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By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer BANGKOK (AP) — Shares slipped in Asia on Wednesday, tracking a decline on Wall Street a day after stocks…

By MATT O’BRIEN AP Technology Writer The ousted leader of ChatGPT-maker OpenAI is returning to the company that fired him late last week, the…

By JOSEF FEDERMAN, TIA GOLDENBERG and SAMY MAGDY Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel and Hamas have reached an agreement for a four-day halt…

By DAVID RISING Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — The United States and the Philippines are conducting joint air and maritime patrols in the South…

By MIKE CORDER Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — No fewer than 26 political parties are seeking a share of the 150 seats in the lower…

By MIKE CORDER and RAF CASERT Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — One thing is certain as Dutch voters cast ballots in a general…

By RIO YAMAT Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — A Las Vegas high school is grappling with how a feud over stolen items escalated into a fatal…

By PAN PYLAS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Britain’s Conservative government will try to win favor with voters by cutting taxes but avoiding…

By HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea says it will partially suspend an inter-Korean agreement to restart…

By STEVE KARNOWSKI Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Minnesota, North Dakota and Montana and other northern states are making preparations to…

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Police say a shooting in Philadelphia has killed two men and wounded five others and police say the violence may have been…

By RAF CASERT Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — A culinary issue erupted as the European Parliament prepares to vote on Wednesday on a proposal…

By AUDREY McAVOY Associated Press LAHAINA, Hawaii (AP) — A group of Lahaina wildfire survivors is vowing to camp on a popular resort beach until…

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Incumbent Erin Mendenhall was leading Tuesday in her reelection bid to continue as mayor of Utah’s capital in a…

By AARON MORRISON Associated Press STUDIO CITY, California (AP) — Some of the mystery and controversy shrouding a sprawling Los Angeles-area…

By AMANDA SEITZ Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A new plan from the Biden administration could significantly increase salaries for hundreds of…

By SEUNG MIN KIM and LINLEY SANDERS Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — As lawmakers in Washington weigh sending billions more in federal support to…

By JAMIE STENGLE Associated Press DALLAS (AP) — Some of the last surviving witnesses to the events surrounding the assassination of President John…

By DÉBORA REY Associated Press BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Argentina’s populist President-elect Javier Milei lacks a group of well-known…

DENVER (AP) — Authorities in Colorado say four men have been found dead at a home just north of Denver. The Adams County Sheriff’s Office says…

JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — A strong, deep undersea earthquake shook the eastern side of Indonesia on Wednesday. There were no immediate reports of…

By TARA COPP Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Two defense officials say U.S. fighter aircraft have struck two Hezbollah operations centers in…

By MEAD GRUVER Associated Press Voters in Utah are choosing between a Republican former congressional staffer and a Democratic state senator in a…

By JILL LAWLESS and SYLVIA HUI Associated Press LONDON (AP) — King Charles III has hosted South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol and his wife at a…

By SCOTT SONNER Associated Press RENO, Nev. (AP) — A U.S. appeals court has sided with Cristiano Ronaldo, rejecting an appeal by a woman trying to…

PLANO, Texas (AP) — A small plane has crashed and burned on the doorstep of a strip mall in Texas. The Tuesday crash killed the pilot and caused a…

By JONATHAN J. COOPER Associated Press An influential Iowa evangelical leader is endorsing Ron DeSantis for president before the leadoff Republican…

By BERNIE WILSON AP Sports Writer SAN DIEGO (AP) — Mike Shildt has been hired as manager of the San Diego Padres, returning to the dugout two years…

By GAURAV SAINI and SIBI ARASU, Press Trust of India NEW DELHI (AP) — Sunil Kumar watched helplessly in July as his home and 14 others were washed…

By DEEPA BHARATH Associated Press KAPAA, Hawaii (AP) — It is the only all-granite, hand-carved Hindu temple in the West built without power tools…

By DYLAN LOVAN Associated Press LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — The man who fatally shot five coworkers in April at a bank in Louisville, Kentucky,…

By CAROLYN THOMPSON Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A woman who worked as a stand-in at “The Cosby Show” in the 1980s is suing Bill Cosby,…

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — The start of the South American World Cup qualifying match between Argentina and Brazil on Tuesday night was delayed because…

By SIMINA MISTREANU Associated Press A report by Human Rights Watch says the Chinese government has expanded its campaign of closing mosques to…

By Summer Ballentine Associated Press A moose on the loose in southern Minnesota has gained a herd of thousands of followers hoping to see the…

