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By CHRIS MEGERIAN and JOEY CAPPELLETTI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Some Muslim and Arab American leaders have grown frustrated with the…

By JOSH FUNK AP Business Writer Four railroads have asked federal appeals courts to throw out a new rule that would require two-person train crews in…

By EDDIE PELLS AP National Writer Since the day they were founded, the Olympics have had a confusing relationship with money. The games were supposed…

By RIAZAT BUTT Associated Press KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) — Experts say messages by two influential Taliban leaders in Afghanistan this week showed…

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Ann Walsh Bradley says she won’t seek another term next year, setting up a high-stakes…

By PHILIP MARCELO Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A federal judge has ruled that Democratic U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez and his wife will be tried…

By ALEX VEIGA AP Business Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Shop for a home now or hold out for possibly lower mortgage rates? That’s a question…

By ALEX VEIGA AP Business Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — The average long-term U.S. mortgage rate rose to its highest level in five weeks, a setback for…

By DAVID SHARP Associated Press AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — The commanding officer of an Army reservist responsible for the deadliest shooting in Maine…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s president says his country is demanding that the United Nations expel Ecuador from the world body as part of a…

By The Associated Press Reaction has started to pour in on the death of O.J. Simpson after battling prostate cancer. He was 76. Simpson’s…

By COLLEEN BARRY Associated Press MILAN (AP) — The Italian Coast Guard says it has rescued 22 people and recovered nine bodies after a smugglers’…

NEW LONDON, Conn. (AP) — Officials say 55 U.S. Coast Guard Academy cadets have been disciplined for sharing homework answers in violation of…

By PAN PYLAS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Union officials say steelworkers at Britain’s largest steel production plant have voted to go on…

MADRID (AP) — The Portuguese Catholic Church says it will pay some form of compensation to victims of sex abuse by clergy. The country’s…

By LINDA DEUTSCH AP Special Correspondent LOS ANGELES (AP) — Ten things to remember about O.J. Simpson, the NFL running back-turned actor who was…

By KATE BRUMBACK Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — A special prosecutor has been assigned to look into whether Georgia Lt. Gov. Burt Jones should…

By MICHAEL FLEEMAN Associated Press EDITOR’S NOTE: The first week of the O.J. Simpson case in mid-June 1994 moved quickly, with reporters racing to…

MADRID (AP) — Spain on Thursday will deport more than 60 Bolivians who arrived last week by cruise ship in the northeastern port of Barcelona. The…

By LISA RATHKE Associated Press Prosecutors say the man accused of starting a fire outside U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders’ Vermont office has had past…

By KEN RITTER Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — O.J. Simpson, the decorated football superstar and Hollywood actor who was acquitted of charges he…

By FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The head of the International Monetary Fund says strong economic activity in the United States…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The wife of Julian Assange said Thursday her husband’s legal case “could be moving in the right…

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin’s bipartisan elections commission is expected to reject petitions seeking to force a recall election of the…

NEW YORK (AP) — A memoir Alexei Navalny began working on in 2020 will be published this fall. “Patriot,” which publisher Alfred A. Knopf is…

By STEVE REED AP Sports Writer AUGUSTA, Ga. (AP) — Inflation may be driving up food cost around the country, but patrons generally won’t see…

TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — A Belarusian man who was in jail awaiting trial on charges of insulting the authoritarian president has died in custody.…

MILAN (AP) — Firefighters in Italy say that divers have discovered two more bodies of workers who died in an explosion that collapsed and flooded…

By COLLEEN NEWVINE Associated Press If you daydream about getting a break from stress, you might picture a restful week of vacation or a long weekend…

By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer Organizers announced that tew films from Yorgos Lanthimos, Andrea Arnold and Francis Ford Coppola, as well as a portrait…

Associated Press Amazon is adding artificial intelligence visionary Andrew Ng to its board of directors. Ng is known for leading AI teams at the…

By PAUL WISEMAN AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. producer prices rose in March from a year earlier at the fastest pace in nearly a year,…

By ANIRUDDHA GHOSAL Associated Press HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — A Vietnamese real estate tycoon has been sentenced to death in the country’s biggest…

By MONIKA SCISLOWSKA and RAFAL NIEDZIELSKI Associated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Many kids in Poland are rejoicing over strict limits imposed by…

By MATT OTT AP Business Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Fewer Americans applied for jobless benefits last week as the labor market continues to thrive…

ROME (AP) — Archaeologists excavating new sites in Pompeii have uncovered a sumptuous banquet hall decorated with intricately frescoed mythological…

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — An academic probe says that Norway’s Health Minister Ingvild Kjerkol plagiarized parts of her masters’ degree thesis…

ATLANTA (AP) — Powerful storms rumbled over parts of the U.S. Southeast early Thursday, prompting a few tornado warnings, causing flash flooding,…

BERLIN (AP) — German police have offered a reward and asked possible witnesses to come forward with information regarding an arson attack on a…

