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By COLLEEN BARRY Associated Press VENICE. Italy (AP) — Jeffrey Gibson’s takeover of the U.S. pavilion for this year’s Venice Biennale…

By HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has completed a book about her years in public life. The…

By LORNE COOK Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — The leaders of Belgium and the Czech Republic are warning their European Union partners to take…

MADRID (AP) — Two people smugglers have been sentenced to nine years each in prison for the deaths of four Moroccan migrants who drowned after they…

By DAVID SHARP Associated Press AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — The Maine Legislature has approved sweeping gun safety legislation nearly six months after…

By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department is ramping up its efforts to reduce violent crime in the U.S.,…

By Associated Press Russia’s defense ministry says air defenses have downed what authorities describe as five Ukrainian balloons. The sides have…

By DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Prince William returns to public duties on Thursday for the first time since his wife’s cancer…

By ZEKE MILLER, WILL WEISSERT and CHRIS MEGERIAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden will accept endorsements from at least 15…

By GRAHAM DUNBAR AP Sports Writer GENEVA (AP) — Calls for action against Israel in international soccer because of the conflict with Hamas will be…

By BERNIE WILSON AP Sports Writer SAN DIEGO (AP) — Fernando Tatis Jr. plans to unveil 50 pairs of custom cleats this season, including odes to…

By THOMAS ADAMSON Associated Press PARIS (AP) — Reuters photographer Mohammed Salem captured this year’s prestigious World Press Photo of the…

By SAMUEL PETREQUIN Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — European Union leaders are debating at a summit in Brussels a new “European Competitiveness…

By JAN M. OLSEN Associated Press COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Copenhagen’s mayor says she has been in touch with her Paris counterpart to see…

By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press CAPRI, Italy (AP) — The European Union’s top diplomat is urging the Group of Seven to take quick and concrete…

HELSINKI (AP) — Wireless and fixed-network equipment maker Nokia has reported a smaller-than-expected profit and a substantial double-digit fall in…

By MARI YAMAGUCHIA Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japanese authorities say that a strong earthquake that struck the country’s southwest Japan…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Britain’s governing Conservative Party suspended a lawmaker who is alleged to have misused…

By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer Asian shares advanced on Thursday even after sinking technology stocks sent Wall Street lower in the S&P…

By KEN MORITSUGU Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — Europe wants two things from China: First, a shift in its relatively pro-Russia position on the…

By GRACEY WAKARY and EDNA TARIGAN Associated Press MANADO, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesian authorities closed an international airport and residents…

By RAF CASERT Associated Press ANDEREN, Netherlands (AP) — Inside the barn on the flat fields of the northern Netherlands, Jos Ubels cradles a…

BERLIN (AP) — Prosecutors say two German-Russian men have been arrested in Germany on suspicion of espionage. One of them is accused of agreeing to…

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The United Arab Emirates struggled Thursday to recover from the heaviest…

By STEPHEN WADE AP Sports Writer Formula 1 returns to China this weekend after a five-year absence. And no matter who wins on Sunday, the star…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — America stands with Japan until all Japanese abducted by North Korea decades ago return home to end…

By EDNA TARIGAN Associated Press JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — The Chinese and Indonesian foreign ministers called for an immediate and lasting…

By JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER, REBECCA BOONE, CLAUDIA LAUER and CHRISTOPHER L. KELLER Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — More than half a year after the…

By MOGOMOTSI MAGOME Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — South Africa faces an unusual national election this year, its seventh vote since…

By MARK BAKER and ROD McGUIRK Associated Press SYDNEY (AP) — A Muslim community leader says a boy accused of stabbing two Christian clerics during…

By GEIR MOULSON and KERSTIN SOPKE Associated Press HALLE, Germany (AP) — One of the most prominent figures in the far-right Alternative for Germany…

By JUAN ZAMORANO Associated Press PANAMA CITY (AP) — Six of the eight candidates vying to be Panama’s next president have laid out their plans to…

By SAM MEDNICK Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Every year, Alon Gat’s mother led the family’s Passover celebration of the liberation of…

By JEFFREY COLLINS Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Progress is being made in getting more women into leadership positions in South Carolina.…

By KRUTIKA PATHI and SHEIKH SAALIQ Associated Press AHMEDABAD, India (AP) — Hindu nationalism, once a fringe ideology in India, is now mainstream.…

By KEVIN McGILL Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Louisiana is awaiting a decision from three federal judges that could affect the balance of…

NOGALES, Ariz. (AP) — A southern Arizona jury will hear closing argumentsin the case against a rancher accused of fatally shooting a migrant on his…

By FARNOUSH AMIRI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Iran’s attack against Israel over the weekend has spurred a flurry of bipartisan legislative…

