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By MICHELLE L. PRICE Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Five states will hold presidential primaries as President Joe Biden and former President…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Ariana Grande and Dalton Gomez are now divorced. A Los Angeles court judgment dissolving their marriage of nearly three years…

By MARIA SHERMAN AP Music Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Every year since 2021, Spotify has published its “Loud & Clear” report, an attempt to…

By ALEX VEIGA and HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH Associated Press The cost of hiring a real estate agent to buy or sell a home may soon change, along with…

TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s central bank has raised its benchmark interest rate for the first time in 17 years, ending a longstanding policy of…

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Court orders that prohibited two criminal defendants from possessing firearms while they awaited trial were constitutional…

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Olympic great and Australian Sports Commission chief Kieren Perkins says “someone will die” if a multi-sport event…

By KEIRAN SMITH Associated Press SYDNEY (AP) — Australia’s online safety regulator has put social media giants on notice, requiring them to…

By KEVIN FREKING Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Negotiators from Congress and the White House are scrambling to complete work on funding…

By JILL COLVIN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Former President Donald Trump on Monday charged that Jews who vote for Democrats “hate Israel”…

By AAMER MADHANI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden will host Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and Philippines President…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United States and Japan are sponsoring a U.N. Security Council resolution calling on…

By JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — Hawaii’s attorney general is blaming a delay of the release of a key report into a…

GOMA, Congo (AP) — Reporters Without Borders says Congolese journalist Stanis Bujakera was set to be freed soon after being sentenced to six months…

By JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — A man has pleaded guilty to murder, about two years the decomposing body of his lover…

RIVERSIDE, Calif. (AP) — Prosecutors say two men who used high-powered rifles to kill three wild burros in Southern California’s Mojave Desert…

HAVANA (AP) — Cuba’s government has protested as interventionist comments from the U.S. Embassy on the island following demonstrations against…

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — An Oregon man has been found guilty of murder in a 1980s cold case involving a college student. KOIN-TV reports Multnomah…

By MIKE CATALINI Associated Press TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — New Jersey’s one-of-a-kind method of drawing primary ballots has prompted some apparent…

By JAKE OFFENHARTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A Chinese billionaire has pleaded guilty to federal election crimes, admitting that he made…

By JACK DURA Associated Press The Minnesota Court of Appeals has sent a transgender athlete’s lawsuit back to a trial court to determine…

By NICHOLAS RICCARDI Associated Press An attorney already facing criminal charges for illegally accessing Michigan voting machines says she…

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — A judge has approved two additional murder counts against an Indiana man charged in the killings of two teenage girls but…

PANAMA CITY (AP) — Panama has accused Nicaragua of meddling in its internal affairs by allowing former Panamanian President Ricardo Martinelli to…

By MARK ANDERSON AP Sports Writer LAS VEGAS (AP) — Bettors expect a lot of upsets in this year’s NCAA Tournament. They are placing wagers on…

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Police say a 78-year-old woman has been arrested in connection to a fatal crash at a San Francisco bus stop that killed two…

By KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un supervised a live-fire drill of nuclear-capable…

By JOHN RABY Associated Press CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A federal appeals court has asked West Virginia’s highest court whether opioid…

SYDNEY (AP) — Tropical Cyclone Megan has made landfall along the coast of Australia’s Northern Territory bringing wind gusts of up to 200…

By MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The infamous “Access Hollywood” video in which Donald Trump bragged about grabbing women…

CLEVELAND (AP) — An Ohio mother whose 16-month-old daughter died after being left home alone in a playpen for 10 days last summer while she went on…

LAKEVIEW, Ohio (AP) — Authorities say the three people killed when tornados roared through Ohio last week all died from storm-related injuries.…

By LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court has refused to halt a prison sentence for former Trump White House…

WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republicans are demanding to know what led to a Justice Department order that a union of immigration judges get supervisor…

By JULIE CARR SMYTH Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Former President Donald Trump has issued a last-minute endorsement in a highly sought…

By LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Monday indefinitely extended its block on a Texas law that would give…

By ISABELLA VOLMERT Associated Press INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Indiana Gov. Eric Holcomb has vetoed a bill defining antisemitism and left the future of…

By TERRY SPENCER Associated Press FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — A Florida Jewish center suffered severe damage in a weekend arson fire that police…

By JEFF MARTIN Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Lawyers for a Georgia man who’s set to be executed this week say he should not be put to death…

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — A movie set armorer is challenging her conviction on an involuntary manslaughter charge in the fatal shooting of a…

HANOVER, N.H. (AP) — Dartmouth says it will not enter into collective bargaining with the union its men’s basketball players voted to join…

