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RAFAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — The Israeli military said it rescued two hostages from captivity in the Gaza Strip early Monday. It identified the men as…

By MARIA SHERMAN AP Music Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Beyoncé is…. Back? After a Verizon commercial starring Beyoncé aired during the Super…

By MARIA SHERMAN AP Music Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Usher emerged at Las Vegas’ Allegiant Stadium for the 2024 Super Bowl halftime show, an…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — An American woman and a man from Belize have been killed in what appears to have been a dispute between drug dealers at a beach…

By TARA COPP Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Iraqi government met again with the U.S. government on how to draw down American troops who…

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — The government of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro has arrested human rights activist Rocio San Miguel. The…

By TOM ODULA, MUTWIRI MUTUOTA and GERALD IMRAY Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — A fellow athlete says marathon world record-holder Kelvin…

By COLLEEN LONG Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The president’s national security spokesman John Kirby is getting an expanded role at the…

By ERALDO PERES and ELÉONORE HUGHES Associated Press MADRE DE DEUS, Brazil (AP) — Carnival revelers in Brazil’s Madre de Deus heard the…

By WYATTE GRANTHAM-PHILIPS AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Super Bowl Sunday is here — and, as always, there’s a vast roster of advertisers…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin was hospitalized Sunday following symptoms pointing to an “emergent bladder issue,” the…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — A plane carrying four Canadian skydivers came down on a beach in southern Mexico, killing one man who was on the beach at the…

SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. (AP) — A man whose family’s gender reveal ceremony in 2020 sparked a Southern California wildfire that killed a…

HOUSTON (AP) — Police in Houston say they are responding to a possible shooting at the megachurch run by pastor Joel Osteen. Lakewood Church said…

NEW YORK (AP) — New York is expanding a curfew to additional migrant shelters. Mayor Eric Adams’ administration will impose an 11 p.m. to 6 a.m.…

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — The government of Venezuela accused neighboring Guayana of granting illegal oil exploration concessions in territory the…

By JULIA FRANKEL Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — A pro-settler organization says the population of Israeli settlers in the West Bank increased…

KINGFISHER, Okla. (AP) — A man has been sentenced to life in prison after pleading guilty to killing four workers at an Oklahoma marijuana farm in…

By PHILIP MARCELO Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A man convicted in the drug-related killing of a rookie New York City police officer at the…

By MARY CLARE JALONICK and STEPHEN GROVES Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — As a growing number of Republicans oppose U.S. aid to Ukraine, the…

ROSWELL, N.M. (AP) — A winter storm advisory has been issued for eastern New Mexico including the city of Roswell, which got its first notable…

By COLLEEN LONG Associated Press WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — President Joe Biden’s personal attorney said Sunday he went to both the special…

WINSLOW, Maine (AP) — One of the 18 people killed in the deadliest mass shooting in Maine history is being remembered in art, including some of his…

LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) — A soprano well known for her performance in the French cult-classic film “Diva” has died. Funeral services were held…

By DAVE SKRETTA AP Sports Writer LAS VEGAS (AP) — Taylor Swift was planning to watch boyfriend Travis Kelce and the rest of the Kansas City Chiefs…

By DEREK GATOPOULOS and DEMETRIS NELLAS Associated Press ATHENS, Greece (AP) — More than 1,500 protesters have gathered in central Athens to oppose…

The Associated Press Human rights activists say a 71-year-old Ukrainian man has died in a Russian prison while on trial for espionage. Court…

By LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer “Lisa Frankenstein” didn’t come to life at the North American box office in its first weekend in theaters. The…

By RAHIM FAIEZ ISLAMABAD (AP) — A Taliban spokesman says two Afghan prisoners who were held in U.S. custody for at least 14 years at the Guantanamo…

By VANESSA GERA and LORNE COOK Associated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — NATO’s leader is warning that Donald Trump was putting the safety of…

BOSTON (AP) — The U.S. Customs and Border Protection says one of its dogs sniffed out something unusual in a traveler’s luggage in Boston —…

MANILA, Philippines (AP) — The death toll from a massive landslide that hit a gold-mining village in the southern Philippines has risen to 54 with…

By DEMETRIS NELLAS Associated Press ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greek authorities say they have found 84 people who were trying to enter the country by…

By JIMMY GOLEN AP Sports Writer CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) — The two Dartmouth players working to unionize their basketball team say other athletes have…

By MELANIE LIDMAN Associated Press TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Israel’s finance minister has slammed a decision by the financial ratings agency…

By THOMAS ADAMSON and OLEG CETINIC Associated Press PARIS (AP) — In a significant stride in its preparations for the 2024 Olympics, Paris has…

