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By RONALD BLUM Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Eleri Ward had Stephen Sondheim’s “Every Day a Little Death” stuck in her head. She recorded…

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A section of a parking garage at a suburban Milwaukee shopping mall has collapsed. Three floors of the garage at Bayshore Mall…

By KAREN MATTHEWS Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Authorities say the alligator that was rescued from a chilly lake in New York City over the…

ALGIERS, Algeria (AP) — Algerian authorities have dissolved a decades-old pro-democracy group that participated in the peaceful protests which…

By JONATHAN LANDRUM Jr. AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Serena Williams will be honored for her tennis achievements, business success…

ROME (AP) — Pope Francis has essentially nationalized all assets and property owned by Vatican departments and affiliated institutions. In a new…

By RUSS BYNUM Associated Press SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — Prosecutors have dropped charges of assault, obstruction and other counts against a Georgia…

BY MATTHEW LEE AP Diplomatic Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Russia’s president and the deposed leader of Afghanistan were among the top gift givers…

ROME (AP) — Italian media say a court has acquitted 25 of the 30 defendants on trial for a deadly avalanche at an Apennine mountain hotel. Tons of…

By BOBBY CAINA CALVAN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The founder of the troubled digital start-up Ozy Media pleaded not guilty Thursday to…

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Prosecutors in Poland say they have charged a Russian man living in Poland with having spied for Moscow between 2015 and…

COHASSET, Mass. (AP) — A former employee of a Massachusetts town is facing charges of allegedly setting up a secret cryptocurrency mining operation…

By JIM SALTER and DAVID A. LIEB Associated Press ST. LOUIS (AP) — A St. Louis prosecutor decried efforts to oust her from office Thursday and…

By SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Tony Earl, a Democrat who served one term as Wisconsin’s governor in the 1980s and later…

By JOSH BOAK and HANNAH FINGERHUT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Just 40% of U.S. adults approve of how President Joe Biden is handling…

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Federal investigators are heading to Arkansas Thursday to determine the cause of a small plane crash that killed five…

By THALIA BEATY Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Bulletproof vests and drones. Pickup trucks, walkie-talkies and tourniquets. These are just some…

LONDON (AP) — British police say they have arrested four people after protesters painted a giant Ukrainian flag on the road outside the Russian…

NEW YORK (AP) — Viola Davis, Paul Simon and Molly Shannon are among the nominees for prizes given for the spoken word. The nominations for the…

By BRENDAN FARRINGTON Associated Press STARKE, Fla. (AP) — Florida has executed a man for murdering a woman in 1990 while he was a fugitive from…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Senior U.K. and European Union officials are meeting as part of what Britain calls “intensive…

By PETER SMITH Associated Press An array of U.S. Jewish leaders are sounding alarms about what they see as a threat to Israel’s democracy posed by…

By JEFFREY COLLINS Associated Press Disgraced South Carolina attorney Alex Murdaugh denied killing his wife and son but admitted lying to…

By DARLENE SUPERVILLE Associated Press WINDHOEK, Namibia (AP) — Jill Biden’s visit to Namibia was a big hit with scores of giddy children who…

By JONEL ALECCIA AP Health Writer Nearly 30 million Americans who got extra government help with grocery bills during the pandemic will soon see that…

By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Think your boss is bad? The one in the new TV series “The Consultant” phones his…

BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — Romanian President Klaus Iohannis has discussed energy, economic and security issues in Bucharest with his visiting…

By LINDSEY TANNER AP Medical Writer In the latest effort to limit abortion access, opponents of the procedure are seeking to ban one of the two drugs…

DEER PARK, Texas (AP) — A Texas county official says there are outstanding questions about the transportation and disposal of toxic wastewater that…

BERLIN (AP) — A German court has convicted a Palestinian man from Syria of a war crime and murder for launching a grenade into a crowd of civilians…

By MARK PRATT Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — Dr. Seuss fans might find their hearts growing three sizes this coming holiday season with the release…

