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By HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Barbra Streisand’s very long and very long-awaited memoir, a project she has talked about…

MILWAUKEE (AP) — Police say a Milwaukee police officer was fatally shot early Tuesday during an exchange of gunfire with a 19-year-old robbery…

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is set Tuesday night to deliver his second State of the Union address. The annual speech, delivered before a…

MOSCOW (AP) — A court in Moscow has upheld an earlier verdict to revoke the license of a top independent newspaper that has been critical of the…

By MARK SCOLFORO Associated Press HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Democrats have won control of the Pennsylvania House by sweeping three special elections,…

BRUSSELS (AP) — Belgian authorities say they have detained 25 people as part of a human trafficking probe targeting an alleged criminal…

By MARÍA TERESA HERNÁNDEZ Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mezcal is not your ordinary pet. Hundreds of years ago the Latin American…

WINTER HAVEN, Fla. (AP) — A man suspected in a mass shooting in central Florida last month was fatally shot by a police officer following a long…

By GLENN GAMBOA AP Business Writer Philanthropy research organization Candid is leading a coalition of funders and grantees looking to standardize…

LONDON (AP) — A former London police officer has been sentenced to life in prison with a minimum term of 30 years for raping and sexually…

BERLIN (AP) — German media group RTL Deutschland says it will stop publishing almost two dozen print magazines and seek to sell a similar number.…

PARIS (AP) — Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo says no Russian team should not be allowed to compete at the Paris Olympics next year if Moscow continues its…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has shaken up his government in a bid to assert control amid…

BERLIN (AP) — The German government has announced that it is appointing the European Central Bank’s head of IT systems to lead Germany’s…

By KAREEM CHEHAYEB Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanon’s battered commercial banks have closed their doors to customers in protest of a recent…

BANGKOK (AP) — An overnight rescue operation has successfully retrieved a 19-month-old girl from a dry artesian well shaft, 18 hours after she fell…

By MIKE CORDER Associated Press AMSTERDAM (AP) — A blockbuster exhibition at the Netherlands’ national museum of art and history is bringing…

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — A former principal at a Jewish girls’ school in the Australian city of Melbourne will go on trial Wednesday on 29…

By TIM REYNOLDS AP Basketball Writer Courtside seats 166 and 167 at the arena where the Los Angeles Lakers play their home games are pretty much as…

The Associated Press Rock star Bono, the family of Tyre Nichols and the 26-year-old who disarmed a gunman in last month’s Monterey Park,…

JAYAPURA, Indonesia (AP) — Separatist rebels say they have set fire to a small plane carrying six people after it landed at a remote airport in…

By KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — A South Korean court has ordered the government to pay $24,000 to a Vietnamese woman…

By SUSIE BLANN Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian shelling damaged a hospital and apartment buildings in Ukraine, local officials said…

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Three migrants died and 16 have been rescued off the Greek island of Lesbos after a dinghy transporting them from the nearby…

PERTH, Australia (AP) — Two pilots walked away with minor injuries after a Boeing 737 jet converted for firefighting crashed in Australia,…

By GERALD IMRAY AP Sports Writer The Ghana Football Association says former Chelsea and Newcastle forward Christian Atsu has been rescued from the…

By THOMAS ADAMSON and JADE LE DELEY Associated Press PARIS (AP) — Public transport, schools and electricity supplies have been disrupted in France…

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Denmark’s defense minister has taken a leave of absence for an undetermined period of time after he felt unwell and…

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Japanese video game maker Nintendo has recorded a slight drop in in profit for April-December as…

By MUNIR AHMED Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan has lifted its ban on Wikipedia services that were blocked last week by the country’s…

By DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — British energy firm BP has reported record annual earnings amid growing calls for the U.K.…

By JIM SALTER Associated Press BONNE TERRE, Mo. (AP) — A Missouri man convicted of killing his live-in girlfriend and her three young children has…

By BERNARD CONDON, JIM MUSTIAN and ADRIAN SAINZ Associated Press MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Beyond the beating, kicking, cursing and pepper spraying,…

