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By FLORENT BAJRAMI and LLAZAR SEMINI Associated Press PRISTINA, Kosovo (AP) — The leaders of Serbia and Kosovo met in Brussels on Tuesday only to…

BEIJING (AP) — China’s foreign minister has called for stability along the country’s border with Myanmar and a crackdown on…

By FRANK JORDANS Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Germany has called for governments around the world to work on setting an ambitious target for…

By SUZAN FRASER Associated Press ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — The main challenger trying to unseat Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in this…

By DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Rabbi Nicky Liss won’t be watching King Charles III’s coronation. He’ll be doing something he…

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australia’s central bank has surprised markets by increasing its benchmark interest…

By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer Asian shares declined Wednesday, tracking losses on Wall Street as shares of beleaguered banks tumbled again…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida says he is arranging a trip to South Korea for talks with…

By ADAM BEAM Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California officials are suing a local government for not approving an apartment complex…

CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Tennis star Nick Kyrgios helped police catch a man who allegedly stole his Tesla at gunpoint from a home in…

By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — “Some Like It Hot,” a Broadway musical adaptation of the cross-dressing movie comedy…

By CHRIS MEGERIAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — No president wants to give up the power and prestige that comes with the office after only one…

By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The first Hollywood strike in 15 years began Tuesday as the economic pressures of the streaming era…

By ISABEL DEBRE and ILAN BEN ZION Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — The Israeli military says that Palestinian militants in Gaza have fired a…

By TOM CANAVAN AP Sports Writer NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — Akira Schmid rebounded from his only bad game and made 31 saves in Game 7 to lead the New…

SYDNEY (AP) — Qantas says Chief Financial Officer Vanessa Hudson will become its next chief executive. Hudson has been with the Australian airline…

NEW YORK (AP) — Comcast subscribers will still get the NFL Network. The cable company says there’s a new carriage agreement after the old one…

TORONTO (AP) — Gordon Lightfoot, the folk singer-songwriter known for “If You Could Read My Mind” and “Sundown” and for songs that…

By AAMER MADHANI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Secret Service said Monday it blocked a Muslim mayor from Prospect Park, New Jersey,…

By SEAN MURPHY Associated Press OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma on Monday became the latest state to ban gender-affirming medical care for minors as…

By JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — Police say officers responding to a report of a temporary restraining order violation…

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The manager appointed by the U.S. Department of Justice to oversee reforms to the beleaguered water system in Mississippi’s…

OTTAWA, Canada (AP) — The Canadian government is proposing a ban on assault-style firearms that would apply once legislation now before Parliament…

By FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen notified Congress on Monday that the U.S. could default on its…

By SEAN MURPHY Associated Press HENRYETTA, Okla. (AP) — As law enforcement officials went silent while investigating what led to the killing of…

By ANTHONY IZAGUIRRE Associated Press TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — A Florida ethics board has dismissed a complaint that allies of former President…

By ANDREW SELSKY Associated Press SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Oregon Secretary of State Shemia Fagan apologized Monday for taking a job as a consultant for…

By FARNOUSH AMIRI and COLLEEN LONG Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration will continue to allow tens of thousands of Afghans…

By JOHN O’CONNOR Associated Press DIVERNON, Ill. (AP) — A windstorm in central Illinois kicked up dangerous clouds of blinding dust off farm…

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — A hair found stuck to duct tape wrapping the body of a 7-year-old boy matched the child’s mother, a DNA analyst told…

By COLLEEN SLEVIN Associated Press DENVER (AP) — A Colorado county and a health care company contracted to provide medical care in its jail have…

By PETER SMITH Associated Press A powerful Southern Baptist committee was looking to appoint a new leader Monday who could navigate controversies…

FOLLY BEACH, S.C. (AP) — A bride leaving her wedding reception was killed when a woman driving under the influence and well over twice the speed…

By The Associated Press First Republic Bank has become the second large regional bank with assets over $200 billion to fail in just a few weeks. Like…

By ZEKE MILLER AP White House Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration will end the last remaining federal COVID-19 vaccine…

By JIM SALTER Associated Press ST. LOUIS (AP) — A spokesperson for the court system in St. Louis says the departure of two more prosecutors from…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s Labor Department says 85% of the country’s 140,000 officially registered labor contracts are in danger of being…

By KRYSTA FAURIA Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — In May 2017, comedian John Oliver tauntingly coined the phrase “Stupid Watergate” to refer…

TEXARKANA, Texas (AP) — A baseball player for a small college in Texas was in stable condition after he was struck by a stray bullet during a game…

By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN Associated Press A New Mexico teenage mother has been sentenced to 18 years in prison for tossing her newborn son into a trash…

NEW YORK (AP) — CNN said Monday that former President Donald Trump will participate in a town hall forum next week in New Hampshire. The event will…

By MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — The Federal Aviation Administration is being sued by wildlife and environmental…

By JOSH FUNK AP Business Writer OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — The slaughterhouse cleaning company that was found to be employing more than 100 children to…

Associated Press OTTAWA, Ontario (AP) — The Canadian government has reached a tentative contract agreement with its largest workers union, ending a…

LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) — Bolivia’s top prosecutor is investigating a late Spanish priest who allegedly abused several minors in Bolivia dating back…

NEW YORK (AP) — The next novel from Pulitzer Prize winner Michael Cunningham, his first in a decade, is a family saga set in New York City before…

By SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Fourteen-year-olds in Wisconsin could serve alcohol to seated customers in bars and…

By SHARON L. LYNCH Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. is recommending the U.S. rethink its decades-old policy of…

By AAMER MADHANI and ZEKE MILLER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House said Monday it now estimates that just since December Russia…

By JOSH BOAK, MARY CLARE JALONICK and LISA MASCARO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden sought Monday to ease a debt limit…

By JUAN A. LOZANO and PAUL J. WEBER Associated Press CLEVELAND, Texas (AP) — The search for a gunman in Texas who killed five neighbors from…

By COREY WILLIAMS Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — A small-town clerk accused of improperly handling voting equipment after casting doubt on…

By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The new National Geographic series “A Small Light” stars Bel Powley as Miep Gies, a…

By LISA MASCARO AP Congressional Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) — Speaker Kevin McCarthy says Russia should “pull out” of Ukraine. The…

By SAM METZ Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Gwyneth Paltrow will not recoup the attorneys’ fees she paid to successfully defend…

By AMY BETH HANSON and MATTHEW BROWN Associated Press HELENA, Mont. (AP) — Montana state Rep. Zooey Zephyr asked a court Monday to allow for her…

SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) — Bulgaria’s chief prosecutor has escaped unharmed as a bomb exploded on a motorway near the capital, Sofia, while his…

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — A Palestinian boy was mauled to death by a lion in a private zoo in the Gaza Strip. That’s according to the…

By PATRICK WHITTLE Associated Press PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — A proposal that would give Maine one of the least restrictive abortion laws in the…

By GARY B. GRAVES AP Sports Writer LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — A recently signed bill by Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear will allow Kentucky’s horse racing…

By BRIAN WITTE and FARNOUSH AMIRI Associated Press ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — Democratic Sen. Ben Cardin of Maryland announced Monday that he will not…

By JAMIE STENGLE Associated Press DALLAS (AP) — When Johnny Carson retired from “The Tonight Show” after 30 years, one man was determined to…

Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — The United Nations food relief agency has suspended aid deliveries to Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region…

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The Federal Reserve is on track to raise its benchmark interest rate for the 10th time…