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By YURI KAGEYAMA Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — First there were cafés that allowed pets. Then came cat cafés, where lattes took second place to…

By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Thirty-nine years ago, the biggest pop stars in the world crammed into a recording studio…

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea’s military says it detected North Korea firing multiple cruise missiles into the sea off its western coast…

By MARK VANCLEAVE Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A judge has ruled that a Minnesota state trooper accused in the fatal shooting of motorist…

SYDNEY (AP) — A woman has suffered serious leg injuries after being attacked by a suspected bull shark in Sydney Harbor. The victim, a woman…

By DAVID KOENIG and TOM KRISHER Associated Press Federal investigators are providing new details about a close call last year at JFK Airport in New…

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — U.S. Steel has agreed to settle a lawsuit that accused the Pittsburgh-based steel producer of violating federal clean air…

By SOPHIA TAREEN Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson will again extend its 60-day limit on shelter stays for asylum…

By GARY D. ROBERTSON Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina has joined an emerging nationwide effort to improve outcomes for more…

By FRANKLIN BRICEÑO Associated Press LIMA, Peru (AP) — The controversial intelligence chief of former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori has…

By ERIC OLSON AP Sports Writer Defense attorneys for three Iowa State athletes caught in a gambling sting last year say their clients face criminal…

By CEDAR ATTANASIO Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The National Rifle Association’s outgoing CEO acknowledged at a civil trial in New York that…

By MANUEL RUEDA BOGOTA, Colombia The Colombian government and the nation’s largest remaining rebel group have announced that they will extend their…

By SUMMER BALLENTINE Associated Press A Minnesota man has been charged in a triple homicide after allegedly dressing as a package delivery driver to…

PALM BAY, Fla. (AP) — Authorities say four people are dead in Florida’s Space Coast, including a retired priest and a man accused of shooting and…

By LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Attorney General Merrick Garland will undergo back surgery this weekend and delegate his…

By SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Democratic presidential candidate U.S. Rep. Dean Phillips wants the Wisconsin Supreme Court to…

By ANDREW DALTON AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — A judge on Monday rejected Cher’s request that her adult son be put into a court…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The leader of the Church of England says Britain will undermine its standing in the world if it…

By BRENDAN FARRINGTON Associated Press TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis says he wants lawmakers to change Washington…

By JOSH FUNK Associated Press OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — About 1,000 Norfolk Southern engineers and conductors will soon be able to report safety concerns…

NASHUA, N.H. (AP) — A man convicted of shooting and wounding a bishop and assaulting the bride and groom at a church wedding ceremony in New…

DETROIT (AP) — Toyota and General Motors are telling the owners of about 61,000 older Corolla, Matrix, RAV4 and Pontiac Vibe models to stop driving…

BERLIN (AP) — A group of climate activists who infuriated many in Germany by gluing themselves to streets to block traffic says it will abandon the…

NEW YORK (AP) — Two New York City brothers are accused of stockpiling an arsenal of explosive devices and ghost guns in their family’s home.…

DETROIT (AP) — Federal prosecutors have charged a Michigan man with threatening President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris. The Detroit…

By BILL BARROW Associated Press CONWAY, S.C. (AP) — For South Carolina’s conservatives, deciding whether Nikki Haley’s record warrants a…

BOSTON (AP) — A Boston doctor indicted last year on a charge of lewd acts near a 14-year-old girl on an airplane has appeared in federal court for…

By DAVID SHARP Associated Press SOUTH PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — A school’s diversity, equity and inclusion coordinator in Maine has left the…

SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. (AP) — Authorities say arrests have been made in the investigation into six bodies found last week at a remote desert…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The International Criminal Court’s prosecutor says his “clear finding” is that…

By MIKE SCHNEIDER Associated Press ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — A judge is recommending 30-day suspensions for a pair of Florida lawyers who criticized a…

By RUSS BYNUM Associated Press SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — The family of a 24-year-old U.S. Army reservist from Georgia confirms she was among three…

BOSTON (AP) — Federal authorities say a Massachusetts man has been arrested for allegedly threatening to kill members of the state’s Jewish…

NEW YORK (AP) — Pulitzer Prize winner Rick Atkinson has a multi-book deal that reunites him with his longtime editor and brings him to a new…

By RONALD BLUM Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The Los Angeles Opera scrapped plans for the world premiere of Mason Bates’ “The Amazing…

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A federal judge is ordering an Oregon newspaper not to publish documents linked to a sex discrimination lawsuit against Nike.…

By ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — An Iranian man who federal prosecutors say operates a criminal network that targets dissidents…

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (AP) — Authorities say two Tennessee deputies were wounded and a kidnapping suspect was killed in an exchange of gunfire on…

