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BERLIN (AP) — Exposure to a suspected irritant gas has affected at least 70 people at a school in southwestern Germany, according to a media…

By KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Senior South Korean and Japanese officials have discussed strengthening relations and…

NEW DELHI (AP) — Thousands of travelers have been stranded after no-frills Indian air carrier Go First filed for bankruptcy and suspended its…

TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — A Belarusian court has convicted a dissident journalist who was arrested after being pulled off a commercial flight that…

By DAVID RISING Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia claimed it foiled an overnight attack by Ukrainian drones on the Kremlin, calling it…

BEIJING (AP) — At least nine people were killed in an explosion at a Chinese petrochemical plant and three others died in a helicopter crash during…

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran has seized a Panama-flagged oil tanker in the Strait of Hormuz, the second…

HELSINKI (AP) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is in the Finnish capital, Helsinki, for a one-day Nordic summit. Zelenskyy is expected to…

By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Holy See’s No. 2 official has confirmed the existence of a Vatican peace…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Britain’s security minister says the coronation of King Charles III involves one of the most…

By JINTAMAS SAKSORNCHAI Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — A popular candidate for prime minister of Thailand said Wednesday she’s eager to get back…

ROME (AP) — A report says more than a quarter-billion people in 58 countries faced acute food insecurity last year. The Global Report on Food…

PARIS (AP) — France’s top constitutional body is to rule on a last-ditch effort by opposition lawmakers to thwart President Emmanuel Macron’s…

By JOVANA GEC and DUSAN STOJANOVIC Associated Press BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — A teenager who opened fire Wednesday at a school in Serbia’s…

By BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The United Kingdom’s royal family turns the page on a new chapter with the coronation of King…

By JOHN LEICESTER Associated Press PARIS (AP) — Preparations in France for the 2024 Olympic Games had been going largely smoothly. That is starting…

By BARBARA ORTUTAY AP Technology Writer In an about-face, Twitter says it has restored free access to a key tool for verified government and…

By DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — King Charles III will be crowned Saturday at Westminster Abbey in an event full of all the pageantry…

By ABBY SEWELL and KAREEM CHEHAYEB Associated Press QAB ELIAS, Lebanon (AP) — Lebanese officials have launched a crackdown on the country’s…

By JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — Asian stock markets were mixed Thursday after the Federal Reserve raised its benchmark lending…

By NICK EL HAJJ Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Economies across the Middle East and Central Asia will likely slow this year as…

By GRANT PECK Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — Myanmar’s ruling military council says it is releasing more than 2,100 political prisoners as a…

By JOSH DUBOW AP Pro Football Writer The Brock Purdy impact was in full effect in this year’s NFL draft. A year after the San Francisco 49ers…

By ANDREW DALTON AP Entertainment Writer. LOS ANGELES (AP) — It looks likely to be a long grind for Hollywood writers who have gone on strike to…

By GENE JOHNSON Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) — Washington Gov. Jay Inslee is calling lawmakers back to work after they rejected a bill setting out…

By COLLEEN LONG Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. and Mexican officials have agreed on new immigration policies meant to deter illegal border…

By CHEYANNE MUMPHREY AP Education Writer Test scores in history and civics have declined slightly for eighth grade students in the U.S., according to…

STARKE, Fla. (AP) — Florida is scheduled to execute a man for breaking into a woman’s home and stabbing her to death in 1986. Darryl B. Barwick…

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The Federal Reserve reinforced its fight against high inflation by raising its key…

By KRISTIE RIEKEN AP Sports Writer HOUSTON (AP) — Grammy Award-winning rapper Lil Wayne visited the World Series champion Houston Astros Tuesday…

By KEN RITTER Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — Ex-Las Vegas Raiders player Henry Ruggs told a judge Tuesday he will admit that he drove drunk at…

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United Nations announced Tuesday night that its premier prize for press freedom has been awarded to three imprisoned…

CLEVELAND, Texas (AP) — A man suspected of opening fire at his neighbor’s home and killing five people was arrested Tuesday after a four-day…

By JUAN A. LOZANO and NOMAAN MERCHANT Associated Press CLEVELAND, Texas (AP) — A man suspected of killing five of his neighbors in Texas after they…

By GARY D. ROBERTSON and HANNAH SCHOENBAUM Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina Republican legislative leaders say there is…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Another mother searching for her disappeared child has been killed in Mexico, the sixth murder of a volunteer search activist in…

By JAMES POLLARD Associated Press/Report for America COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — The beach community where officials say a DUI driver killed a bride on…

