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By DAVID RISING Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — The U.S. is denying Chinese claims that its military had driven away an American guided-missile…

By ELENA BECATOROS Associated Press DONETSK REGION, Ukraine (AP) — Their hands are blackened and grimy from the fight. Some are still wearing their…

By TIA GOLDENBERG Associated Press TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Israel’s parliament has passed the first of several laws that make up its…

By SAMUEL PETREQUIN and LORNE COOK Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — European Union leaders are poised to endorse a plan for sending Ukraine 1…

By ALEXANDER TURNBULL, NICOLAS GARRIGA and ELAINE GANLEY Associated Press PARIS (AP) — More than 1 million people demonstrated across France on…

By JACK JEFFERY Associated Press KHARTOUM, Sudan (AP) — The first daily fast of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan has begun. The observance…

By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer BANGKOK (AP) — Shares fell Friday in Asia as worries over turmoil in the banking sector and recession risks…

By JOHN MARSHALL AP Basketball Writer Aliyah Boston recalls her parents prodding her to be more active on social media, to extend her brand as her…

By LAURIE KELLMAN Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel’s prime minister says his government has ”no intention” to return to…

By ADAM BEAM Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A bill to punish oil companies for profiting from price spikes at the pump has passed the…

By SAM METZ Associated Press PARK CITY, Utah (AP) — Gwyneth Paltrow’s attorneys asked the daughter of a man suing the actor-turned-lifestyle…

By R.J. RICO Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Civil liberties groups and defense attorneys are outraged at the domestic terrorism charges that have…

By JIM GOMEZ Associated Press MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Chinese diplomats have expressed their strong opposition to the expanded United States…

By NICK PERRY Associated Press WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — A former New Zealand soldier who co-founded a charity to help struggling veterans has…

By NOMAAN MERCHANT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Two decades ago, U.S. spy agencies wrongly believed Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass…

By TARA COPP Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Russia has issued a full-throated warning that the West risks further escalation in Ukraine after…

By ROB GILLIES Associated Press OTTAWA, Ontario (AP) — A Canadian lawmaker is leaving Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Liberal party after a media…

By HALELUYA HADERO and FARNOUSH AMIRI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. lawmakers grilled the CEO of TikTok over data security and harmful…

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — The Australian government on Thursday released the wording of a referendum question that…

By JACQUES BILLEAUD Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — The Arizona Supreme Court has ruled that state law doesn’t require Gov. Katie Hobbs to carry…

By JESSICA GRESKO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A dispute between Jack Daniel’s and the makers of a squeaking dog toy that humorously mimics…

By ZEKE MILLER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — First lady Jill Biden on Wednesday used a Women’s History Month event at the White House to…

By MARY CLARE JALONICK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate has voted overwhelmingly to continue congressional authorization for the use…

By JACQUES BILLEAUD Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — The Arizona Supreme Court has declined to hear most of Republican Kari Lake’s appeal in a…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The African Union appealed for nearly $90 million Wednesday for its peacekeeping force…

By MEG KINNARD Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A top Republican operative who worked as an adviser on Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s…

By FARNOUSH AMIRI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republicans are demanding testimony and documents from two former Manhattan prosecutors…

MILWAUKEE (AP) — Milwaukee police say a 15-year-old boy has been arrested in connection with a shooting that killed another boy of the same age and…

By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — It all started on a late morning on a highway. A camera panned to the cab of a large…

By MAURICIO SAVARESE Associated Press SAO PAULO (AP) — A Brazilian government watchdog is giving former President Jair Bolsonaro five working days…

PANAMA CITY (AP) — Panama’s government said Wednesday that 50,000 migrants crossed the treacherous Darien Gap linking Colombia and Panama in the…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The Palestinians and Israel have clashed over the future intentions of Prime Minister…

SEATTLE (AP) — Starbucks workers and their supporters rallied outside the company’s Seattle headquarters Wednesday to protest what they describe…

By JAY COHEN and STEPHEN WHYNO AP Sports Writers A National Hockey League team with a Russian player has decided against wearing special warmup…

