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By ELENA BECATOROS Associated Press ATHENS, Greece (AP) — The world is not doing enough to protect coral reefs. That’s according to the…

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro has ordered the closure of his country’s embassy and consulates in Ecuador in…

By MATTHEW DALY and LEAH WILLINGHAM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Labor Department issued a new rule Tuesday intended to protect coal…

By WAYNE PARRY Associated Press ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — Prosecutors in New Jersey say Atlantic City Mayor Marty Small and his wife disapproved…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Attorney General Merrick Garland has told lawmakers President Joe Biden has shown no signs of cognitive impairment while…

By JOHN ANTCZAK and JULIE WATSON Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — The University of Southern California has canceled a commencement speech by…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — The United States has filed a labor complaint panel after Mexico refused to act on alleged union-busting by a Mexican company.…

By ANDREW DeMILLO Associated Press LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — A former Arkansas law enforcement officer who was caught on video kicking and hitting a…

By JEFF AMY Associated Press BARNESVILLE, Ga. (AP) — Students will pay more to attend Georgia’s public universities and colleges in the the…

By DAVID KOENIG AP Airlines Writer The Biden administration is enlisting officials in 15 states to help enforce consumer-protection laws covering air…

LONDON (AP) — A portrait of Winston Churchill by an artist whose work the British leader loathed is going up for auction. The painting by modernist…

By JUAN A. LOZANO Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — A judge has recommended that the conviction and death sentence of Texas inmate Melissa Lucio…

By STEVE KARNOWSKI Associated Press ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — The U.S. Supreme Court has denied a petition by MyPillow founder and election denier…

LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Prosecutors plan to announce charges Tuesday in an investigation of the former leader of the Michigan House. Attorney General…

By FARAI MUTSAKA Associated Press HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — State media in Mozambique say at least eight people from one family have died after their…

By LISA MASCARO AP Congressional Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) — Defiant and determined, House Speaker Mike Johnson has pushed back against…

By JOSEPH WILSON Associated Press BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Authorities in Spain’s drought-stricken Catalonia are considering imposing water…

By LORNE COOK Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — Belgian police have shut down a gathering of far-right politicians and supporters, citing concerns…

By AMY TAXIN Associated Press California officials are considering whether to take over monitoring groundwater use in part of the fertile San Joaquin…

REDMOND, Wash. (AP) — Microsoft is investing $1.5 billion in a technology firm based in the United Arab Emirates and overseen by the country’s…

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A federal appeals court has overturned a West Virginia transgender sports ban, finding that the law violates Title IX, the…

By FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen is warning of potential global “economic spillovers” from…

By COREY WILLIAMS Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — Home values in Detroit have increased by billions of dollars in the years following the city’s…

By MAE ANDERSON AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Record numbers of people are starting new businesses, and more and more of them are women and…

By MICHAEL RUBINKAM Associated Press A barge operator believes it has found a sunken barge in the Ohio River near Pittsburgh, one of 26 that broke…

By CURT ANDERSON Associated Press Changing course, a Democratic Florida prosecutor suspended from office by Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis says he will…

By HANNA ARHIROVA Assocaited Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has signed a controversial law, days after it was…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court has sided with a decorated veteran of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq in a protracted fight with the…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas was back on the bench Tuesday, after an unexplained one-day absence. Thomas, 75, was in his…

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal Reserve Vice Chair Philip Jefferson suggested that the central bank’s key…

BERLIN (AP) — The southern German state of Bavaria says it will ban the smoking of cannabis at public festivals, inside beer gardens and even at…

By The Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump returned Tuesday to a New York courtroom as the jury selection process in his historic hush…

SOUTH CHARLESTON, Ohio (AP) — An elderly Ohio man who authorities say fatally shot an Uber driver he thought was trying to rob him after a scam…

By LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has spoken with China’s national defense minister in the…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — The U.S. ambassador to Japan has urged Tokyo to take a greater role in developing, producing and…

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greece’s governing conservative party has added a convicted politician from Albania’s ethnic Greek minority to its list…

LONDON (AP) — A Muslim student who wanted to pray during lunchtime lost a court fight Tuesday against a strict London school that had banned prayer…

By KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — A report from the website 38 North says that North Korea is putting surveillance…

By PAUL WISEMAN AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The International Monetary Fund has upgraded its outlook for the global economy, saying the…

By COLLIN BINKLEY AP Education Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden’s latest plan for student loan cancellation is moving forward as a…

SYDNEY (AP) — Australia’s prime minister says a French construction worker who confronted a man who stabbed six people to death in a Sydney…

By EDDIE PELLS AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — American Olympic athletes have a new place to turn to lock down college degrees and other skills…

By ELENA BECATOROS Associated Press ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greece aims to create two large marine parks as part of an $830 million program to…

ALGIERS, Algeria (AP) — An Algerian journalist is decrying his expulsion from the country after flying in from France and not being allowed to…

LONDON (AP) — British lawmakers are set to vote on the government’s plans to introduce a landmark smoking ban that aims to stop young people from…

By ANIRUDDHA GHOSAL Associated Press HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — Apple CEO Tim Cook said Tuesday that he wants to further increase investment in Vietnam…

