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By FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The big U.S. aid package for Ukraine and other allies that President Joe Biden signed…

By RONALD BLUM AP Baseball Writer NEW YORK (AP) — A fired minor league umpire sued Major League Baseball on Wednesday, claiming he was sexually…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Russia on Wednesday vetoed a U.N. resolution sponsored by the United States and Japan…

By YURAS KARMANAU Associated Press TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Relatives of imprisoned Belarusian opposition figure Maria Kolesnikova say it’s…

By JOSHUA GOODMAN Associated Press MIAMI (AP) — A company started by a Texas billionaire oilman has announced a deal with Venezuela’s state-owned…

By WILL WEISSERT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden’s signing of legislation that could ban TikTok in the U.S. runs counter…

By ED WHITE Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — A state investigator in Michigan says he considers former President Donald Trump and some key allies to…

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — An Arkansas panel has prohibited election officials from accepting voter registration forms signed with an electronic…

By JIM SALTER Associated Press ST. LOUIS (AP) — The FBI has determined that a young Black man died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound inside a rural…

By IGNATIUS SSUUNA Associated Press KIGALI, Rwanda (AP) — Rwanda says it’s ready to receive migrants from the United Kingdom after British…

By MARK THIESSEN Associated Press ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — A federal aviation official says one of the two pilots aboard an airplane carrying fuel…

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The University of Wisconsin-La Crosse’s top official has taken the first steps toward removing a faculty member who was…

By DAVID A. LIEB Associated Press Some public school teachers in Tennessee could gain new powers to carry concealed guns into the classroom, a year…

By GERALD IMRAY Associated Press CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — Botswana’s foreign minister says his country was approached by the U.K. to take…

By MATTHEW BARAKAT Associated Press ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) — A jury has rejected a woman’s lawsuit seeking tens of millions of dollars against…

By STEPHEN GROVES and MARY CLARE JALONICK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — For Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell and House Speaker Mike…

By DARLENE SUPERVILLE and CHRIS MEGERIAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The North America’s Building Trades Unions has endorsed President Joe…

By SOPHIE AUSTIN Associated Press/Report for America SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California Gov. Gavin Newsom and state lawmakers are announcing…

TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — Officials say U.S. Rep. Donald Payne Jr. of New Jersey has died after a heart attack this month that left him hospitalized.…

By LARRY NEUMEISTER, JIM MUSTIAN and JOSHUA GOODMAN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A federal judge has sentenced a longtime U.S. Drug Enforcement…

By SEAN MURPHY Associated Press OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma is poised to become the latest Republican-led state to impose criminal penalties for…

By JUAN A. LOZANO Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — A Houston man accused of fatally shooting a 9-year-old girl when he was robbed at a Houston ATM…

By DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — British army veteran Bill Gladden, who survived a glider landing on D-Day and a bullet that tore…

By MUNIR AHMED Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — Neighbors Pakistan and Iran have pledged to enhance efforts at a “united front” against…

By LOLITA C. BALDOR and TARA COPP Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Ukraine for the first time has begun using long-range ballistic missiles…

By THOMAS ADAMSON Associated Press PARIS (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron showed off his sporting prowess again –this time as Paris…

By JONEL ALECCIA AP Health Writer U.S. agriculture officials say dairy cattle moving between states must be tested for the bird flu virus in an…

ROME (AP) — Italy’s Ministry of Culture has banned art loans to the Minneapolis Institute of Art in the United States following a long-running…

VIENNA (AP) — A portrait of a young woman by Gustav Klimt that was long believed to be lost has been sold at an auction in Vienna for 30 million…

By DEVI SHASTRI AP Health Writer Allergy season is here, but it doesn’t have to make you miserable. Experts say people can manage most symptoms…

By GRANT PECK Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — Guerrilla fighters from the main ethnic Karen fighting force battling Myanmar’s military government…

By FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — More than one-quarter of U.S. adults over age 50 say they expect to never retire and 70% are…

By LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — “ Barbenheimer ” is a hard act to follow. The summer of 2023 brought a new enthusiasm for…

By The Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Are you ready for some movies this summer? There’s action-adventure, romance, horror, franchises and…

By ALICIA RANCILIO Associated Press Besides being an accomplished actor, John Lithgow is a Harvard graduate who was a Fulbright Scholar at the London…

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s prosecutor general has told the parliament that powerful Pegasus spyware was used against hundreds of people under…

FAIRFIELD TOWNSHIP, Ohio (AP) — Relatives say a 74-year-old woman charged in the armed robbery of a credit union in Ohio last week is a victim of…

