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PROVIDENCIALES, Turks and Caicos Islands (AP) — An American arrested in the Caribbean for illegally carrying ammunition is returning to the United…

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — R&B superstar Usher joins the night concert lineup for this summer’s 30th anniversary of the Essence Festival of Culture.…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — An 18-year-old man has been arrested for allegedly taking part in a violent attack on a pro-Palestinian encampment at the…

The Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration has, as expected, announced an additional $275 million in military aid for Ukraine…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Warnings were issued well before a campaign event about winds that caused a deadly Mexico stage collapse this week, but they…

By JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — A former CIA officer and contract linguist for the FBI accused of spying for China for…

By HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Caleb Carr, the scarred and gifted son of Beat poet Lucien Carr who endured a traumatizing…

By JASON DEAREN Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A federal judge on Friday sentenced a North Carolina man to 25 years in prison for teaching…

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greek authorities say nearly 140 migrants have reached Greek shores over the past 24 hours. One man drowned off the southern…

By JAMEY KEATEN and MARIA CHENG Associated Press GENEVA (AP) — A global treaty to fight pandemics like COVID is going to have to wait: After more…

By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A prosecutor told jurors at a fraud trial’s start that a self-exiled wealthy Chinese…

By JULIE CARR SMYTH Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A battle is under way for the future of Ohio’s $94 billion teacher pension fund. The…

By MATTHEW LEE AP Diplomatic Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Secretary of State Antony Blinken will travel to eastern Europe next week as concerns mount…

By PHILIP MARCELO Associated Press MASSAPEQUA PARK, N.Y. (AP) — Investigators in the New York City suburbs continue to scour the home of a…

By DIARLEI RODRIGUES and MAURICIOS Associated Press RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — At the rear of Rio de Janeiro’s polluted Guanabara Bay, thousands of…

By MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Boeing is now aiming for its first astronaut launch at the beginning of June.…

UVALDE, Texas (AP) — The 19 fourth-graders and two teachers killed at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, are being remembered as the second…

NEW YORK (AP) — The NewsNation television network completes its transition to an all-news outlet next week. When acquired by Nexstar, the former…

By GARY GERARD HAMILTON Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — If truth has the power to set one free, then Rapsody’s new album, “Please Don’t…

FORT VALLEY, Ga. (AP) — Workers at a Georgia school bus manufacturer have approved their first union contract. The United Steelworkers union won a…

By DÁNICA COTO and EVENS SANON Associated Press PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — A U.S. missionary couple was shot and killed by gangs in Haiti’s…

MIAMI (AP) — A federal immigration officer has been convicted of using a cellphone to record a video and take photos under the skirt of a flight…

Associated Press The dog that skyrocketed to internet fame and became the face of the cryptocurrency dogecoin has died. The Shiba Inu named Kabosu…

HONG KONG (AP) — China’s latest artificial intelligence chatbot is trained on President Xi Jinping’s doctrine in a stark reminder of the…

By BRIAN WITTE Associated Press ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin told U.S. Naval Academy graduates that they will be leading…

By MARIA SHERMAN AP Music Writer All seven members of BTS are currently serving South Korea’s compulsory enlistment for men of a certain age. In…

By ANDREW DALTON AP Entertainment Writer Both the Beach Boys and “The Beach Boys” — the new documentary dropping Friday on Disney+ — are all…

BERLIN (AP) — German authorities say they have arrested two men suspected of plotting a knife attack on worshippers at a synagogue in the…

By JESSE BEDAYN Associated Press/Report for America DENVER (AP) — Colorado Gov. Jared Polis is set to sign two bills that will overhaul the…

CANNES, France (AP) — The Cannes Film Festival draws glamour to itself like a moth to the flame. Over the last two weeks, the French Riviera…

ROME (AP) — Pope Francis has paved the way for the canonization of the first saint of the millennial generation, attributing a second miracle to a…

By HOGIR AL ABDO Associated Press QAMISHLI, Syria (AP) — Syrian Kurdish-led authorities in the country’s northeast say they have handed over…

By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Documentary filmmaker Morgan Spurlock, an Oscar-nominee who made food and American diets…

By KANIS LEUNG Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — The distributor of a popular protest song in Hong Kong has decided to remove the music from all…

By JOSH KELETY/AP and ERIC SCICCHITANO/CNHI NEWS Despite growing demand for long-term care, the industry struggles with labor shortages, and experts…

By CIARÁN FAHEY AP Sports Writer BERLIN (AP) — When Makkabi Berlin became the first Jewish club to ever play in the German Cup last year, it was a…

LONDON (AP) — A British lawmaker who returned to work this week after losing his hands and feet to sepsis announced Friday that he will not run in…

BERLIN (AP) — German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has waded into the European election campaign by warning that the next president of the European…

