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By REBECCA SANTANA Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — The American refugee program long served as a haven for people fleeing violence around…

By PHILIP MARCELO and DENISE LAVOIE Associated Press Police surrounded a pro-Palestinian encampment early Sunday at the University of Southern…

LONG BEACH, Calif. (AP) — Police say a shooting in the Los Angeles area injured seven people, including four who were listed in critical condition.…

TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says his government has voted unanimously to shutter the offices of the…

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — As Ukraine marked its third Easter at war, Russia launched a barrage of drones concentrated in Ukraine’s east where the…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Law enforcement authorities say a driver has died after crashing a vehicle into a gate at the White House. The U.S. Secret…

By MAKIYA SEMINERA and GEOFF MULVIHILL Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Since Florida enacted a six-week abortion ban, clinics in several…

By JANIE HAR Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — San Francisco’s Tenderloin neighborhood is notorious for its open-air drug use and…

By DEEPTI HAJELA Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — They’re hallmarks of American history: protests, rallies, sit-ins, marches, disruptions. They…

By JIM HEINTZ Associated Press Just a few months short of a quarter-century as Russia’s leader, Vladimir Putin on Tuesday will put his hand on…

By MELANIE LIDMAN Associated Press KIBBUTZ MEFLASIM, Israel (AP) — When Hamas fighters invaded southern Israel on Oct. 7, the militant group that…

By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN Associated Press ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — It was a frigid winter morning when authorities found a Native American man dead…

By JUAN ZAMORANO Associated Press PANAMA CITY (AP) — Panamanians head to the polls to vote in an election that has been consumed by unfolding drama…

By PAN PYLAS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Millions of voters in England have voted in local elections, the last big test before a looming U.K.…

By JUAN A. LOZANO and LEKAN OYEKANMI Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — High waters flooded neighborhoods around Houston on Saturday following heavy…

By DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — King Charles III’s decision to be open about his cancer diagnosis has helped the new monarch…

By ZELIPHA KIROBI Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Students at a school next to Kenya’s largest dumpsite are on a mission to try to…

By ROD McGUIRK Asspciated Press MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Australian officials say a 16-year-old boy armed with a knife has been shot dead by…

By YURI KAGEYAMA Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Juro Kara, who helped shape Japan’s postwar avant-garde theater, defiantly yet playfully…

NEW YORK (AP) — Frank Stella, a painter, sculptor and printmaker whose constantly evolving works served as landmarks of the minimalist and…

By HOLLY RAMER Associated Press CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — Attorneys for a New Hampshire man who prevailed in a landmark lawsuit over abuse at a…

MOSCOW (AP) — Worshippers including President Vladimir Putin have packed Moscow’s landmark Christ the Savior Cathedral for a night-time…

TBILISI, Georgia (AP) — Several thousand Georgians have marked Orthodox Easter with a candlelight vigil outside Parliament in the capital, Tbilisi.…

By JOSH FUNK AP Business Writer OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Shareholder proposals are usually uneventful at Berkshire Hathaway’s annual meeting, but…

By NICK PERRY Associated Press MEREDITH, N.H. (AP) — Burt Rutan was alarmed to see the plane he had designed was so loaded with fuel that the wing…

By CLAIRE GALOFARO AP National Writer LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — When Lori Hennesy imagined her outfit for the 150th running of the Kentucky Derby, she…

By SELLO MOTSETA Associated Press MOLEPOLOLE, Botswana (AP) — At least 44 people who died in a horrific bus crash during Easter weekend in South…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — The state prosecutor’s office says three bodies recovered in an area of Mexico’s Baja California are likely to be those…

By The Associated Press The WNBA debuts of Angel Reese and Kamilla Cardoso were widely watched on a social media livestream from a fan who stepped in…

NORWALK, Conn. (AP) — Workers have demolished a bridge over a Connecticut highway that was damaged in a fiery crash involving a gasoline tanker…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japan and India have decried remarks by U.S. President Joe Biden describing them as…

By JOSH FUNK AP Business Writer OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Berkshire Hathaway says its first quarter profit plummeted on the paper value of its…

SEATTLE (AP) — A zebra that has been hoofing through the foothills of western Washington for days was recaptured Friday evening, nearly a week…

By ELÉONORE HUGHES Associated Press RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Madonna will give a free concrete on Copacabana beach, turning its vast stretch of sand…

MOUNT HOREB, Wis. (AP) — Authorities say a student who was killed by police outside a Wisconsin school pointed a pellet rifle at officers and had…

By ALEX VEIGA AP Business Writer Boeing has locked out its private force of firefighters who protect its aircraft-manufacturing plants in the Seattle…

By PHILIP MARCELO Associated Press Protesters chanted anti-war messages and waved Palestinian flags during the University of Michigan’s…

The Associated Press Some U.S. universities that have been roiled by protests over the Israel-Hamas war have taken steps to contain disruptions…

