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By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Zoom has been credited for keeping students and teachers connected, the judicial system…

By AAMER MADHANI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States and Britain have announced new sanctions aimed at Russian oligarch Alisher…

By BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Scotland’s new leader says he will follow through with his predecessor’s plan to challenge…

By FRANCES D’EMILIO Associated Press ROME (AP) — The migration agency of the United Nations says the first three months of 2023 were the…

By ARLEIGH RODGERS and RICK CALLAHAN Associated Press RICHMOND, Ind. (AP) — An evacuation order affecting more than 1,000 people remained in place…

By WAYNE PARRY Associated Press MANCHESTER, N.J. (AP) — Firefighters in New Jersey confronted 200-foot high flames as they battled a wildfire in…

By JARI TANNER HELSINKI (AP) — Estonia’s Parliament on Wednesday has given the green light to a new coalition to form a government, led by the…

By MATT O’BRIEN AP Technology Writer National Public Radio is quitting Twitter after the social media platform owned by Elon Musk stamped…

By AMANDA SEITZ Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House has proposed a federal rule to limit how law enforcement and state officials…

By DYLAN LOVAN, REBECCA REYNOLDS and JOHN RABY Associated Press LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Frantic calls from witnesses reporting a mass shooting at a…

By DAVID BRANDT AP Baseball Writer PHOENIX (AP) — Thanks to the pitch clock, the action is moving much faster at Major League Baseball games. It…

By MONIKA SCISLOWSKA Associated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s new agriculture minister has vowed to introduce quality controls on the…

By JESSICA GRESKO and MARK SHERMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration on Monday asked a federal appeals court to allow…

By LAURIE KELLMAN and AUDREY HOROWITZ Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — The leaders of the Greek Orthodox Church say Israeli police are unfairly…

By BINAJ GURUBACHARYA Associated Press KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — Three Sherpa climbers were missing Wednesday after they fell into a deep crevasse on…

By MARGERY A. BECK Associated Press LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Nebraska lawmakers have advanced a bill that would ban abortion once cardiac activity can…

By SAMYA KULLAB and HANNA ARHIROVA Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine launched an investigation Wednesday into a gruesome video that…

By SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Democratic U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin is seeking a third term in battleground Wisconsin. Baldwin…

MOSCOW (AP) — The upper house of Russia’s parliament has approved a bill that would allow authorities to issue electronic summons to draftees…

By JOSEPH WILSON Associated Press BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — A controversial plan to increase irrigation in an area adjoining one of Europe’s most…

By JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press GENEVA (AP) — Switzerland’s lower house of parliament has issued a searing — though symbolic — rebuke of an…

By TREA BRANCH of NerdWallet Massive tech layoffs, bank failures and a potential U.S. recession  could throw a wrench in the plans of 2023 graduates…

LONDON (AP) — Billionaire Elon Musk has told the BBC that running Twitter has been “quite painful” but that the social media company is now…

BEIRUT (AP) — Syrian state media say that Damascus will reopen its embassy in Tunisia after the North African country announced the appointment of…

TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Taiwan’s pro-independence Democratic Progressive Party has nominated Vice President Lai Ching-te as its candidate in…

By MATTHEW DALY and TOM KRISHER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration is proposing strict new automobile pollution limits…

MOSCOW (AP) — A volcano spewed out ash for a second day Wednesday on Russia’s far eastern Kamchatka Peninsula, throwing clouds of dust high into…

By GEOFF MULVIHILL Associated Press The U.S. has named a veterinary tranquilizer as an “emerging threat” when it’s mixed with the powerful…

By FRANCES D’EMILIO Associated Press VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis has evoked memories of the 1960s Cold War and urged world leaders to…

By KONSTANTIN TESTORIDES Associated Press SKOPJE, North Macedonia (AP) — A United States envoy on countering global disinformation says countries…

By MIKE CORDER Associated Press AMSTERDAM (AP) — President Emmanuel Macron has insisted that his position on China and Taiwan has not changed.…

