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By MICHAEL CASEY Associated Press A nuclear weapons facility was forced to evacuate most of its staff due to threats from a fast-moving wildfire…

PRAGUE (AP) — The lower house of Parliament in the Czech Republic has rejected same-sex marriage while affirming existing unions called…

By CHRISTINA LARSON AP Science Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Scientists have identified a gene mutation that may explain why we don’t have tails.…

By NICHOLAS RICCARDI Associated Press A survey of 24 democratic countries by the Pew Research Center has found that while representative democracy…

By LISA MASCARO and KEVIN FREKING Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Days before a possible partial government shutdown, negotiators in Congress…

By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The U.S. Justice Department says Mississippi is failing to protect inmates in three…

DENVER (AP) — The oldest son of U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert has been arrested in connection with a recent string of vehicle break-ins and property…

By EDOUARD TAKADJI Associated Press N’DJAMENA, Chad (AP) — Officials in Chad say several people were killed in an attack on the national security…

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Pilots lined up on a runway in Dubai and fired up their seven jet engines with…

By ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON Associated Press OXON HILL, Md. (AP) — In this U.S. election year, the Republican Party is aligning with some Latin American…

By DAVE CAMPBELL AP Sports Writer MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Youth hockey by all accounts is played as skillfully and respectfully as ever due to…

By MIKE CORDER Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Judges at the International Criminal Court have awarded reparations of more than 52…

BY STEPHEN McGRATH and AUREL OBREJA Associated Press CHISINAU, Moldova (AP) — Officials in Moldova’s Russia-backed breakaway region of…

By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Noel Fielding trades pastry for pistols in the new mouthful of a series “The Completely…

NEW YORK (AP) — A New York man has pleaded guilty to charges he illegally trafficked birdwing butterflies and other rare insects. Federal…

Associated Press The Federal Aviation Administration is giving Boeing 90 days to come up with a plan to meet safety standards for building new…

SPARTANSBURG, Pa. (AP) — Investigators says they have no suspects in the killing of a pregnant 23-year-old Amish woman inside her home in rural…

Wendy’s says that it has no plans to increase prices during the busiest times at its restaurants. The burger chain clarified its stance on how…

By SYLVIA HUI Associated Press LONDON (AP) — A judge has ruled that a new law that gives immunity from prosecution for most offenses committed…

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — The Norwegian Nobel Committee has registered 285 candidates for the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize by the Feb. 1 deadline, down…

By RONALD BLUM Associated Press The Philadelphia Orchestra’s home is being renamed Marian Anderson Hall in honor of the pioneering Black American…

PARIS (AP) — Paris City Hall says no policing plans for the Olympic Games were stolen from one of its workers who reported a theft of their…

By LORNE COOK Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union says the number of people seeking asylum in Europe reached a seven-year high last…

By TAIWO ADEBAYO Associated Press ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Local activists and international environmental groups want Nigeria’s government to delay…

By COLLEEN BARRY Associated Press MILAN (AP) — Thousands of artists, curators and critics have signed an open letter calling on the Venice Biennale…

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Amsterdam police say that a suspect in the fatal shooting of a Dutch rapper has been arrested on a European warrant…

By DARLENE SUPERVILLE Associated Press BETHESDA, Md. (AP) — President Joe Biden is visiting Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in…

BERLIN (AP) — Germany is trying to move forward talks on a peace treaty between Armenia and Azerbaijan, welcoming the two countries’ foreign…

CHICAGO (AP) — The sisters of a man fatally shot by suburban Chicago police in his home this month have filed a federal lawsuit against the…

By PAUL WISEMAN AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. economy grew at a robust 3.2% annual pace from October through December, propelled…

By GEOFF MULVIHILL Associated Press The number of monthly abortions in the U.S. is similar to what it was before the nation’s top court…

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Jon Bon Jovi will be featured at the first two IndyCar races of the season and take a ride…

Chrysler is recalling more than 330,00 Jeep Grand Cherokees because of a steering wheel issue that may cause drivers to lose control of their…

By VINCENT THIAN and JAN M. OLSEN Associated Press LANGKAWI, Malaysia (AP) — Europe’s oldest monarch, King Harald V of Norway, remains…

By THALIA BEATY Associated Press Francine Spang-Willis wishes the landscape of the Crazy Mountains near Livingston, Montana, could speak for itself.…

By DARREN SANDS Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — House Speaker Mike Johnson and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries stood together at the…

CHICAGO (AP) — Severe thunderstorms with large hail and several possible tornadoes have toppled trees, taken down power lines and damaged homes in…

By ELOGE WILLY KANEZA Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Dozens of Burundian troops have been detained for refusing to be deployed to eastern…

By LORNE COOK Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union’s own watchdog wants changes to Europe’s search and rescue rules following an…

BEIRUT (AP) — Turkish drone strikes in northeastern Syria have killed at least three members of a local Christian force and wounded others. A…

By ROBERT YOON Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump and Nikki Haley lead the field of candidates competing in the District of…

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Tuvalu’s new government has committed the tiny South Pacific island nation to…