BRUSSELS (AP) — The EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell says the removal of 25 Estonian buoys by Russian border guards on a river separating the…

By KAREN MATTHEWS Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A woman who says Sean “Diddy” Combs subjected her to violence and abuse over several years…

By MOGOMOTSI MAGOME Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — An outspoken former activist and member of South Africa’s ruling African National…

By The Associated Press Russian state media have reported that an American soldier arrested in Russia’s far eastern city of Vladivostok on charges…

By LOUISE DIXON Associated Press CANNES, France (AP) — The canine star of “Dog on Trial” has been awarded the Palm Dog prize at Cannes. Kodi is…

GENEVA (AP) — The U.N. human rights office has warned of “frightening and disturbing reports” about the impact of new violence in…

By ERIC OLSON AP Sports Writer The looming athlete pay system that will upend the traditional college sports model and still-to-be-determined details…

By ILLIA NOVIKOV Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Officials say a nighttime Russian attack has destroyed train tracks and rolling stock in…

LONDON (AP) — A judge says an office manager of the Hong Kong trade office in London and another man will go on trial in February for allegedly…

By BINAJ GURUBACHARYA Associated Press KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — Sherpa guide Kami Rita is back from Mount Everest after his record 30th successful…

By ROBERT YOON Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott and Attorney General Ken Paxton are looking to settle political…

By JUSTIN SPIKE Associated Press BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Hungary’s prime minister says that he will seek to opt his country out of any NATO…

By JERRY HARMER Associated Press LOPBURI, Thailand (AP) — A Thai town, run ragged by its ever-growing population of marauding wild monkeys, has…

By JOSH BOAK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris is announcing the formation of a new partnership to help provide…

LONDON (AP) — A British neonatal nurse who was convicted of murdering seven babies and the attempted murder of six others has lost her bid to…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Britain’s lawmakers will leave Parliament on Friday for the last time before an election is held…

By DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — King Charles III won’t be out and about much over the next six weeks. And it’s not because of…

GENEVA (AP) — U.N. member countries have concluded a new treaty to help ensure that traditional knowledge about genetic resources — like…

BANGKOK (AP) — Singapore Airlines says it will halt meal services and get all cabin crew to buckle up when planes fly through turbulence as part of…

PARIS (AP) — The French prosecutor for New Caledonia says a police officer has been taken into custody after shooting and killing a man after they…

By HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea’s military says North Korea appears to be preparing to launch its…

MADRID (AP) — Spain’s National Police have released details on four people killed when a building housing a bar and restaurant club collapsed on…

SYDNEY (AP) — A Sydney judge has ruled that former U.S. Marine Corps pilot Daniel Duggan can be extradited to the United States on allegations he…

FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — The U.S. is seeking to build support for squeezing more money for Ukraine out of frozen Russian assets as finance…

By JIM GOMEZ Associated Press MANILA, Philippines (AP) — The Philippine defense secretary says it will continue to build security alliances and…

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran’s military says the helicopter carrying late President Ebrahim Raisi caught fire soon after it crashed into a…

TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Israel’s army says the bodies of three more hostages killed on Oct 7. were recovered overnight from Gaza. The bodies…

By MIKE CORDER Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The top United Nations court is set to rule on an urgent plea by South Africa for…

By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer Asian shares retreated Friday after strong reports on the U.S. economy raised the possibility of interest…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United Nations Security Council is scheduled to vote Friday on a resolution that…

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — An Australian judge has ruled that the social media platform X is subject to a…

ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan says it will pay $2.58 million in compensation to the families of five Chinese engineers who were killed in March when a…

By SEBABATSO MOSAMO, FARAI MUTSAKA and GERALD IMRAY Associated Press LILANDA, Zambia (AP) — Extreme weather events have hit parts of Africa…

By HANNAH FINGERHUT and MARGERY A. BECK Associated Press GREENFIELD, Iowa (AP) — Residents of the small city of Greenfield, Iowa, are working to…

THANE, India (AP) — Officials say at least nine people have been killed and 64 are injured in an explosion and fire at a chemical factory in…

By CHRISTOPHER SHERMAN Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — President Andrés Manuel López Obrador swept into office nearly six years ago with a…

By EMMA BURROWS Associated Press It began last month with the arrest of a Russian deputy defense minister. Then the head of the ministry’s…

LEWISTON, Maine (AP) — An independent commission investigating a mass shooting in Maine plans to hear more testimony from law enforcement sources…

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Australian Broadcasting Corp. reports more than 100 people are estimated to have been killed in a landslide in remote…

By JILL COLVIN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump isn’t known for letting slights pass. Yet for weeks, the famously combative…

By MATTHEW DALY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — As he tries to secure his legacy, President Joe Biden has unleashed a flurry of election-year…