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By JACQUELYN MARTIN Associated Press ROCKVILLE, Md. (AP) — The group of first graders had no time to waste — they had matzo to make. The students…

By DAVID CRARY AP National Writer Passover is a major Jewish holiday, celebrated over seven or eight days each year, commemorating the exodus of…

By QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA Associated Press BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraqi authorities say they are investigating an explosion that struck a base belonging to the…

By MOHAMMAD TAUFAN Associated Press PALU, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesian authorities say the country’s elite counterterrorism police have…

By DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — London’s police force has been forced to issue two apologies after officers threatened to arrest…

By MOHAMMAD JAHJOUH and SAMY MAGDY Associated Press RAFAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Gaza hospital officials say an Israeli airstrike on a residential…

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine has launched a barrage of drones across Russia overnight in attacks that appeared to target the country’s energy…

By JINTAMAS SAKSORNCHAI Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — About 1,300 people have fled from eastern Myanmar into Thailand, officials said Saturday,…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico City police say they are investigating a murder suspect as a possible serial killer after bones, a saw, blood and the ID…

By SAMYA KULLAB Associated Press KHARKIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia is exploiting air defense shortages in Ukraine’s Kharkiv region by targeting…

By COLLEEN BARRY Associated Press VENICE, Italy (AP) — Outsider, queer and Indigenous artists are getting an overdue platform at the 60th Venice…

By STEPHEN GROVES and LISA MASCARO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The House is preparing in a rare Saturday session to approve $95 billion in…

By FARNOUSH AMIRI and MARY CLARE JALONICK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — After its midnight deadline, the Senate voted early Saturday to…

By MEAD GRUVER Associated Press Republicans in Wyoming will decide Saturday which presidential candidate will get their state’s votes at the…

By ELLEN KNICKMEYER Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Israel demonstrated its military dominance over adversary Iran in its apparent…

By CHEYANNE MUMPHREY AP Education Writer CONCORD, Calif. (AP) — A year before I-Ting Quinn’s son was old enough for kindergarten, she and her…

By BILL BARROW Associated Press WILMINGTON, N.C. (AP) — Former President Donald Trump is campaigning in North Carolina as he juggles legal troubles…

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuela’s main opposition coalition has agreed to unite behind former diplomat Edmundo González as its challenger to…

By GENE JOHNSON Associated Press ARLINGTON, Wash. (AP) — A major argument for legalizing the adult use of cannabis after 75 years of prohibition…

By STEPHANY MATAT Associated Press WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Former first lady Melania Trump is making a political comeback during the…

By DÁNICA COTO Associated Press CAP-HAITIEN, Haiti (AP) — They call it Okap, home to Haiti’s kings, emancipated slaves and revolutionaries.…

By ANITA SNOW Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Record Store Day celebrates independent retail music sellers who have endured long after megastores…

By MICHAEL GOLDBERG Associated Press/Report for America JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Dau Mabil escaped war-torn Sudan as a child and built a new life in…

BY AYANNA ALEXANDER Associated Press FREEPORT, N.Y. (AP) — A new voting rights law in New York is already having a dramatic effect, with lawsuits…

By HANNAH SCHOENBAUM Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — To casual sports fans and people outside northern Utah, it may look like an NHL team…

By JILL COLVIN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Over the past week, Donald Trump has been forced to sit inside a frigid New York courtroom and…

By NICK PERRY Associated Press GILFORD, N.H. (AP) — A costumed skier races down a slope, hits a pond and hydroplanes halfway across. He pirouettes…

By JUAN ZAMORANO Associated Press PANAMA CITY (AP) — The public portion of a Panamanian trial of more than two-dozen associates accused of helping…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. political chief says the year-old war in Sudan between rival generals vying for…

By FABIOLA SÁNCHEZ Associated Press TEPOTZOTLAN, Mexico (AP) — Dozens of women and men have searched a garbage dump and other sites outside…

By KEN MILLER Associated Press OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A Department of Homeland Security official told survivors and loved ones of the 168 people…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The University of Southern California further shook up its commencement plans Friday, announcing the cancelation of a keynote…

By ELLEN KNICKMEYER and LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.N. World Food Program has agreed to help deliver aid for the…

By KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea says it tested a “super-large” cruise missile warhead and a new…

By BEN FINLEY Associated Press Authorities in Ohio say a man fatally shot an Uber driver because he wrongly assumed she was part of a scam to extract…

By DAVID BAUDER AP Media Writer NEW YORK (AP) — A man who set himself on fire outside the Manhattan courtroom where Donald Trump was on trial…

WASHINGTON (AP) — ABC’s “This Week” — Reps. Michael McCaul, R-Texas, and Ro Khanna, D-Calif.; retired Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer.…

By LEAH WILLINGHAM Associated Press CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — West Virginia will not face a clawback of $465 million in COVID-19 money from the…

By REBECCA BOONE Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — A new Idaho organization says it will ask voters to restore abortion access and other…

By HOLLY RAMER Associated Press BRENTWOOD, N.H. (AP) — A man who alleges he was beaten and raped as a teen at New Hampshire’s youth detention…

ATHENS, Ala. (AP) — The warden of an Alabama prison was arrested Friday on drug charges. The Alabama Department of Corrections says the warden at…

By MARK THIESSEN Associated Press ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Federal prosecutors want to revoke the U.S. citizenship of a South Africa man convicted…

