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By ALEX VEIGA AP Business Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Sales of previously occupied U.S. homes sank in 2023 to a nearly 30-year low as mortgage rates…

By SIMON CAMBERS Associated Press MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — A Ukrainian player refusing to shake the hand of a Russian or Belarusian at the net…

By EMMA BURROWS and DASHA LITVINOVA Associated Press A Russian court in Siberia has sentenced a man to 19 years in prison for shooting a military…

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — A former Republican legislative candidate in Maine has pleaded guilty to assaulting law enforcement officers in the U.S.…

By GEIR MOULSON Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — This week began and ended with the long road in front of Berlin’s landmark Brandenburg Gate…

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — European Union Commissioner for Justice Didier Reynders has praised efforts by Poland’s new pro-EU government to…

By LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer PARK CITY, Utah (AP) — Filmmaker Yance Ford was in a “Sundance haze” when he took a meeting with Netflix…

By LARRY LAGE AP Sports Writer DETROIT (AP) — Eminem stood alongside Pro Football Hall of Famers Barry Sanders and Calvin Johnson before the…

By The Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — More than 1,000 people have rallied in the Russian region of Bashkortostan, continuing a series of protests…

SAN JUAN Puerto Rico (AP) — Authorities in the French Caribbean island of Martinique say two people have been rescued and they are searching for…

By JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press DAVOS, Switzerland (AP) — Business and political elites descended on the Swiss Alpine snows of Davos to suss out…

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Authorities in Jamaica say they have detained a former member of Parliament and named him a suspect in his wife’s…

By ROBERT YOON Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — There may be a collective feeling of déjà vu among Democrats in Bridgeport, Connecticut, as…

By GEIR MOULSON Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — German lawmakers have approved legislation easing rules to gain citizenship and ending restrictions…

By BHARATHA MALLAWARACHI Associated Press COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — The International Monetary Fund says debt-stricken Sri Lanka’s economic…

LONDON (AP) — Apple has promised to open up its tap-and-go mobile payment system to rivals as a way to resolve an antitrust case and avoid…

MIAMI (AP) — A cargo plane has made an emergency landing at Miami International Airport after experiencing engine failure shortly after takeoff. A…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Indian firm Tata Steel says it will close both blast furnaces at its plant in Port Talbot, Wales,…

By REBECCA SANTANA Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The federal agency in charge of emergency management is making changes to its program that…

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — A lawyer says some 20 activists have been charged after they blocked several entrances to Norwegian government offices…

By ROBERT YOON Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The race for the Republican and Democratic presidential nominations will converge in New…

BY MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — As Japan’s space agency prepares for its first moon landing early Saturday, it’s aiming to hit…

By ASHRAF KHALIL Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Opponents of abortion rights will rally in the nation’s capital with an eye on presidential…

By JULIA FRANKEL, NAJIB JOBAIN and BASSEM MROUE Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Rifts are emerging among top Israeli officials over the handling…

By JAYAMPATHI PALIPANE Associated Press COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lankan authorities say they have arrested tens of thousands of people in a…

By The Associated Press A Russian official says a Ukrainian drone has struck an oil storage depot in western Russia, causing a massive blaze. It is…

JERUSALEM (AP) — A member of Israel’s War Cabinet has confirmed reports that early in the war against Hamas in Gaza, an Israeli preemptive strike…

By FOSTER KLUG Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japan hopes to make the world’s first “pinpoint landing” on the moon, joining a modern push…

By YURI KAGEYAMA Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japanese Empress Masako has expressed her yearning for peace as a mother’s love in her poem, read…

By MEAD GRUVER Associated Press WHEATLAND, Wyo. (AP) — Oliver Baez spent two months rehearsing a scene for a school play in which his character…

By ZIMO ZHONG Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — Asia markets mostly advanced Friday after Wall Street recouped most of the week’s earlier…

By GABE STERN Associated Press/Report for America RENO, Nev. (AP) — Seven Republicans vying for the Republican U.S. Senate nomination in Nevada…

By CLAIRE RUSH Associated Press PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Forecasters say a second storm is expected to sock New York with snow after causing chaos…

By ACACIA CORONADO and JAKE BLEIBERG Associated Press UVALDE, Texas (AP) — Families of the children and teachers killed in the Uvalde, Texas,…

By CHRISTOPHER WEBER Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — A small airplane that crashed into the ocean off the California coast has been identified…

DAVAO, Philippines (AP) — A Philippine official says at least seven people, including five children, have been killed when a landslide set off by…

By KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea says it had tested a purported underwater nuclear attack drone in response…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican marines have detained one of the top leaders of the Gulf drug cartel, the gang that kidnapped four Americans and killed…

By JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A man who served 14 years in prison for a deadly 1990s shooting in New York has been exonerated.…

By CLAIRE RUSH and GENE JOHNSON Associated Press PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Majiah Washington noticed a flash outside her home this week in Portland,…

