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By WAFAA SHURAFA and SAMY MAGDY Associated Press DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — A U.S. Army vessel carrying equipment for building a temporary…

By LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) — In Hollywood, the night before the Oscars isn’t a time to rest. For quite a few…

By LEAH WILLINGHAM Associated Press CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — West Virginia’s Republican-dominated state Legislature has concluded a session…

ISTANBUL (AP) — Turkish Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya says police have detained 33 people suspected of ties to the Islamic State group who were…

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Saudi oil giant Aramco has reported a $121 billion profit last year, down from…

By JOSH KELETY/AP, ERIC SCICCHITANO/CNHI NEWS and CARSON GERBER/CNHI NEWS HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (AP) — Dana Holladay-Hollifield has worked as a nurse in…

By TERRY SPENCER Associated Press BOCA RATON, Fla. (AP) — A 100-year-old American World War II veteran plans to marry his 96-year-old fiancee in…

By JOCELYN GECKER AP Education Writer Virginia high school teacher Joe Clement keeps track of the text messages parents have sent students sitting in…

By MICHAEL WEISSENSTEIN Associated Press It’s easy to blame the latest spasm of violence in Haiti on longstanding poverty, the legacy of…

By BARRY HATTON Associated Press LISBON, Portugal (AP) — Portugal is holding a general election Sunday against a backdrop of corruption scandals…

JOSH KELETY/AP HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (AP) — Dana Holladay-Hollifield has worked as a nurse in Alabama for years, but never was her pay as low as it was…

By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Hi, “Oppenheimer.” When Hollywood gathers for the 96th Academy Awards on Sunday, the…

SARGENT’S PURCHASE, N.H. (AP) — Two people were rescued and emergency crews were attempting to rescue a third at a ski area on the…

By LEAH WILLINGHAM Associated Press CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A West Virginia bill that would provide a framework for public school teachers on…

By AMIR AMAN KIYARO Associated Press NEBAR HADNET, Ethiopia (AP) — Once-lush fields lie barren. Mothers, faces etched with worry, watch helplessly…

By RAJANISH KAKADE Associated Press MUMBAI, India (AP) — Krystyna Pyszková of the Czech Republic has been crowned Miss World at a glittering…

By LEAH WILLINGHAM Associated Press CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — West Virginia’s GOP-controlled state Legislature has voted to allow some students…

By CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press KURIGA, Nigeria (AP) — Rashidat Hamza is in despair. All but one of her six children are among the nearly 300…

AUBURN, Ala. (AP) — An Auburn University student connected on a long-distance shot, draining a length-of-the-basketball court putt on Saturday to…

HUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif. (AP) — Officials say no recoverable oil remains in the water after a sheen was reported off the Southern California coast,…

By ZEKE MILLER AP White House Correspondent WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — President Joe Biden said Saturday that he believes Israeli Prime Minister…

By ALI SULTAN Associated Press ZANZIBAR, Tanzania (AP) — Authorities in Zanzibar say eight children and an adult have died from eating sea turtle…

By JOHN ANTCZAK Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — U.S. aerospace company Stratolaunch has conducted the first powered test flight of a new…

By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS Associated Press The Republican senator who gave the party’s response to President Joe Biden’s State of the Union…

By ZEKE MILLER and JOSH BOAK Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — President Joe Biden said Saturday that he regrets using the term “illegal” during…

By LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — On the Friday before the Oscars, the center of Hollywood seemed to be at a private home in Los…

By TAIWO ADEBAYO Associated Press ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — What seemed like an aberration a decade ago when militants kidnapped 276 schoolgirls in…

By The Associated Press Media magnate Rupert Murdoch, who turns 93 next week, has been married four times — and is engaged again, his…

By NICK PERRY Associated Press MEREDITH, N.H. (AP) — Interest in the late scientist J. Robert Oppenheimer has extended beyond the Oscars this…

PRISTINA, Kosovo (AP) — Kosovo’s Central Electoral Commission has decided to hold a vote on April 21 to oust four ethnic Albanian mayors whose…

ROME (AP) — Pope Francis has said in an interview that Ukraine, facing possible defeat, should have the courage to negotiate an end to the war with…

ASHTABULA, Ohio (AP) — Two Ohio women have been accused of driving the body of a deceased 80-year-old man to a bank in order to withdraw money from…

By GENE JOHNSON Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) — Boeing has acknowledged in a letter to Congress that it cannot find records for work done on a door…

Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Another top donor to the U.N. agency aiding Palestinians says it will resume its funding. Sweden’s decision…