By KEVIN McGILL Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — It’s a beloved Carnival season tradition in New Orleans — masked riders on lavish floats…

By LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer Christopher Nolan was awarded the top prize at the Directors Guild Awards for “Oppenheimer” Saturday in Los…

By SARAH TETAUD Associated Press ANTANANARIVO, Madagascar (AP) — Madagascar’s Parliament has passed a law allowing for the chemical and in some…

By RIAZAT BUTT Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan’s election body says independent candidates have secured the biggest number of…

By GIOVANNA DELL’ORTO Associated Press MIAMI (AP) — Nineteen priests kicked out of the country, dozens of incidents of harassment and church…

By NAJIB JOBAIN and SAMY MAGDY Associated Press RAFAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Egypt is threatening to suspend its peace treaty with Israel if Israeli…

ISTANBUL (AP) — Assailants have opened fire at a campaign event for upcoming municipal elections in Istanbul, critically wounding one person.…

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian forces launched 45 drones over Ukraine Sunday in a five-and-a-half-hour barrage, officials said, as Ukrainian…

LONDON (AP) — King Charles III has expressed his thanks for the messages of support he has received since he revealed last week that he had been…

By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press VATICAN CITY (AP) — Argentina’s faith and politics have come together at the Vatican. Pope Francis on Sunday…

HELSINKI (AP) — Finnish voters are choosing between two experienced voters to be their next president. The winner’s main task will be to…

SEATTLE (AP) — Jeff Bezos has filed a statement with federal regulators indicating his sale of nearly 12 million shares of Amazon stock worth more…

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran marked the 45th anniversary of the 1979 Islamic Revolution amid tensions gripping the wider Middle East over Israel’s…

By NINIEK KARMINI Associated Press JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Joko Widodo’s phenomenal rise from a riverside slum, where he grew up, to the…

By MICHAEL HILL Associated Press ILION, N.Y. (AP) — Remington began here two centuries ago and generations of workers have turned out rifles and…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — As chances rise of a Joe Biden-Donald Trump rematch in the U.S. presidential election race,…

By MARK STEVENSON Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — As the Super Bowl approaches, there could be problems for guacamole, a favorite game-time…

By JULIA FRANKEL Associated Press NILIN, West Bank (AP) — Count the rings of the gnarled olive trees dotting Mohammed Mousa’s land in the West…

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The al-Qaida-linked militant group al-Shabab has claimed an attack that killed…

By DAVID BILLER Associated Press RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Raquel Potí has become the preeminent face of Rio’s Carnival street parties, and is a…

By COLLEEN LONG Associated Press WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — First lady Jill Biden says she doesn’t know what a special counsel was trying to…

By JILL COLVIN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Republican front-runner Donald Trump says he warned NATO allies as president that he “would…

By MARK THIESSEN Associated Press Dexter Scott King, the late son of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Coretta Scott King, was remembered Saturday as…

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden will travel to East Palestine, Ohio, about a year after a Norfolk Southern train derailed there and spilled a…

By JOE REEDY AP Sports Writer There were plenty of critics when CBS announced four years ago that it would produce a kids-centric broadcast of an NFL…

By MORGAN LEE Associated Press SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — New Mexico’s strategy for spending and investing a multibillion-dollar annual surplus linked…

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — A series of winter storms that wreaked havoc in Southern California early this week and left 3 feet of snow in northern…

NEW YORK (AP) — A 15-year-old accused of shooting a Brazilian tourist in the leg in Times Square Thursday night and then firing at a police officer…

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — An infant in Missouri died when her mother mistakenly put her down for a nap in an oven. Mariah Thomas of Kansas City is…

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — A pioneering rock ‘n’ roll drummer who played behind the likes of Jerry Lee Lewis and Billy Lee Riley at Sun Records in…

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A federal agency is offering a $50,000 reward for information about the deaths of three endangered gray wolves from the same…

LAS VEGAS (AP) — A man who leaped over a judicial bench and attacked a Nevada judge during a sentencing hearing in Las Vegas last month that was…

By TODD RICHMOND Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — U.S. Rep. Mike Gallagher says he won’t run for a fifth term in Congress. The Wisconsin…

By The Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — A desperate rescue attempt in Gaza by medics with the Palestinian Red Crescent has ended with the…

By JOE REEDY AP Sports Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Super Bowl Sunday used to be the one day for a network to showcase its sports division and launch…

ST. LOUIS (AP) — Children and grandchildren of former U.S. Sen. Jean Carnahan of Missouri recalled her wit, curiosity, kindness and hard work…