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By ELENA BECATOROS Associated Press ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greece aims to create two large marine parks as part of an $830 million program to…

ALGIERS, Algeria (AP) — An Algerian journalist is decrying his expulsion from the country after flying in from France and not being allowed to…

LONDON (AP) — British lawmakers are set to vote on the government’s plans to introduce a landmark smoking ban that aims to stop young people from…

By ANIRUDDHA GHOSAL Associated Press HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — Apple CEO Tim Cook said Tuesday that he wants to further increase investment in Vietnam…

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Argentina’s defense minister has signed a deal worth about 2.1 billion kroner ($300 million) to buy 24 of Denmark’s…

By MIKE CORDER Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Armenia has insisted that the top United Nations court has jurisdiction to hear its…

By JEROME PUGMIRE AP Sports Writer PARIS (AP) — The talk before the opening ceremony of the Paris Games ideally should be about its grandiose…

By The Associated Press The United Nations human rights office says Israeli security forces must immediately put an end to settler attacks on…

SINGAPORE (AP) — Singapore’s incoming leader says Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong will stay on as senior minister in the government after he steps…

MOSCOW (AP) — Nearly 14,500 homes have been flooded in a Russian region bordering Kazakhstan after water levels spiked in a local river, local…

By AMANDA SEITZ Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden’s administration is launching a program that will help 50 countries…

By SARA RATHNER of NerdWallet NEW YORK (AP) — When it comes to the mental load of managing financial tasks, couples can fall into unproductive…

AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — A series of gun safety bills introduced after Maine’s deadliest shooting appears to be headed toward final passage. The…

ISLAMABAD (AP) — Officials say Pakistan’s prime minister has called for closer cooperation between Saudi Arabia and his cash-strapped Islamic…

By CHRIS MEGERIAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden will begin three straight days of campaigning in Pennsylvania in his…

By COLLEEN BARRY Associated Press VENICE, Italy (AP) — The artist and curators representing Israel at this year’s Venice Biennale have announced…

By ANDREW DALTON AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Albums from ABBA, Blondie and the Notorious B.I.G. are entering the National Recording…

BEIJING (AP) — German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has told Chinese leader Xi Jinping who hosted him in Beijing that Russia’s full-scale invasion of…

By RENATA BRITO Associated Press BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Brazilian police investigating the discovery of a boat full of corpses say the dead were…

By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer BANGKOK (AP) — Asian shares skidded Tuesday following a slump on Wall Street after higher yields in the…

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Heavy rains have lashed the United Arab Emirates, flooding out portions of…

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — One of Copenhagen’s oldest buildings is on fire and its iconic spire has collapsed. The roof of the 17th-century old…

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer YOKOHAMA, Japan (AP) — Nissan says it expects to mass produce electric vehicles powered by advanced…

By MARK BAKER and ROD McGUIRK Associated Press SYDNEY (AP) — A teenager has been accused of wounding a Christian bishop and priest during a church…

By MUKHTAR KHAN Associated Press SRINAGAR, India (AP) — Four people are dead after a boat carrying a group of people capsized in a river in…

By NICHOLAS PAPHITIS Associated Press ANCIENT OLYMPIA, Greece (AP) — One way or another, the flame that’s to burn at the Paris Olympics will…

MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. says police have seized the largest haul of methamphetamine in the country in…

By REBECCA BOONE and JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — The Maui Fire Department is expected to release a report Tuesday…

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama voters are set to decide party nominees for the state’s 2nd Congressional District. The outcome of the runoffs…

By MORGAN LEE Associated Press SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — A movie weapons armorer has received the maximum sentence of 18 months in jail for involuntary…

TANA TORAJA, Indonesia (AP) — Rescuers have recovered the bodies of a 3-year-old girl and her mother who were the last victims still missing after…

By LEA SKENE Associated Press SPARROWS POINT, Md. (AP) — Salvage crews at the site of Baltimore’s collapsed Francis Scott Key Bridge are using…

By NICHOLAS PAPHITIS Associated Press ANCIENT OLYMPIA, Greece (AP) — In a meticulously choreographed ceremony on Tuesday, the flame for this…

By JOEY CAPPELLETTI Associated Press LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Democrats are hoping to win back a majority in the deadlocked Michigan House and regain…

By MARY CLARE JALONICK and STEPHEN GROVES Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — House Speaker Mike Johnson says he is sending impeachment charges…

By LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Army and Air Force say they are on track to meet their recruiting goals this year,…

By ISABELLA VOLMERT Associated Press INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Some Indiana Republicans in key campaigns for office are fighting for access to detailed…

By MARK SHERMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court is taking up the first of two cases that could affect the criminal prosecution…

By HANNAH FINGERHUT and DAVID A. LIEB Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Stung by paying billions of dollars for settlements and trials,…

By DAVID BAUDER AP Media Writer NEW YORK (AP) — It’s a moment in history — the first U.S. president facing criminal charges in an American…

By ANDREW DALTON AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Winnie the Pooh and Mickey Mouse have recently entered the public domain, making it…

By MICHAEL R. SISAK, JENNIFER PELTZ, JAKE OFFENHARTZ and ALANNA DURKIN RICHER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump is set to return to a…

By TRAVIS LOLLER Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Whether the journals of a Nashville school shooter can be released to the public is going…

By ANDREW DALTON AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Winnie the Pooh and Mickey Mouse have recently entered the public domain, making it…

