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By SOPHIE AUSTIN Associated Press/Report for America SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A California state senator and member of a historic task force…

By BARBARA ORTUTAY and MATT O’BRIEN AP Technology Writers Elon Musk said Thursday he has found a new CEO for Twitter, or X Corp. as it’s now…

By AAMER MADHANI and ELLEN KNICKMEYER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan told senior Chinese…

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Authorities say they have captured one of two inmates who escaped Sunday night from a Philadelphia prison. A U.S. Marshals…

By BOUAZZA BEN BOUAZZA Associated Press TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — Tunisia’s interior minister says a national guardsman behind an attack that killed…

By JEFF AMY Associated Press There have been a few cracks in the predictable pattern of Republican-controlled states loosening gun laws while…

ROCKLAND, Maine (AP) — A 123-year-old schooner that was once declared the “Official Windjammer of Maine” by state lawmakers has a new owner,…

By JESSICA GRESKO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Thursday backed a California animal cruelty law that requires more space…

By REBECCA BOONE Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Idaho jurors will soon begin deciding the guilt or innocence of a mother charged in a bizarre…

By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Retired NFL quarterback Brett Favre is ending his lawsuit against sportscaster Pat…

By JOHN HANNA AP Political Writer TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas’ Democratic governor has scuttled a small legal settlement between the state and the…

By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press ROME (AP) — A Vatican official says Pope Francis might meet with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy at the…

By JOHN FLESHER AP Environmental Writer The U.S. Senate has voted to overturn two Biden administration policies intended to protect endangered…

By STEVE PEOPLES AP National Political Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The Republicans in the audience laughed when former President Donald Trump mocked a…

A Russian court gave a two-year suspended sentence Thursday to a St. Petersburg woman who left a note on the grave of President Vladimir…

SAN DIEGO (AP) — Rescues crews have suspended their search for three people who were aboard a Learjet that plunged into the Pacific Ocean about a…

By IVÁN VALENCIA Associated Press ACANDI, Colombia (AP) — Migrants who have hiked into the dense Darien jungle covering the Colombia-Panama border…

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Officials in Missouri’s largest city approved a resolution Thursday to declare it a sanctuary for people seeking or…

By JESSICA GRESKO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court has ruled for a onetime top aide to ex-Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo of New…

FORT MOORE, Ga. (AP) — The Army’s training hub in Georgia is now officially called Fort Moore. The Army completed a name change Thursday…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court has ruled against an organization of Puerto Rican journalists in its quest for documents from the financial…

By MAYSOON KHAN Associated Press/Report for America ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York’s attorney general is suing a gun accessory manufacturer for…

By ZEKE MILLER and JOSH BOAK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden and his administration have been searching for ways he might…

By ALEX VEIGA and MELISSA WINDER Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — The average long-term U.S. mortgage rate fell this week to its lowest level in…

By KAREEM CHEHAYEB Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — U.S. authorities say they have seized over a dozen website domains used by sanctioned Lebanese…

By MARIA CHENG AP Medical Writer LONDON (AP) — The World Health Organization says the global outbreak of mpox is no longer an international…

By GERALD IMRAY and MICHAEL BIESECKER Associated Press CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — The U. S. ambassador to South Africa accused the country…

By MICHELLE CHAPMAN AP Business Writer Peloton is recalling more than 2 million of its exercise bikes in the U.S. because the bike’s seat post…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court has ruled in favor of a transgender Guatemalan woman who is fighting deportation on the grounds that she would…

LIMA, Peru (AP) — The prime suspect in the 2005 disappearance of American student Natalee Holloway on a Dutch Caribbean island is now facing…

By JOE REEDY AP Sports Writer Swimming, gymnastics and track & field fans can rejoice. For the first time in a European Olympics, those event…

By ELAINE GANLEY Associated Press PARIS (AP) — The mayor of a small French town whose home was set afire amid a bitter battle over bringing in…

SILVER CITY, Mich. (AP) — An 8-year-old Wisconsin boy who spent two days lost in a remote, rugged northern Michigan park before being found says he…

By STEVE DOUGLAS AP Sports Writer Sunderland is within reach of a return to the Premier League after a chaotic and often farcical six years during…

By DUSAN STOJANOVIC Associated Press BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — When a 13-year-old boy last week opened fire on his fellow students in a school in…

LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) — The president of the Russian Olympic Committee has indicated that the country could boycott qualifying competitions in…

By PREDRAG MILIC Associated Press PODGORICA, Montenegro (AP) — Montenegro’s state-owned media says that a trial has opened in the country…

By MATT OTT AP Business Writer The number of Americans filing for jobless claims last week rose to its highest level in four months, though the labor…

NEW YORK (AP) — Hundreds of rare photos and other images from the archives of singer-songwriter Bob Dylan will be featured in “Bob Dylan: Mixing…

By PAUL WISEMAN AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Wholesale prices in the United States decelerated last month, the latest sign that…

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — A candidate in Turkey’s presidential election has withdrawn from the race, a move that is likely to bolster President…

By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Vatican is formally recognizing 21 Coptic Orthodox workers who were beheaded by Islamic…

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LONDON (AP) — British Defense Secretary Ben Wallace says the U.K. is sending Ukraine long-range cruise missiles to help push back Russian forces.…

RAHIM FAIEZ Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — The U.N. food agency is warning that a widespread locust infestation in several Afghan provinces is…

MILAN (AP) — A van that was transporting oxygen tanks to a nearby medical facility exploded in the center of the Italian city of Milan on Thursday,…

BERLIN (AP) — A senior security official says German police have detained a suspect in connection with an explosion at a residential building that…

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — China is continuing its diplomatic push in Europe with a high-level visit to the Netherlands where Vice President Han…

By AVET DEMOURIAN Associated Press YEREVAN, Armenia (AP) — Armenian and Azerbaijani troops have exchanged artillery fire along their tense border.…

STOCKHOLM (AP) — Swedish prosecutors say that a 50-year-old man has been charged with spreading sensitive military information online. Authorities…

BERLIN (AP) — A German labor union is calling for railway workers to stage a 50-hour strike next week to bolster its calls for an inflation-related…

By MATTHEW DALY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration proposed new limits Thursday on greenhouse gas emissions from coal- and…

By RIAZAT BUTT Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan is witnessing a wave of violence following the arrest of popular opposition leader and…

HELSINKI (AP) — Police say two dozen people, many of them children, were injured when a temporary pedestrian bridge collapsed in the southern…

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Japanese automaker Nissan is reporting a seven-fold surge in January-March profit and forecasting…

BERLIN (AP) — A man opened fire at a Mercedes-Benz factory in southwestern Germany on Thursday, leaving two people dead, authorities and the…

By MUNIR AHMED and RIAZAT BUTT Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan’s Supreme Court has ordered the release of former Prime Minister Imran…

By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer NIIGATA, Japan (AP) — Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen says that in her personal opinion, the United States…

By SUSIE BLANN and JILL LAWLESS Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says Ukraine is delaying its long-awaited…

By ALICIA RANCILIO Associated Press Jacklyn Zeman, who for 45 years played nurse Bobbie Spencer on ABC’s ‘General Hospital,” has died…

By SUZAN FRASER Associated Press ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who has parlayed his country’s NATO membership and…