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By PAN PYLAS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — British lawmakers who may have been targeted in a sexting scam were urged Friday to go to police, after…

By JOHNSON LAI and HUIZHONG WU Associated Press HUALIEN, Taiwan (AP) — Taiwan residents endured harrowing experiences when the ground shook with…

By ASHOK SHARMA Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — India’s main opposition party vowed to boost social spending and reverse what it views as a…

BRATISLAVA, Slovakia (AP) — A  pro-Western career diplomat and a close ally of Slovakia’s populist Prime Minister Robert Fico are facing each…

By JULIA FRANKEL Associated Press TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — The Israeli military said Friday that it has dismissed two officers and reprimanded three…

SYDNEY (AP) — A passenger has been fined for urinating in a cup during a delay in deplaning after landing at Sydney Airport. Officials say the…

By KEN MAGUIRE AP Sports Writer LONDON (AP) — Most people are getting ready for bed when the MMA sessions start at Diesel Gym in East London’s…

By MATTHEW LEE Associated Press LEUVEN, Belgium (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Friday that the measures the Israeli government…

Criminal networks in the European Union are penetrating legal businesses across the 27-nation bloc and rely heavily on corruption to develop their…

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — The bodies of the seven Revolutionary Guard members killed in an airstrike widely attributed to Israel that destroyed Iran’s…

By JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press GENEVA (AP) — The U.N.’s top human rights body called on countries to stop selling or shipping weapons to Israel…

By WILL WEISSERT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is expected to get a firsthand look at efforts to clear away the hulking…

By NINIEK KARMINI and ANDI JATMIKO Associated Press JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Four Indonesian Cabinet members have testified that no rules were…

Associated Press Moscow defense officials say Ukraine have fired more than 40 drones into Russia’s bordering Rostov region in what appeared to be…

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Asian shares mostly declined Friday after a U.S. Federal Reserve official said the central bank…

By FLORENT BAJRAMI and LLAZAR SEMINI Associated Press PRISTINA, Kosovo (AP) — Kosovo’s government has begun its first nationwide census since…

By CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — A new film in Nigeria is being screened to remember the nearly 100 schoolgirls who are…

By SAMYA KULLAB Associated Press When the Russian barrage hit the Ukrainian power plant, a worker named Taras was manning the control panel — a…

TOKYO (AP) — Crowds are gathering in Tokyo to enjoy Japan’s famed cherry blossoms, which are blooming later than expected in the capital because…

By RODNEY MUHUMUZA and IGNATIUS SSUUNA Associated Press HUYE, Rwanda (AP) — The diggers’ hoes scrape the brown soil, looking for — and often…

HUALIEN, Taiwan (AP) — Rescue teams are searching for a family of five feared trapped in a rockslide following Taiwan’s biggest earthquake in 25…

By JOSEF FEDERMAN Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — When Israel declared war against Hamas last October, it stood unified at home and enjoyed broad…

By HYUNG-JIN KIM and KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Soaring prices for green onions and apples. Striking doctors. A…

By MICHELLE L. PRICE Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump’s former Defense Secretary Mark Esper has called the former president a…

By DAVID BAUDER AP Media Writer NEW YORK (AP) — A recent trip to the clothing store that replaced New York’s legendary punk club CBGB’s…

By JOEY CAPPELLETTI Associated Press LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s new book “True Gretch” will detail her…

By NICHOLAS RICCARDI and LINLEY SANDERS Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A new poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Opinion…

By PAUL WISEMAN AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The American economy is thought to have added 200,000 jobs in March — a…

GUANGZHOU, China (AP) — The U.S. treasury secretary has started her trip to China with a morning meeting with American, European and Japanese…

NEW YORK (AP) — Six inmates who sued New York’s corrections department over its decision to lock down prisons during next Monday’s…

By JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — A county in Hawaii has agreed to pay $350,000 to settle a lawsuit alleging that the…

By ED WHITE Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — Thomas Gumbleton, a Catholic bishop in Detroit, has died. For decades, he was an international voice…

By MARGERY A. BECK Associated Press A Nebraska bill to limit transgender students’ access to bathrooms and sports teams has advanced out of…

NEW YORK (AP) — The scheduled start time for Monday’s game between the New York Yankees and Miami Marlins has been changed because of the total…

NEW YORK (AP) — New York’s governor has ordered the state’s transit agency to drop efforts to impose a $750,000 fee on the New York City…

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A California-based vendor of election services is charging several Texas counties tens of thousands of dollars in additional…

By JONATHAN J. COOPER Associated Press Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s presidential campaign has terminated a contract with a vendor it blamed for sending…

HOUSTON (AP) — Federal officials are issuing a preliminary report about a United Airlines jet that slid off a taxiway at a Houston airport last…

By PHILIP MARCELO Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — New York’s cannabis industry was briefly upended Thursday by a court ruling that appeared to…

QUITO, Ecuador (AP) — Ecuador has declared Mexico’s ambassador to Quito persona non grata over recent statements made by President Andrés…

By MICHAEL R. BLOOD AP Political Writer SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — A U.S. House race in California appears headed for an improbable finish – a tie…