NEW YORK (AP) — The world might see its first trillionaire sooner than you think. And that puts a spotlight on today’s richest 1%. In an…

By DIDI TANG Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Taiwan’s top diplomat in Washington has a message for both the island’s Chinese adversaries…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — South Korea is calling on the divided U.N. Security Council “to break the silence”…

SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif. (AP) — The family of a California college student who vanished nearly three decades ago has sued the school, alleging it…

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Jackson County Executive Frank White has vetoed an ordinance that would have put a 3/8th-cent sales tax renewal on the…

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A judge has sentenced an Iowa man to 65 years in prison for killing two students at a Des Moines alternative school and…

By The Associated Press Federal health officials are expanding a warning about salmonella poisoning tied to charcuterie meat snack trays sold at…

By ASTRID SUÁREZ Associated Press BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Colombian prosecutors say three people have been jailed in the kidnapping and killing of…

By PHILIP MARCELO Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The remains of a Long Island man killed at the World Trade Center on 9/11 have been identified…

By SUDHIN THANAWALA Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — The family of a church deacon who died after struggling with an Atlanta police officer…

By TOM ODULA Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — The African Union, European Union, United Nations and United States are calling for an…

By MARK SHERMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Lawyers for former President Donald Trump are urging the Supreme Court “to put a swift and…

By JACK DURA Associated Press BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — A North Dakota Republican lawmaker has been sentenced to serve nearly a year of unsupervised…

By JONEL ALECCIA AP Health Writer Aleph Farms of Israel has received the preliminary green light from health officials to produce and sell the…

By JULIE CARR SMYTH Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The Ohio Supreme Court has reinstated a judge’s order allowing the state to freeze…

By LISA MASCARO AP Congressional Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republicans are laying the groundwork for impeachment of Homeland Security…

BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) — Ice cream maker Ben & Jerry’s has reached its first contract agreement with workers at a retail shop in the Vermont…

By SOPHIA TAREEN and KATHLEEN FOODY Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — A Texas transportation company is taking the nation’s third largest city to…

By STEVE LeBLANC Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — Police arrested an American Airlines flight attendant on Thursday on suspicion of trying to…

By ALEX VEIGA AP Business Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — The average long-term U.S. mortgage rate fell this week to its lowest level since May, welcome…

By ADAM BEAM Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A California judge has ruled that the state does not have permission to borrow billions of…

By AARON BEARD AP Basketball Writer The arrival of the 3-point shot created more volatility at the top for The Associated Press men’s college…

VALLEJO, Calif. (AP) — The ordeal of a Northern California woman whose kidnapping from her boyfriend’s home was first dismissed as a hoax by law…

By MATTHEW BARAKAT Associated Press LEESBURG, Va. (AP) — A judge has postponed the sentencing of a former Virginia school system superintendent,…

By FARNOUSH AMIRI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Hunter Biden has agreed to appear before House Republicans for a private deposition next…

By R.J. RICO Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Officials say the longstanding and at times violent protests against Atlanta’s planned police and…

By JIM VERTUNO Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is seeking to end a whistleblower lawsuit by former top…

By MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — SpaceX has launched Turkey’s first astronaut along with a Swede and Italian to…

By JONATHAN MATTISE, ADRIAN SAINZ and KRISTIN HALL Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — At least 14 deaths in Tennessee have been linked to a…

By JEFF AMY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp is telling world business leaders that the state must increase its supply of…

ELLSWORTH, Maine (AP) — A wealthy attorney who twice ran for governor in Maine is out of jail after completing his sentence for possessing…

UVALDE, Texas (AP) — A scathing Justice Department report into law enforcement failures during the Robb Elementary School shooting in Uvalde,…

By The Associated Press Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania have externally attached a pig liver to a brain-dead human body and watched it…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico and Chile have asked the International Criminal Court to investigate possible crimes against civilians in Gaza and the…

By MARGERY A. BECK Associated Press LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Nebraska Gov. Jim Pillen covered everything from the state’s response to recent winter…

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — A New Hampshire man who pleaded guilty to making a threatening phone call to a member of Congress has been sentenced in…

By JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press DAVOS, Switzerland (AP) — The International Committee of the Red Cross has been losing influence, funding and…

By MELANIE LIDMAN Associated Press TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Hundreds of people gathered in Tel Aviv to mark the first birthday of Kfir Bibas, the…

ST. LOUIS (AP) — A former professional basketball player whose ex-girlfriend was sentenced to prison last year for fraud is now facing his own…

By KEVIN FREKING Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A bill to create a bipartisan commission that would tackle the nation’s soaring debt and make…

By MICHAEL GOLDBERG Associated Press/Report for America JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi’s State Health Officer says even as the state…

By PAT GRAHAM AP Sports Writer Shawn Barber, the Canadian pole vault record holder and 2015 world champion, has died from medical complications. He…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The federal judge overseeing the 2020 election interference against Donald Trump has rejected his lawyers’ bid to hold special…