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By CLAIRE RUSH and GENE JOHNSON Associated Press PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Majiah Washington noticed a flash outside her home this week in Portland,…

NEW YORK (AP) — The world might see its first trillionaire sooner than you think. And that puts a spotlight on today’s richest 1%. In an…

By DIDI TANG Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Taiwan’s top diplomat in Washington has a message for both the island’s Chinese adversaries…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — South Korea is calling on the divided U.N. Security Council “to break the silence”…

SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif. (AP) — The family of a California college student who vanished nearly three decades ago has sued the school, alleging it…

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Jackson County Executive Frank White has vetoed an ordinance that would have put a 3/8th-cent sales tax renewal on the…

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A judge has sentenced an Iowa man to 65 years in prison for killing two students at a Des Moines alternative school and…

By The Associated Press Federal health officials are expanding a warning about salmonella poisoning tied to charcuterie meat snack trays sold at…

By ASTRID SUÁREZ Associated Press BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Colombian prosecutors say three people have been jailed in the kidnapping and killing of…

By PHILIP MARCELO Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The remains of a Long Island man killed at the World Trade Center on 9/11 have been identified…

By SUDHIN THANAWALA Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — The family of a church deacon who died after struggling with an Atlanta police officer…

By TOM ODULA Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — The African Union, European Union, United Nations and United States are calling for an…

By MARK SHERMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Lawyers for former President Donald Trump are urging the Supreme Court “to put a swift and…

By JACK DURA Associated Press BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — A North Dakota Republican lawmaker has been sentenced to serve nearly a year of unsupervised…

By JONEL ALECCIA AP Health Writer Aleph Farms of Israel has received the preliminary green light from health officials to produce and sell the…

By JULIE CARR SMYTH Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The Ohio Supreme Court has reinstated a judge’s order allowing the state to freeze…

By LISA MASCARO AP Congressional Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republicans are laying the groundwork for impeachment of Homeland Security…

BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) — Ice cream maker Ben & Jerry’s has reached its first contract agreement with workers at a retail shop in the Vermont…

By SOPHIA TAREEN and KATHLEEN FOODY Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — A Texas transportation company is taking the nation’s third largest city to…

By STEVE LeBLANC Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — Police arrested an American Airlines flight attendant on Thursday on suspicion of trying to…

By ALEX VEIGA AP Business Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — The average long-term U.S. mortgage rate fell this week to its lowest level since May, welcome…

By ADAM BEAM Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A California judge has ruled that the state does not have permission to borrow billions of…

By AARON BEARD AP Basketball Writer The arrival of the 3-point shot created more volatility at the top for The Associated Press men’s college…

VALLEJO, Calif. (AP) — The ordeal of a Northern California woman whose kidnapping from her boyfriend’s home was first dismissed as a hoax by law…

By MATTHEW BARAKAT Associated Press LEESBURG, Va. (AP) — A judge has postponed the sentencing of a former Virginia school system superintendent,…

By FARNOUSH AMIRI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Hunter Biden has agreed to appear before House Republicans for a private deposition next…

By R.J. RICO Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Officials say the longstanding and at times violent protests against Atlanta’s planned police and…

By JIM VERTUNO Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is seeking to end a whistleblower lawsuit by former top…

By MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — SpaceX has launched Turkey’s first astronaut along with a Swede and Italian to…

By JONATHAN MATTISE, ADRIAN SAINZ and KRISTIN HALL Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — At least 14 deaths in Tennessee have been linked to a…

By JEFF AMY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp is telling world business leaders that the state must increase its supply of…

ELLSWORTH, Maine (AP) — A wealthy attorney who twice ran for governor in Maine is out of jail after completing his sentence for possessing…

UVALDE, Texas (AP) — A scathing Justice Department report into law enforcement failures during the Robb Elementary School shooting in Uvalde,…

By The Associated Press Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania have externally attached a pig liver to a brain-dead human body and watched it…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico and Chile have asked the International Criminal Court to investigate possible crimes against civilians in Gaza and the…

By MARGERY A. BECK Associated Press LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Nebraska Gov. Jim Pillen covered everything from the state’s response to recent winter…

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — A New Hampshire man who pleaded guilty to making a threatening phone call to a member of Congress has been sentenced in…

By JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press DAVOS, Switzerland (AP) — The International Committee of the Red Cross has been losing influence, funding and…

By MELANIE LIDMAN Associated Press TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Hundreds of people gathered in Tel Aviv to mark the first birthday of Kfir Bibas, the…

ST. LOUIS (AP) — A former professional basketball player whose ex-girlfriend was sentenced to prison last year for fraud is now facing his own…

By KEVIN FREKING Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A bill to create a bipartisan commission that would tackle the nation’s soaring debt and make…

By MICHAEL GOLDBERG Associated Press/Report for America JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi’s State Health Officer says even as the state…