ATLANTA (AP) — Former President Donald Trump and other defendants in Georgia’s election interference case are seeking to appeal a judge’s…

By LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Supreme Court justices appeared receptive Monday to National Rifle Association claims that…

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The state of Iowa will provide “contemporaneous” access to newly filed civil court cases to settle a lawsuit that…

By JAKE OFFENHARTZ Associated Press New York City Mayor Eric Adams has been accused in a new lawsuit of sexually assaulting a police colleague…

By ED WHITE Associated Press PONTIAC, Mich. (AP) — The parents of four students killed at a Michigan school are calling for a state investigation…

By PHILIP MARCELO Associated Press MINEOLA, N.Y. (AP) — Former Olympic gold medalist Caitlyn Jenner has thrown her support behind a local New York…

By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN Associated Press A conservative social media influencer has been charged with storming the U.S. Capitol and passing a stolen…

By MICHAEL GOLDBERG Associated Press/Report for America JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Six former Mississippi law enforcement officers who pleaded guilty to…

By MARIA SHERMAN AP Music Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Can you feel the Kenergy? Ryan Gosling’s 2024 Academy Awards performance of the “Barbie”…

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A badly decomposed body of a child has been found inside a duffel bag by crews who were cleaning a site in west Philadelphia…

NEW YORK (AP) — Soprano Kathleen Battle is returning to the Metropolitan Opera at age 75 for a recital on May 12. It’s only her second…

By KIMBERLEE KRUESI Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — James Burton, John Anderson and Toby Keith are the newest members to join the Country…

By WAYNE PARRY Associated Press ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — There’s a little too much Atlantic in Atlantic City this year for some casinos.…

By JOE REEDY AP Sports Writer Sports Illustrated will continue operations after the company that owns the brand agreed with a new publisher for its…

By BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The mansion that was Freddie Mercury’s sanctuary in London and where he lived the final decade…

By STEPHEN WADE AP Sports Writer SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — The Los Angeles Dodgers’ mega-stars Shohei Ohtani and Yoshinobu Yamamoto might…

By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN Associated Press ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — An Afghan refugee has been found guilty of first-degree murder in one of three…

OSSIPEE, N.H. (AP) — A New Hampshire man has appeared in court on charges that he killed a pregnant woman and her unborn child by means of multiple…

FRAZIER PARK, Calif. (AP) — The California Lottery has revealed the name of one of the winners of the second-largest U.S. lottery jackpot, last…

By CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Armed gangs attacked two villages in Nigeria’s northwest over the weekend and seized at…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — A state police official and her bodyguards were killed in a highway attack in Mexico’s western state of Michoacan. The…

By ANTHONY IZAGUIRRE Associated Press ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York will evaluate its troubled recreational marijuana licensing program as lawsuits…

By STEVE PEOPLES AP National Political Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Former Georgia Lt. Gov. Geoff Duncan has ruled out a 2024 No Labels presidential bid.…

By TARA COPP and MATTHEW LEE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon is working through all channels with Niger officials on whether there…

By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Writer and actor Kate Taney Billingsley has been thinking a lot about America’s…

By STEPHEN WADE AP Sports Writer SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — The Dodgers are paying $700 million for Shohei Ohtani. That means his loyal fans in…

HOUSTON (AP) — Authorities say a 1-year-old girl has died after being hit by an Uber driver who had just dropped her family at their apartment…

By SETH BORENSTEIN AP Science Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The NASA astronaut who commanded the dress rehearsal mission for the 1969 moon landing has…

By RONALD BLUM AP Sports Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The Biden administration sided with a promoter who filed an antitrust suit against FIFA and the…

By JIM SALTER Associated Press A pair of ruby slippers worn by Judy Garland in “The Wizard of Oz” were returned to their owner, nearly 20 years…

By AAMER MADHANI, ZEKE MILLER and JULIA FRANKEL Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin…

By MIKE CORDER Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Israel is urging the top United Nations court to reject the latest request by South…

GILA BEND, Ariz. (AP) — Authorities are investigating the crash of an experimental, homemade plane that left one person dead and another seriously…

CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — South African rescue services searching for a missing charter boat captain are concerned about possible foul play…

By MATTHEW DALY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Environmental Protection Agency has announced a comprehensive ban on asbestos, a deadly…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The British government hopes one last push can revive its stalled plan to send some asylum-seekers…

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Gangs attacked two upscale neighborhoods in Haiti’s capital early Monday in a rampage that left at least a dozen…

By MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump’s lawyers told a New York appellate court on Monday that it’s impossible for…

By KIM CHANDLER Associated Press MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — The history of slavery in America is the focus of a new sculpture park in Montgomery,…