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By JENNIFER McDERMOTT Associated Press The shattering of global annual heat records last year is prompting people to ask: What can be done? The…

By SCOTT SONNER Associated Press RENO, Nev. (AP) — A Nevada judge has approved a $100 million cash settlement to the parents of a 31-year-old…

By The Associated Press An emergency landing by an Alaska Airlines jetliner last Friday prompted U.S. authorities to ground most of Boeing’s…

By JEAN-YVES KAMALE Associated Press KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — Congo’s constitutional court has upheld the results of last month’s election that…

By JOSHUA GOODMAN Associated Press MIAMI (AP) — A U.S. veteran who plotted to overthrow Venezuela’s president is proudly standing with a former…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The executive editor of the Los Angeles Times is stepping down after a 2 1/2-year tenure at the newspaper that spanned the…

By MEG KINNARD Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The fifth Republican presidential debate of the 2024 election season will also be its first…

By BRUCE SCHREINER Associated Press FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — A woman who dominated discussion about abortion during Kentucky’s campaign last year…

By BRENDAN FARRINGTON Associated Press TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis delivered messages about California, New York…

LAS VEGAS (AP) — CES 2024 starts today in Las Vegas. The multi-day trade event put on by the Consumer Technology Association is set to feature…

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to review the federal civil rights conviction of a former Minneapolis police officer who…

By EMILIO LUGO Associated Press JONACAPA, Hidalgo (AP) — Authorities in central Mexico say they found the bodies of nine men in vehicles near a…

By MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Astronauts will have to wait until next year before flying to the moon and another…

By DASHA LITVINOVA Associated Press TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny says officials at the Arctic prison colony…

By JULIE WATSON Associated Press SAN DIEGO (AP) — A U.S. Navy sailor has been sentenced to 27 months in federal prison for transmitting sensitive…

By SEUNG MIN KIM and ZEKE MILLER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House chief of staff on Tuesday ordered Cabinet heads to notify his…

By JAKE OFFENHARTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A group of Hasidic Jewish worshippers were arrested amid a dispute over a tunnel secretly dug…

By MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A crippling fuel leak forced a U.S. company on Tuesday to give up on landing a…

By ERIC OLSON AP College Football Writer HOUSTON (AP) — Michigan heads into an uncertain future after winning its first national championship in 26…

By LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Baby Yoda is going to make his big screen debut. Jon Favreau is set to direct “The Mandalorian…

ISLAMABAD (AP) — Officials say a Pakistani court has indicted imprisoned former Prime Minister Imran Khan and his wife on graft charges of…

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California Controller Malia M. Cohen wants Congress to change the tax code to cap deferred payments, a change that could…

LONDON (AP) — Prosecutors say a 26-year-old man who tried to sell what he claimed was a walking stick used by the late Queen Elizabeth II has been…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican U.S. Rep. Greg Pence of Indiana says he will not seek reelection this year to a fourth term, becoming the latest House…

By DAVID SHARP Associated Press AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — Democrats who control the Maine Legislature have turned back a Republican effort to impeach…

ROME (AP) — An Italian company that makes a popular Christmas cake says it acted in “absolute good faith” when it offered a special edition…

By SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A Wisconsin judge has ruled that state law does not allow the use of mobile absentee voting…

By VANESSA GERA Associated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s president has given refuge to two politicians convicted of abuse of power,…

By JAMIE STENGLE Associated Press FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — Firefighters scoured the wreckage of a historic Fort Worth hotel on Tuesday as they…

QUITO, Ecuador (AP) — Ecuador has been rocked by a series of attacks after the government imposed a state of emergency in the wake of the apparent…

By LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Hollywood’s awards season can start to feel a little gratuitously self-congratulatory, but…

By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A man targeted by right-wing conspiracy theories about the U.S. Capitol riot was sentenced…

By YURAS KARMANAU Associated Press TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — A top trans-Atlantic security and rights watchdog is criticizing Belarus’ refusal to…

By MARTÍN ADAMES ALCÁNTARA Associated Press SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic (AP) — Wander Franco is facing a lesser charge after a judge in the…

By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves is being inaugurated for his second term. The…

ISLAMABAD (AP) — A Taliban official says a bomb stuck to a minivan has exploded in Afghanistan’s capital of Kabul, killing at least three…

By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer NEW YORK (AP) — On a recent winter day in New York when the sun was shining, Andrew Scott rushed into a coffee shop…

By GLENN GAMBOA AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The Clooney Foundation for Justice, established by human rights lawyer Amal Clooney and…

By The Associated Press PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Marin Alsop will become principal guest conductor of the Philadelphia Orchestra next season, succeeding…

NEW YORK (AP) — Short fiction by Yiyun Li, Bennett Sims and Paul Yoon are finalists for the 20th annual Story Prize, given for the year’s…

By SETH BORENSTEIN AP Science Writer Earth last year shattered global annual heat records, flirted with the world’s agreed-upon warming threshold…

LONDON (AP) — A coroner says Irish singer-songwriter Sinéad O’Connor died from “natural causes” in July. London’s Metropolitan Police had…