By ROBERT YOON Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — When life cancels your primary, have a caucus. That’s what Idaho Republicans will do this…

By DENG MACHOL Associated Press JUBA, South Sudan (AP) — South Sudan’s government is blaming the country’s economic crisis in part on fighting…

By HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Ned Blackhawk’s “The Rediscovery of America,” winner last fall of a National Book Award,…

By ROBERT YOON Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Missouri Republican Party will hold presidential caucuses this Saturday, giving voters their…

By SALLY FRENCH of NerdWallet U.S. airfares are, on average, 15% lower now than they were a decade ago, and 6% lower than this time last year. The…

By ALEX NISHIMOTO Edmunds The Chevrolet Trax receives a complete redesign for 2024, gaining stylish good looks inside and out, more space, a new…

STOCKHOLM (AP) — A man who allegedly mapped military installations in Sweden has been charged Wednesday with unauthorized possession of secret…

By BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press LONDON (AP) — A London judge has ruled that Prince Harry was not improperly stripped of his publicly funded…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The British government is stepping up security for lawmakers after politicians reported threats and…

By JIWON SONG and HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has discussed cooperation on extended reality…

By TOM KRISHER AP Auto Writer DETROIT (AP) — Price increases for cars and trucks in the United States, which helped fuel inflation for nearly three…

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis appeared Wednesday at his weekly audience after canceling all appointments earlier in the week due to a mild flu,…

By BABACAR DIONE Associated Press DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — A national dialogue panel in Senegal proposed holding elections in early June, the first…

By COLLEEN LONG Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration is preparing to offer $85 million in funding to improve job…

By WILL WEISSERT and BARBARA ORTUTAY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is signing an executive order aiming to better protect…

PARIS (AP) — France’s Senate is voting on a bill meant to enshrine a woman’s right to an abortion in the French Constitution. The measure was…

By LORNE COOK Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — A top European Union official is calling for a new defense industry strategy to respond to security…

MOSCOW (AP) — The funeral of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who died earlier this month in a remote Arctic penal colony, will take place…

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Organizers of Sydney’s Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras have agreed to relax their ban…

By KANIS LEUNG Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — As Hong Kong moves toward enacting a new national security law, more than three years after…

GENEVA (AP) — Telecoms operator Swisscom has confirmed it’s in talks with Vodafone Group toward a possible purchase of its Italian subsidiary for…

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Widespread strikes in Greece have halted trains and ferries in protests timed to coincide with the anniversary of a deadly…

By ZIMO ZHONG Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — Asian markets were mostly lower on Wednesday after U.S. stocks held near their record levels in a…

By ZEN SOO AP Business Writer HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong’s government is lifting some curbs on property deals after home prices fell to a…

By REBECCA BOONE Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — The hour of Thomas Eugene Creech’s death has been set, and it is rapidly approaching. On…

By GEOFF MULVIHILL Associated Press Rather than trying to keep their seats in Congress, two of North Carolina’s U.S. representatives are vying for…

By STEVE KARNOWSKI Associated Press ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Thousands of law enforcement officers, firefighters and paramedics are expected to pack…

By ASTRID SUÁREZ and MANUEL RUEDA Associated Press BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Colombian warlord Salvatore Mancuso has been returned to his native…

By JOHN HANNA Associated Press TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The parents of hundreds of thousands of U.S. children with physical or intellectual disabilities…

By JUAN A. LOZANO Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — A Texas inmate who has long said he’s innocent and claims that his conviction more than 20…

By EDNA TARIGAN and ACHMAD IBRAHIM Associated Press JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesian President Joko Widodo has awarded an honorary four-star…

ROME (AP) — Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani was on hand Tuesday for the arrival in Rome of an Italian family of three just hours after…

By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Sam Bankman-Fried’s lawyer says a recommended sentence of 100 years in prison for the…

By The Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran is holding parliamentary elections this Friday, yet the real question may not be…

By ADRIAN SAINZ Associated Press MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Court documents show that the star trial witness in the killing of a 20-year-old nursing…

By ELLIOT SPAGAT Associated Press TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — U.S. asylum officers were instructed nearly a year ago to apply a higher screening standard…

By LLAZAR SEMINI Associated Press TIRANA, Albania (AP) — Ukraine’s president will co-host a summit with Albania’s government on…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — A drone small enough to fit in one’s hand flew inside one of the damaged reactors at the…

By LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court will hear a challenge Wednesday to a Trump-era ban on bump stocks, a gun…

By FARNOUSH AMIRI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Hunter Biden is set to appear Wednesday on Capitol Hill for a closed-door deposition with…

By HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — The South Korean and U.S. militaries will begin large-scale annual military drills next…

LIHUE, Hawaii (AP) — One person was injured when a tour helicopter crashed on a remote beach on the Hawaiian island of Kauai. The Kauai Fire…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — At least one quarter of Gaza’s population – 576,000 people – are one step away…

By MORGAN LEE Associated Press SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — Courtroom testimony by an independent gun expert Tuesday cast new doubt on Alec…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. State Department has hosted a screening of the award-winning Associated Press-PBS “Frontline” Ukraine war…