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By ALI JABAR and ABBY SEWELL Associated Press BAGHDAD (AP) — A prominent Iraqi Christian religious leader who left Baghdad amid a political dispute…

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — The United Nations say heavy rains pounding different parts of Kenya have led to the deaths of at least 13 people and…

MOSCOW (AP) — The Kremlin says that a draft agreement between Russia and Ukraine negotiated in 2022 could serve as a starting point for prospective…

By JESSICA DONATI Associated Press DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — State television in Niger has broadcast footage of Russian military trainers arriving in…

By TERESA MEDRANO Associated Press MADRID (AP) — Capitalizing on an impressive moment in Spanish-language music, Uruguayan singer-songwriter Jorge…

By LORNE COOK Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — Belgian Prime Minister Alexander De Croo has announced an investigation into suspected Russian…

MADRID (AP) — Authorities in southeastern Spain say the bodies of four women have been found in a rubber dinghy boat floating off the coast near…

By NICOLE WINFIELD and NINIEK KARMINI Associated Press VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Vatican says Pope Francis will visit Indonesia, East Timor, Papua…

By TOM KRISHER AP Auto Writer DETROIT (AP) — The U.S. is investigating a Ford recall for gasoline leaks from fuel injector cracks that can cause…

By PAUL WISEMAN, GISELA SALOMON and CHRISTOPHER RUGABER Associated Press MIAMI (AP) — Millions of jobs that new immigrants have been filling in the…

By MIKE SCHNEIDER Associated Press ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — International migrants were attracted to some of the largest urban counties in the U.S.…

By GREG BEACHAM AP Sports Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — When O.J. Simpson’s death from prostate cancer was announced, the University of Southern…

By PAUL WISEMAN, GISELA SALOMON and CHRISTOPHER RUGABER Associated Press MIAMI (AP) — Millions of jobs that new immigrants have been filling in the…

By VANESSA GERA Associated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Polish lawmakers are to vote on whether to lift the country’s near total abortion ban, a…

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Norway’s health minister has resigned a day after a university probe concluded that she plagiarized part of her…

By FRANK BAJAK AP Technology Writer As their rivalry intensifies, U.S. and Chinese military planners are gearing up for a new kind of warfare in…

By FRANK BAJAK AP Technology Writer As their rivalry intensifies, U.S. and Chinese military planners are gearing up for a new kind of warfare in…

ROME (AP) — Divers in northern Italy have recovered the last two bodies of workers killed by the explosion that collapsed and flooded several…

By COLLIN BINKLEY AP Education Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration is canceling student loans for another 206,000 borrowers as part…

By DEVNA BOSE AP Health Writer A new survey shows that almost a quarter of people who have been dropped from Medicaid during post-pandemic…

By SETH BORENSTEIN AP Science Writer OXFORD, England (AP) — Former Ireland President Mary Robinson says having a safe climate is becoming more of a…

BERLIN (AP) — Prosecutors say three teenagers suspected of planning an Islamic extremist attack have been arrested in western Germany. They said…

By ZEN SOO AP Business Writer HONG KONG (AP) — Official customs data show China’s exports contracted in March after growing in the first two…

By CIARÁN GILES and JILL LAWLESS Associated Press MADRID (AP) — British and Spanish foreign ministers will meet in Brussels for another round of…

BEIJING (AP) — A former chairman of the China Everbright Group and ex-central bank executive has been indicted on bribery charges, part of a wider…

By ZIMO ZHONG Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — Asia stocks were mostly lower on Friday after gains for Big Tech shares helped U.S. stock indexes…

By GEIR MOULSON Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — German lawmakers are expected to vote on a government plan to make it easier for transgender,…

By SAM MEDNICK and JEAN FERNAND KOENA Associated Press BANGUI, Central African Republic (AP) — Sexual assaults and other cases of gender-based…

By PATRICIA SIMON and RICARDO GARCIA VILANOVA Associated Press METCHE CAMP, Chad (AP) — The war in Sudan began a year ago. Here in a camp for tens…

By ERIKA KINETZ Associated Press ASTANA, Kazakhstan (AP) — If the choice was death or a bullet to the leg, Yevgeny would take the bullet. A…

By ERIKA KINETZ Associated Press ASTANA, Kazakhstan (AP) — If the choice was death or a bullet to the leg, Yevgeny would take the bullet. A…

By DÉBORA REY and ISABEL DEBRE Associated Press BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Argentina’s highest criminal court has reported a new development…

By STEPHEN GROVES Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — House Speaker Mike Johnson is negotiating with the White House as he prepares for the…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — State regulators have decided Los Angeles County’s troubled juvenile detention facilities, on the verge of shutting down over…

By MATTHEW BARAKAT Associated Press ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) — Twenty years ago this month, photos of abused prisoners and smiling U.S. soldiers…

By ANDREW DALTON AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — O.J. Simpson died Thursday without having paid the lion’s share of the $33.5 million…

