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By BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press LONDON (AP) — A U.S. fugitive known as Nicholas Rossi, who is accused of faking his own death to avoid a rape…

By JIM SALTER Associated Press Missouri Republican U.S. Rep. Blaine Luetkemeyer will not seek reelection, though his departure in what is considered…

By BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Flooding from heavy rains has swamped parts of England, France and the Netherlands, and officials…

By KAREN MATTHEWS Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — New York City subway service was disrupted for a second day as transit workers labored to remove…

ELIZABETH, N.J. (AP) — Over 100 firefighters battled a blaze Friday at a New Jersey industrial park that was home to the Singer Sewing Machine…

By FARNOUSH AMIRI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republicans plan to move forward next week with holding Hunter Biden in contempt of…

By MARTÍN ADAMES ALCÁNTARA and DÁNICA COTO Associated Press PUERTO PLATA, Dominican Republic (AP) — Tampa Bay Rays shortstop Wander Franco…

By BRIAN WITTE Associated Press ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — A former police officer who defended the U.S. Capitol against rioters on Jan. 6 has announced…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal officials have cleared the way for Florida to begin importing cheaper prescription drugs from Canada. It’s the first…

By AARON BEARD AP Basketball Writer Top one-and-done NBA prospects are making a big impact in their college team’s AP Top 25 standing. Roughly…

ROME (AP) — The U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization says global prices for food commodities like grain and vegetable oil fell last year from…

By COLLIN BINKLEY AP Education Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration is docking more than $2 million in payments to student loan…

LONDON (AP) — The actor who earned fame as blond half of crime-fighting duo “Starsky and Hutch” in a popular 1970s television series, has died.…

By JOSEPH WILSON Associated Press BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — The lawyer representing the woman who was allegedly sexually assaulted by Brazilian…

By JONATHAN LANDRUM Jr. AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Jo Koy remembers watching major award ceremonies like the Golden Globes with his…

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Brazilian officials say they have postponed for the second time the reintroduction of requirements to obtain tourist visas…

By KEN MORITSUGU Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — China’s foreign minister says the United States and China must insist on peaceful coexistence…

By VANESSA GERA Associated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Commentators who joked on a Polish right-wing television station that migrants should be…

By GISELA SALOMON and COLLEEN LONG Associated Press LEHIGH ACRES, Fla. (AP) — Migrants are arriving in the U.S. under the Biden administration’s…

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s minister of digital affairs has suggested that President Andrzej Duda check the security of access to his social…

By KRUTIKA PATHI The Associated Press DHAKA (AP) — In the months leading to Bangladesh’s national election on Sunday, thousands of opposition…

By STEVE DOUGLAS AP Sports Writer WREXHAM, Wales (AP) — Hollywood stars Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney are three years into their unlikely…

By GERALD IMRAY Associated Press CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — A list of the major moments in the life of Oscar Pistorius, the South African…

By The Associated Press Russian air defenses downed dozens of Ukrainian drones in occupied Crimea and southern Russia on Friday, officials said, as…

By COLLEEN LONG and ZEKE MILLER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — For his first campaign speech of the year, President Joe Biden is heading to…

By KRISHAN FRANCIS Associated Press COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lanka has declared a moratorium on foreign research ships entering its waters for…

SUNDERLAND, England (AP) — Sunderland has scored a spectacular own-goal off the field well before its FA Cup showdown with archrival Newcastle. The…

PARIS (AP) — Global supermarket chain Carrefour will stop selling PepsiCo products in its stores in France, Belgium, Spain and Italy over price…

By GRANT PECK Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — An alliance of ethnic armed groups in northeastern Myanmar has reportedly achieved one of the main…

BEIJING (AP) — A competitor in Chinese chess says he has sued the national association in China for mental distress after he was stripped of a…

By BABACAR DIONE Associated Press DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Senegal’s top opposition leader has suffered a major setback in his presidential bid…

By SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin’s Democratic governor says President Joe Biden must make frequent visits to…

MOSCOW (AP) — Russia’s national elections commission on Friday registered the first two candidates who will compete with President Vladimir Putin…

By DAVID McHUGH AP Business Writer FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — Inflation is on the rebound in Europe. The European Union’s statistics agency…

BERLIN (AP) — Police say four people have died after a fire broke out at a hospital in northern Germany and spread to several patients’ rooms.…

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Global shares retreated on Friday although export-related Tokyo stocks got a boost as the dollar…

By JULHAS ALAM Associated Press DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — Bangladesh’s main opposition party is calling for general strikes on the weekend of the…

KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — Nepal’s government has banned citizens from going to Russia and Ukraine for employment, saying many have been recruited…

BEIJING (AP) — Tesla is recalling more than 1.6 million Model S, X, 3 and Y electric vehicles imported to China to fix problems with their…

