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BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — The Federal Aviation Administration says the crash of a single-engine airplane in southeastern Montana killed the pilot and…

By WAYNE PARRY Associated Press ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — Caitlin Clark has helped increase the popularity of women’s basketball, and the…

By MAURICIO SAVARESE and GABRIELA SÁ PESSOA Associated Press SAO PAULO (AP) — The vast flooding that has devastated Brazil’s Rio Grande do Sul…

GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — A Guatemalan court ordered the release Wednesday of journalist José Rubén Zamora, jailed for nearly 2 years on money…

The Associated Press Slovakian Prime Minister Robert Fico is fighting for his life after he was shot by an assailant following a political event. The…

By SOPHIA TAREEN Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — A former warehouse assistant for the Augusta National Golf Club in Georgia has pleaded guilty to…

Associated Press RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — The head of Brazil’s Petrobras is stepping down after a fight over dividends, sending share of the…

GALVESTON, Texas (AP) — Officials say a barge has hit a bridge in Galveston, Texas, spilling oil into surrounding waters and closing the only road…

By GIADA ZAMPANO Associated Press ROME (AP) — A Hungarian court of appeal has upheld a request from an Italian anti-fascist activist to be moved…

By KEVIN McGILL Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A federal appeals court is considering the latest arguments on whether Texas must remove a…

By JOSHUA GOODMAN Associated Press MIAMI (AP) — The son-in-law of a prominent Venezuelan opposition leader has pleaded guilty to money laundering…

by JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The National Security Council says high-level U.S. government envoys raised concerns about…

By SEUNG MIN KIM and COLLEEN LONG The Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration is preparing more changes to the nation’s…

By ANNE D’INNOCENZIO AP Retail Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Americans unexpectedly paused their spending in April from March as inflation continued…

By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Something stopped Michael McDonald from telling his story publicly — him. The Rock &…

By LEA SKENE Associated Press BALTIMORE (AP) — Investigators say the electrical blackouts experienced by the container ship Dali before it left…

By DAN GELSTON AP Sports Writer Emmy winner Paul Walter Hauser is set to take the next step in his professional wrestling career. Hauser has declared…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japan and the United States have signed an arrangement to jointly develop a new type of missile…

POTOSI, Mo. (AP) — A man convicted of killing six women 20 years ago in Kansas City, Missouri, has died. The Missouri Department of Corrections…

By JUSTIN SPIKE Associated Press BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Prime Minister Robert Fico returned to power in Slovakia last year. Having previously…

By STEPHEN WHYNO and PAT GRAHAM AP Sports Writers Five NHL players left their teams this season to receive care from an off-ice assistance program…

By SAM METZ and MASSINISSA BENLAKEHAL Associated Press TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — Two Tunisian journalists are kept in pre-trial detention as…

By THOMAS ADAMSON Associated Press PARIS (AP) — A 30-year-old prisoner nicknamed “The Fly” has become notorious in France overnight after a…

By ADITHI RAMAKRISHNAN AP Science Writer DALLAS (AP) — A new study suggests that the first warm-blooded dinosaurs may have roamed Earth about 180…

By MOGOMOTSI MAGOME Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — South Africa’s president has signed into law a bill that aims to overhaul the…

By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer CANNES, France (AP) — The world of “Mad Max” has lived in George Miller’s head for nearly half a century.…

By VANESSA GERA Associated Press A weekend fire in a shopping center in Warsaw dealt tragedy to many members of Poland’s Vietnamese community.…

By MENELAOS HADJICOSTIS Associated Press NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — Chances of restarting formal talks to mend Cyprus’ decades-long ethnic division…

By ALBERT STUMM Associated Press If you’ve tried meditating but can’t sit still, you’re not alone. Experts say many people try it only once…

By DIDI TANG Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration says the White House is sending an unofficial delegation to Taiwan this…

By MIKE STOBBE AP Medical Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The number of U.S. fatal overdoses fell last year. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention…

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A radical Sunni scholar whose criticisms of Saudi Arabia’s government and the…

JOHNSTON, Iowa (AP) — Officials say a woman who worked at an Iowa center that provides services for troubled youths has died days after she was…

By STEPHEN WHYNO AP Sports Writer BALTIMORE (AP) — Preakness favorite Muth has been ruled out of the second leg of the Triple Crown after spiking a…

By ALEXA ST. JOHN and MELINA WALLING Associated Press DANVILLE, Illinois (AP) — As students across the nation consider jobs that play a role in…

By COLLEEN LONG Associated Press A gag order. Legal wrangling over witness testimony. Angry denouncements of the judge overseeing the case. Some of…

BRATISLAVA, Slovakia (AP) — Slovakia’s populist Prime Minister Robert Fico was wounded in a shooting Wednesday afternoon and taken to hospital.…

By DAVID CRARY, HOLLY MEYER and PETER SMITH Associated Press Twenty years ago, Beth Stroud was defrocked from her beloved job as a United Methodist…

By JUSTIN SPIKE Associated Press BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Hungary will vote against a United Nations resolution commemorating the 1995 genocide of…

By JOSH BOAK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden says he won’t participate in the campaign debates sponsored by a nonpartisan…

By CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — At least 24 worshippers, including four children, were injured in northern Nigeria’s Kano…

