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By MOHAMMAD JAHJOUH and SAMY MAGDY Associated Press RAFAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israeli strikes on the southern Gaza city of Rafah overnight killed 13…

By FLORENT BAJRAMI and LLAZAR SEMINI Associated Press PRISTINA, Kosovo (AP) — Residents of four Serb-majority municipalities are casting their…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A tram accident at the Universal Studios Hollywood theme park in Los Angeles has injured 15 people. The Los Angeles County Fire…

By DÁNICA COTO Associated Press PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — As the sun sets, a burly man bellows into a megaphone while a curious crowd gathers…

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Polish voters are casting ballots to chose mayors in hundreds of cities and towns where no candidate won outright in the…

By AUDREY McAVOY Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — An acute housing shortage hitting fire survivors on the Hawaiian island of Maui is squeezing out…

By DAVID SHARP Associated Press PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Federal law enforcement officials have brought charges against a man accused of creating an…

By SUMAN NAISHADHAM Associated Press Carpets of yellow, orange and gold flowers are beginning to cover stretches of Southern California’s vast…

By ISABEL DEBRE and ALMUDENA CALATRAVA Associated Press ROSARIO, Argentina (AP) — The order to kill came from inside a federal prison near…

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Police in Tennessee say a shooting at an unsanctioned public party in a Memphis city park killed two people and wounded 14…

By MOHAMED SHARUHAN Associated Press MALE, Maldives (AP) — Maldivians are voting in parliamentary elections, in a ballot crucial for President…

QUITO, Ecuador (AP) — Ecuadorians head to the polls in a referendum touted by the country’s fledgling leader as a way to crack down on criminal…

By MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump’s hush money criminal trial shifts to opening statements Monday, followed by…

BERLIN TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) — A Michigan sheriff says a vehicle drove through a boat club building where a children’s birthday celebration was…

NEW YORK (AP) — Police in New York City say a knife attack on a boat at a pier in Brooklyn has resulted in the hospitalization of three people.…

GOVERNMENT CAMP, Ore. (AP) — Oregon’s historic Timberline Lodge, which featured in Stanley Kubrick’s 1980 film “The Shining,” will…

By DAVID KOENIG AP Business Writer DALLAS (AP) — The United Auto Workers union is celebrating a huge win at a Volkswagen plant in Tennessee, where…

GREENBELT, Md. (AP) — Police say three of the five youths shot in a suburban Washington, D.C., park during a high school “senior skip day”…

By MAYSOON KHAN and ANTHONY IZAGUIRRE Associated Press ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York lawmakers have approved a $237 billion state budget that…

By The Associated Press Roman Gabriel, the former North Carolina State quarterback who was the 1969 NFL MVP with the Los Angeles Rams, has died. He…

By The Associated Press The House’s $95 billion foreign aid package provides military aid to Ukraine and Israel, replenishes U.S. weapons…

FORT WAYNE, Ind. (AP) — A Fort Wayne city councilwoman has been chosen as the new mayor of Indiana’s second most populous city, and its first…

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — A police official in Kabul says a sticky bomb has killed one person and wounded three others. Saturday evening’s…

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Country music star Morgan Wallen, who faces charges stemming in part from accusations that he threw a chair off the rooftop…

MIAMI (AP) — Venezuela’s opposition is rallying behind an unknown former diplomat to challenge Nicolas Maduro in this summer’s presidential…

By MATTHEW LEE AP Diplomatic Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Secretary of State Antony Blinken will travel to China this coming week as Washington and…

TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s defense minister says two Japanese Maritime Self Defense Force helicopters are believed to have crashed in the Pacific…

By MARY CLARE JALONICK and HALELUYA HADERO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The House passed legislation Saturday that would ban TikTok in the…

BALTIMORE (AP) — A third temporary channel for boats to enter and depart the Port of Baltimore has opened, expanding further shipping access as…

PORT ANGELES, Wash. (AP) — Longtime publisher and Associated Press journalist John Brewer has died. He was 76. Brewer’s close friend Randy…

By ANDREW DeMILLO Associated Press LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — David Pryor, a former Arkansas governor and U.S. senator who was one of the state’s…

By JEAN FERNAND KOENA Associated Press BANGUI, Central African Republic (AP) — Witnesses in Central African Republic say that at least 20 people…

By RONALD BLUM Associated Press Romeo Castellucci has dropped out of his production of Wagner’s Ring Cycle at Belgium’s La Monnaie theater…

TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — Authorities say the New Jersey rabbi serving a decadeslong sentence in a 1994 murder-for-hire plot targeting his wife has…

By JARI TANNER Associated Press HELSINKI (AP) — An artisan roastery based in the Finnish capital has introduced a coffee blend that has been…