By GEOFF MULVIHILL Associated Press The U.S. abortion landscape is far from settled nine months after the U.S. Supreme Court ended the nationwide…

By MEAD GRUVER Associated Press CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — A woman was arrested on charges of setting fire to a building in Wyoming that was being…

ST. LOUIS (AP) — An escape-artist bear from Missouri is headed to a Texas zoo with a moat in hopes it will put an end to his wandering. The St.…

By VICTOR R. CAIVANO Associated Press URQUIZA, Argentina (AP) — The ground crackles as Guillermo Cuitino walks across dry farmland that should be…

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says he will prevent the passage of a proposal by a powerful ally in his governing…

By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN and LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal prosecutors disclosed Wednesday that a witness expected to…

By ANDREW DALTON AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — California prosecutors on Wednesday dropped domestic violence charges against Justin…

By RANDALL CHASE Associated Press WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — Lawyers for Fox News and a voting machine company are tangling over the high bar to prove…

By ALEX VEIGA AP Business Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Actress Lindsay Lohan, rapper Akon and several other celebrities have agreed to pay tens of…

WOODLAWN, Md. (AP) — Maryland State Police say six people were killed when a passenger vehicle pulled into a work zone along the Baltimore beltway…

By MIKE CATALINI Associated Press TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — New Jersey’s statehouse building, part of which dates to the 1700s and was once called a…

OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — The former warden of an abuse-plagued federal women’s prison in the San Francisco Bay Area has been sentenced to nearly…

PASADENA, Texas (AP) — Officials are investigating an explosion and fire at a chemical plant in suburban Houston that injured one person. It is not…

By STEPHEN R. GROVES Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A bipartisan consensus that Congress should act to toughen regulations on railroads is…

By JUAN A. LOZANO Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — One of the six oil executives with a Texas-based company who was imprisoned five years in…

By JOHN O’CONNOR AP Political Writer SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — The last of three ex-correctional officers convicted in the beating death of an…

By ADRIAN SAINZ Associated Press MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Officials say two employees of a rural west Tennessee town that resisted a takeover attempt…

By ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal appeals court in a sealed order Wednesday directed a lawyer for Donald Trump to turn…

By JOEY CAPPELLETTI Associated Press LANSING, Mich. (AP) — The Michigan Republican Party’s social media posts are being called “hateful”…

By ELLEN KNICKMEYER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A new World Bank report puts the cost of Ukraine’s recovery and rebuilding from Russia’s…

By ANDREW SELSKY Associated Press SALEM, Ore. (AP) — More than 119,000 people have been injured by tear gas and other chemical irritants around the…

By AHMED AL-HAJ Associated Press SANAA, Yemen (AP) — Yemeni security officials say that at least 16 forces have been killed in renewed fighting in…

By TOM MURPHY AP Health Writer Moderna’s CEO is defending a plan to more than quadruple the company’s COVID-19 vaccine price. But he also says…

By MORGAN LEE Associated Press No one is objecting to a settlement agreement to resolve allegations of workplace safety violations in the 2021…

By MANUEL RUEDA Associated Press BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — The Red Cross says the number of internally displaced people in Colombia increased…

BATESVILLE, Miss. (AP) — Five people were killed Tuesday evening in Mississippi after a car they were riding in crashed into a barricade on a…

By ADRIANA MORGA and CORA LEWIS Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The Federal Reserve raised its key rate by another quarter point Wednesday,…

LAKE WORTH, Fla. (AP) — Rapper Tekashi 6ix9ine, whose testimony against his own gang helped convict two high-ranking members, was assaulted by…

By ANTHONY IZAGUIRRE Associated Press TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis ‘ administration is moving to forbid classroom…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATION (AP) — The United Nations chief is urging the first world conference on water in more than 45…

By KRYSTA FAURIA Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Celebrity stylist Law Roach helped reinvent Zendaya and turned Celine Dion into a fashion…

By MICHAEL R. SISAK and ERIC TUCKER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Manhattan prosecutors have postponed a scheduled grand jury session in the…

By The Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The Muslim holy month of Ramadan began at sundown on Wednesday, as the faithful prepared…