By MARC LEVY Associated Press HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Pennsylvania’s state Supreme Court says a lower court must hear a challenge to the…

By The Associated Press Supporters of prominent Russian opposition figure Vladimir Kara-Murza Jr. says he has disappeared from the Siberian prison…

By MATTHEW PERRONE AP Health Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The company behind a global recall of sleep apnea machines says it will stop selling the…

By JEFF AMY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia House members have passed a bill that would revive a commission with powers to discipline and…

By ED WHITE Associated Press A counselor says staff expressed concerns about a Michigan teenager long before he killed four students during a 2021…

By FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — As tax filing season officially starts Monday, a limited number of taxpayers in 12 states will…

By EDDIE PELLS AP National Writer The highest court in sports sanctioned Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva for doping violations at the 2022…

By REGINA GARCIA CANO Associated Press CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado says the court ruling blocking…

SOUTH BEND, Ind. (AP) — Authorities say an 11-year-old girl who was hospitalized for burns following a northern Indiana house fire has died,…

BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — A trial has started in Serbia for the parents of a teenager who is accused of killing 10 people and injuring six in a mass…

By COLLEEN LONG Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden has made some strong claims about shutting down the U.S.-Mexico border over…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — An undetermined number of hacked-up bodies have been found in two vehicles abandoned on a bridge in Mexico’s Gulf coast…

By ADRIANA MORGA Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Tax season starts today and for many people filing U.S. tax returns — especially those doing it…

By SAM McNEIL Associated Press KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza Strip (AP) — The Islamic cemetery in southern Gaza was demolished, graves excised from the earth.…

By JIM SALTER Associated Press ST. LOUIS (AP) — A Missouri prosecutor now believes that inmate Marcellus Williams is innocent of the crime that…

By GERALD IMRAY Associated Press CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — South Africa’s ruling party has suspended former President Jacob Zuma after he…

By MARK SHERMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Lawyers seeking to keep Donald Trump off the ballot are urging the Supreme Court to declare…

PRINCETON, Ky. (AP) — An Amber Alert has been issued for a 5-year-old western Kentucky girl police say they believe is with the father suspected of…

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — A potato farmer and former North Dakota lawmaker is running for the state’s only seat in the U.S. House of…

By ELLEN KNICKMEYER Associated Press The drone strike that killed three U.S. troops in Jordan and was apparently launched by Iran-backed militants…

By LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A former contractor for the Internal Revenue Service who pleaded guilty to leaking tax…

By JULIA FRANKEL Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel’s military has announced that it will review the shooting of a Palestinian man who was…

By JUSTIN SPIKE Associated Press KAMIANYTSIA, Ukraine (AP) — A years-long diplomatic conflict between Ukraine and Hungary took a step toward…

By LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A drone that killed three American troops and wounded dozens of others in Jordan may have…

By JEAN-YVES KAMALE Associated Press KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — A local official says the majority of the 50 passengers aboard a wooden boat that…

By LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has returned to work at the Pentagon after nearly a month’s…

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Philadelphia police say they’re reviewing a video posted on social media as part of their investigation into a shooting…

By LLAZAR SEMINI Associated Press TIRANA, Albania (AP) — Albania’s Constitutional Court says a deal can go ahead with Italy under which thousands…

ST. PETERSBURG, Russia (AP) — The leaders of Russia and Belarus have discussed ways to further expand their alliance that has seen the deployment…

By HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — N. Scott Momaday has died at age 89 after becoming a Pulitzer Prize-winning storyteller, poet,…

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — A little-discussed U.S. military desert outpost in far reaches of northeastern Jordan has become…

By SAMYA KULLAB Associated Press SLOVIANSK, Ukraine (AP) — In the eastern Ukrainian city of Sloviansk, a disabled painter lies bed-ridden in an…

WAUKESHA, Wis. (AP) — A Wisconsin judge will hold a hearing in the case of a woman seeking to be released from a mental institution that she was…

By ANNE D’INNOCENZIO AP Retail Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Walmart is further sweetening the perks for its U.S. store managers as the nation’s…

By BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press LONDON (AP) — A lawyer for Prince Harry is seeking 2 million pounds ($2.5 million) in legal fees after proving the…

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Authorities in the Bahamas say they are cracking down on crime after the U.S. Embassy issued a security alert warning…

TBILISI, Georgia (AP) — The prime minister of the country of Georgia resigned on Monday and said he had accepted an offer to become chairman of the…

BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s president has called for a broad “alliance against extremism” in the wake of a report about far-right discussions of…

Sandra Milo, an icon of Italian cinema who played a key role in Federico Fellini’s Oscar-winning “8½” has died. A statement from her family…

U.S. auto safety regulators will not seek a recall after a seven-year investigation into complaints that more than 1 million Dodge and Ram vehicles…