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By PETER SMITH Associated Press The Southern Baptist Convention’s top administrative body voted Tuesday to oust four congregations — one for…

By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Ethan Coen and Tricia Cooke’s “Drive-Away Dolls” signifies both the much-awaited return…

LIVINGSTON, Texas (AP) — Texas officials said they are set to provide significant updates in the search for an 11-year-old girl who has been…

By JOHN HANNA AP Political Writer TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A broad Republican plan for cutting taxes in Kansas is dead. Enough members of the…

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The San Francisco Opera has commissioned Huang Ruo to compose “The Monkey King” for a fall 2025 premiere — based on an…

By TRISHA AHMED, ANITA SNOW and JIM SALTER Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Two young police officers and a firefighter-paramedic were killed in…

By KEN SWEET AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Americans have become increasingly reliant on their credit cards since the pandemic. So much so…

By MAE ANDERSON AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — About 40% of small business owners think 2024 will be a “make or break” year for their…

TOOELE, Utah (AP) — A 9-year-old child has been arrested in northern Utah for fatally shooting a family member in the head, police said Tuesday.…

HOUSTON (AP) — Former President George H.W. Bush’s speedboat has a new owner. The 38-foot “Fidelity V” sold for $435,000 during the George…

By HOLLY RAMER Associated Press CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — New Hampshire lawmakers are considering changing the settlement process for those who allege…

By MUNIR AHMED Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — The political rivals of Pakistan’s imprisoned former Prime Minister Imran Khan have announced…

By GERALD IMRAY Associated Press CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa has announced that the highly…

By GLENN GAMBOA AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — International advocacy organization Global Citizen is turning to Gen Z and millennial leaders in…

By YURAS KARMANAU Associated Press TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — The authoritarian leader of Belarus has accused the West of trying to foment protests…

By OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The most stolen books from San Francisco public libraries’ shelves are those about…

By NICK INGRAM and MARGERY A. BECK Associated Press KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Missouri prosecutors said Tuesday that two men have been charged with…

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — United Airlines says a flight heading from San Francisco to Boston had to be diverted after the plane suffered damage to one…

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has reaffirmed his government’s support for the administration of Venezuelan…

By DÁNICA COTO Associated Press SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — A judge who investigated the 2021 assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse…

PHOENIX (AP) — For nearly two decades, it was a mystery who had left “Baby Skylar,” an unidentified newborn found dead inside a Phoenix airport…

By HANNAH SCHOENBAUM Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Ruby Franke, a Utah mother of six who gave parenting advice to millions via a…

By JESSE BEDAYN and COLLEEN SLEVIN Associated Press DENVER (AP) — Police say a student arrested in the deaths of two people found shot in a…

By PATRICK WHITTLE Associated Press PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Maine’s governor says a state-owned site on the coast of Maine will serve as the…

By LLAZAR SEMINI Associated Press TIRANA, Albania (AP) — Thousands of supporters of Albania’s opposition have held an anti-government protest…

By KEN RITTER Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — A trial date has been pushed back from June to November for a former Los Angeles-area gang leader…

By STEVE LeBLANC Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — An American Airlines flight attendant arrested on suspicion of trying to secretly record a…

BENTON, La. (AP) — Authorities have launched an investigation after a north Louisiana church attended by House Speaker Mike Johnson received mail…

By JEAN-YVES KAMALE Associated Press KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — Authorities and a civil society group say extremist rebels in eastern Congo have killed…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s president has acknowledged the armed forces have taken over yet another civilian role: fixing the nation’s…

By RUSS BYNUM Associated Press SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — A lawsuit by Black descendants of slaves that challenges zoning changes affecting their island…

By JOHN ANTCZAK and PHILIP MARCELO Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Much of saturated California remains under threat of floods as the latest…

By MARYCLAIRE DALE and MARK SCOLFORO Associated Press PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A federal appeals court must decide if Pennsylvania voters who put the…

FAIRFAX, Va. (AP) — Authorities say a man who was injured in a car crash walked out of the northern Virginia hospital where he was being treated…

MOSCOW (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin has declared that Moscow has no intention to deploy nuclear weapons in space, claiming that the…

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Chris Caray has been hired as a play-by-play announcer for Oakland Athletics games on NBC Sports California, becoming the…

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Authorities in Indianapolis have released the name of a 35-year-old woman who was slain during a shooting that apparently…

By STEVE LeBLANC Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — Former U.S. Marine and cryptocurrency attorney John Deaton has announced that he is challenging…

By KEN SWEET AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Capital One Financial is betting that Americans will keep shopping and use a credit card to pay for…

By FARAI MUTSAKA Associated Press HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — Zimbabwe has started an emergency campaign to inoculate more than 4 million children…

By SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Republican businessman and real estate mogul Eric Hovde has launched his bid for the U.S.…

