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ISLAMABAD (AP) — The Islamic State group has claimed responsibility for a minivan explosion in the Afghan capital that killed at least three…

By SCOTT McFETRIDGE and KATHY McCORMACK Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Winter storms have been walloping the U.S. with blizzards,…

By LEAH WILLINGHAM and JOHN RABY Associated Press CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice is bringing a close to one avenue for his…

By CHRISTOPHER BODEEN and JOHNSON LAI Associated Press TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — China is being accused of using military threats, diplomatic pressure…

BEIJING (AP) — China’s space agency says its latest lunar explorer has arrived at the launch site in preparation for a mission to the moon in the…

By FARNOUSH AMIRI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans are taking the first step toward holding Hunter Biden in contempt of Congress. The…

By SEUNG MIN KIM and ZEKE MILLER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden’s administration pledged from day one to restore truth…

By YURI KAGEYAMA Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — As of Wednesday, 203 deaths were reported following the 7.6 magnitude quake that slammed the western…

By RIAZ KHAN Associated Press PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistani police say militants attacked a police checkpoint on a highway in the…

By HANNAH FINGERHUT Associated Press WAUKEE, Iowa (AP) — Iowa Republicans will likely confront temperatures dipping below zero degrees Fahrenheit…

By STEVE PEOPLES AP National Political Writer DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Just two Republican presidential candidates, former United Nations Ambassador…

By JULIA FRANKEL Associated Press BEIT RIMA, West Bank (AP) — Security camera video from a West Bank village shows a young man standing in a…

By MEG KINNARD Associated Press WAUKEE, Iowa (AP) — Nikki Haley and Ron DeSantis will be alone on the debate stage Wednesday for the first time.…

By DÁNICA COTO Associated Press SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Cesareans are surging in the U.S. territory of Puerto Rico, which has one of the…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Amalija Knavs, the mother of former first lady Melania Trump, has died. Trump announced the death late Tuesday without disclosing…

By MATT BROWN and LINLEY SANDERS Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Americans of various racial backgrounds largely agree that the government…

By TIA GOLDENBERG Associated Press TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Israel is sending top legal minds, including a Holocaust survivor, to The Hague this…

By ALLEN PANCHANA and GONZALO SOLANO Associated Press GUAYAQUIL, Ecuador (AP) — It was a day like any other at the TC Television studio in…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — More than 50 countries that are home to half the planet’s population are due to hold national…

By YOLANDA MAGAÑA and MEGAN JANETSKY Associated Press SAN SALVADOR (AP) — A record-breaking 51,226 Salvadorans living abroad voted in El…

By GONZALO SOLANO Associated Press GUAYAQUIL, Ecuador (AP) — A group of armed, masked men in Ecuador launched an audacious attack on a television…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. Security Council has scheduled a vote Wednesday on a resolution that would…

By HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea’s main opposition leader says he hopes for a return to mutual respect in…

ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) — The national champion Michigan Wolverines have returned home to their Ann Arbor campus. They were met with thunderous…

By HANNAH FINGERHUT Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds focused on education and health care in an expansive agenda…

By WYATTE GRANTHAM-PHILIPS and ANNE D’INNOCENZIO LAS VEGAS (AP) — Walmart has unveiled plans to dive further into the world of artificial…

By SHAWN CHEN and WYATTE GRANTHAM PHILIPS LAS VEGAS (AP) — While electric vehicles are gaining the lion’s share of the attention for…

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Faculty at California State University could stage a systemwide strike later this month after school officials ended…

NEW YORK (AP) — The final documents released among thousands of newly unsealed pages pertaining to Jeffrey Epstein’s sexual abuse of teenage…

By HOLLY RAMER Associated Press ROCHESTER, N.H. (AP) — Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie is rejecting the idea that ending his presidential bid…

By THOMAS BEAUMONT and JONATHAN J. COOPER Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Ron DeSantis says that nominating Donald Trump would make the…

By ZEKE MILLER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris’ aircraft has been forced to divert to a Washington-area airport…

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Yemen’s Houthi rebels have unleashed a barrage of drones and missiles…

By MORGAN LEE Associated Press SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — One of three defendants has pleaded guilty to federal charges in connection with a series of…

By HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has called South Korea “our principal enemy” and…

By STEVE LeBLANC Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — Boston Mayor Michelle Wu in her annual State of the City address Tuesday pledged to make it easier…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United States defendied its veto of a call for the immediate suspension of…

By NICHOLAS RICCARDI Associated Press Donald Trump is warning that other ex-presidents could be prosecuted if criminal charges against him…

By ERIC TUCKER and ALANNA DURKIN RICHER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Appeals court judges are signaling they will likely reject Donald…

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Authorities say a fourth child has died of injuries suffered in a fire at a home in St. Paul, Minnesta. The Star Tribune…

By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A federal judge says the notorious 2005 “Access Hollywood” video in which Donald Trump was…

By JENNIFER PELTZ and JAKE OFFENHARTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump plans to deliver his own closing argument Thursday in his New…

ATLANTA (AP) — A county commissioner in suburban Atlanta says she will challenge U.S. Rep. Lucy McBath in the Democratic primary in May. Cobb…

By MARIA SHERMAN AP Music Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Adan Canto, the Mexican singer and actor best known for his roles in “X-Men: Days of Future…

By TARA COPP and LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin had prostate cancer surgery and was later…

