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ISLAMABAD (AP) — A nongovernmental organization says a quarter of a million Afghan children need education, food and homes after being forcibly…

By FARAI MUTSAKA Associated Press HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — Zimbabwe President Emmerson Mnangagwa has granted clemency to more than 4,000 prisoners…

NEW YORK (AP) — Fady Joudah, an acclaimed Palestinian-American poet who has said he writes for the future because “the present is demolished,”…

By MATT O’BRIEN AP Technology Writer CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) — Generative AI is advancing so quickly that the latest chatbots available today…

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkey’s disaster management agency says a moderately-strong earthquake has struck central Turkey. It was not…

HOFFMAN ESTATES, Ill. (AP) — Police say a vehicle has plowed into a suburban Chicago highway toll plaza, engulfing it and the plaza in flames and…

By JAMIE STENGLE Associated Press DALLAS (AP) — The first USS Enterprise has boldly gone back home, solving a decades-long mystery. The model used…

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris plans to return to Wisconsin next week for her third visit to the battleground state this year.…

By MOLLY QUELL and MIKE CORDER Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — A human rights organization representing ethnic Armenians has…

BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Commission is proposing to open negotiations with the United Kingdom to allow young people to move freely, work and…

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Authorities evacuated an area of Ohio’s capital, Columbus, for several hours out of fear that a fire in truck’s trailer…

By CHRISTINA LARSON AP Science Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — A ancient giant snake in India might have been longer than a school bus and weighed a ton,…

BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Regional authorities for Spain’s drought-stricken region of Catalonia say they will install a floating desalination plant…

By KATHY McCORMACK Associated Press CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — A man who’s served more than half of his life in prison for his role in the 2001…

By The Associated Press Israel has vowed to respond to Iran’s unprecedented weekend attack. It has left the region bracing for further escalation…

By DARKO BANDIC Associated Press ZAGREB, Croatia (AP) — Croatia’s ruling conservatives says that talks are already underway on the formation of a…

By SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A Democrat who served one term representing southeast Wisconsin in Congress in the 1990s…

By DEE-ANN DURBIN AP Business Writer Booming sales of cold drinks at Starbucks stores have created a problem: growing amounts of plastic waste from…

By The Associated Press Law enforcement agencies in Nebraska, Nevada, South Dakota and Texas reported temporary outages to 911 services. The reports…

By ALEX VEIGA AP Business Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — The spring homebuying season is off to a sluggish start as home shoppers contend with elevated…

By FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. and U.K. have imposed a new round of sanctions on Iran as concern grows that…

By TRAVIS LOLLER and MICHAEL PHILLIS Associated Press When a deadly explosion destroyed BP’s Deepwater Horizon drilling rig in the Gulf of Mexico,…

By BOUAZZA BEN BOUAZZA Associated Press TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — A judge in Tunisia has sentenced a journalist and political commentator to six months…

By CHRISTINA LARSON AP Science Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The Lyrid meteor shower is underway. But with a nearly full moon in the sky during the…

By CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — The Nigerian army says a girl who was seized from her school along with hundreds others…

JACK THOMPSON Associated Press DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — The military Junta ruling Burkina Faso have expelled three French diplomats for alleged…

NEW YORK (AP) — Jury selection in Donald Trump ’s hush money trial enters a pivotal phase as the former president returns to court Thursday…

By COLLEEN BARRY Associated Press VENICE. Italy (AP) — Jeffrey Gibson’s takeover of the U.S. pavilion for this year’s Venice Biennale…

By HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has completed a book about her years in public life. The…

By LORNE COOK Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — The leaders of Belgium and the Czech Republic are warning their European Union partners to take…

MADRID (AP) — Two people smugglers have been sentenced to nine years each in prison for the deaths of four Moroccan migrants who drowned after they…

By DAVID SHARP Associated Press AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — The Maine Legislature has approved sweeping gun safety legislation nearly six months after…

By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department is ramping up its efforts to reduce violent crime in the U.S.,…

By Associated Press Russia’s defense ministry says air defenses have downed what authorities describe as five Ukrainian balloons. The sides have…

By DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Prince William returns to public duties on Thursday for the first time since his wife’s cancer…

By ZEKE MILLER, WILL WEISSERT and CHRIS MEGERIAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden will accept endorsements from at least 15…

By GRAHAM DUNBAR AP Sports Writer GENEVA (AP) — Calls for action against Israel in international soccer because of the conflict with Hamas will be…

By BERNIE WILSON AP Sports Writer SAN DIEGO (AP) — Fernando Tatis Jr. plans to unveil 50 pairs of custom cleats this season, including odes to…

