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By AMY BETH HANSON Associated Press Galena, a 6-year-old house cat from Utah, likes hiding and playing with cardboard. Earlier this month, the…

By PETER SMITH Associated Press CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — United Methodist delegates began making historic changes in their policies on sexuality on…

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Mike Tyson’s fight against Jake Paul in Texas this summer has been sanctioned as a competitive boxing match rather than…

MANUEL RUEDA Associated Press BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Colombian President Gustavo Petro says that hundreds of thousands of pieces of ammunition…

By MAE ANDERSON AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — It’s never fun to be scammed, but if you’re a small business owner then falling for a scam…

By REBECCA SANTANA Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump says he’d use the National Guard as part of efforts to deport millions of…

By MICHAEL CASEY Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — The demeanor of a woman charged in the death of her Boston police officer boyfriend and the words…

TORONTO, Ontario (AP) — Police in Canada say that two grandparents and their infant grandchild were killed on highway east of Toronto when a van…

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — A Portuguese-flagged container ship has come under attack by a drone in the far reaches of the…

By KAVISH HARJAI and PABLO MONSIVAIS Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Millions of families will face bigger internet bills starting in May…

By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press ROME (AP) — Italy’s League, a junior party in the government, is putting forward a provocative candidate…

By BRUCE SCHREINER Associated Press FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Former Kentucky Secretary of State Alison Lundergan Grimes has been cleared of ethics…

By BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Two men have been charged with cutting down the popular 150-year-old Sycamore Gap tree that toppled…

NEW YORK (AP) — A group of eight U.S. newspapers is suing ChatGPT-maker OpenAI and Microsoft, alleging that the technology companies have been…

BRUSSELS (AP) — The head of the International Organization for Migration is warning that the number of Syrian refugees leaving Lebanon is likely to…

By RUSS BYNUM Associated Press SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — Georgia’s highest court has thrown out an indictment that charged a former police chief…

By CHRISTINE FERNANDO Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — Former President Donald Trump says it should be left up to the states whether they want to…

By The Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel is determined to launch a ground offensive against Hamas in Rafah, Gaza’s southernmost town, a…

By FARAI MUTSAKA Associated Press HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — Zimbabwe has started circulating a new currency to replace one that has been battered by…

By ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The number of FBI searches of a vast foreign intelligence repository for information about…

By EVELYNE MUSAMBI Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Rain-swollen water levels at two Kenyan hydroelectric dams are at “historic highs”…

By The Associated Press Singer Alicia Keys says she was unable to speak after her semi-autobiographical show “Hell’s Kitchen” earned 13 nods…

By ZEKE MILLER, JOSHUA GOODMAN, JIM MUSTIAN and LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration will…

By MATTHEW PERRONE AP Health Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The Federal Trade Commission is challenging patents on 20 brand name drugs, including the…

By WAYNE PARRY Associated Press LONG BEACH TOWNSHIP, N.J. (AP) — New Jersey is seeking a new round of proposals to build wind energy farms off its…

MILAN (AP) — Energy and environment ministers of the Group of Seven leading industrialized nations have committed to phase out coal power by 2035.…

By ADRIANA MORGA Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Borrowers with some types of federal student loans have until today to consolidate their loans to…

By JULIE CARR SMYTH Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Imprisoned ex-Ohio House Speaker Larry Householder will be arraigned from federal prison…

By CARLOS MUREITHI Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — The torrential rains and deadly floods that have hit Kenya since March have been some of…

By DÁNICA COTO Associated Press PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Haiti’s newly installed transitional presidential council has chosen former Sports…

By MICHELLE CHAPMAN AP Business Writer Walmart is closing its health centers and virtual care service after struggling to find success with the…

By CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Nigerians are struggling with an ongoing fuel shortage, the latest of a series of supply…

By ALEX TURNBULL Associated Press PARIS (AP) — Pro-Palestinian protesters have called on Olympic officials to limit Israel’s participation at the…

By KEVIN FREKING Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — House Democrats will vote to save Speaker Mike Johnson’s job should some Republican lawmakers…

By AYAKA MCGILL and MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press FUJIKAWAGUCHIKO, Japan (AP) — The Japanese town of Fujikawaguchiko has had enough of tourists.…

By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Scammers stole more than $3.4 billion from older Americans last year, according to an…

By CARLA K. JOHNSON AP Medical Writer Regular mammograms to screen for breast cancer should start younger, at age 40, according to an influential…

By JARI TANNER Associated Press HELSINKI (AP) — A Finnish court has sentenced a 26-year-old man to more than six years in prison for hacking…

