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By FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The IRS says more than 140,000 taxpayers filed their taxes through its new direct file pilot…

By KATHLEEN FOODY Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — The singer R. Kelly was correctly sentenced to 20 years in prison on child sex convictions in…

By MARIA SHERMAN AP Music Writer NEW YORK (AP) — For many music fans, John Oates is most recognizable as one-half of the Grammy-nominated Hall…

By DÁNICA COTO Associated Press PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — It’s been only a day since the transitional presidential council was installed in…

By KEN SWEET AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon says stagflation could be one of a number of possible outcomes for the…

By MIKE STOBBE AP Medical Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The U.S. flu season appears to be over. It was long, but federal health officials and doctors say…

By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Nearly three decades after Jerry Seinfeld was, in one episode of “Seinfeld,” cajoled into…

The Associated Press Philadelphia 76ers All-Star center Joel Embiid has been diagnosed with Bell’s palsy, a condition that can strike out of…

By ELLEN KNICKMEYER, FARNOUSH AMIRI and MATTHEW LEE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Secretary of State Antony Blinken says the U.S. has…

By LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer Growing up in the Midwest, filmmaker Lee Isaac Chung developed both a healthy fear of tornadoes and a reverence for…

CLINTON TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) — The owner of a suburban Detroit business that caught fire and exploded, killing a man, was arrested at a New York…

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Authorities in the Brazilian city of Porto Alegre say a fire at a small hotel has killed at least 10 people and injured 11.…

By STEPHEN McGRATH Associated Press BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — A court in Romania’s capital on Friday ruled that a trial can start in the case of…

By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Jerry Seinfeld has been responsible for more movies than you think. Yes, he co-wrote and lent his…

By JOCELYN NOVECK AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — #MeToo founder Tarana Burke has heard it before. Every time there’s a legal setback, the…

By MINDAUGAS KULBIS and LIUDAS DAPKUS Associated Press DIRMISKES, Lithuania (AP) — Polish President Andrzej Duda says “a potential aggressor must…

PARIS (AP) — Paris has a new king of the crusty baguette. Baker Xavier Netry was chosen this week as the 31st winner of Paris’ annual “Grand…

By MATTHEW PERRONE AP Health Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — A small nicotine pouch called Zyn is sparking big debates about the benefits and risks of new…

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — A measure of inflation closely tracked by the Federal Reserve remained uncomfortably…

BROCKTON, Mass. (AP) — A Massachusetts man who told police he was exorcising a demon and performing a baptism when he shoved his father’s head…

TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — A journalist for the Russian edition of Forbes magazine has been detained on charges of spreading false information about…

LONDON (AP) — Prosecutors say a British man accused of plotting to torch a London business with links to Ukraine has been charged with conducting…

ISTANBUL (AP) — Turkey’s state-run news agency has reported that a court sentenced a Syrian woman to life in prison for a deadly explosion on a…

By ILLIA NOVIKOV Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — A Ukrainian court has ordered the detention of the country’s farm minister in the latest…

HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — Vietnamese state media outlet VN Express reports that the head of Vietnam’s Parliament, Vuong Dinh Hue, has resigned. He is…

By PAN PYLAS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Scotland’s leader has cancelled a speech as he fights for his political life in the wake of his…

By LEAH ASKARINAM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — New York voters are choosing a replacement for Democrat Brian Higgins in a congressional…

By EVELYNE MUSAMBI Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Kenya’s state-owned airline has accused the Republic of Congo’s military of holding…

PARIS (AP) — Students at a prestigious university in Paris resumed pro-Palestinian protests on Friday, inspired by Gaza solidarity encampments at…

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — A Swedish parliament committee says Sweden which joined NATO in March, should increase its military budget by nearly 54…

NEW YORK (AP) — Defense lawyers in Donald Trump’s hush money trial are poised to dig into an account of the former publisher of the National…

By RYAN J. FOLEY, CARLA K. JOHNSON and SHELBY LUM Associated Press The practice of giving sedatives to people detained by police spread quietly…

By RYAN J. FOLEY, CARLA K. JOHNSON and SHELBY LUM Associated Press Demetrio Jackson was desperate for medical help when the paramedics arrived. The…

LONDON (AP) — A former researcher working in the U.K. Parliament and another man charged with spying for China have been granted bail after a court…

SAMY MAGDY, BASSEM MROUE and DAVID RISING Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — Egypt has sent a high-level delegation to Israel with the hope of brokering…

By HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korean police have searched the office of the hard-line incoming leader of a…

By JIM GOMEZ Associated Press MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Philippine forces have killed an Abu Sayyaf militant who had been implicated in past…

By JESSICA DONATI Associated Press DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Burkina Faso has suspended the BBC and Voice of America radio stations for their coverage…

By KELVIN CHAN AP Business Writer LONDON (AP) — TikTok is banned in a handful of countries and not allowed on government-issued devices in a number…

