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By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — The Australian government has proposed new laws that would place behind bars some of the…

TOKYO (AP) — A U.S. military Osprey aircraft carrying eight people has crashed into the sea off southern Japan, and the Japanese coast guard is…

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Asian shares mostly fell Wednesday although a strong report on U.S. consumer confidence and hopes…

By NICK PERRY Associated Press WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — New Zealand’s new prime minister plans to ban cellphone use in schools and repeal…

By KANIS LEUNG Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — A Hong Kong court has started hearing the final arguments of some of the city’s best-known…

By BILL BARROW Associated Press PLAINS, Ga. (AP) — Rosalynn Carter will receive her final farewells Wednesday in the same tiny town where she was…

By ROBERT YOON Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — By now, Americans should be well aware that the process of electing a president isn’t like…

By JOEY CAPPELLETTI and ALI SWENSON Associated Press LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer is expected to sign legislation in the…

By COLLEEN SLEVIN and MATTHEW BROWN Associated Press BRIGHTON, Colo. (AP) — Opening statements are scheduled to begin in the third and final trial…

By SHARON LURYE of The Associated Press and CHARLES LUSSIER of The Advocate BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — When Raynesha Cummings enrolled her three…

By MARK SHERMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court is hearing arguments in a challenge to the Securities and Exchange…

By ERIC TUCKER and ALANNA DURKIN RICHER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump’s lawyers have suggested their strategy in his…

By MIKE STOBBE AP Medical Writer NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. life expectancy rose last year — by more than a year — but still isn’t close to…

By JEFF AMY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia Republicans are moving to preserve their majorities as they propose additional Black voting…

By SETH BORENSTEIN AP Science Writer The world is heading for considerably less warming than projected a decade ago, but that good news is…

By EDNA TARIGAN and FADLAN SYAM Associated Press JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Pollution is causing respiratory illnesses and deaths to rise in…

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Survivors of the harmful morning sickness drug thalidomide were in the public gallery…

By MORGAN LEE Associated Press SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — Writer John Nichols, author “The Milagro Beanfield War,” has died. He was 83. The…

By ASHRAF KHALIL Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The National Christmas Tree in front of the White House fell down Tuesday afternoon amid high…

By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Tim Dorsey, a former police and courts newspaper reporter who found lasting fame as the…

FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — There will be no strike by American Airlines flight attendants around the Christmas and New Year’s holidays. Federal…

By TODD RICHMOND Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A judge has dismissed a liberal watchdog group’s claims that a panel researching the…

By ISABELLA VOLMERT Associated Press INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — A former Indiana lawmaker has pleaded guilty to a fraud charge in connection with a casino…

By WYATTE GRANTHAM-PHILIPS AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — It’s not just you. Across the U.S., prices at the pump have felt milder in recent…

WRANGELL, Alaska (AP) — A survivor of the deadly landslide in Alaska last week says the force of the impact threw her around like a “piece of…

By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN Associated Press ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — New Mexico is creating a new advisory council that will be charged with…

By DAVID BAUDER AP Media Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Computer-generated writers … writing computer-generated stories? Sports Illustrated is the…

By MARLON GONZÁLEZ Associated Press TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) — The president of Honduras’ main opposition party fled an international airport…

By DÁNICA COTO Associated Press SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Hundreds of stray cats that roam a historic seaside tourist area of Puerto Rico’s…

FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — A Texas city has approved a $3.5 million settlement for a child who witnessed his aunt being fatally shot through a window…

By MARC LEVY Associated Press HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — A state lawmaker who’s helping lead the effort to impeach Philadelphia’s elected…

By KEVIN FREKING Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A Democratic lawmaker is moving to force a vote this week on the expulsion of Rep. George…

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A well-known west Philadelphia activist who acknowledged having helped overturn a police car during 2020 protests following the…

NEW YORK (AP) — Larry Fink, an acclaimed and adventurous photographer whose subjects ranged from family portraits and political satire to working…

By ED WHITE Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — A judge has signed a $120 million order against the former owner of a Michigan dam that failed after…

