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By ADIL JAWAD Associated Press KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistani activists say police are arresting Afghan women and children in southern Sindh…

By RAF CASERT and MARTA FIORIN Associated Press YPRES, Belgium (AP) — People around the globe are remembering the slaughter and losses from four…

By MELINA WALLING, AMANDA LOMAN and BROOKE HERBERT Associated Press MOUNT ANGEL, Ore. (AP) — In the face of human-caused climate change impacting…

ROME (AP) — Pope Francis has forcibly removed from office the bishop of Tyler, Texas. Bishop Joseph Strickland is a conservative who is active on…

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian officials said Russian forces targeted Ukraine’s capital, Kyiv, as part of an overnight bombardment felt across…

By KAREL JANICEK Associated Press PRAGUE (AP) — The husband of a Russian-American journalist working for a U.S. government-funded media company who…

By DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — London police are stepping up efforts to ensure a pro-Palestinian march remains peaceful following a…

By SAMYA KULLAB Associated Press KHERSON, Ukraine (AP) — One year since Ukraine retook the city of Kherson from occupying Russian forces, residents…

ZAGREB, Croatia (AP) — Croatia’s defense minister has been seriously injured in a car crash in which another person died. Officials say that the…

BANGKOK (AP) — A military court in Myanmar has sentenced a general who until recently was a senior member of the country’s ruling council to five…

By WAFAA SHURAFA, SAMY MAGDY and DAVID RISING Associated Press DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israel’s prime minister pushed back Saturday…

By RALPH D. RUSSO AP College Football Writer STATE COLLEGE, Pa. (AP) — No. 2 Michigan plays its biggest game of the season so far at No. 9 Penn…

By CIARÁN GILES and JOSEPH WILSON Associated Press MADRID (AP) — Spain’s acting Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez’s chances of forming a new…

By SAM METZ Associated Press MOULAY BRAHIM, Morocco (AP) — After many natural disasters, people debate how to rebuild without changing their…

BY BILL BARROW Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — A political novice and one of the world’s wealthiest millennials, Vivek Ramaswamy has waged a…

By JOSHUA GOODMAN, ALAN SUDERMAN and CHRIS MEGERIAN Associated Press ELLWOOD CITY, Pa. (AP) — When a healthcare startup dreamed of building a…

By WILL WEISSERT and DIDI TANG Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — When President Joe Biden meets Chinese leader Xi Jinping on Wednesday, there will…

By JAMIE STENGLE Associated Press DALLAS (AP) — Lady Bird Johnson’s own voice is helping offer new looks at the former first lady in several…

By R.J. RICO Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Government agencies and nonprofits around the country have long been working to reduce the numbers of…

by DANIEL SHAILER Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican officials have imposed severe, months-long cuts to Mexico City’s water supply just…

By VALERIE GONZALEZ Associated Press McALLEN, Texas (AP) — The Biden administration’s plan to build new barriers along the U.S.-Mexico border in…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Almost seven months of war between Sudan’s military and a powerful paramilitary group…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Former film academy president John Bailey has died at 81. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences said the…

TOKYO (AP) — Government ministers in the Pacific nation of Vanuatu are asking the preident to dissolve parliament, adding to political disarray…

By ZEN SOO AP Technology Writer HONG KONG (AP) — Shoppers in China have been tightening their purse strings, raising questions over how faltering…

By SARA CLINE Associated Press BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — The Louisiana Legislature has until Jan. 15 to enact a new congressional map after a lower…

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — Police in Alabama say multiple people have been shot on Interstate 59 southbound in Birmingham. Birmingham Police say…

WASHINGTON (AP) — ABC’s “This Week” — White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan; Gov. Wes Moore, D-Md.; Reps. Mike Lawler,…

By ANDREW DALTON AP Entertainment Writer Board members from Hollywood’s actors union have voted to approve the deal with studios that ended their…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — “Nope” star Keke Palmer alleges in civil court documents that she suffered physical and emotional abuse at the hands of the…

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The credit rating agency Moody’s Investors Service has lowered its outlook on the…

By JOSH FUNK Associated Press An additional 1.2 million chickens will be slaughtered after bird flu was confirmed on an Iowa egg farm in the second…

By MARK THIESSEN Associated Press ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Four homeless people have died in the last week on the streets of Anchorage as a major…

By MICHAEL CASEY Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — One New England university banned a pro-Palestinian student group. Another suspended some students…

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — The body of a Sioux Falls, South Dakota, man who has been missing 30 years was identified in Colorado, where deputies have…

By SEAN MURPHY Associated Press OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — An Oklahoma trooper’s decision to issue a ticket to an Otoe-Missouria Tribe citizen for…

By SAMANTHA HENDRICKSON Associated Press/Report For America COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Four Ohio Republican state lawmakers are seeking to strip judges…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Daytime Emmys are back on after being postponed by the Hollywood writers’ strike. The 50th annual ceremony honoring…

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Authorities in Puerto Rico say a surgical dentist shot and killed a patient who entered his office and allegedly…