By KEN MORITSUGU Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — China’s vision of the future of the automobile — electrified and digitally connected — is on…

By MOHAMMAD JAHJOUH and BASSEM MROUE Associated Press RAFAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — A premature Palestinian infant, rescued from her mother’s womb…

By JONEL ALECCIA AP Health Writer U.S. poultry producers will have to reduce salmonella bacteria in certain chicken products to very low levels to…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s space agency says it’s planning to launch a major upgrade to its satellite imaging…

By The Associated Press Lebanon’s militant Hezbollah group said its fighters fired anti-tank missiles and artillery shells at an Israeli military…

By MOLLY QUELL Associated Press ARNHEM, Netherlands (AP) — A lab in a Dutch zoo has presented special corals that bred themselves and nestled them…

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Asian shares mostly rose Friday despite worries about the economic outlook and inflation in the…

By KEIRAN SMITH Associated Press NEWCASTLE, Australia (AP) — Muslim groups in Australia have criticized the disparity in the police response to two…

By HANNAH SCHOENBAUM Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A dozen Utah Republicans vying to replace Mitt Romney in the U.S. Senate are set to…

By COLLEEN SLEVIN and MATTHEW BROWN Associated Press DENVER (AP) — Almost five years after Elijah McClain died following a police stop in which he…

By MOGOMOTSI MAGOME Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — A selection of South African artworks produced during the country’s apartheid era which…

By MARTINA REBECCA INCHINGOLO Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Actor Paola Cortellesi has long been a staple on the Italian pop culture scene, mostly…

By MOGOMOTSI MAGOME Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — South Africa this week celebrates 30 years of freedom after a historic 1994 election that…

By ANDREW DALTON AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Harvey Weinstein’s New York sexual assault conviction has been thrown out by an…

By DAVID BAUDER AP Media Writer NEW YORK (AP) — This spring, NBC News, The New York Times and National Public Radio have each dealt with turmoil…

By STEVE LeBLANC and NICK PERRY Associated Press The students at an encampment at Columbia University who inspired a wave of pro-Palestinian…

By BERNARD CONDON Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Rooting for Donald Trump to fail has rarely been this profitable. Just ask a hardy band of…

By MARTHA MENDOZA Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — With Donald Trump facing dozens of federal criminal charges and hundreds of millions in legal…

By NICHOLAS RICCARDI Associated Press An Arizona grand jury’s indictment of 18 people who either posed as or helped organize a slate of electors…

By MICHAEL R. SISAK, JENNIFER PELTZ, JAKE OFFENHARTZ and ALANNA DURKIN RICHER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Defense lawyers in Donald Trump’s…

By THALIA BEATY Associated Press One of the demands of antiwar protestors on college campuses is for their schools to divest their endowments from…

By ASHOK SHARMA Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — Millions of Indians are voting in the second round of multi-phase national elections with some…

By MATTHEW LEE AP Diplomatic Writer BEIJING (AP) — The United States and China are butting heads over a number of contentious bilateral, regional…

By JULIA DIAS CARNEIRO and ALAN K. GUIMARÃES Associated Press BELEM, Brazil (AP) — The bodies of nine migrants found on an African boat off the…

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — A man questioned about his role earlier this month in the fatal carjacking of a woman in central Florida told investigators…

Associated Press GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — Guatemalan prosecutors have raided the offices of the charity Save the Children, citing a complaint alleging…

By MARC LEVY Associated Press HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Democratic U.S. Sen. Bob Casey of Pennsylvania wants a series of three debates with his…

By STEFANIE DAZIO Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — The University of Southern California’s decision Thursday to cancel its main graduation…

By ROB MAADDI AP Pro Football Writer DETROIT (AP) — Caleb Williams is heading to the Windy City, aiming to become the franchise quarterback Chicago…

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama has set a July 18 execution date for a man convicted in the 1998 shooting death of a delivery driver who had…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — The head of Mexico’s detective service has apologized for saying his country is “the champion” of fentanyl and meth…

By DAVID HAMILTON AP Technology Writer SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The Federal Trade Commission on Thursday voted to restore “net neutrality” rules…

By KIM CHANDLER Associated Press MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama lawmakers advanced legislation that could see librarians prosecuted for providing…

By LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. officials say the Pentagon is expected to announce that it will provide about $6…

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — A transitional council tasked with bringing political stability to Haiti has been installed in the capital of Haiti, a…

By KIMBERLEE KRUESI Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee’s GOP-controlled General Assembly has adjourned for the year, concluding…

By TARA COPP Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Ukraine has sidelined U.S.-provided Abrams M1A1 battle tanks for now in its fight against Russia,…

By ANDREW DeMILLO Associated Press LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Seventeen states are challenging new federal rules entitling workers to time off and…

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — A former Arkansas mortuary worker has pleaded guilty to charges that she sold 24 boxes of stolen body parts from medical…