ISLAMABAD (AP) — The Taliban’s chief spokesman denies there are obstacles for the U.N. to do its work in Afghanistan, even after barring…

By ASHOK SHARMA Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — Ukraine has asked India to supply medicines and medical equipment and help it rebuild war-damaged…

By YURI KAGEYAMA Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — When Johnny Kitagawa told one of the boys staying at his luxury house to go to bed early, everyone…

By ELENA BECATOROS Associated Press KRAMATORSK, Ukraine (AP) — Huddled in the back of a café near the train station where a missile killed dozens…

By WANJOHI KABUKURU Associated Press MOMBASA, Kenya (AP) — More transparency in regional fisheries management organizations that were set up by the…

CAIRO (AP) — Egypt is embarking on a privatization push to help its cash-strapped government after pressure from the International Monetary Fund.…

NEW DELHI (AP) — The Indian army says a firing incident inside a military station has killed at least four soldiers in northern India. The army…

BEIJING (AP) — China says recent air and sea drills simulating an encirclement of Taiwan were intended as a “serious warning” to…

By BRENDAN FARRINGTON Associated Press STARKE, Fla. (AP) — Florida has executed a man known as the “ninja killer” for the 1989 slayings of a…

By MARÍA VERZA and SONIA PÉREZ D. Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s immigration head will face criminal charges in a fire that…

By SIBI ARASU Associated Press KOCHI, India (AP) — When 82-year-old Vasanthi Baby almost tripped while climbing down the stairs in her home in…

PERTH, Australia (AP) — Miners, cattle ranchers, tourists and Indigenous locals are evacuating from Australia’s remote northwest coast as an…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Jeremy Renner attended the premiere for his new series Tuesday, capping a remarkable recovery less than four months after the…

By COLLEEN LONG, DARLENE SUPERVILLE and JILL LAWLESS Associated Press BELFAST, Northern Ireland (AP) — President Joe Biden has said Northern…

By THOMAS BEAUMONT Associated Press MARION, Iowa (AP) — When Republicans eyeing the White House visit Iowa, they will navigate an evangelical…

By RENATA BRITO Associated Press For nearly two years, The Associated Press searched across three continents to uncover the story of a mysterious…

By ELÉONORE HUGHES and CARLA BRIDI Associated Press RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has arrived in China to…

By RENATA BRITO and FELIPE DANA Associated Press BELLE GARDEN, Tobago (AP) — In 2021, at least seven boats appearing to be from northwest Africa…

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. consumer inflation eased in March, with less expensive gas and food providing…

NEW YORK (AP) — An attorney for Donald Trump is seeking a one-month delay in the trial regarding a columnist’s claims that Trump raped her in a…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Officials in northern Mexico say they have filed complaints against a local employee who ordered fishermen to rip the stingers…

By MICHAEL R. BLOOD AP Political Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — A Republican attorney and former congressional candidate has entered California’s…

By THOMAS BEAUMONT and MEG KINNARD Associated Press MARION, Iowa (AP) — Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina says conservatives are “starved for…

Associated Press WINDOW ROCK, Ariz. (AP) — The Navajo Nation is set receive federal emergency aid to help repair damage caused by severe flooding…

By SOPHIE AUSTIN Associated Press/Report for America SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — The California Legislature is weighing a proposal by Gov. Gavin…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Fed up by an enormous pothole in his Los Angeles neighborhood, Arnold Schwarzenegger picked up a shovel and filled it himself.…

RICHMOND, Ind. (AP) — Authorities urged people to evacuate Tuesday near a large industrial fire in an Indiana city near the Ohio border that sent…

By STEFANIE DAZIO Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — A former Los Angeles auctioneer has agreed to plead guilty in a cross-country art fraud…

By KEN RITTER and SUMAN NAISHADHAM Associated Press BOULDER CITY, Nev. (AP) — The Biden administration released an environmental analysis Tuesday…

By TRISHA AHMED Associated Press/Report for America North Dakota’s Republican Gov. Doug Burgum has signed two transgender athlete bans into law.…

By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A New York-area doctor has been charged with the yearslong sexual abuse of multiple patients,…