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By DEE-ANN DURBIN and LOUISE DIXON Associated Press The global market has exploded for drinks that promise to do more than just taste good. So much…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — A key plank in the British government’s plan to send some asylum-seekers on a a one-way trip to…

By KIRSTEN GRIESHABER Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — An independent experts commission has recommended that abortion in Germany should no longer…

By The Associated Press World leaders are urging Israel not to retaliate after Iran launched an attack involving hundreds of drones, ballistic…

By TERESA M. WALKER AP Sports Writer Everyone likes to look good for a big night on the town. Lots of people will be watching as the WNBA’s next…

MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — The European Union’s maritime security force says a cargo vessel seized in March by pirates off the Somali coast has…

STOCKHOLM (AP) — The trial of a former Syrian army general over his alleged role in war crimes committed in his home country started at a Stockholm…

By FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Today is Tax Day and the IRS is promoting the customer service improvements the agency rolled…

By JOSH BOAK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration has reached an agreement to provide up to $6.4 billion in direct funding…

By MUNIR AHMED Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — Officials say lightning and heavy rains have killed at least 36 people mostly farmers across…

By YURI KAGEYAMA Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — A civil lawsuit demanding damages for alleged racial discrimination by police in Japan has opened in…

SINGAPORE (AP) — Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong will relinquish his office on May 15 and hand the post to his deputy Lawrence Wong, his…

PARIS (AP) — A yearlong war in Sudan has devastated the country and pushed its people to the brink of famine. Top diplomats and aid groups are…

By DEEPTI HAJELA and LINLEY SANDERS Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — It seems Americans don’t think they’re particularly well-rested. A…

SYDNEY (AP) — The people killed and wounded by an assailant at a Sydney shopping mall were mostly women. Ashlee Good died saving her wounded baby.…

By SAMUEL PETREQUIN AP Sports Writer French President Emmanuel Macron says the opening ceremony for the Paris Olympics planned on the River Seine…

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — The country in which China has gained most influence in the South Pacific, Solomon…

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — That Tanzanian government says that flooding in the country has killed 58 people in the last two weeks as heavy rains…

LIVERPOOL, N.Y. (AP) — A police officer and a sheriff’s deputy in upstate New York were shot and killed Sunday night in an exchange of…

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Australian police are examining why a lone assailant who stabbed six people to death in…

By ZIMO ZHONG Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — Asia stocks pulled back on Monday as worries about potentially escalating tensions in the Middle…

By AIJAZ HUSSAIN and SHEIKH SAALIQ Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his government are increasingly…

TANA TORAJA, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesian officials said a search and rescue team had found 18 people killed by landslides on Sulawesi island and…

By THEODORA TONGAS and DEREK GATOPOULOS Associated Press ANCIENT OLYMPIA, Greece (AP) — Every two years, a countdown to the Olympic Games is…

By KEN MILLER Associated Press A judge in Texas is set to hear arguments Monday in rap star Travis Scott’s request to be dismissed from a lawsuit…

By DUSAN STOJANOVIC Associated Press ZAGREB, Croatia (AP) — Croatia holds an early parliamentary election Wednesday following a campaign that was…

By MORGAN LEE Associated Press SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — A movie weapons supervisor is facing up to 18 months in prison for the fatal shooting of a…

By MATTHEW LEE and QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is set to host Iraq’s leader this week for talks…

By CHRISTINE FERNANDO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — As Union and Confederate armies clashed in a bloody fourth year of the Civil War,…

By JOSH BOAK and JILL COLVIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Tax Day reveals a major split in how Joe Biden and Donald Trump would govern: The…

By JENNIFER PELTZ and MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The hush money trial of former President Donald Trump begins Monday with…

By The Associated Press This week’s new streaming entertainment releases include Taylor Swift’s eagerly anticipated album “The Tortured…

By DOUG FERGUSON AP Golf Writer AUGUSTA, Ga. (AP) — Scottie Scheffler had no doubts about this Masters, and neither did anyone watching. He pulled…

DENVER (AP) — Colorado’s Democratic-controlled House has passed a bill that would ban the sale and transfer of semiautomatic firearms. It’s…

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Authorities say a strong magnitude 6.5 earthquake has struck Papua New Guinea, but there is no tsunami alert or…

A Native American-led nonprofit says it has purchased about 40 acres of land in South Dakota’s Black Hills area. The Cheyenne River Youth…

By JEROME PUGMIRE AP Sports Writer PARIS (AP) — Fans will be seeing purple at the Olympics when athletes try to set records at this summer’s…

By The Associated Press O.J. Simpson’s death is leaving a legacy across multiple areas of American life including sports, entertainment and the…

By JEAN-YVES KAMALE Associated Press KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — Local officials say a landslide in southwest Congo caused by heavy rains killed at…

LONDON (AP) — More than 250 survivors of the suicide bombing that killed 22 people at a 2017 Ariana Grande concert in Manchester, England are…

