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By MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A new crew arrived at the International Space Station on Friday for a six-month…

By ISABEL DEBRE Associated Press JABA, West Bank (AP) — The stuttering blasts of M-16s shattered the quiet in a West Bank village, surrounded by…

By MATTHEW LEE AP Diplomatic Writer NEW DELHI (AP) — The top diplomats of Australia, India, Japan and the United States say their…

By TED ANTHONY AP National Writer WEXFORD, Pa. (AP) — By the time the doors open at 4:30 p.m., a boisterous line of 50 hungry people is looping…

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Malaysian former Prime Minister Najib Razak has been acquitted in the latest trial in response to the…

By STAN CHOE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks are rallying Friday toward their best day in at least a month, as relaxing bond yields take…

By MEAD GRUVER Associated Press CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — Switching political parties to be able to choose the primary in which a voter wants to cast a…

By WILL WEISSERT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden exudes confidence as the next race for the White House approaches. During…

By CHRIS MEGERIAN and FRANK JORDANS Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. President Joe Biden and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz have met…

By GABRIELA SELSER Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — A U.N. human rights groups said the government of Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega…

BEIJING A Hong Kong-based publisher who was arrested while preparing to release an unauthorized biography of Chinese leader Xi Jinping has been freed…

By EDDIE PELLS AP National Writer LAS CRUCES, N.M. (AP) — At New Mexico State, the once-treasured men’s basketball program has been suspended for…

By HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — The South Korean and U.S. militaries have announced they will hold their biggest joint…

By JULIE CARR SMYTH Associated Press CINCINNATI (AP) — Prosecutors have used the former Ohio House Speaker Larry Householder’s own speeches,…

By SOPHENG CHEANG and GRANT PECK Associated Press PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — A court in Cambodia has convicted opposition leader Kem Sokha of…

By KEN RITTER Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — Tesla will get more than $330 million in tax breaks from Nevada to massively expand its vehicle…

DEERFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Walgreens says it won’t sell an abortion pill by mail in 20 conservative-led states. The statement comes after attorneys…

By ASTRID SUÁREZ Associated Press BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Colombia is proposing transferring at least 70 hippopotamuses that live near Pablo…

By FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department on Thursday arrested two Kansas men on allegations that the pair…

By DARLENE SUPERVILLE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Nearly 60 years after he was first recommended for the nation’s highest award for…

By LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. is expected to announce a new package of military aid for Ukraine Friday, including…

DALLAS (AP) — Tornadoes touched down in Texas and Louisiana as a powerful storm system that dumped heavy snow in California pushed through the…

By JACQUES BILLEAUD Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — The Arizona Supreme Court issued a warrant to execute a prisoner even though the state’s new…

By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A former pro wrestler has pleaded guilty to a federal charge tied to misspending of…

By ANDREW DeMILLO Associated Press LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Arkansas is getting closer to overhauling its education system. The state House on…

By JEFFREY COLLINS and JAMES POLLARD Associated Press WALTERBORO, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina attorney Alex Murdaugh was convicted of murder…

By SAM METZ Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Lawmakers advanced a measure to limit where people can get abortions in Utah, banning abortion…

By The Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Wayne Shorter, an influential jazz innovator whose lyrical, complex jazz compositions and pioneering…

By DEEPA BHARATH Associated Press The Rev. Megan Rohrer, who was elected as the first openly transgender bishop of one of the largest Christian…

TORONTO (AP) — Nordstrom Inc. is closing all of its Canadian stores and cutting 2,500 jobs as it winds down operations in the country. The…

By FRANK BAJAK AP Technology Writer The online counseling service BetterHelp has agreed to return $7.8 million to customers to settle with the…

Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — A unsealed federal warrant says agents found bomb-making materials at the apartment of an alleged gunman charged…

By GARY D. ROBERTSON Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina legislative leaders have announced an agreement to expand Medicaid to…

By MEG KINNARD Associated Press NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — Former Vice President Mike Pence isn’t saying whether he’d back Donald…

By ADRIAN SAINZ Associated Press MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Two Memphis Fire Department emergency medical technicians who were fired and had their…

