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By MATTHEW LEE AP Diplomatic Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Monday was supposed to be a day of modest hope in the U.S.-China relationship. Secretary of…

By JEFFREY COLLINS Associated Press A judge has ruled he will allow jurors to hear evidence that disgraced South Carolina attorney Alex Murdaugh was…

KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) — Officials say a plane transporting the body of Pakistan’s former president Pervez Musharraf from the  United Arab…

By JAMES POLLARD Associated Press/Report for America COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A federal appeals court has denied South Carolina Republicans’ motion…

By GERALD IMRAY AP Sports Writer Former Chelsea and Newcastle forward Christian Atsu is missing and believed to be trapped under rubble following the…

By MEHMET GUZEL and ZEYNEP BILGINSOY Associated Press ADANA, Turkey (AP) — Rescuers called out, “Slowly, slowly,” as they lifted a man inch by…

By ZEKE MILLER, LOLITA C. BALDOR and AAMER MADHANI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. officials say efforts ordered by President Joe Biden to…

By BRUCE SCHREINER Associated Press FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Bourbon tourism reached new heights last year in Kentucky. Attendance at distilleries…

WAILUKU, Hawaii (AP) — Officials say a firefighter who was swept into a storm drain while responding to a storm on the Hawaiian island of Maui died…

By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Middle seats at many U.S. movie theaters just got more expensive. AMC Theaters, the nation’s…

By GRAHAM DUNBAR AP Sports Writer GENEVA (AP) — The English Premier League vs. Manchester City: a legal fixture for the ages. Soccer’s richest…

By PATRICK WHITTLE Associated Press PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — The rules about the minimum and maximum sizes of lobsters that can be trapped off New…

By ANTHONY IZAGUIRRE Associated Press TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis could take control over the board of a special governing…

By MAE ANDERSON AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The hottest ticket in town for advertisers is officially sold out. Fox said Monday that in-game…

By JIM SALTER Associated Press ST. LOUIS (AP) — Missouri Gov. Mike Parson will not grant clemency and halt the execution of Raheem Taylor, who…

By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — While TV writers Casey Johnson and David Windsor were winding down the emotional roller…

By BABA AHMED Associated Press BAMAKO, Mali (AP) — Mali’s government has ordered the U.N. peacekeeping mission’s human rights chief to leave…

MOSCOW (AP) — Russia’s finance ministry says budget revenue in January was 35% lower compared with the same month in 2022. That’s the last…

By KEVIN McGILL Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — COVID-19 vaccinations are no longer required for military personnel. But that hasn’t ended…

By The Associated Press Many governments have rushed to dispatch aid, personnel and equipment to help the rescue efforts in quake-stricken areas of…

ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. (AP) — A Florida teenager has pleaded guilty to fatally stabbing a 13-year-old classmate 114 times in 2021. Sixteen-year-old…

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — A major hospital system in northern Florida is seeing clinic patients again, days after a security problem forced it to…

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Police say three tourists from the U.S. mainland were stabbed in Puerto Rico after someone told them to stop filming…

By MADDIE BURAKOFF AP Science Writer NEW YORK (AP) — A major 7.8 magnitude earthquake centered in Turkey has caused widespread damage across the…

MOSCOW (AP) — A court in Moscow has sentenced a popular cookbook author and blogger to nine years in prison after convicting her in absentia of…

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A $747 million Powerball jackpot will be up for grabs Monday night for players willing to risk $2 against the long, long…

NEW YORK (AP) — Amy Chua, the Yale Law School professor and author sometimes known as “Tiger Mom,” has written her first novel. “The Golden…

By TERRY TANG Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Private jet-setters are the reason every Super Bowl comes with super-size air traffic. Officials…

By JIM SALTER Associated Press ST. LOUIS (AP) — For decades, Missouri executions played out in similar fashion: An inmate was strapped to a gurney…

By AAMER MADHANI and COLLEEN LONG Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Expect lots of new faces and fresh political dynamics as President Joe Biden…

By WANJOHI KABUKURU Associated Press MOMBASA, Kenya (AP) — Indian Ocean states agreed Monday to temporarily halt the use of industrial fishing gear…

MILLER PLACE, N.Y. (AP) — Police say an 82-year-old woman was pronounced dead at a New York nursing home but found to be breathing three hours…

By PATRICK ORSAGOS and JOHN SEEWER Associated Press EAST PALESTINE, Ohio (AP) — Crews released toxic chemicals into the air from five derailed…