By MEHMET GUZEL, GHAITH ALSAYED and SUZAN FRASER Associated Press NURDAGI, Turkey (AP) — Rescuers raced against time early Wednesday to pull…

SEATTLE (AP) — Boeing plans to make staffing cuts in the aerospace company’s finance and human resources departments in 2023, with a loss of…

By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer BANGKOK (AP) — Shares are mixed in Asia after stocks rallied on Wall Street following comments by the chair…

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australian and New Zealand prime ministers are meeting to talk about China’s…

By ZEKE MILLER, SEUNG MIN KIM and LISA MASCARO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden exhorted Congress Tuesday night to work with…

By LISA MASCARO AP Congressional Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) — When lawmakers gather for President Joe Biden’s State of the Union address,…

By ANDREW DeMILLO Associated Press LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders painted a dystopian portrait of the country in the…

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australia’s central bank has lifted its benchmark interest rate for a ninth…

AUBURN, Wash. (AP) — A single winning ticket for a $754.6 million Powerball jackpot was sold at a department store in a Seattle suburb, Washington…

By TARA COPP Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Another intruder has breached the home of Air Force One, one of the nation’s most sensitive…

By JANIE McCAULEY AP Sports Writer SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Simu Liu, who’s best known for playing Marvel superhero Shang-Chi, wants everyone who…

MCKEESPORT, Pa. (AP) — A man having a “mental health crisis” shot and killed a police officer, wounded a second and fired at a third before…

By KIMBERLEE KRUESI and JONATHAN MATTISE Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee has unveiled plans to funnel tens of…

By JAMIE STENGLE Associated Press Harry Whittington, the man who former Vice President Dick Cheney accidentally shot while they were hunting quail on…

By DAVE COLLINS Associated Press A new report says nearly 150 New York City police officers committed misconduct, including using excessive force,…

LIMA, Peru (AP) — Landslides triggered by steady rains swept mud, water and rocks into several villages in southern Peru, killing at least 36…

By KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has ordered his military to expand its combat…

By KAREN MATTHEWS NEW YORK (AP) — New York City is ending its COVID-19 vaccination mandate for municipal employees including police officers,…

FARGO, N.D. (AP) — A Minnesota man has been sentenced to life in prison after he pleaded guilty to three counts of murder in the deaths of two…

KALAMAZOO, Mich. (AP) — A man has been sentenced to five years in prison for setting fires at a Planned Parenthood clinic in southwestern Michigan.…

By BRUCE SCHREINER Associated Press FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Republican Kelly Craft is facing turbulence over a recent ad about her bid to become…

By DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Britcoin is moving closer to reality. U.K. authorities say British businesses and consumers are…

By MARK THIESSEN Associated Press ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — A polar bear that killed a young mother and her baby last month in western Alaska was…

By NARDOS HAILE Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A night in music brimming with shocking upsets, historic wins, tributes for artists like the late…

NEW YORK (AP) — A man charged with attacking police with a machete near New York’s Times Square on New Year’s Eve has been transferred…

By TERRY SPENCER Associated Press FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla (AP) — The trial of a Florida nursing home administrator accused of causing the overheating…

By DENISE LAVOIE and BEN FINLEY Associated Press RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — An attorney for a teacher who was shot and wounded by a 6-year-old Virginia…

CHICAGO HEIGHTS, Ill. (AP) — Fire swept through a large commercial warehouse in suburban Chicago, producing a smoke plume that could be seen for…

NOGALES, Ariz. (AP) — A rancher who lives near Arizona’s border with Mexico is being held on a charge of first-degree murder in last week’s…

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — The Alabama attorney general argued an inmate did not suffer unconstitutionally during an aborted lethal injection last…

By PAUL J. WEBER and ACACIA CORONADO Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Like thousands of other Austin residents, Darin Murphy began a sixth day…

By JOHN COON Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — When the NBA All-Star Game returns to Salt Lake City for the first time in three decades, Utah…