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BARBARA ORTUTAY AP Technology Writer (AP) — Do social media users have the right to control what they see — or don’t see — on their feeds? A…

By JONEL ALECCIA AP Health Writer The first calls that Dr. Barb Petersen received in early March were from dairy owners worried about crows, pigeons…

By DAVID KOENIG AP Business Writer Airbnb says it’s going to give customers a chance at overnight stays in a Paris museum, a bedroom filled…

By ERIK VERDUZCO and ZEKE MILLER Associated Press CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — President Joe Biden is expected to travel to North Carolina on Thursday to…

By MICHAEL WARREN and SUDHIN THANAWALA Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia may soon have its first national park. Republicans and Democrats in…

By The Associated Press As companies around the country roll out plans to honor May as Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Heritage…

By HANNAH SCHOENBAUM Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah public schools have been rushing to prepare students and teachers as the state…

By FATIMA HUSSEIN and MATTHEW DALY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States has imposed new sanctions on hundreds of firms and people…

By ALEXA ST. JOHN Associated Press An Arizona family is mourning the death of their two-year-old son, who was killed when a strong gust of wind swept…

By BABA AHMED and JESSICA DONATI Associated Press BAMAKO, Mali (AP) — A humanitarian crisis is worsening in northeastern Mali where armed groups…

By BRIAN WITTE Associated Press ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — Maryland officials have approved more than $3 million in compensation for a man who spent…

MOUNT HOREB, Wis. (AP) — A Wisconsin school district said a persona it described as an active shooter was outside a middle school in Mount Horeb on…

By JULIE CARR SMYTH Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Former Ohio Treasurer and three-time U.S. Senate candidate Josh Mandel has been…

By JIM MUSTIAN Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Authorities have expanded an investigation of clergy sexual abuse in the Roman Catholic Church…

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — After weeks of nonstop coverage of destruction and death across the Gaza Strip, media across the…

By JONEL ALECCIA AP Health Writer Millions of Americans who have dropped pounds and boosted their health using popular obesity drugs like Wegovy are…

LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. (AP) — Walt Disney World will host dozens of portraits of service members and veterans from the nation’s Painter-in-Chief.…

By EVELYNE MUSAMBI Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Tourists have been evacuated by air from Kenya’s Maasai Mara national reserve after…

By FRANCIS KOKUTSE Associated Press ACCRA, Ghana (AP) — The U.S. military plans to return to Chad within a month for talks about revising an…

ST. LOUIS (AP) — St. Louis’ school district is offering to pay some families to drive their kids to school as part of an effort to offset a…

By STEVE LeBLANC and NICK PERRY Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — Boston College students held a protest rally against the Israel-Hamas war last week.…

By MICHAEL CASEY Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — A Massachusetts prosecutor won’t seek criminal charges two years after four newborns were…

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Heavy rains in Brazil’s southern Rio Grande do Sul state have killed at least eight people and left 21 missing since…

By The Associated Press Retired U.S. women’s soccer star Carli Lloyd and her husband are expecting their first child in October. The 41-year-old…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Volunteer searchers say they’ve found a clandestine crematorium on the edge of Mexico City. It’s the first time in…

By JAMES ROBSON AP Soccer Writer Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney have given an insight into their long-term ambitions for Welsh soccer team Wrexham.…

By PETER SMITH Associated Press CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — United Methodist delegates repealed their church’s longstanding ban on LGBTQ clergy with…

By MATT OTT AP Business Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Former President Donald Trump has secured another $1.8 billion worth of shares in Trump Media,…

By LISA MASCARO and KEVIN FREKING Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene said Wednesday she would call a vote…

By BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press LONDON (AP) — German tennis legend Boris Becker was discharged from bankruptcy court in London after a judge found…

BERLIN (AP) — Police say an accident involving a trailer in southwestern Germany has left 30 people injured, 10 of them seriously. German news…

By LEANNE ITALIE AP Lifestyles Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Not all moms are the same. They like and do different things. Some, gasp, don’t love the…

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Iranian prosecutors have filed criminal charges against activists and journalists following a BBC…

By COLLIN BINKLEY AP Education Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The last thing standing between Ashnaelle Bijoux and her college dream is the FAFSA form…

By VANESSA GERA Associated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s chief rabbi says that Warsaw’s main synagogue was attacked with firebombs…

DEARBORN, Mich. (AP) — Ford is recalling nearly 243,000 Maverick small pickup trucks in the U.S. because the tail lights may not illuminate. The…

NEW YORK (AP) — “Sunderworld, Vol. 1 The Extraordinary Disappointments of Leopold Berry” begins the adventures of a Los Angeles teen who after…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s Prime Minister Fumio Kishida says he will stress the need for a rules-based international…

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — The head of the United Nations’ nuclear watchdog will travel to Iran next week as…

By The Associated Press Six people have been arrested and suspensions have been issued to seven students who participated in demonstrations at Tulane…

