AP) — Authorities say one person has died and 13 others were injured after a sports utility vehicle crashed through the front…

By JENNIFER PELTZ and LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration is moving toward reclassifying…

NEW YORK (AP) — After posting strong numbers for the first round, viewership for the NFL draft was down 3% from last year on TV and digital…

By MICHAEL GOLDBERG Associated Press/Report for America JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A state judge says the body of a Mississippi man who was found dead…

By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — An insider trading trial has begun for a financial executive charged with enabling his boss…

By ANITA SNOW Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — The Mexican consul general in Nogales says his foreign ministry is displeased with the decision not…

By MICHAEL R. SISAK, JAKE OFFENHARTZ, COLLEEN LONG and ALANNA DURKIN RICHER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The first week of testimony in Donald…

By JIM SALTER Associated Press The Missouri Supreme Court has taken the unusual step of striking down a 2022 voter-approved constitutional amendment…

By JOHN HANNA and SARA CLINE Associated Press TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas is requiring abortion providers to share patient information with the…

By RANDALL CHASE AP Business Writer DOVER, Del. (AP) — A Delaware judge has granted a request by attorneys for Donald Trump and Trump Media &…

By ANDREW DeMILLO Associated Press LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Several transgender, intersex and nonbinary Arkansas residents are suing the state over…

By STEPHEN GROVES Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republicans are investigating the federal funding for universities where students have…

By JEAN FERNAND KOENA and SAMBU ASSANA Associated Press BANGUI, Central African Republic (AP) — A spokesperson for an internationally backed court…

By BRENDAN FARRINGTON Associated Press TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Florida is on the verge of repealing what’s left of a 16-year-old law that puts…

By DEVI SHASTRI AP Health Writer The U.S. Department of Agriculture says it will test ground beef for bird flu. Officials say they’re confident…

LEA SKENE BALTIMORE (AP) — Crews working to clear debris from the site of the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse expect to refloat and remove the…

By COLLIN BINKLEY AP Education Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Another six Republican states are piling on to challenge the Biden administration’s newly…

By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Since the early days of Hollywood, stunt performers have fueled the mayhem of movies, playing a vital…

By SUDHIN THANAWALA Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia has a new law that limits the ability of some Chinese citizens to buy land in the…

By The Associated Press As the two-week standoff between pro-Palestinian protesters and college administrators at Columbia University in New York…

By LINDSAY WHITEHURST and CLAUDIA LAUER The Associated Press WASHINGTON, D.C. (AP) — A fugitive task force attempting to serve a warrant Monday in…

By AMY BETH HANSON Associated Press Galena, a 6-year-old house cat from Utah, likes hiding and playing with cardboard. Earlier this month, the…

By PETER SMITH Associated Press CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — United Methodist delegates began making historic changes in their policies on sexuality on…

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Mike Tyson’s fight against Jake Paul in Texas this summer has been sanctioned as a competitive boxing match rather than…

MANUEL RUEDA Associated Press BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Colombian President Gustavo Petro says that hundreds of thousands of pieces of ammunition…

By MAE ANDERSON AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — It’s never fun to be scammed, but if you’re a small business owner then falling for a scam…

By REBECCA SANTANA Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump says he’d use the National Guard as part of efforts to deport millions of…

By MICHAEL CASEY Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — The demeanor of a woman charged in the death of her Boston police officer boyfriend and the words…

TORONTO, Ontario (AP) — Police in Canada say that two grandparents and their infant grandchild were killed on highway east of Toronto when a van…

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — A Portuguese-flagged container ship has come under attack by a drone in the far reaches of the…

By KAVISH HARJAI and PABLO MONSIVAIS Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Millions of families will face bigger internet bills starting in May…

By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press ROME (AP) — Italy’s League, a junior party in the government, is putting forward a provocative candidate…

By BRUCE SCHREINER Associated Press FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Former Kentucky Secretary of State Alison Lundergan Grimes has been cleared of ethics…

By BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Two men have been charged with cutting down the popular 150-year-old Sycamore Gap tree that toppled…

NEW YORK (AP) — A group of eight U.S. newspapers is suing ChatGPT-maker OpenAI and Microsoft, alleging that the technology companies have been…

BRUSSELS (AP) — The head of the International Organization for Migration is warning that the number of Syrian refugees leaving Lebanon is likely to…

By RUSS BYNUM Associated Press SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — Georgia’s highest court has thrown out an indictment that charged a former police chief…

By CHRISTINE FERNANDO Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — Former President Donald Trump says it should be left up to the states whether they want to…

By The Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel is determined to launch a ground offensive against Hamas in Rafah, Gaza’s southernmost town, a…