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By ANDREW SELSKY Associated Press SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Two Republicans and an Independent taking part in a boycott that has stalled hundreds of bills…

TEXAS CITY, Texas (AP) — A fire at a Marathon Petroleum refinery near Houston caused visible flames and has left at least one worker dead. The…

By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN, KEN RITTER and MORGAN LEE Associated Press FARMINGTON, N.M. (AP) — An 18-year-old man armed with at least three guns roamed…

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — An Indianapolis police officer accused of kicking a handcuffed man in the face during a 2021 arrest pleaded guilty Monday to a…

NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. (AP) — A 29-year-old woman accused of using false documents to enroll as a New Jersey high school student and attend some…

By FRANCIS KOKUTSE Associated Press ACCRA, Ghana (AP) — Former Ghanian President John Mahama says he thinks the current administration has…

By JIM SALTER Associated Press ST. LOUIS (AP) — St. Louis’ top prosecutor has asked a court to set aside the conviction of a man who has…

By LISA MASCARO, FATIMA HUSSEIN and SEUNG MIN KIM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — House Speaker Kevin McCarthy says there’s been “no…

By MATTHEW PERRONE AP Health Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Vending machines that have long been stocked with snacks are getting repurposed to distribute…

By CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — A Nigerian chef on Monday set a new global record for the longest hours of nonstop cooking…

By GERALD IMRAY and MOGOMOTSI MAGOME Associated Press CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — Russia’s top army general and his South African counterpart…

STOCKHOLM (AP) — Israel’s foreign minister has paid a visit to Sweden in a new sign of warming ties between the two countries. Eli Cohen said…

By KATHLEEN FOODY Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson has begun his first term leading the nation’s third-largest…

By NICK EL HAJJ Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Baseball United, which swung for the sports history fences by establishing the…

By CHRIS MEGERIAN Associated Press PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Joe Biden took a break from being president on Monday to focus on just being “pop” at…

By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer CANNES, France (AP) — After one of France’s top actors, Adèle Haenel, announced she was quitting a French film…

ROME (AP) — A former Jesuit novice with a background in non-profit organizations has been elected secretary-general of the Vatican’s preeminent…

AUGUSTA, Ga. (AP) — A Georgia sheriff says two people were killed and four others injured when more than 150 shots were fired in a gunfight between…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Volodymyr Zelenskyy set off across Europe with a long shopping list. Ukraine’s president will head…

By RAF CASERT Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — Europe’s pre-eminent human rights organization is holding a two-day summit in Reykjavik…

OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Students in the Oakland Unified School District will return to full classroom instruction Tuesday after the district and…

TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) — A city in northern Michigan has a new Mother’s Day memory: A 350-pound bear was in a tree for hours, watched by…

By KELVIN CHAN AP Business Writer LONDON (AP) — The European Union has approved Microsoft’s $69 billion purchase of video game maker Activision…

By JINTAMAS SAKSORNCHAI Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — Pacific Island leaders have criticized rich countries for not doing enough to control…

By KRISHAN FRANCIS Associated Press COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — The International Monetary Fund says Sri Lanka’s crisis-hit economy is expected to…

By CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — A Nigerian Afrobeat star has been arrested for allegedly assaulting a police officer in the…

By The Associated Press This week’s new streaming options include rapper Jack Harlow’s acting debut, the return of Kesha and new projects…

NEW YORK (AP) — Vice Media on Monday filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, the most recent digital media company to falter after a meteoric…

By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Elon Musk cannot back out of a settlement with securities regulators that was reached after…

By SUZAN FRASER Associated Press ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan received the most votes in a weekend presidential…

By LLAZAR SEMINI Associated Press TIRANA, Albania (AP) — Preliminary results of Albania’s municipal elections show that a mayoral candidate from…

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — A jet-powered training aircraft has crashed in central Finland, the Finnish Air Force said, adding that the pilots…

By SAMUEL PETREQUIN AP Sports Writer BRUSSELS (AP) — The country currently in charge of the European Union’s presidency says a boycott of…

By MARK SHERMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court has agreed to hear a Biden administration appeal to limit lawsuits filed by…