By MARIA SHERMAN AP Music Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Grammy-award winning pop star Dua Lipa’s third album, “Radical Optimism,” releases…

By JOHN O’CONNOR The Associated Press SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — The document in which Abraham Lincoln set the Union’s military response…

By ISABEL DEBRE Associated Press BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Argentine lawmakers and protestors are converging on downtown Buenos Aires as the…

The Federal Communications Commission has leveraged nearly $200 million in fines against wireless carriers AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile and Verizon for…

By SARAH EFFRESS Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — The Minnesota Twins are no stranger to unique home-run celebrations. Last season, the team…

By SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Wisconsin Supreme Court has ruled that a former Milwaukee police officer was properly…

By SEUNG MIN KIM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden and Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador are putting in place…

By LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. and allies are scrambling to pull together a complex system that will move tons of…

By JENNIFER McDERMOTT Associated Press OTTAWA, Ontario (AP) — The world’s nations finished a round of negotiations early Tuesday on a treaty to…

By JAMES ROBSON AP Soccer Writer An English study into the causes of ACL injuries to women soccer players has been launched. ‘Project ACL’ will…

By HILARY FOX Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Matthew Shardlake steps out of the pages of the late C.J. Sansom’s popular historical mystery…

By MATTHEW DALY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Environmental Protection Agency said Tuesday it has finalized a ban on consumer uses of …

By ADAM BEAM Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California’s population increased in 2023 for the first time in three years. The…

By CIARÁN GILES Associated Press MADRID (AP) — Marjane Satrapi, the acclaimed Iranian-French filmmaker and cartoonist, has won the 2024 Princess…

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Pay and benefits for America’s workers grew more quickly in the first three months…

MILAN (AP) — A former Italian foreign minister has been convicted and sentenced to two years and eight months in prison for his role in the sale of…

By ERIK VERDUZCO and JEFFREY COLLINS Associated Press CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Police in North Carolina say a shootout that killed four law…

By HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Six years after being forced out as as national security adviser, H.R McMaster is releasing a…

By THALIA BEATY Associated Press Some 170 foundations, donors and advisors have signed on to a pledge started by the nonprofit Democracy Fund to make…

MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Chinese coast guard ships have fired water cannons at two Philippine patrol vessels near a disputed shoal in the South…

By TODD RICHMOND Associated Press Wildlife researchers say the wolf population on a remote Lake Superior island is stable. But they announced Tuesday…

PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistani police say gunmen have fatally shot a police officer assigned to protect polio workers in the northwest.…

TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pledged Tuesday to launch an incursion into the southern Gaza city of Rafah,…

LONDON (AP) — Britain’s Telegraph newspaper group is back up for sale after a takeover bid by a United Arab Emirates-backed consortium collapsed.…

NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump’s hush money trial will resume with testimony from the third prosecution witness, Gary Farro, a banker who helped…

TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Authorities in Kazakhstan have arrested a former interior minister in connection with deadly unrest that gripped the…

By ANNE D’INNOCENZIO AP Retail Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Walmart is launching its biggest store-label food brand in 20 years in terms of its…

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — A senior military official in Cambodia says the huge explosion over the weekend that killed 20 soldiers at an army base…

BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Serbia’s new government will include a former intelligence chief who has fostered close ties with Russia and is…

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Twenty years after Poland joined the European Union, its finance minister says the country is still not ready to adopt the…

BEIJING (AP) — China’s Foreign Ministry says rival Palestinian groups Hamas and Fatah made “encouraging progress” in recent talks in…

By DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — King Charles III will return to public duties on Tuesday when he visits a cancer treatment charity,…

LONDON (AP) — London police say a man wielding a sword attacked members of the public and two police officers on Tuesday in the east London…

By NICOLAS GARRIGA Associated Press PARIS (AP) — Paris police have evicted migrants from a makeshift tent camp next to City Hall, the latest…

By RONALD BLUM AP Sports Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The U.S. Soccer Federation and its Mexican counterpart dropped their joint bid to host the 2027…

By The Associated Press Officials from Hamas have left Cairo after talks with Egyptian officials on a new cease-fire proposal in Gaza, Egypt’s…

ISLAMABAD (AP) — A Taliban official says a gunman opened fire inside a mosque in western Afghanistan, killing at least six people as they were…

SHANGHAI (AP) — The first scientist to publish a sequence of the COVID-19 virus in China was staging a sit-in protest after authorities locked him…