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Argentina’s defense minister has signed a deal worth about 2.1 billion kroner ($300 million) to buy 24 of Denmark’s…

By MIKE CORDER Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Armenia has insisted that the top United Nations court has jurisdiction to hear its…

By JEROME PUGMIRE AP Sports Writer PARIS (AP) — The talk before the opening ceremony of the Paris Games ideally should be about its grandiose…

By The Associated Press The United Nations human rights office says Israeli security forces must immediately put an end to settler attacks on…

SINGAPORE (AP) — Singapore’s incoming leader says Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong will stay on as senior minister in the government after he steps…

MOSCOW (AP) — Nearly 14,500 homes have been flooded in a Russian region bordering Kazakhstan after water levels spiked in a local river, local…

By AMANDA SEITZ Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden’s administration is launching a program that will help 50 countries…

By SARA RATHNER of NerdWallet NEW YORK (AP) — When it comes to the mental load of managing financial tasks, couples can fall into unproductive…

AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — A series of gun safety bills introduced after Maine’s deadliest shooting appears to be headed toward final passage. The…

ISLAMABAD (AP) — Officials say Pakistan’s prime minister has called for closer cooperation between Saudi Arabia and his cash-strapped Islamic…

By CHRIS MEGERIAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden will begin three straight days of campaigning in Pennsylvania in his…

By COLLEEN BARRY Associated Press VENICE, Italy (AP) — The artist and curators representing Israel at this year’s Venice Biennale have announced…

By ANDREW DALTON AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Albums from ABBA, Blondie and the Notorious B.I.G. are entering the National Recording…

BEIJING (AP) — German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has told Chinese leader Xi Jinping who hosted him in Beijing that Russia’s full-scale invasion of…

By RENATA BRITO Associated Press BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Brazilian police investigating the discovery of a boat full of corpses say the dead were…

By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer BANGKOK (AP) — Asian shares skidded Tuesday following a slump on Wall Street after higher yields in the…

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Heavy rains have lashed the United Arab Emirates, flooding out portions of…

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — One of Copenhagen’s oldest buildings is on fire and its iconic spire has collapsed. The roof of the 17th-century old…

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer YOKOHAMA, Japan (AP) — Nissan says it expects to mass produce electric vehicles powered by advanced…

By MARK BAKER and ROD McGUIRK Associated Press SYDNEY (AP) — A teenager has been accused of wounding a Christian bishop and priest during a church…

By MUKHTAR KHAN Associated Press SRINAGAR, India (AP) — Four people are dead after a boat carrying a group of people capsized in a river in…

By NICHOLAS PAPHITIS Associated Press ANCIENT OLYMPIA, Greece (AP) — One way or another, the flame that’s to burn at the Paris Olympics will…

MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. says police have seized the largest haul of methamphetamine in the country in…

By REBECCA BOONE and JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — The Maui Fire Department is expected to release a report Tuesday…

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama voters are set to decide party nominees for the state’s 2nd Congressional District. The outcome of the runoffs…

By MORGAN LEE Associated Press SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — A movie weapons armorer has received the maximum sentence of 18 months in jail for involuntary…

TANA TORAJA, Indonesia (AP) — Rescuers have recovered the bodies of a 3-year-old girl and her mother who were the last victims still missing after…

By LEA SKENE Associated Press SPARROWS POINT, Md. (AP) — Salvage crews at the site of Baltimore’s collapsed Francis Scott Key Bridge are using…

By NICHOLAS PAPHITIS Associated Press ANCIENT OLYMPIA, Greece (AP) — In a meticulously choreographed ceremony on Tuesday, the flame for this…

By JOEY CAPPELLETTI Associated Press LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Democrats are hoping to win back a majority in the deadlocked Michigan House and regain…

By MARY CLARE JALONICK and STEPHEN GROVES Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — House Speaker Mike Johnson says he is sending impeachment charges…

By LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Army and Air Force say they are on track to meet their recruiting goals this year,…

By ISABELLA VOLMERT Associated Press INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Some Indiana Republicans in key campaigns for office are fighting for access to detailed…

By MARK SHERMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court is taking up the first of two cases that could affect the criminal prosecution…

By HANNAH FINGERHUT and DAVID A. LIEB Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Stung by paying billions of dollars for settlements and trials,…

By DAVID BAUDER AP Media Writer NEW YORK (AP) — It’s a moment in history — the first U.S. president facing criminal charges in an American…

By ANDREW DALTON AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Winnie the Pooh and Mickey Mouse have recently entered the public domain, making it…

By MICHAEL R. SISAK, JENNIFER PELTZ, JAKE OFFENHARTZ and ALANNA DURKIN RICHER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump is set to return to a…

By TRAVIS LOLLER Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Whether the journals of a Nashville school shooter can be released to the public is going…

By ANDREW DALTON AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Winnie the Pooh and Mickey Mouse have recently entered the public domain, making it…

By THOMAS BEAUMONT and AMELIA THOMSON-DEVEAUX Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The first criminal trial facing former President Donald Trump is…

By HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — In Salman Rushdie’s first book since the 2022 stabbing that hospitalized him and left him…