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By LOUISE DIXON Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Just hours before Russia began its invasion of Ukraine nearly a year ago, actor Sean Penn had his…

BROOKSVILLE, Fla. (AP) — A Florida sheriff’s deputy fatally shot an armed man who had wounded two people and set a barn on fire before…

TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Tens of thousands of Israelis are marching in several cities against judicial overhaul plans proposed by Prime Minister…

NEW YORK (AP) — Work crews have fixed a power outage at New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport that forced some flights to be canceled…

By BOBBY CAINA CALVAN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — For two weeks, an owl that escaped from New York’s Central Park Zoo has flown from…

By ALEX VEIGA AP Business Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Twitter has given users an ultimatum. If they don’t subscribe to a new premium service,…

By JUSTIN SPIKE Associated Press BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Hungary’s prime minister says the European Union is partly to blame for prolonging…

By KARL RITTER and MATTHEW LEE Associated Press MUNICH (AP) — The top diplomats from the United States and China met on Saturday in the first…

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The Dutch government says “a number” of Russian diplomats will have to leave the Netherlands. The government…

By DIARLEI RODRIGUES Associated Press RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — As Rio de Janeiro kicked off its Carnival on Saturday, about 100 dogs barked and wagged…

COLUMBUS, Ga. (AP) — Authorities in Georgia confirmed Saturday that nine people under the age of 18, including a 5 year old, were wounded after…

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Florida Republicans have chosen Christian Ziegler to be their state party’s chairman heading into a 2024 election in which…

ISTANBUL (AP) — Turkish state media say a couple and their son were pulled alive from under a collapsed apartment building more than 12 days after…

GROSSE POINTE FARMS, Mich. (AP) — The first funerals are being held for students who were killed in this week’s mass shooting at Michigan State…

By DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has sought to dampen optimism that a settlement is imminent in…

By VESELIN TOSHKOV Associated Press SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) — Authorities in Bulgaria have detained seven people in connection with an abandoned truck…

PITTSBURGH (AP) — A man has been ordered to stand trial in the shooting death of one police officer and the wounding of another in western…

NEW YORK (AP) — A New York City police cruiser struck and killed a 52-year-old woman in a multivehicle accident while responding to an emergency…

By JUAN A. LOZANO Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — Attorneys for a mentally ill Texas death row prisoner, along with faith leaders and mental health…

By JOSHUA GOODMAN Associated Press LIMA, Peru (AP) — In an industrial corridor of Peru’s capital, a dingy stairwell leads to a second-floor…

By JOSH FUNK AP Business Writer OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — The ongoing bird flu outbreak has cost the government roughly $661 million and added to…

By DAN GELSTON AP Sports Writer DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (AP) — When Josh Sims reports on NASCAR this season, the stock car series these days —…

By GARY D. ROBERTSON Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A longtime North Carolina Republican congressman who served briefly in the Senate in the…

By JUSTIN SPIKE Associated Press GYOR, Hungary (AP) — A ballet company in Hungary is rehearsing at an automobile factory after being forced to…

By MIKE STOBBE AP Medical Writer NEW YORK (AP) — A recent bird flu outbreak at a mink farm has reignited worries about the virus spreading more…

By JEFFREY COLLINS Associated Press The defense team at disgraced South Carolina attorney Alex Murdaugh’s double murder trial finally get their…

By SEUNG MIN KIM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House chief of staff is at the fulcrum of the federal government as gatekeeper to the…

By LEA SKENE Associated Press BALTIMORE (AP) — Residents of a historically Black neighborhood in west Baltimore filed a complaint this week asking…

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A Farsi-language satellite news channel based in London long critical of…

MUNICH (AP) — British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has called on world leaders to “double down” on support for Ukraine, saying arms and security…

EL PASO, Texas (AP) — A law enforcement official says a bomb threat against an American Airlines flight that diverted the plane from the tarmac of…

By ROBERT BADENDIECK and MUCAHIT CEYLAN Associated Press ADIYAMAN, Turkey (AP) — A 17-year-old high school student has captured Turkish hearts…

