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By WANJOHI KABUKURU Associated Press MOMBASA, Kenya (AP) — A damaging tropical cyclone dumped “dangerous and exceptional rainfall levels” over…

By ALFIAN KARTONO and EDNA TARIGAN Associated Press JAYAPURA, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesian police say 10 people have been killed and more than 20…

By DEE-ANN DURBIN AP Business Writer Cosori is recalling more than 2 million air fryers sold in the U.S., Canada and Mexico because their wire…

LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) — The Russian anti-doping agency has appealed to the Court of Arbitration for Sport in the case of Kamila Valieva. The…

By CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Officials in Nigeria are making final preparations on the eve of elections amid concerns…

By MOGOMOTSI MAGOME Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — South Africa’s troubled state-owned power utility Eskom has appointed an interim chief…

By MIKE CORDER Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — A “people’s court” without legal powers has confirmed an indictment against…

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Malaysia will raise development spending and plans new taxes for the wealthy in a smaller budget plan this year, as…

By COLLEEN BARRY AP Fashion Writer MILAN (AP) — Sexiness is in the air at Milan Fashion Week, where brands are encouraging people to show some skin…

By JOHN O’CONNOR AP Political Writer SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Illinois’ governor is planning to outline an expansive attack on what…

By MATTHEW LEE AP Diplomatic Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Secretary of State Antony Blinken will travel to Central and South Asia next week for…

By LOLITA C. BALDOR and TARA COPP Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon is announcing a new package of long-term security assistance for…

By DEREK GATOPOULOS and THEODORA TONGAS Associated Press VOULIAGMENI, Greece (AP) — European Union officials have pledged continued support to…

BERLIN (AP) — A German court has rejected a farmer’s bid to force automaker Volkswagen to end the sale of vehicles with combustion engines by…

By MUNIR AHMED Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — Officials say two Pakistani brothers who were held by the United States at the Guantanamo Bay…

JERUSALEM (AP) — Palestinian health officials say Israeli settlers have shot and seriously wounded two Palestinians in the northern occupied West…

By DARLENE SUPERVILLE Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — U.S. first lady Jill Biden said Friday that she feels a kinship with Africans during…

By The Associated Press MARINKA, Ukraine (AP) — Although Friday marks the grim first anniversary of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine,…

BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s national statistics office says that the country’s economy shrank by 0.4% in last year’s fourth quarter.…

By ISABEL DEBRE Associated Press GIVAT HAREL, West Bank (AP) — One day in the fall of 1998, Shivi Drori, a young farmer fresh out of the Israeli…

By JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press GENEVA (AP) — Quantifying the toll of Russia’s war in Ukraine remains an elusive goal a year into the conflict.…

By HANNA ARHIROVA Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — The anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is particularly poignant for women…

By STAN CHOE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks are falling on Wall Street Friday as dispiriting evidence keeps piling up to show inflation…

By JANIE HAR Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — When Miya Iwataki and other Japanese Americans fought in the 1980s for the U.S. government to…

By SIBI ARASU Associated Press BENGALURU, India (AP) — Tensions over Russia’s war on Ukraine have flared at meetings of finance ministers and…

By NG HAN GUAN Associated Press ALXA LEAGUE, China (AP) — Work crews trying to find 47 people missing after a collapse at an open-pit mine in…

NEW YORK (AP) — One of the oldest artist residency programs in the U.S. has a new executive director. In a statement Friday, MacDowell announced…

By STEVE LeBLANC Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — As Connecticut state Rep. Quentin Williams was driving home from the governor’s inauguration…

By JOHN ANTCZAK, AMY TAXIN and ED WHITE Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Heavy snow and rain pounded California and other parts of the West on…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — A news photographer is dead after he was stabbed and beaten in an attack in the northern Mexico border state of Baja California.…

By The Associated Press No current or former Texas politician has announced a campaign for the 2024 presidential race. If that trend holds, it would…

By WILL WEISSERT and PAUL J. WEBER Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — It’s early yet, but next year’s presidential race may feature…

By TERRY TANG and KEN RITTER Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — A judge has ruled that an Arizona rancher accused of shooting at a group of migrants…

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — A newspaper says Australia has quietly expelled a large Russian spy ring whose members…

LIBERTYVILLE, Ill. (AP) — Police say a suburban Chicago woman was run over and her 2-year-old son temporarily abducted by a thief who stole her…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The creator of the hit HBO series “Succession” says the upcoming fourth season will be its last. Jesse Armstrong told The…

NEW YORK (AP) — Federal prosecutors have announced charges against more than a dozen alleged high-ranking leaders of the international gang MS-13.…

By HANNA ARHIROVA Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine’s leader is giving qualified support for China’s new involvement in trying to…

LEAVENWORTH, Wash. (AP) — Authorities say they still have no plans to attempt a recovery of three climbers killed in an avalanche on Washington…

OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — The former police chief for the city of Oakland who was fired last week over the alleged cover-up of an officer’s…

By MARK DIDTLER Associated Press CLEARWATER, Fla. (AP) — Noah Song threw and performed agility drills on a back outfield wearing Philadelphia…

By GABE STERN Associated Press/Report for America CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) — Nevada voters will decide whether to abolish slavery and involuntary…

By MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer Russia launched a rescue ship on Friday for two cosmonauts and a NASA astronaut whose original ride home sprang a…

By BILL BARROW Associated Press PLAINS, Ga. (AP) — Jimmy Carter’s path to the presidency is an oft-told story, especially by aspiring presidents…

By BRIAN WITTE Associated Press ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — Maryland lawmakers are considering ending the state’s statute of limitations for when…

By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The sobbing father of a man convicted of killing eight people on a New York City bike path has…

By SARA CLINE Associated Press BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — A teenager has been charged as an adult in the case of Madison Brooks, a Louisiana State…

By WAYNE PARRY Associated Press NORTH WILDWOOD, N.J. (AP) — The sandstorm being waged between New Jersey environmental officials and a defiant…

By STEVE PEOPLES AP National Political Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The Republican National Committee has decided that the opening Republican…

HOLDEN, La. (AP) — Alicia Allain Schneider, a filmmaker and the wife of ‘Dukes of Hazzard’ star John Schneider, has died at the couple’s home…

By JOHN HANNA AP Political Writer TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas’ GOP-controlled Legislature has shown it’s likely to pass a bill eliminating the…

By GARY GERARD HAMILTON Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Nearly two decades after his classic “Confessions” album, Usher is spilling more of…

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — A transgender woman has for the first time been selected to participate in the Puerto Rico Miss Universe contest held…

By CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Nigeria’s top election official has dismissed concerns that the country’s cash shortage…

By OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Federal wildlife officials on Wednesday announced a proposal to classify one of two…

By COLLEEN BARRY AP Fashion Writer MILAN (AP) — Milan designers took a more modest turn on the second day of Milan Fashion Week of mostly…

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — New Orleans’ daily newspaper says organizers of a petition drive to recall Mayor LaToya Cantrell  are demanding $15,000…

By EDITH M. LEDERER and MICHAEL WEISSENSTEIN Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. General Assembly has passed a nonbinding resolution…

By JAMES POLLARD Associated Press/Report for America COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A bill that would make South Carolina the 49th state with a hate crime…

NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — The man who admitted to helping carry out a murder-for-hire plot engineered by a former New Jersey political consultant has…

By STEFANIE DAZIO Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — The California attorney general has opened a civil rights investigation into the Riverside…