By TRÂN NGUYỄN Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A state appeals court has ruled that California can share personal information of gun…

Formula One’s return to Las Vegas drew the largest audience for the series since June, despite starting in the middle of the night for viewers…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — The governor of Mexico’s border state of Sonora has acknowledged that a secrecy-shrouded train project was an army…

By FARNOUSH AMIRI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republicans have issued a subpoena to a senior federal prosecutor involved in the…

By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A New York massage therapist who joined the mob of Trump supporters attacking the U.S.…

By PETER SMITH and MATT SEDENSKY Associated Press The founder of a far-right, unofficial Catholic media group has resigned for an unspecified…

PINNACLE, N.C. (AP) — Heavy rain and lower temperatures have helped slow down wildfires in North Carolina, including blazes that had prompted…

BY KIM CHANDLER Associated Press MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Lawyers for the first inmate scheduled to be put to death using nitrogen gas said Monday…

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — An Oregon judge has ruled that a voter-approved gun control law violates the state constitution. The decision on Tuesday…

By BARBARA ORTUTAY AP Technology Writer SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Unlike Google, Facebook and countless other tech giants, the company behind ChatGPT…

By FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Users of Venmo, Cash App and other payment apps will get a bit of a tax reprieve this year.…

LONDON (AP) — British police say the bodies of four teenage boys who had been missing since they left for a weekend camping trip have been found…

By MICHAEL RUBINKAM Associated Press A federal judge says mail-in ballots in Pennsylvania should still count even if they’re not dated…

By MATTHEW DALY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration is making $2 billion available to community groups, states and tribes…

By JIM SALTER Associated Press A federal judge has ruled that the Kansas Highway Patrol must stop using a tactic known as the “Kansas Two-Step”…

By JEAN-YVES KAMALE Associated Press KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — Congo’s foreign minister and the head of the U.N. stabilization mission in Congo have…

By JACK DURA Associated Press BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — North Dakota plans to appeal a federal judge’s decision that found a Voting Rights Act…

By JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — Concerns about environmental damage are looming a day after a large U.S. Navy plane…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Four out of five people in Mexico who got influenza shots so far this year turned down the government’s recommendation…

By HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH Associated Press MISSION, Kan. (AP) — Officials say cybercriminals hacked into the Kansas court system, stole sensitive…

By DAVID BILLER and DANIEL POLITI Associated Press BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — The exchange rate is top of mind for millions of Argentines…

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Striking teachers in Portland, Oregon, temporarily shut down a major bridge Tuesday morning as they marched across it. KGW…

By JOEY CAPPELLETTI Associated Press LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer has signed a package of bills known as the Reproductive…

By MARC LEVY Associated Press HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Gov. Josh Shapiro says he’ll appeal a court ruling that blocked a state regulation to…

By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The financial crisis of 2008 hit Mary Kathryn Nagle differently. As a playwright and a…

By DARLENE SUPERVILLE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House says it’s very concerned that Iran may provide ballistic missiles to…

By BILL BARROW Associated Press PLAINS, Ga. (AP) — President Joe Biden has ordered that U.S. flags on federal government buildings and property…

By NICHOLAS RICCARDI and JILL COLVIN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump has long praised a particular type of foreign leader — men he…

DETROIT (AP) — Ford Motor Co. is resuming construction on a Michigan electric vehicle battery plant that the company postponed two months ago…

By FARNOUSH AMIRI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Democratic Rep. Anna Eshoo is not running for reelection next year.  Eshoo’s…

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) — Both sides say the latest round of peace talks between Ethiopia’s federal government and a militant group waging a…

By LEA SKENE Associated Press BALTIMORE (AP) — A federal appeals court has struck down a Maryland law requiring people to obtain a special license…

By KEVIN McGILL Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — As much as 1.1 million gallons of oil may have been discharged into the Gulf of Mexico from a…

NEW YORK (AP) — Major League Baseball made another addition to its broadcast department as it adapts following the bankruptcy of the Diamond Sports…

By PATRICK WHITTLE Associated Press An island along the coast of Maine that was home to a mixed-race fishing community later forcibly removed by the…

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal Reserve officials concluded earlier this month that inflation was steadily…

By JIM SALTER Associated Press The Missouri Supreme Court has turned away an appeal about how to word a ballot question on access to abortion. The…

By WAYNE PARRY Associated Press TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — New Jersey is prohibiting the sale of new gasoline-powered vehicles by 2035 as part of an…

By JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump’s former corporate controller has teared up while testifying that he “gave…