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BRATISLAVA, Slovakia (AP) — Slovakia’s president says she will challenge at the Constitutional Court an amendment to the country’s penal code…

By ERIC OLSON AP Sports Writer IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — More scoring records are in sight for Caitlin Clark, but right now the Iowa superstar is…

BEIJING (AP) — At the start of the Lunar Year of the Dragon, China is seeking to assert its interpretation of the cultural icon that dates back…

By HALELUYA HADERO Associated Press President Joe Biden’s campaign is embracing TikTok to court younger voters ahead of the presidential elections,…

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Egypt is building a wall and is leveling land near its border with the Gaza…

BERLIN (AP) — A man who is also a suspect in the disappearance of British toddler Madeleine McCann has gone on trial over several unrelated sexual…

By WAFAA SHURAFA and BASSEM MROUE Associated Press RAFAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Health officials say four patients died after their oxygen ran out in…

By SHEIKH SAALIQ and KRUTIKA PATHI Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — Farmers are blocking highways and holding demonstrations in many rural areas…

BERLIN (AP) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is expected to sign bilateral security agreements with Germany and France on Friday as Kyiv…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Voters in two districts in England delivered new blows to beleaguered Prime Minister Rishi Sunak,…

By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer BANGKOK (AP) — Shares advanced in Asia on Friday, with Tokyo’s benchmark Nikkei 225 index trading…

By KANIS LEUNG Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong customs officials have arrested seven people linked to the territory’s largest…

By MELANIE LIDMAN Associated Press REIM, Southern Israel (AP) — As spring approaches each year, wildflowers erupt across Israel. Nowhere is the…

By EDNA TARIGAN Associated Press JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Families of Indonesian activists who were kidnapped and tortured by the military 25…

By PETER SMITH and DASHA LITVINOVA Associated Press Greece has become the first majority-Orthodox Christian nation to legalize same-sex marriage…

By DIANE JEANTET Associated Press RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Local public health officials in Rio de Janeiro have been scouring the city’s…

By TRISHA THOMAS Associated Press CASTEL VOLTURNO, Italy (AP) — Mamadou Kouassi’s searing, epic journey over African deserts, through illegal…

By KATE BRUMBACK and ALANNA DURKIN RICHER Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Allegations of misconduct have taken center stage in Donald Trump’s…

By JONATHAN MATTISE and GEOFF MULVIHILL Associated Press Lower-income families with school-age kids can get help from the federal government paying…

By MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A verdict is expected Friday in Donald Trump’s New York civil fraud trial, adding to a…

By JOSH BOAK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — For over a year, President Joe Biden waited for what the White House said was the right moment to…

By SUMMER BALLENTINE and DAVID A. LIEB Associated Press JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — A shooting that wounded more than 20 people and killed one…

By ASHRAF KHALIL Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Conservationists at the National Archives are still working to clean up the building’s…

ALGIERS, Algeria (AP) — In Algeria, people have long relied on foreign currencies to buy imported items in short supply or finance their…

By MARK STEVENSON Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico is almost certain to elect its first female president in June — both leading…

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama carried out the nation’s first execution using nitrogen gas. Kenneth Eugene Smith was put to death in January…

By WILL WEISSERT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Former President Donald Trump has plans to radically reshape the federal government if he…

NEW DELHI (AP) — A massive fire swept through a paint factory in the Indian capital, New Delhi, killling at least 11 people and leaving four others…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — U.N. counter-terrorism officials say the Islamic State extremist group poses a rising…

By KAREL JANICEK Associated Press KLADNO, Czech Republic (AP) — The legendary mullet is gone. He’s not as quick as he used to be. And yet the way…

Associated Press BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — A Louisiana State University freshman football player has been arrested and charged with attempted…

WHISTLER, British Columbia (AP) — Prince Harry has raced head-first on a tiny skeleton sled going 61.5 mph down a track at next year’s…

By MAURICIO SAVARESE Associated Press SAO PAULO (AP) — Brazilian police say they have charged the youngest son of former President Jair Bolsonaro…

FULLERTON, Calif. (AP) — A driver who plowed into a crowd on a Southern California sidewalk in 2019, injuring nine people, has been convicted of…

VAUDREUIL-DORION, Quebec (AP) — Police say a stabbing attack in a condominium tower west of Montreal has left two women dead and another seriously…

By JOHN O’CONNOR AP Political Writer SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — A former Illinois lawmaker and candidate for governor has abruptly pleaded…

NEW YORK (AP) — A 16-year-old boy has been arrested in connection with a deadly rush hour shooting at a New York City subway station earlier this…

By TARA COPP Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — What would it mean if Russia used nuclear warheads to destroy U.S. satellites? Your home’s…

By MATTHEW BROWN and AMY BETH HANSON Associated Press BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — Montana Congressman Matt Rosendale is dropping his bid for the U.S.…

By HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH Associated Press KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A bystander captured on video tackling an armed person after a shooting at a…

