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By FREIDA FRISARO Associated Press FORT LAUDERDALE Fla. (AP) — The National Transportation Safety Board will investigate two crashes involving…

By JOSH BOAK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden can make an increasingly strong case that he’s helped fix inflation, if only…

By SIMINA MISTREANU and ADAM SCHRECK Associated Press TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Lai Ching-te is Taiwan’s president-elect who has vowed to safeguard…

By MATT BROWN AP National Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — With the first primaries of the 2024 election just around the corner, Republican candidates are…

By KEN MILLER Associated Press EDMOND, Okla. (AP) — At least six earthquakes that include two stronger than 4 have been recorded near an Oklahoma…

By TOM ODULA Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Ukraine’s foreign affairs ministry says that four of its citizens were among those captured…

By DANICA KIRKA and MENELAOS HADJICOSTIS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Children have joined thousands of other demonstrators making their way…

MOSCOW (AP) — Russian authorities say that a huge fire tore through a large warehouse used by Russia’s largest online retailer south of St.…

By THOMAS BEAUMONT Associated Press ROCK RAPIDS, Iowa (AP) — Some of the most contested real estate for Iowa’s Republican caucuses is a vast,…

By NICHOLAS RICCARDI and HANNAH FINGERHUT Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Most Iowans won’t be out Monday night. Never mind that…

By SUSIE BLANN Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — France’s new Foreign Minister Stéphane Séjourné arrived in the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv,…

By DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — British D-Day veteran Bill Gladden turned 100 on Saturday, a day after his niece threw a surprise…

By GEIR MOULSON Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — German Chancellor Olaf Scholz is calling for calm and a readiness to accept compromises as the…

By NAJIB JOBAIN, DAVID RISING and SAMY MAGDY Associated Press RAFAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Health and rescue officials say more than 30 Palestinians…

By RAHIM FAIEZ Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — The Taliban says Pakistan has effectively closed a key northwestern border crossing with…

By HAU DINH and ANIRUDDHA GHOSAL Associated Press HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — Indonesian President Joko Widodo has visited Vietnamese automaker…

By MOGOMOTSI MAGOME Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — South Africa’s ruling African National Congress party will celebrate Saturday the 112th…

MULLAN, Idaho (AP) — Authorities in Idaho on Friday located and retrieved the body of a man who was caught in an avalanche while backcountry skiing…

By AIJAZ HUSSAIN Associated Press SRINAGAR, India (AP) — A prolonged dry spell is sweeping across the Indian-controlled portion of Kashmir during…

By ANDREW WILKS Associated Press ISTANBUL (AP) — Turkey carried out airstrikes targeting Kurdish militants in neighboring Iraq and Syria on…

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Officials in Colombia say that a mudslide has killed at least 18 people and left dozens injured in the country’s…

By ISABEL DEBRE and NAJIB JOBAIN Associated Press RAFAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — For a few hours every day or night, Dr. Suhaib Alhamss tries to sleep on…

By COLLIN BINKLEY AP Education Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The expansive version of free speech long accepted in American society is facing more…

By AMANDA SEITZ Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — In a new twist in the abortion access fight, congressional Republicans are trying to block a…

By LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Just a few months after he took office, Attorney General Merrick Garland issued a…

By DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Every morning, before she’s even out of her pajamas, Rachel Goldberg-Polin tears a piece of…

By SONIA PÉREZ D. Associated Press GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — Guatemalan President-elect Bernardo Arévalo’s imminent inauguration and the…

By TERRY TANG and NOREEN NASIR Associated Press As communities nationwide prepare this weekend to celebrate the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. holiday…

By JOSEF FEDERMAN Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Sunday marks 100 days that Israel and Hamas have been at war. The war already is the longest…

By ELLEN KNICKMEYER, MATTHEW LEE and MELANIE LIDMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden’s administration keeps pressing Israel…

By JIM SALTER and CLAIRE RUSH Associated Press ST. LOUIS (AP) — Brutally cold weather could prove a deadly challenge Saturday amid a continuing…

By DAN IKPOYI and CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — Nigerian children with amputated limbs are getting help to walk again and…

