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By AAMER MADHANI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. and Japan sealed an agreement to bolster their cooperation on space. It’s the…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japan has revised the timing of a planned release to the sea of treated radioactive wastewater at…

By SEUNG MIN KIM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — It’s President Joe Biden’s refuge from Washington — a place that’s part home office,…

By KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korean police are seeking criminal charges including involuntary manslaughter…

By DANIEL POLITI Associated Press SAN CARLOS, Bolivia (AP) — Trucks are snarled and people in the Santa Cruz region have to find ways to skirt…

By The Associated Press The death of Lisa Marie Presley at age 54 is being met with shock, tribute and mourning. Baz Luhrmann, director of…

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has extended the mandate of the international tribunal that investigated the 2005…

By JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — China’s trade surplus swelled to a record $877.6 billion last year as exports rose despite…

By YURI KAGEYAMA Associated Press CHIBA, Japan (AP) — To accelerate the global move toward sustainable vehicles, Toyota is suggesting simply…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is warning that the rule of law is at grave risk of…

By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Lawyers for a longtime advice columnist who says Donald Trump raped her a quarter century ago…

By KRISTIN M. HALL and HILLEL ITALIE AP Entertainment Writers Lisa Marie Presley, the only child of Elvis Presley and a singer-songwriter dedicated…

SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) — Justin Roiland, who created the animated series “Rick and Morty” and provides the voices of the two title characters,…

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Louisiana officials have placed a new historical marker making the school integrated by Ruby Bridges in 1960 part of the…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever” has been nominated for 12 NAACP Image Awards, while “The Woman King” and “Abbott…

AURORA, Colo. (AP) — A police officer in suburban Denver is facing a felony charge after allegedly attacking a disabled woman who was walking her…

By TRISHA AHMED Associated Press/Report for America The U.S. Department of the Interior announced Thursday that it has given new names to five places…

By JOHN DUERDEN Associated Press After three years of isolation and financial struggles in Chinese soccer, the country is reopening its borders and…

By LARRY NEUMEISTER and JOCELYN NOVECK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Smiling, fashion designer Thom Browne emerged from a New York courthouse…

By BECKY BOHRER Associated Press JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy is proposing the state capitalize on carbon markets to help shore…

By MARIO LOBAO and DAVID BILLER Associated Press BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — The horde of rioters who invaded government buildings on Jan. 8 in an…

By GENE JOHNSON Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) — Jack Smith, an Associated Press photographer who captured unforgettable shots of the eruption of…

By STEFANIE DAZIO and KRYSTA FAURIA Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Lisa Marie Presley — the only child of Elvis Presley — died Thursday…

By JOHN HANNA AP Political Writer TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly and the Republican-controlled Kansas Legislature are headed…

By ELLIOT SPAGAT Associated Press SAN DIEGO (AP) — The Biden administration has launched an online appointment system for migrants as the only way…

By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN Associated Press ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — The U.S. agency in charge of jumpstarting the production of key components for the…

By WILL WEISSERT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Robert Hur, a former U.S. attorney for Maryland nominated by then-President Donald Trump, will…

NEW YORK (AP) — A New York man has pleaded guilty to a hate-crime manslaughter charge for attacking a Chinese immigrant who was collecting cans to…

CURT ANDERSON and MARTA LAVANDIER Associated Press MIAMI (AP) — The Coast Guard returned another 177 Cuban migrants who were caught at sea off…

By SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin and North Carolina have joined at least 22 other states in banning the popular…

BRIDGEPORT, Conn. (AP) — Officials say a 29-year-old Connecticut man has pleaded guilty to a federal terrorism charge, more than three years after…

By MEG KINNARD Associated Press The appointment of a special counsel to oversee the Justice Department probes into the discovery of classified…

By ADAM BEAM Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California says it will sue the companies that make and promote much of the nation’s…

By MATTHEW BARAKAT Associated Press ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) — A federal jury has heard testimony from a woman whose civil lawsuit accuses a former…

By SYLVIA HUI Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Irish premier Leo Varadkar says after meeting with political leaders in Northern Ireland he remained…

By FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The official start date of the 2023 tax filing season is Jan. 23, when the IRS will begin…

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden will host Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte at the White House for talks that are expected to center on the…

By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Democrat Brandon Presley has announced that he’s running for Mississippi…

By REBECCA SANTANA Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Fires are burning faster and becoming deadlier at the same time that fire departments across…

By SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin and North Carolina have become the latest states to ban the use of TikTok on state…

TRIPOLI, Libya (AP) — Libyan officials say the CIA chief has met with one of the country’s rival prime ministers in a rare visit by a senior…

By JOHN ANTCZAK Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Atmospheric rivers pounding California since late last year have coated mountains with a full…

By NOMAAN MERCHANT and ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A top U.S. intelligence official is urging Congress to renew sweeping powers…

By KIM CHANDLER and JEFF MARTIN Associated Press SELMA, Ala. (AP) — A giant, swirling storm system billowing across the South on Thursday killed at…

By SETH BORENSTEIN and CATHY BUSSEWITZ Associated Press DENVER (AP) — A new study says Exxon Mobil’s scientists were remarkably accurate in their…

ATLANTA (AP) — CNN is moving out of the CNN Center, its longtime downtown Atlanta home by the end of this year. The cable channel’s weekday…

SAINT-ROCH-DE-L’ACHIGAN, Quebec (AP) — An explosion has hit a propone facility in Quebec, and at least one worker is missing. Quebec provincial…

CHICAGO (AP) — Fire officials say a worker has died after a Chicago building partially collapsed, trapping him beneath debris. The Chicago Fire…

NEW YORK (AP) — Steve Bannon’s lawyers want out of his border-wall fraud case and have told a judge he is unwilling to speak with them directly.…

By LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer Oscar chances for “Top Gun: Maverick” just went into hyperdrive. The high-flying blockbuster, along with Steven…

COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — Police in Columbia, Missouri say a man suspected of assaulting several people was fatally shot when he rushed toward officers…

NEW YORK (AP) — Major League Baseball hired a high-ranking executive from the Sinclair Broadcast Group as the sport deals with concern over the…

By MIKE STOBBE AP Medical Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Vaccination rates for U.S. kindergarteners dropped again last year, and federal officials are…

LONDON (AP) — U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is expected to highlight the benefits of remaining in the U.K. when he meets with the Scottish leader…

LONDON (AP) — Former One Direction star Harry Styles and Wet Leg, an indie rock duo from the Isle of Wight, are the front-runners at this year’s…

By MEG KINNARD Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Former President Donald Trump is planning to hold the first public campaign event of his 2024…

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkish media reports say Turkey has summoned the Swedish ambassador to convey Ankara’s displeasure after a mannequin…

By MATTHEW DALY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Republican-controlled House has voted to block oil from the country’s emergency stockpile…

By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER and LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The former national chairman of the Proud Boys and four…

By LORNE COOK Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — The president of the European Parliament says senior lawmakers agree to press ahead with her plans…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s president says the government is in talks to persuade companies that have started lithium mining projects in…

BENNINGTON, Vt. (AP) — Ezra Miller is due in court Friday where the “Flash” actor is set to accept a plea deal to avoid jail time in connection…

By SCOTT McFETRIDGE and JOSH FUNK Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Thinking of lining up at the mini-mart for a shot at a $1.35 billion…

TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — A human rights group says an opposition politician who ran against authoritarian Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko…

By SETH BORENSTEIN AP Science Writer DENVER (AP) — Government science teams say that 2022 didn’t quite set a record for heat, but it was in…

By ZEKE MILLER and ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Attorney General Merrick Garland on Thursday appointed a special counsel to…

By MARGERY A. BECK Associated Press LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — In one of his first acts as Nebraska’s governor, Republican Jim Pillen has named…

COLLEGEDALE, Tenn. (AP) — The driver of a semi-truck involved in a Tennessee train derailment has been charged. News outlets reported on Wednesday…

By MARK STEVENSON and MARIA VERZA Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — The mayor of Mexico City announced Thursday that 6,060 National Guard…

ST. ANN, Mo. (AP) — A man has been charged with murder and jailed in a case that baffled police for nearly two decades — the death of a woman…

By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN, LINDSAY WHITEHURST and ALANNA DURKIN RICHER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal prosecutor says former Proud Boys…

SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) — Bulgaria’s Parliament is demanding that the country’s government renegotiate the energy part of an EU-funded…

LONDON (AP) — Virgin Orbit said Thursday its first attempt to launch satellites into orbit from the U.K. failed after its rocket’s upper…

By LEANNE ITALIE Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Love her or loathe her, Barbie has been transformed again, this time into a version for children…

By DAVID KOENIG and TOM KRISHER AP Business Writers U.S. air travel has returned mostly to normal, a day after a computer system that sends safety…