PONTIAC, Mich. (AP) — The father of a Michigan school shooter wants jurors from a different county to decide his involuntary manslaughter case. A…

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The maker of ChatGPT on Thursday unveiled its next leap into generative artificial intelligence with a tool that instantly…

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The CEO of a shipping industry and sister-in-law of Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell was killed in car accident in…

By JACK DURA Associated Press A federal jury has convicted a small-town Iowa police chief of lying to federal authorities to acquire machine guns.…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. special envoy for Libya has sent a warning to the country’s feuding political…

By KIM CHANDLER Associated Press MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — An Alabama death row inmate has filed a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of…

By MARK DIDTLER Associated Press TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred says he will retire when his current term ends in January…

By MARGERY A. BECK Associated Press A Nebraska lawmaker is pushing a bill to forbid out-of-state hedge funds and other corporate entities from buying…

By LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — An FBI informant has been charged with lying to his handler about ties between President…

By LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer The Oscar-nominated documentary “The Last Repair Shop” is coming to broadcast television this weekend. The short…

By RUSS BYNUM Associated Press SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — Government scientists say a critically endangered North Atlantic right whale has been found…

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Workers from Clearwater Marine Aquarium in Florida have released 11 cold-stunned Kemp’s ridley sea turtles back into…

By WYATTE GRANTHAM-PHILIPS AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Several exclusive Xbox games will be soon making their way to rival consoles.…

By JIMMY GOLEN AP Sports Writer BOSTON (AP) — Kansas City’s mayor and security experts say it could be time to rethink the way teams…

By MIKE CATALINI Associated Press The suburban Philadelphia man charged with decapitating his father and posting a video online in which he holds up…

By MIKE STOBBE AP Medical Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Smoking has surpassed injecting as the most common way of taking drugs in U.S. overdose deaths, a…

By BABACAR DIONE Associated Press DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Senegal’s top election authority has voided the president’s postponement of a…

By JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER Associated Press It’s not yet known what killed an endangered fin whale, but people can marvel at the large marine…

By ANTHONY IZAGUIRRE and MAYSOON KHAN Associated Press ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York’s bipartisan redistricting commission has approved a new…

By MIKE CORDER Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Israel is urging the United Nations’ highest court to reject an urgent South…

By RONALD BLUM Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Bradley Cooper hopes his film “Maestro” will increase awareness about Leonard Bernstein. Cooper…

By STAN CHOE and CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Business Writers NEW YORK (AP) — As some of the world’s biggest economies stumble into recession, the…

By JULIA FRANKEL Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — The families of two Palestinian-American teenagers killed in separate but eerily similar…

By JILL COLVIN and ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump ‘s unprecedented tangle of overlapping trials was on…

By AAMER MADHANI and ZEKE MILLER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House on Thursday publicly confirmed that Russia’s has obtained a…

GREAT FALLS, Mont. (AP) — An Air Force nuclear missile base in central Montana has been put on lockdown following a report of an active shooter.…

By MARC LEVY Associated Press HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Pennsylvania’s state courts agency says it never received a ransom demand as part of a…

By BROOKE SCHULTZ Associated Press/Report for America Taylor Swift in January donned a red puffer jacket with boyfriend and Kansas City Chiefs’…

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Management issues at Oregon’s Crater Lake have prompted the federal government to consider terminating its contract…

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — An Anchorage woman will serve 99 years in prison for orchestrating the death of a developmentally disabled woman in a…

By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Godzilla has been to Tokyo, Hong Kong, Paris, San Francisco, Boston, Moscow, London and Hawaii. But…

By JEAN-YVES KAMALE Associated Press KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — A civil society organization says that at least a dozen people were killed and 16…

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — The White House says that U.S. President Joe Biden will host Poland’s President Andrzej Duda and Prime Minister Donald…

By FABIOLA SÁNCHEZ Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — A Roman Catholic bishop in Mexico says he and three other bishops met with drug cartel…

By BOUAZZA BEN BOUAZZA and SAM METZ Associated Press TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — Tunisian coast guard retrieved the bodies of nine people who died after…

ROME (AP) — The Italian Senate has given final approval to an agreement with Albania to house migrants during the processing of their asylum…

By KEN SWEET AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The Biden Administration is easing its restrictions on banking giant Wells Fargo, saying the bank…

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The Utah State Board of Education has voted to censure and seek the resignation of a board member whose social media post…

By MIKE STOBBE AP Medical Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Lyme disease cases in the United States jumped nearly 70% in 2022. Health officials say it’s due…

WASHINGTON (AP) — From allegations of plotting to overturn an election he lost to illegally stowing classified documents at his Florida estate,…

By OMAR FARUK Associated Press MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — The U.S. will build up to five military bases for the Somali army in a project that seeks…

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuela’s government on Thursday ordered the local U.N. office on human rights to suspend its operations and gave its…

By ANNIE MA and COLLIN BINKLEY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Americans who are struggling to repay federal student loans because of financial…