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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Armed gangs are launching new attacks in the suburbs of Port-au-Prince, with heavy gunfire echoing across…

By ROBERT YOON Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden goes before Missouri primary voters on Saturday, and much has changed since…

MCKEE, Ky. (AP) — An eastern Kentucky couple has been accused of trying to sell their newborn twin girls. The Jackson County Sheriff’s Department…

BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) — A U.N.-backed independent expert on human rights in Myanmar says the military government is escalating violence against…

By TODD RICHMOND Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A prosecutor is urging jurors to find a former Milwaukee elections official who requested…

By LISA MASCARO AP Congressional Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) — The House impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden is at a crossroad. Without…

By KRYSTA FAURIA Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Fresh off his awards season high after going to the Oscars with his fellow “Poor Things”…

By CURT ANDERSON Associated Press Florida’s homeless will be banned from sleeping in public spaces such as sidewalks and parks under a law signed…

LONDON (AP) — Wales has become the first part of the U.K. to get a Black leader, following the election of Vaughan Gething as first minister.…

By DEREK GATOPOULOS Associated Press ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Voters around the world who worry about growing threats to democratic freedoms should…

By DOUG FEINBERG AP Basketball Writer Iowa star Caitlin Clark has been honored for the third straight season as a first-team Associated Press…

By PREDRAG MILIC Associated Press PODGORICA, Montenegro (AP) — An appeals court in Montenegro has confirmed that cryptocurrency mogul Do Kwon will…

By MIKE CORDER Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The Dutch parliament has named two new go-betweens to lead negotiations to form the…

By MATTHEW DALY and TOM KRISHER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration has announced new automobile emissions standards that…

By MARTHA MENDOZA, MAHESH KUMAR and PIYUSH NAGPAL Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — India is the top supplier of shrimp to the U.S., with…

By JOEY CAPPELLETTI and WILL WEISSERT Associated Press SAGINAW, Mich. (AP) — President Joe Biden headed to Michigan last week to boost his support…

By MARTHA MENDOZA, MAHESH KUMAR and PIYUSH NAGPAL Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Noriko Kuwabara was excited to try a new recipe she’d…

ATLANTA (AP) — The judge overseeing the Georgia election interference case is allowing Donald Trump to appeal a ruling allowing Fulton County…

By MATTHEW BROWN and AMY BETH HANSON Associated Press A Washington state man accused of helping kill thousands of birds is expected to plead guilty…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Prosecutors in the violent western Mexico state of Jalisco say five dead bodies have been found piled in a bulletproof SUV. The…

By NINIEK KARMINI Associated Press JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesia’s electoral commission has announced that Prabowo Subianto, a former…

By NINIEK KARMINI Associated Press JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Former special forces general Prabowo Subianto has been confirmed the victor of…

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Southern Illinois congressman Mike Bost has won the Republican nomination for the state’s 12th Congressional District…

By BRUCE SHIPKOWSKI Associated Press CAMDEN, N.J. (AP) — Residents in the Philadelphia area are about to see a rare site — a battleship floating…

By MOSES NDUNGU and JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — U.N. agencies have warned that electrical and electronic waste is piling up…

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Police in Boise, Idaho, said officers were involved in a shooting at a hospital early Wednesday and are searching for two…

By NICOLE EVATT Associated Press JAMESTOWN, St. Helena (AP) — St. Helena, a small, craggy island in the South Atlantic Ocean, is one of the most…

By LORNE COOK Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — European Union leaders are set Thursday to underscore their support for war-torn Ukraine. The aim is…

By MATTHEW LEE AP Diplomatic Writer JEDDAH, Saudi Arabia (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken will travel to Israel this week as part of…

PRAGUE (AP) — The Czech Republic’s central bank has cut its key interest rate for a third straight time amid falling inflation and an effort…

WILLIAMSBURG, Va. (AP) — Former U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates will have an academic building named after him at William & Mary. The…

By HOWARD FENDRICH AP Tennis Writer Tennis could be on the verge of massive structural change if one of two separate proposals formulated by the four…

By MIKE CORDER Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — A Dutch court says the government has systematically put the interests of the…

BANGKOK (AP) — Britain’s foreign secretary has met with Thailand’s prime minister on his first visit to the Indo-Pacific region. Britain’s…

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greek authorities say an F-16 fighter jet crashed in the Aegean Sea during a training flight and a rescue operation is…

By JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — French bulldogs. U.S. dog owners. C’est l’amour. Frenchies remained the United…

LONDON (AP) — Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar says he will step down as leader of the country soon as a successor is chosen. Varadkar announced…