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — A former security guard has been convicted of first-degree murder in the shooting of an unarmed Black man during a dispute at…

CONROE, Texas (AP) — A Texas police officer has died of injuries he suffered when a tornado struck his home. The Conroe Police Department announced…

The Associated Press Russian state media say Moscow has put Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on its wanted list, citing the interior…

MIAMI (AP) — Airport security officers in Miami found a slithering surprise last week. It was  a bag of snakes hidden in a passenger’s pants.…

By BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press LONDON (AP) — London Mayor Sadiq Khan has won a historic third term in office. The win announced Saturday marks…

JERUSALEM (AP) — Christian Orthodox worshippers in Jerusalem have thronged the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in one of the most chaotic gatherings…

CREVE COEUR, Mo. (AP) — A 79-year-old Missouri man is accused of killing a woman in her suburban Chicago home — a crime that happened nearly six…

By MARC LEVY Associated Press HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — The student protest movement disrupting university campuses, classes and graduation ceremonies…

PARIS (AP) — A British-Palestinian surgeon who volunteered in Gaza hospitals says he was denied entry to France to speak at the French Senate. The…

The United States is gearing up for Cinco de Mayo. Music, all-day happy hours and deals on tacos are planned at venues across the country on Sunday…

By RAHIM FAIEZ Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — Afghanistan’s diplomat in India who was appointed before the Taliban seized power in 2021 and…

By MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Boeing is finally poised to launch astronauts to the International Space Station for…

By LAURA UNGAR AP Science Writer NAMPA, Idaho (AP) — Waiting in a long post office line with the latest shipment of “abortion aftercare kits,”…

By LAURA UNGAR AP Science Writer NAMPA, Idaho (AP) — Waiting in a long post office line with the latest shipment of “abortion aftercare kits,”…

By CHRISTINA A. CASSIDY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — It was Election Day last November, and one of Georgia’s top election officials saw that…

BERLIN (AP) — A candidate for Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s party in next month’s European elections was beaten up and seriously injured while…

By ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Crucial witnesses took the stand in the second week of testimony in Donald Trump’s hush…

ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan’s national weather center says the country has recorded its wettest April since 1961. The weather service said on…

By PAN PYLAS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Kevin Spacey, the Oscar-winning actor, has denied new allegations of inappropriate behaviour from men…

By SAM MEDNICK and JACK JEFFERY Associated Press TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — A delegation of the Palestinian militant group Hamas was in Cairo on…

BEIJING (AP) — A Chinese truck driver has been praised in local media for parking his vehicle across a highway and preventing more cars from…

By BETH HARRIS AP Racing Writer LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — The 150th Kentucky Derby has a couple early favorites, such as Fierceness and Sierra Leone.…

By PAN PYLAS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — London takes center stage as the counting of votes is underway in the capital city’s mayoral contest,…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — The Ukrainian village of Ocheretyne has been battered by fighting, drone footage obtained by…

By DENG MACHOL Associated Press JUNA, South Sudan (AP) — South Sudan has removed recently imposed taxes and fees that had triggered the suspension…

By EVELYNE MUSAMBI Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Tanzania’s power distributing company has announced a major blackout for most parts of…

By JUAN A. LOZANO and LEKAN OYEKANMI Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — The Houston area was under threat of worsening flood conditions Saturday, a…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United Nations food agency is waring Sudan’s warring parties that there is a…

By CHEVEL JOHNSON RODRIGUE Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Grammy Award-winning singer, songwriter and producer PJ Morton comes home with a new…

By BETH HARRIS AP Racing Writer LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — The Kentucky Derby turns 150 years old this Saturday. America’s longest continuously…

By VALERIE GONZALEZ and ALANNA DURKIN RICHER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Democratic U.S. Rep. Henry Cuellar of Texas and his wife have been…

By DAVID A. LIEB Associated Press As the U.S. government moves toward reclassifying marijuana as a less dangerous drug, there may be little immediate…

By JOSH FUNK AP Business Writer OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Tens of thousands of people are expected to flock to Omaha, Nebraska, to soak up wisdom from…

By SEUNG MIN KIM, JILL COLVIN and CALVIN WOODWARD Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — It hasn’t happened in almost anyone’s lifetime:…

By ERIK VERDUZCO and LEAH WILLINGHAM Associated Press CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — A deadly shootout in Charlotte that left five dead illustrates how…

By EDNA TARIGAN Associated Press JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Officials say 14 people are dead after a flood and landslide hit Indonesia’s Sulawesi…

SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. (AP) — A late-season storm is expected to hit the Sierra Nevada this weekend, bringing rain and mountain snow to Northern…

By AUDREY McAVOY Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — Hawaii lawmakers are wrapping up a legislative session that heavily focused on addressing…

By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Israel-Hamas war demonstrations at the University of Mississippi turned ugly when…

By DAVID HAMILTON AP Business Reporter SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The Securities and Exchange Commission has charged the auditing firm hired by Trump…