By THOMAS ADAMSON Associated Press PARIS (AP) — Reuters photographer Mohammed Salem captured this year’s prestigious World Press Photo of the…

By SAMUEL PETREQUIN Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — European Union leaders are debating at a summit in Brussels a new “European Competitiveness…

By JAN M. OLSEN Associated Press COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Copenhagen’s mayor says she has been in touch with her Paris counterpart to see…

By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press CAPRI, Italy (AP) — The European Union’s top diplomat is urging the Group of Seven to take quick and concrete…

HELSINKI (AP) — Wireless and fixed-network equipment maker Nokia has reported a smaller-than-expected profit and a substantial double-digit fall in…

By MARI YAMAGUCHIA Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japanese authorities say that a strong earthquake that struck the country’s southwest Japan…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Britain’s governing Conservative Party suspended a lawmaker who is alleged to have misused…

By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer Asian shares advanced on Thursday even after sinking technology stocks sent Wall Street lower in the S&P…

By KEN MORITSUGU Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — Europe wants two things from China: First, a shift in its relatively pro-Russia position on the…

By GRACEY WAKARY and EDNA TARIGAN Associated Press MANADO, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesian authorities closed an international airport and residents…

By RAF CASERT Associated Press ANDEREN, Netherlands (AP) — Inside the barn on the flat fields of the northern Netherlands, Jos Ubels cradles a…

BERLIN (AP) — Prosecutors say two German-Russian men have been arrested in Germany on suspicion of espionage. One of them is accused of agreeing to…

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The United Arab Emirates struggled Thursday to recover from the heaviest…

By STEPHEN WADE AP Sports Writer Formula 1 returns to China this weekend after a five-year absence. And no matter who wins on Sunday, the star…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — America stands with Japan until all Japanese abducted by North Korea decades ago return home to end…

By EDNA TARIGAN Associated Press JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — The Chinese and Indonesian foreign ministers called for an immediate and lasting…

By JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER, REBECCA BOONE, CLAUDIA LAUER and CHRISTOPHER L. KELLER Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — More than half a year after the…

By MOGOMOTSI MAGOME Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — South Africa faces an unusual national election this year, its seventh vote since…

By MARK BAKER and ROD McGUIRK Associated Press SYDNEY (AP) — A Muslim community leader says a boy accused of stabbing two Christian clerics during…

By GEIR MOULSON and KERSTIN SOPKE Associated Press HALLE, Germany (AP) — One of the most prominent figures in the far-right Alternative for Germany…

By JUAN ZAMORANO Associated Press PANAMA CITY (AP) — Six of the eight candidates vying to be Panama’s next president have laid out their plans to…

By SAM MEDNICK Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Every year, Alon Gat’s mother led the family’s Passover celebration of the liberation of…

By JEFFREY COLLINS Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Progress is being made in getting more women into leadership positions in South Carolina.…

By KRUTIKA PATHI and SHEIKH SAALIQ Associated Press AHMEDABAD, India (AP) — Hindu nationalism, once a fringe ideology in India, is now mainstream.…

By KEVIN McGILL Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Louisiana is awaiting a decision from three federal judges that could affect the balance of…

NOGALES, Ariz. (AP) — A southern Arizona jury will hear closing argumentsin the case against a rancher accused of fatally shooting a migrant on his…

By FARNOUSH AMIRI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Iran’s attack against Israel over the weekend has spurred a flurry of bipartisan legislative…

By LARRY NEUMEISTER and JAKE OFFENHARTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The jury selection process at the historic criminal trial of former…

By MICHAEL R. SISAK, JENNIFER PELTZ, ERIC TUCKER and JAKE OFFENHARTZ Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Jury selection in the hush money trial of…

By RUSS BYNUM Associated Press TYBEE ISLAND, Ga. (AP) — Thousands of Black college students expected this weekend for an annual spring bash at…

By ALEXA ST. JOHN and LINLEY SANDERS Associated Press A poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research shows that 45% of U.S.…

By COLLEEN SLEVIN Associated Press DENVER (AP) — Hours after she escaped the Columbine High School shooting, 14-year-old Missy Mendo slept between…

By EDNA TARIGAN Associated Press JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesian authorities issued a tsunami alert Wednesday after eruptions at Ruang…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The head of the U.N. agency that has helped millions of Palestinians in Gaza and the…

By MARK BAKER and ROD McGUIRK Associated Press SYDNEY (AP) — A Sydney shopping mall has opened to the public for the first time since the mass…

By JILL COLVIN and MONIKA SCISLOWSKA Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Former President Donald Trump met Wednesday in New York with Polish President…