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By ANDREW MELDRUM Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has held an emotional meeting with the families of…

By ANNIE MA and BEN FINLEY Associated Press As kids’ behavior reaches crisis points after the stress and isolation of pandemic shutdowns, many…

By FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press GOREE ISLAND, Senegal (AP) — U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen paid a solemn visit Saturday to the…

JERUSALEM (AP) — The Palestinian Health Ministry says an Israeli fatally shot a 42-year-old Palestinian in a West Bank settler outpost. The Israeli…

VISEGRAD, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) — Tons of waste dumped in poorly regulated riverside landfills or directly into the waterways that flow across…

SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — Elizabeth Holmes is a flight risk and shouldn’t be allowed to stay out of prison while she appeals her 11-year prison…

By KARL RITTER and ZEYNEP BILGINSOY Associated Press STOCKHOLM (AP) — Turkey has canceled a planned visit by Sweden’s defense minister in…

By ARSENE KABORE Associated Press OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso (AP) — Burkina Faso’s army has freed 66 women and children who were abducted…

By SARA BURNETT Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — Lori Lightfoot made history four years ago as the first Black woman and first openly gay person to…

WASHINGTON (AP) — A surge in Cuban and Nicaraguan arrivals at the U.S. border with Mexico in December led to the highest number of illegal border…

By SEUNG MIN KIM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House says President Joe Biden “looks forward” to sitting down with new House…

By JACQUES BILLEAUD Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Arizona’s attorney general has put a hold on executions in the state until the completion of…

SAN DIEGO (AP) — San Diego County will pay $12 million to settle a lawsuit by the family of a man who died after he was beaten, shocked with a stun…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — The head of a U.N. nuclear agency task force assessing the safety of Japan’s plan to release…

By ADRIAN SAINZ Associated Press MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Officials say five Memphis Police Department officers have been fired for excessive use of…

By FELICIA FONSECA Associated Press The Navajo Nation has rescinded a mask mandate that’s been in effect since the early days of the…

By LISA BAUMANN The Associated Press A bill under consideration in Washington would make it the second state in the country to lower the legal limit…

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — A judge has issued a temporary restraining order blocking the new Illinois law banning assault-style weapons and…

OTTAWA, Ontario (AP) — A judge has ordered the Canadian government to help bring home four Canadian men being held in Syrian camps. Federal Court…

By SUSAN HAIGH Associated Press Supporters of taxes on the very rich contend that people are emerging from the COVID-19 pandemic with a bigger…

By ELLEN KNICKMEYER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Taiwan has learned important lessons from Ukraine’s war that would help it deter any…

By JENNIFER McDERMOTT Associated Press The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission has certified the design for what will be the United States’…

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — A powerful magnitude 6.8 earthquake has shaken northern Argentina but there are no immediate reports of damages. The…

CHICAGO (AP) — A man considered one of the chief aides to convicted drug boss Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzman has pleaded guilty in Chicago federal…

By TERRY TANG The Associated Press LAVEEN VILLAGE, Ariz. (AP) — During seventh grade at Phoenix Indian School, Pershlie Ami signed up to go on what…

By JOHN RABY Associated Press CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A coal company owned by the family of West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice has agreed to reclaim…

By KATHLEEN FOODY Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — Secretary of State Antony Blinken says that two years into President Joe Biden’s…

By MATTHEW BARAKAT Associated Press ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) — A jury has rejected a woman’s allegations that a former police chief in Virginia and…

By LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer PARK CITY, Utah (AP) — Brooke Shields reveals that she was the victim of a sexual assault in a new documentary about…

By MORGAN LEE Associated Press SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — Alec Baldwin faces two types of manslaughter charges in a reckoning on gun safety and the film…

By ED WHITE Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — A judge on Friday dismissed a lawsuit over control of an 1888 painting by Vincent van Gogh, saying…

By LEAH WILLINGHAM Associated Press CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — West Virginia university leaders are urging lawmakers to reconsider a bill advancing…

By KIMBERLEE KRUESI Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Documents show that top Tennessee health officials attempted to oust Planned…

By NICK PERRY Associated Press WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Education Minister Chris Hipkins is set to become New Zealand’s next prime…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department says two businessmen have been charged with trying to conceal a sanctioned Russian oligarch’s ownership…

BOSTON (AP) — Federal prosecutors say a subsidiary of health care company Johnson & Johnson has agreed to pay nearly $10 million to settle…

SANICH, British Columbia (AP) — Canadian police say twin brothers who died in a hail of gunfire last summer outside a British Columbia bank had…

By MATTHEW BARAKAT AP Business Writer ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) — Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin says the state has reached a deal with Amazon Web…

By MICHAEL LIEDTKE AP Technology Writer SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Elon Musk took the witness stand Friday to defend a 2018 tweet claiming he had lined…

By LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press A former U.S. Navy SEAL was killed Wednesday in Ukraine. That’s according to American officials who say he…

CUMBERLAND, R.I. (AP) — A young Rhode Island girl has finally figured out how to determine if Santa Claus is real — DNA. Cumberland police Chief…

By LEA SKENE BALTIMORE (AP) — Baltimore’s new top prosecutor, Ivan Bates, announced Friday that he’ll personally prosecute a defendant who was…

By REBECCA BOONE Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Twenty-two regional and national news organizations have formed a coalition to ask a judge to…

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Police are investigating after gunfire erupted at a Kansas City funeral home, leaving three people with gunshot injuries…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — A delegation led by the highest-ranking woman at the United Nations has urged the…

SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) — A lawsuit claims Disneyland employees snickered at a disabled woman struggling to get off a Jungle Cruise boat before she…

ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) — Michigan has fired co-offensive coordinator Matt Weiss. The move comes amid an investigation by campus police into possible…

By LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer PARK CITY, Utah (AP) — There is quite a bit of history between the team behind “Theater Camp,” a loving satire…

By GENE JOHNSON and MARK THIESSEN Associated Press ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — For isolated communities at the top of the world, keeping the…

BERLIN (AP) — Authorities in southern Germany say efforts to put out a fire on a train turned into a spectacular chase after the driverless diesel…

By MARGERY A. BECK Associated Press OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — The Nebraska Supreme Court has upheld a lower court judge’s ruling that sided with…

By JOHN O’CONNOR and KATHLEEN FOODY Associated Press SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Two Illinois emergency medical professionals should be tried on…

By AAMER MADHANI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Treasury Department will impose additional sanctions on the Russian private military…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has been fined by police for taking off his seat belt to film a…

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. (AP) — Defense lawyers are asking for a University of Alabama basketball player charged with capital murder to be released on…

By TRISHA AHMED Associated Press/Report for America As more than a dozen states consider passing anti-transgender legislation this year, North Dakota…

By The Associated Press This week’s new entertainment releases include fresh albums from Sam Smith and Elle King, the return of Jennifer Lopez in…

By ANDREW DAMPF AP Sports Writer ROME (AP) — Italy’s most storied soccer club Juventus has been hit with a massive 15-point penalty for false…

ELIZABETHTOWN, Ky. (AP) — A towering Denny’s Restaurant sign in central Kentucky fell on a car during high winds, killing a woman and…

By ADRIAN SAINZ Associated Press MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — The defense attorney for a man charged with fatally shooting rapper Young Dolph has asked a…

By COLLEEN SLEVIN Associated Press BRIGHTON, Colo. (AP) — A group of police officers and paramedics pleaded not guilty Friday to charges stemming…

By AARON MORRISON AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Administrators of a trust fund established to preserve historic Black churches in the United…

By DÁNICA COTO Associated Press SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — An investigation into a private investment firm in Jamaica where $12.7 million…