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NEW ORLEANS (AP) — With their purple, gold and green colors and toy babies hidden inside, king cakes are staples of Mardi Gras celebrations in New…

By CORA LEWIS and LINLEY SANDERS Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A majority of U.S. taxpayers feel they pay too much in taxes, with many saying…

By TIM REYNOLDS AP Sports Writer FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Inter Miami played six preseason matches last season. Most were behind closed doors…

By REBECCA SANTANA Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republicans have released two articles of impeachment against Homeland Security…

By MATT BROWN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Black voters support the reelection of President Joe Biden at a surprisingly low level, according…

ISLAMABAD (AP) — Authorities in eastern Afghanistan say that separate traffic crashes have left at least 33 people dead and 16 others injured. The…

By JOSEPH KRAUSS Associated Press Israel’s allegations that 12 employees of a United Nations agency were involved in Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack have…

By CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Three West African nations of Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger have quit the regional economic…

By CARLA K. JOHNSON AP Medical Writer Allegations of research fakery at a leading cancer center have turned a spotlight on scientific integrity and…

By CHRISTINE FERNANDO Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — Legislative efforts in Missouri and Mississippi are attempting to prevent voters from having…

By JOHN PYE AP Sports Writer MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Jannik Sinner rallied from two sets down to take the Australian Open final from Daniil…

By COLLEEN LONG Associated Press MANASSAS, Va. (AP) — It was President Joe Biden’s first big campaign rally of the year, a chance to…

PARIS Two climate activists threw some soup at the glass protecting the Mona Lisa at the Louvre Museum in Paris and shouted slogans advocating for a…

ISTANBUL (AP) — Turkish officials say two masked assailants have attacked a church in Istanbul during Sunday services, killing one person.…

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Employees from a Ukrainian arms firm conspired with defense ministry officials to embezzle almost $40 million earmarked to buy…

DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — An appeals court in Bangladesh has granted bail to Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus, who had been sentenced earlier to six…

HELSINKI (AP) — Voters in Finland were electing a new president Sunday at an unprecedented time for the Nordic nation that is now a NATO member…

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Iran says it has successfully launched three satellites into space, the latest for a program that…

By NAJIB JOBAIN and WAFAA SHURAFA Associated Press RAFAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — The secretary-general of the United Nations on Sunday called on…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Four people are dead following what police in Los Angeles have characterized as a murder-suicide. The Los Angeles Police…

By JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The 2002 killing of Run-DMC’s Jam Master Jay has stood for years as one of the hip-hop…

By PAUL WISEMAN and MAE ANDERSON AP Business Writers WASHINGTON (AP) — Attacks on ships in the Red Sea by Yemen’s Houthi rebels have unraveled a…

By COREY WILLIAMS Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — A white officer in suburban Detroit lied to a Black pedestrian by identifying an officer from…

SAN ANTONIO (AP) — A bat descended on the court and delayed play after Victor Wembanyama made a 3-pointer two minutes into the San Antonio Spurs’…

By AAMER MADHANI and ZEKE MILLER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. negotiators are making progress on a potential agreement under which…

By ZEKE MILLER, COLLEEN LONG and MEG KINNARD Associated Press COLUMBIA, South Carolina (AP) — President Joe Biden is bidding to salvage a border…

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea’s military says that North Korea has fired several cruise missiles from waters off an eastern military…

By JONATHAN J. COOPER and ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — Former President Donald Trump has praised Texas Gov. Greg Abbott…

By CLAIRE RUSH Associated Press PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — An Oregon weekly newspaper that had to lay off its entire staff after its funds were…

By FERNANDO LLANO Associated Press ACULCO, Mexico (AP) — Bullfighting is under siege in many parts of Mexico, and some of its biggest supporters…

SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. (AP) — A snowboarder spent 15 hours trapped overnight inside a ski lift gondola amid freezing temperatures at a Lake Tahoe…

By JAKE OFFENHARTZ Associated Press A judge has ordered the Los Angeles Police Department to get rid of photos of legal documents that were allegedly…

TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Revelers clad in pirate finery have packed the waterfront in Tampa, Florida, to celebrate the arrival of a flotilla of boats for…

