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By MARK STEVENSON Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — A one-year-old child has died and a four-year-old has recovered after being exposed to…

By DIANE JEANTET Associated Press RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — At least 400,000 clients remained without electricity in Sao Paulo three days after a…

By JOHN O’CONNOR AP Political Reporter SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — The Invest in Kids private school scholarship program in Illinois expires…

By The Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Serena Williams will be honored at Monday’s Council of Fashion Designers of America awards for her career…

SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — Chile’s government says it has received no requests for asylum from Cuban athletes who reportedly abandoned their visiting…

By SUMMER BALLENTINE Associated Press Iowa is set to pay $10 million to the siblings of an adopted 16-year-old girl who starved to death in 2017.  A…

By ED KOMENDA Associated Press TACOMA, Wash. (AP) — Hundreds of protesters calling for a cease-fire in Gaza are blocking traffic at the Port of…

By KATE BRUMBACK Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Nearly five dozen people indicted on racketeering charges related to protests against a planned…

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — A woman who allegedly drove her car into a building in Indianapolis after watching coverage of the Israel-Hamas war told…

By DEE-ANN DURBIN AP Business Writer Starbucks is increasing pay and benefits for most U.S. hourly workers after ending its fiscal year with record…

By JOEY CAPPELLETTI Associated Press LANSING, Mich. (AP) — U.S. Rep. Rashida Tlaib of Michigan has received widespread criticism for a video she…

By ÉDGAR H. CLEMENTE Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — The Zapatista rebel movement in southern Mexico says it is dissolving the “autonomous…

LAS VEGAS (AP) — The Nevada Supreme Court has pushed back to Jan. 10 oral arguments in a contract interference and conspiracy lawsuit filed against…

By JAMIE STENGLE Associated Press DALLAS (AP) — A man charged in the 2019 fatal shooting of a transgender Dallas woman about a month after she was…

By DAVID BAUDER AP Media Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The Pulitzer Prizes will soon be accepting entries from broadcast and audio outlets, although…

By JAMES POLLARD Associated Press/Report for America Federal officials say an exotic wildlife preserve owner famous from the popular Netflix series…

By LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Wrter Cailee Spaeny and Jacob Elordi play Priscilla and Elvis Presley in Sofia Coppola’s new film, now playing in…

By AMY TEIBEL Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — At a time when world sentiment has begun to sour on Israel’s devastating offensive in Gaza, the…

By MIKE FITZPATRICK AP Baseball Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The New York Mets are hiring Yankees bench coach Carlos Mendoza as their manager, according…

By GARY GERARD HAMILTON Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — “The Family Chantel” star Pedro Jimeno, who is recently divorced from Chantel Everett,…

By SYLVIA HUI Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Four men have been charged over the theft of an 18-carat gold toilet from Blenheim Palace, the…

NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. regulators are warning drivers to steer clear of aftermarket decals used to embellish a car’s logo on the center of its…

By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN Associated Press GREENBELT, Md. (AP) — A trial has started for a former top Baltimore prosecutor charged with perjury. During…

By BASSAM HATOUM Associated Press RMEISH, Lebanon (AP) — The military wing of Palestinian group Hamas says it fired 16 rockets from Lebanon into…

By WAYNE PARRY Associated Press OCEAN CITY, N.J. (AP) — Offshore wind power company Orsted is trying to get out of a $300 million guarantee it…

By FRANCES D’EMILIO Associated Press ROME (AP) — Albania has agreed to temporarily give shelter to thousands of the migrants who reach Italy…

CHULA VISTA, Calif. (AP) — A 15-year-old boy has been arrested in connection with a shooting that injured four people inside a restaurant south of…

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — The U.S. Justice Department says one of Puerto Rico’s biggest distributors of pharmaceutical drugs has been ordered…

By BETH HARRIS AP Racing Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Kentucky teenager who watched his namesake horse Cody’s Wish win at the…

HEMPSTEAD, Texas (AP) — Authorities outside of Houston are searching for the people responsible for a shooting at a large college homecoming event…

By EMMANUEL IGUNZA Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Aid agencies say heavy rains and flash flooding have killed at least 30 people and…

By GRANT PECK Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — Resistance groups fighting Myanmar’s military government have reportedly seized control of a…

BALTIMORE (AP) — The Archdiocese of Baltimore will close one of the city’s Catholic churches after its longtime pastor was recently suspended…

By MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Scientists have discovered the oldest black hole yet, formed a mere 470 million…

By ADRIAN SAINZ Associated Press MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — A judge has set an August trial date for four former Memphis police officers charged in the…

By MIKE SCHNEIDER Associated Press ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Since allies of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis took over Walt Disney World’s government…

By DIDI TANG Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A new poll finds public opinions in 24 countries growing more favorable of the United States than…

By KRYSTA FAURIA Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Jeff Tweedy is known to fans as a prolific songwriter and poignant lyricist. So it may come as…

By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer James Corden may be off TV screens after leaving CBS’ “The Late Late Show” but that doesn’t mean…

By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Boy George is returning to Broadway in “Moulin Rouge! The Musical.” The…

By SAMANTHA HENDRICKSON Associated Press/Report For America COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — An 11-year-old boy killed in a weekend shooting in Cincinnati has…

By BARBARA ORTUTAY and MATT O’BRIEN AP Technology Writers SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The artificial intelligence company behind ChatGPT has invited…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — King Charles III is preparing to deliver the King’s Speech at the State Opening of Parliament.…

PARIS (AP) — Senators in France are set to start debating a bill that is intended to toughen the country’s immigration law. French Interior…

By MATTHEW PERRONE AP Health Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The decades-old surgical drug ketamine has found a new use — as an alternative to opioids…

By MUNIR AHMED Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — Officials say Pakistani authorities have stepped up security at military and other sensitive…

LONDON (AP) — The group Just Stop Oil says two climate change protesters have smashed a protective glass panel covering a famous Diego Velázquez…

By MOGOMOTSI MAGOME Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — South Africa’s government has recalled Monday its ambassador and diplomatic mission to…

BY STEPHEN McGRATH and AUREL OBREJA Associated Press CHISINAU, Moldova (AP) — Moldova’s ruling pro-European party has lost a bid for the…

By JOEY CAPPELLETTI Associated Press LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Republican former congressman Peter Meijer has announced he’ll run for an open…

By JUSTIN SPIKE Associated Press BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Hungary’s cultural minister has fired the director of the Hungarian National Museum in…

By JONATHAN LANDRUM Jr. AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — R&B group New Edition will bring their New Jack Swing tunes dating back 40…

BERLIN (AP) — Authorities say a man who drove onto the tarmac at Hamburg Airport with his 4-year-old daughter and started an 18-hour standoff with…

Associated Press ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) — Ethiopia’s federal government says the future of contested land in its northern Tigray region will…

By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — What would the mean ol’ Grinch be doing in 2023? Would that Christmas sad sack be…

By KIMBERLY PALMER of NerdWallet The requests for tips for service are coming more frequently these days, as cashless payment methods with automated…

CINCINNATI (AP) — Cincinnati officials are expressing outrage at a drive-by shooting that sent more than a score of bullets into a crowd of…

By RENATA BRITO Associated Press BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Migration from Senegal is surging as more than 32,000 migrants have landed in Spain’s…

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A campaign urging Iran to free Nobel Peace Prize laureate Narges Mohammadi says the activist has begun a hunger…