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By LORNE COOK Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — European Union countries possessing Patriot air defense systems appear hesitant to give any to…

By ALICE FUNG Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong has passed a legislation to stop the sale and distribution of Styrofoam products and…

By VANESSA GERA Associated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk is celebrating after a series of candidates supported by…

BERLIN (AP) — Police say four Germans were caught laying white roses in memory of Adolf Hitler at the house where the Nazi dictator was born in…

By JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press GENEVA (AP) — The U.N. labor organization is warning that over 70% of the world’s workforce is likely to be…

By FRANCINE SINARINZI and EVELYNE MUSAMBI Associated Press BUJUMBURA, Burundi (AP) — Deadly floods are wreaking havoc in many parts of East Africa…

By DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is calling on the unelected House of Lords to stop blocking…

By ALEXA ST. JOHN and WILL WEISSERT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is marking Earth Day by announcing $7 billion in federal…

By ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON Associated Press The federal government will for the first time require nursing homes to have minimum staffing levels after…

BERLIN (AP) — Three people suspected of spying for China and facilitating the transfer of information on technology with potential military uses…

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Europe’s oldest monarch, King Harald V of Norway, is resuming work after a long sick leave that followed two pacemaker…

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s antitrust watchdog says U.S. search giant Google must fix its advertising search…

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has criticized social media platform X for…

TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — The Israeli military said Monday the head of its intelligence corps has resigned over the failures surrounding Hamas’…

By JIM GOMEZ Associated Press MANILA, Philippines (AP) — American and Filipino forces have launched their largest combat exercises in years in a…

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Papua New Guinea’s Prime Minister James Marape has accused Joe Biden of disparaging…

By The Associated Press Israeli police said a car slammed into pedestrians in Jerusalem, wounding three people lightly. Also Monday, Israeli…

By GRACEY WAKARY and EDNA TARIGAN Associated Press MANADO, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesian authorities reopened an international airport near a volcano…

By DAKE KANG and MARIA CHENG Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — The Chinese government froze meaningful efforts to trace the origins of the…

ISLAMABAD (AP) — Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi arrives in Islamabad on a three-day visit, during which he plans to discuss a range of issues with…

By DAKE KANG and MARIA CHENG Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — The hunt for the origins of COVID-19 has gone dark in China, the victim of political…

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea says North Korea has fired a ballistic missile off the North’s east coast. South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of…

By NG HAN GUAN and CHRISTOPHER BODEEN Associated Press QINGDAO, China (AP) — One of China’s top military leaders has taken a harsh line on…

GUWAHATI, India (AP) — Voters at some polling places in a northeastern Indian state went back to the polls amid tight security on Monday after…

By QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA and SUZAN FRASER Associated Press BAGHDAD (AP) — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is set to make his first official…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associatd Press TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s defense ministry says an initial analysis of flight data recorders recovered from the…

By EDGAR H. CLEMENTE Associated Press TAPACHULA, Mexico (AP) — Masked men stopped a vehicle carrying Mexico’s leading presidential candidate…

By LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court will consider Monday whether banning homeless people from sleeping…

By KEN RITTER Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — Groundbreaking on a $12 billion high-speed passenger rail line between Las Vegas and the Los…

By SAMYA KULLAB Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian commander Oleksiy Tarasenko witnessed a frightening shift last month in…

By CHRISTINA A. CASSIDY Associated Press TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) — The group gathered inside the conference room, mostly women, fell silent as…

By CHRISTINA A. CASSIDY Associated Press TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) — The group gathered inside the conference room, mostly women, fell silent as…

By MICHAEL R. SISAK, JENNIFER PELTZ, ERIC TUCKER and JAKE OFFENHARTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — For the first time in history, prosecutors…

By The Associated Press This week’s new streaming entertainment releases include the Sydney Sweeney and Glen Powell hit romantic comedy “Anyone…

By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer Markets in Asia apart from Shanghai’s were broadly higher Monday, shrugging off the blues on Wall…

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — A woman accused of serving her ex-husband’s parents and an aunt poisonous mushrooms with lunch has appeared in an…

By MOHAMEED SHARUHAN Associated Press MALE, Maldives (AP) — Maldives President Mohamed Muizzu’s political party has swept parliamentary…

MONTREAL (AP) — The world’s top anti-doping regulator says after reviewing a documentary and other media reports that it stands by the results of…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Police in Los Angeles have arrested a suspect following a break-in at the home of Mayor Karen Bass. Bass and her family were not…

By MEG KINNARD Associated Press ROYAL OAK, Mich. (AP) — Independent candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Sunday acknowledged endorsements from more…

By HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — One of the country’s leading artist residency programs, MacDowell, has awarded a lifetime…

By JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press NAPLES, Italy (AP) — Two top climate monitoring organizations are reporting that Europe is the fastest-warming…

By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Mary J. Blige,Cher, Foreigner, A Tribe Called Quest, Kool & The Gang and Ozzy Osbourne…

The Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Tesla knocked about a third off the price of its “Full Self Driving” system — which can’t drive itself…

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By MATT SLOCUM Associated Press AUGUSTA, Ga. (AP) — AP photographer Matt Slocum knows his way around the bucolic Augusta National Golf Club during…

By DÁNICA COTO Associated Press SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Puerto Rico’s Republican Party held a district assembly and awarded former…

PAYSON, Utah (AP) — Actor Kevin Bacon on Saturday returned to the Utah high school where the cult classic movie “Footloose” was filmed more…

By JOHN ROGERS Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Terry Anderson, the globe-trotting Associated Press correspondent who became one of America’s…

HELENA-WEST HELENA, Ark. (AP) — An Arkansas teen is in custody on a first-degree murder charge after the fatal shooting of a high school senior…

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Conservative Brazilians heaped praise on Elon Musk at a rally in the capital of Rio de Janeiro supporting far-right former…

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — An Idaho sheriff’s deputy died after being shot by a driver during a traffic stop, and a man believed to be the shooting…

By MOHAMMAD JAHJOUH Associated Press RAFAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Sabreen Jouda came into the world seconds after her mother left it. Their home was…

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Thousands of Colombians have taken to the streets in the latest rebuke of leftist President Gustavo Petro’s reform…

By DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — London’s police commissioner will meet with senior members of the Jewish community on Monday after…

By BHARATHA MALLAWARACHI Associated Press COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — A race car veered off the track during a competition in Sri Lanka on Sunday and…

By JOSEF FEDERMAN Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli leaders are harshly criticizing an expected decision by the U.S. to impose sanctions on…

DOVER, Del. (AP) — Authorities say an 18-year-old woman died after she was shot on the campus of Delaware State University. Dover police say…

By DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — A British lawmaker who allegedly used campaign funds to pay off people who were holding him hostage…

By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer NEW YORK (AP) — “Civil War,” Alex Garland’s ominous American dystopia, remained the top film in theaters in its…

CHEROKEE, N.C. (AP) — Medical marijuana can now be legally purchased in North Carolina with the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians opening its…

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — A second former law enforcement officer from Arkansas has pleaded guilty to violating the civil rights of a man he…

By RONALD BLUM Associated Press Andrew Davis, an acclaimed British conductor who was music director of the Lyric Opera of Chicago and orchestras on…

CHICAGO (AP) — Police say a 30-year-old Chicago police officer was shot and killed overnight while heading home from work. Superintendent Larry…

By JENNIFER McDERMOTT and MICHAEL HILL Associated Press ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Nature wraps bananas and oranges in peels. But in some modern…

By SOPHENG CHEANG Associated Press PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi has arrived in Cambodia for a three-day official…

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Iran’s supreme leader on Sunday dismissed any discussion of whether Tehran’s…

By CHRIS MEGERIAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — In any election year, there’s a fuzzy line between governing and campaigning. President Joe…

By LUIS ANDRES HENAO Associated Press ROME, Ga (AP) — Instead of traditional maroon and gold Tibetan Buddhist robes, Lama Rod Owens wore a white…

By WILL WEISSERT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Rarely a day goes without President Joe Biden mentioning insulin prices. He promotes a $35…

By CHRISTINE FERNANDO Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — As President Joe Biden and Donald Trump step up their campaigning in swing states, a quieter…

PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — Police in Pakistan say gunmen opened fire at Pakistani customs officials, killing two and wounding three others in the…

By SAMYA KULLAB and ELISE MORTON Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian and Western leaders have welcomed the passing of a desperately…

By MOHAMMAD JAHJOUH and SAMY MAGDY Associated Press RAFAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israeli strikes on the southern Gaza city of Rafah overnight killed 13…

By FLORENT BAJRAMI and LLAZAR SEMINI Associated Press PRISTINA, Kosovo (AP) — Residents of four Serb-majority municipalities are casting their…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A tram accident at the Universal Studios Hollywood theme park in Los Angeles has injured 15 people. The Los Angeles County Fire…

By DÁNICA COTO Associated Press PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — As the sun sets, a burly man bellows into a megaphone while a curious crowd gathers…