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By AAMER MADHANI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden on Wednesday offered an optimistic outlook on the health of democracy…

BAGUIO, Philippines (AP) — Philippine police say they have seized more than half a ton of suspected methamphetamine concealed in tea bags and…

BO’AO, China (AP) — The chairman of Russian gas producer Gazprom says it is increasing gas supplies to China and expects soon to reach the…

STRASBOURG, France (AP) — Swiss retirees are taking their government to a top European court over what they claim is its failure to take sufficient…

By DAVID A. LIEB Associated Press Public outrage is swift following mass shootings, such as the killing of six people at a Christian elementary…

By OMAR FARUK Associated Press MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — This year’s holy month of Ramadan coincides with the longest drought on record in…

ISLAMABAD (AP) — A top U.S. diplomat says the Taliban must free detained Afghanistan activists, following the arrest of a girls’ education…

By JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press GENEVA (AP) — UBS says it’s bringing back former CEO Sergio Ermotti to lead the Swiss bank as it moves forward…

By JOSEF FEDERMAN Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel’s prime minister has brushed aside criticism of his judicial overhaul plan from…

By JENNIFER O’MAHONY Associated Press MADRID (AP) — Renewable energy investors who lost subsidies promised by Spain are heading to a London…

By KIRSTEN GRIESHABER and DANICA KIRKA Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — King Charles III has arrived in Germany for his first foreign trip as…

By JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — Asian stocks rose Wednesday as anxiety about the global financial system began to fade following…

HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — Vietnam says its economy slowed sharply in the first quarter of this year, hit by rising costs and weaker demand for its…

By CHRIS MEGERIAN and FRANCIS KOKUTSE Associated Press ACCRA, Ghana (AP) — During her visit to Ghana, U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris has…

By ISABEL DEBRE Associated Press AL-AZZA REFUGEE CAMP, West Bank (AP) — In schools across the world, children are halfway into their second…

By FABIOLA SÁNCHEZ and MORGAN LEE Associated Press CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico (AP) — Mexican authorities said Wednesday that eight employees or…

By KATHY McCORMACK Associated Press CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — Vanessa Santiago first met Pamela Smart in 2003 as a fellow prison inmate in New York,…

By HOLLY MEYER and ANNIE MA Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — An alarm blared and lights flashed as a heavily armed assailant stalked the…

By SAM METZ Associated Press PARK CITY, Utah (AP) — Gwyneth Paltrow’s attorneys came close to wrapping up their case on Wednesday by relying…

By JULIE PACE and HANNA ARHIROVA Associated Press ON A TRAIN FROM SUMY TO KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy warned…

By JULIE PACE, HANNA ARHIROVA and JAMES JORDAN Associated Press ON BOARD A TRAIN FROM SUMY TO KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — A team of journalists from The…

By JOSH BOAK and HANNAH FINGERHUT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — In the federal budget standoff, the majority of U.S. adults are asking…

By AUDREY McAVOY Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — Hawaii authorities on Tuesday say they have referred 33 people to U.S. law enforcement after the…

By MARY CLARE JALONICK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate has voted to repeal the decades-old congressional measure that greenlighted…

By DEE-ANN DURBIN AP Business Writer Longtime Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz insisted his company hasn’t broken labor laws and is willing to bargain…

By KEN POWTAK Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — When the Nashville Predators’ team flight took off for Boston, defenseman Ryan McDonagh…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Northern Mexico has developed such a habit of exotic animals and violence, that people not only keep tigers as pets, they steal…

By KIMBERLEE KRUESI and JONATHAN MATTISE Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A federal judge quietly cleared the way to drop the minimum age…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — A U.S. tourist was shot in the leg by unidentified assailants at a resort town on Mexico’s Caribbean coast, prosecutors in the…

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (AP) — Officials in Alabama say a Huntsville police officer has died after being shot and another officer was critically wounded.…

PHOENIX (AP) — A judge has ordered Phoenix to clean up a homeless encampment that spans nearly 10 blocks in the city’s downtown area. Maricopa…

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Officials briefly have ordered a partial evacuation of a South Florida airport as part of a “security-related…

NEW YORK (AP) — New York officials will be able to issue licenses for recreational marijuana dispensaries in some parts of the state now that an…

By MICHAEL RUBINKAM Associated Press Last week’s fatal blast at a Pennsylvania chocolate factory highlighted the combustibility of food plants in…

