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By MARGERY A. BECK Associated Press Nebraska’s top election official has ruled voters will get to decide whether to repeal a law that pays for…

By KATIE MARIE DAVIES Associated Press The final images of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny are tinged with deep despair for many of his…

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Dutch armed forces have been deployed to the Caribbean to help clean up oil affecting beaches in the island of Bonaire…

By BRUCE SCHREINER Associated Press FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — The Kentucky House has passed a bill that would give lawmakers authority over what…

By COREY WILLIAMS Associated Press A police department in suburban Chicago has released officer body camera footage of the fatal shooting of a…

GENEVA (AP) — Geneva-based commodities trading firm Gunvor said Friday that it has reached $661 million settlement with U.S. and Swiss prosecutors…

By ANDREA RODRÍGUEZ Associated Press HAVANA (AP) — Martha Beatriz Roque Cabello, a veteran Cuban dissident and leading proponent of human rights…

LONDON (AP) — Irish President Michael Higgins is expected to spend the weekend in the hospital as a precaution after he felt ill. Higgins’…

By SUZAN FRASER Associated Press ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — A Turkish official has rejected allegations by a human rights group that Turkey bears…

By ROB GILLIES Associated Press TORONTO (AP) — Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says there will be a state funeral for former Prime Minister…

By JIMMY GOLEN AP Sports Writer BOSTON (AP) — Fanatics founder Michael Rubin says his company is being unfairly blamed for new Major League…

DETROIT (AP) — The family of a 70-year-old man who died after a Detroit police officer punched him in the face, causing him to fall to the ground,…

By JONEL ALECCIA AP Health Writer Yogurt sold in the U.S. can make claims that the food may reduce the risk of type 2 diabetes based on limited…

By BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Prince Harry has scored a tactical victory in his battles with British tabloids. Government…

NEW YORK (AP) — A New Jersey businessman pleaded guilty Friday to trying to bribe U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez after signing a cooperation deal with…

By ISABELLA VOLMERT Associated Press INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Indiana University’s board of trustees has abandoned a plan that would have split…

By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER Associated Press A federal appeals court in Washington has ordered a new sentence for a retired Air Force officer who stormed…

By TOM MURPHY AP Health Writer Drugstore chains CVS Health and Walgreens plan to start dispensing the abortion pill mifepristone in a few states. A…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — President Andrés Manuel López Obrador says a land mine exploded in central Mexico, killing four soldiers in what he called a…

By HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH Associated Press Prosecutors charged a man with two counts of first-degree murder for the killing of a court employee who…

By MIKE STOBBE AP Medical Writer NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. health officials says Americans with COVID-19 no longer need to stay in isolation for five…

By The Associated Press PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Singer Marian Anderson is getting new recognition 30 years after her death. The pioneering Black…

By LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department is pushing back against a new set of subpoenas quietly sent out by…

By AARON BEARD AP Basketball Writer DURHAM, N.C. (AP) — The Duke men’s basketball program is in its second year of honoring patients of the…

By MARK STEVENSON and FABIOLA SÁNCHEZ Associated Press IRAPUATO, Mexico (AP) — Mexico’s presidential campaigns have officially begun with…

NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) — A former researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has pleaded guilty to the 2021 killing of a Yale graduate…

By RONALD BLUM Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Aaron Zigman’s ”Émigré,” an oratorio portraying Jews who fled Nazi Germany for Shanghai,…

By JONATHAN LANDRUM Jr. AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — The success of the African American Film Critics Association didn’t happen…

By WAYNE PARRY Associated Press ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — The man who launched New Jersey to years of national leadership in internet gambling and…

By GEOFF MULVIHILL Associated Press A judge in Montana ruled against restrictions in one of several developments this week on how abortion works in…

By EVENS SANON Associated Press PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — A national police spokesman says Haitian police were overwhelmed by a series of…

By KEN MORITSUGU Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — Chinese Vice President Han Zheng has pledged to provide more opportunities for foreign companies…

BERLIN (AP) — German investigators say a 66-year-old man accused of killing a woman when he was stationed in Germany as a U.S. soldier nearly 46…

By DAVE COLLINS Associated Press A woman was convicted Friday of conspiring to murder missing mother-of-five Jennifer Dulos, who vanished from a…

By WILL WEISSERT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley says she raised $12 million in February.…

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Polish media are reporting that a car struck a crowd of people waiting at a tram stop in the northwestern city of Szczecin…