By JESSE BEDAYN Associated Press/Report for America DENVER (AP) — On a brisk day at a restaurant outside Chicago, Deb Robertson sat with her…

By JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A dozen Manhattan residents are soon to become the first Americans ever to sit in judgment of a…

By LISA MASCARO and JILL COLVIN Associated Press PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — House Speaker Mike Johnson is making a campaign pilgrimage to visit Donald…

By SHARON JOHNSON Associated Press STONE MOUNTAIN, Ga. (AP) — A greater Atlanta program called Women Behind the Wheel offers 14 hours of free…

By STEVE PEOPLES and JONATHAN J. COOPER Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — A stunning abortion ruling this week has supercharged Arizona’s role in…

By SEUNG MIN KIM and AMELIA THOMSON-DEVEAUX Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A new poll from the AP-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research finds…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press ABOARD THE USS THEODORE ROOSEVELT (AP) — A U.S. carrier strike group led by the USS Theodore Roosevelt held a…

COALINGA, Calif. (AP) — Authorities say say Paul Flores, the convicted killer of college student Kristin Smart, has been stabbed at a California…

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — A top Chinese official visiting North Korea has talked with his counterpart in Pyongyang about how to boost their…

GLENN HEIGHTS, Texas. (AP) — Kansas City Chiefs wide receiver Rashee Rice has surrendered to police on charges including aggravated assault after…

By JUAN A. LOZANO Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — Houston police say they are still reviewing if DNA testing in connection with thousands of sexual…

By FARNOUSH AMIRI and ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republicans will again try to advance a bill reauthorizing a crucial…

By STEPHEN GROVES Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — House Speaker Mike Johnson is negotiating with the White House as he prepares for the…

By MATTHEW DALY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration has approved construction of a deepwater oil export terminal off the…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The biggest U.S. airlines and their unions are asking the Biden administration to stop approving more flights to the United…

BAMAKO, Mali (AP) — Mali’s ruling junta has banned the media from reporting on the activities of political parties and associations in the…

By STEPHEN GROVES Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — House Speaker Mike Johnson is negotiating with the White House as he prepares for the…

By TRISHA AHMED Associated Press/Report for America MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The ride-hailing companies Uber and Lyft said they will delay their planned…

By JUAN A. LOZANO Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — A judge has dismissed hip-hop artist Drake from lawsuits filed against him over his participation…

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A Washington state man has pleaded not guilty to federal charges accusing him of damaging electrical substations in Oregon in…

By JAKE OFFENHARTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Police say a man has been arrested for allegedly taking a decommissioned New York City fireboat…

By HANNAH FINGERHUT Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Iowa has asked the state Supreme Court to let its blocked abortion law go into effect…

By FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. Treasury wants to enhance the power of a little-known, secretive government committee to…

By GABRIELA SÁ PESSOA and BARBARA ORTUTAY Associated Press SAO PAULO (AP) — Elon Musk is clashing with a bald, athletically built Supreme Court…

By JOHN HANNA AP Political Writer TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas will increase what have been among the lowest benefits in the U.S. for workers who are…

By MIKE SCHNEIDER Associated Press ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Children age 4 and under in Florida were undercounted by almost 10% during the 2020 census.…

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The Republican-led Tennessee Legislature has overwhelmingly voted to send Gov. Bill Lee a proposal that would ban marriage…

By ROB MAADDI AP Pro Football Writer Long before the Bronco chase gripped a national television audience and the “Trial of the Century”…

By MEAD GRUVER Associated Press A ban on nearly all abortions in Arizona doesn’t sit well with Republican former Gov. Doug Ducey. Yet he was the…

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — The man once known as Alabama’s longest-serving sheriff has been granted parole and is due to be released soon from…

MOSCOW (AP) — Russia’s President Vladimir Putin has mocked a planned round of Ukraine peace talks in Switzerland, warning that Moscow will not…

By MICHAEL CASEY Associated Press The June 12, 1994, killings of Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ronald Goldman brought the “Trial of the…

By MARGERY A. BECK Associated Press OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Nebraska lawmakers have passed a bill to restore of voting rights of those convicted of…

By ADAM BEAM Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California lawmakers have voted to reduce the size of the state’s deficit. The state…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Federal authorities allege Ippei Mizuhara, the former longtime interpreter for Los Angeles Dodgers star Shohei Ohtani, stole…

By MARTÍN ADAMES ALCÁNTARA Associated Press SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic (AP) — Authorities in the Dominican Republic say they have launched…

By KEN RITTER and LINDA DEUTSCH Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — For a long time, O.J. Simpson was the man who had it all. He lived the American…

By MICHAEL RUBINKAM Associated Press Officials say two gun parts manufacturers have agreed to halt sales of their products Philadelphia and elsewhere…

By WAYNE PARRY Associated Press LONG BEACH TOWNSHIP, N.J. (AP) — A marine mammal rescue group says a dead humpback whale that has washed ashore on…