MADRID (AP) — A Spanish judge has agreed to probe allegations of corruption made against the wife of Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez by a…

PARIS (AP) — The head of the Paris airports operator says skies over the French capital will be closed completely for six hours as part of the…

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A teenage suspect who allegedly made derogatory remarks about LGBTQ+ people before opening fire at a backyard punk rock show now…

By LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer Expectations are tempered for the financial prospects of summer of 2024 at the movies. There are fewer superheroes…

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greece’s parliamentary speaker says he will seek criminal charges against a lawmaker who allegedly punched a colleague…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The names of thousands of people held in Japanese American incarceration camps during World War II will be digitized and made…

By KELVIN CHAN AP Business Writer LONDON (AP) — British competition regulators say they’ll scrutinize recent artificial intelligence deals by…

BERLIN (AP) — The German chancellor says Europe must continue to step up its help for Ukraine even after the approval of a big U.S. aid package.…

LONDON (AP) — Welsh police say a suspect has been arrested after three people were injured in a “major incident” at a school in Wales.…

By LAURAN NEERGAARD AP Medical Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Doctors have transplanted a pig kidney into a New Jersey woman who was near death, part of a…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — A team of experts from the U.N. nuclear agency has inspected the tsunami-hit Fukushima Daiichi…

By JONEL ALECCIA AP Health Writer U.S. agriculture officials announced new nutrition standards for school meals that will limit added sugars for the…

NEW YORK (AP) — Penguin Random House is teaming with Amazon MGM Studios on a series of books based on “Wednesday,” the Emmy-winning Netflix hit…

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — A ship near the strategic Bab el-Mandeb Strait has seen an explosion in the distance, marking…

By LORNE COOK Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union says it will investigate whether China is using unfair methods to deprive…

BRATISLAVA, Slovakia (AP) — Slovakia’s government has approved a controversial overhaul of the country’s public radio and television services,…

By DAMIAN J. TROISE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Relentlessly rising auto insurance rates are squeezing car owners and stoking inflation.…

ROME (AP) — Tech giant Cisco Systems has joined Microsoft and IBM in signing onto a Vatican-sponsored pledge to ensure artificial intelligence is…

By ROBERT YOON Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Puerto Rico will hold a Democratic presidential primary, the only opportunity for Democrats on…

LONDON (AP) — Several military horses bolted during routine exercises Wednesday and ran loose through central London, injuring four people and…

JERUSALEM (AP) — Saudi Arabia’s 88-year-old King Salman has entered the hospital Wednesday for what state media described as “routine…

By KEN MORITSUGU Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — Foreign automakers have been caught flat-footed in China by an electric vehicle boom that has…

BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s Cabinet has approved a 4.57% rise in retirees’ pensionsfrom  this summer, an increase that is well above the current…

By The Associated Press A priest who oversaw a memorial service for late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny has been suspended for three years…

TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s public broadcaster says smoke was seen coming from an All Nippon Airways plane as it landed safely at Shin Chitose…

LONDON (AP) — The former leader of Northern Ireland’s biggest unionist party has made his first court appearance on sexual abuse charges dating…

By DAN FRIO Edmunds If you’ve ever spotted cars with chameleon, chrome-like finishes, patterns such as stripes and camouflage, or just an off-beat…

By BOUAZZA BEN BOUAZZA Associated Press TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — The bodies of 19 people have been off the coast of Tunisia, one of the primary points…

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The Biden administration is preparing to announce plans for a new five-year schedule to lease federal offshore tracts for wind…

By The Associated Press The Biden administration is setting new rules on airline fees and refunds. The Transportation Department said Wednesday that…

By BINAJ GURUBACHARYA Associated Press KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — Officials say Nepal’s president asked the emir of Qatar, who is on a two-day visit…

By KRUTIKA PATHI Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — The hugely popular Chinese app TikTok may be forced out of the U.S., where a measure to outlaw…

By ILLIA NOVIKOV Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian officials are expressing thanks for a fresh batch of U.S. military aid that threw…

By MATTHEW LEE AP Diplomatic Writer SHANGHAI (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken has begun a critical trip to China armed with a…

By AAMER MADHANI and SEUNG MIN KIM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden has reached the end of a long, painful battle with…

BERLIN (AP) — A prominent German far-right lawmaker says he will dismiss an assistant who was arrested on suspicion of spying for China, but will…

By The Associated Press A top Russian military official arrested on suspicion of accepting a bribe has been sent to pre-trial detention after…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s first moon lander has survived a third freezing lunar night, Japan’s space agency said…