By PAT GRAHAM AP Sports Writer Shawn Barber, the Canadian pole vault record holder and 2015 world champion, has died from medical complications. He…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The federal judge overseeing the 2020 election interference against Donald Trump has rejected his lawyers’ bid to hold special…

By ALANIS THAMES AP Sports Writer MIAMI (AP) — A breakaway team of Cuban players who defected from the country had their club debut delayed this…

By CHRISTINA LARSON AP Science Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Scientists have mapped the largest coral reef deep in the ocean, stretching hundreds of…

By KATE BRUMBACK Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — The judge presiding over the Georgia prosecution of former President Donald Trump and others for…

NEW YORK (AP) — More than a half a million beds sold at retailers like Walmart and Wayfair are under recall because they can break during use,…

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Florida will seek to streamline regulations and offer incentives to help make health care more accessible under two bills…

By AMY TAXIN Associated Press SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) — A prosecutor has told jurors that a murder defendant acted callously in killing a 6-year-old…

By MICHAEL HILL Associated Press FORT EDWARD, N.Y. (AP) — The boyfriend of a 20-year-old woman fatally shot in the neck when they pulled into the…

BRATISLAVA, Slovakia (AP) — Thousands of people have rallied across Slovakia as protests intensify against a plan by the new government of…

By ISABELLA VOLMERT Associated Press INDIANPOLIS (AP) — The Indiana state House of Representatives has unanimously passed bill that defines…

By STEVE KARNOWSKI Associated Press ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Early voting in Minnesota’s Super Tuesday presidential primary begins Friday. The…

By AYANNA ALEXANDER and JONATHAN J. COOPER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A top No Labels leader says Nikki Haley “would deserve serious…

By JEFF AMY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — A billionaire couple is giving $100 million to Atlanta’s Spelman College, which the women’s school…

By CHRISTINA A. CASSIDY Associated Press When New Hampshire voters cast their ballots in Tuesday’s first-in-the-nation primary, many will do so…

By RIO YAMAT Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — The Nevada Supreme Court won’t reconsider former “Dances With Wolves” actor Nathan Chasing…

By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER and CLAUDIA LAUER Associated Press A Justice Department report details a myriad of failures by law enforcement who responded…

BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s parliament has approved legislation that is intended to ease deportations of unsuccessful asylum-seekers as…

NEW YORK (AP) — An estimated 320 journalists around the world were imprisoned because of their work toward the end of 2023. That’s from the…

By TOM ODULA Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Authorities in Kenya say a donkey cart carrying a suspected improvised bomb has blown up at a…

By MARY CLARE JALONICK and KEVIN FREKING Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Congress is expected to extend current spending and keep the federal…

By MIKE STOBBE AP Medical Writer NEW YORK (AP) — New research bolsters a push to use sewage to track more diseases in the U.S. Wastewater testing…

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkey’s leading soccer club Basaksehir says it’s parted ways with Israeli player Eden Karzev following a…

By MATTHEW LEE AP Diplomatic Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Secretary of State Antony Blinken is planning to visit four African countries as the Biden…

LJUBLJANA, Slovenia (AP) — Slovenia has decided to set up temporary facilities for handling migrant arrivals at the border with Croatia, citing a…

CHICAGO (AP) — A federal jury has convicted six alleged gang members in the 2020 fatal shooting of Chicago rapper FBG Duck. Jurors deliberated over…

By ZEKE MILLER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden said Thursday that U.S. military strikes against Iranian-back Houthi rebels…

By THOMAS ADAMSON AP Fashion Writer PARIS (AP) — Issey Miyake’s fall-winter collection has transformed the runway in Paris’ Palais de Tokyo…

By EVENS SANON Associated Press PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Gang members have raided a key community in Haiti’s capital that is home to numerous…

TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — A prominent human rights group in Belarus is calling on the United Nations’ special rapporteur for human rights in the…

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — Bitter cold weather is causing a rash of spills in the oil fields of North Dakota as well as a slowdown in production. North…

By SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin’s Republican Assembly majority leader says a GOP attempt to impeach…

By BABACAR DIONE Associated Press DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Senegal’s Karim Wade, who is the son of a former president, has renounced his French…

By RONALD BLUM Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Franz Welser-Möst is back on the Cleveland Orchestra’s podium, concentrating again on music…

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The Dallas Mavericks’ game at the Golden State Warriors scheduled for Friday night has been postponed following the…

BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s governing parties have assailed a resurgent far-right opposition party over a report that extremists recently met to…

BRUSSELS (AP) — NATO will launch next week its biggest wargames in decades with around 90,000 personnel set to take part in months-long military…

By FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. hit a United Arab Emirates shipping firm and its 18 vessels with sanctions after it…

By JAKE OFFENHARTZ and LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The writer who accused former President Donald Trump of sexually attacking…

By CHRIS MEGERIAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris are highlighting the battle over abortion…

MORONI, Comoros By NAZIR NAZI Associated Press (AP) — People have barricaded streets and burned tires as violent protests continue for a second day…