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By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s Cabinet has approved a plan to sell future next-generation fighter jets that it’s…

ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — A Maryland Senate panel has voted to support a Republican nominee to the state elections board to replace a previous board…

By WILL GRAVES AP National Writer The NCAA Tournament could be heading toward expansion. The tournament field is currently set at 68. That number…

By ANDREW DeMILLO Associated Press LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — A high school teacher and two students are suing Arkansas over the state’s ban on…

NEW YORK (AP) — New York City plans to intensify a crackdown on subway fare-beating by sending at least 800 police officers specifically to keep…

By KIMBERLEE KRUESI Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee’s Republican-controlled Senate has tweaked a proposal initially designed…

By REBECCA BOONE Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Two men charged in a brazen prison escape and ambush at an Idaho hospital that left three…

By MIKE CATALINI Associated Press TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — New Jersey has a well-earned reputation as a home to backroom political dealing, but some…

NEW YORK (AP) — An early morning dispute over smoking on a New York subway train has led to one man being stabbed multiple times and another man…

By MAURICIO SAVARESE Associated Press SAO PAULO (AP) — Brazil’s Federal Police on Monday launched an investigation into former President Jair…

By JAKE OFFENHARTZ Associated Press New York City’s celebrity owl Flaco was suffering from a pigeon-borne illness and high levels of rat poison…

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Puerto Rico has declared an epidemic following a spike in dengue cases. The U.S. territory of 3.2 million people has…

By MIKE STOBBE and JONEL ALECCIA Associated Press Federal officials say that milk from dairy cows in Texas and Kansas has tested positive for bird…

By BERT WILKINSON Associated Press GEORGETOWN, Guyana (AP) — Fresh turmoil involving a transitional presidential council that will be responsible…

By SARA CLINE Associated Press BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — A bill that ultimately would have let voters decide whether or not abortions should be legal…

By MICHAEL BALSAMO and COLLEEN LONG Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Two properties belonging to rapper Sean “Diddy” Combs’ in Los Angeles…

By KATHRYN POST Religion News Service (RNS) — Sarah Bowen says she’s been doing the work of an animal chaplain since she was 6 years old. Raised…

By JULIE CARR SMYTH Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Imprisoned ex-Ohio House Speaker Larry Householder has been indicted on 10 new felony…

By JOHN ANTCZAK Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Thousands of Southern California hospitality workers have ratified a new contract with 34…

By JIM HEINTZ Associated Press TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Immediately after the Friday evening attack in Moscow that killed at least 137 people,…

By FARNOUSH AMIRI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republicans are threatening to hold Attorney General Merrick Garland in contempt of…

BERLIN (AP) — A union representing many of Germany’s train drivers says it and the country’s main railway operator have reached a deal…

By ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON Associated Press Former President Donald Trump says he would have responded the same way as Israel did after the Oct. 7 attack…

By DAVE COLLINS Associated Press Former NBA guard Ben Gordon could see criminal charges against him in Connecticut erased from his record next year…

MIAMI (AP) — Two graduate students from China whose studies were put on hold, and a professor who says he is unable to recruit research assistants,…

LONDON (AP) — The newest endangered baby gorilla at the London Zoo is more than six weeks old but doesn’t yet have a name. Zookeepers aren’t…

FRANKLINVILLE, N.J. (AP) — Firefighters in southern New Jersey came to the rescue of a dog who got stuck in a spare tire. The Franklinville…

GEORGETOWN, Calif. (AP) — Authorities have identified the brothers who were attacked, one fatally, by a mountain lion in Northern California during…

By HOLLY RAMER Associated Press CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — The interim report from the commission investigating Maine’s deadliest mass shooting…

By ABDUL SATTAR Associated Press QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) — Officials say Pakistani security forces have killed four insurgents as they foiled an…

By JACQUES BILLEAUD Associated Press An Ohio man who acknowledged making death threats in voicemails left for then-Arizona Secretary of State Katie…

By JOHN O’CONNOR AP Political Writer SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — A state parole board member has resigned after recommending the release of a…

By KATHY McCORMACK Associated Press CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — The daughter of MLB Hall of Fame pitcher Dennis Eckersley has been reunited with her son…

WALTERBORO, S.C. (AP) — A South Carolina court official under investigation amid allegations of tampering with the jury in the Alex Murdaugh trial…

By COLLEEN SLEVIN Associated Press DENVER (AP) — The Colorado university where a student is charged with killing his suitemate and another person…

JOSHUA GOODMAN CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Throng of supporters of President Nicolas Maduro rallied Monday at a giant stage outside the downtown…

By MELANIE LIDMAN Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Tens of thousands of people have celebrated the Jewish holiday of Purim in Jerusalem, though…

By FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The IRS is warning taxpayers that they may be leaving more than $1 billion on the table. The…

By DUSAN STOJANOVIC Associated Press BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — An opposition group in Serbia has launched a petition against a real estate…

By BARBARA ORTUTAY and DAVID KLEPPER Associated Press A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit by Elon Musk’s X Corp. against the non-profit Center…

