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By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — The number of babies born in Japan last year fell for an eighth straight year to a new low,…

LONDON (AP) — Authorities say three men arrested in an investigation into right-wing extremism have been charged in a London court with preparing…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Two candidates for mayor in the Mexican city of Maravatio have been gunned down within hours of each other, leading to concerns…

By WILL WEISSERT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — As he prepared to take office three years ago, Joe Biden’s incoming administration…

By DÁNICA COTO Associated Press SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — A top court has ruled that two residents of the tiny Caribbean island of Barbuda have…

PRISTINA, Kosovo (AP) — A Kosovo court has sentenced two ethnic Serbs to six-month jail terms for attacking NATO-led peacekeepers a year ago. But…

By COLLEEN BARRY Associated Press MILAN (AP) — Italian conductor Gianandrea Noseda has made a triumphant return to Teatro alla Scala in an informal…

By PAN PYLAS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The owners of a quirky 18th century British pub bulldozed after a fire last year have been ordered by a…

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Ukrainian President Volodomyr Zelenskyy has arrived to Saudi Arabia with plans…

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — NATO member Greece says it wants to help traditional ally Armenia shift alliances westward, arguing that improved ties with…

PARIS (AP) — Qatar’s emir is beginning a state visit to France as his country plays a key role in ongoing diplomatic efforts to achieve a…

By DYEPKAZAH SHIBAYAN Associated Press ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Nigeria’s government and union workers have begun a new nationwide strike that…

By SOPHIE AUSTIN Associated Press/Report for America The federal government will fund 17 projects across the U.S. to expand access to renewable…

By YURAS KARMANAU Associated Press TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Experts from the U.N. Human Rights Commission have appealed to Belarusian authorities…

By HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — An author and ghost writer’s life story, from prison and drug addiction to collaborating with…

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Four crew members of an unflagged vessel that U.S. officials say was carrying Iranian-made missile components are scheduled to…

NEW YORK (AP) — New York City police have arrested three people in the killing of a man on a subway car last week. The department says Tuesday they…

By RAF CASERT Associated Press STRASBOURG, France (AP) — The European Union legislature has approved a watered-down plan to better protect nature…

HARRISONBURG, Va. (AP) — A man who had been scheduled for trial in the shooting deaths of two popular police officers at a Virginia college in 2022…

By FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen is offering her strongest public support yet for the idea of…

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Taxi drivers in the Greek capital have begun a 48-hour strike, with the second day timed to coincide with a nationwide strike…

By SARA RATHNER of NerdWallet If your family of origin didn’t teach you about credit cards, maybe it’s because they didn’t use them. You may…

By JINTAMAS SAKSORNCHAI Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — Prosecutors in Thailand say they will indict a former national police chief on charges of…

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Thousands of farmers are gathering in the Polish capital to protest the European Union’s agricultural policies and the…

By KAREL JANICEK Associated Press PRAGUE (AP) — The prime ministers of the Czech Republic and Poland say their countries are united in their…

BERLIN (AP) — German authorities say a former member of the disbanded left-wing militant Red Army Faction group has been arrested after more than…

LONDON (AP) — Kensington Palace says Britain’s Prince William has pulled out of attending a memorial service for his godfather, the late King…

By MUNIR AHMED Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan’s imprisoned former Prime Minister Imran Khan and his wife have appeared before a judge…

By PAN PYLAS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — A leading British think tank that specializes in the state of the country’s public finances thinks…

By HYUNG-JIN KIM and JIWON SONG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Thousands of junior doctors in South Korea have been refusing to see…

BERLIN (AP) — A German far-right extremist already serving a life sentence following an attempt to attack a synagogue in 2019 has been convicted of…

By MIKE CORDER Associated Press AMSTERDAM (AP) — A Dutch court has convicted 17 suspects in the long-running trial of an underworld gang that…

By SIMINA MISTREANU Associated Press TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — China’s former foreign minister, Qin Gang, who has been missing from public view since…

By DARLENE SUPERVILLE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Doug Emhoff, the husband of Vice President Kamala Harris, is announcing $1.7 billion in…

Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg told The Associated Press that the military alliance has no plans to send…

By The Associated Press A Moscow court has sentenced a veteran human rights advocate who spoke out against the war in Ukraine to two years and six…

By JEFF MARTIN Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — The suspect in the killing of a nursing student on the University of Georgia campus used an object…

By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer BANGKOK (AP) — Asian shares were mixed on Tuesday after U.S. stocks edged back from their record heights.…

By HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH, SUMMER BALLENTINE and JIM SALTER Associated Press KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — The man accused of firing the first shots at…

TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — United States President Joe Biden said Israel would be willing to halt its war on Hamas in Gaza during the upcoming Muslim…

By JOCELYN GECKER AP Education Writer SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — In California, a high school teacher complains that students watch Netflix on their…

By ANDREW DeMILLO and JOHN HANNA Associated Press TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Mack Allen, an 18-year-old high school senior from Kansas, braces for…

By DARLENE SUPERVILLE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden was meeting Tuesday with the top four leaders of Congress to press…

By JANIE HAR Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — San Francisco’s supervisors plan to offer a formal apology to Black residents for decades of…

By SEUNG MIN KIM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Joe Biden and Donald Trump are marching toward their respective presidential nominations. But…

By DASHA LITVINOVA Associated Press TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Vladimir Kara-Murza could only laugh when officials in Penal Colony No. 6 inexplicably…

By SUSAN HAIGH Associated Press The voters of Bridgeport, Connecticut, are trying again to choose their mayor after the result of the last election…

By JAMES BROOKS and JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press GENEVA (AP) — The century-old Geneva motor show is back in action for the first time in five…

PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistani police say officers have raided a militant hideout in the country’s northwest, triggering an intense shootout…

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — A photographer told police he was punched in the face by Taylor Swift’s father on the…

By MORGAN LEE Associated Press SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — Testimony at trial Monday turned emotional and argumentative as an eyewitness recounted the…

NEW YORK (AP) — Sean “Diddy” Combs has been sued  by a music producer who accused the hip-hop mogul of sexually assaulting him and forcing him…

By JUAN A. LOZANO Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — A lawsuit filed by one of the sons of the owner of the Houston Texans that had sought to have her…

By JONATHAN MATTISE Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Republicans in the Tennessee House have voted to advance a bill that would prevent…

SAN DIEGO (AP) — A federal judge struck down a California law banning possession of club-like weapons, reversing his previous ruling from three…

By JONATHAN MATTISE Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee lawmakers have passed a bill requiring that public and private schools…

By FRANKLIN BRICEÑO Associated Press LIMA, Peru (AP) — Peru has declared a health emergency in most of its provinces due to a growing number of…

By HANNAH SCHOENBAUM Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah teachers will be free to display LGBTQ+ Pride flags and other social, political or…

By JONATHAN MATTISE Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The GOP-led Tennessee House has passed a bill that would largely ban displaying pride…

By BRUCE SCHREINER and DYLAN LOVAN Associated Press FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — The Kentucky Senate has voted to lay the foundation to attract nuclear…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — More than two-thirds of the U.N. Security Council’s members have demanded that the…

By BRUCE SCHREINER Associated Press FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Legislation aimed at easing Kentucky’s near-total abortion ban by creating limited…

By JILL COLVIN and DAVID FISCHER Associated Press MIAMI (AP) — Emergency crews responded Monday after a letter containing an unidentified white…

By WAYNE PARRY Associated Press ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — The Mohegan tribe says it will end its management of Atlantic City’s Resorts casino at…

A 23-year-old man convicted of fatally shooting two teenagers at a Southern California movie theater during a 2021 showing of “The Forever Purge”…

REGINA, Saskatchewan (AP) — A case of old hockey cards possibly containing the game’s Great One has fetched more than $3.7 million after it was…

By ANTHONY IZAGUIRRE Associated Press ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Democrats in the New York Legislature are rejecting a congressional map drawn by the…

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Federal prosecutors say Family Dollar Stores has pleaded guilty to holding food, drugs, cosmetics and other items under…

By MARK THIESSEN and JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER Associated Press ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — A shooting at a home has left multiple people dead and…

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Organizers of the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras have asked police not to march at…

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — The government of Argentina’s libertarian President Javier Milei has condemned a threat by the governor of the…

TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — U.S. Rep. Andy Kim says in a federal lawsuit that New Jersey’s primary ballot design unconstitutionally favors candidates…

By JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Don Henley was confronted in a New York courtroom Monday about a seamy episode from his past:…

NEW YORK (AP) — New York City’s Albert Einstein College of Medicine is set to go tuition-free after receiving a $1 billion donation from…

SEATTLE (AP) — Police say a 26-year-old man has been killed in a shooting on a light rail train in Seattle. The Seattle Police Department says…

By MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Prosecutors in Donald Trump’s New York hush-money criminal case asked a judge Monday to…

By JOSH FUNK AP Business Writer The U.S. government is threatening to sue PacifiCorp, a unit of Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway, to recover…

By JUAN A. LOZANO Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — Body camera footage released by Houston police on Monday showed off-duty officers with weapons…