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — An Iranian attack on an Israeli desert air base last week as part of…

By JACK THOMPSON Associated Press DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — U.S. officials said that they will begin to withdraw troops from Niger but there is no…

By MIKE CATALINI and MARC LEVY Associated Press NEW HOPE, Pa. (AP) — Mark Houck’s campaign to unseat Republican Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick in…

By AAMER MADHANI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden can breathe a bit easier, at least for the moment, now that Israel and Iran…

By ALEXANDRA OLSON and CLAIRE SAVAGE AP Business Writers Pregnant workers have the right to a wide range of accommodations under new federal…

By LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The most significant case in decades on homelessness has reached the Supreme Court as…

By RIAZ KHAN Associated Press PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — A Pakistani province is warning of heavy loss of life due to glacial melting. The country…

SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) — Bulgarian customs officials say they have seized about 887 pounds of heroin found in a truck with Turkish registration en…

By JACQUELYN MARTIN Associated Press ROCKVILLE, Md. (AP) — The group of first graders had no time to waste — they had matzo to make. The students…

By DAVID CRARY AP National Writer Passover is a major Jewish holiday, celebrated over seven or eight days each year, commemorating the exodus of…

By QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA Associated Press BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraqi authorities say they are investigating an explosion that struck a base belonging to the…

By MOHAMMAD TAUFAN Associated Press PALU, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesian authorities say the country’s elite counterterrorism police have…

By DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — London’s police force has been forced to issue two apologies after officers threatened to arrest…

By MOHAMMAD JAHJOUH and SAMY MAGDY Associated Press RAFAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Gaza hospital officials say an Israeli airstrike on a residential…

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine has launched a barrage of drones across Russia overnight in attacks that appeared to target the country’s energy…

By JINTAMAS SAKSORNCHAI Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — About 1,300 people have fled from eastern Myanmar into Thailand, officials said Saturday,…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico City police say they are investigating a murder suspect as a possible serial killer after bones, a saw, blood and the ID…

By SAMYA KULLAB Associated Press KHARKIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia is exploiting air defense shortages in Ukraine’s Kharkiv region by targeting…

By COLLEEN BARRY Associated Press VENICE, Italy (AP) — Outsider, queer and Indigenous artists are getting an overdue platform at the 60th Venice…

By STEPHEN GROVES and LISA MASCARO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The House is preparing in a rare Saturday session to approve $95 billion in…

By FARNOUSH AMIRI and MARY CLARE JALONICK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — After its midnight deadline, the Senate voted early Saturday to…

By MEAD GRUVER Associated Press Republicans in Wyoming will decide Saturday which presidential candidate will get their state’s votes at the…

By ELLEN KNICKMEYER Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Israel demonstrated its military dominance over adversary Iran in its apparent…

By CHEYANNE MUMPHREY AP Education Writer CONCORD, Calif. (AP) — A year before I-Ting Quinn’s son was old enough for kindergarten, she and her…

By BILL BARROW Associated Press WILMINGTON, N.C. (AP) — Former President Donald Trump is campaigning in North Carolina as he juggles legal troubles…

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuela’s main opposition coalition has agreed to unite behind former diplomat Edmundo González as its challenger to…

By GENE JOHNSON Associated Press ARLINGTON, Wash. (AP) — A major argument for legalizing the adult use of cannabis after 75 years of prohibition…

By STEPHANY MATAT Associated Press WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Former first lady Melania Trump is making a political comeback during the…

By DÁNICA COTO Associated Press CAP-HAITIEN, Haiti (AP) — They call it Okap, home to Haiti’s kings, emancipated slaves and revolutionaries.…

By ANITA SNOW Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Record Store Day celebrates independent retail music sellers who have endured long after megastores…

By MICHAEL GOLDBERG Associated Press/Report for America JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Dau Mabil escaped war-torn Sudan as a child and built a new life in…

BY AYANNA ALEXANDER Associated Press FREEPORT, N.Y. (AP) — A new voting rights law in New York is already having a dramatic effect, with lawsuits…

By HANNAH SCHOENBAUM Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — To casual sports fans and people outside northern Utah, it may look like an NHL team…

By JILL COLVIN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Over the past week, Donald Trump has been forced to sit inside a frigid New York courtroom and…

By NICK PERRY Associated Press GILFORD, N.H. (AP) — A costumed skier races down a slope, hits a pond and hydroplanes halfway across. He pirouettes…

By JUAN ZAMORANO Associated Press PANAMA CITY (AP) — The public portion of a Panamanian trial of more than two-dozen associates accused of helping…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. political chief says the year-old war in Sudan between rival generals vying for…