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LONDON (AP) — TikTok said Friday that it’s planning two more European data centers, as the popular Chinese-owned video sharing app seeks to…

By MOGOMOTSI MAGOME Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Russia, China and South Africa are set to begin naval drills off South Africa’s Indian…

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — A powerful storm over the North Sea hit northern Europe and led to dozens of train and ferry cancellations Friday in…

By KARL RITTER Associated Press MUNICH (AP) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy urged Western allies Friday to quicken their military support…

By FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen will travel to India next week to attend Group of 20 finance…

PARIS (AP) — The lower house of France’s parliament is debating a contested pension bill aimed at raising the country’s retirement age from 62…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida has met with LGBTQ representatives and offered an apology…

By TANYA TITOVA, EMRAH GUREL and ANDREW WILKS Associated Press SAMANDAG, Turkey (AP) — Hundreds of thousands of people are seeking shelter after…

By JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press GENEVA (AP) — Chinese envoys have defended Beijing’s treatment of Hong Kong and Muslim minorities during an…

By DAVID KLEPPER and STEPHEN McGRATH Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Facebook allowed an exiled Moldovan oligarch with ties to the Kremlin to…

By MIKE SCHNEIDER Associated Press U.S. cities and towns that have challenged their 2020 census population figures appear to be winning only small…

By MAURICIO SAVARESE and DAVID BILLER Associated Press RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Brazil’s Carnival is back. Glittery and outrageous costumes were…

AMSTERDAM (AP) — The company that owns one of Europe’s busiest aviation hubs, Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport, slumped to a net loss of 77…

By The Associated Press The war in Ukraine has killed thousands, forced millions to flee their homes, reduced entire cities to rubble and fueled…

By STAN CHOE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Wall Street closed another bumpy week with a mixed performance on Friday amid worries that…

By ANDREW SELSKY Associated Press SALEM, Ore. (AP) — An armed takeover of a federal wildlife refuge. Over 100 straight days of racial justice…

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — The death toll from New Zealand’s cyclone has reached eight with more than 4,500 people still unaccounted for four…

By ADRIAN SAINZ and JONATHAN MATTISE Associated Press MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Five former Memphis police officers pleaded not guilty Friday to…

By SAM METZ Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — In the 1990s, Dallas Mavericks point guard Derek Harper famously shot down an offer to be traded…

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The Abu Dhabi National Oil Company’s gas processing firm plans to sell 4% of its shares to local investors in…

By YURI KAGEYAMA Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — A trial looking into bribery at the Tokyo Olympic organizing committee has begun. The former head of…

TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Taiwan’s Defense Ministry says it found a Chinese weather balloon on one of its outlying islands, amid U.S. accusations…

By LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press LIMA, Ohio (AP) — Thousands of miles from the front lines, a sprawling manufacturing plant in the small…

By MICHELLE L. PRICE and MARY CLARE JALONICK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — He twice voted in favor of convicting former President Donald Trump…

By KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea’s defense minister insists the country’s soldiers didn’t commit any…

By MICHELLE L. PRICE and MARY CLARE JALONICK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — He twice voted in favor of convicting former President Donald Trump…

By PIYUSH NAGPAL Associated Press MORIGAON, India (AP) — Standing outside the local police station in her village in northeast India, 19-year-old…

By MARY CLARE JALONICK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — When Patrick Kennedy was in Congress, he would sneak in his treatments for substance…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s space agency has aborted the launch of the first of its new flagship series H3 rockets…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Prosecutors say a Southern California motorcycle club founder who killed three people in 1980 has been ordered to be released…

By PAUL J. WEBER Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott offered no hints about whether he might run for president…

VAN BUREN TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) — Officials say a train hauling hazardous materials derailed near Detroit, but none spilled. The Norfolk Southern…

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Protesters in Iran have marched through the streets of multiple cities…

TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — Arizona Department of Public Safety officials say this week’s deadly truck accident that caused a hazardous materials…

By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN Associated Press ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — A helicopter with a shooter will fly over a portion of the vast Gila Wilderness in…

By SARA CLINE Associated Press BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Authorities say a white Louisiana police officer has been arrested for fatally shooting an…

By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A federal judge showed growing impatience Thursday with FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried’s use…

ELLSWORTH, Wis. (AP) — A western Wisconsin nurse accused of amputating a hospice patient’s frostbitten foot without his consent and without…

By TRISHA AHMED Associated Press/Report for America Two separate bills that would prohibit public libraries from displaying “explicit sexual…

By EDITH M. LEDERER and MATTHEW LEE Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — A Palestinian-backed U.N. resolution that could be put to a vote in the…

By JACQUES BILLEAUD Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — An Arizona appeals court has rejected Republican Kari Lake’s challenge of her defeat in the…

By JUAN A. LOZANO Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — A spokesperson for the Texas prison system says a man who had been on the state’s death row…

By BRUCE SCHREINER Associated Press FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — The Kentucky Senate has voted to allow teachers to refuse to refer to transgender…

By MANUEL RUEDA Associated Press BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — The presidents of Colombia and Venezuela have met on their border to sign an agreement…

By JESSE BEDAYN Associated Press/Report for America DENVER (AP) — Colorado lawmakers have proposed a bill to study whether a type of charcoal could…

BALTIMORE (AP) — Professional boxer Gervonta Davis pleaded guilty Thursday to charges stemming from a November 2020 hit-and-run that left four…

REDWOOD CITY, Calif. (AP) — A farmworker charged with killing seven people last month in back-to-back shootings at two Northern California mushroom…

EL PASO, Texas (AP) — Officials say a shooting at a Texas mall that killed one person and wounded three others began as a confrontation between two…

By JOHN HANNA AP Political Writer TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Banning TikTok from government devices enjoys bipartsan support across the U.S. But a few…

By KIM CHANDLER, LOLITA C. BALDOR and KIMBERLEE KRUESI Associated Press MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Two Tennessee National Guard pilots killed when…

By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN Associated Press A North Carolina man who stormed the U.S. Capitol while free on bail for an attempted murder case has pleaded…

By JULIE CARR SMYTH Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Ohio State University says it plans to use a $110 million donation from IT innovator and…

By JONATHAN MATTISE Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A new board majority picked by President Joe Biden for the nation’s largest public…

By DARLENE SUPERVILLE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is hosting a screening Thursday of the movie “Till,” about the…

By JAKE BLEIBERG and ERIC TUCKER Associated Press DALLAS (AP) — Justice Department officials in Washington have taken over the corruption…

By MATT O’BRIEN AP Technology Writer Microsoft’s newly revamped Bing search engine can write recipes and songs and quickly explain just about…

By MARY CLARE JALONICK and MARC LEVY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Pennsylvania Democratic Sen. John Fetterman, still recovering from a…

By DAVE COLLINS Associated Press NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) — An admitted hit man has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for robbing two Connecticut…

The Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Nearly a year after Bruce Willis’ family announced that he would step away from acting after being…

By ALICIA RANCILIO Associated Press PASADENA, Calif. (AP) — Maurice Benard, who has played Sonny on ABC’s soap opera “General Hospital” for…

By STEPHEN WHYNO AP Hockey Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The NHL Players’ Association has hired U.S. Secretary of Labor Marty Walsh as its…

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — The family of a Black man who died after police officers in North Carolina repeatedly used stun guns on him is calling for…

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has asked artists and filmmakers to unequivocally declare their support for his country during a live video…