Associated Press BEAUMONT, Miss. (AP) — Authorities in Mississippi say a sheriff’s deputy was shot and killed during a traffic stop by a suspect…

BERLIN (AP) — A group of farmers prevented Germany’s vice chancellor from disembarking a ferry hours after the government partially climbed down…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press Transport safety officials are searching for the voice recorder from a Japan Airlines airliner that caught fire…

By AMIR VAHDAT, VAHID SALEMI and JON GAMBRELL Associated Press KERMAN, Iran (AP) — Iran on Friday mourned those slain in an Islamic State…

KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — India’s foreign minister has concluded a two-day trip to Nepal during which he signed an agreement to increase the amount…

NEW DELHI (AP) — The Indian navy says it has deployed a ship and a patrol aircraft in the Arabian Sea following a hijacking attempt onboard a…

By HIRO KOMAE, AYAKA MCGILL and YURI KAGEYAMA Associated Press WAJIMA, Japan (AP) — A woman was pulled carefully from the rubble 72 hours after a…

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Asian shares mostly declined Friday, after a mixed finish on Wall Street, although export-related…

By STEFANIE DAZIO Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — A 74-year-old woman died alone in the hospital last year. It’s the job of investigators…

By GERALD IMRAY and NQOBILE NTSHANGASE Associated Press PRETORIA, South Africa (AP) — South African athlete Oscar Pistorius is due to be released…

By LEA SKENE Associated Press BALTIMORE (AP) — Baltimore recorded less than 300 homicides last year for the first time in nearly a decade. The 20%…

By COLLEEN SLEVIN Associated Press DENVER (AP) — A Colorado police officer convicted of killing Elijah McClain, a young Black man walking home from…

By NICHOLAS RICCARDI and HANNAH FINGERHUT Associated Press PERRY, Iowa (AP) — A teen armed with a shotgun and a handgun unleashed terror at an Iowa…

By ALANNNA DURKIN RICHER and MICHAEL KUNZELMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Members of far-right extremist groups. Former police officers. An…

By CHRISTOPHER WEBER, JULIE WATSON and KAVISH HARJAI Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Since an arson fire damaged a key Los Angeles freeway, the…

By MOHAMMED JAHJOUH and JACK JEFFERY Associated Press MUWASI, Gaza Strip (AP) — Stranded in a corner of southern Gaza, members of the Abu Jarad…

By PAUL WISEMAN AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Bringing resurgent inflation down was never expected to be so relatively pain-free. Federal…

By TARA COPP Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Air Force says a B-1 Lancer bomber from Ellsworth Air Force Base in South Dakota crashed…

WAILUKU, Hawaii (AP) — The mayor of the Hawaiian island of Maui says a site selected to hold debris from last year’s wildfires that…

TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — Adam Sandler got in a little pickup game at Arizona’s McKale Center before the 10th-ranked Wildcats played Colorado. Wearing…

OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Two men charged with murder in the death of an Oakland police officer who was shot while answering a burglary report at a…

By HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has ordered authorities to increase production of…

By KEN RITTER and RIO YAMAT Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — A Nevada judge was back to work a day after being attacked by a defendant in a felony…

JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Two trains have collided on Indonesia’s main island of Java, causing several carriages to buckle and overturn and…

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A city council member in Sacramento, California, has resigned just weeks after he pleaded not guilty to federal charges…

WINDOW ROCK, Ariz. (AP) — Authorities on the largest Native American reservation in the U.S. have charged two tribal members with illegally growing…

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Supporters of an effort to repeal Alaska’s ranked choice voting system have been fined more than $94,000 after the…

By MORGAN LEE Associated Press SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — New Mexico’s governor is proposing a nearly 10% general fund spending increase for the…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United Nations has issued a somber global economic forecast for 2024, pointing to…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A 53-year-old Asian elephant has been euthanized at the Los Angeles Zoo after she was unable to stand up. The zoo says Shaunzi,…

NEW YORK (AP) — New York City officials say a subway train has derailed after colliding with another train. The accident left more than 20 people…

By The Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Before and after he was exposed as a pedophile, Jeffrey Epstein loved to mingle with the world’s…

By MAURICIO SAVARESE Associated Press RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — A right-wing Brazilian politician’s push to have the city of Sao Paulo investigate a…

DALLAS (AP) — The family of former U.S. Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson says the trailblazing Texas congresswoman died after getting an infection and…

By BRUCE SCHREINER Associated Press FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear says access to medical marijuana in the state should expand to…

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — A judge says a Tennessee man accused of raping a woman a year before he was charged with kidnapping and killing a…

By SARA MELINI Associated Press GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — Former Guatemalan President Otto Pérez Molina was released from prison after posting bond of…

By JEFF AMY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Long-held Republican opposition to broader health care coverage may be softening in Georgia and…

By SAMANTHA HENDRICKSON and GEOFF MULVIHILL Associated Press/Report for America COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A transgender woman has been disqualified…