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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…

By MICHAEL LIEDTKE AP Technology Writer Susan Wojcicki, a longtime Google executive who played a key role in the company’s creation, is…

By HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Tim McCarver, the All-Star catcher and Hall of Fame broadcaster who during 60 years in baseball…

PHOENIX (AP) — “CBS Mornings” co-host Gayle King has been chosen to receive the Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Journalism from Arizona…

By CAROLYN THOMPSON Associated Press BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — Now that the white supremacist gunman who killed 10 Black people at a Buffalo supermarket…

By BRUCE SCHREINER Associated Press FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Abortion access in Kentucky remained virtually shut off Thursday after the state’s…

By TOM KRISHER AP Auto Writer DETROIT (AP) — U.S. safety regulators have pressured Tesla into recalling nearly 363,000 vehicles with its “Full…

By ZEKE MILLER and CHRIS MEGERIAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden said Thursday that the U.S. is developing “sharper…

By DÁNICA COTO and ROB GILLIES Associated Press SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Canada will send navy vessels to Haiti for intelligence-gathering as…

By TARA COPP Associated Press TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — With Russia’s invasion of Ukraine nearing the one-year mark, Estonia’s military leaders…

By BABACAR DIONE Associated Press DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Police in Senegal have smashed the windows of a top opposition leader’s car and forced…

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER and ANNE D’INNOCENZIO AP Business Writers WASHINGTON (AP) — Call it the Goldilocks consumer. Defying high inflation…

By MARK THIESSEN Associated Press ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Alaska’s largest school district repeatedly and inappropriately secluded and…

By ELLEN KNICKMEYER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Leading climate figures are urging the Biden administration to use the early departure of…

By TERRY SPENCER Associated Press FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — An elected Florida prosecutor who says he was suspended by Gov. Ron DeSantis for…

LONDON (AP) — The chair of the British Museum said Thursday that the U.K. and Greece are working on a deal that would see his institution’s…

By ALEJANDRA MOLINA, Religion News Service LOS ANGELES (RNS) — There’s nothing that Oscar Rodriguez Zapata enjoys more than going out for a drive…

By CHRISTINA LARSON AP Science Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Those melancholy tunes sung by humpback whales may really be a sign of loneliness.…

MILFORD, N.H. (AP) — A New Hampshire school board has reversed a decision banning middle and high school students from using urinals after dozens…

By JOEY CAPPELLETTI and MIKE HOUSEHOLDER Associated Press EAST LANSING, Mich. (AP) — The man who shot eight students at Michigan State University,…

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — An Indiana jury has found the NCAA not liable in the death of former Grand Valley State quarterback Cullen Finnerty, whose…

By DÁNICA COTO Associated Press SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Jamaican Prime Minister Andrew Holness is under scrutiny after an anti-corruption…

LONDON (AP) — Fashion and music stars including Victoria Beckham, Stormzy and Kate Moss have gathered at a London cathedral to remember fashion…

KISSIMMEE, Fla. (AP) — Authorities say a massive fire has broken out at a plant nursery in central Florida. Officials tell news outlets the fire…

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Leaders of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church have agreed to resolve their differences peacefully after weeks of deadly…

By The Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Ryan Seacrest has revealed he’s leaving “Live with Kelly and Ryan” this spring, saying he never…

By CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — The United Nations office in Nigeria says at least 6 million people in the country’s…

MOSCOW (AP) — A Belarusian court has opened the trial of a dissident journalist whose May 2021 arrest after a forced diversion of his flight caused…

By MICHELLE CHAPMAN AP Business Writer Several employees at a Tesla factory in Buffalo, New York have been fired after launching union organizing…

ROME (AP) — Pope Francis has made clear in comments published Thursday by a Jesuit journal that he believes being pope is a lifetime position and…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Scotland’s independence movement needs a new leader — and a new plan. With the resignation of…

By PAUL WISEMAN AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Wholesale prices in the United States reaccelerated in January, indicating that inflation…

By MATT OTT AP Business Writer Fewer Americans filed for jobless benefits last week, more evidence that the Federal Reserve’s efforts to loosen the…

By FLORENT BAJRAMI and LLAZAR SEMINI Associated Press PRISTINA, Kosovo (AP) — Kosovo is celebrating 15 years of independence with a month of…

BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Serbia’s police say they have arrested five people on suspicion of calling for the violent overthrow of the Balkan…

By LLAZAR SEMINI Associated Press TIRANA, Albania (AP) — Albanian opposition supporters have protested anew outside the country’s Parliament as…