BERLIN (AP) — Authorities say an avalanche near the Austrian ski resort of Soelden has left two people dead. Rescuers were searching Thursday for…

By HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Imprisoned Vietnamese author-blogger-journalist Pham Doan Trang will be this year’s recipient…

Associated Press BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Hungary’s government will add new restrictions on the import of Ukrainian agricultural products to…

By HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korean voters have handed liberals extended opposition control of parliament in…

By KELVIN CHAN AP Business Writer LONDON (AP) — Instagram said it’s deploying new new tools to protect young people and combat sexual…

By KATHERINE ROTH Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Tax pros say there are a few tips parents should keep in mind when filing their tax returns this…

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — An Australian court has rejected a case brought by five women seeking compensation from Qatar Airways over invasive…

Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — China has sanctioned two U.S. companies over what it says is their support for arms sales to Taiwan, the self…

By ALEXA ST. JOHN Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — The Biden administration is handing out almost $830 million in grants for 80 projects around the…

By GRANT PECK Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — Guerrillas from the Karen ethnic minority in Myanmar claim to have captured the last of the army’s…

AUGUSTA, Ga. (AP) — The start of the Masters has been delayed by at least one hour because of bad weather. The first round was scheduled to begin…

MADRID (AP) — A Czech tourist has died after falling into the sea while apparently taking photographs of huge waves during a storm on the Canary…

By BABA AHMED Associated Press BAMAKO, Mali (AP) — Mali’s ruling junta issued a decree suspending all political activities until further notice…

MOSCOW (AP) — Russia has successfully test-launched a new heavy-lift rocket from its Far Eastern space complex, a lift-off that comes after two…

By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER and COLLEEN LONG Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Thousands more firearms dealers across the U.S. will have to run…

By ANIRUDDHA GHOSAL Associated Press HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — A Vietnam court has sentenced real estate tycoon Truong My Lan to death in the…

By AAMER MADHANI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is gathering Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. and Japanese Prime…

BERLIN (AP) — Lufthansa and a union representing cabin crew have reached a pay deal, concluding the last of several major disputes that have led to…

ISTANBUL (AP) — Turkey’s interior minister says police have seized the third largest haul of cocaine in the country’s history. Ali…

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine’s parliament passed a law on Thursday that will govern how the country recruits new conscripts, following months of…

By DAVID McHUGH AP Business Writer FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — Markets are waiting to hear what European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde has…

QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) — A Pakistani official says a bus crash has killed 17 people and injured 16 others in the country’s southwest. They…

MOSCOW (AP) — Russian authorities say special forces killed two people suspected of plotting terror attacks in a shootout in the country’s south…

By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer BANGKOK (AP) — Asian shares were mixed Thursday after U.S. stocks fell on worries that what had seemed like…

By CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press KADUNA, Nigeria (AP) — The mass abduction of 276 schoolgirls a decade ago in Nigeria marked a new era of fear in…

By VANESSA GERA Associated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s parliament is finally holding a long-awaited debate on liberalizing the…

By MAKIYA SEMINERA Associated Press RALEIGH, NC (AP) — The North Carolina Supreme Court is scheduled to hear oral arguments related to voter fraud…

JONATHAN LANDRUM Jr. AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Mister Cee, one of hip-hop’s pioneering DJs and a New York City radio personality…

By JANIE HAR and OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Oakland’s airport is considering a name-change to include “San…

By STEPHEN WADE and AUDRY MCAVOY Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Hawaii-born Akebono Taro, one of the greats of sumo wresting and a former grand…

By DAVID BAUDER AP Media Writer NEW YORK (AP) — As NBC News Group chairman, Cesar Conde, is already busy overseeing the network’s broadcast…

By DAVID KLEPPER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Frightening to some, exciting to others, baffling to many: Artificial intelligence has been…

By DAVID FISCHER Associated Press FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — South Florida researchers are using biodegradable drinking straws to prevent…

By ANDREW DeMILLO Associated Press LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — A federal appeals court is hearing arguments over Arkansas’ first-in-the-nation…

By JAKE OFFENHARTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — When he was elected two years ago as Manhattan’s first Black district attorney, Alvin Bragg…

By HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH Associated Press SMITHVILLE, Mo. (AP) — Dusty Farr used to be someone else. Before his transgender daughter was suspended…

By HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH Associated Press SMITHVILLE, Mo. (AP) — Before his transgender daughter was suspended after using the girls’…

By DAVID RISING Associated Press RUN TA EK, Cambodia (AP) — Cambodia’s program to relocate people living on the famous Angkor archaeological site…

By JACK JEFFERY, JULIA FRANKEL and WAFAA SHURAFA Associated Press DEIR AL BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — It was hours after sundown when eight aid trucks…

By STEPHEN GROVES Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida is heading to Congress to address U.S. lawmakers on the…

By JAN M. OLSEN Associated Press COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — A new study has found that voters in 19 countries, including in three of the world’s…