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By ROBERT YOON Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Nevada again holds the first-in-the-West slot in the presidential campaign calendar. But this…

LONDON (AP) — The 16-year-old convicted killers of a transgender teenager in northwest England last year have been named in court after the judge…

By KEVIN McGILL and STEPHEN SMITH Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — It’s Carnival season in New Orleans and that means the morning lines…

By ZEN SOO AP Technology Writer SINGAPORE (AP) — After a U.S. senator grilled Singaporean TikTok CEO about his nationality and affiliation with the…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — A man who died this week at a Japanese hospital told police before he passed away that he was one…

PARIS (AP) — French farmers are gradually lifting their roadblocks around Paris and elsewhere in the country. The move comes one day after the…

By JUSTIN SPIKE Associated Press BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — A bipartisan group of U.S. lawmakers are urging Hungary to immediately ratify Sweden’s…

LONDON (AP) — The Japanese Grand Prix will stay on the Formula One calendar until at least 2029 after a five-year contract extension  to keep the…

By ILLIA NOVIKOV Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — A Ukrainian intelligence official says that the country has repeatedly asked Russia to hand…

TOKYO (AP) — Winger Junya Ito has been removed from Japan’s squad at the Asian Cup in the midst of sexual assault allegations that he has…

BERLIN (AP) — Local buses, trams and subway trains were canceled in much of Germany on Friday as transport employees walked off the job in the…

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Malaysia’s Pardons Board has reduced ex-Prime Minister Najib Razak’s 12-year prison sentence by half and sharply…

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Authorities have issued several warnings for landslides and avalanches in southern Norway as bad weather continues to…

By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer BANGKOK (AP) — China has rolled out a flurry of measures to help prop up its ailing property market, while…

ISTANBUL (AP) — Turkey’s state-run news agency says police have arrested seven people on suspicion of selling information to the Israeli…

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — More than 100 Rohingya immigrants have escaped from a detention center in Malaysia after a protest. Immigration…

By MIKE CORDER Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The International Court of Justice is set to rule on whether it has jurisdiction to…

By ELLEN KNICKMEYER and LINLEY SANDERS Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Half of U.S. adults say Israel’s 15-week-old military campaign in…

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Asian shares mostly rose Friday, helped by optimism about technology shares following a Wall…

By STEVE PEOPLES and JAMES POLLARD Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Nikki Haley’s path to the Republican presidential nomination is rapidly…

By MARK THIESSEN and BECKY BOHRER Associated Press ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Much of Alaska has plunged into a deep freeze, with temperatures well…

By JOSH FUNK and PATRICK ORSAGOS Associated Press EAST PALESTINE, Ohio (AP) — Daily life largely returned to normal for the nearly 5,000 residents…

By MEGAN JANETSKY and FERNANDA PESCE Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — From its inception, the newscast La Verdrag was meant to radically…

By SEUNG MIN KIM Associated Press WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden will join grieving families at Dover Air…

By KEN RITTER Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — If Taylor Swift is jetting from her upcoming concert in Tokyo to Las Vegas to see boyfriend Travis…

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — New Zealand police are investigating alleged death threats made against referees involved the Rugby World Cup in…

By JONATHAN J. COOPER Associated Press SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. (AP) — Almost immediately after he walked into the Oval Office on his first day as…

By DAVID BAUDER AP Media Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Hardly a day goes by without news of another set of layoffs or business failure in journalism, an…

By JULIE WATSON and HAVEN DALEY Associated Press SAN DIEGO (AP) — More storms, rising seas and huge waves are taking their toll on California’s…

By MEGAN JANETSKY and FERNANDA PESCE Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — Guillermo Barraza buzzes with a nervous energy as he watches himself…

CLEARWATER, Fla. (AP) — Fire officials say a small plane has crashed into a home at a Florida mobile home park, killing several people aboard the…

PUNXSUTAWNEY, Pa. (AP) — Punxsutawney Phil’s winter weather forecast is being announced in Gobbler’s Knob, the scene of the country’s largest…

By PAUL WISEMAN AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. government is expected to report that employers added a solid 177,000 jobs in…

BRISBANE, Australia (AP) — Australian police came to the aid of a three-year-old boy after he became trapped inside a claw machine at a surbuban…

By MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — An asteroid as big as a skyscraper will pass within 1.7 million miles of Earth on…

By MOGOMOTSI MAGOME Associated Press PRETORIA, South Africa (AP) — Officials from South Africa’s national electoral commission have visited…

By TOM ODULA Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Authorities say gas explosions at an industrial building in Kenya’s capital sent a plume of…

By ALBA ALEMÁN Associated Press TLACOTALPAN, Mexico (AP) — For nearly a quarter century, the residents of this riverside town in southeastern…

PERTH, Australia (AP) — A ship carrying thousands of livestock that has been stranded at sea for almost a month has finally docked in Australia,…

By AIJAZ HUSSAIN Associated Press SRINAGAR, India (AP) — For decades, India has focused its defense policy on its land borders with rivals Pakistan…

By MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Manhattan prosecutors are weighing a potential perjury charge against Donald Trump’s former…

By MARIA SHERMAN AP Music Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — When the Kansas City Chiefs beat the Baltimore Ravens last Sunday to advance to the Super Bowl,…

By SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Consultants hired by the Wisconsin Supreme Court to examine six proposed maps redrawing state…

By REBECCA BOONE Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Federal investigators were working Thursday to try to determine what caused a steel airplane…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press U.N. experts say the terrorist threat from al-Qaida, the Islamic State group and their affiliates remains high…

BLYTHE, Calif. (AP) — Authorities say eight corrections officers and an incarcerated man were injured in a riot involving around 200 inmates in the…

By JEFF AMY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia Power Co. says vibrations found in a cooling system of its second new nuclear reactor will…

MEREDITH, N.H. (AP) — A New Hampshire man has been charged with assaulting two 7-year-old children at an elementary school, two weeks after similar…

By KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has reiterated his focus on strengthening his naval…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — The money that Mexican migrants send home to their relatives has grown by 7.6% in 2023, to reach a record $63.3 billion for the…

By BRENDAN FARRINGTON Associated Press TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — The Florida House has passed a bill to let 16- and 17-year-olds work longer and…

By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Ellen Gilchrist, a National Book Award winner whose short stories and novels drew on…

By ALEX VEIGA AP Business Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — One of the nation’s largest real estate brokerages has agreed to pay $70 million as part of a…

By COLLEEN SLEVIN Associated Press DENVER (AP) — An American founder of a Haitian orphanage who is accused of forcing four boys to engage in sexual…

By JEFF AMY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia, once a self-proclaimed leader in criminal justice reform, is sliding a little further toward…

By ISABELLA VOLMERT Associated Press INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Indiana’s Republican leaders in the statehouse have promised to address declining…

By STEPHEN GROVES, MARY CLARE JALONICK and LISA MASCARO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate leaders are attempting to push forward a deal to…

By JONATHAN LANDRUM Jr. AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Kris Jenner has a new term: “Twist on it.” The driven matriarch of the…

By MARGERY A. BECK Associated Press A Nebraska state lawmaker has introduced a bill to require the state to accept $18 million in federal funding to…

By ASHRAF KHALIL Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — One of the great interspecies love stories of our time has come to an end. Walnut, a…

By JEFFREY COLLINS Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — The South Carolina Senate has approved a bill that would allow anyone who can legally own…

By KIMBERLEE KRUESI Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — After begrudgingly agreeing to tweak Tennessee’s strict abortion ban last year,…

By DAVE COLLINS Associated Press HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — A new report says inaccurate racial profiling data on traffic stops made by the Connecticut…

NEEDLES, Calif. (AP) — Federal authorities say they might have a break in a long-running investigation into the killing of wild burros in…

By ACACIA CORONADO Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — As tensions grow between Texas officials and the federal government over who can enforce…

By JOSH FUNK and TOM KRISHER Associated Press Residents of eastern Ohio can now get an up-close view in newly released videos of the toxic towers of…

By GENE JOHNSON Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) — Providence health care system is refunding nearly $21 million in medical bills paid by low-income…

By JANIE HAR Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Black lawmakers in California are proposing ways to remedy the long-lasting effects of slavery.…

By MIKE SCHNEIDER Associated Press ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Disney is appealing a federal judge’s dismissal of its free speech lawsuit over Gov. Ron…

By KILEY ARMSTRONG and ANDREW DALTON Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Bruce Springsteen’s mother, Adele Zerilli Springsteen, has died at age…

By JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Yarrah Concepcion was a teenaged aspiring R&B singer and rapper when she got an appointment…

By JAKE OFFENHARTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A pair of childhood friends who were convicted in the killing of a French tourist in Times…

By CHRISTINA A. CASSIDY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — An apparent cyberattack that affected government operations in Georgia’s most populous…

By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A former CIA software engineer has been sentenced to 40 years in prison for what the…

WEST CALN, Pa. (AP) — Authorities say a small plane has crashed in a central Pennsylvania neighborhood. But it’s not yet known if there were…

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Satellite photos show new demolition along a 1-kilometer-deep path on the Gaza Strip’s border…

By ADRIAN SAINZ Associated Press MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — A 16-year-old boy has pleaded guilty to charges of second-degree murder and carjacking in…

By BARBARA ORTUTAY AP Technology Writer Meta Platforms Inc. tripled its profit and posted sharply higher revenue in the final quarter of 2023,…

Associated Press The storm that pummeled California this week was fueled by an atmospheric river, a plume of moisture that extended over the Pacific…

By TODD RICHMOND Associated Press Warm weather has forced the federal officials to suspend the annual wolf-moose count in Isle Royale National Park…

By JOHN ZENOR AP Sports Writer MOBILE, Ala. (AP) — UCLA defensive end Laiatu Latu is a hot NFL draft prospect two years after resuming his football…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Nearly $4 billion in drones and military equipment have been approved for sale to India by the Biden administration. Meant to…