By GERALD IMRAY AP Sports Writer Christian Atsu, the Ghana international forward who played for Premier League clubs Chelsea and Newcastle, has died…

By KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea on Saturday fired a long-range missile from its capital into the sea off…

TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — A visit by a Chinese official at the invitation of the Taiwanese capital’s newly elected China-friendly mayor has drawn…

By CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — No one in Godgift Inemesit’s family of eight is sure when they will eat each day —…

By SYLVIA HUI Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Viktoria Kovalenko saw the death of her husband Petro and 12-year-old daughter Veronika last March…

By DAVID RISING Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — Nearly a year after Russia invaded Ukraine, the battlefield has narrowed and stiff resistance has…

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — A building collapse in Alaska Friday evening killed one person and briefly trapped two others, including a victim who…

By JIM GOMEZ Associated Press MANILA, Philippines (AP) — The Philippine president said Saturday the Chinese coast guard’s use of military-grade…

By JOEY CAPPELLETTI Associated Press LANSING, Mich. (AP) — The Michigan Republican Party has elected Kristina Karamo to be its next chair during a…

By ELLEN KNICKMEYER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Wafting across the United States and into the attention of an alarmed national and global…

By DAVID BAUDER AP Media Writer NEW YORK (AP) — A court filing in a lawsuit against Fox News lays bare a panic at the network that it had alienated…

By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER and LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision on the Second Amendment is…

NEW DELHI (AP) — India has welcomed 12 cheetahs from South Africa that will join eight others it received from Namibia last year as part of an…

By JOE REEDY AP Sports Writer Since ESPN won back the NHL rights two years ago, it has carried the All-Star Game and Stanley Cup finals on ABC. The…

By DOUG FERGUSON AP Golf Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Tiger Woods had some explaining to do Friday, about a putter so cold he nearly missed the cut at…

By KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korean state media says leader Kim Jong Un has brought his young daughter to a…

By JOHN FLESHER Associated Press TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) — Two train derailments in neighboring states had very different outcomes — and…

NEW YORK (AP) — Three New York City firefighters were seriously injured Friday amid wind-swept flames tore through a Staten Island duplex.…

By AMY BETH HANSON Associated Press HELENA, Mont. (AP) — Abortion rights groups are challenging abortion bans in some states by arguing the bans…

By JIM SALTER Associated Press ST. LOUIS (AP) — As he languished in a Missouri prison for nearly three decades, Lamar Johnson never stopped…

WINTER PARK, Fla. (AP) — Family members say an 11-year-old Florida boy has died just days after a sprained ankle led to a flesh-eating bacterial…

By JOE REEDY AP Sports Writer Gregg Winik refers to the last time the NBA’s All-Star Weekend was in Salt Lake City as a simpler time. In 1993,…

By TODD RICHMOND and HARM VENHUIZEN Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Decisions to shoot down multiple unidentified objects over the U.S. and…

ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — A building at the U.S. Naval Academy that had been named after a leader in the Confederate Navy has been renamed in honor of…

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Connecticut environmental officials were monitoring reports of sooty matter being found on parked cars throughout the state.…

By MICHAEL GOLDBERG and EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS Associated Press ARKABUTLA, Miss. (AP) — A lone gunman killed six people including his ex-wife and…

By JOHN ANTCZAK Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — A man who allegedly shot and wounded two Jewish men as they left synagogues in Los Angeles this…

By JILL COLVIN and ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department has searched the office of former Vice President Mike…

NORFOLK, Va. (AP) — Police in Norfolk, Virginia, say the mother of a 6-year-old student who brought a handgun to school on Thursday has been…

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Police say a person has been shot at an Indianapolis shopping mall in the second shooting there this year. The Indianapolis…

By SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — One of the two conservative candidates for an open Wisconsin Supreme Court seat was paid by…

Associated Press CINCINNATI (AP) — The racketeering trial of former Ohio House Speaker Larry Householder and lobbyist Matt Borges was cancelled…