By MIKE CORDER Associated Press AMSTERDAM (AP) — Throw another mammoth on the barbie? An Australian company on Tuesday lifted the glass cloche on a…

By GENE JOHNSON Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) — The U.S. Justice Department and Seattle officials have asked a judge to end most federal oversight…

By DÁNICA COTO Associated Press SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Puerto Rico Gov. Pedro Pierluisi has announced new solar energy initiatives during…

By ANDREW DeMILLO Associated Press LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — An Arkansas bathroom bill that had been criticized as the most extreme in the country…

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A powerful weather system from the Gulf of Alaska has pushed into Northern California, bringing more wind, rain and snow…

By HOLLY MEYER, BEN FINLEY and TRAVIS LOLLER Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The head of the Christian elementary school in Nashville who…

By ADAM BEAM Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed a new law that could penalize oil companies for…

By DAVID BAUDER and RANDALL CHASE Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Fox News stars Tucker Carlson, Sean Hannity and Bret Baier are among the…

By HANNAH SCHOENBAUM Associated Press/Report for America RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina’s state elections board has removed two county…

By MEAD GRUVER Associated Press CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — She posted on social media about competing in a bike race, losing her pet hedgehog and…

By TODD RICHMOND Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — After nearly a year of searching, investigators used DNA pulled from a half-eaten burrito to…

By MARGERY A. BECK Associated Press LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A group of Nebraska lawmakers are filibustering all bills that come before the Nebraska…

By MADDIE BURAKOFF AP Science Writer CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — In the 1700s, a boy was born into slavery in Colonial America. He spent his life…

By DÁNICA COTO Associated Press SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Authorities in Antigua say at least 14 people from the African nation of Cameroon…

By AAMER MADHANI Associated Press DURHAM, N.C. (AP) — President Joe Biden says Republicans’ budget plans could undermine U.S. manufacturing and…

WINTER HAVEN, Fla. (AP) — A preliminary report says a student pilot was attempting to land a small plane at a central Florida airport when it…

By ELLIOT SPAGAT Associated Press SAN DIEGO (AP) — The fire that killed 38 people at an immigration detention center in Mexico happened as Western…

By JEFFREY COLLINS Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Two survivors of a 2015 racist massacre that killed nine of their friends at a Charleston…

By MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The Manhattan grand jury that has been hearing testimony about hush money paid on Donald…

By MICHAEL BIESECKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Two Texas companies have resolved Clean Air Act violations with the Environmental…

By JILL COLVIN and ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge has ruled that former Vice President Mike Pence will have to…

By JOSH FUNK Associated Press The cold weather in North Dakota kept chemicals that spilled from a derailed Canadian Pacific train from spreading very…

By RON TODT and MICHAEL PHILLIS Associated Press PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Philadelphia officials say the city’s water system will not be affected…

By RANDALL CHASE Associated Press DOVER, Del. (AP) — A $2.4 billion bankruptcy plan for the Boy Scouts of America has been upheld by a federal…

By BRIAN WITTE and LEA SKENE Associated Press ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — A Maryland appellate court on Tuesday reinstated Adnan Syed’s murder…

BRISTOL, Conn. (AP) — The brother of the late New England Patriots player Aaron Hernandez is facing criminal and motor vehicle charges in…

By LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A U.S. Senate staffer remained hospitalized Tuesday after police say he was attacked…

By JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — Three active-duty military members are taking the first step toward suing the U.S.…

By GRAHAM DUNBAR and JAMES ELLINGWORTH AP Sports Writers GENEVA (AP) — Some Russian athletes can soon return to international sports, although…

By TRISHA THOMAS Associated Press FLORENCE, Italy (AP) — Visitors flocked to see Michelangelo’s David sculpture in Florence on Tuesday, following…

By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press ROME (AP) — Posters calling on Pope Francis to stop his crackdown on the old Latin Mass have appeared near the…

By LEA SKENE Associated Press BALTIMORE (AP) — A series of criminal indictments announced Tuesday accuse 33 defendants of operating a violent drug…

By JOE REEDY AP Sports Writer Bryant Gumbel will receive the Lifetime Achievement Award during the 44th Annual Sports Emmy Awards on May 22 in New…

By KEVIN FREKING Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican House Speaker Kevin McCarthy says he’s growing increasingly concerned about…

By MUNIR AHMED Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan says it will not participate in this week’s U.S.-led Summit for Democracy, a move seen…