BILBAO, Spain (AP) — Spain’s prime minister says he will propose that parliament recognizes a Palestinian state. Prime Minister Pedro…

By FERNANDA PESCE Associated Press TULTEPEC, Mexico (AP) — Every year, in the first week of March, hundreds of giant paper-mache bulls stuffed with…

By CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Police in Nigeria say armed men have invaded a school in northwestern Nigeria and abducted…

SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) — El Salvador’s lawmakers have granted a request by President Nayib Bukele for the 24th consecutive one-month…

By KEVIN FREKING Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden on Saturday signed a $460 billion package of spending bills approved by the…

By SAMY MAGDY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — A Sudanese paramilitary group battling the country’s military in a nearly yearlong ruinous conflict…

MADRID (AP) — An official at Spanish soccer club Sporting Gijón has apologized for a video meant to commemorate International Women’s Day that…

BESSEMER, Ala. (AP) — A new plea hearing has been set for an Alabama woman accused of falsely telling police she was abducted last summer after…

SKOWHEGAN, Maine (AP) — Crime scene tape surrounds the Skowhegan Indian, a local landmark in Maine, after an assault by Mother Nature. The towering…

By MICHAEL KEALY and BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press DUBLIN (AP) — Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar conceded defeat Saturday as two constitutional…

By BERT WILKINSON Associated Press GEORGETOWN, Guyana (AP) — Caribbean leaders have called for an emergency meeting in Jamaica with the United…

By JACK JEFFERY Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — On the eve of the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan, Jerusalem’s Old City bears few of its usual…

By JOHN LEICESTER Associated Press ABOARD THE FRENCH FRIGATE NORMANDIE (AP) — Large NATO drills in the frigid fjords of northern Norway may be just…

By RIAZAT BUTT Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan’s lawmakers have chosen Asif Ali Zardari as the country’s new president.…

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian authorities say two people including a teenage boy have been killed in Russian artillery attacks. Russia…

By TOM MURPHY AP Health Writer Doctors around the country say insurers are making it harder to get coverage for home ventilators that patients with…

By LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Eleven-year-old Domonic Davis was not far from his mom’s Cincinnati home when a hail…

By ZEKE MILLER AP White House Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is making no excuses for his age in the first campaign ad of a…

PADANG, Indonesia (AP) — Torrential rains have triggered flash floods and a landslide on Indonesia’s Sumatra island, killing at least 10 people…

By ABBY SEWELL Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — A top U.S. Treasury official has pressed Lebanese authorities to prevent funds from being funneled to…

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Intense rainfall has swept across Dubai and the wider United Arab Emirates, causing localized flooding and…

ROCHESTER, N.H. (AP) — The New Hampshire attorney general says police shot and killed a man during a foot chase after he was taken down by a police…

By BABACAR DIONE and JACK THOMPSON Associated Press DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Presidential candidates in Senegal have kicked off their election…

By VANESSA GERA Associated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s foreign minister says the presence of NATO forces “is not unthinkable” and…

BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — The Romanian government has won a yearslong legal dispute with a Canadian mining company seeking damages over failed…

By EVENS SANON and DÁNICA COTO Associated Press PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Unrelenting gang attacks in Haiti have paralyzed the country and left…

By DASHA LITVINOVA and KATIE MARIE DAVIES Associated Press TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin is expected to secure his fifth…

By BARRY HATTON Associated Press LISBON, Portugal (AP) — Portugal is holding an early general election on Sunday when 10.8 million registered…

HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong police say a cleaning person found two dead baby boys in glass bottles in the living room of a vacated apartment.…

By PAOLO SANTALUCIA Associated Press ROME (AP) — Pressure is building on authorities in Italy to close a notorious Rome migrant detention center…

By TOM ODULA Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Njeri Migwi is the co-founder of a community-based organization called Usikimye, which means…

By DASHA LITVINOVA Associated Press TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — A lonely man jailed for criticizing the government on his ham radio. A poet assaulted…

By LEAH WILLINGHAM and KIMBERLEE KRUESI Associated Press CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — Nearly 130 years since the first three women were elected to…

By TERRY TANG Associated Press TUBA CITY, Ariz. (AP) — Melissa Blackhair is not eager to spring forward Sunday. “I’m dreading it. I just…

By LOLITA C. BALDOR and TARA COPP Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A massive floating pier that will allow ships to sail up to Gaza and offload…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The UN chief says legal equality for women could take centuries as the fight for gender…