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By LINDSEY TANNER AP Medical Writer A devastating earthquake in Turkey and Syria has raised questions about how long people can survive in the…

By BASSEM MROUE and KAREEM CHEHAYEB Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — For years, the people of Aleppo bore the brunt of bombardment and fighting when…

By MIKE SCHNEIDER Associated Press ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Facing blowback, the director of Florida’s high school sports governing body is backing…

By EDDIE PELLS AP National Writer DENVER (AP) — More than two years since it was greenlighted by Congress, the panel established to probe the inner…

By STEFANIE DAZIO Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — California voters could decide whether to reinstate voting rights to people in prison on…

By JUSTIN SPIKE Associated Press ADANA, Turkey (AP) — They lifted slabs of cement with enormous cranes and smashed rubble with jackhammers. Then,…

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A herd of city goats well-known in Portland, Oregon, were temporarily set free Tuesday morning in what appeared to be an act…

By JUAN A. LOZANO and MICHAEL GRACZYK Associated Press HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) — Texas has executed an inmate convicted of killing three teenagers…

By JEFFREY COLLINS Associated Press Alex Murdaugh’s paralegal is testifying at his double murder trial about the betrayal she felt when she…

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Norway’s justice minister has apologized for having failed to admit, when quizzed in Parliament, that she had…

SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) — Bulgarian prosecutors have charged a former energy minister in the previous, pro-Western government with mismanagement that…

By RIO YAMAT Associated Press NORTH LAS VEGAS, Nev. (AP) — A former “Dances With Wolves” actor accused of sexually abusing Indigenous women and…

By KATHERINE ROTH Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — It was Valentine’s Day 1917 in the Minnesota farming village of Lewiston, and Fred Roth — a…

By MARY CLARE JALONICK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — As the new chairman of the Senate committee that oversees health and labor issues,…

By KIMBERLEE KRUESI and JONATHAN MATTISE Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A top Tennessee Republican lawmaker says the state should stop…

By ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Chinese surveillance balloon that traversed the United States before being shot down last…

By RAF CASERT and SAMUEL PETREQUIN Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — A whirlwind 36 hours are taking Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy from…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Authorities in northern Mexico say they have found the bodies of 14 people in an overturned pickup truck submerged in a canal.…

By BEN FINLEY Associated Press NORFOLK, Va. (AP) — The families of two students at a Virginia elementary school where a 6-year-old shot his teacher…

BOSTON (AP) — An effort to digitize more than 200 Boston Pops radio broadcasts conducted by John Williams from 1979 until 1991 is almost complete.…

NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump’s former lawyer Michael Cohen met yet again Wednesday with New York City prosecutors who have spent years examining…

By ANDREW DAMPF AP Sports Writer MERIBEL, France (AP) — Mikaela Shiffrin woke up to the news that LeBron James had broken the NBA scoring record…

By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press ROME (AP) — European bishops are demanding the immediate release of Nicaraguan clergy who have been detained in…

HAMDEN, Conn. (AP) — A Connecticut teenager has been jailed on numerous charges after a fight in school led to the discovery of a gun and a…

MADRID (AP) — Spain’s government has pledged stronger action against cybercrime, which has come to account for about a fifth of all offenses…

By EDMAR BARROS and FABIANO MAISONNAVE ALTO ALEGRE, Brazil (AP) — Brazilian authorities have launched an operation to reclaim Yanomami Indigenous…

By HANNA ARHIROVA Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian tennis player and Olympic bronze medalist Elina Svitolina has pushed for a total…

By GRAHAM DUNBAR AP Sports Writer GENEVA (AP) — The International Olympic Committee has pushed back against the mayor of Paris by insisting there…

By DIOMANDE BLE BLONDE and KRISTA LARSON Associated Press YAMOUSSOUKRO, Ivory Coast (AP) — Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel has been honored…

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Denmark’s royal palace says Queen Margrethe II will undergo “major back surgery” later this month. The palace said…

Associated Press KIGALI, Rwanda (AP) — A driver whose car hit and killed a Rwandan investigative journalist has pled guilty and been fined by the…

By NOEL SICHALWE Associated Press LUSAKA, Zambia (AP) — A Zambian official has announced that eight Croatians rearrested in the southern African…

By YURAS KARMANAU Associated Press TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — A Belarusian court has sentenced a journalist and prominent member of the…