By MARKO DROBNJAKOVIC Associated Press GARDINOVCI, Serbia (AP) — Serbian authorities on Tuesday started evacuating nearly 200 animals that have…

By JOHN CARUCCI Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — She doesn’t even go here, but Lindsay Lohan still joined the cast of the new “Mean Girls” at…

LONDON (AP) — The European Union says Microsoft’s multibillion-dollar investment in ChatGPT-maker OpenAI could trigger a merger investigation.…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The former head of Britain’s state-owned Post Office is handing back a royal honor in response to…

By PAUL WISEMAN AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Hobbled by high interest rates, persistent inflation, slumping trade and a diminished China,…

MADRID (AP) — A Spanish non-profit organization says more than 6,600 migrants died while trying to reach Spain by boat last year. The figure is…

LONDON (AP) — More than 60 heads of state and government and hundreds of business leaders will discuss the biggest global challenges during the…

NEW YORK (AP) — Former diplomat and White House aide Stuart E. Eizenstat has a book out this spring on some of the country’s most consequential…

BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s last remaining major department store chain has filed for insolvency protection, its third filing in less than four…

By BOUAZZA BEN BOUAZZA Associated Press TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — Migration activists in Tunisia are sounding the alarm about mass expulsions and…

PARIS (AP) — Former World Cup winner Thierry Henry has opened up about the fact he “must have been in depression” during his soccer career. The…

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Russian state news agency Tass says Russia’s Ministry of Internal Affairs has put exiled Russian tycoon and opposition leader…

By ILLIA NOVIKOV Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — A Ukrainian air force official says Russia’s recent escalation of missile and drone…

By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press ROME (AP) — The Vatican’s new doctrine chief is raising eyebrows over a book he wrote as a young priest…

By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN Associated Press ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — One of the world’s largest renewable energy developers will be getting…

PARIS (AP) — Gabriel Attal was named Tuesday as France’s youngest-ever prime minister, as President Emmanuel Macron seeks a fresh start for the…

By RADUL RADOVANOVIC Associated Press BANJA LUKA, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) — The United States has warned that ongoing celebrations of a Bosnian…

BERLIN (AP) — Police say a cable car has crashed in a skiing region in western Austria, and all four people on board were seriously injured. A tree…

By DAVID HAMILTON and ALEXANDRA OLSON AP Business Writers The Biden administration has enacted a new labor rule that aims to prevent the…

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — A Danish appeals court has upheld guilty verdicts for three members of an Iranian separatist group convicted of…

By HUSSEIN MALLA Associated Press GHANDOURIYEH, Lebanon (AP) — Israel’s military says no damage was caused to one of its army bases in northern…

MADRID (AP) — Spanish state prosecutors have opened an investigation into countless tiny plastic pellets washing up on the country’s northwest…

MADRID (AP) — Spain’s government says face masks will be mandatory in hospitals and healthcare centers starting Wednesday due to a surge in…

MOSCOW (AP) — A U.S. citizen has been arrested on drug charges in Russia, a move that comes amid soaring Russia-U.S. tensions over Ukraine. The…

By BHARATHA MALLAWARACHI Associated Press COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — A Sri Lankan navy spokesman says the debt-ridden country’s navy is preparing…

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — The former president of a top-division soccer team in Turkey has told a court he regretted attacking a referee at the end of…

MOSCOW (AP) — Russia’s national elections commission has registered the Communist Party’s candidate to  compete with President Vladimir Putin…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s transportation ministry says it has introduced improved emergency measures for the…

By MATTHEW LEE, NAJIB JOBAIN and SAMY MAGDY Associated Press TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken held talks in Israel on…

TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — At least three people have been hospitalized after mistakenly eating colorful pods of liquid laundry detergent that were…

By JIM GOMEZ, JOEAL CALUPITAN AND AARON FAVILA Associated Press MANILA, Philippines (AP) — A massive crowd of mostly barefoot Catholic worshippers…

By CHRISTOPHER BODEEN Associated Press TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Taiwan’s leading presidential candidate William Lai says he hopes for a…

TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Taiwan’s defense ministry has issued an alert saying China has launched a satellite and urging caution days before the…

KHAR, Pakistan (AP) — An officer wounded in a bombing that targeted police assigned to protect polio vaccination workers has died in a hospital in…

By EDNA TARIGAN Associated Press JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesia has temporarily grounded three Boeing 737-9 Max jetliners, following an…

By DAVID KOENIG, CLAIRE RUSH and TOM KRISHER Associated Press PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Federal investigators say a door panel slid up before flying…

By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer BANGKOK (AP) — Asian shares advanced Tuesday after Wall Street rallied to claw back almost all the losses…

By ANUPAM NATH and WASBIR HUSSAIN Associated Press THIMPHU, Bhutan (AP) — Voters in Bhutan, a landlocked country in the eastern Himalayan mountain…

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea’s parliament has endorsed legislation outlawing the centuries-old practice of consuming dog meat. The…