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By BRUCE SCHREINER Associated Press FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — People close to Gov. Andy Beshear have formed an advocacy group to promote the…

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The man accused of using a golf club to fatally impale a Minneapolis grocery store employee has been found mentally incompetent…

LONDON (AP) — The Princess of Wales has been hospitalized for planned abdominal surgery and will remain at The London Clinic for up to two weeks,…

SCRANTON, Pa. (AP) — State police in Pennsylvania say five people were struck and killed by a tractor trailer on Interstate 81 after they had left…

By MARIA SHERMAN AP Music Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — It was an unexpected musical success story last year, one that has only continued to snowball.…

By DAVID McHUGH AP Businss Writer FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — European Central Bank head Christine Lagarde says cutting interest rates too soon could…

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Police in Trinidad say that a shooting left at three people dead and five others wounded on the eastern Caribbean…

By ANNE D’INNOCENZIO AP Retail Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Americans stepped up their spending in December more than expected, closing out the…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japan Airlines has named Mitsuko Tottori as its first woman president following a collision between…

By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Steely Dan, R.E.M., Timbaland, Hillary Lindsey and Dean Pitchford will be inducted into the…

By JOE REEDY AP Sports Writer Amazon will partner with Diamond Sports as part of a restructuring agreement as the largest owner of regional sports…

LONDON (AP) — Two British brothers who broke into a Geneva museum and stole millions of pounds (dollars) worth of Chinese Ming Dynasty artifacts…

By MIKE CORDER Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Delicate talks to create a new Dutch government around anti-Islam firebrand Geert…

By DEEPA BHARATH Associated Press KOTAGIRI, India (AP) — Sacred forests and groves are primeval woodlands that different faith communities around…

By DEEPA BHARATH Associated Press SHILLONG, India (AP) — Tambor Lyngdoh made his way through the fern-covered woodland — naming plants, trees,…

By TOM ODULA Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — A doomsday cult leader and 30 of his followers have been presented in a Kenyan court to face…

By PAN PYLAS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — British oil giant BP says its interim chief executive, Murray Auchincloss, will be given the job on a…

By KATE ASHFORD of NerdWallet A growing number of older adults are in debt in retirement, according to the 2022 Survey of Consumer Finances. Among…

By JINTAMAS SAKSORNCHAI Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — A court in Thailand has acquitted more than two dozen protesters who had occupied…

By FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen is making an election year pitch that the current state of the…

By ILLIA NOVIKOV Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Officials say Russia fired two missiles at Kharkiv city in northeastern Ukraine during the…

By SAMUEL PETREQUIN Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — Belgian authorities say customs seized 116 tons of cocaine in the port of Antwerp in 2023,…

BANGKOK (AP) — A rescue worker says an explosion at a firework factory in central Thailand has killed at least 15 people. Workers were still trying…

By KEN SWEET and CORA LEWIS Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The cost to overdraw a bank account could drop to as little as $3 under a proposal…

By LORNE COOK Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — A top NATO military officer says the war in Ukraine could “determine the fate of the world.”…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak faces a test of his authority and his nerve. He is trying to subdue…

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Two Malaysian filmmakers have been charged with offending the religious feelings of others in a rare criminal…

By CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Nigerian authorities say two people have died and 77 others were injured after a massive…

By PAN PYLAS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Inflation across the United Kingdom increased unexpectedly last month as a result of sharp hike in…

BERLIN (AP) — Heavy snowfalls and freezing rain across Germany have led to the cancellation of hundreds of flights and trains, crashes on icy…

By JANIE HAR Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The people behind a secretive Silicon Valley-backed ballot initiative to construct a new city on…

By KIM TONG-HYUNG and JIWON SONG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — In abandoning his country’s decades-old aspirational goal of…

By NAJIB JOBAIN and SAMY MAGDY Associated Press RAFAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — A shipment of medicine for dozens of hostages held by Hamas is en route to…

By MUNIR AHMED and JON GAMBRELL Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan on Wednesday condemned Iran for launching airstrikes the previous day…

CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — China’s ambassador sought to reassure Australia that China’s increased involvement in the Pacific, particularly in…

By CLAIRE RUSH Associated Press PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Parts of the Pacific Northwest were under an ice storm warning through Wednesday morning,…

By ZEN SOO AP Business Writer HONG KONG (AP) — China published youth unemployment data Wednesday for the first time since the jobless rate hit a…

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Asian shares were trading mostly lower on Wednesday after a decline overnight on Wall Street,…

By PAOLO SANTALUCIA Associated Press BARI, Italy (AP) — The year has gotten off to a slow start for a rescue ship that typically plies the…

