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By JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — Asian stock markets followed Wall Street higher on Friday ahead of a U.S. job market update that…

By JOSEF FEDERMAN and FARES AKRAM Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel launched rare strikes in southern Lebanon early Friday and pressed on…

By THOMAS ADAMSON Associated Press PARIS (AP) — Hundreds of thousands of people filled the streets of France Thursday for the 11th day of…

By MALAK HARB Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Long-time Mideast rivals Iran and Saudi Arabia took another significant step…

BEIJING (AP) — Chinese leader Xi Jinping has called for peace talks over Ukraine after French President Emmanuel Macron appealed to him to “bring…

By STEPHEN WADE and YURI KAGEYAMA Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Sapporo’s bid for the 2030 Winter Olympics has been slowed by fallout from the…

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Idaho Gov. Brad Little signed a bill into law Wednesday that makes it illegal for an adult to help a minor get an abortion…

By DOUG FERGUSON AP Golf Writer AUGUSTA, Ga. (AP) — Masters Chairman Fred Ridley sat among 33 champions in green jackets at golf’s most…

By AUDREY McAVOY Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — A former Hawaii lawmaker was sentenced Thursday to two years in prison in a federal corruption…

By JOEY CAPPELLETTI Associated Press LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Ahead of a highly anticipated presidential announcement, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis…

ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan’s military says security forces have killed eight insurgents in an overnight operation at a militant hideout near the…

By MAURICIO SAVARESE and LAÍS MARTINS Associated Press BLUMENAU, Brazil (AP) — They sent their seven-year-old to day care Wednesday and plunged…

By STEVE LeBLANC Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — Massachusetts lawmakers are considering a bill that would give judges the authority to order adults…

By DANIEL POLITI Associated Press BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — The rights to the works of the late Jorge Luis Borges, considered Argentina’s…

By DEE-ANN DURBIN AP Business Writer MADISON HEIGHTS, Mich. (AP) — Are robot waiters the future? It’s a question the restaurant industry is…

By GRACE EKPU and PATRICK WHITTLE Associated Press DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — In Senegal, the national dish of thieboudienne is entwined in the…

By KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea has threatened unspecified “offensive action” over the expansion of…

By MICHELLE L. PRICE Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Democrat Robert F. Kennedy Jr., an anti-vaccine activist and scion of one of the country’s…

By JOEAL CALUPITAN and PATRICK WHITTLE Associated Press TANAUAN, Leyte, Philippines (AP) — The Philippines, a nation made up of thousands of…

By OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A U.S. appeals court panel on Wednesday denied an appeal by former Peruvian President…

By JACQUES BILLEAUD Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — The Arizona Supreme Court has declined to reschedule an execution that had been set for this…

By DARLENE SUPERVILLE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Tulip lovers have a new variety to choose from and it’s named for Jill Biden. The…

By ANDREW DeMILLO Associated Press LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — An effort to require parents’ OK for Arkansas children to access social media…

By JOHN MARSHALL AP Sports Writer TEMPE, Ariz. (AP) — The Arizona Coyotes and the firm the franchise hired to develop a new arena project near Sky…

By SIBI ARASU Associated Press The capacity to burn coal for power went up in 2022 despite global promises to phase down the fuel that’s the…

By RIO YAMAT Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — A “Dances With Wolves” actor accused of sexually abusing Indigenous women and girls for decades…

DELPHI, Ind. (AP) — Attorneys for a man charged with killing two northern Indiana teenage girls have filed an emergency court motion seeking to…

By COLLEEN SLEVIN Associated Press DENVER (AP) — The father of an 11-year-old Colorado boy found dead in Florida, took the stand to testify against…

By JACK JEFFERY AND SAMY MAGDY Associated Press KHARTOUM, Sudan (AP) — A dispute between Sudan’s military and a paramilitary group has forced the…

BOSTON (AP) — Celtics All-Star Jayson Tatum is one of three starters Boston will be without when it hosts the Toronto Raptors on Wednesday. The…

By MARK THIESSEN and BECKY BOHRER Associated Press JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — A children’s book illustrator from Alaska known for drawing…

OTTAWA, Ontario (AP) — Former Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney is recovering after undergoing treatment in Montreal for prostate cancer. A…

BOSTON (AP) — The FBI said participants in a Department of Defense training exercise at a Boston hotel entered the wrong room Tuesday and…