By MATT OTT AP Business Writer The number of Americans filing for jobless aid fell last week as the labor market remains resilient in the face of the…

PRAGUE (AP) — A Chinese pangolin has been born in the Prague zoo, the first birth of the critically endangered animal in Europe. The park says it…

By JOHN SEEWER, MICHAEL RUBINKAM and GEOFF MULVIHILL Associated Press EAST PALESTINE, Ohio (AP) — The crew operating a freight train that derailed…

RUTHERFORDTON, N.C. (AP) — A judge has ordered a mental evaluation at the request of the attorney for a man who was arrested in North Carolina…

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. economy expanded at a 2.7% annual rate from October through December, a solid…

By KAREEM CHEHAYEB Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanese officials say Beirut’s pubic prosecutor has charged the governor of the…

TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Israel’s foreign minister says the Gulf Arab state of Oman has decided to allow Israeli planes to fly through its…

By DAVID FISCHER and FREIDA FRISARO Associated Press A man riding in a car with his cousin shot and killed another passenger then returned to the…

By The Associated Press BAKHMUT, Ukraine (AP) — Amid the smoking ruins, a lone dog pads in the snow, surely unaware — or perhaps too hungry to…

By The Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Zendaya, Jason Bateman, Jeff Bridges and Aubrey Plaza will be some of the presenters at Sunday’s…

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkey’s central bank has resumed its policy of lowering a key interest rate, even as the country grapples with high…

CANBERRA, Australia: (AP) — Police say kidnappers have released a woman who was held for several days in a remote part of Papua New Guinea and…

VIENNA (AP) — A meeting of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe’s parliamentary assembly has gotten underway without…

By MIKE CORDER Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The European Union’s judicial cooperation agency is setting up a new center to…

SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) — The European Commission has dampened Bulgaria’s aspirations for a swift adoption of the euro currency as the Balkan…

By SAM MEDNICK and ARSENE KABORE Associated Press OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso (AP) — Burkina Faso’s revolutionary leader, Thomas Sankara, has been…

By KAREEM CHEHAYEB Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — A British court has ruled a London-based company that delivered the explosive ammonium nitrate to…

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu has raised the number of fatalities in Turkey from the magnitude 7.8 earthquake to 43,556.…

By CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Voters in Nigeria are electing a new leader Saturday, with 18 candidates vying to lead a…

By CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — As Nigeria prepares for its presidential election this weekend, younger voters are…

By ERIKA KINETZ Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — How do people raised with a sense of right and wrong end up involved in terrible acts of…

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran is directly acknowledging an accusation attributed to international…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — A senior Northern Ireland police officer is in critical but stable condition in a hospital after…

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greece’s coast guard says a search and rescue operation is underway off the coast of an eastern Greek island for four…

RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — Ahmed Qureia, a former Palestinian prime minister and one of the architects of interim peace deals with Israel, has died…

By SIBI ARASU Associated Press BENGALURU, India (AP) — Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen says the U.S. will push for tougher, better enforced…

By RIAZ KHAN and RAHIM FAIEZ Associated Press PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistan has shut down a key border crossing with Afghanistan, just hours…

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Abu Dhabi’s state gas company expects to raise up to $2 billion by selling 4% of its shares in an initial…

By SOPHENG CHEANG Associated Press PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — An 11-year-old girl in Cambodia has died from bird flu in the country’s first…

By BASSEM MROUE Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — The Islamic State group has carried out its deadliest attacks in more than a year, killing dozens of…

By CLAIRE RUSH, DREW CALLISTER and JIM SALTER Associated Press PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Winter storms sowed more chaos across the U.S. on Thursday,…

By DENG MACHOL Associated Press JUBA, South Sudan (AP) — South Sudan’s president has urged the country’s more than 2 million refugees to return…

By COLLEEN SLEVIN Associated Press COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — A judge has ruled there is enough evidence for a trial against the person accused…