AARON HEMENS, IndigiNEWS KELOWNA, British Columbia (AP) — Just below the fog line hanging over the central Okanagan Valley, rows of saplings for a…

By MATT BROWN Associated Pres WASHINGTON (AP) — Black Americans have endured considerable injustices and barriers to prosperity and equality…

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — An Iranian singer who won a Grammy presented by U.S. first lady Jill Biden has…

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A man has been exonerated and released after spending nearly 30 years on death row in connection with a fatal arson fire at a…

By CHRISTINE FERNANDO Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — The recent ruling in Alabama that frozen embryos are legally considered children has created…

NEW YORK (AP) — New York City’s tradition of piling garbage bags on the sidewalk for pickup is going the way of the dinosaur. As of Friday, all…

By NICK PERRY Associated Press MEREDITH, N.H. (AP) — Authorities were searching Friday for a father and his two young children after the…

By LORNE COOK Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union says it will pay $54 million to the main provider of aid in Gaza next week. It…

By LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer After some rough patches, the Oscars may have finally met the moment with a diverse, global membership and a batch of…

By ROBERT YOON Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The 2024 presidential campaign rolls through Alabama on Tuesday as President Joe Biden and former…

By ROBERT YOON Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump will compete for votes in Arkansas on…

By DEREK GATOPOULOS and DUSAN STOJANOVIC Associated Press ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greek police say that a yearslong, multinational investigation into…

By WAFAA SHURAFA and BASSEM MROUE Associated Press RAFAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — The head of a Gaza City hospital that treated some of those wounded in…

By PATRICK WHITTLE Associated Press PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — America’s lobster fishing business dipped in catch while grappling with challenges…

By FARAI MUTSAKA Associated Press HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — An official says that a bomb scare has shut down Zimbabwe’s Victoria Falls Airport that…

By EDDIE PELLS AP National Writer A commission charged with reviewing the Olympic system in the United States recommended Congress rework key facets…

By GEOFF MULVIHILL Associated Press Judges some places don’t grant divorces when one of the parties is pregnant — and one Missouri lawmaker…

By TOM ODULA Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Kenya and Haiti have signed agreements to try to salvage a plan for the African country to…

By ROBERT YOON Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — With Super Tuesday fast approaching, presidential campaigns are eyeing the California primary,…

VIENNA (AP) — Austrian police say they are investigating 17 people on suspicion of sexually abusing a 12-year-old girl over a period of several…

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis, who has been suffering from the flu, asked an aide to read out his prepared speech at a conference in the Vatican…

By ROBERT YOON Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — With contests in 16 states and American Samoa, the Super Tuesday primaries next week will be the…

By DAVID KLEPPER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Russian state media and online accounts tied to the Kremlin have begun pushing misleading and…

Associated Press (AP) — Elon Musk is suing OpenAI and its CEO Sam Altman over what he says is a betrayal of the ChatGPT maker’s founding aims…

By BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press LONDON (AP) — A new report says the British government’s contentious plan to send some asylum-seekers on a…

BERLIN (AP) — Environmental activists are staging a protest in a forest near Berlin against plans to expand the grounds of electric car maker…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Outraged Japanese opposition lawmakers have submitted a no-confidence motion accusing the governing…

By JARI TANNER Associated Press HELSINKI (AP) — Alexander Stubb has been sworn as Finland’s new president and said the Nordic country has taken…

By MARK M. MENGONFIA Associated Press MONROVIA, Liberia (AP) — A government minister in Liberia says that violent protests over the presence of an…

By DAVID McHUGH AP Business Writer FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — Inflation just keeps dropping in Europe. The consumer price index fell to 2.6 in…

By DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The United Kingdom is poised to hold its first election in five years in a country battered by the…

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — The new prime minister in the Pacific island nation of Tuvalu says his country shares…

By PAN PYLAS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — A veteran British political disruptor has won a special election in a heavily Muslim town in northern…

DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — A six-story shopping mall that caught fire in the Bangladeshi capital had no fire exits, the country’s prime…

By SOPHENG CHEANG Associated Press PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — The Phnom Penh Post, a newspaper founded in 1992 as Cambodia sought to re-establish…

BERLIN (AP) — Police and prosecutors say four people have been killed in shootings in northern Germany and the suspect is a soldier who turned…

BERLIN (AP) — Local buses, subway trains and trams have ground to a halt in much of Germany, at the peak of a week of walkouts by employees…