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By DEREK GATOPOULOS Associated Press ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Years before starting a family of her own, Stella Belia was already waging a tireless…

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Inflation may have fallen below a 3% annual rate last month, which would be the lowest…

By JOE REEDY AP Sports Writer The longest Super Bowl game will also go down as the most-watched program in television history. According to Nielsen…

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Alaska state health officials say an elderly man has died from Alaskapox. It’s the first known fatality from the…

CHEEKTOWAGA, N.Y. (AP) — Police say a small plane with two people aboard landed safely at Buffalo Niagara International Airport after its rear door…

By NINIEK KARMINI Associated Press JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesia, the world’s third-largest democracy, will open its polls Wednesday to…

BEND, Oregon (AP) — Public health officials in Oregon have reported a case of bubonic plague in a local resident who they said likely contracted it…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Russia is accusing the West of sabotaging agreements that would have prevented the war…

By STEPHEN GROVES and MARY CLARE JALONICK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — House Speaker Mike Johnson late Monday sharply criticized a $95.3…

By STEVE PEOPLES AP National Political Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump is calling for a leadership change at the Republican National Committee…

ATLANAT (AP) — A  federal appeals court has upheld the multiple life sentences given to a man for fatal bombings at an Alabama abortion clinic and…

BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Golden State Warriors assistant coach Dejan Milojevic, a mentor to two-time NBA MVP Nikola Jokic, has been buried in his…

By MORGAN LEE Associated Press SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — New Mexico is preparing to set aside billions of dollars to sustain government spending in the…

By BROOKE LEFFERTS Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The Carolina Herrera show at New York Fashion Week included bright colors and flowered prints…

By KEN RITTER Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — Usher and longtime partner Jenn Goicoechea married in Las Vegas just hours after the R&B…

By REGINA GARCIA CANO Associated Press CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — The whereabouts of a prominent human rights attorney, her daughter and ex-husband…

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — A 15-year-old boy is being held and charged with capital murder after the bodies of three people were found shot dead at a…

By HILARY FOX Associated Press LONDON (AP) — One actor won’t be nervous as the camera comes in for a close-up at the British Academy Film Awards.…

By JILL COLVIN, KEVIN FREKING and MICHELLE L. PRICE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump’s claim that he once told a NATO ally that he…

By HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH Associated Press KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Kansas City will be turning red on Valentine’s Day as the Chiefs celebrate…

By TOM ODULA Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Kelvin Kiptum’s family says their dreams and future hopes have been shattered following the…

By JACQUES BILLEAUD Associated Press The Arizona Legislature’s top two Republicans have challenged Democratic President Joe Biden’s creation of a…

By BARBARA SURK and SYLVIE CORBET PARIS (AP) — France condemned “hostile” disinformation maneuvers from Russia. The country’s authorities…

CHICAGO (AP) — A federal judge in Chicago has sentenced a former chief of staff to longtime Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan to two and a…

NEW YORK (AP) — Police say one person has been killed and five others have been injured in a shooting at a New York City subway station during the…

By ZEKE MILLER AP White House Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden has launched a task force aimed at addressing the…

By JIM SALTER Associated Press ST. LOUIS (AP) — A baby girl is doing well and will be put up for adoption after being surrendered at a “Safe…

FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — Federal officials are investigating an incident in which an American Airlines jet ran off the end of a runway after…

NEW YORK (AP) — Bob Edwards, who anchored National Public Radio’s “Morning Edition” for just under 25 years and was the baritone voice…

By The Associated Press The National Labor Relations Board has granted Dartmouth’s trustees extra time to request a review of a regional…

By WILL WEISSERT and ZEKE MILLER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden’s reelection campaign is defending its new TikTok account…

By MARGERY A. BECK Associated Press LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Nebraska Gov. Jim Pillen has reversed course and now says he will accept federal funding…

CARMAN, Manitoba (AP) — A Canadian man has been charged with five counts of first-degree murder in the deaths of his wife, three young children and…

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — A former Puerto Rico mayor who was caught on film in a high-profile bribery case has been sentenced to more than five…

CRESTED BUTTE, Colo. (AP) — A backcountry skier and a snowmobiler were killed in separate avalanches in the Rocky Mountains as dangerous snow…

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Former professional wrestler William Albert “Billy Jack” Haynes Jr. has been taken into police custody in connection with…

By JOEY CAPPELLETTI Associated Press EAST LANSING, Mich. (AP) — New gun laws take effect Tuesday in Michigan on the one-year anniversary of a…

By PHILIP MARCELO Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Steve Ostrow, the founder of the Continental Baths, a trailblazing New York City gay bathhouse…

Associated Press ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Businesses in New York will now be required to clearly post how much extra their products will cost if…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Britain’s opposition Labour Party has disowned an election candidate who claimed that Israel…

By JULIE CARR SMYTH Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A federal judge has extended his block on enforcement of an Ohio law that would require…

By MARIA SHERMAN AP Music Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Nearly 50 years ago, Gloria Gaynor released “I Will Survive,” the first disco song to top…

