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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Oman’s second-largest bank is pursuing a potential merger with its smaller rival, potentially creating a…

BERLIN (AP) — Firefighters say they have freed an “uncooperative” squirrel that was stuck in a manhole cover in western Germany. The Dortmund…

By HUIZHONG WU Associated Press TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Taiwan’s President Tsai Ing-wen has condemned China’s military drills in the Taiwan…

By ABDUL SATTAR Associated Press QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistani police say security forces raided a suspected hideout of the Pakistani Taliban…

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s prime minister has flown to the United States for meetings aimed at strengthening the economic and defense…

By REBECCA BOONE Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Jurors in the triple murder trial of a woman accused in the deaths of her two children and a…

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australia has suspended a complaint to the World Trade Organization in a bid to reopen…

By TOM KRISHER, MATTHEW DALY and HANNAH FINGERHUT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Many Americans aren’t yet sold on going electric for their…

By ANTHONY IZAGUIRRE Associated Press TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has advanced elements of his aggressive conservative…

SALEM, Ore. (AP) — An Oregon State Police trooper exchanged gunfire with a man who was holding the driver of a semitrailer at gunpoint Monday…

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — A senior lawmaker has split from Australia’s opposition party leadership by supporting…

By ROHIT THAYYIL and MOJUDAN GADHAVI, Press Trust of India KOCHI, India (AP) — Eloor smells like it is dying. Once it was an island of rich…

By ZEKE MILLER AP White House Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. national emergency to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic has ended. On Monday,…

LAS CRUCES, N.M. (AP) — Republican House Speaker Kevin McCarthy attended a rally in southern New Mexico on Monday for former U.S. Rep. Yvette…

By STEVE LeBLANC Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — A growing number of states led by Democratic governors are stockpiling doses of drugs used in…

By JIM GOMEZ Associated Press MANILA, Philippines (AP) — American and Filipino forces on Tuesday launched their largest combat exercises in decades…

By KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has vowed to enhance his nuclear arsenal in…

By DOUG FEINBERG AP Basketball Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The Indiana Fever made the most of the first No. 1 draft pick in franchise history, selecting…

By JONATHAN MATTISE Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A panel of judges has temporarily blocked a new requirement passed by state Republican…

By NOMAAN MERCHANT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A major leak of classified U.S. documents that’s shaken Washington and exposed new details…

By CLAIRE GALOFARO and BRUCE SCHREINER Associated Press LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Tributes are growing for the five people slain in a shooting at a…

BY DEEPA BHARATH The Associated Press The California Civil Rights Department has voluntarily dismissed its case alleging caste discrimination against…

By WAYNE PARRY Associated Press ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — Three years after the coronavirus pandemic erupted, Atlantic City’s casinos are…

CLIVE, Iowa (AP) — At first, the recent winner of a $40 million jackpot says he couldn’t believe he won the lottery — after all, he bought…

By PAUL J. WEBER and JAKE BLEIBERG Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas Gov. Greg Abbott is moving fast to pardon a U.S. Army sergeant…

By JONATHAN J. COOPER Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — A former Arizona Supreme Court justice says changes to the paper caused an issue with ballot…

By YURI KAGEYAMA Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Temperatures are rising in Japan and summer is coming fast. As fossil fuel use that feeds climate…

By HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Al Jaffee, Mad magazine’s award-winning cartoonist and ageless wise guy who delighted…

By SAMY MAGDY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — Saudi Arabia’s ambassador to Yemen says his trip to the Houthi-held capital of Sanaa was aimed at…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican ballad singer Julián Figueroa has died at the age of 27, his mother confirmed Monday. Figueroa was the son of actress…

By ARLEIGH RODGERS Associated Press/Report for America INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Indiana schools may soon be required to notify parents if their children…

By CARLA BRIDI and MAURICIO SAVARESE Associated Press BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva finishes the first 100 days of his third…

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

By PATRICK WHITTLE Associated Press PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Hundreds of asylum seekers have filed into a basketball arena in Portland as Maine’s…

By MATTHEW LEE AP Diplomatic Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration formally determined Monday that a Wall Street Journal arrested in…

CHRISTIANA, Del. (AP) — Authorities are searching for three suspects in a shooting at a Delaware mall that wounded three people and prompted an…

By AMY BETH HANSON Associated Press HELENA, Mont. (AP) — Planned Parenthood of Montana filed a preemptive lawsuit seeking to stop legislation that…

By The Associated Press This week’s new entertainment releases include albums from Metallica and Natalie Merchant, Jeremy Renner’s four-part…

By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A federal judge wants to know if ex-President Donald Trump plans to attend a New York trial…

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — The family of a Czech billionaire who died in a heli-skiing crash in Alaska in 2021 says in a lawsuit that he survived the…

By TARA COPP and LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The online leaks of scores of highly classified documents about the Ukraine…

By PAUL J. WEBER Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The Justice Department on Monday appealed a Texas court ruling that would halt approval of a…

By MATTHEW BARAKAT Associated Press ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) — A trial underway in federal court will decide whether the U.S. government must pay up to…

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday reversed his decision to fire his defense minister over criticism of the…

By MAYSOON KHAN Associated Press/Report for America ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York state lawmakers passed another week-long extension for the…

WREXHAM, Wales (AP) — Ryan Reynolds punched the air before turning to embrace Rob McElhenney as the Hollywood stars moved a big step closer to…

GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. (AP) — A former Colorado county clerk accused of illegally accessing her election system has avoided jail time for a…

By BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press LONDON (AP) — U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has praised the bravery of political leaders who struck the Good…

KENDLETON, Texas (AP) — Kansas City Southern Railroad says three of its tank cars derailed but remained upright in a Southeast Texas rail yard. A…

By MIKE SCHNEIDER Associated Press ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — A high school along Florida’s Atlantic Coast has removed a graphic novel based on the…

BENTONVILLE, Ark. (AP) — The bodies of a jam band musician and his adult son were recovered from an Arkansas lake more than three weeks after the…

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal was expected to be discharged from a hospital Monday following what he called successful…

By HANNA ARHIROVA Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — More than 200 Russian and Ukrainian soldiers have returned home in a prisoner swap, the…

LONDONDERRY, Northern Ireland (AP) — Officials say demonstrators opposing the Good Friday peace agreement that ended three decades of hostilities…

By STEPHEN WHYNO AP Sports Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The Washington Commanders have settled a lawsuit with the District of Columbia attorney…

By NARDOS HAILE Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Hilary Swank has given birth to twins — a boy and a girl. The 48-year-old “Million Dollar…

By FERNANDA PESCE Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — After 27 years, the Multiforo Cultural Alicia in Mexico City has closed its doors _ marking…

By AMY TAXIN Associated Press During California’s prolonged, wet winter, beekeeper Gene Brandi said he had to spend twice as much money on a…

By LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer Michael Lerner, the Brooklyn-born character actor who played a myriad of imposing figures in his 60 years in the…

By HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — When President Joe Biden visits Ireland this week, he will mark the 25th anniversary of the…

By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Makoto Shinkai was never the same filmmaker after the 2011 earthquake struck Japan. When the tsunami…

MITCHELL, Ind. (AP) — A prosecutor has cleared two Indiana law enforcement officers of any criminal wrongdoing in a fatal shooting in February.…

PARIS (AP) — Comments by French President Emmanuel Macron over Europe’s priorities on Taiwan have raised questions over the EU’s relationship…

By GEOFF MULVIHILL and JOHN HANNA Associated Press Abortion is banned in Idaho at all stages of pregnancy, but the governor on Wednesday signed…