CONCORD, N.C. (AP) — Lawyers for a man wrongfully convicted and imprisoned for 44 years say he’s reached a $25 million combined settlement…

By DAVID KOENIG and TOM KRISHER AP Business Writers The extended grounding of some Boeing 737 Max jetliners is adding to pressure on Boeing and the…

By BARBARA ORTUTAY AP Technology Writer SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Meta said Tuesday it will start hiding inappropriate content from teenagers’…

By TARA COPP Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. and Chinese military officers have resumed talks that were frozen after former House Speaker…

CAMBRIDGE, Vt. (AP) — State police say no criminal charges will be filed in the death of a 3-year-old boy who fell into an underground cistern and…

By KEN SWEET AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The Securities and Exchange Commission said Tuesday that a post on X announcing that the securities…

By ADRIAN SAINZ Associated Press MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — A Memphis City Council committee has voted to recommend that police chief Cerelyn “CJ”…

By GERALD IMRAY Associated Press CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — The South African government says former U.K. opposition leader Jeremy Corbyn will…

By PHILIP MARCELO Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Migrant families are leaving New York City’s shelter system under an eviction notice imposed…

TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — The family of a University of Arizona professor who was fatally shot on campus in October 2022 says it has reached a…

By JAMIE STENGLE Associated Press DALLAS (AP) — Mourners had gathered in Dallas to remember a longtime Texas congresswoman. The funeral for former…

By TRISHA AHMED Associated Press/Report for America MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Authorities say a shooting at a small-town Minnesota hotel has killed an…

By MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A National Rifle Association lawyer has acknowledged in court that some former executives and…

By JULIE CARR SMYTH Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A federal judge issued an order Tuesday temporarily halting enforcement of a pending…

HAGATNA, Guam (AP) — Guam police say a man suspected of fatally shooting a South Korean tourist during a robbery in the U.S. territory last week…

By JULIE CARR SMYTH Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A judge has upheld as constitutional provisions of Ohio’s sweeping new election…

By JEFFREY COLLINS Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — The swearing-in of South Carolina’s sixth woman to the state Senate means the state…

By MIKE SCHNEIDER Associated Press ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — A father-daughter pair of Florida lawyers may face disciplinary action for speaking out…

By ALI SWENSON Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump is seizing on his party’s frustration with the recent surge of illegal crossings at…

By DAVID BAUDER and DENNIS WASZAK Jr. Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — New York Jets quarterback Aaron Rodgers denied he implied comic Jimmy Kimmel…

By JENNIFER McDERMOTT Associated Press The shattering of global annual heat records last year is prompting people to ask: What can be done? The…

By SCOTT SONNER Associated Press RENO, Nev. (AP) — A Nevada judge has approved a $100 million cash settlement to the parents of a 31-year-old…

By The Associated Press An emergency landing by an Alaska Airlines jetliner last Friday prompted U.S. authorities to ground most of Boeing’s…

By JEAN-YVES KAMALE Associated Press KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — Congo’s constitutional court has upheld the results of last month’s election that…

By JOSHUA GOODMAN Associated Press MIAMI (AP) — A U.S. veteran who plotted to overthrow Venezuela’s president is proudly standing with a former…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The executive editor of the Los Angeles Times is stepping down after a 2 1/2-year tenure at the newspaper that spanned the…

By MEG KINNARD Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The fifth Republican presidential debate of the 2024 election season will also be its first…

By BRUCE SCHREINER Associated Press FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — A woman who dominated discussion about abortion during Kentucky’s campaign last year…

By BRENDAN FARRINGTON Associated Press TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis delivered messages about California, New York…

LAS VEGAS (AP) — CES 2024 starts today in Las Vegas. The multi-day trade event put on by the Consumer Technology Association is set to feature…

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to review the federal civil rights conviction of a former Minneapolis police officer who…

By EMILIO LUGO Associated Press JONACAPA, Hidalgo (AP) — Authorities in central Mexico say they found the bodies of nine men in vehicles near a…

By MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Astronauts will have to wait until next year before flying to the moon and another…

By DASHA LITVINOVA Associated Press TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny says officials at the Arctic prison colony…

By JULIE WATSON Associated Press SAN DIEGO (AP) — A U.S. Navy sailor has been sentenced to 27 months in federal prison for transmitting sensitive…

By SEUNG MIN KIM and ZEKE MILLER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House chief of staff on Tuesday ordered Cabinet heads to notify his…

By JAKE OFFENHARTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A group of Hasidic Jewish worshippers were arrested amid a dispute over a tunnel secretly dug…

By MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A crippling fuel leak forced a U.S. company on Tuesday to give up on landing a…

By ERIC OLSON AP College Football Writer HOUSTON (AP) — Michigan heads into an uncertain future after winning its first national championship in 26…

By LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Baby Yoda is going to make his big screen debut. Jon Favreau is set to direct “The Mandalorian…

ISLAMABAD (AP) — Officials say a Pakistani court has indicted imprisoned former Prime Minister Imran Khan and his wife on graft charges of…

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California Controller Malia M. Cohen wants Congress to change the tax code to cap deferred payments, a change that could…

LONDON (AP) — Prosecutors say a 26-year-old man who tried to sell what he claimed was a walking stick used by the late Queen Elizabeth II has been…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican U.S. Rep. Greg Pence of Indiana says he will not seek reelection this year to a fourth term, becoming the latest House…