NEW YORK (AP) — FBI agents seized phones and an iPad from New York City Mayor Eric Adams this week as part of an investigation into his campaign…

By RALPH D. RUSSO AP College Football Writer STATE COLLEGE, Pa. (AP) — Jim Harbaugh was banned from coaching at Michigan’s three remaining…

By MICHAEL LIEDTKE and FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen says she and her Chinese…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Republican congressman who leads the House GOP’s investigation of the origins of COVID-19 says he won’t seek…

By BEN FINLEY NORFOLK, Va. A European company has cancelled plans to build blades for offshore wind turbines in coastal Virginia. It’s the…

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Kansas City is hiring two overdose investigators as part of an effort to reduce fentanyl deaths in the Missouri city. The…

BRANDON, Fla. (AP) — Two Florida sheriff’s deputies remained hospitalized Friday after surgeries for injuries they suffered when a man…

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — A 5.0 magnitude earthquake has struck the northwest Dominican Republic near the border with Haiti. The U.S. Geological…

By MARÍA VERZA Associated Press ACAPULCO, Mexico (AP) — More than two weeks ago Otis went from tropical storm to Category 5 hurricane in a record…

By ISABELLA VOLMERT INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Federal prosecutors say a former Indiana lawmaker has agreed to plead guilty to a federal charge alleging…

By YURAS KARMANAU Associated Press TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Ukrainian and Russian officials on Friday say they’ve reached an agreement to…

By MEG KINNARD Associated Press Jill Stein is running for president again. Stein became the latest candidate to enter the 2024 White House race when…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s immensely powerful ruling party may face its biggest test yet Friday, as it announces its candidates for the 2024…

PRISTINA, Kosovo (AP) — Israel’s national soccer team has arrived in Kosovo amid tight security measures at the airport ahead of a postponed…

By DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — A British judge has expressed profound concerns about the tactics of the parents of a terminally ill…

By CHRISTINA A. CASSIDY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — While workers were counting ballots for primary elections in August, the elections office…

By MARIA SHERMAN AP Music Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — With new categories, “Barbie” and SZA — there’s a lot to discuss regarding the 2024…

The Associated Press OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — Washington state Public Lands Commissioner Hilary Franz is dropping her bid for the governor’s office…

By STEPHEN GROVES and KEVIN FREKING Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — With just a week left to avert a government shutdown, new House Speaker Mike…

By ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON Associated Press Environmental activist Jill Stein is launching another long-shot Green Party bid for the presidency. The…

ALBION, Mich. (AP) — A man who was accused of breaking into a home and sexually assaulting an 11-year-old girl in southwestern Michigan is out of…

By MARY CLARE JALONICK and LISA MASCARO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell has been increasingly isolated…

DALLAS (AP) — The Dallas Mavericks are playing a home game in the NBA’s In-Season Tournament for the first time on Friday night. But they will do…

By JOCELYN NOVECK AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — He was a giant of 20th-century art, but that doesn’t mean Pablo Picasso needed a big canvas.…

By BABA AHMED Associated Press BAMAKO, Mali (AP) — A community leader in central Mali says that suspected Islamic extremists are holding about 30…

MILAN (AP) — The new creative director of Moschino, Davide Renne, has died of a sudden illness at the age of 46.  The owner of the Milan-based…

By GEOFF MULVIHILL Associated Press A federal judge and the U.S. Department of Justice this week said that states are going too far by trying to…

COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa (AP) — A man has been arrested in the alleged assault of former U.S. Sen. Martha McSally who says she was molested as she…

By JAMES ELLINGWORTH AP Sports Writer FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — Patrick Esume has been the face of NFL broadcasts in Germany for years and has…

By MOGOMOTSI MAGOME Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Niger fashion designer Alia Bare took center stage at the Joburg Fashion Week with a…

By TARA COPP Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The futuristic B-21 Raider warplane has taken its first flight, moving it closer to becoming the…

TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — A noted Belarusian dissident author says his father has been sentenced to two weeks in jail for reposting an article from…

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A $242 million overhaul will modernize the main terminal concourses and gate areas at Minneapolis-St. Paul International…

By SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A Wisconsin judge has ordered the former chief justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court to…

STOCKHOLM (AP) — Pressure is growing on Tesla in Sweden, where a trade union is demanding that the Texas-based automaker sign a collective…

By LAURIE KELLMAN Associated Press The Jordan River is a winding, 200-plus-mile run to the east of Israel and the occupied West Bank. The sea is the…

By MEG KINNARD and WILL WEISSERT Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris is in South Carolina filing paperwork putting…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — The top U.S. military officer says he has conveyed to China his hopes to resume the stalled…

By ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge in Florida declined for now to postpone former President Donald Trump’s…

The Associated Press MONROE, N.J. (AP) — A suspect in the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol has surrendered to police in New Jersey. The FBI says…

By MARY KATHERINE WILDEMAN, PETER PRENGAMAN and DOUG GLASS Associated Press Oil and gas companies have a large presence at international climate…