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IONIA, Mich. (AP) — A western Michigan man who shot an 84-year-old woman campaigning against abortion rights has pleaded no contest to assault. The…

By WILSON RING Associated Press BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) — A federal court trial is underway in Vermont for a man charged with kidnapping a woman and…

ROME (AP) — Italy will push for stiff, five-figure fines on vandals who damage monuments or other cultural sites. At a Cabinet meeting on Tuesday,…

By MICHAEL LIEDTKE AP Technology Writer Disgraced Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes has been rebuffed in her attempt to stay out of federal prison while…

By ISABEL DEBRE Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — The Israeli military shot and killed two Palestinians who allegedly opened fire at troops from…

HUTCHINSON, Kan. (AP) — A former Kansas police officer has pleaded guilty to several sexual assaults under a plea deal in which he must serve at…

CHICAGO (AP) — Jurors have found three former leaders of a Chicago-based company guilty of multiple counts of fraud, following a 10-week federal…

By MIKE STOBBE AP Medical Writer NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. health officials released data Tuesday showing how chlamydia, gonorrhea and syphilis cases…

By MICHAEL PHILLIS Associated Press The Environmental Protection Agency on Tuesday proposed limiting the use of the chemical ethylene oxide after…

By DYLAN LOVAN, REBECCA REYNOLDS and CLAIRE GALOFARO Associated Press LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Police body camera video released Tuesday showed the…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — An offshore pipeline involved in a 2021 oil spill that fouled Southern California beaches is being put back in service. Amplify…

By MARK LONG AP Sports Writer GAINESVILLE, Fla. (AP) — The University of Florida is revamping and streamlining its fundraising collective. The move…

By KIM CHANDLER Associated Press MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Jurors who sentenced  David Wilson to death for killing a man during a 2004 burglary in…

By MATTHEW PERRONE AP Health Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Big changes could be coming for how Americans pay for COVID-19 tests. When the federal…

By DALATOU MAMANE Associated Press NIAMEY, Niger (AP) — Niger’s army says gunmen killed five soldiers and wounded others during a weekend…

YEREVAN, Armenia (AP) — Military forces from Armenia and Azerbaijan have clashed along the border, and the defense ministries of both countries…

By JOSEF FEDERMAN and VANESSA GERA Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel’s national Holocaust memorial has criticized a new agreement renewing…

By JOHN FLESHER AP Environmental Writer When word surfaced that soils and liquids laced with chemicals from the East Palestine, Ohio, train…

By KEVIN FREKING Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Democratic Rep. Jennifer Wexton of Virginia announced Tuesday she has been diagnosed with…

By JOVANA GEC and DUSAN STOJANOVIC Associated Press BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Independent Serbian journalists have marked the 24th anniversary of a…

BERLIN (AP) — Germany has ordered Chad’s ambassador to leave the country, responding to the central African nation’s expulsion last week of the…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s Defense Ministry says it has signed contracts worth $2.8 billion with the country’s top…

By WILL WEISSERT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrats announced on Tuesday that they will hold their party’s 2024 national convention in…

By DARLENE SUPERVILLE, COLLEEN LONG and JILL LAWLESS Associated Press BELFAST, Northern Ireland (AP) — President Joe Biden embarked Tuesday on a…

MOSCOW (AP) — Russian lawmakers have approved legislation that would allow authorities to issue electronic summons to draftees and reservists. The…

By TERRY SPENCER Associated Press FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Safe Haven Baby Boxes and A Safe Haven for Newborns are two charities with similar…

By ALICIA RANCILIO Associated Press Picture May 17, 2001. In the final seconds of the season seven finale of “Friends,” Jennifer…

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — The Taliban say a raid on a rebel hideout in northern Afghanistan has killed eight people from the National Resistance…

By ERIC TUCKER, MICHAEL BALSAMO and NOMAAN MERCHANT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration has begun sharing with a bipartisan…

By SOPHENG CHEANG Associated Press PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — Police in Cambodia say 19 Japanese men detained in January on suspicion of taking…

By JONATHAN J. COOPER Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Sheriff Mark Lamb has filed federal paperwork to run for the U.S. Senate in Arizona. Pinal…

By JUSTIN SPIKE Associated Press BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Hungary has signed new agreements to ensure its continued access to Russian energy. The…

BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — Romania’s top defense body has approved buying an unspecified number of American-made F-35 fighter jets, as the…

BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s justice minister on Tuesday launched plans to relax the country’s strict restrictions on family names — for…

By KAREL JANICEK Associated Press PRAGUE (AP) — Dana Nemcova, one of the leading Czech dissidents and human rights activists from the communist…

By ALANA BENSON of NerdWallet Investing in the stock market isn’t the only thing that may bring a financial return: Studies have found that seeking…

MOSCOW (AP) — A volcano erupted early Tuesday on Russia’s far eastern Kamchatka Peninsula, spewing clouds of dust 20 kilometers (12 miles)…

ISLAMABAD (AP) — The United Nations says it’s reviewing its presence in Afghanistan after the Taliban barred Afghan women from working for…

By OMAR FARUK Associated Press MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — U.N Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has appealed for “massive international…

PARIS (AP) — A French prosecutor says investigators are treating the deaths of at least six people who were killed when a building collapsed in the…

By HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea plans to conduct its first launch of a commercial-grade satellite aboard a…

By JINTAMAS SAKSORNCHAI Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — Human rights groups and opposition politicians in Thailand are criticizing the government…

By JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press GENEVA (AP) — Switzerland’s parliament has opened a special session to scrutinize the state-imposed takeover of…

LONDON (AP) — Tens of thousands of doctors have walked off the job across England in a four-day strike billed as the most disruptive in the history…

By MIKE CORDER and SYLVIE CORBET Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron laid out his vision of a bold,…

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Oman’s second-largest bank is pursuing a potential merger with its smaller rival, potentially creating a…

BERLIN (AP) — Firefighters say they have freed an “uncooperative” squirrel that was stuck in a manhole cover in western Germany. The Dortmund…

By HUIZHONG WU Associated Press TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Taiwan’s President Tsai Ing-wen has condemned China’s military drills in the Taiwan…

By ABDUL SATTAR Associated Press QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistani police say security forces raided a suspected hideout of the Pakistani Taliban…

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s prime minister has flown to the United States for meetings aimed at strengthening the economic and defense…

By REBECCA BOONE Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Jurors in the triple murder trial of a woman accused in the deaths of her two children and a…

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australia has suspended a complaint to the World Trade Organization in a bid to reopen…

By TOM KRISHER, MATTHEW DALY and HANNAH FINGERHUT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Many Americans aren’t yet sold on going electric for their…

By ANTHONY IZAGUIRRE Associated Press TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has advanced elements of his aggressive conservative…

SALEM, Ore. (AP) — An Oregon State Police trooper exchanged gunfire with a man who was holding the driver of a semitrailer at gunpoint Monday…

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — A senior lawmaker has split from Australia’s opposition party leadership by supporting…

By ROHIT THAYYIL and MOJUDAN GADHAVI, Press Trust of India KOCHI, India (AP) — Eloor smells like it is dying. Once it was an island of rich…

By ZEKE MILLER AP White House Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. national emergency to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic has ended. On Monday,…

LAS CRUCES, N.M. (AP) — Republican House Speaker Kevin McCarthy attended a rally in southern New Mexico on Monday for former U.S. Rep. Yvette…

By STEVE LeBLANC Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — A growing number of states led by Democratic governors are stockpiling doses of drugs used in…

By JIM GOMEZ Associated Press MANILA, Philippines (AP) — American and Filipino forces on Tuesday launched their largest combat exercises in decades…