Bt SOPHENG CHEANG Associated Press PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — Cambodia’s National Election Committee has refused to register the opposition…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court has agreed to decide whether South Carolina’s congressional districts need to be redrawn because they…

By BROOKE SCHULTZ Associated Press/Report for America The Democratic primary for Philadelphia mayor has become a battle between progressives and…

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Scientists are puzzled by a series of minor tremors that were recorded on the Danish Baltic island of Bornholm on…

By CALVIN WOODWARD Associated Press MONTREAL (AP) — In early June, Montrealers will line sidewalks, toot horns and pound drums as swarms of…

CAIRO (AP) — Sudan’s military chief says he is freezing all bank accounts of a rival paramilitary force. It’s the latest step in the fight…

By MENELAOS HADJICOSTIS Associated Press NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — The Cypriot energy minister says Cyprus and Israel are working on a deal to build a…

By JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press GENEVA (AP) — Amy Pope of the United States has elbowed aside her European boss to land the top job at the…

By JOVANA GEC Associated Press BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Serbian state television says a girl who was gravely wounded in a shooting in a school in…

BRATISLAVA Police says a crash between a bus and truck on a major highway in western Slovakia has injured 37 people. They say the accident closed the…

By BARBARA ORTUTAY AP Technology Writer Less than two months into his $44 billion purchase of Twitter, Elon Musk declared that whoever took over as…

By TOM KRISHER AP Auto Writer ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) — With new and used cars still painfully expensive, Ryan Holdsworth says he plans to keep his…

By LIZ WESTON of NerdWallet Despite our plans, life sometimes throws a curveball. Maybe you have to move quickly and can’t take everything, or…

By KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol has met with Japanese business leaders and called…

BERLIN (AP) — German authorities say they have filed charges against four alleged members of a far-right group that aimed to kill left-wing…

By ALBERT AJI and BASSEM MROUE Associated Press DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Syria is calling on Arab countries to invest in the war-torn nation, now…

By DAVID BRANDT AP Baseball Writer PHOENIX (AP) — Long before David Peralta was a veteran outfielder for the Los Angeles Dodgers, he was an…

BERLIN (AP) — Two people have been charged in Austria for allegedly playing speeches by Adolf Hitler via the loudspeaker system of a train running…

By DAVID McHUGH Associated Press FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — The European Union’s executive body raised its economic growth forecast, saying Europe…

By DEE-ANN DURBIN AP Business Writer Just in time for the summer dining season, the U.S. government has given its blessing to restaurants that want…

By MUNIR AHMED Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — Government supporters in Pakistan are calling for the country’s top judge to quit for ordering…

By SUZAN FRASER and ZEYNEP BILGINSOY Associated Press ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkish voters will head back to the polls in two weeks for a runoff…

By JILL LAWLESS and DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has received a promise of more missiles and attack…

BEIJING (AP) — A Chinese envoy is preparing to visit Ukraine and Russia, but there appeared to be little chance of a breakthrough to end the…

By SYLVIE CORBET The Associated Press DUNKIRK, France (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron has ambitions to build factories to boost job…

By VANESSA GERA Associated Press OSWIECIM, Poland (AP) — In a modern conservation laboratory on the grounds of the former Auschwitz camp, a man…

By GRANT PECK and JINTAMAS SAKSORNCHAI Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — Ballots tallied Monday showed voters in Thailand wanted change after nine…

By SAMY MAGDY Associated Press ASWAN, Egypt (AP) — Tens of thousands of people have fled Sudan to its northern neighbor Egypt, amid brutal fighting…

By CATHY BUSSEWITZ AP Energy Writer NEW YORK (AP) — In a vertical city like New York, any serious effort to address climate change has to focus on…

EDMONTON, Alberta (AP) — Jonathan Marchessault scored three goals for his second career postseason hat trick as the Vegas Golden Knights beat the…

By CATHY BUSSEWITZ AP Energy Writer NEW YORK (AP) — In a vertical city like New York, any serious effort to address climate change has to focus on…

By REBECCA SANTANA and RICK GENTILO Associated Press BALTIMORE (AP) — A passenger walks up to an airport security checkpoint, slips an ID card into…