By BEN FINLEY and AMY TAXIN Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Olivia Duke said she’s been trapped in her home in the snow-plastered mountains…

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The Ohio Attorney General’s Office has approved summary language in a petition to enshrine abortion rights in Ohio’s…

HOUSTON (AP) — Houston police ticketed a man feeding homeless residents outside a public library, provoking outrage from a charitable group and…

JERUSALEM (AP) — Palestinian Health Ministry says Israeli forces shot dead a teenage boy in the north of the occupied West Bank, the latest in a…

By KIMBERLEE KRUESI Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A Tennessee Republican lawmaker has apologized after asking earlier this week if…

By JACQUES BILLEAUD Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — The medical director of anti-abortion pregnancy centers is asking the Arizona Supreme Court to…

By CARLA BRIDI and DAVID BILLER Associated Press BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — Brazil’s economy contracted in the fourth quarter for the first time in…

By LISA MASCARO and MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The House Ethics Committee announced Thursday it is launching an…

By MICHAEL CASEY Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — RJ Phipps was hiking up Tuckerman Ravine on Mount Washington over the weekend with his wife when he…

By KEN RITTER Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — New Orleans Saints running back Alvin Kamara and three other men have pleaded not guilty in Nevada…

By JOSH FUNK and JOHN SEEWER Associated Press Residents who say they’re still suffering from illnesses nearly a month after a train carrying…

EAST LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Students and staff are removing countless flowers that have been placed at key campus sites in honor of three students…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — U.S. Ambassador Cindy McCain has been appointed head of the U.N. World Food Program, the…

By COLLEEN LONG, MARY CLARE JALONICK and SEUNG MIN KIM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden has told Senate Democrats that…

By CAROLYN THOMPSON Associated Press BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — Authorities have identified the Buffalo firefighter who died in an explosive four-alarm…

SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — Researchers have found a new moai statue in a dry lake on the Chilean island of Rapa Nui, joining the approximately 1,000…

By MIKE SCHNEIDER and ANTHONY IZAGUIRRE Associated Press ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ office has asked for records from a…

By ISABELLA O’MALLEY Associated Press Portland, Oregon received nearly a foot of snow in a single day in what proved to be its second-snowiest…

By ERIC TUCKER and ALANNA DURKIN RICHER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Former President Donald Trump can be sued by injured Capitol Police…

By JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — New York is doubling the number of licenses it’s awarding for a first round of legal marijuana…

By MARY CLARE JALONICK and KEVIN FREKING Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrats are seeking to demonstrate unity with President Joe Biden’s…

By JAKE COYLE and LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writers Ahead of the 95th Academy Awards on March 12, Associated Press Film Writers Lindsey Bahr and Jake…

By LEA SKENE Associated Press BALTIMORE (AP) — A Maryland mayor is facing 56 counts of possession and distribution of child pornography. Patrick…

By DANIEL POLITI and ALMUDENA CALATRAVA Associated Press BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Gunmen threatened Argentine soccer superstar Lionel Messi…

By THOMAS BEAUMONT Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and former President Donald Trump are each headed to Iowa in…

By EDDIE PELLS AP National Writer A three-month investigation has exonerated a five-time Olympian of doping. Katerina Nash is a mountain biker and…

By EDDIE PELLS AP National Writer LAS CRUCES, N.M. (AP) — Of all the troubling video made public over a year of crisis at New Mexico State – from…

By CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Nigeria’s opposition has renewed calls for the election result to be overturned a day…

STROUDSBURG, Pa. (AP) — Law enforcement officials have revealed more details regarding items seized from the Pennsylvania home where they arrested…

SANTA ROSA, Calif. (AP) — Detectives in a Northern California community are investigating what prompted a Wednesday fight between three high school…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — A painting by Wassily Kandinsky that spent decades in a Dutch museum after its Jewish owner was…

By JOHN ANTCZAK Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Tremendous rains and snowfall since late last year have freed half of California from drought,…

By JAN M. OLSEN Associated Press COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — The Norwegian government has apologized to reindeer herders after activists spent a…

By GRAHAM DUNBAR AP Sports Writer GENEVA (AP) — The Premier League has been urged to review a legally binding promise made by the owners of English…