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Yemen’s Houthi rebels have claimed targeting a U.S. Navy destroyer and a commercial ship in the Red Sea, but…

BEIJING (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin says his regime is prepared to negotiate over the conflict in Ukraine in an interview with Chinese…

CANNES, France (AP) — Start your engines. “Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga” rolls into the Cannes Film Festival on Wednesday. It returns the dystopian…

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — A welding operation sparked a huge fire in February at a water park that was under construction at one of Sweden’s…

MADRID (AP) — Organizers of Spain’s Princess of Asturias Awards have awarded the prize for the social sciences to Canadian historian and writer…

ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan’s military says it has successfully test-fired an indigenously developed rocket system with a range of 400…

GENEVA (AP) — The World Health Organization has authorized a second dengue vaccine, a move that could provide protection for millions worldwide…

PARIS (AP) — Paris garbage collectors have lifted the strike notice that threatened to leave the French capital facing piles of rubbish during the…

BRATISLAVA, Slovakia (AP) — Slovakia’s government approved a plan to build another nuclear reactor in a country that relies heavily on nuclear…

BERLIN (AP) — A court in Germany has convicted a man of murder and sentenced him to life in prison for carrying out a fatal stabbing on a train…

By MICHAEL CANTU Edmunds Used Teslas aren’t as expensive as you might think, especially with the company’s recent price cuts on its new models.…

By STEVE DOUGLAS AP Sports Writer The Premier League’s fourth and final representative for next season’s Champions League will be Aston Villa…

PARIS (AP) — A massive manhunt is underway in France for an armed gang that killed two prison officers and seriously injured three others, to…

By DAVID BAUDER AP Media Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The use of a voice-cloning technology marrying old audio clips to an actor’s narration is…

By CLAIRE SAVAGE and MORIAH BALINGIT Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Nannies, housekeepers, and home care workers are excluded from many federal…

By TERESA M. WALKER AP Sports Writer The stars have aligned for the WNBA with Caitlin Clark and Angel Reese joining the ranks of A’ja Wilson,…

By MARC LEVY Associated Press HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Natural gas producer CNX Resources says it plans to build a $1.5 billion facility at…

GENEVA (AP) — Switzerland’s top criminal court has convicted a former interior minister of Gambia for crimes against humanity during repression…

ISLAMABAD (AP) — The Taliban say a military helicopter crashed in Ghor province in western Afghanistan, killing at least one person. A defense…

By MARY CLARE JALONICK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A bipartisan group of four senators led by Majority Leader Chuck Schumer is recommending…

By JUWON PARK Associated Press SEOUL (AP) — South Korean young people are increasingly drawn to Buddhism due to social media-savvy influencers,…

ZAGREB, Croatia (AP) — A fire at a marina in Croatia has destroyed 22 boats and caused huge damage but no injuries. An investigation is underway to…

PARIS (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron has convened a meeting of top ministers to discuss spiraling violence in the French Pacific territory…

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Rescuers in southern Poland have recovered the body of a third miner a day after a cave-in in which 12 other workers were…

By JOSEPH KRAUSS, ABBY SEWELL and SAMY MAGDY Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Palestinians across the Middle East are marking the anniversary of…

By RAF CASERT Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — Anti-Islam firebrand Geert Wilders is on the verge of brokering a four-party coalition in the…

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia’s Defense Ministry said air defenses shot down 10 U.S.-supplied Ukrainian missiles targeting Crimea early…

By ZIMO ZHONG Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — Asian stocks were mostly higher on Wednesday after a rally on Wall Street that took the Nasdaq…

By KASPARMAN PILIANG and NINIEK KARMINI Associated Press TANAH DATAR, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesian authorities have seeded clouds in a bid to…

By SHEIKH SAALIQ and KRUTIKA PATHI Associated Press MALAPPURAM, India (AP) — The political power of Muslims is declining in the world’s…

By LARRY NEUMEISTER and MIKE CATALINI Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The bribery trial of New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez is ready to start with…

By SAM METZ Associated Press TANGIERS, Morocco (AP) — Morocco has grown its automotive industry from virtually non-existent to Africa’s largest…

By DEEPTI HAJELA Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Some social media users are calling out celebrities for what they say is inaction in the face of…

By GERALD IMRAY Associated Press CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — After 30 years of dominating South African politics, the ruling African National…

By MIKE SCHNEIDER and TERRY SPENCER Associated Press OCALA, Fla. (AP) — Mexican citizens were among those going to work at a Florida watermelon…

By ZEN SOO AP Technology Writer HONG KONG (AP) — YouTube has blocked access to videos of a protest song in Hong Kong, days after court approved an…

ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — First-year students at the U.S. Naval Academy are taking part in the annual Herndon Monument Climb, a ritual that marks the…

By ANNIE MA AP Education Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Seventy years ago this week, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled separating children in schools by race…

By HANNAH SCHOENBAUM Associated Press PARK CITY, Utah (AP) — A Utah woman who authorities say fatally poisoned her husband, then published a…

By JULIA DIAS CARNEIRO and DIARLEI RODRIGUES Associated Press RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — The passinho is a Brazilian dance style created in the 2000s by…

By RIO YAMAT Associated Press When it was Shawnna Bolick’s turn to speak, the words tumbled out of her for 20 minutes. The conservative lawmaker…

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — It’s perhaps the biggest question swirling around the U.S. economy right now: Is…