By FRANCESCO SPORTELLI Associated Press FLORENCE, Italy (AP) — Visitors to one of Florence’s most iconic monuments — the Baptistry of San…

BRUSSELS (AP) — Authorities in Belgium seized about 1.5 million euros in cash during raids targeting an alleged criminal organization suspected of…

HELSINKI (AP) — Firefighters are working for a second day to fully extinguish a blaze at a U.S. company’s drone plant in Latvia. Local police…

By DOUG FEINBERG AP Basketball Writer Brittney Griner texted her good friend Diana Taurasi on Tuesday morning asking how the USA Basketball training…

By KELVIN CHAN AP Business Writer LONDON (AP) — Microsoft’s stalled $68.7 billion deal to buy video game company Activision Blizzard has hit a…

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — The world’s biggest shipper, Denmark’s A.P. Moeller-Maersk, says 2022 was its most profitable year but warned that a…

By TARA COPP Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The extraordinary scene of U.S. fighter jets getting ready to strike a Chinese balloon had many…

By DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — A jury sat solemnly in a gilded hall in central London on Tuesday, presided over by a bewigged…

By MATTHEW BROWN and SAM METZ Associated Press HARLOWTON, Mont. (AP) — Near the banks of Montana’s Musselshell River, cattle rancher Michael…

MOSCOW (AP) — Russian authorities have requested a lengthy prison term for a former regional governor who is standing trial on murder charges and…

By ANNIE MILLERBERND of NerdWallet The Inflation Reduction Act includes tax credits and rebates for homeowners who make energy-saving updates to…

By RONALD MONTOYA Edmunds Shopping for a new or used car over the last few years has become a frustrating and expensive undertaking. For those who…

By TOM MURPHY AP Health Writer Big money is pouring into primary care clinics as the nation’s health care giants hunt for ways to cut costs by…

PARIS (AP) — Hundreds of farmers have driven their tractors to Paris to amplify their demand to be allowed to use banned pesticides on sugar beets…

By ALFIAN KARTONO and NINIEK KARMINI Associated Press JAYAPURA, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesian security forces searched Wednesday for a pilot from New…

STOCKHOLM (AP) — Sweden’s domestic security agency says the threat of attacks in the Scandinavian country has increased since a far-right…

By RODNEY MUHUMUZA Associated Press KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — Ugandan authorities say they will not renew the mandate of the United Nations human…

By COLLEEN BARRY AP Fashion Writer MILAN (AP) — The only Black designer belonging to Italy’s fashion chamber withdrew Wednesday from this…

By DARLENE SUPERVILLE and CHRIS MEGERIAN Associated Press DeFOREST, Wis. (AP) — President Joe Biden has made Wisconsin his first stop after his…

By MIKE CORDER Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — International investigators found “strong indications” Russian President Vladimir…

BEIJING (AP) — China says it was smeared in U.S. President Joe Biden’s State of the Union address that repeatedly mentioned competition…

By JIM GOMEZ Associated Press SUBIC BAY, Philippines (AP) — The United States is rebuilding its military might in the Philippines more than 30…

By KRISHAN FRANCIS Associated Press COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lanka’s president has appealed for patience amid the country’s worst economic…

By JILL LAWLESS and SYLVIE CORBET Associated Press PARIS (AP) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy sought Western support for his country in…

By FIRDIA LISNAWATI Associated Press DENPASAR, Indonesia (AP) — Police on the Indonesian resort island of Bali have detained an Australian who is…

By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer BANGKOK (AP) — Shares have fallen in Asia after Wall Street gave back some of its recent gains on…

By ISABEL DEBRE Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Ratib Matar’s family was growing. They needed more space. Before his granddaughters, now 4 and…

HONG KONG (AP) — Walt Disney Co. has removed an episode from cartoon series The Simpsons that included a reference to “forced labor camps” in…

By FRANK JORDANS Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — The International Energy Agency says Asia will for the first time use half of the world’s…

By MUNIR AHMED Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan’s military says security forces acting on intelligence raided a Pakistani Taliban…

By BRITTANY PETERSON and SETH BORENSTEIN Associated Press Days after crews released and burned toxic chemicals transported by a wrecked train in…

BEIJING (AP) — The vice chair of Beijing-friendly opposition Nationalist Party from Taiwan is visiting China for meetings with officials and the…

By MORGAN LEE and PAUL J. WEBER Associated Press EL PASO, Texas (AP) — A Texas man has pleaded guilty to federal charges accusing him of killing…