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WASHINGTON (AP) — First lady Jill Biden says her husband’s age is an “asset,” as President Joe Biden — at 81 already the oldest…

By JULIA FRANKEL and ALON BERNSTEIN Associated Press KIBBUTZ BE’ERI, Israel (AP) — Relatives of civilians killed at a kibbutz in southern…

QUITO (AP) — A fake bomb threat has rattled the capital of Ecuador and sparked the mobilization of an anti-explosives unit to a bustling area.…

By JARI TANNER Associated Press HELSINKI (AP) — Finland says it will extend the closure of its border with Russia for another month because it…

By MATTHEW LEE AP Diplomatic Writer CAIRO (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken has wrapped up his latest urgent Mideast tour in talks with…

By ELDAR EMRIC Associated Press VISEGRAD, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) — Tons of garbage floats down a river at least twice a year and ends up near the…

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — A government agency in Jamaica says it is investigating four fatal shootings by police officers in the span of 24…

By MARC LEVY Associated Press HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Some of the Native Americans the National Park Service was supposed to consult with say moving…

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Police say a grenade explosion in Afghanistan’s capital has killed two people and wounded 12 in a Shiite neighborhood…

By MATT OTT AP Business Writer The number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits inched down to its lowest level in nearly three months last…

By DEEPTI HAJELA Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The hundreds of television series on U.S. broadcast, cable and streaming platforms are the…

By KEN SWEET AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The U.S. for the first time has given the greenlight to almost a dozen exchange traded funds for…

By HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — A memoir that Lisa Marie Presley had been working on at the time of her death will be published…

LONDON (AP) — Microsoft says it is upgrading its cloud computing service to let customers store all personal data within the European Union instead…

By ABDOULIE JOHN Associated Press SERREKUNDA, Gambia (AP) — A plane carrying Gambia’s national soccer team made an emergency landing after a…

By PETER SMITH Associated Press Post-pandemic burnout is at worrying levels among Christian clergy in the U.S., prompting many to think about…

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — The United Nations mission in Afghanistan says it’s deeply concerned by recent “arbitrary arrests and…

By KYLE HIGHTOWER AP Sports Writer FOXBOROUGH, Mass. (AP) — Six-time NFL champion Bill Belichick has agreed to part ways as the coach of the New…

ISTANBUL (AP) — Turkish police have detained 70 suspects with ties to the militant Islamic State group in raids this week across the country.…

BY JIM GOMEZ Associated Press MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Germany’s top diplomat says China’s actions in the South China Sea violate the rights…

By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Vatican has unveiled plans for a yearlong restoration of the monumental baldacchino, or…

By The Associated Press The lawyer of Sergei Udaltsov, a Russian left-wing activist, says her client is being questioned over terrorism offences.…

LONDON (AP) — A legal adviser to the European Union’s top court says Google should pay a whopping fine in a long-running antitrust case. EU…

By ANNIE MA Associated Press The United Negro College Fund announced a donation of $100 million from the Lilly Endowment, the single largest…

By MUNIR AHMED Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — Officials say a magnitude 6.4 earthquake has rattled much of Pakistan and parts of neighboring…

BERLIN (AP) — German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has sharply condemned alleged plans by members of far-right groups who supposedly met recently at a…

ISTANBUL (AP) — Turkey, Bulgaria and Romania have signed an agreement to jointly tackle rogue sea mines that have threatened Black Sea shipping…

By MATTHEW DALY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration is awarding $623 million in grants to help build an electric vehicle…

By NASSER KARIMI Associated Press TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran’s intelligence ministry has identified a top suspect, described as ringleader and…

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s right-wing opposition is urging supporters to protest against moves by the new pro-European Union government to…

By ZEN SOO AP Technology Writer Google says it has laid off hundreds of employees working on its hardware, voice assistance and engineering teams as…

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Asian shares advanced Thursday on the back of Wall Street’s climb to a near-record high, as…

By KEN MORITSUGU Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — An industry association reports that China’s auto exports surged 63.7% in 2023 while sales at…

PARIS (AP) — A former France basketball player serving as an ambassador for the Paris 2024 Olympics has been forced to quit her role because of a…

By JIM HEINTZ Associated Press TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is in Estonia for meetings with the country’s…

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A ship in the Gulf of Oman has been boarded by “unauthorized” people. That’s according to an advisory…

By DEE-ANN DURBIN AP Business Writer A consumer advocacy group filed a lawsuit against Starbucks Wednesday, saying the company’s claim that its…

By SIBI ARASU Associated Press BENGALURU, India (AP) — The amount of renewable energy installed around the world last year grew at its fastest rate…

PORT MORESBY, Papua New Guinea (AP) — The Papua New Guinea government worked to restore order Thursday after at least 15 people were reportedly…

PHOENIX (AP) — Former Arizona prisons chief Charles Ryan is scheduled to be sentenced on a disorderly conduct charge after pleading no contest in a…

By JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — There will be at least $100 million left in the estate of the so-called last Hawaiian…

By MICHAEL CASEY Associated Press The rapper G Herbo could face just over a year in jail after pleading guilty to his role in a scheme that used…

By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer BANGKOK (AP) — Beijing’s threat to use force to claim the self-governed island of Taiwan isn’t…

By COLLEEN LONG Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden’s son is headed back to court for an arraignment on federal tax charges…

By LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The secrecy surrounding Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin’s hospitalizations due to prostate…

By GERALD IMRAY Associated Press CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — Barely two weeks after he was released from prison in 1990, Nelson Mandela flew to…

By KEVIN FREKING Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — As Speaker Mike Johnson gathered House Republicans behind closed doors Wednesday to sell the…

By MIKE CORDER Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The United Nations’ top court opens hearings Thursday into South Africa’s…

By MICHAEL R. SISAK and JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump ’s New York civil fraud trial is back in session Thursday…

By HOLLY RAMER, NICK PERRY and DAVID SHARP Associated Press LEWISTON, Maine (AP) — Sean Hodgson watched and worried as his best friend of nearly…

By BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak says he will introduce measures to reverse the convictions of…

By ANDREW DeMILLO and HANNAH SCHOENBAUM Associated Press Republican-led state legislatures are again considering bills restricting medical care for…

By SIMINA MISTREANU and JOHNSON LAI Associated Press TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — A nonconformist candidate is resonating with Taiwan’s youth ahead…

By PAUL WISEMAN AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The government is expected to report that underlying inflationary pressures eased further in…

By SIMINA MISTREANU Associated Press TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — One of Taiwan’s leading opposition party candidates in Saturday’s presidential…

By DAVID BAUDER AP Media Writer NEW YORK (AP) — While GOP presidential candidates Ron DeSantis and Nikki Haley met in a sharp CNN debate that…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United States, Ukraine and six allies are accusing Russia of using North Korean…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Authorities in the northern Mexico border state of Sonora say a local Cucapah Indigenous leader, Aronia Wilson, has been found…

By NICHOLAS RICCARDI Associated Press Only two Republicans were facing off at the GOP’s fifth presidential debate stage — former South…

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By DIDI TANG Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration says it will send an unofficial delegation comprised of former senior…

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — A federal lawsuit alleges that the bodies of two men who died while incarcerated in Alabama prisons were missing organs…

By JAKE OFFENHARTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — New York building officials have issued emergency work orders to stabilize buildings around a…

LABELLE, Fla. (AP) — Wildlife officials have reported the first endangered Florida panther death of 2024. The Florida Fish and Wildlife…

By HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH Associated Press Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly renewed her call to expand Medicaid and countered an anticipated single-rate…

By HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH Associated Press Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly renewed her call to expand Medicaid and countered an anticipated single-rate…

By JAMES POLLARD Associated Press/Report for America A woman on South Carolina’s Hilton Head Island who drew national attention from such stars…

By SOPHIE AUSTIN and JANIE HAR Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California Gov. Gavin Newsom has released his proposed budget for the…

By OHAD ZWIGENBERG Associated Press KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza Strip (AP) — The Israeli military said Wednesday it has found evidence that hostages were…

By BRIAN WITTE Associated Press ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — A federal appeals court has directed a lower federal court to consider the merits of a…

By RANDALL CHASE Associated Press DOVER, Del. (AP) — A judge has rejected several claims lodged by Delaware’s attorney general in a lawsuit…

By ROBERT YOON Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — After months of campaigning, the Republican candidates vying to unseat President Joe Biden in…

ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — Maryland’s elections administrator says No Labels, a political group laying the groundwork for a possible third-party…

By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Federal prosecutor Damian Williams in New York says his office is busy with lots of crimes but…

PLATTSMOUTH, Neb. (AP) — Voters decided to remove a small-town Nebraska school board member from office after she tried to have dozens of books…

By JOHN ZENOR AP Sports Writer Nick Saban’s coaching reign has come to an end. His dominance over college football, however, will forever…

SAN ANTONIO (AP) — Police in Texas have arrested a third person in connection to the December killings of an 18-year-old pregnant woman and her…

By LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A Montana fire chief who lost a previous job over a coronavirus vaccine mandate has been…

PENSACOLA, Fla. (AP) — A federal judge has ruled that a lawsuit may move forward against a Florida Panhandle school district over its removal of…

By JONATHAN MATTISE Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The Republican-run Tennessee House has capped how long lawmakers can debate bills and…

By JACK DURA Associated Press A North Dakota Republican lawmaker has been removed from a legislative committee following a traffic stop in December.…

By SAMANTHA HENDRICKSON Associated Press/Report for America COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The Republican-dominated Ohio House has voted to override GOP…

By TIM BOOTH AP Sports Writer RENTON, Wash. (AP) — Pete Carroll is out after 14 seasons as the head coach of the Seattle Seahawks, responsible for…