LONDON (AP) — Winners of the 2024 Olivier Awards, handed out Sunday for achievement in London theater, opera and dance include “Sunset…

By MATTHEW BARAKAT Associated Press ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) — A U.S. judge has tossed out a series of civil lawsuits against a Libyan military…

Associated Press TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Iran’s dramatic aerial attack on Israel follows years of enmity between the countries and marks the…

By TIM REYNOLDS AP Basketball Writer Orlando blew out Milwaukee, Indiana blew out Atlanta, Philadelphia blew out Brooklyn and Miami blew out Toronto.…

By LM OTERO Associated Press FORT WORTH, TEXAS (AP) — Photographer Mat Otero works for The Associated Press in Dallas, Texas, just inside the path…

LAHORE, Pakistan (AP) — A Pakistani police official says an investigation has begun after a man suspected in a fatal attack on an imprisoned Indian…

Four people are under arrest in the March disappearances of two women in Oklahoma. Veronica Butler, 27; and Jilian Kelley, 39, of Hugoton, Kansas,…

By STEPHEN GROVES Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — House Speaker Mike Johnson said Sunday he will try to advance wartime aid for Israel this week…

VERO BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Authorities say they’ve identified a man they believe killed a World War II veteran who worked as a milkman in a…

RICH CREEK, Va. (AP) — Gene Herrick, a retired Associated Press photographer who covered the Korean War and is known for his iconic images of…

By ZEKE MILLER AP White House Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden has convened the Group of Seven advanced democracies to…

By KAREEM CHEHAYEB Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Iran’s unprecedented attack on Israel marks a change in approach for Tehran, which had relied…

WILLIAMSPORT. Pa. (AP) — The wife of a former Harvard Medical School morgue manager has pleaded guilty to a federal charge after investigators said…

By LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer Alex Garland’s provocative “Civil War” didn’t only ignite the discourse. The film also inspired audiences to…

By DOUG FEINBERG AP Basketball Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Caitlin Clark made a surprise appearance on “Saturday Night Live” during the show’s…

ISLAMABAD (AP) — A Taliban spokesman says heavy flooding from seasonal rains in Afghanistan has killed at least 33 people and injured 27 others…

BALTIMORE (AP) — Police are searching for the person who shot a 7-year-old girl at a Baltimore shopping mall. Baltimore police say the girl was…

By MARC LEVY Associated Press HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — An election this month in Pittsburgh and some of its suburbs is emerging as an early test of…

By CLAIRE SAVAGE Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — AI fashion modeling is on the rise but its use has complicated implications for diversity. AI…

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — More civilians have died across Ukraine as analysts warn that delays in U.S. aid would see Kyiv struggle to fight off Russian…

By GIOVANNA DELL’ORTO Associated Press HUEHUETENANGO, Guatemala (AP) — As more than 100 men carrying an elaborate float of Jesus halted…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Sarah Jessica Parker, Andrew Scott and Sarah Snook are among the stars battling for accolades at the…

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Polish opponents of abortion are marching in Warsaw to protest recent steps by the new government to liberalize the…

By LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A quarter-century ago, the Justice Department had few meaningful relationships with Native…

By MEG KINNARD Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — The relationship between Donald Trump and Lindsey Graham has again turned negative after the…

By DAVID BAUDER AP Media Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Twelve news organizations have issued a joint statement calling on presumptive presidential…

TANA TORAJA, Indonesia (AP) — Officials say torrential rains have triggered landslides on Indonesia’s Sulawesi island, killing at least 14 people…

By TIA GOLDENBERG Associated Press TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — The unprecedented attack by Iran on Israel early Sunday ratcheted up regional tensions,…

Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has arrived in China on a visit focused on the increasingly tense economic…

By ASHOK SHARMA Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has vowed to boost social spending, develop infrastructure…

CHICAGO (AP) — Eight people were shot including a young girl who was killed in what Chicago police believe was gang-related violence on the…

By TIA GOLDENBERG Associated Press TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Israel on Sunday hailed its successful air defenses in the face of an unprecedented…

By PATRICK ONEN Associated Press MUKONO, Uganda (AP) — In a forested area outside Uganda’s capital, a few dozen youth gather around a…

By RICK RYCROFT and KEIRAN SMITH Associated Press SYDNEY (AP) — A police officer and several bystanders are being hailed for running “towards…

By The Associated Press Israel hailed the success of its defenses in the face of an unprecedented attack by Iran involving hundreds of drones,…

By SAMY MAGDY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — Sudan has been torn by war for a year now, torn by fighting between the military and the notorious…

By REGINA GARCIA CANO Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — More than half of the estimated 7.7 million Venezuelans who have left their homeland…

Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — Chinese state media report that two people have been detained following the capsizing of a tourist boat on a river…

By CLAIRE RUSH Associated Press GRANTS PASS, Oregon (AP) — A pickleball game in this leafy Oregon community was suddenly interrupted one rainy…