By WILL WEISSERT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House says it’s looking forward to hosting the Super Bowl champion Kansas City…

By JOHN O’CONNOR AP Political Writer SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — A federal judge has again delayed the wire fraud and money laundering trial of…

By WAYNE PARRY Associated Press ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — The level of online betting on the Super Bowl surged this year, according to a company…

By DAVE COLLINS Associated Press HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Parts of the Northeast are preparing for a coastal storm that’s expected to dump a…

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A judge has ordered Elon Musk to testify as part of the Securities and Exchange Commission’s investigation into his $44…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican law enforcement agencies say they seized over 20 tons of methamphetamine at the biggest drug lab found during the…

By TIFFANY STANLEY Associated Press For the second year in a row, a religious Super Bowl ad campaign promised viewers that Jesus “gets us.” Two…

By LOUISE DIXON Associated Press On Valentine’s Day, why not express love on your fingernails? Julie Kandalec is a celebrity manicurist who notes…

By JOHN RABY Associated Press CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — West Virginia lawmakers are pushing to make the state the 12th in the nation to ban smoking…

By JEFFREY COLLINS Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — An Associated Press photographer who took photos of presidents and the pope as well as…

By JEAN FERNAND KOENA Associated Press BANGUI, Central African Republic (AP) — The government in Central African Republic says about 10,000…

By ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. government says it has seized a Boeing 747 cargo plane that officials say was previously…

By ADRIAN SAINZ Associated Press MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Police have identified a man arrested after an intense search and charged him with fatally…

WHITEFISH POINT, Mich. (AP) — Shipwreck hunters have discovered a merchant ship that sank in Lake Superior in 1940, taking its captain with it…

U.S. auto safety regulators have closed a seven-year investigation into complaints about power-assisted steering failures in Ford Fusions without…

By BEN FINLEY Associated Press Joel Osteen is one of the most familiar faces in American religion. The pastor who leads the Houston megachurch where…

By ED WHITE Associated Press A Republican lawmaker in Michigan has lost his committee assignment and staff, days after posting an image of a racist…

By ANDREW DALTON AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — The annual Academy Award nominees luncheon is a chance for all the Oscar hopefuls to…

By LAURA UNGAR and AMANDA SEITZ Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Since Roe v. Wade was overturned, many health care providers say an increasing…

By JUAN LOZANO, ACACIA CORONADO AND JIM VERTUNO Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — Court documents say the shooter who opened fire at Houston…

By TARA COPP Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has canceled his trip to Brussels to meet with NATO ministers and…

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Haiti’s renowned rum has become the newest victim of violent gangs vying to control a growing number of businesses…

By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Boy George, the singer-songwriter and beating heart of the iconic band Culture Club, is…

By SARAH RANKIN Associated Press RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A leading Democratic Virginia legislator says proposed legislation to help pave the way for…

By ISABELLA VOLMERT Associated Press INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Indiana U.S. Senate candidate John Rust, who has filed to run as Republican in the May…

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Two former FirstEnergy Corp. executives have been indicted in connection with a $60 million bribery scheme in Ohio.…

By DAVE SKRETTA AP Sports Writer LAS VEGAS (AP) — This was supposed to be the year when the Kansas City Chiefs were vulnerable. Their wide…

By JIM VERTUNO Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The shooting at the Lakewood megachurch in Houston that left the alleged female shooter dead…

By DAVID BRANDT AP Baseball Writer PHOENIX (AP) — Money can buy lots of things, including Shohei Ohtani and Yoshinobu Yamamoto, a pair of Japanese…

By SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The surprise retirement of a GOP congressman in a solidly Republican Wisconsin congressional…

By VANESSA GERA Associated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Donald Trump, the front-runner for the Republican Party’s nomination this year, says…

By The Associated Press The Israeli raid in the southern Gaza Strip lasted less than 90 minutes. When it was over, two hostages had been safely…

By JUSTIN SPIKE Associated Press BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Hungary’s long-serving government of Prime Minister Viktor Orbán faces a rare…

By LAURA UNGAR and AMANDA SEITZ Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — In Utah, more of Dr. Cara Heuser’s maternal-fetal medicine patients are…

WOODBURY, Conn. (AP) — A Connecticut pastor has been arrested on allegations that he sold crystal meth out of his church’s rectory. Police say…

By JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press GENEVA (AP) — Switzerland’s main Jewish organization has denounced an antisemitic sign put up at a local ski…

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Trinidad and Tobago’s prime minister says a large oil spill near the twin-island nation in the eastern Caribbean has…

By BILL BARROW Associated Press Robert Kennedy Jr.’s presidential ambitions resulted in public family drama after a political action committee…

LONDON (AP) — Britain’s government says it is imposing sanctions on four Israeli settlers accused of committing human rights abuses against…

By ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON and ERIC TUCKER Associated Press FORT PIERCE, Fla. (AP) — Former President Donald Trump has arrived at a federal courthouse…