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By STEPHEN WHYNO AP Hockey Writer BRAMPTON, Ontario (AP) — In 2022, a veteran of the Bauer Hockey equipment giant said the number of kids playing…

By ROB MAADDI AP Pro Football Writer The NFL’s dedication to expanding flag football starts at the top. Commissioner Roger Goodell has been fully…

By KATHY McCORMACK Associated Press CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — Pamela Smart, who is serving life in prison for plotting with her teenage student to have…

By NICHOLAS RICCARDI Associated Press A new poll finds that people around the globe have greater confidence in President Joe Biden to do the right…

By DOUG FEINBERG AP Basketball Writer USA Basketball says experience was a major reason Caitlin Clark was left off the U.S. Olympic roster that was…

By JIM SALTER Associated Press ST. LOUIS (AP) — With his execution drawing near, Missouri inmate David Hosier is “accepting his fate.”…

By PETER SMITH Associated Press INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — More than 10,000 voting representatives gathered Tuesday for the opening of the Southern…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — A powerful Japanese business lobby is calling on the government to quickly revise its civil law to…

SAULT STE. MARIE, Mich. (AP) — The U.S. Coast Guard is backing away from a weekend report that a ship may have struck something in Lake Superior…

By MICHAEL PHILLIS, JIM SALTER and CAMILLE FASSETT Associated Press WEST ALTON, Mo. (AP) — Commerce along the Mississippi River has evolved over…

By MAE ANDERSON AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — “Buy now, pay later” services are a popular way that shoppers pay for goods. Because…

By MICHAEL PHILLIS, JIM SALTER and CAMILLE FASSETT Associated Press WEST ALTON, Mo. (AP) — Devastating flooding, driven in part by climate change,…

By SYLVIA HUI Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Iceland’s government says it has issued a license to the North Atlantic nation’s last fin whaling…

By JOE REEDY AP Sports Writer Warner Bros. Discovery and the French Tennis Federation made official on Tuesday what had been revealed over the…

By TERRY SPENCER Associated Press FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Four Florida police officers have been indicted in connection with a 2019 shootout…

By MARK BANCHEREAU Associated Press DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Production has started at Senegal’s first offshore oil project. The Australian…

By PAUL WISEMAN AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The World Bank has upgraded its outlook for the global economy, estimating that it will…

by BARBARA SURK Associated Press NICE, France (AP) — French opposition parties on the left and the right are scrambling to form alliances for the…

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — In her first television interview since she was assaulted last week, Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen says…

By HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Author David Wroblewski has reached special status among contemporary authors: a two-time…

DERA ISLAMAIL KHAN, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistan’s authorities say security forces have killed 11 militants in an overnight operation in a former…

By GABRIELA AOUN ANGUEIRA Associated Press HEALDSBURG, Calif. (AP) — The humanitarian organization Direct Relief is helping community health…

By KEVIN McGILL NEW ORLEANS Scientists using more modern methods of measuring the carcinogen ethylene oxide have found much higher levels of the…

CAIRO (AP) — The U.N. International Organization for Migration says a boat carrying migrants sank off the coast of Yemen, leaving at least 49 dead…

By MIKE CORDER Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Far-right leader Geert Wilders says the four parties negotiating to form a coalition…

By MARK SHERMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Fifty years ago, three of the justices Richard Nixon appointed to the Supreme Court joined in an…

By LISA MASCARO AP Congressional Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) — A group of House Democrats is warning about the far-right Project 2025 agenda for…

By MATTHEW LEE and ABBY SEWELL Associated Press TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Secretary of State Antony Blinken says the U.N. Security Council’s vote…

MOSCOW (AP) — Russia and its ally Belarus have launched a second stage of drills intended to train their troops in tactical nuclear weapons, part…

GENEVA (AP) — The U.N. human rights office is citing possible war crimes by Israeli forces and Palestinian armed groups in connection with a deadly…

ISLAMABAD (AP) — The World Bank has approved $1 billion for the construction of Pakistan’s biggest Dasu hydropower project, which is being built…

By MIKE CORDER Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The International Criminal Court’s chief prosecutor is appealing for information…

By HYUNG-JIN KIM and KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea has started blaring propaganda loudspeaker broadcasts at…

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — The U.S. State Department has removed restrictions on the transfer of American weapons and training to a high-profile…

By CIARÁN FAHEY AP Sports Writer BERLIN (AP) — When Germany hosted the 2006 World Cup, it unleashed an unexpected burst of national pride across…

By GREGORY GONDWE and GERALD IMRAY Associated Press BLANTYRE, Malawi (AP) — Soldiers, police officers and forest rangers continued to search…

TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Taiwanese authorities are investigating how an alleged former Chinese naval officer sailed a small boat into a strategic…

By ZIMO ZHONG Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — Asian stocks were mixed on Tuesday in a busy week with several top-tier reports on U.S. inflation…

By GABE STERN Associated Press RENO, Nev. (AP) — Retired Army Capt. Sam Brown hopes a late endorsement from former President Donald Trump will help…

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — China’s Premier Li Qiang will visit Australia on Saturday. Australian Prime Minister…

By TERRY TANG Associated Press In the Philippines, where colonial rule under Spain and later the United States endured for nearly four centuries,…