By MARK STEVENSON Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s two main drug cartels have long taken their deadly rivalry with them as they…

By COLLIN BINKLEY AP Education Writer Generations of Americans have held firm to a version of free speech that makes room for even the vilest of…

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — After almost five years of engagement and a postponement due to the coronavirus pandemic, former New Zealand Prime…

By JONATHAN LANDRUM Jr. AP Entertainment Writer BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) — Everyone has ended up walking away a winner at the American Film…

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — The Alabama Supreme Court has rejected the appeal of an inmate who is scheduled to be the first person executed with…

By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A Russian billionaire who accused Sotheby’s of teaming up with a Swiss art dealer to…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court has agreed to hear an appeal from Starbucks in a dispute with the National Labor Relations Board over workers…

By STEVE KARNOWSKI Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Federal prosecutors have urged a judge to reject former Minneapolis police Officer Derek…

By SARA CLINE Associated Press BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — In what would be an overhaul to Louisiana’s unique open “jungle primary” system, which…

By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN Associated Press A jailed member of the Proud Boys extremist group has been sentenced to more than four years in prison for his…

By CHRISTOPHER BODEEN and SIMINA MISTREANU Associated Press TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — The polls have opened in Taiwan as the island’s voters…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A Los Angeles man accused of killing his wife and her parents and then stuffing their dismembered body parts into trash bags has…

By STEVE KARNOWSKI Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — MyPillow chief executive and prominent election denier Mike Lindell said Friday that Fox…

By DIDI TANG Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Secretary of State Antony Blinken has met with a senior Chinese diplomat as the Biden…

WASHINGTON (AP) — ABC’s “This Week” — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, a Republican presidential candidate; Governor J.B. Pritzker, D-Ill. ___…

By MARGERY A. BECK Associated Press OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — The Nebraska Supreme Court has found that a jury should hear former Republican state…

By STEFANIE DAZIO and MICHAEL R. BLOOD Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Los Angeles police chief has announced he is retiring. Chief Michel…

By WAYNE PARRY Associated Press UNION, N.J. (AP) — An investigation into the deaths of two Newark, New Jersey firefighters finds that an initial…

By MICHAEL CASEY Associated Press A Connecticut truck driver will serve at least 12 months behind bars after pleading guilty to charges related to a…

By MORGAN LEE Associated Press SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — New Mexico’s governor is advocating for a broad suite of legislative proposals on gun…

CAMBRIDGE, Vt. (AP) — A Vermont state trooper is being praised for plunging into a frigid pond and saving the life of an 8-year-old girl who had…

By MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Former President Donald Trump was ordered Friday to pay nearly $400,000 in legal fees to The…

By MEG KINNARD Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Ron DeSantis is taking his battle with Nikki Haley directly to her home state, planning to…

By TARA COPP, LOLITA C. BALDOR and SEUNG MIN KIM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — From his hospital room, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin first…

By JONEL ALECCIA AP Health Writer Quaker Oats has expanded a December recall of more than 40 products that may be contaminated with salmonella. Two…

By FARNOUSH AMIRI and LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Hunter Biden has indicated a new willingness to testify before…

By ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The family of a Navy officer jailed in Japan over a car crash that killed two Japanese citizens…

By TERRY SPENCER Associated Press FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — A South Florida Marriott Hotel canceled a Muslim group’s conference at the last…

By SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A Wisconsin judge has ruled that the state’s top elections official is legally holding her…

By JOE REEDY AP Sports Writer Caitlin Clark has set records on and off the court. The University of Iowa’s superstar guard is on track to do…

By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A lawyer for a columnist who last year won a $5 million jury award against Donald Trump for…

By SEUNG MIN KIM and JOSH BOAK Associated Press EMMAUS, Pennsylvania (AP) — President Joe Biden on Friday tried his hand at retail politics —…

MADRID (AP) — Spain forward Jenni Hermoso has led the fight against sexism in Spanish soccer after finding herself in the global spotlight when she…

By MATTHEW DALY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Oil and natural gas companies would have to pay a fee for methane emissions that exceed certain…