By JIM VERTUNO Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Authorities in Texas say a 10-year-old boy has confessed to an unsolved 2022 killing, telling…

By JOHN HANNA AP Political Writer TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The Democratic governor in Kansas has vetoed proposed tax breaks for anti-abortion counseling…

LEBANON, Ind. (AP) — A central Indiana man who won a primary election for a township board position while charged with killing his estranged wife…

By MARGERY A. BECK Associated Press OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Nebraska Gov. Jim Pillen says he’ll keep his promise to call a special legislative…

By JOSH CORNFIELD Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — Phish opened its four-night stay at the Sphere Thursday with a four-hour show. The concert used…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — A mayoral candidate in a northern Mexico border state has been killed, the 16th political hopeful slain ahead of the June 2…

By HANNAH FINGERHUT Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Iowa men who were victims of child molestation while they were in the Boy Scouts of…

By MARIA SHERMAN AP Music Writer NEW YORK (AP) — On Friday, Taylor Swift released her 11th studio album, “The Tortured Poets Department.” But…

By SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A Wisconsin prosecutor says she won’t bring charges against a Republican lawmaker accused of…

By LISA MASCARO AP Congressional Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) — Staring down a decision so consequential it could alter the course of history…

DENVER (AP) — Federal officials are investigating an unauthorized inflight cockpit visit by a coach for the Colorado Rockies baseball team during a…

By JOHN WAWROW AP Sports Writer ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. (AP) — Buffalo Bills owners Terry and Kim Pegula are exploring the possibility of selling a…

NEW YORK (AP) — Police officials say they are reviewing whether to restrict access to a public park outside the courthouse where former President…

OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Three Northern California law enforcement officers have been charged with involuntary manslaughter in the death of a man who…

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Zedan Racing Stables has appealed a Kentucky Circuit Court ruling that denied its request for a temporary injunction seeking…

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — The flame that will burn at the Olympics is spending the night at the ancient Acropolis in Athens, a week before its handover…

By MARK THIESSEN Associated Press ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — The Air National Guard has delayed personnel changes in Alaska that could have…

By MORGAN LEE Associated Press SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — The U.S. Border Patrol is asserting its authority to seize cannabis shipments amid complaints…

By JOSH FUNK AP Business Writer OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — The Environmental Protection Agency is allowing the sale of gasoline containing a higher blend…

By LEA SKENE Associated Press BALTIMORE (AP) — Salvage crews at the site of the collapsed Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore are turning their…

By DAVE COLLINS Associated Press A convicted rapist has been charged with murder and attempted sexual assault in the killing of a visiting nurse at a…

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A fired Philadelphia police officer has pleaded guilty to murder in the shooting of a fleeing 12-year-old boy. Prosecutors have…

By FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A Bangkok-based plastics firm has agreed to pay $20 million to settle with the U.S. over 467…

By ACACIA CORONADO Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A Texas appeals court has ruled that Republican Attorney General Ken Paxton can face…

ASHEVILLE, N.C. (AP) — A video of people pulling bear cubs from a tree in North Carolina has prompted an investigation, but a state official says…

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Mandisa, a contemporary Christian singer who appeared on “American Idol” and won a Grammy for her 2013 album…

By CHEYANNE MUMPHREY Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — A small blue dog with an Australian accent has captured the hearts of people across the world.…

By STEPHANY MATAT Associated Press An attorney wants a federal court to overturn a Florida law that she says discriminates against Chinese citizens…

BEAL CITY, Mich. (AP) — A Catholic priest has resigned as pastor of a church in a small central Michigan community. It is the result of weeks of…

BY SETH BORENSTEIN AP Science Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The man who will run this year’s United Nations climate talks in November views the…

GOVERNMENT CAMP, Ore. (AP) — Firefighters doused a late-night fire at Oregon’s historic Timberline Lodge before it caused significant damage. The…

Associated Press By ANTHONY IZAGUIRRE ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York state lawmakers are on the verge of passing a $237 billion budget that includes…

By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Civil rights advocates say Mississippi needs to simplify the process of restoring…

By ANITA SNOW Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — The jury has been ordered to resume deliberations Friday in the trial of a 75-year-old Arizona…

By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Heart — the pioneering band that melds Nancy Wilson’s shredding guitar with her sister…

By SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Republican candidate in Wisconsin’s closely watched U.S. Senate race emphasized this…

By SOPHIE AUSTIN Associated Press/Report for America SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A California court will hear arguments Friday in a lawsuit alleging…

By LORNE COOK Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg is pressing the allies to give more Patriot missile…

LONDON (AP) — Prosecutors say 15 former British soldiers won’t face charges for perjury at an inquiry into Bloody Sunday, one of the deadliest…

By HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Nearly two years after the shocking knife attack that nearly killed him, Salman Rushdie appears…

By The Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Dick Van Dyke is vying for a historic Daytime Emmy at age 98. The actor has been nominated as guest…

TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — A Belarusian hacker activist group claims to have infiltrated computers at the country’s largest fertilizer plant to…

By DARKO BANDIC Associated Press ZAGREB, Croatia (AP) — Croatia’s Constitutional Court has banned President Zoran Milanović from becoming prime…

NEW YORK (AP) — A federal judge has agreed to delay the start of New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez’s bribery trial by a week after lawyers said…