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By BASSEM MROUE and LEE KEATH Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Hamas says it is considering the latest proposal for a cease-fire with Israel that…

By MICHELLE CHAPMAN AP Business Writer Artists from Universal Music Group, which include Taylor Swift, Drake, Adele, Bad Bunny and Billie Eilish,…

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — The Norwegian center-left government says it wants to add 7 billion kroner, or $630 million to the Scandinavian…

By ABBY SEWELL Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — The European Union has announced an aid package for Lebanon of 1 billion euros — about $1.06…

By EVELYNE MUSAMBI Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Human Rights Watch has accused Kenyan authorities of not responding adequately to ongoing…

By SUSIE BLANN and ILLIA NOVIKOV Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia has struck the southern Ukrainian port city of Odesa with ballistic…

PARIS (AP) — Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida has unveiled an international framework for regulation and use of generative AI. It adds to…

By JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press GENEVA (AP) — Organizers of the Eurovision Song Contest say they reserve the right to remove any Palestinian flags…

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Polish police have arrested a 16-year-old male on suspicion of attacking a synagogue with Molotov cocktails and say they plan…

By COLLEEN LONG and STEVE PEOPLES Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is detouring to Charlotte, North Carolina, to meet with…

By BEN FINLEY and MAKIYA SEMINERA Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Arrest warrants must be served to alleged criminals if society is going to…

By The Associated Press If the Israel-Hamas war stopped today, it would still take until 2040 to rebuild all the homes that have been destroyed in…

By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press ROME (AP) — A European court has upheld Italy’s right to seize a prized Greek statue from the J. Paul Getty…

BEIJING (AP) — The death toll has climbed to 48 as search efforts continue in southern China after a highway section collapsed in a mountainous…

TBILISI, Georgia (AP) — The parliament of Georgia has cancelled its plenary session following massive protests against a proposed law that critics…

By KELVIN CHAN AP Business Writer LONDON (AP) — Toothbrushes used to be simple, powered only by your hand so they never broke down. Nowadays,…

By MENELAOS HADJICOSTIS Associated Press NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — Cyprus has given Chevron another six months to come up with a revised plan to…

By ZIMO ZHONG Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — Asian markets wobbled in Thursday trading after U.S. stocks swung to a mixed finish with the…

By HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea’s parliament has approved legislation mandating a new, independent…

SYDNEY (AP) — A judge has denied bail to a 15-year-old boy alleged to be in a network planning terrorist acts and who claimed to be a friend of…

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — Cambodia’s Defense Ministry says a huge explosion at a military base in the southwest that killed 20 soldiers and…

By MARKO DROBNJAKOVIC and JOVANA GEC Associated Press BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Serbia is preparing to mark the anniversary of a school shooting last…

By PAN PYLAS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Millions of voters in England and Wales will cast their ballots on Thursday in an array of local…

By MARK LEWIS Associated Press STAVANGER, Norway (AP) — A convicted sex offender is asking the Norwegian Supreme Court to declare social media…

By RYAN KRYSKA AP Sports Writer Gamers’ appetites for immersive sports video games have not changed much since the heyday of EA Sports’…

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella says the company will invest $2.2 billion over the next four years in new cloud and…

By DAVID KLEPPER and KRUTIKA PATHI Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — Bollywood stars seldom weigh in on politics, so videos showing two celebrities…

By JEFF AMY Associated Press CONYERS, Ga. (AP) — U.S. Rep. David Scott faces multiple Democratic primary opponents in his quest for a 12th…

By MARIA CHENG and CHRISTINA MALKIA Associated Press KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — Scientists say a new form of mpox detected in a mining town in Congo…

By STEFANIE DAZIO Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — A federal judge is scheduled to sentence a California scuba dive boat captain for criminal…

By DAVID BAUDER and CHRISTINE FERNANDO Associated Press Writers NEW YORK (AP) — Ordered by police to leave the scene of a UCLA campus protest after…

By ANITA SNOW and MORGAN LEE Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Democratic Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs is following through on promises to undo a…

By LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press FORT LIBERTY, N.C. (AP) — A haunting new video released in the early morning hours is the latest effort by the…

By CHEVEL JOHNSON RODRIGUE and KEVIN McGILL Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival is usually akin to a…

By CHRIS MEGERIAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is staying mum about student protests and police crackdowns as Republicans…

By BRUCE SCHREINER Associated Press GEORGETOWN, Ky. (AP) — Michael Blowen can step outside his house anytime and visit retired racehorses at Old…

By JONATHAN J. COOPER Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Arizona’s 1864 abortion ban will soon be gone from the law books, but not from the campaign…

By KIRSTEN GRIESHABER Associated Press DUESSELDORF, Germany (AP) — Herbert Rubinstein was 5 years old when he and his mother where taken from the…

By LISA MASCARO AP Congressional Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) — Without wielding the gavel or holding a formal job laid out in the Constitution,…

By SAMYA KULLAB Associated Press KHARKIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian soldiers say they are worried fortifications are not being built quicky enough…