By LUIS ANDRES HENAO Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — At age 103, Sister Jean awakes daily at 5 a.m. She sits up quickly to avoid going to sleep…

BEIJING (AP) — China says more than 200 million of its citizens have been diagnosed and treated for COVID-19 since it lifted strict containment…

BERLIN (AP) — The Hannover State Opera says it’s ending its contract with ballet director Marco Goecke after he smeared dog feces on the face…

By KAREEM CHEHAYEB Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — The Red Cross’ global chief says Syria could face dangerous outbreaks of disease in the…

By JAMES ROBSON AP Soccer Writer MANCHESTER, England (AP) — After missing out on Chelsea last year, British businessman Martin Broughton knows how…

CAIRO (AP) — Egyptian authorities say six people were killed when a pickup truck and a minibus collided near Egypt’s eastern city of Ismailia.…

By OMAR AKOUR Associated Press AMMAN (AP) — A United Nations official says the death toll from the devastating 7.8 magnitude earthquake is likely…

By RISKA MUNAWARAH and YAYAN ZAMZAMI Associated Press ACEH BESAR, Indonesia (AP) — A boat carrying 71 weak and hungry Rohingya Muslims fleeing from…

By KIRSTEN GRIESHABER Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Tens of thousands of revelers danced in the streets of Cologne, Duesseldorf, Bonn and other…

By CARA ANNA Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Africa’s public health body says it hopes Mpox vaccines will finally arrive on the continent…

By STEPHEN WHYNO AP Hockey Writer The 2018 Olympics without NHL stars offered a glimpse of things to come for players who hadn’t yet reached…

ANKARA (AP) — NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg is urging Turkey to ratify the applications of Finland and Sweden to join the military…

BERLIN (AP) — The German news agency dpa is reporting that the websites of several German airports have been disrupted after what may have been a…

BEIJING (AP) — China and Iran have called on mutual neighbor Afghanistan to end restrictions on women’s work and education. The call came in…

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — The parliament of oil-rich Norway has announced that the Scandinavian country is donating 75 billion kroner ($7.4…

By STEPHEN McGRATH and CRISTIAN JARDAN Associated Press CHISINAU, Moldova (AP) — Moldovan lawmakers have voted in favor of a new government led by…

By SETH BORENSTEIN AP Science Writer Climate change isn’t causing the multi-year drought that is devastating parts of Argentina, Uruguay, Brazil…

By TANYA TITOVA and SUZAN FRASER Associated Press ANTAKYA, Turkey (AP) — The United Nations has launched a funding appeal for $1 billion to help…

By QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA Associated Press BAGHDAD (AP) — State media say three Iraqi troops have been killed after a suspected Islamic State militant…

MERIBEL, France (AP) — American skier Mikaela Shiffrin won the gold medal in the women’s giant slalom at the world championships on Thursday, a…

PARIS (AP) — France is bracing for a fifth day of nationwide strikes and protests against a pension reform that is the flagship policy of President…

By JUSTIN SPIKE Associated Press BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Nearly a year since fleeing Ukraine for Hungary amid the bombs and terror of Russia’s…

By SAMYA KULLAB Associated Press BUCHA, Ukraine (AP) — In the cemetery where Oleksii Zavadskyi and Yurii Stiahliuk are buried, the women they loved…

By MENELAOS HADJICOSTIS and JENNIFER McDERMOTT Associated Press NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — A devastating earthquake that toppled buildings across parts…

By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer BANGKOK (AP) — Shares slipped in Asia on Friday after benchmarks on Wall Street had their biggest drop in…

By ILAN BEN ZION Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Israel’s foreign minister is in Kyiv for the first public visit to Ukraine’s capital…

By JOHN LEICESTER and HANNA ARHIROVA Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — A senior Ukrainian official says Russia is using decoy missiles to fool…

LAHORE, Pakistan (AP) — Officials say a powerful explosion inside a moving passenger train has killed at least one person and wounded eight others…

HEBRON, West Bank (AP) — Israeli forces have demolished the home of a Palestinian behind a deadly shooting in the occupied West Bank. The home, in…

By RAHIM FAIEZ Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — A rare public show of division within the ranks of Afghanistan’s ruling Taliban emerged in…

By HUIZHONG WU Associated Press TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — The outgoing president of Paraguay, whose country is one of Taiwan’s few remaining…

By ADRIAN SAINZ Associated Press MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Two sheriff’s deputies who have been suspended for five days for their role in the…

By PATRICK ORSAGOS Associated Press EAST PALESTINE, Ohio (AP) — The head of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency got a first-hand look Thursday…