NEW YORK (AP) — The latest picture book collaboration between Julie Andrews and daughter Emma Walton Hamilton was inspired by an unusual musical…

By ANDREW DAMPF AP Sports Writer MERIBEL, France (AP) — Practically the only person not asking Mikaela Shiffrin if this was the Beijing Olympics…

MADRID (AP) — Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez is urging the European Union to “reindustrialize” to end its dependence on energy,…

BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — A small earthquake rumbled through western New York early Monday, alarming people in a region unaccustomed to such shaking but…

By MICHELLE CHAPMAN AP Business Writer The National Enquirer, the scandal-plagued tabloid that engaged in “catch-and-kill” practices to bury…

By SUSIE BLANN Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian forces are keeping Ukrainian troops tied down with attacks in the eastern Donbas…

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s Defense Ministry says Patriot missile batteries acquired from the U.S. last year have been deployed to the…

PARIS (AP) — Media watchdog Reporters Without Borders along with 14 French media outlets and production companies are calling on Afghanistan’s…

By LIZ WESTON of NerdWallet Delaying the start of Social Security retirement benefits can dramatically increase your monthly benefit and your…

By GHAITH ALSAYED and ABBY SEWELL Associated Press DARKUSH, Syria (AP) — The deadly 7.8 earthquake that struck Turkey near the Syrian border has…

BERLIN (AP) — German authorities say European investigators have shut down an encrypted communication service that was used as a secure channel for…

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — The government of oil-rich Norway is looking to donate 75 billion kroner ($7.3 billion) in a multi-year support package…

By STEVE DOUGLAS AP Sports Writer Manchester City was accused by the Premier League on Monday of providing misleading information about its finances…

By TALES AZZONI AP Sports Writer MADRID (AP) — The hate attacks against Vinícius Júnior continued in Spain over the weekend. The Brazil forward…

MERIBEL, France (AP) — Italian skier Federica Brignone won the women’s combined race Monday on the opening day of the world championships after…

By KAWEEWIT KAEWJINDA Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — Concerns about the medical condition of two hunger strikers seeking political and judicial…

By ANNE D’INNOCENZIO AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — When the pandemic threat eased, Maureen Holohan was eager to scale back her online…

By EVELYNE MUSAMBI Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — A judge in Kenya has ruled that Facebook’s parent company, Meta, can be sued in the…

By CALVIN WOODWARD and JOSH BOAK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A president’s State of the Union address has a predictable formula. But…

By CALVIN WOODWARD and JOSH BOAK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — If you’ve heard it once in a president’s State of the Union speech,…

By ZEN SOO and KANIS LEUNG Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong’s top court has ruled that full sex reassignment surgery should not be a…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Tens of thousands of nurses and ambulance staff walked off the job in the U.K. on Monday in what…

By ABDUL SATTAR Associated Press QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistani officials say a bombing killed a soldier and wounded 11 others, mostly…

By KRUTIKA PATHI Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — Hundreds of demonstrators from India’s main opposition party turned out Monday in…

By MARIA CHENG AP Medical Writer LONDON (AP) — A confidential U.N. report into the alleged missteps by senior World Health Organization staffers in…

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — High winds and a cold snap in Greece have halted ferry services and highway traffic and dusted the Acropolis and other…

By LLAZAR SEMINI Associated Press PRISTINA, Kosovo (AP) — Kosovar Prime Minister Albin Kurti has called on Western powers not to pressure his tiny…

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — An Iranian singer who faces possible prison time for his song that’s become…

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australian and Chinese trade ministers are holding their first bilateral meeting since…

By KANIS LEUNG Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — Some of Hong Kong’s best-known pro-democracy activists have gone on trial in the biggest…

By MUNIR AHMED Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — A spokesperson for Pakistan’s media regulator says it has blocked Wikipedia for hurting Muslim…

By JOHNSON LAI Associated Press TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — A group of Swiss lawmakers has met with Taiwan’s president and said their government wants…

By JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — Asian stock markets have rebounded after Wall Street sank under pressure from worries about…

By RIAZAT BUTT Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — On Islamabad’s outskirts, burly men bind together in a scrum on a rugby pitch that has seen…

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

By ASHOK SHARMA and DAVID RISING Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — India is preparing to relaunch its INS Vikramaditya aircraft carrier after a…