By MICHAEL R. SISAK, JENNIFER PELTZ, ERIC TUCKER and JAKE OFFENHARTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump faces the prospect of additional…

By KRYSTA FAURIA, ETHAN SWOPE, JAKE OFFENHARTZ and JOSEPH B. FREDERICK Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Tensions are growing on the UCLA campus…

PHOENIX (AP) — WNBA star Brittney Griner says she thought about killing herself during her first few weeks in a Russian jail after her 2022 arrest…

By CARLOS MUREITHI Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — African climate-tech startups are increasingly raising money from private sources, but…

By ANDREW DALTON AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Former Nickelodeon producer Dan Schneider is suing the makers of the documentary…

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Solomon Islands lawmakers have chosen former Foreign Minister Jeremiah Manale  as the…

By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal appeals court has rejected a bid to release from jail a former FBI informant…

By GENE JOHNSON Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) — A federal appeals court panel on Wednesday rejected a long-running lawsuit brought by young…

By HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH Associated Press Student journalists on the Columbia University campus knew what was coming long before police with riot…

By JACK DURA Associated Press Supporters of an abortion rights initiative in South Dakota have submitted far more signatures than required to make…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Russia has circulated a U.N. resolution calling on all countries to take urgent action…

By KEVIN McGILL Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Voting rights advocates say they will go to the Supreme Court in hopes of preserving a new…

By JAKE OFFENHARTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Before police officers poured into Columbia University on Tuesday night, arresting more than…

By MATTHEW BARAKAT Associated Press ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) — The judge presiding over the trial of a military contractor accused of contributing to…

By DAVID KOENIG AP Airlines Writer Consumer groups are pushing Congress to uphold automatic refunds for airline passengers whose flights are canceled…

By LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Massachusetts Air National Guard member Jack Teixeira, who pleaded guilty to federal…

By SUMMER BALLENTINE Associated Press JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Missouri voters have gotten a step closer to getting to decide whether to raise…

By LEAH WILLINGHAM Associated Press CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A three-judge panel has ordered that two county commissioners in West Virginia’s…

By MARC LEVY Associated Press HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Pennsylvania’s House of Representatives is advancing legislation long sought by counties…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Kim Noltemy will become president of the Los Angeles Philharmonic in July, helping guide the search for music director Gustavo…

By JOSH FUNK AP Business Writer OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Federal regulators say Union Pacific managers undermined their efforts to assess safety at the…

BRUNSWICK, Ga. (AP) — A Pennsylvania man who credits an alligator named Wally for helping relieve his depression for nearly a decade says he is…

By DARLENE SUPERVILLE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House has a new curator and Donna Hayashi Smith is the first Asian American to…

By DAVE COLLINS Associated Press HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Federal workplace safety officials say a home health care company failed to protect a…

COLLEEN LONG ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration is weighing measures to help Palestinians living in the United States who…

SARASOTA SPRINGS, Utah (AP) — A Utah woman has been arrested on suspicion of murder after a friend was shot in what police said was an uncompleted…

By BRUCE SHIPKOWSKI Associated Press A decomposed body found in a duffel bag in west Philadelphia have been identified as a 4-year-old boy who…

By The Associated Press The wave of incoming rookies such as Caitlin Clark, Angel Reese and Kamilla Cardoso and the return of popular players A’ja…

By ACACIA CORONADO Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas officials are investigating at least nine recent deaths involving an unusual spike…

NEW YORK (AP) — Duane Eddy, a pioneering guitar hero whose reverberating electric sound on instrumentals such as “Rebel Rouser,” “Forty Miles…

By MICHAEL RUBINKAM Associated Press A staffing company that performed COVID-19 contact tracing for Pennsylvania and exposed the private medical…

By LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer Ethan Hawke directs his daughter Maya Hawke in “Wildcat,” a movie about the Southern Catholic writer Flannery…

By PATRICK WHITTLE Associated Press PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — U.S. regulators have decided to allow American fishermen to harvest thousands of pounds…

By TOM MURPHY AP Health Writer The beginning of the Change Healthcare cyberattack happened when hackers entered a server that lacked multifactor…

By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Since its debut at the Sundance Film Festive, Jane Schoenbrun’s “I Saw the TV Glow” has…

By FARNOUSH AMIRI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The House is voting on legislation that would establish a broader definition of antisemitism…

By TIM SULLIVAN Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — It was the music that changed first. Or maybe that’s just when many people at the pale…

By JILL COLVIN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Former President Donald Trump will speak at the Libertarian National Convention later this month as…

By JEFF AMY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Jailers in Georgia must now check the immigration status of inmates and apply to help enforce federal…

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Colombian President Gustavo Petro says his government will break diplomatic relations with Israel effective Thursday in the…

BARBARA ORTUTAY AP Technology Writer (AP) — Do social media users have the right to control what they see — or don’t see — on their feeds? A…

By JONEL ALECCIA AP Health Writer The first calls that Dr. Barb Petersen received in early March were from dairy owners worried about crows, pigeons…