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ST. LOUIS (AP) — A St. Louis judge will decide the fate of a man who has spent more than three decades in prison for a killing he says he didn’t…

By ISABELLA O’MALLEY and MARIA VERZA Associated Press Extreme heat in Mexico, Central America and parts of the U.S. South has left millions of…

By PAN PYLAS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is taking the biggest gamble of his political life by calling a…

By MARK SHERMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court has preserved a Republican-held South Carolina congressional district,…

By The Associated Press The menu for the state dinner at the White House honoring Kenya starts with a chilled tomato soup and ends with a white…

By SETH BORENSTEIN AP Science Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Get ready for what nearly all the experts think will be one of the busiest Atlantic…

By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER and WYATTE GRANTHAM-PHILLIPS Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department filed a sweeping antitrust lawsuit…

By JESSICA DONATI Associated Press DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Chad has sworn in Mahamat Deby Itno as the president on Thursday after holding elections…

By GRANT PECK Associated Press BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) — Myanmar’s military government appears to be considering reviving a massive China-backed…

By ANDREW DALTON AP Entertainment Writer The Stones will roll through the Ozarks this summer. The Rolling Stones announced Thursday that at the end…

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — A woman in Denmark did not have her human rights violated when she was not given vegan food by a hospital when…

By BRIAN AROLA CNHI News MANKATO, Minn. (AP) — Seven tough weeks passed with her husband in the hospital before Nancy Gag Braun found long-term…

By TARA COPP and MATTHEW LEE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Two U.S. officials say the Biden administration is expected to announce an…

By MARCIA MOORE CNHI News PLATTSBURGH, N.Y. (AP) — Thousands of older Americans are in adult day services that provide safe, stimulating places for…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim has said his country does not have a “China-phobia”…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Critics say British Labour Party leader Keir Starmer is dutiful, managerial and a bit dull. The…

By KRYSTA FAURIA Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — When Amazon Studios debuted “Red, White & Royal Blue” last summer, they did so without…

By MATT O’BRIEN and BARBARA ORTUTAY AP Technology Writers President Joe Biden’s administration is pushing the tech industry and financial…

By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press ROME (AP) — A long-delayed and complex project to bring a subway line under ancient Roman ruins and through…

By MATT OTT AP Business Writer The number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits fell last week as layoffs remained historically low levels.…

By LOUISE DIXON Associated Press CANNES, France (AP) — It’s been a dog’s life at this year’s Cannes Film Festival — or should that be the…

By CARSON GERBER of CNHI News and NICKY FORSTER and DEVI SHASTRI of The Associated Press Norma Upshaw was living alone south of Nashville when her…

By CARSON GERBER of CNHI News and NICKY FORSTER and DEVI SHASTRI of The Associated Press Norma Upshaw, 82, was living alone south of Nashville, when…

By JAMES POLLARD Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Red Nose Day has raised $370 million since 2015 to fund anti-poverty efforts. This year, Comic…

By STEVE LeBLANC Associated Press CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) — Harvard University planned to hold its commencement Thursday following a weekslong…

KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — A Kenyan climber attempting to scale the world’s highest mountain has been found dead near the summit. A government…

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Protesters packed up and left a pro-Palestinian encampment at Philadelphia’s Drexel University after the school announced a…

By ABBY SEWELL Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — The World Bank says poverty in Lebanon has tripled over the course of a decade during which the small…

By HANNAH SCHOENBAUM and JESSICA DONATI Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY, Utah (AP) — The family of an American caught up in a failed coup attempt…

BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Commission has imposed a fine of 337.5 million euros ($366 million) on food company Mondelez, the owner of Oreo…

By REBECCA BOONE Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Idaho Democrats will caucus across the state Thursday to select their nominee for the White…

By CHALIDA EKVITTHAYAVECHNUKUL Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — A Bangkok hospital says many of the more seriously injured people who were on the…

By ILLIA NOVIKOV Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian missiles slammed into Ukraine’s second-largest city in the northeast of the…

By MUNIR AHMED Associated Pess ISLAMABAD (AP) — Doctors are treating hundreds of victims of heatstroke at hospitals across Pakistan. People started…

MADRID (AP) — Spanish police say they have recovered the fourth of five paintings by Irish-born painter Francis Bacon that were stolen from a…

By FRANK BAJAK AP Technology Writer ARLINGTON, Virginia (AP) — U.S. intelligence agencies are scrambling to embrace the AI revolution, convinced…

By GIOVANNA DELL’ORTO Associated Press MARSEILLE, France (AP) — Brought into the international spotlight by the ban on hijabs for French…

By FRANK BAJAK AP Technology Writer ARLINGTON, Virginia (AP) — Long before generative AI’s boom, a Silicon Valley firm contracted to collect…

BEIJING (AP) — Chinese state media have reported that electric vehicle maker Tesla has begun construction of a factory in Shanghai to make its…

By AAMER MADHANI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden and Kenya’s William Ruto want economies around the globe to take…