By THOMAS BEAUMONT and AMELIA THOMSON-DEVEAUX Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The first criminal trial facing former President Donald Trump is…

By HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — In Salman Rushdie’s first book since the 2022 stabbing that hospitalized him and left him…

HONG KONG (AP) — China’s economy beat expectations in the first quarter of the year with help from policies and an increase in demand. The…

By FARNOUSH AMIRI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House is rejecting a long-shot effort from House Republicans to get President Joe…

By JILL COLVIN and MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Former President Donald Trump began his day as a criminal defendant lashing…

By ANDREW DeMILLO Associated Press LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — A long-awaited audit on a $19,000 lectern bought for Republican Arkansas Gov. Sarah…

SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) — A former U.S. Marine has been sentenced to nine years in prison for firebombing a Southern California Planned Parenthood…

By MATTHEW BARAKAT Associated Press ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) — A former detainee at the infamous Abu Ghraib prison described to jurors in Virginia the…

By ANDREW SELIGMAN AP Sports Writer CHICAGO (AP) — Ken Holtzman, MLB’s winningest Jewish pitcher who threw two no-hitters for the Chicago Cubs…

By DOUG FEINBERG AP Basketball Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Caitlin Clark was selected with the No. 1 pick in the WNBA draft by the Indiana Fever on…

By MAYSOON KHAN and ANTHONY IZAGUIRRE Associated Press ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York Gov. Kathy Hochul has announced the framework of a $237 billion…

By JONATHAN MATTISE and KIMBERLEE KRUESI Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee would join the ranks of states where public school…

ST. LOUIS (AP) — A St. Louis judge has awarded nearly $23.5 million to a former police officer who was beaten by colleagues while working…

ROCKFORD, Ill. (AP) — A judge has ordered a psychiatric evaluation for a northern Illinois man charged with killing four people and injuring seven…

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Former college coach and administrator Steve Sloan, who played quarterback and served as athletic director at Alabama, has…

By DAVID KOENIG AP Airlines Writer Boeing is defending the integrity of the fuselages on two of its largest planes. Boeing engineering executives…

NAPLES, Fla. (AP) — NASA says it determined that an object that crashed through the roof of a Florida home last month was a chunk of space junk…

By JONATHAN MATTISE Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee’s Republican-led Legislature has unanimously passed a bill that would…

By MICHAEL WEISSENSTEIN Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Russia and Ukraine are trading blame before the United Nations Security Council for…

By RIO YAMAT Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — Authorities and relatives say a Las Vegas lawyer and his wife were fighting to win custody of her…

By TRÂN NGUYỄN Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Paris Hilton joined California state lawmakers Monday to push for legislation aimed at…

By DAVID SHARP Associated Press PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Maine is joining a multistate effort to elect the president by popular vote with the…

By ANITA SNOW Associated Press The one thing 9-year-old Cal Clifford wanted more than anything since he was a toddler was a pet octopus. The…

By HAVEN DALEY and OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Wildlife experts are bringing butterflies back to the Presidio National…

By MATTHEW PERRONE AP Health Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Patients suffering from pain have limited options when it comes to medication. For decades,…

By DARREN SANDS Associated Press A search committee previously sued for gender discrimination over its hiring process has announced its pick for the…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court is allowing Idaho to enforce its ban on gender-affirming care for transgender youth while lawsuits over the law…

NEW YORK (AP) — Yankees radio broadcaster John Sterling announced his immediate retirement Monday at age 85, a few weeks into his 34th season in…

By STEPHEN GROVES and LISA MASCARO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — House Speaker Mike Johnson is leaving uncertain his plan for advancing…

By AMY TAXIN Associated Press HUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif. (AP) — California has filed a lawsuit challenging a voter identification law passed at the…

By MANUEL RUEDA Associated Press BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — The mayor of Colombia’s capital has announced new measures to reduce water consumption…

TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — An endangered Bornean orangutan baby has been welcomed into the world at Busch Gardens Tampa Bay in Florida. The baby orangutan…

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden called on the House to immediately take up the Senate-passed supplemental legislation for Ukraine and Israel…

Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Tens of millions of Americans stretching from Lincoln, Nebraska, to Baltimore could face strong thunderstorms…

By HOLLY RAMER Associated Press BRENTWOOD, N.H. (AP) — Jurors deciding whether to hold the state of New Hampshire accountable for alleged abuse at…

By AMY BETH HANSON and MATTHEW BROWN Associated Press HELENA, Mont. (AP) — The dying words of an Oregon man who had an asbestos-linked cancer are…

By EDDIE PELLS AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The biggest moments for many of this generation’s Olympic athletes came in front of mostly…

By DAVE SKRETTA AP Sports Writer Chiefs coach Andy Reid said Monday that wide receiver Rashee Rice would participate in the team’s voluntary…

By SOPHIKO MEGRELIDZE Associated Press TBILISI, Georgia (AP) — Lawmakers in Georgia’s legislature have scuffled as the parliament started…

DALLAS (AP) — The pilots union at American Airlines says there’s been a significant spike in safety and maintenance issues at the airline.…

By WAYNE PARRY Associated Press ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — Atlantic City Mayor Marty Small and his wife LaQuetta have been charged with endangering…

By YURAS KARMANAU Associated Press TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — A political prisoner in Belarus has shed light on the country’s brutal prison system…