By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A Brooklyn drug dealer pleaded guilty Wednesday to providing “The Wire” actor Michael K.…

By MORGAN LEE Associated Press SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — Democratic New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham has signed legislation that protects…

By CARLA BRIDI Associated Press BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has undergone questioning about diamond jewelry…

By RANDALL CHASE Associated Press DOVER, Del. (AP) — A judge says the upcoming trial in a voting machine company’s defamation lawsuit against Fox…

By STEVE KARNOWSKI Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — An anti-abortion group is suing the city of Minneapolis to overturn an ordinance that…

By The Associated Press First lady Jill Biden’s walk-back of her suggestion that runner-up Iowa should join NCAA women’s basketball…

By SEAN MURPHY Associated Press OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma Republicans removed the state’s only nonbinary legislator from House committees…

By CARLA K. JOHNSON AP Medical Writer A novel treatment using supercharged immune cells appears to work against tumors in children with a rare kind…

By DAVID BAUDER AP Media Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Twitter has labeled National Public Radio as “state-affiliated media” on the social media site,…

By ERIC TUCKER and FRANK BAJAK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Law enforcement agencies in the United States and Europe say they’ve taken…

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — An appliance delivery man has been sentenced to life in prison for beating a 75-year-old woman to death and setting…

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Bob Lee, a technology executive who created Cash App and was currently chief product officer of MobileCoin, was fatally…

CHICAGO (AP) — Chicago Police say SWAT officers are responding to a domestic incident at the Trump International Hotel and Tower, located in the…

By LEAH WILLINGHAM Associated Press CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — An atheist and secular humanist is suing the agency that runs West Virginia’s…

By STEFANIE DAZIO Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — In 2022 Los Angeles police shot and killed 14 people — 60% of everyone struck by…

By JILL COLVIN and ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A spokesman for Mike Pence said Wednesday that the former vice president will not…

MILAN (AP) — Romelu Lukaku’s management company has reacted with outrage after the Inter Milan forward was shown a second yellow card and then…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s president says he opposes the charges brought against former U.S. president Donald Trump. President Andrés…

By ARLEIGH RODGERS Associated Press/Report for America INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Republican governors in Indiana and Idaho have signed into law bills…

By MATTHEW DALY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Environmental Protection Agency is tightening rules that limit emissions of mercury and…

By JOEY CAPPELLETTI Associated Press BIRMINGHAM, Mich. (AP) — A near-century old abortion ban that fueled one of the largest ballot drives in…

By JILL COLVIN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — When Donald Trump stepped into a Manhattan courthouse Tuesday afternoon, his usual bravado was…

By JOHN HANNA AP Political Writer TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas is banning transgender athletes from girls’ and women’s sports from kindergarten…

Associated Press HELENA, Mont. (AP) — Republican state lawmakers in Montana are advancing legislation that would alter next year’s U.S. Senate…

By LEA SKENE, BRIAN WITTE and SARAH BRUMFIELD Associated Press BALTIMORE (AP) — More than 150 Catholic priests and others associated with the…

By MEG KINNARD Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — The candidates vying against former President Donald Trump for the White House in 2024 are…

By MICHAEL BLOOD, LISA MASCARO and ELLEN KNICKMEYER Associated Press SIMI VALLEY, Calif. (AP) — House Speaker Kevin McCarthy has welcomed…

GENEVA (AP) — The Swiss government says it’s ordered cuts to the bonuses of top executives of Credit Suisse worth tens of millions combined as…

By BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Prince Harry is expected to testify in a London courtroom in June in one of his phone hacking…

By KRYSTA FAURIA Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — When the creators of “How to Blow Up a Pipeline” initially set out to adapt the book that…

CHICAGO (AP) — Three firefighters were injured, one critically, while battling a blaze in a high-rise building on Chicago’s North Side on…

By GERALD IMRAY Associated Press CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — The South African government has terminated the national state of disaster it…

By BROOKE LEFFERTS Associated Press Lewis Capaldi’s first album went multiplatinum and led to chart-topping hits, sold-out stadiums, and a Grammy…

MADRID (AP) — A Spanish judge orders that a Moroccan man held for killing a church officer in January in the southern city of Algeciras be examined…

By REBECCA BOONE Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Starting next year, anyone in Idaho who provides gender-affirming medical care for…

By VANESSA GERA Associated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland has emerged as one Ukraine’s most ardent supporters during Russia’s invasion…