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SRINAGAR, India (AP) — Indian and Pakistani soldiers have exchanged gunfire and shelling along their highly militarized frontier in disputed…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — An undersea volcano’s eruption off Japan three weeks ago has provided a rare view of the…

By DAVID RISING Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — As China’s navy grows and its land-based missile systems expand, the United States is…

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkey’s top court of appeals has clashed with the country’s Constitutional Court over the release of a newly elected but…

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Sony has reported that its profit in the July-September quarter slipped 29% from a year earlier,…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Missed your favorite actors? After nearly four months of striking, they’re coming back. Wednesday’s deal between striking…

By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer BANGKOK (AP) — Shares were mostly higher in Asia on Thursday after a another mixed close on Wall Street…

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Honda has reported that its profit jumped 34% in the July-September quarter from a year earlier as…

By KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Police say an industrial robot crushed a worker to death at a vegetable packaging…

By RIO YAMAT Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — The CEO of MGM Resorts International says the company is close to reaching a tentative deal with the…

By OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The man accused of breaking into former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s San Francisco…

By SYLVIE CORBET Associated Press PARIS (AP) — Officials from Western and Arab nations, the United Nations and nongovernmental organizations are…

By FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen and her Chinese counterpart are meeting in San Francisco to…

By ROBERT BADENDIECK Associated Press ISTANBUL (AP) — Turkey is marking its centennial but a brain drain is casting a shadow on the occasion.…

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) — A judge in Michigan is expected to hear arguments Thursday on whether Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson has the…

By KIRSTEN GRIESHABER Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Charlotte Knobloch was 6 years old when she saw the synagogues of Munich burning and watched…

By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS, MICHAEL GOLDBERG and AYANNA ALEXANDER Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — People in Mississippi’s largest county are…

By BILL BARROW and LINLEY SANDERS Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Nearly half of Democrats disapprove of how President Joe Biden is handling the…

By ACACIA CORONADO Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas voters rejected a proposal to raise the mandatory retirement age for judges. The…

By NICHOLAS RICCARDI and STEVE PEOPLES Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — As they face an increasingly urgent task to emerge as a clear alternative…

By MATTHEW LEE Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Heightened tensions on the Korean Peninsula, suspected North Korean cooperation with…

By MIKE HOUSEHOLDER and COREY WILLIAMS Associated Press DEARBORN, Mich. (AP) — A Michigan man recounted the fear and desperation he and his wife…

NEW YORK (AP) — Antonio “L.A.” Reid, the Grammy-winning music executive who influenced the career of artists including Pink, Usher and Mariah…

By NICK PERRY Associated Press WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — A group of South Pacific leaders was due to travel to the beautiful island of…

By OHAD ZWIGENBERG Associated Press INSIDE THE GAZA STRIP (AP) — An Israeli tank rolls across a sandy moonscape, surrounded by rubble. Damaged…

By ANDREW DALTON AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Hollywood’s actors union reached a tentative deal with studios Wednesday to end its…

SEATTLE (AP) — Four county elections offices in Washington state were evacuated Wednesday after they received envelopes containing suspicious…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. nuclear chief says nuclear energy must be part of the equation to tackle…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A Los Angeles County coroner’s investigator has been arrested on suspicion of stealing a gold chain and crucifix from around…

By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Robert De Niro looked on Wednesday as a lawyer for a woman who worked for him for over a…

By LINDSAY WHITEHURST and MARY CLARE JALONICK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration has chosen a location for a new FBI…

By LARRY LAGE AP Sports Writer ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) — The University of Michigan warned Big Ten Commissioner Tony Petitti about overstepping his…

HONOLULU (AP) — Hawaii Gov. Josh Green is announcing the creation of a $150 million fund to help those who lost family members or who were injured…

SAN JOSE, Costa Rica (AP) — Little by little an employee of Costa Rica’s National Bank took advantage of a surveillance blindspot to slip more…

