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The Associated Press OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — Washington state Public Lands Commissioner Hilary Franz is dropping her bid for the governor’s office…

By STEPHEN GROVES and KEVIN FREKING Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — With just a week left to avert a government shutdown, new House Speaker Mike…

By ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON Associated Press Environmental activist Jill Stein is launching another long-shot Green Party bid for the presidency. The…

ALBION, Mich. (AP) — A man who was accused of breaking into a home and sexually assaulting an 11-year-old girl in southwestern Michigan is out of…

By MARY CLARE JALONICK and LISA MASCARO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell has been increasingly isolated…

DALLAS (AP) — The Dallas Mavericks are playing a home game in the NBA’s In-Season Tournament for the first time on Friday night. But they will do…

By JOCELYN NOVECK AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — He was a giant of 20th-century art, but that doesn’t mean Pablo Picasso needed a big canvas.…

By BABA AHMED Associated Press BAMAKO, Mali (AP) — A community leader in central Mali says that suspected Islamic extremists are holding about 30…

MILAN (AP) — The new creative director of Moschino, Davide Renne, has died of a sudden illness at the age of 46.  The owner of the Milan-based…

By GEOFF MULVIHILL Associated Press A federal judge and the U.S. Department of Justice this week said that states are going too far by trying to…

COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa (AP) — A man has been arrested in the alleged assault of former U.S. Sen. Martha McSally who says she was molested as she…

By JAMES ELLINGWORTH AP Sports Writer FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — Patrick Esume has been the face of NFL broadcasts in Germany for years and has…

By MOGOMOTSI MAGOME Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Niger fashion designer Alia Bare took center stage at the Joburg Fashion Week with a…

By TARA COPP Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The futuristic B-21 Raider warplane has taken its first flight, moving it closer to becoming the…

TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — A noted Belarusian dissident author says his father has been sentenced to two weeks in jail for reposting an article from…

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A $242 million overhaul will modernize the main terminal concourses and gate areas at Minneapolis-St. Paul International…

By SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A Wisconsin judge has ordered the former chief justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court to…

STOCKHOLM (AP) — Pressure is growing on Tesla in Sweden, where a trade union is demanding that the Texas-based automaker sign a collective…

By LAURIE KELLMAN Associated Press The Jordan River is a winding, 200-plus-mile run to the east of Israel and the occupied West Bank. The sea is the…

By MEG KINNARD and WILL WEISSERT Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris is in South Carolina filing paperwork putting…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — The top U.S. military officer says he has conveyed to China his hopes to resume the stalled…

By ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge in Florida declined for now to postpone former President Donald Trump’s…

The Associated Press MONROE, N.J. (AP) — A suspect in the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol has surrendered to police in New Jersey. The FBI says…

By MARY KATHERINE WILDEMAN, PETER PRENGAMAN and DOUG GLASS Associated Press Oil and gas companies have a large presence at international climate…

PARIS (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron says melting glaciers pose “an unprecedented challenge for humanity.” He spoke on Friday as a…

By JAN M. OLSEN Associated Press COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — A Norwegian citizen originally from Iran has been charged with aggravated terrorism…

ROCHESTER, N.Y. (AP) — Fans have pushed the Fisher-Price Corn Popper into the National Toy Hall of Fame. It joins baseball cards, Cabbage Patch…

By FADLAN SYAM and NINIEK KARMINI Associated Press JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Dozens of conservative Muslims are calling for the cancellation of…

By AAMER MADHANI and COLLEEN LONG Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping will meet Wednesday in…

By MATTHEW LEE AP Diplomatic Writer NEW DELHI (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Friday that “far too many” Palestinians have…

BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — Romania is pushing to buy 54 Abrams main battle tanks and related equipment from the United States in a deal worth at…

By JUAN A. LOZANO Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — A Texas judge has denied Republicans’ efforts to overturn election results in the nation’s…

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkey’s president has backpedaled after siding with a top appeals court that defied a Constitutional Court ruling…

CONSTANTINE, Algeria (AP) — An Algerian journalist who was expected to be released this week was kept behind bars in a move that surprised his…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated…

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — The leaders of Polish opposition parties have signed a coalition agreement that lays out a roadmap for governing the nation…

By CIARÁN GILES Associated Press MADRID (AP) — Acting Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez has signed an agreement with a small Basque party that…

By JUSTIN SPIKE Associated Press BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Hungary’s prime minister says Ukraine is not ready to begin talks on future membership…

PARIS (AP) — France says it has been the target of a Russian online destabilization campaign that used bots to whip up controversy and confusion…

LONDON (AP) — A British judge has ruled that a lawsuit by Prince Harry, Elton John and five other celebrities accusing a tabloid publisher of…

LONDON (AP) — Spirits and beer giant Diageo saw billions wiped off its market value on Friday after it warned that a sharp slowdown in its business…

By ADRIANA MORGA Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Last year, consumers lost $8.8 billion to scammers, and the Federal Trade Commission says older…

By JILL LAWLESS and HILARY FOX Associated Press OXFORD, England (AP) — Fans of Philip Pullman have been waiting almost five years for the final…

BEIJING (AP) — A government official from China’s Tibetan region has rejected allegations of forced assimilation and curbs on religious freedom,…

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Foreign dignitaries have gathered in Finland’s capital to bid farewell to former President Martti Ahtisaari, including…

By NAJIB JOBAIN, BASSEM MROUE and DAVID RISING Associated Press KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israeli strikes hit near several hospitals in Gaza…

By The Associated Press Russian President Vladimir Putin has visited his southern military headquarters as he assesses the state of his…

LONDON (AP) — The British economy flatlined in the third quarter of the year. The Office for National Statistics said Friday that growth in the…

By RAF CASERT Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — European Union institutions and conservationists have given a conditional and guarded welcome to a…

MANILA (AP) — Chinese and Philippine vessels have engaged in a new confrontation in the South China Sea, with Manila charging that a Chinese coast…

By NICK PERRY Associated Press WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Australia is offering the island nation of Tuvalu a lifeline to help residents escape…

GIOVANNA DELL’ORTO Associated Press LAÚNDOS, Portugal (AP) — Guilherme Peixoto, a village priest in northern Portugal, has been busy this…

By ZIMO ZHONG Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — Asian shares retreated Friday after rising bond market yields once again weighed on Wall Street,…

NEW DELHI (AP) — The diplomats and defense chiefs of India and the United States met Friday focusing on security issues involving the Indo-Pacific,…

By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Hollywood’s months of labor unrest are coming to an end, but the post-strike landscape that awaits…

By RICHARD LARDNER Associated Press YANKEETOWN, Fla. (AP) — A freshwater spring bubbles amid the mangroves, cabbage palms and red cedars on…

By STEVE PEOPLES AP National Political Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Joe Manchin’s decision not to seek reelection virtually ensures that the…

By MICHAEL R. BLOOD Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — More than a year after California endorsed a proposal to extend the lifespan of its last…

By JUSTIN SPIKE Associated Press BALATONOSZOD, Hungary (AP) — Zusha Pletnyov left his home in the eastern Ukrainian city of Luhansk in 2014, when…

By ELAINE GANLEY Associated Press PARIS (AP) — French far-right leader Marine Le Pen has set off a cacophony of criticism over her plans to attend…