FERGUSON, Mo. (AP) — Police are investigating a “suspicious” fire in Ferguson, Missouri, that killed a woman and four children. Firefighters…

By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — A new, inclusive stage production of “Peter Pan” flies out on a U.S. tour this month,…

By KIM CHANDLER Associated Press MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — The Alabama Supreme Court has ruled that frozen embryos created during fertility…

By WAYNE PARRY Associated Press ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — New figures from the gambling industry show America’s commercial casinos won more…

By ZEKE MILLER AP White House Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House says it is preparing additional “major sanctions” on Russia in…

By CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Nigeria’s defense chief has expressed frustration with what he called the “double…

By STEVE PEOPLES AP National Political Writer KIAWAH ISLAND, S.C. (AP) — Nikki Haley’s team is bracing for a home state embarrassment in South…

By STEVE PEOPLES AP National Political Writer KIAWAH ISLAND, S.C. (AP) — Nikki Haley’s allies are bracing for a big loss in her home…

By JAMIE STENGLE and JOSH BOAK Associated Press MESQUITE, Texas (AP) — As President Joe Biden pushes House Republicans to pass needed aid for…

By EMILY SCHULTHEIS Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Thousands of travelers across Germany have found themselves stranded after ground staff walked…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court has rejected an appeal from Sidney Powell and other lawyers allied with former President Donald Trump over…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court has left in place the admissions policy at an elite public high school in Virginia, despite claims that it…

LONDON (AP) — Prince William, the heir to the British throne, has called for an end to fighting in the Gaza Strip as soon as possible. He stopped…

By TARA COPP Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Air Force Special Operations Command says it knows what failed on its CV-22B Osprey leading to…

DALLAS (AP) — American Airlines is raising bag fees and pushing customers to buy tickets directly from the airline if they want to earn…

By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The Beatles are getting the big-screen biopic treatment in a Fab Four of movies that will give each…

MOSCOW (AP) — A court in the Russian capital ruled Tuesday to keep Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich in custody pending his trial on…

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — An Amsterdam court has rejected Russia’s final argument in a years-long legal battle over a $50 billion arbitration…

By DEREK GATOPOULOS Associated Press ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greece’s Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has insisted that the rule of law in the…

By PAN PYLAS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The British government’s top lawyer has referred to the U.K.’s Court of Appeal the sentence handed…

By PHILIP MARCELO Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández is facing charges that he ran his impoverished…

CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — South Africa’s unemployment rate rose to 32.1% in the fourth quarter of 2023. It is the highest in the world.…

By LOUISE DIXON Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Stephen Fry and Lena Dunham play a convincing father and daughter in German director Julia von…

By OLEG CETINIC Associated Press PARIS (AP) — A strike at the Eiffel Tower over poor financial management has turned away visitors for the second…

LONDON (AP) — A UK based think-tank says Russia is rebuilding its capacity to destabilize European countries and extend its influence in the Middle…

By PAN PYLAS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — London police said that they “strongly believe” that they have pulled out from the River Thames the…

By LORNE COOK Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — Senior European Union officials are welcoming a plan by Poland’s new government to address…

By ALANA BENSON of NerdWallet For years millennials have been treated like broke kids, which might have had some truth to it. But these days,…

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Polish farmers have blocked border crossings with Ukraine as they intensify nationwide protest against the import of…

By EMMA BURROWS Associated Press Russian President Vladimir Putin did not see the video in which Alexei Navalny’s widow vowed to continue his…

By MIKE CORDER Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — South Africa has argued at the United Nations’ top court that Israel is responsible…

LONDON (AP) — A website run by Lockbit, a prolific ransomware syndicate behind cyberattacks around the world, has been taken over by law…

By HANNA ARHIROVA Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Delays in weapons deliveries from Western allies to Ukraine are opening a door for Russian…

BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Police say a car crash in southern Serbia has killed three migrants and injured 11 others. A police statement says officers…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration says it is distributing another $5.8 billion for water infrastructure projects around the country, paid…

By AAMER MADHANI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is California-bound as he looks to soak up more cash for his reelection bid…

By CIARÁN GILES Associated Press MADRID (AP) — Spanish police said Tuesday they suspect the bullet-riddled body of a man found in an eastern town…

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Farmers from around Greece are traveling to Athens in tractor convoys to demand more financial concessions from the…

By YURI KAGEYAMA Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Hirotake Yano, who founded the retail chain Daiso known for 100-yen shops, Japan’s equivalent of…

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Despite a month of U.S.-led airstrikes, Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi rebels…

By BOUBACAR DIALLO Associated Press CONAKRY, Guinea (AP) — Guinea’s military rulers say they have dissolved the government and will appoint a…

By JUSTIN SPIKE Associated Press BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — A vote in Hungary’s parliament on ratifying Sweden’s bid to join NATO could come as…