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TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Taiwan’s Defense Ministry says China sent four balloons over the island, three of which passed near to a key air force…

By DEEPA BHARATH Associated Press HANAPEPE, Hawaii (AP) — The process of making salt from sea water is a lengthy and laborious one that requires…

By DEEPA BHARATH Associated Press HANAPEPE, Hawaii (AP) — On a warm summer afternoon, Tina Taniguchi was on her hands and knees scraping dirt off…

ISLAMABAD (AP) — A lawyer says a Pakistani court has indicted former Prime Minister Imran Khan in a contempt case for allegedly insulting election…

By JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A small, rare herding dog called the Lancashire heeler is the latest breed recognized by the…

By BETH J. HARPAZ Associated Press Planning a trip this winter? Yes, it’s tempting to look for sunny spots where you can lie on a beach or play…

By DAN FRIO Edmunds Most of us struggle with making those New Year’s resolutions stick. This year, add some fuel — or even electricity — to…

By DOUG FERGUSON AP Golf Writer KAPALUA, Hawaii (AP) — The PGA Tour season starts at Kapalua and there’s a different feeling this year.…

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran’s state TV is reporting that two explosions have occurred in the central city of Kerman during the fourth death…

By SAM KEMMIS of NerdWallet Remote working has led to so-called “bleisure” travel, where employees mix work and leisure on the same trip. This…

By EDDIE PELLS AP National Writer DENVER (AP) — For 20 months, a teenage swimmer has been awaiting a decision about accusations filed against him…

BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union has imposed sanctions on the world’s biggest diamond mining company and its chief executive officer as part of…

By FADI TAWIL and SAMY MAGDY Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Israel was on high alert for an escalation with Hezbollah on Wednesday after one of the…

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Temperatures have fallen below minus 40 degrees Celsius in the Nordic region for a second day in a row, breaking a…

By WILL WEISSERT and ZEKE MILLER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is starting the campaign year by evoking the Revolutionary…

By ZEN SOO Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — Prosecutors have alleged that Hong Kong activist and publisher Jimmy Lai had encouraged the city’s…

The Russian military said Wednesday it shot down 12 Ukrainian missiles over Russia’s southern Belgorod region bordering Ukraine, as Kyiv’s forces…

LONDON (AP) — Thousands of doctors have walked off the job in Britain, the start of a six-day strike that’s set to be the longest in the…

By HIRO KOMAE and ELAINE KURTENBACH Associated Press SUZU, Japan (AP) — The powerful earthquake that shattered the peace of New Year’s Day in…

By FOSTER KLUG and MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Transport officials and police have begun separate investigations at Tokyo’s…

By The Associated Press Asian shares dropped Wednesday after Wall Street started 2024 with a slump, giving back some of its powerful gains from last…

By HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korean police have raided the residence and office of a man who stabbed the…

By MARC LEVY Associated Press HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — In 2024, Democratic Gov. Josh Shapiro could face a more complicated sophomore year in charge…

By COLLIN BINKLEY and MORIAH BALINGIT AP Education Writers WASHINGTON (AP) — The downfall of Harvard’s president has elevated the threat of…

By HIRO KOMAE and YURI KAGEYAMA Associated Press SUZU, Japan (AP) — Rescue workers and canine units urgently sifted through rubble in the winter…

By HANNAH SCHOENBAUM Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has collected enough signatures to appear on the 2024…

By ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON Associated Press Noelia Sanchez was born in the rolling farmlands of southwest Missouri, where her Mexican parents worked as…

By TRÂN NGUYỄN and ADAM BEAM Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California lawmakers are returning to work for an election-year…

By STEVE KARNOWSKI Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Love it, hate it or yawn at it, Minnesota is set to get a new state flag next spring that…

By DAVID A. LIEB Associated Press JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Income, sales, property and gas taxes: Almost every U.S. state cut at least one such…

By MIKE SCHNEIDER Associated Press Four years after the last census, almost a dozen small communities in the Midwest are going to be counted again in…

By ZEKE MILLER AP White House Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. is “confident” that Palestinian militant groups used Gaza’s…

By KRUTIKA PATHI and JULHAS ALAM Associated Press DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — The elections in Bangladesh are all about one person: Prime Minister…

By KRUTIKA PATHI and JULHAS ALAM Associated Press DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — The elections in Bangladesh are all about one person: Prime Minister…

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Authorities have arrested a 10-year-old Northern California boy on suspicion of shooting to death another child with his…

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has ordered an inquiry into why 20-year-old Cabinet…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Disgraced Los Angeles celebrity lawyer Tom Girardi has been found competent to stand trial on charges that he stole more than…

By MEAD GRUVER Associated Press A congressman and a senator’s son jumped into the race Tuesday for the Utah U.S. Senate seat being vacated by…

By ERIC TUCKER and ALAN SUDERMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Newly unsealed Justice Department court records say two well-connected…

By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN Associated Press ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — New Mexico marijuana regulators have revoked the licenses of two growing…

By JAKE OFFENHARTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Visitors to New York City hoping to take home a souvenir from the Brooklyn Bridge will now have…