By CHARLOTTE GRAHAM-McLAY Associated Press WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Police in New Zealand offered an 80,000 New Zealand dollar reward and…

BANGKOK (AP) — Hundreds of caged animals died after a fire struck Chatuchak Weekend Market, one of the most famous markets in Thailand’s capital.…

By LAURIE KELLMAN Associated Press LONDON (AP) — He has no political experience. No high-profile endorsements. No party affiliation. What Fidias…

By SUDHIN THANAWALA Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — The king and queen of the Netherlands have begun a four-day tour of the U.S. in Atlanta. During…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Rishi Sunak doesn’t know whether he’ll still be Britain’s prime minister the day after next…

By HANNAH SCHOENBAUM Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah Gov. Spencer Cox is set to debate his primary challenger in a face-to-face duel…

By MIKE SCHNEIDER Associated Press ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — A new attraction starring the first Black Disney princess is opening at the company’s…

By MICHAEL GOLDBERG Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A Minneapolis police officer who was killed while responding to a shooting call will be…

BERLIN (AP) — Germany is hosting a conference to gather support for Ukraine’s recovery from the destruction wreaked by Russia’s war. It will…

By PAOLA FLORES Associated Press TRINIDAD PAMPA, Bolivia (AP) — If it were anywhere else in South America, the nondescript house with buckets of…

By KEN MORITSUGU and DIDI TANG Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — Four instructors from Iowa’s Cornell College teaching at Beihua University in…

A remarkable array of women is challenging the Sacra Corona Unita, Italy’s fourth main organized crime group that operates in southern Puglia, the…

By TARA COPP Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A House subcommittee is holding a hearing on the troubled safety record of the Osprey aircraft and…

By SCOTT McFETRIDGE Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — As the U.S. dairy industry confronts a bird flu outbreak, with cases reported at…

By BILL BARROW Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Groups pushing tighter gun laws have been building political muscle through multiple elections,…

By RANDALL CHASE, CLAUDIA LAUER, MICHAEL KUNZELMAN and ALANNA DURKIN RICHER Associated Press WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — Jurors will resume…

ROME (AP) — The popular image of the Italian mob has been made famous by movies like “The Godfather” but the reality of organized crime in…

By JULIE CARR SMYTH Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Republican state Sen. Michael Rulli faces Democrat Michael Kripchak in Tuesday’s…

By TRISHA THOMAS Associated Press LECCE, Italy (AP) — Puglia is known for its olive groves, white-washed houses and spectacular coastlines that…

By PATRICK WHITTLE Associated Press LEWISTON, Maine (AP) — Two Republican state lawmakers are seeking the chance to try to unseat one of the most…

By COLLIN BINKLEY and LINLEY SANDERS Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — According to a new poll, relatively few Americans say they’re fans of…

By MARK BANCHEREAU Associated Press DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Cameroon has one of the world’s lowest number of health workers per capita. About a…

By JACK DURA Associated Press BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — Voters in North Dakota are settling a rambunctious Republican primary contest for the…

By WYATTE GRANTHAM-PHILIPS AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Gas prices are once again on the decline across the U.S. That’s bringing some…

By TIM REYNOLDS AP Sports Writer SUNRISE, Fla. (AP) — Evan Rodrigues had two goals in the third period, Niko Mikkola and Aaron Ekblad also scored…

TWIN FALLS, Idaho (AP) — The federal Bureau of Land Management’s preferred alternative for a proposed large-scale wind energy farm in southern…

By LEA SKENE Associated Press BALTIMORE (AP) — The main shipping channel into Baltimore’s port has fully reopened to its original depth and width…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito is heard questioning whether compromise between the left and right is possible in a…

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korean soldiers fired warning shots after North Korean troops violated the border earlier this week, according to…

NEW YORK (AP) — Two men connected to a toddler’s fatal opioid overdose at a New York City daycare have pleaded guilty to drug charges and causing…

By JESSE BEDAYN Associated Press/Report for America A Utah judge on Monday set an August date for the execution of a man convicted in the 1998…

BAKER COUNTY, Ore. (AP) — A dog has helped his owner get rescued after a car crash in a steep ravine in mountainous northeastern Oregon. The Baker…

NEW YORK (AP) — The head of New York’s transit authority says the agency will have to cut back its plans for maintaining and improving its…

By MORGAN LEE and SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN Associated Press SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — A New Mexico judge has cleared the way for a landmark lawsuit to…

By BECKY BOHRER Associated Press JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — A judge has ruled that Alaska elections officials did not violate state law or regulations…

By ANITA SNOW Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Rudy Giuliani has been processed in the criminal case over the effort to overturn Trump’s Arizona…

By STEPHANY MATAT Associated Press WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — A teenager who lost both a leg and one of her hands in a Florida shark attack has…

By WILL WEISSERT and ZEKE MILLER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — After back-to-back trips to Europe, President Joe Biden plans to head to the…

By ERIC TUCKER Associated Pres WASHINGTON (AP) — The federal judge presiding over the classified documents case against former President Donald…

NEW YORK (AP) — A former police officer will serve life in prison for overseeing the murder of four people in upstate New York. Prosecutors say…

MOUNT VERNON, Iowa (AP) — Four Iowa college instructors teaching in China have been attacked while visiting a public park. Cornell College…