By LARRY NEUMEISTER and JAKE OFFENHARTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The jury selection process at the historic criminal trial of former…

By MICHAEL R. SISAK, JENNIFER PELTZ, ERIC TUCKER and JAKE OFFENHARTZ Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Jury selection in the hush money trial of…

By RUSS BYNUM Associated Press TYBEE ISLAND, Ga. (AP) — Thousands of Black college students expected this weekend for an annual spring bash at…

By ALEXA ST. JOHN and LINLEY SANDERS Associated Press A poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research shows that 45% of U.S.…

By COLLEEN SLEVIN Associated Press DENVER (AP) — Hours after she escaped the Columbine High School shooting, 14-year-old Missy Mendo slept between…

By EDNA TARIGAN Associated Press JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesian authorities issued a tsunami alert Wednesday after eruptions at Ruang…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The head of the U.N. agency that has helped millions of Palestinians in Gaza and the…

By MARK BAKER and ROD McGUIRK Associated Press SYDNEY (AP) — A Sydney shopping mall has opened to the public for the first time since the mass…

By JILL COLVIN and MONIKA SCISLOWSKA Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Former President Donald Trump met Wednesday in New York with Polish President…

By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN Associated Press ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Several members of the Albuquerque police academy’s training staff who were…

By JOSH BOAK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration has reached an agreement to provide $6.1 billion in government support for…

BOSTON (AP) — An Oklahoma man has been arrested after authorities accused him of throwing a pipe bomb at the headquarters of a group in Salem,…

By JACQUES BILLEAUD Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Democrats in the Arizona Senate cleared a path to bring a proposed repeal of the state’s…

By RALPH D. RUSSO AP College Sports Writer NCAA athletes will be immediately eligible to play no matter how many times they transfer — as long as…

By DORANY PINEDA Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — California regulators adopted a drinking water limit on toxic hexavalent chromium, a chemical…

By TRÂN NGUYỄN The Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A California lawmaker wants to require limited liability companies and similar…

By ED WHITE Associated Press The U.S. Justice Department has agreed to pay approximately $100 million to settle claims with about 100 people who say…

KEVIN FREKING Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Speaker Mike Johnson has unveiled a long-awaited package of bills that will provide military aid…

By TRAVIS LOLLER Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A Tennessee judge is weighing whether to allow the release of a Nashville school…

By HOLLY RAMER Associated Press BRENTWOOD, N.H. (AP) — The man whose allegations of abuse at New Hampshire’s youth detention center sparked…

By ZEKE MILLER AP White House Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden has misstated key details about his uncle’s death in World War…

By SETH BORENSTEIN and BRITTANY PETERSON Associated Press With cloud seeding, it may rain, but it doesn’t really pour or flood — at least nothing…

By JAKE OFFENHARTZ and MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump’s legal team says it tried serving a subpoena on Stormy…

By DAVE COLLINS Associated Press HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Ellen Ash Peters, the first woman to serve as Connecticut’s chief justice, has died. She…

By WAYNE PARRY Associated Press ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — Casinos in the northeastern U.S. are dealing with numerous challenges as they brace for…

TBILISI, Georgia (AP) — Police in the capital of Georgia on Tuesday unleashed tear gas to break up a large demonstration outside the country’s…

By KIM CHANDLER Associated Press MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama lawmakers on Wednesday rejected a bill that would provide new sentences for about…

By LISA RATHKE Associated Press BERLIN, Vt. (AP) — Hundreds of Vermont farms are still recovering from July’s catastrophic flooding and other…

By MARK THIESSEN Associated Press ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — The Alaska Air National Guard flew 159 civilian search-and-rescue missions last year in…

AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — The Maine Legislature is nearing adjournment with unfinished business, including final votes on a series of gun safety bills…

BALTIMORE (AP) — Baltimore prosecutors have announced the arrest of a man in the cold case homicide of an off-duty Washington, D.C., police officer…

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A federal appeals court has affirmed a lower court’s decision to order New Jersey Democrats to scrap a ballot design widely…

By MAYSOON KHAN Associated Press/Report for America BALLSTON SPA, N.Y. (AP) — A man was sentenced Wednesday to 47 years to life in prison for…

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina coach Dawn Staley has gotten plenty of prominent congratulations since winning her third national title…

By MATTHEW BARAKAT Associated Press ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) — A civilian contractor sent to work as an interrogator at Iraq’s infamous Abu Ghraib…

LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) — A Kentucky spokeswoman says the school is “distressed to hear disturbing allegations” of sexual assault by former…

DETROIT (AP) — A U.S. government investigation into unexpected automatic braking involving nearly 3 million Hondas is a step closer to a recall.…