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A court has ruled Wisconsin election clerks can accept absentee ballots that contain minor errors such as missing portions of…

LUKEVILLE, Ariz. (AP) — U.S. authorities say a border crossing on the most direct route from Phoenix to the nearest beaches will reopen Thursday,…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal prosecutors have recommended a six-month term of imprisonment for a man at the center of a right-wing conspiracy theory…

By GABE STERN Associated Press/Report or America RENO, Nev. (AP) — The rapid turnover among election officials in Nevada continues, with the top…

By HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH Associated Press Gypsy Rose Blanchard says she has found a way to forgive her mother — and herself. But it has been a long…

By ADRIANA MORGA Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A new version of the federal student aid application known as the FAFSA is available for the…

MONTREAL, Quebec (AP) — Air Canada, Canada’s largest carrier, had the worst on-time performance among large airlines in North America in 2023.…

KISSIMMEE, Fla. (AP) — A group of volunteer divers believe they have found the remains of a woman in a vehicle submerged in a retention pond near…

By NOAH TRISTER AP Sports Writer The possibility of college teams using NFL-style communication technology has been viewed with a little more urgency…

By CAROLYN THOMPSON Associated Press MAYVILLE, N.Y. (AP) — Salman Rushdie’s plans to publish a book about a 2022 attempt on his life may delay…

LAS VEGAS (AP) — A prosecutor says that separate murder, kidnapping and conspiracy cases will be combined so that a former NBA developmental league…

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Police have released new body camera footage that includes audio of the shootout that ended a gunman’s deadly rampage a month…

By FATIMA HUSSEIN and JOSH BOAK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Treasury has announced that the nation’s gross national debt has…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The earliest iteration of Mickey Mouse is on a rampage, barely two days in the public domain. Slashed free of Disney’s…

By MARC LEVY Associated Press HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — A liberal activist wants a Pennsylvania court to bar U.S. Rep. Scott Perry from the state’s…

By WAYNE PARRY Associated Press ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — Atlantic City is adding hundreds of security cameras to the 3,000 already keeping an eye…

By MICHAEL GOLDBERG Associated Press/Report for America JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Two influential members of the U.S. House of Representatives from…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration is asking the Supreme Court to allow Border Patrol agents to cut razor wire that Texas installed on the…

By KEVIN McGILL Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A federal appeals court in New Orleans says the Biden administration cannot use a 1986…

BULLHEAD CITY, Ariz. (AP) — Authorities say the cause of a house fire in northwestern Arizona that left five children dead last month is still…

By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez introduced a member of the Qatari royal family and principal in a…

By JOEY CAPPELLETTI Associated Press LANSING, Mich. (AP) — A group of Michigan Republicans plan to meet Saturday and discuss whether to remove…

By JESSE BEDAYN Associated Press/Report for America DENVER (AP) — Gun rights groups have filed a federal lawsuit challenging Colorado’s ban on…

HONOLULU (AP) — Authorities in Hawaii say a man shot and wounded a woman, stole a car at gunpoint and was later killed in a shootout with police…

By DAVE COLLINS Associated Press HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Kennedy cousin Michael Skakel is suing a police investigator and the town of Greenwich,…

By MIKE CATALINI and CLAIRE SAVAGE Associated Press TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — Some officials in suburbs and outlying cities near Chicago and New York…

By LARRY NEUMEISTER and JOSHUA GOODMAN Associated Press New York (AP) — The brother of a powerful leftist senator in Colombia has pleaded guilty to…

By MIKE CORDER Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — South Africa has launched a case at the United Nations’ top court alleging that…

NEW YORK (AP) — The woman who was pinned under a food truck when a driver fleeing police plowed into pedestrians in midtown Manhattan has been…

NORTHFIELD TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) — Four people from an Arkansas family have been publicly identified as the victims of a fatal house explosion in…

By DAVID BAUDER AP Media Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and former United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley are set to appear at…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The bloom is off the final rose for “Bachelorette” star Rachel Lindsay and husband Bryan Abasolo, who found love on the…

JERUSALEM (AP) — The Israeli prime minister’s office says Zvi Zamir, a former director of the Mossad spy service who warned that Israel was…

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Officials with New Mexico’s largest electric utility say a proposed multibillion-dollar merger with a U.S. subsidiary of…

By GARY D. ROBERTSON Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina’s election board has finalized the candidates for the state’s March 5…

By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — An appeals court says Michael Cohen can’t hold ex-president Donald Trump, his former…

NEW YORK (AP) — Officials say a 1.7 magnitude earthquake that hit New York City may have caused a series of small explosions on an island between…

By TOM WITHERS AP Sports Writer CLEVELAND (AP) — Frank Ryan, the quarterback who led the Cleveland Browns to their last NFL title in 1964, has…

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) — Harvard University President Claudine Gay has resigned amid plagiarism accusations and criticism over testimony at a…

GARY, Ind. (AP) — Police say a woman who was trapped in a car that crashed early on New Years Day was rescued after a passerby directed officers to…

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A man was found dead inside an airplane engine Monday night at Salt Lake City International Airport after police say he…

By HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — The powerful sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has derided South Korea’s…