By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN Associated Press A New Mexico man, overwhelmed by guilt, borrowed a cellphone to call 911 and confess to the 2008 killing of…

By DAN GELSTON AP Sports Writer Philadelphia 76ers center and league scoring champion Joel Embiid earned his first NBA MVP trophy Tuesday night,…

By OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Cash App founder Bob Lee died during surgery from stab wounds that pierced his heart and…

LA CROSSE, Wis. (AP) — Officials say railroad tracks damaged after a BNSF Railway freight train derailed last week in southwestern Wisconsin have…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexicans living abroad sent home a total of almost $14 billion in the first three months of 2023, an 11.4% increase over the…

By KIM CHANDLER Associated Press MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Federal judges on Tuesday heard arguments over whether Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis wrongly…

By MICHAEL TARM AP Legal Affairs Writer CHICAGO (AP) — Prison officials have moved a former drug dealer convicted of killing a 16-year-old Texas…

By CHRISTOPHER WEBER Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — California is joining with law firms and advocacy groups to create a hotline that provides…

By CARLA BRIDI and ELÉONORE HUGHES Associated Press BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — Brazil’s Justice Ministry has ordered Google to stop conducting what…

GALVESTON, Texas (AP) — A man who filed a lawsuit in Texas against three women he said helped his now-ex-wife obtain medication for an abortion is…

By SAM METZ Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A Utah judge ruled on Tuesday that a recently passed state law banning abortion clinics cannot…

MIRAMAR BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Two women have now been accused of throwing drinks at U.S. Rep. Matt Gaetz. The most recent was Saturday, when Selena…

MIAMI (AP) — Several conservation groups have announced that they’re planning to sue federal wildlife officials, citing a failure to protect the…

By BEATRICE DUPUY Associated Press A black bear gave a West Virginia principal quite the wake-up call when it emerged — growling and roaring —…

By AMY BETH HANSON and MATTHEW BROWN Associated Press HELENA, Mont. (AP) — Rep. Zooey Zephyr, the transgender state lawmaker silenced after telling…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United Nations chief is warning on the eve of World Press Freedom Day that the media…

By KEN RITTER and JONATHAN J. COOPER Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — A Nevada Republican who led a movement of candidates who promoted Donald…

By SYLVIA HUI Associated Press LONDON (AP) — London police said a controlled explosion was carried out as a precaution outside Buckingham Palace…

By MICHAEL LIEDTKE AP Technology Writer SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Even before he joined Lyft’s board in 2021, David Risher had taken hundreds of trips…

By EVENS SANON Associated Press PETIONVILLE, Haiti (AP) — Vigilante killings are surging across Haiti’s capital and beyond. Another five men were…

By ANDREW SELSKY Associated Press SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Oregon Secretary of State Shemia Fagan has announced her resignation amid sharp criticism from…

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — A Memphis television station says a shot was fired at its building, but no one was wounded. WHBQ, the Fox affiliate in…

By KAREEM CHEHAYEB Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — The United States and Turkey have slapped sanctions on two al-Qaida-linked militants believed to…

By JOE REEDY AP Sports Writer The latest Super Bowl ended up setting a viewer record. Nielsen released a revised number of 115.1 million for Fox…

By DARLENE SUPERVILLE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — All the hand-wringing in Washington over raising the debt limit can seem far removed from…

By KEVIN FREKING Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Democrats are promising to pursue stronger ethics rules for the Supreme Court in the…

MEMPHIS, Tenn.. (AP) — A former Memphis police officer who hit Tyre Nichols with a stun gun during a traffic stop that preceded Nichols’ brutal…

DAVIS, Calif. (AP) — Residents of a Northern California university town are on edge after three people were stabbed within a week, including two…

By MIKE SCHNEIDER Associated Press Almost half of all voters in the 2022 midterm elections cast their ballots before Election Day either by mail or…

By EVELYNE MUSAMBI Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Two pastors based in coastal Kenya have appeared in court over the deaths of more than…

By HARM VENHUIZEN Associated Press/Report for America MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The conservative-controlled Wisconsin Supreme Court has ruled a hospital…

By LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Defense Department and the Federal Aviation Administration have been tracking a balloon…

By TARA COPP Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A review of a Montana nuclear missile base where an unusual number of troops have been diagnosed…

By LARRY NEUMEISTER and MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A woman testified Tuesday that Donald Trump molested her with what seemed…

By KEN SWEET AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Regulators have barely written the epitaph for First Repbulic Bank, but investors on Wall Street…

By DAVID SHARP Associated Press PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — A wealthy attorney who came close to being elected governor of Maine in 2010 is expected to…