By BECKY BOHRER Associated Press JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — Students in Alaska’s capital walked out of school and marched through the halls of the…

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Officials say one person was killed and two others were hospitalized when a section of crane fell from a building in…

By KIMBERLEE KRUESI and JESSE BEDAYN Associated Press/Report for America DENVER (AP) — The Tennessee and Colorado legislatures have passed bills…

BOSTON (AP) — A former Weymouth, Massachusetts. police officer has been charged after he allegedly assaulted a man in his custody nearly two years…

By WILL GRAVES AP National Writer CLEVELAND (AP) — Two of college basketball’s biggest stars will face off when Iowa and Caitlin Clark meet…

By SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Wisconsin association representing attorneys has agreed to change the definition of…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — U.N. officials say that Myanmar’s escalating conflict and worst violence since the…

By PATRICK WHITTLE Associated Press Federal authorities say an increasingly deadly year for the endangered North Atlantic right whale got worse this…

By JAMIE STENGLE Associated Press DALLAS (AP) — Kansas City Chiefs’ player Rashee Rice was the driver of one of two speeding sports cars who…

By KAREEM CHEHAYEB and GHAITH AL-SAYED Associated Press IDLIB, Syria (AP) — A war monitor says a suicide bomber killed the co-founder of…

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — A beloved giraffe at a zoo in South Dakota has died. On Thursday, the Great Plains Zoo and Butterfly House & Aquarium…

By LINDSAY WHITEHURST and ALANNA DURKIN RICHER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — New data from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco Firearms and…

By BRUCE SCHREINER Associated Press FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Gov. Andy Beshear has vetoed legislation promoting nuclear energy in coal-producing…

By JAKE OFFENHARTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Rudy Giuliani will be allowed to remain in his Florida condo for now. A New York bankruptcy…

By KIMBERLEE KRUESI Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Attorneys defending Tennessee’s sweeping abortion ban have alleged that doctors…

CENTRAL ISLIP, N.Y. (AP) — State officials are being allowed to continue legal action against a county outside New York City that has banned…

By JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — New York state lawyers are demanding more information on the bona fides of the $175 million bond…

By ISABELLA VOLMERT Associated Press INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Indiana’s Court of Appeals says the state’s near total ban on abortion may…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Three migrants died in a highway accident in the southern Mexico state of Oaxaca, authorities say. At least two of the dead —…

Associated Press Kiss agreed to sell their catalog, brand name and IP to Swedish company Pophouse in a deal estimated to be over $300 million.…

By KIMBERLEE KRUESI and JONATHAN MATTISE Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee would become the latest state to require public school…

MANITOWOC, Wis. (AP) — A man who was caring for a 3-year-old Wisconsin boy when he vanished in late February has been ordered to stand trial on a…

By BRIAN SLODYSKO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump left the White House facing a cash crunch that threatened his business empire.…

By ALICIA RANCILIO Associated Press Does time — and a new host — heal all wounds? Fourteen years after Conan O’Brien was messily ousted…

By NOAH TRISTER AP Sports Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — LeBron James figures there’s at least one obvious explanation for the surging popularity of…

In a story published March 13, 2024, about wood pellet supplier Enviva filing for bankruptcy, The Associated Press erroneously reported the…

PHOENIX (AP) — A newly released report says a hot air balloon pilot had an elevated level of an anesthetic in his system at the time of a January…

By ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge has refused to throw out the classified documents prosecution against Donald…

ATLANTA (AP) — PrizePicks says it will expand its operations in Atlanta by hiring an additional 1,000 employees over seven years. The fantasy…

DERRY, N.H. (AP) — Authorities say a house explosion in New Hampshire has left one person dead and a second person injured. Derry Fire Chief Shawn…

By STEVE PEOPLES AP National Political Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The No Labels group says it won’t field a presidential candidate in November…

By KAREN MATTHEWS Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Authorities in New York City say they have disrupted an online fraud operation that stole…

By JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press Prosecutors and defense lawyers are exploring the possibility of a plea deal for the last of three men charged in…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Thieves got away with $30 million in cash from a money storage facility in Los Angeles by breaking into the building on Easter…

By ADRIAN SAINZ Associated Press MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — A judge has ruled that the federal trial of four former police officers charged with civil…

SAO PAULO (AP) — Brazil’s federal police have arrested two fugitives who escaped a maximum-security prison in February, bringing a 50-day manhunt…

TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Three activists of Viasna, the main human rights group in harshly repressive Belarus, have been arrested and charged with…

By SCOTT McFETRIDGE Associated Press Powerball will match a record for lottery drawings Saturday night with a stretch of more than three months…

By MATT O’BRIEN AP Technology Writer There’s a race underway to build artificial general intelligence, a futuristic vision of machines that…

By AAMER MADHANI and ZEKE MILLER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden has told Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that…

By JILL COLVIN The Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Former President Donald Trump offered a tough message to Israel in its war against Hamas on…

By FABIANO MAISONNAVE Associated Press BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — A study conducted in Brazil found that Yanomami people examined from nine villages…

BY WAYNE PARRY Associated Press BRICK, N.J. (AP) — Pretty soon it will be beach season again at the Jersey Shore. If last year was any indication,…