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DETROIT (AP) — Ford is recalling nearly 1.9 million Explorer SUVs in the U.S. because a trim piece can fly off and create a hazard for other…

By BASSEM MROUE and ABBY SEWELL Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — A delegation of Libyan justice officials in Beirut has reopened discussions with…

By SALLY FRENCH of NerdWallet All-inclusive vacations can sometimes get a bad rap for being generic, inauthentic and filled with mediocre food and…

ROME (AP) — Pope Francis recalled the extermination of millions of Jews in calling Wednesday for the upcoming Holocaust Day of Remembrance to…

BEIJING (AP) — At least 25 people died after a fire broke out in China’s southeastern Jiangxi province, the local government said on Wednesday.…

By ANDREW DALTON AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Here’s a look at some notable facts and figures from this year’s Oscar…

By BRENT ROMANS Edmunds Edmunds Top Rated Awards are bestowed annually upon the best vehicles of the year. The winners aced their Edmunds track tests…

LONDON (AP) — Online retailer eBay Inc. will cut about 1,000 jobs, or an estimated 9% of its full-time workforce. CEO Jamie Iannone said in a…

BEIJING (AP) — Chinese state media say the death toll from a landslide in a remote, mountainous part of southwestern China has risen to 34, while…

NEW YORK (AP) — Billionaire businessman-environmentalist Tom Steyer has a book out this spring that combines personal and professional stories with…

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — After an extended period of gloom, Americans are starting to feel better about…

By STEPHEN McGRATH and ANDREEA ALEXANDRU Associated Press BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — Moldova’s foreign minister Nicu Popescu is resigning from his…

By OMAR FARUK Associated Press MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — A stadium in Somalia’s violence-prone capital is hosting its first soccer tournament in…

BEIJING (AP) — China, the world’s biggest exporter, says it is deeply concerned about tensions in the Red Sea that have upended global trade…

PARIS (AP) — French farmers are staging protests across the country and in Brussels against low wages and what they consider to be excessive…

By The Associated Press A Russian military transport plane carrying 65 Ukrainian prisoners of war, six crew and three people accompanying them…

By NAJIB JOBAIN and MELANIE LIDMAN Associated Press RAFAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israeli forces battled Palestinian militants Wednesday near the main…

BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s train drivers have brought rail traffic to a standstill again when they began a six-day strike to push their demands in a…

BANGKOK (AP) — Thailand’s Constitutional Court ruled Wednesday that popular politician Pita Limjaroenrat, who was blocked from becoming prime…

BANGKOK (AP) — China’s central bank has announced it will reduce the ratio of reserves banks must hold to help boost the slowing economy. The…

By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer BANGKOK (AP) — Asian shares were mixed on Wednesday after Japan reported its exports jumped nearly 10% in…

BANGKOK (AP) — Japan has reported its exports surged almost 10% in December from a year earlier, helped by a revival in trade with China and strong…

PRAGUE (AP) — A fast train has collided with a truck in eastern Czech Republic, killing one person and injuring at least 10 people. The Czech…

BRISBANE, Australia (AP) — A tropical low slowly moving toward northeast Australia is expected to reach cyclone strength later Wednesday and bring…

By KEN MORITSUGU and NG HAN GUAN Associated Press UCHTURPAN, China (AP) — As aftershocks continued to rock western China on Wednesday, more than…

STOCKHOLM (AP) — Sweden’s bid to join NATO — held up for almost two years — cleared its next-to-last hurdle when Turkey’s parliament gave…

CHRISTOPHER WEBER Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Los Angeles County’s annual count of homeless residents began Tuesday night — a crucial…

By MIKE SCHNEIDER Associated Press ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Disney has requested a second court delay in its legal battle with Florida Gov. Ron…

By TOM KRISHER and FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden will be the keynote speaker at a United Auto Workers’…

BANGKOK (AP) — Thailand’s Constitutional Court is set to decide whether popular politician Pita Limjaroenrat, who was blocked from becoming…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Los Angeles County will pay $5 million to the founder and CEO of a software company who was briefly accused of stealing data on…

Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — China’s Foreign Ministry says Beijing has formally restored diplomatic ties with Nauru after the tiny Pacific…

By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Christopher Nolan was still sleeping when his film, “Oppenheimer,” landed a leading 13 Academy…

BEIJING (AP) — A truck carrying 60 tons of liquified natural gas and a car collided at an intersection in the Mongolian capital, causing an…

By HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Chinese artist and dissident Ai Weiwei believes it his job to be “incorrect.” He was hard…

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Inflation in New Zealand has slowed to its lowest rate in two and a half years the country’s official statistics…

By MORGAN LEE Associated Press SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — A U.S. District Court judge is standing by her decision to block portions of a public health…

By MAYA SWEEDLER and ROBERT YOON Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Former President Donald Trump is the winner of the New Hampshire Republican…

By TARA COPP AND LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin says the U.S. military has struck three…

By CHRISTOPHER BODEEN Associated Press TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — The co-chairs of the U.S. Congressional Taiwan Caucus are making their first trip to…

By STEVE PEOPLES and NICHOLAS RICCARDI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — New Hampshire was supposed to present a formidable challenge for former…

By JACQUES BILLEAUD Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Federal prosecutors in Arizona will retry a co-founder of the lucrative classified site…

By JONATHAN MATTISE Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee’s elections office has confirmed that the state’s toughened voting…

By WILL WEISSERT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden has won New Hampshire’s largely symbolic Democratic primary, prevailing…

By JEFF AMY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — A Georgia Senate committee wants to give the appointed State Election Board the legal power to…

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea’s military says North Korea fired several cruise missiles into the western sea as it continues a streak of…

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — An Oregon jury awarded $85 million Tuesday to nine victims of wildfires that ravaged the state in 2020, the latest verdict in…

By MAYA SWEEDLER and ROBERT YOON Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden has won the New Hampshire Democratic primary as a write-in…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A driver who plowed into a group of Los Angeles County sheriff’s recruits on a training run last year, killing one and…

By ANDREW DeMILLO Associated Press LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — A proposal to scale back Arkansas’ abortion ban has cleared its first hurdle…

By KEVIN McGILL Associated Press A divided federal appeals court has refused to revive the lawsuit of a Texas-based online citizen journalist who…

By COLLEEN SLEVIN Associated Press DENVER (AP) — A Denver police officer has pleaded guilty to accidentally wounding six bystanders in a crowd…

By COREY WILLIAMS Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — A man has been ordered to stand trial in the slaying of a Detroit synagogue leader whose body was…

By ROBERT YOON Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrat Joe Biden and Republican Donald Trump are the front-runners for their respective…

By OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A farmworker has been charged with killing seven people last year in back-to-back…

By ZEKE MILLER and COLLEEN LONG Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is dispatching two of his senior-most White House advisers…

By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN Associated Press The Federal Emergency Management Agency says it is devoting more resources to processing outstanding claims…

By BRIAN WITTE Associated Press ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — A federal appeals court has upheld a county law in Maryland that requires gun dealers to…

By CHRISTINA LARSON AP Science Writer Scientists have spotted previously unknown colonies of emperor penguins in new satellite imagery. At least some…

UPPER DARBY, Pa. (AP) — A Philadelphia-area woman has been charged with animal cruelty after police say videos she posted show her torturing and…

By DEEPA BHARATH Associated Press The newest member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints’ top governing body said every faith —…

By CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken is pitching the United States as a better security…

LAS VEGAS (AP) — A proposed high-speed passenger train between Las Vegas and Southern California has gotten another boost. The Biden administration…

FORT SMITH, Northwest Territories (AP) — A hospital in Canada’s Northwest Territories activated its mass casualty protocol after a passenger…

By RONALD BLUM AP Baseball Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Adrián Beltré, Todd Helton and Joe Mauer were elected to baseball’s Hall of Fame on…

By MARGERY A. BECK Associated Press OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A Nebraska state lawmaker and Democrat who ran for governor in 2022 is seeking higher office…

MUSKEGON, Mich. (AP) — A western Michigan woman convicted of murder and child abuse in the starvation death of a disabled 15-year-old son who…

By CLAIRE RUSH Associated Press SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Democratic lawmakers in Oregon have unveiled a sweeping new bill that would undo a key part of…

By PAT EATON-ROBB Associated Press Prosecutors attempting to link a Connecticut woman to the disappearance of her boyfriend’s estranged wife say…

The recent blast of cold weather has given alligators a chance to show off their way of coping with freezing temperatures. The Swamp Park Outdoor…

DENVER (AP) — Federal prosecutors say the founder of an orphanage in Haiti is facing criminal charges in the U.S. for allegedly traveling to the…

OPHIR, Colo. (AP) — An avalanche killed a 67-year-old man as he was snowboarding solo in the Colorado backcountry, authorities said Tuesday,…