By DOUG FEINBERG AP Basketball Writer Toronto has been awarded the WNBA’s first franchise outside the United States, with the expansion team set to…

By JOSEPH KRAUSS Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Diminished but not deterred, Hamas is still putting up a fight after seven brutal months of war…

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Norway says it will further tighten its restrictions on the entry of people from Russia, saying those with tourist visas…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Britain’s political party leaders are crisscrossing the country on the first day of a six-week…

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A missile has splashed down in the waters of the Red Sea, but caused no damage to a passing commercial vessel in…

MOSCOW (AP) — Russian news reports say a deputy chief of the military general staff has been arrested on charges of large-scale bribery. The arrest…

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The top United Nations court is set to rule on an urgent request by Mexico to order Ecuador to protect Mexican…

By NAPAT KONGSAWAD Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — Thailand’s Constitutional Court has accepted a petition from members of the country’s…

By DAVID McHUGH and FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — Ukraine’s allies are looking for ways to squeeze money out of…

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Asian shares were trading mixed Thursday, as investor sentiment in Tokyo was boosted by news of…

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Leaders of South Korea, China and Japan will meet next week in Seoul for their first trilateral talks since 2019. South…

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran is preparing to inter its late president at the holiest site for Shiite…

By GIOVANNA DELL’ORTO Associated Press MARSEILLE, France (AP) — Walk around multicultural metropolises like Paris or Marseille, or any small…

By GIOVANNA DELL’ORTO Associated Press MARSEILLE, France (AP) — Brought into the international spotlight by the ban on hijabs for French…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. is scheduled to vote on establishing an annual day to commemorate the 1995…

By RODRIQUE NGOWI The Associated Press SPENCER, Mass. (AP) — Three little piggies went to a yoga class. Their human companions had a blast. Wilbur,…

GREENBELT, Md. (AP) — A former top prosecutor for the city of Baltimore is to be sentenced this week for lying about her finances to improperly…

By DAVID KOENIG AP Airlines Writer Highways and airports are likely to be jammed in the coming days as Americans head out on and home from Memorial…

By HANNAH FINGERHUT and MARGERY A. BECK Associated Press GREENFIELD, Iowa (AP) — A deadly tornado that wreaked havoc in the small city of…

By JESSE BEDAYN Associated Press/Report for America DENVER (AP) — State lawmakers first attempts at regulating discrimination from artificial…

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Japanese electronics and entertainment company Sony says it’s focusing on creativity in movies,…

By MICHELLE L. PRICE and JILL COLVIN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Former President Donald Trump will campaign in one of the most Democratic…

By FABIOLA SÁNCHEZ Associated Press TEPATEPEC, Mexico (AP) — She sold snacks in a small town in central Mexico as a girl. She rose to national…

By KRISTIN M. HALL Associated Press MEMPHIS, Tennessee (AP) — The smell of wood fire wafting on the breeze is the first sense that gets triggered…

By ANNIE MA AP Education Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republicans have summoned the leaders of Northwestern University and Rutgers University to…

By FRANKLIN BRICEÑO Associated Press LIMA, Peru (AP) — The crack of bat on ball and the sight of Venezuelan children running the bases on the…

By DAVID BAUDER AP Media Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump may be stuck in a Manhattan courtroom for his hush money trial, but he knows his…

By MAKIYA SEMINERA Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina’s public university system could soon see its existing diversity programs…

By CHRISTINE FERNANDO and GEOFF MULVIHILL Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — Republican state lawmakers across the U.S. have been knocking down…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — A U.N. independent investigator says thousands of journalists have fled their home…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — A gust of wind has toppled part of the stage at a campaign rally in northern Mexico, sending a long shot presidential candidate…

By ISABEL DEBRE Associated Press BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — A book presentation about neoclassical economic theory may not sound like a…

TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — China’s military is holding exercises surrounding Taiwan in what it called punishment for separatist forces seeking…

BEIJING (AP) — State media say an explosion has occurred at an apartment building in Harbin, a city in northeastern China. Casualties are unknown.…

By CARLOS MUREITHI, LUCA BRUNO and SARA LEMLEM Associated Press TRENTO, Italy (AP) — An Italian science museum has created a butterfly forest…

By JOEY CAPPELLETTI Associated Press LANSING, Mich. (AP) — An adviser to Donald Trump’s reelection campaign has met with close to 40 Arab…

By SEAN MURPHY Associated Press OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A wind farm in southwest Iowa suffered a direct hit from a powerful tornado that crumpled five…

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The FBI has raided a local prosecutor’s office and his private business in Mississippi’s capital city. Officials declined…

By JULIA FRANKEL Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — A group representing the families of hostages held in Gaza has released new video footage…

By CLAIRE RUSH Associated Press PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Centrist district attorney candidate Nathan Vasquez has ousted the incumbent progressive…

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas’ health department has appointed an outspoken anti-abortion OB-GYN to a state committee that reviews pregnancy-related…