By MARIA SHERMAN AP Music Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — The last few years haven’t been kind to Shakira. In 2022, after 11 years and two children…

LONDON (AP) — Farmers are driving dozens of tractors in a slow-motion convoy towards Britain’s Parliament to protest post-Brexit rules and trade…

By STEFANIE DAZIO Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — A girl has died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound after she entered a Los Angeles County…

NEW YORK (AP) — Boeing keeps hitting more and more turbulence. The American plane maker has been under intense pressure since early January, when a…

By SAM METZ Associated Press RABAT, Morocco (AP) — Orange blossoms are among Morocco’s quintessential fragrances. Moroccan women are welcoming…

By BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press LONDON (AP) — A London court is due to rule whether WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange gets one final appeal in…

By BRUCE SCHREINER Associated Press FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Gov. Andy Beshear says an aluminum company has singled out northeastern Kentucky as its…

By GREG BEACHAM AP Sports Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Shohei Ohtani is set to make his first public comments Monday since his former interpreter,…

HUNTINGTOWN, Md. (AP) — Prosecutors in southern Maryland say three 13-year-old middle schoolers have been charged with hate crimes after they…

By MARK SCOLFORO Associated Press HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Police investigating the killing a pregnant Amish woman in rural Pennsylvania say they…

By JIM HEINTZ Associated Press TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — The four men charged with the massacre at a Moscow theater have been identified by…

By FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. is imposing sanctions on a collection of mostly Russian fintech firms and people…

By EDGAR H. CLEMENTE Associated Press TAPACHULA, Mexico (AP) — About 2,000 migrants have begun walking in southern Mexico in what has become a…

By CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press KADUNA, Nigeria (AP) — Authorities in Nigeria say an executive of global cryptocurrency exchange Binance has…

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — The Polish Foreign Ministry says the Russian ambassador to Poland did not appear for a meeting despite being summoned after a…

By SCOTT McFETRIDGE Associated Press The stars have aligned in the lottery universe like never before, with two jackpots totaling nearly $2 billion.…

Trump Media & Technology Group, whose flagship product is social networking site Truth Social, will begin trading on the Nasdaq stock market on…

By REZA SAIFULLAH and EDNA TARIGAN Associated Press BANDA ACEH, Indonesia (AP) — Local authorities say six more bodies of Rohingya refugees have…

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Authorities in Kenya say that an explosion at a small hotel located near a police station in the northeast of the country has…

MOSCOW (AP) — A Russian spacecraft with three astronauts has successfully docked at the International Space Station. The Soyuz MS-25 spacecraft…

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Florida insurance companies made money last year for the first time in seven years. That is thanks to investment income and a…

By QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA and ABDULRAHMAN ZEYAD Associated Press BAGHDAD (AP) — Officials in Iraq say that an Iraqi police officer previously sentenced…

By CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press KADUNA, Nigeria (AP) — More than 130 Nigerian schoolchildren rescued after more than two weeks in captivity have…

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Florida will have one of the country’s most restrictive social media bans for minors — if it withstands expected legal…

By DAVID McHUGH Associated Press SPRAKEBUELL, Germany (AP) — These are turbulent times for wind and solar energy. High interest rates needed to…

By GEIR MOULSON Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Italy has followed France in stepping up security following the attack on a suburban Moscow concert…

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s defense minister says that two military engineers have died following the detonation of TNT during a training…

By DASHA LITVINOVA Associated Press Calls mounted on Monday to harshly punish those behind the Russia concert hall attack that killed more than 130…

LONDON (AP) — Radical British preacher Anjem Choudary has pleaded not guilty in a London courtroom to two terrorism-related charges. The…

By MOGOMOTSI MAGOME Associated Press PRETORIA, South Africa (AP) — South African prosecutors say they intend to charge the Parliament speaker with…

By SYLVIA HUI Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Britain’s government is expected to blame a string of cyberattacks targeting the U.K.’s election…

Boeing CEO Dave Calhoun will step down from the embattled plane maker at the end of the year after a series of mishaps at one of America’s most…

By KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — A star South Korean soccer player who was detained and investigated in China for…

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Police in Tennessee say the death of University of Missouri student Riley Strain appears to be accidental. The Tennessean…

By MARÍA TERESA HERNÁNDEZ Associated Press BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Claudia Poblete can’t help it. On certain days, as she passes in…

By RONALD BLUM AP Baseball Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Emmy, Tony and Olivier Award winner Bryan Cranston is a leading face of Major League Baseball’s…

By RAF CASERT Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — A major European Union plan to fight climate change and better protect nature in the 27-nation bloc…

By MUNIR AHMED Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — A delegation from Pakistan’s Ministry of Commerce is in Kabul to to meet its counterparts to…

SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) — Bulgaria’s prime minister-designate has withdrawn her nomination after negotiations between two political coalitions…

By MISPER APAWU Associated Press ACCRA, Ghana (AP) — Misper Apawu is a photojournalist living and working in Ghana. In addition to her…