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Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. air defense has scrambled fighter jets to wave off a civilian aircraft that had entered temporarily…

By The Associated Press The grassland birds that bring sweet song to North America’s prairie are in decline, with habitat loss, land degradation…

By HANNAH FINGERHUT Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — One of Iowa’s largest cities repealed its ban on “conversion therapy” —…

By CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Niger’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs says the French ambassador has been asked to leave…

By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A federal appeals court will not revive a lawsuit by the family of a Mississippi…

By KAREN MATTHEWS Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Three men who were convicted of crimes in the New York City borough of Queens in the 1990s and…

By MEG KINNARD Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis says he got a $1 million cash bump after Wednesday night’s…

By MARCOS MARTÍNEZ CHACÓN Associated Press MONTERREY, Mexico (AP) — Mexico’s 2024 presidential election is less than a year away and…

GARYVILLE, La. (AP) — A massive fire at a south Louisiana oil refinery sent a tower of black smoke billowing into the air above the Mississippi…

SAN DIEGO (AP) — A Marine Corps pilot has died in the crash of combat jet near a San Diego military base. The service says in statement Friday that…

BOSTON (AP) — One of the first personal computers built by Apple and signed by company co-founder Steve Wozniak has sold at auction for more than…

LAKE TOWNSHIP, Ohio (AP) — Police performing a welfare check at an Ohio home found five family members dead inside. Authorities say the family died…

By DARLENE SUPERVILLE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris has praised the 2022 WNBA champion Las Vegas Aces for showing…

BEIRUT (AP) — Prominent Lebanese journalist Talal Salman who founded one of the country’s largest Arabic-language independent newspapers has died…

By KIMBERLEE KRUESI, JEFF AMY and ANTHONY IZAGUIRRE Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A new rule in Tennessee that would have blocked people…

By TAMMY WEBBER Associated Press POTTER, Neb. (AP) — When Reed Cammack hears the first meadowlark of spring, he knows his family has made it…

By FARAI MUTSAKA Associated Press HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — Zimbabweans are waiting anxiously for the outcome of general elections as dozens of armed…

By KATE BRUMBACK Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Former President Donald Trump and the 18 people indicted along with him in Georgia on charges that…

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. humanitarian chief is warning that the conflict in Sudan is fueling “a humanitarian emergency of epic…

By DASHA LITVINOVA Associated Press TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — The attacks range from the exotic — poisoned by drinking polonium-laced tea or…

By DARLENE SUPERVILLE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris will observe Monday’s 60th…

By JENNA EBBERS AND CASSIDEY KAVATHAS, News21 CLOVIS, N.M. (AP) — In the year since Roe v. Wade was reversed, New Mexico has emerged as a safe…

By JUAN A. LOZANO Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — A federal judge is questioning whether living in poverty would be enough to qualify someone for a…

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — The government of the Bahamas has unveiled several bills aimed at legalizing marijuana for medical and religious…

By REBECCA BOONE, BEATRICE DUPUY, GENE JOHNSON and JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — Within a day of Maui County releasing…

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Dutch brewer Heineken has completed its withdrawal from Russia, 18 months after Moscow launched its full-scale…

By MARK STEVENSON Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — The kind of mass threats and extortion of lime growers in the western Mexico that sparked a…

By MICHAEL R. SISAK and JAKE OFFENHARTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A man fleeing New York City police officers on a motorcycle died Wednesday…

By BERT WILKINSON Associated Press GEORGETOWN, Guyana (AP) — Guyana president Irfaan Ali has lashed out at the descendants of European slave…

CHICAGO (AP) — A federal jury in Chicago has convicted a former chief of staff to longtime Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan of lying under…

By EMMA BURROWS LONDON (AP) — News that Russia’s Wagner mercenary chief was believed dead in a plane crash has dominated world reports, along…

By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A former death row inmate in Mississippi will be resentenced a second time because…

By SUDHIN THANAWALA and KATE BRUMBACK Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Dozens of Trump supporters gathered outside the jail in Atlanta where former…

By CHRISTINA LARSON AP Science Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Scientists say the loss of ice around Antarctica is hurting the survival of emperor penguin…

By ALEX VEIGA AP Business Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — The average long-term U.S. mortgage rate climbed further above 7% this week to its highest…

By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — “San Francisco Sounds: A Place in Time” is a two-part documentary on MGM+ that…

By SUSIE BLANN Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine is marking its second Independence Day since Russia’s full-scale invasion. Officials…

By The Associated Press The latest round of heavy rain has led to more flooding in parts of the nation, including an Ohio highway where people were…

LONDON (AP) — A London judge says life support treatment can be stopped for a brain-damaged English pastor in a coma. Justice Anthony Hayden says…

By ASHOK SHARMA Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — A lunar rover slid down a ramp from the lander of India’s spacecraft within hours of its…

By DAVID BAUDER AP Media Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Fox News Channel’s two-hour Republican presidential debate was halfway through when moderator…

By YVES LAURENT GOMA Associated Press LIBREVILLE, Gabon (AP) — Gabon’s president is seeking a third term in elections this weekend that could…

LONDON (AP) — Staff at London Zoo got the measure of giant gorillas, plump penguins and skinny stick insects at the zoo’s annual animal weigh-in…

By MIKE STOBBE AP Medical Writer KNOXVILLE, Tennessee (AP) — Gun violence prevention research has experienced a small boom in the wake of mounting…

LONDON (AP) — King Charles III and Queen Camilla will visit France in September, after their planned state visit in March was postponed amid…

PARIS (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron is vowing to make key economic, immigration and education reforms. That vow comes despite France’s…

By DAVID BILLER Associated Press BELEM, Brazil (AP) — The Brazilian Amazon has long been home to small and mid-sized sustainable businesses that…

By The Associated Press The passenger manifest of the plane that went down in Russia is essentially a who’s who of Wagner mercenaries: Its…

BANGKOK (AP) — A 38-year-old Burmese hip-hop artist has been found guilty of criticizing Myanmar’s military-controlled government and has been…

BEIRUT (AP) — Air traffic controllers at Lebanon’s only civilian airport say they are badly understaffed and are planning to go on strike next…

By JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press GENEVA (AP) — Switzerland’s financial markets authority says an in-depth review of more than 30 banks conducted…

By PAT GRAHAM AP Sports Writer BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Abdihamid Nur’s winding road led the distance runner to the track this week at world…

By SAM MEDNICK Associated Press NIAMEY, Niger (AP) — The West African bloc ECOWAS has rejected the proposal by Niger’s mutinous soldiers for a…