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By DAVID A. LIEB Associated Press JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — The Missouri Supreme Court is considering whether changes should be made to the…

By JULIE CARR SMYTH Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Stanley J. Aronoff has died at age 91 after a long career that included nearly four…

By CLAIRE RUSH Associated Press SALEM, Ore. (AP) — The Oregon Supreme Court said Thursday that 10 Republican state senators who staged a…

By LAURAN NEERGAARD AP Medical Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Women are far more likely than men to get autoimmune diseases, illnesses like lupus or…

MOSCOW, Idaho (AP) — Attorneys for the man charged with stabbing four University of Idaho students to death in late 2022 are seeking a change of…

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Authorities have captured a man accused of taking a gun from the scene of a shooting inside a Philadelphia store that left a…

By STEPHEN WHYNO AP Sports Writer The Washington Commanders have an agreement with Dan Quinn to hire him as coach, two people with  knowledge of the…

By WAYNE PARRY Associated Press NORTH WILDWOOD, N.J. (AP) — New Jersey is refusing to allow a shore town whose sand dunes have washed away in…

By LOLITA C. BALDOR and TARA COPP Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin says he never directed anyone on his staff not…

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Police and student protesters have clashed in the center of the Greek capital after a demonstration against government plans…

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) — Harvard University’s Hasty Pudding Theatricals has named actor Annette Bening as its 2024 Woman of the Year. Bening…

By GARY GERARD HAMILTON Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Legendary Southern rapper Juvenile says he had been unaware of NPR’s Tiny Desk…

By MARIA SHERMAN AP Music Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — At the 2024 Grammys, boygenius — the major label rock band built of Phoebe Bridgers, Julien…

By COLLEEN LONG, ZEKE MILLER and AAMER MADHANI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden’s is expected to issue an executive order…

By ED WHITE Associated Press PONTIAC, Mich. (AP) — Jurors in Michigan have seen portions of a journal written by a teen before he shot up his…

MOSCOW (AP) — A Russian court has ordered a detained Russian-American journalist to be held in jail for two more months pending her trial on…

By JULIE CARR SMYTH Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A task force convened by Republican Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine after a deadly school bus…

By WYATTE GRANTHAM-PHILIPS AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — TikTok may look (or sound) a little different when you scroll through the app going…

LONDON (AP) — A Conservative lawmaker says he will step down when an election is called later this year because of abuse and death threats. Mike…

PARIS (AP) — France’s two major farmers unions have announced their decision to suspend protests and lift road blockades across the country. The…

By MELISSA RAYWORTH Associated Press Political polarization. Economic struggles. Inequity. Climate change. War. In a world like ours, you can hardly…

CHICAGO (AP) — More than 200 reporters, photographers and other staffers with the Chicago Tribune and six other newsrooms around the nation began a…

By NINIEK KARMINI Associated Press JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesia’s top security minister says that President Joko Widodo has accepted his…

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — A military veteran who helped subdue a man who attacked Connecticut’s first Muslim state representative is seeking to…

BERLIN (AP) — Austrian prosecutors have appealed a court decision that a man who kept his daughter captive for 24 years and raped her thousands of…

By DASHA LITVINOVA Associated Press Imprisoned opposition leader Alexei Navalny is urging Russians to show their protest of President Vladimir Putin…

By MATT OTT AP Business Writer The number of Americans filing for jobless benefits rose last week to the highest level in 11 weeks, though layoffs…

By ILLIA NOVIKOV Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine is claiming it used sea drones to sink a Russian corvette in the Black Sea during a…

By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press ROME (AP) — Street artist Maupal, whose cartoon-like depictions of Pope Francis as a “Super Pope” have…

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Authorities are searching for migrants missing off Puerto Rico’s northwest coast after a crowded boat capsized,…

By KEN SWEET AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — American Express is rolling out several updates to its Delta SkyMiles credit cards that will give…

By BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Climate activist Greta Thunberg is on trial for protesting outside a major oil and gas industry…

TIRANA, Albania (AP) — Albania’s Institute of Statistics says it suffered a cyberattack which affected some of its systems. The institute said in…

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran began construction on four more nuclear power plants in the country’s south, with expected total capacity of 5,000…

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Yemen’s Houthi rebels have fired two ballistic missiles at a Liberian-flagged container ship in…

By STEPHEN McGRATH and AUREL OBREJA Associated Press CHISINAU, Moldova (AP) — Several thousand people from a Russia-friendly party have protested…

NEW DELHI (AP) — Indian police cleared a suspected Chinese spy pigeon after eight months’ detention and released it into the wild Tuesday, news…

LONDON (AP) — Oil giant Shell saw profits tumble by nearly a third in 2023 as a result of lower oil and gas prices, which had surged the year…

LONDON (AP) — A woman and her two young daughters are in a hospital with serious injuries after a man threw a corrosive substance at them in south…

By RALPH D. RUSSO AP College Sports Writer Years of fighting losing battles have left the NCAA almost helpless to defend itself. The legal pile-on…

By JOSEPH WILSON and EMILIO MORENATTI The Associated Press GUALBA, Spain (AP) — Spain’s northeast Catalonia is preparing to declare a drought…

By JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press GENEVA (AP) — Julius Baer says its CEO is resigning and the Swiss bank is quitting the private debt business as…

By The Associated Press Elon Musk wants Tesla investors to decide on moving the company’s corporate listing to Texas after a Delaware court decided…

ZENEL ZHINIPOTOKU and LLAZAR SEMINI Associated Press PRISTINA, Kosovo (AP) — The European Union on Thursday called on Kosovo to postpone an effort…

LONDON (AP) — A judge in London on Thursday threw out a lawsuit by former U.S. President Donald Trump accusing a former British spy of making…

By GRANT PECK Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — When the army overthrew Myanmar’s elected government in 2021, it looked like a walkover that could…

By DAVID McHUGH AP Business Writer FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — Inflation is headed down in Europe. The official figure came in at 2.8% on Thursday.…

By JAMIE STENGLE Associated Press DALLAS (AP) — A Dallas pastor is the new head of the Rainbow PUSH Coalition civil rights group, stepping into the…

By JOEY CAPPELLETTI and COLLEEN LONG Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — President Joe Biden is planning to celebrate his recent endorsement by the…

SYDNEY (AP) — New Zealand’s government says it will contemplate sharing advanced military technologies with the United States and Britain as…

By FRANK BAJAK AP Technology Writer A new report says Israeli-made Pegasus spyware was used in Jordan to hack the cellphones of nearly three dozen…

BERLIN (AP) — Official figures show that German beer sales dropped 4.5% last year, resuming a long-term downward trend. The Federal Statistical…

By ASHOK SHARMA Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — India’s finance minister has unveiled a short-term budget to meet government expenditures until…

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Residents of central Norway have awoken to scenes of havoc and homes without power following the country’s most…

By PAN PYLAS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The Bank of England is expected to keep its main interest rate at near 16-year highs and indicate that…

By MELANIE LIDMAN Associated Press TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — A dissident Russian rock band angered by Moscow’s war in Ukraine has arrived in Israel…

By LORNE COOK and SAMUEL PETREQUIN Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — European Union leaders are gathering on Thursday to shore up financial support…

By CHRISTOPHER BODEEN Associated Press TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — A member of Taiwan’s pro-unification Nationalists has been elected speaker of the…

By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer BANGKOK (AP) — Asian shares were mixed on Thursday after Wall Street fell to its worst loss since September…

By SIMINA MISTREANU Associated Press TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — A new report says automakers including Tesla, General Motors, Volkswagen and Toyota are…

By JOHN ANTCZAK Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — The first of two back-to-back atmospheric rivers is drenching Northern California. Heavy rain…

BERLIN (AP) — Most of Germany’s major airports canceled scores of flights after security workers launched a one-day strike to step up pressure in…

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — A South Korean judge has convicted a man of murder for an unprovoked car-and-stabbing rampage that killed two people and…

By RAF CASERT Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — Convoys with hundreds of angry farmers driving heavy-duty tractors are advancing toward European…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Tokyo’s fish market has opened a long-awaited outer section with Japanese-style seafood…

QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) — The bodies of nine Pakistani laborers killed by gunmen in Iran have been returned to Pakistan. It was still unclear who was…

By JOSHUA GOODMAN and JIM MUSTIAN Associated Press MIAMI (AP) — It was a plan the United States knew from the start would arguably violate…

By JOSHUA GOODMAN and JIM MUSTIAN Associated Press MIAMI (AP) — A secret memo obtained by The Associated Press details a yearslong covert operation…

By MICHAEL R. BLOOD and CHRISTOPHER WEBER Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — The slayings of six men last week at a remote desert crossroads that…

By MARYCLAIRE DALE AP Legal Affairs Writer PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Nearly 3,500 people have been exonerated of crimes in the U.S. since 1989, and $4…

By RAF CASERT Associated Press HALLE, Belgium (AP) — European farmers have been taking their anger to the streets before Thursday’s European…

By KRISTEN GELINEAU Associated Press SYDNEY (AP) — Across a treacherous stretch of water, the Rohingya came by the thousands, then died by the…

By DAVID SHARP Associated Press AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — An independent commission investigating events leading up to the deadliest mass shooting in…

By DAVID BAUDER AP Media Writer NEW YORK (AP) — At this moment in the 2024 election cycle, complaining about Fox News — even if for different…

By CHRISTINE FERNANDO, EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS and JACK DURA Associated Press Republicans are challenging extended mail ballot deadlines in at least two…

By SUZAN FRASER Associated Press ANTAKYA, Turkey (AP) — A massive rebuilding effort is underway as Turkey marks the first anniversary of the…

By ABBY SEWELL and MELANIE LIDMAN Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — The prospect of a full-scale war between Israel and Lebanon’s Hezbollah militia…

By JOSH BOAK and EMILY SWANSON Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Stocks are near record highs. Growth was surprisingly strong last year. And…

By MEGAN JANETSKY Associated Press SAN SALVADOR (AP) — To many, El Salvador President Nayib Bukele is a national hero who took on the country’s…