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By MALAK HARB Associated Press ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Actor Nazanin Boniadi is urging the world to back the protests in her native…

By MARK ANDERSON AP Sports Writer LAS VEGAS (AP) — The competitors stand rigidly upright with their hands behind their backs, waiting to absorb a…

MILAN (AP) — Prominent pianist and conductor Daniel Barenboim has canceled a piano recital at the Opera de Monte-Carlo due to the effects of a…

HELSINKI (AP) — A parliamentary delegation from Hungary says lawmakers widely support NATO membership for Finland but it’s unclear when they…

By MARIAM FAM Associated Press When Richard McKinney was getting married last year, friends stepped in to help. Bibi Bahrami cooked Afghan dishes —…

By STEPHEN WADE AP Sports Writer TOKYO (AP) — St. Louis Cardinals outfielder Lars Nootbaar just joined Japan’s national team for the World…

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Ukraine’s first lady has offered spirited support to her nation’s…

By RAF CASERT and SYLVAIN PLAZY Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — Nearly a decade after a brazen diamond heist at Brussels airport, it looks like a…

WINTER HAVEN, Fla. (AP) — Officials say a pilot and and a 19-year-old student pilot were among four people killed when two small planes collided in…

By TOM KRISHER and MICHELLE CHAPMAN AP Business Writers DETROIT (AP) — U.S. safety regulators are turning up the heat on Tesla, announcing…

By BABAR DOGAR and MUNIR AHMED Associated Press LAHORE, Pakistan (AP) — Officials say Pakistani police used water cannons and fired tear gas to…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Women’s rights activists in Japan are renewing their demand for the government to allow married…

By JAMES BROOKS Associated Press COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Scandinavian scientists said Wednesday that they have identified the oldest-known…

By JIM GOMEZ Associated Press MANILA, Philippines (AP) — A Philippine official says the country’s coast guard has launched a strategy of…

By JAMES BROOKS and FRANK JORDANS Associated Press COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Denmark pushed the button Wednesday on an ambitious project that aims…

CAIRO (AP) — The U.S. defense secretary says America’s defense partnership with Egypt is an “essential pillar” of Washington’s commitment…

By FRANK JORDANS Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s defense minister voiced caution Wednesday over media reports that a pro-Ukraine group…

By GREG BEACHAM AP Sports Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — When Pau Gasol joined the Los Angeles Lakers just over 15 years ago, the Spanish 7-footer…

BEIRUT (AP) — Reports say that an explosion in eastern Syria killed at least three people. A war monitoring group said the blast on Wednesday was…

By CIARÁN GILES and MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press MADRID (AP) — From demands for constitutional rights in Islamabad to calls for economic parity…

FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — Adidas’ breakup with the rapper formerly known as Kanye West and the inability to sell his popular Yeezy line of…

By MATT O’BRIEN and HALELUYA HADERO AP Technology Writers Even if you haven’t tried artificial intelligence tools that can write essays and…

By JOE McDONALD Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — Is the United States out to sabotage China? Chinese leaders think so. President Xi Jinping accused…

By DEREK GATOPOULOS and THEODORA TONGAS Associated Press ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Tens of thousands of people are marching in Athens and Greek cities…

By HANNA ARHIROVA Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — The owner of Russia’s Wagner Group military contractor has claimed that his troops have…

By INDRAJIT SINGH Associated Press PATNA, India (AP) — A government official says three people were killed when an Indian army mortar shell fired…

By EVELYNE MUSAMBI Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — The sight of a red bloodstain on Kenyan Senator Gloria Orwoba’s white pantsuit was…

By FELICIA FONSECA Associated Press FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — Peterson Zah, a monumental Navajo Nation leader who guided the tribe through a…

By RAHIM FAIEZ Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — The United Nations says that since the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan, the country has become the…

By JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — Asian stock markets were mixed Thursday after Wall Street steadied following a plunge on worries…

By ANDREW SELSKY and DAMIAN DOVARGANES Associated Press SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Buttery, smooth, oaky. These are characteristics of the best bourbons,…

By ERIC TUCKER and DEL QUENTIN WILBER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Three days after federal agents searched former President Donald Trump’s…

By MARY CLARE JALONICK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden’s support of a Republican resolution to block new District of…

By ASTRID SUAREZ Associated Press BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — For the first time in 25 years, Colombia has opened military service to women. The first…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — On the eve of International Women’s Day, leading women’s rights campaigners at the…