By DAVID CRARY AP National Writer In the United States, the national conference of Catholic bishops rejects the concept of gender transition, leaving…

By MORGAN LEE Associated Press SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — Voters have approved a tax on mansions to pay for affordable housing initiatives in the state…

By The Associated Press BATESVILLE, Texas (AP) — Eight people died in a South Texas car crash Wednesday while police chased a driver suspected of…

By JONATHAN MATTISE Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee officials say it now takes less than half the time it took to process rape…

By LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon says the U.S. has launched an airstrike on a site in eastern Syria. It targeted…

By DIANE JEANTET Associated Press RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Residents in a Brazilian community descended from runaway slaves ini Rio de Janeiro have…

PELLA, Iowa (AP) — Voters in a small Iowa city have narrowly decided not to support giving their City Council more power over their local library.…

By JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — A man accused of assaulting a woman at a U.S. research station in Antarctica last year…

VANCOUVER, Wash. (AP) — More than 400 earthquakes have been detected beneath Washington’s Mount St. Helens in recent months, though there are no…

By JOSEF FEDERMAN Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu didn’t elaborate when he said this week that Israel…

By JOHN O’CONNOR AP Political Writer SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — The Illinois Senate has approved lifting a 36-year-old moratorium on new…

By KIM CHANDLER Associated Press MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama has set a January execution date for what could be the nation’s first death…

By STEVE KARNOWSKI and NICHOLAS RICCARDI Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The Minnesota Supreme Court is refusing to bar former President Donald…

By GREG BEACHAM AP Sports Writer ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) — The Los Angeles Angels hired Ron Washington to be their new manager Wednesday, turning to a…

By DAVID BAUDER AP Media Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Newsman Bob Woodruff has returned to the Iraqi roadside where a bomb nearly killed him while on…

By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN Associated Press GREENBELT, Md. (AP) — A jury is set to decide the perjury case against a former top prosecutor for the city…

By ÉDGAR H. CLEMENTE Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — About 3,000 migrants from Central America, Venezuela, Cuba and Haiti have blocked traffic…

By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The “Macbeth”-inspired immersive theater experience “Sleep No More” that is hosted…

DETROIT (AP) — Detroit police say a suspect is in custody in the fatal stabbing of a Detroit synagogue leader. Samantha Woll’s death has…

By BROOKE SCHULTZ and GEOFF MULVIHILL Associated Press HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Liberal and moderate candidates have won seats in polarizing…

By COLLEEN LONG Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The deputy director of the new gun violence prevention office at the White House has been in…

By JULIA FRANKEL Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — The family of a prominent Palestinian activist is fighting Israel’s arrest of the young…

By BRIAN WITTE Associated Press ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — Maryland officials have approved a settlement that includes reforms to the state medical…

By SEUNG MIN KIM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Dozens of Democratic lawmakers are urging President Joe Biden to take steps to protect…

By ASHRAF KHALIL Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The day that panda lovers have been dreading has finally come. The National Zoo’s three…

LUMBERTON, N.C. (AP) — The sheriff’s office in a southeastern North Carolina county where two deputies were seriously wounded while…

By ELLEN KNICKMEYER and JOSEF FEDERMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Secretary of State Antony Blinken called on Wednesday for a united and…

By STEVE LeBLANC Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — The number of homeless families seeking emergency shelter in Massachusetts is nearing a…

By TRAVIS LOLLER Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The Nashville district attorney is calling on the Tennessee legislature to make it easier…

By JIM MUSTIAN and JOSHUA GOODMAN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A federal jury convicted two longtime U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration…

By DAVID BILLER Associated Press RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — The Federal Police in Brazil say they’ve foiled a terror plot and arrested two people…

By EMMA BURROWS Associated Press A Russian news agency is reporting that the country is preparing to send a battalion of Ukrainian prisoners of war…

By MICHAEL GOLDBERG Associated Press/Report for America JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The U.S. Justice Department has opened an investigation into alleged…