MOSCOW (AP) — An exhibition of Western military equipment captured from Kyiv forces during the fighting in Ukraine has opened in the Russian…

By HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Paul Auster, a prolific, prize-winning man of letters and filmmaker known for such inventive…

IMOLA, Italy (AP) — The 30th anniversary of three-time F1 champion Ayrton Senna’s death is being commemorated with a memorial on the Imola track…

SYDNEY (AP) — A 15-year-old boy who claims to be a friend of the teen accused of stabbing a Sydney bishop recently has applied to be released from…

By DAVID BAUDER AP Media Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Americans have a message for news organizations as they prepare to cover the 2024 election: About…

By JACK BROOK Associated Press PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — The European Union and United Nations abruptly rescheduled the launch of an anti-human…

By IGNATIUS SSUUNA Associated Press KIGALI, Rwanda (AP) — A Rwandan official says an unsuccessful asylum-seeker in the U.K. has arrived in Rwanda.…

By JILL LAWLESS and ILLIA NOVIKOV Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Drone footage obtained by The Associated Press shows months of Russian…

LONDON (AP) — Police say a 17-year-old boy has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder after three people were assaulted with a sharp object…

By NICK KURCZEWSKI Edmunds Many car shoppers simply want a vehicle that’s practical, easy to drive and relatively inexpensive. High fuel economy is…

By MIKE CORDER Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Ecuador is defending its storming of Mexico’s Embassy in Quito last month. Lawyers…

By COLLIN BINKLEY AP Education Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration says it will cancel $6 billion in student loans for people who…

LONDON (AP) — A police watchdog says a British constable is facing terror charges for showing support for Hamas on WhatsApp. The Independent Office…

By DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — London’s police chief says two officers remain hospitalized a day after suffering…

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Saudi Arabia has confirmed in a letter to the United Nations that a female fitness instruction…

By JOHN HANNA and DAVE SKRETTA Associated Press TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Some Kansas lawmakers see a chance to lure Kansas City’s two biggest…

By SOPHIKO MEGRELIDZE TBILISI, Georgia (AP) — Dozens of people have been arrested in Georgia after police in the capital, Tbilisi, used tear gas…

By GRACEY WAKARI Associated Press MANADO, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesia’s Mount Ruang volcano is spewing more hot clouds after an eruption forced…

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — A senior Australian government minister says the bilateral relationship with India is…

By BASSEM MROUE and ABBY SEWELL Associated Press MAARAB, Lebanon (AP) — The leader of a main Christian political party in Lebanon has blasted the…

By MATTHEW LEE and SAM MEDNICK Associated Press TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken was meeting with Israeli leaders on…

By The Associated Press U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken is in Israel for meetings with Israeli leaders and has told the country’s ceremonial…

By HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Workers, activists and others in Asian capitals marked May Day with rallies and marches…

By ZIMO ZHONG Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — Asian stocks fell Wednesday with most of the markets in the region closed for a holiday. Meanwhile,…

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — South Korean Defense Minister Shin Won-sik says his government is considering sharing…

ISLAMABAD (AP) — The Islamic State group has claimed responsibility for a deadly shooting targeting members of the country’s minority Shiite…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Ryan Gosling and Mikey Day aren’t done playing Beavis and Butt-Head yet — the pair appeared as the characters at the…

By JAKE OFFENHARTZ, JOSEPH B. FREDERICK and STEFANIE DAZIO Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The pro-Palestinian demonstration that paralyzed…

By GERALD IMRAY Associated Press CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — A South African aquarium is stretched beyond capacity after more than 500 baby sea…

By SUMAN NAISHADHAM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A study says the climate phenomenon known as El Nino and not climate change was a key driver…

By KATHLEEN FOODY Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — An agreement between anti-war protesters and Northwestern University has largely ended…

By TERRY TANG Associated Press It has been almost 50 years since the U.S. government established that Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians and Pacific…

By MICHAEL R. BLOOD Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Biden administration’s move to reclassify marijuana as a less dangerous but still…

By STEVE KARNOWSKI Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A Minnesota man who once fought for the Islamic State group in Syria but now expresses…

PHOENIX (AP) — Democrats at the Arizona Legislature are expected to make a final push to repeal the state’s long-dormant ban on nearly all…

BEIJING (AP) — Chinese state broadcaster CCTV says that a section of a highway collapsed in southern China, killing at least 19 people. The area…

By DÁNICA COTO Associated Press PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — A surprise announcement that revealed Haiti’s new prime minister is dividing a…

By TIM SULLIVAN Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — It was the music that changed first. Or maybe that’s just when many people at the pale…

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has announced new funding to help women…

NEW YORK (AP) — Harvey Weinstein is due back in a New York courtroom for the first time since his 2020 rape conviction was overturned by an appeals…

By RIAZAT BUTT Associated Press KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — The Taliban takeover three years ago has sent Afghanistan’s economy into a…