BERLIN (AP) — A German federal court has rejected a woman’s appeal of her 14-year sentence for allowing a Yazidi girl she and her husband kept as…

By MIKE CORDER Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — An Amsterdam court has ruled that Dutch national airline KLM made misleading…

By EMMA BURROWS Associated Press A Russian border region being pounded by Ukrainian shelling and drones is expanding its closure of schools and…

By JINTAMAS SAKSORNCHAI Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — Thailand’s national police chief and one of his deputies have been temporarily suspended…

By SAMYA KULLAB Associated Press KHARKIV, Ukraine (AP) — A dance studio that doubles as a bomb shelter is an escape from the horrors of war for…

BEIJING (AP) — Chinese accident investigators have indicated they have not yet determined the cause of a 2022 plane crash that killed all 132…

LONDON (AP) — Microsoft has hired Mustafa Suleyman to head up its consumer artificial intelligence business, adding to its ranks an influential…

HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — Vietnamese President Vo Van Thuong resigned after a little over a year in the job, the Communist Party said Wednesday, making…

By SALLY FRENCH of NerdWallet When discussing a multigenerational family trip, have a plan to avoid arguments around topics like when to travel,…

PARIS (AP) — France’s competition watchdog has hit Google with another big fine tied to a long-running dispute over payments to French publishers…

By FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — IRS Commissioner Danny Werfel says in a wide-ranging interview with The Associated Press the…

By JOSH BOAK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration has reached an agreement to provide Intel with up to $8.5 billion in…

LONDON (AP) — A British privacy watchdog said Wednesday it is looking into a report that staff at a private London hospital tried to snoop on the…

BANDA ACEH, Indonesia (AP) — A wooden boat carrying dozens of Rohingya Muslims capsized about 16 miles from the coastline of Kuala Bubon beach in…

By SAMUEL PETREQUIN Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — European Union lawmakers have agreed to renew Ukraine’s import rates, which have been in…

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — The Mega Millions jackpot has reached an astounding $977 million for Friday night’s drawing after no tickets matched…

By GRANT PECK Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — No bidders appeared at a court-ordered auction of the family home of Myanmar’s imprisoned former…

RAHIM FAIEZ ISLAMABAD (AP) — The school year in Afghanistan has started but without girls whom the Taliban barred from attending classes beyond the…

BEIJING (AP) — Chinese state media say the death toll has risen to 14 in the crash of a bus into a tunnel wall on an expressway in northern China.…

By ROSS D. FRANKLIN Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band returned to the stage Tuesday evening at the Footprint…

By PAN PYLAS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Price rises in the U.K. eased by more than anticipated in February, raising expectations that the Bank…

QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) — Officials say twelve miners have been killed in a explosion inside a coal mine in southwest Pakistan. Authorities rescued…

By ZIMO ZHONG Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — Asian markets were mostly higher Wednesday ahead of expected guidance by the Federal Reserve on the…

By MUNIR AHMED Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan and the International Monetary Fund have reached a preliminary agreement for the release…

By VALERIE GONZALEZ Associated Press McALLEN, Texas (AP) — Texas’ plans to arrest migrants suspected of entering the U.S. illegally were…

By DAVID CRARY Associated Press Purim is widely depicted as the most thoroughly joyful of Jewish holidays — highlighted by celebrations that…

By VANESSA GERA Associated Press CYWINY WOJSKIE, Poland (AP) — Polish farmer Piotr Korycki says his business has been badly destabilized by…

By BABACAR DIONE and JESSICA DONATI Associated Press DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Senegal’s only female presidential candidate may stand little to no…

By MICHAEL GOLDBERG and EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Sentencing continues Wednesday for white former law enforcement…

ATLANTA (AP) — A Georgia man is scheduled to be put to death in what would be the state’s first execution in more than four years. Willie James…

By DAVID A. LIEB Associated Press JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Republican attorneys general in two dozen states are pushing back against a proposed…

By KEVIN McGILL Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — An interactive exhibit opening Wednesday at the National WWII Museum will use artificial…

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A Dubai sovereign wealth fund that’s the single-largest shareholder in the…

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — New Zealand said Wednesday it will ban disposable e-cigarettes, or vapes, and raise financial penalties for those…

TOKYO (AP) — A South Korean tanker capsized off an island in southwestern Japan early Wednesday, and the coast guard said it had rescued four crew…

By JEFF McMILLAN Associated Press Legislators in at least two U.S. states are citing a recent decision by England’s public health service to…

By JOSH BOAK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — When President Joe Biden talks to his supporters, he can make the presidential election sound like…