NORWALK, Conn. (AP) — Author and illustrator Ian Woodward Falconer, known for his “Olivia” book series for children, has died. Falconer’s…

BANGKOK (AP) — A Thai man has been sentenced to two years in prison for selling calendars featuring satirical cartoons of yellow ducks that a court…

By SAMY MAGDY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — A powerful paramilitary commander has slammed Sudan’s ruling generals, saying they oppose stepping…

By MORGAN LEE Associated Press SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — Legislators in New Mexico are advancing legislation to rein in paramilitary patrols that have…

CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese says he plans to meet with President Joe Biden in the United States following…

By AAMER MADHANI and ZEKE MILLER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration is preparing to relax COVID-19 testing restrictions…

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Mayor London Breed’s incarcerated brother could get a reduction in his 44-year manslaughter sentence after a judge ruled he…

By BRUCE SCHREINER and DYLAN LOVAN Associated Press LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Four of the candidates running in Kentucky’s Republican…

By BEATRICE DUPUY Associated Press Houston podcaster Nathan Reeves caught video of the startling moment that an SUV crashed into the cafe where he…

By YURI KAGEYAMA Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — At the prosecutors’ office in Japan, everyone makes their own tea and copies — tasks often…

By JUAN A. LOZANO Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — Next month’s scheduled execution of a Texas death row inmate, whose attorneys say gouged out…

By BARBARA ORTUTAY AP Technology Writer SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — If you’re not told you are fired, are you really fired? At Twitter, probably.…

By ANDREW DeMILLO Associated Press LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — A massive education bill that includes a new school voucher program for Arkansas is…

By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The federal judge presiding over the case prosecutors brought against FTX founder Sam…

By ERIC OLSON AP Sports Writer The attorney representing a dozen former Iowa football players who settled their racial discrimination lawsuit with…

CHICAGO (AP) — An Illinois appeals court has ordered new trials for a man convicted of killing two children in Chicago three decades ago because…

HONOLULU (AP) — The latest eruption at Kilauea’s summit on Hawaii’s has paused after 61 days of volcanic activity. U.S. Geological…

By OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A judge has granted the state attorney general’s request for 90 more days to review…

By CLAIRE SAVAGE Associated Press/Report for America CHICAGO (AP) — The founder of the no-frills Chicago sandwich joint Mr. Beef, which inspired…

By SARAH RANKIN Associated Press RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Police and court documents say a Virginia state lawmaker charged in what authorities are…

By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The majority-white and Republican-led Mississippi Senate has passed its version of a…

By TERESA M. WALKER AP Sports Writer Ja Morant is fearless on the basketball court. That aggressive style of play helped skyrocket the 23-year-old…

By JONATHAN MATTISE Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A seventh Memphis Police Department employee was fired and another retired who was…

By MORGAN LEE Associated Press SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — An initiative that would shore up abortion access in New Mexico amid a flurry of local…

By ANDREW DeMILLO Associated Press LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — A bill that would criminalize transgender people using restrooms that match their…

By SEAN MURPHY Associated Press OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma Republicans have formally censured their nonbinary Democratic colleague after state…

ST. CHARLES, Mo. (AP) — A prisoner who has been behind bars for decades for a St. Louis-area killing has pleaded guilty to killing one woman. Gary…

By NICHOLAS RICCARDI Associated Press Arizona’s Democratic attorney general is suing a rural, Republican-controlled county to stop it from…

By MATTHEW LEE AP Diplomatic Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — State Department spokesman Ned Price is stepping down from his job as the daily face of U.S.…

The Associated Press Federal authorities added 25 border patrol agents at a section of the northeastern U.S. border with Quebec in response to a…

By DAVID BAUDER and JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Fox Corp. Chairman Rupert Murdoch said under oath that he believes the 2020…

By TOM MURPHY AP Health Writer The recent kidnapping of four Americans in Mexico highlights a common practice for many people in the U.S.: traveling…

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Sixteen former students at a now closed Missouri Christian boarding school have settled lawsuits alleging they were abused…

By NARDOS HAILE Associated Press PRINCETON, N.J. (AP) — Nobel laureate Toni Morrison is now forever immortalized on a stamp honoring the prolific…

By JOSH FUNK and JOHN SEEWER Associated Press OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Federal investigators are opening a wide-ranging investigation into one of the…