SPRINGDALE, Utah (AP) — A man died of a suspected heart attack while hiking a strenuous trail in Utah’s Zion National Park, authorities said…

CHICAGO (AP) — Authorities have identified two teenage boys who were fatally shot Friday by masked suspects as they and other students were leaving…

By STEVE KARNOWSKI Associated Press It’s been three weeks since three Kansas City fans joined friends to watch the Chiefs play the Los Angeles…

PIEDMONT, S.C. (AP) — Authorities in South Carolina are investigating the fatal shooting of a man by sheriff’s deputy. The Greenville County…

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) — Harvard University’s Hasty Pudding Theatricals has named Barry Keoghan, best known for his roles in “Dunkirk,” “The…

MARION, Ind. (AP) — A truck hauling zebras and camels for a series of weekend circus performances caught fire early Saturday on a northeastern…

ST. PETERSBURG, Russia (AP) — The Russian city of St. Petersburg has marked the 80th anniversary of the end of a nearly 900-day siege by Nazi…

By DAVID B. CARUSO Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — For years, Donald Trump hurled insults at E. Jean Carroll, saying the advice columnist…

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A district attorney in Tennessee has dropped charges against country singer Chris Young stemming from an encounter with…

LONDON (AP) — Climate activist Greta Thunberg has joined a march in southern England to protest the use of private jets and the expansion of an…

BEIJING (AP) — China’s coast guard says its officers ordered a Japanese fishing vessel and several patrol ships in waters surrounding tiny…

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — The U.S. government is condemning the decision of Venezuela’s highest court to block the presidential candidacy of…

By EDDIE PELLS AP National Writer ASPEN, Colo. (AP) — Two years after exploding onto the world stage at the Beijing Winter Games, Eileen Gu is more…

BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s train drivers’ union is ending its six-day strike early and is back in talks with the country’s railway…

BALTIMORE (AP) — Authorities say crash involving multiple vehicles has closed all lanes on the heavily-traveled U.S. 50 Bay Bridge in Maryland and…

By MARK STEVENSON Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico is acknowledging that at least two well-known Mayan ruin sites are unreachable by…

BEIJING (AP) — China’s foreign minister has told U.S. national security adviser Jake Sullivan that Washington should stand by a commitment not to…

Associated Press Alaska Airlines began flying Boeing 737 Max 9 jetliners again for the first time Friday since they were grounded after a panel blew…

By SABINA NIKSIC Associated Press SREBRENICA, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) — Jews and Muslims from Bosnia and abroad gathered in Srebrenica to jointly…

By TOM ODULA Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Thousands of people have marched in cities and towns in Kenya to protest the recent slayings of…

By KEVIN FREKING and FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — When IRS Commissioner Danny Werfel met privately with senators recently, the…

By ABBY SEWELL Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Iraq’s prime minister says his government and the United States have held a first session of…

By KIM CHANDLER and SEAN MURPHY Associated Press Writers ATMORE, Ala. (AP) — Experts on capital punishment say Alabama’s first-ever use of…

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A man who shot former New Orleans Saints star Will Smith following a traffic crash nearly eight years ago has been convicted of…

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — An Iranian news outlet says unknown gunmen have shot to death nine people in the southeastern part of Iran that borders…

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden will host German Chancellor Olaf Scholz at the White House on Feb. 9 as the West struggles to provide new aid…

By DEVI SHASTRI AP Health Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Elisa Reyes has come to Plaza del Sol Family Health Center for doctor’s appointments for more…

By DEVI SHASTRI AP Health Writer Elisa Reyes has come to Plaza del Sol Family Health Center for doctor’s appointments for more than a decade.…

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — The crew aboard a Marshall Islands-flagged tanker hit by a missile launched by Yemen’s…

By NAJIB JOBAIN and WAFAA SHURAFA Associated Press RAFAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Witnesses say an Israeli airstrike on a house in the southern Gaza…

PARIS (AP) — French farmers have vowed to continue protesting and are maintaining traffic barricades on some of the country’s major roads. The…

By KIRSTEN GRIESHABER Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Chancellor Olaf Scholz has called on all citizens to defend Germany’s democracy and…