By DANIEL POLITI and JOSH BOAK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Argentina’s President-elect Javier Milei met Tuesday with senior Biden…

By RUSS BYNUM Associated Press SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — A Georgia judge has refused to dismiss misconduct charges against a former prosecutor accused…

By BROOKE SCHULTZ Associated Press/Report for America HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Pennsylvania’s highest court is deliberating whether the Legislature…

By JULIE CARR SMYTH Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Ohio’s governor and lieutenant governor have been drawn into a FirstEnergy Corp.…

By JOSH FUNK AP Business Writer OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Charlie Munger, who helped Warren Buffett build Berkshire Hathaway into an investment…

AUBURN, Calif. (AP) — Margaret Huntley Main, the 1940 Tournament of Roses queen and the oldest living titleholder, has died. She was 102. Main died…

By JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A Deutsche Bank executive says the bank followed its own guidelines — which include…

By SCOTT SONNER Associated Press RENO, Nev. (AP) — The U.S. Bureau of Land Management has halted the use of spring-loaded traps that disperse…

By TRAVIS LOLLER and JONATHAN MATTISE Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee is backing a plan to expand beyond a…

NEW YORK (AP) — Amazon finally has its answer to ChatGPT. The tech giant said Tuesday it will launch Q — a business chatbot powered by generative…

By TERRY SPENCER Associated Press FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Bruce Springsteen’s drummer is suing a Florida car restoration company that he…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Unidentified assailants wounded four news photographers in the violence-wracked southern Mexico city of Chilpancingo.…

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A former guard at a federal prison in Virginia has been sentenced to three years in prison for failing to help an inmate who…

By CHRISTOPHER WEBER Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — The parents of a Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputy fatally shot while sitting in his…

BROOKLYN PARK, Minn. (AP) — The pilot of a small airplane and a car’s driver have escaped with minor injuries Tuesday after the plane crashed…

By MICHAEL R. BLOOD AP Political Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — A former California tech executive has announced she is ending her longshot campaign for…

By BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The first commercial airliner to cross the Atlantic on a purely high-fat, low-emissions fuel flew…

By PAUL J. WEBER Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The Texas Supreme Court is deciding whether the state’s abortion ban is too…

By JONATHAN LANDRUM Jr. AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Sean “Diddy” Combs has temporarily stepped down as chairman of his cable…

MOUNT KISCO, N.Y. (AP) — A customer has filed a lawsuit against the fast casual chain Chopt over a salad that she says contained a piece of the…

NEW YORK (AP) — Tech executives at Microsoft and Amazon have dropped out of an upcoming software conference after at least one of the women on the…

By MICHAEL CASEY Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — As authorities in Vermont push forward with their investigation of the weekend shooting of three…

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Police in Missouri are investigating the circumstances that led to a child’s death in a fall from a downtown Kansas City…

By JOHN HANNA AP Political Writer TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas has had enough problems with some outsiders seeing it as flyover country, so perhaps…

A Phoenix family came to the rescue of Arizona Cardinals player Jesse Luketa, who had a fumble on the road to Sunday’s game against the Los Angeles…

By SAM METZ Associated Press MARRAKECH, Morocco (AP) — Matteo Garrone’s migration odyssey “Io Capitano” played at the Marrakech…

By GARY GERARD HAMILTON Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — R&B singer Kiana Ledé is launching the international leg of her “Grudges” tour…

By JEFF AMY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia drivers are likely to begin paying higher prices for gasoline and diesel as state motor fuel…

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis has canceled his trip to Dubai for the U.N. climate conference on doctors’ orders.  The announcement marked the…

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — A Florida official was dead or dying in a hallway in the governor’s office complex for 24 minutes before anyone noticed…

CLEVELAND (AP) — An early blast of cold and snow shut down schools in Cleveland on Tuesday and made driving on heavily traveled Interstate 90 in…

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A teenager faces life imprisonment after being found guilty of second-degree murder in last year’s heinous carjacking and…