By SHEIKH SAALIQ and BISWAJEET BANERJEE Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — Preparations are underway in India’s northern Ayodhya city to mark the…

By ANNA FURMAN Associated Press Over the past three months, on banners and T-shirts and balloons and social media posts, one piece of imagery has…

By DAVID McHUGH and HANNA ARHIROVA Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine’s hard-won economic stability is under threat again as the…

By JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press DAVOS, Switzerland (AP) — The top diplomats of Iran and the United States sit down for public — and separate —…

By MARK SHERMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court is taking up challenges by commercial fishermen to a fee requirement that…

By SYLVIE CORBET Associated Press PARIS (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron has made a point of showing his leadership hasn’t faded in more…

By HOLLY RAMER Associated Press ROCHESTER, N.H. (AP) — Kristina Amyot’s life has drastically improved since the last New Hampshire primary, but…

By MICHAEL R. SISAK, LARRY NEUMEISTER and JAKE OFFENHARTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Less than a year after convincing a jury that former…

By CLAIRE SAVAGE Associated Press Sentencing is scheduled Wednesday in Chicago for an American woman who pleaded guilty to helping kill her mother…

By KEIRAN SMITH Associated Press WELLINGTON (AP) — New Zealand’s first refugee lawmaker has resigned after several media reports aired…

By SOPHIE AUSTIN Associated Press/Report for America SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A lawsuit is accusing the deputy director of the California…

By KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — The United States, South Korea and Japan conducted combined naval exercises involving…

By ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Lawyers for former President Donald Trump are foreshadowing elements of their defense in the…

By ZEN SOO AP Business Writer HONG KONG (AP) — China’s economy for the October-December quarter grew at a quicker rate, allowing the Chinese…

By MARIA SHERMAN AP Music Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — The 2024 Coachella festival lineup is here! Lana Del Rey, Doja Cat, and Tyler, the Creator will…

BEIJING (AP) — China’s population dropped by 2 million people in 2023 in the second straight annual drop as births fell and deaths jumped. The…

By GENE JOHNSON Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) — Three Washington state police officers who were cleared of criminal charges in the 2020 death of…

By MARY CLARE JALONICK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley has been hospitalized in the Washington area with an infection…

By SUMMER BALLENTINE Associated Press COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — What’s expected to be an expensive and bitter fight over Missouri abortion-rights…

By HANNAH SCHOENBAUM Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah’s Republican legislative leaders took aim at social media companies on the…

By JONATHAN J. COOPER Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — A federal judge has ruled that the third-party group No Labels can prohibit members from…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United Nations says Russia’s intense missile and drone attacks across Ukraine in…

By JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Police say two New York City officers have been shot as they struggled with a domestic violence…

HALF MOON BAY, Calif. (AP) — A woman whose body was found in the water near where a small plane crashed into the ocean off the California coast has…

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A man accused of faking his death and fleeing the U.S. to avoid rape charges in Utah denied at a court appearance Tuesday…

By CHRISTINE FERNANDO Associated Press The U.S. Election Assistance Commission is searching for its fourth leader since 2019, just as voting begins…

By JOHN HANNA AP Political Writer TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The top judicial official in Kansas says the state’s courts need at least $2.6 million…

By MICHAEL LIEDTKE AP Technology Writer Apple is prepared to remove the blood-oxygen sensor from its internet-connected watches if a court doesn’t…

By JOSH DUBOW AP Pro Football Writer SANTA CLARA, Calif. (AP) — For one night at least, San Francisco 49ers All-Pro fullback Kyle Juszczyk was not…

By CLAIRE RUSH Associated Press PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — The Pacific Northwest is bracing for more hazardous winter weather after a weekend storm that…

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Attorneys for the first inmate slated to be put to death with nitrogen gas have asked a federal appeals court to block the…

By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN Associated Press ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — The New Mexico Supreme Court says personal injury lawsuits brought against tribal…

By DAVID BAUDER and LEA SKENE Associated Press Writers The return of a struggling newspaper from an investment firm to a local owner would normally…

By ALI SWENSON Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — ChatGPT maker OpenAI has outlined a plan to prevent its artificial intelligence tools from being…

By SETH BORENSTEIN AP Science Writer Much of the United States is shivering through brutal cold as most of the rest of the world is feeling unusually…

By THOMAS ADAMSON AP Fashion Writer PARIS (AP) — At Paris Fashion Week, Pharrell Williams unveiled his sophomore collection for Louis Vuitton, a…

NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — St. John’s coach Rick Pitino is recovering from COVID-19 and will miss his team’s game against Seton Hall on Tuesday night.…