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By ELÉONORE HUGHES RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Flooding in Brazil’s Rio Grande do Sul state ravaged nearly everything needed for economic activity,…

By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer NEW YORK (AP) — When it was time to start making “Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga,” production designer Colin Gibson went…

By ZENEL ZHINIPOTOKU and LLAZAR SEMINI Associated Press PRISTINA, Kosovo (AP) — Kosovo’s parliament has approved a bill on leasing some of its…

BALTIMORE (AP) — The Catholic Archdiocese of Baltimore will cut the number of parishes in the city and nearby suburbs by about two-thirds.…

By MICHELLE CHAPMAN AP Business Writer OpenAI will start using news content from News Corp. as part of a multiyear deal between the two companies.…

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Congressman Dwight Evans of Philadelphia says he’s in a rehabilitation facility recovering from a minor stroke, and…

ISLAMABAD (AP) — The Pakistani government says that the United Arab Emirates has committed to investing up to $10 billion in Pakistan during a…

By HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The independent bookstore boom continues. Even as industry sales were slow in 2023, membership…

By JOCELYN NOVECK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — New York City Ballet, one of the world’s premier dance troupes, has been celebrating its…

LYONS, N.Y. (AP) — The owner of seven unlicensed cannabis shops in New York whose promotions included an Easter egg hunt has been fined more than…

WINDOW ROCK, Ariz. (AP) — The Navajo Nation Council has signed off on a proposed water rights settlement that carries a price tag larger than any…

By SARA CLINE Associated Press BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Louisiana lawmakers have approved a first-of-its-kind bill that would classify two…

By WILL WEISSERT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is expecting up to 500 guests for the largest state dinner of his…

By KEN MILLER Associated Press Recently unsealed court documents say the bodies of two Kansas women who disappeared in Oklahoma were found in a…

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — A Connecticut court on Thursday overturned a six-month suspension given to a lawyer for conspiracy theorist Alex Jones for…

MILAN (AP) — A previously unknown terracotta bust of the famed early Renaissance architect who designed the Florence Cathedral dome has been…

PARIS (AP) — Play in the year’s second Grand Slam tennis tournament is set to begin at the French Open on Sunday. The defending champions are…

By MAYSOON KHAN Associated Press/Report for America ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York is setting aside $90 million in tax credits for local news outlets…

CARTHAGE, Mo. (AP) — The artist who created the Precious Moments figurines depicting angelic teardrop-eyed children has died. Sam Butcher was 85.…

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — The Coast Guard says three people are missing after a boat capsized in a Gulf of Alaska bay near Seward. The Coast Guard…

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Authorities say The Kentucky police officer who arrested top-ranked golfer Scottie Scheffler outside the PGA Championship is…

By BEN FINLEY Associated Press NORFOLK, Va. (AP) — Memorial Day is supposed to be about mourning the nation’s fallen service members, but it’s…

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Minnesota has joined a growing list of states that plan to count prisoners at their home addresses instead of at the prisons…

By STEPHEN GROVES and REBECCA SANTANA Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Democrats are trying to push a proposal to clamp down the number of…

By HOLLY RAMER and ALI SWENSON Associated Press CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — The Federal Communications Commission has issued a $6 million fine against the…

ROCKFORD, Ill. (AP) — A man has been found fit to stand trial on charges of killing four people and injuring seven others during a series of…

By JOSH FUNK Associated Press The federal government agreed to a modest $15 million fine for Norfolk Southern over last year’s disastrous…

Associated Press Nvidia’s stock price has jumped 92% this year as of Wednesday, increasing the company’s market value by more than $1 trillion.…

By MOGOMOTSI MAGOME Associated Press HAMMANSKRAAL, South Africa. (AP) — The struggle starts early in the Hammanskraal area of South Africa as…

ST. LOUIS (AP) — A St. Louis judge will decide the fate of a man who has spent more than three decades in prison for a killing he says he didn’t…

By ISABELLA O’MALLEY and MARIA VERZA Associated Press Extreme heat in Mexico, Central America and parts of the U.S. South has left millions of…

By PAN PYLAS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is taking the biggest gamble of his political life by calling a…

By MARK SHERMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court has preserved a Republican-held South Carolina congressional district,…

By The Associated Press The menu for the state dinner at the White House honoring Kenya starts with a chilled tomato soup and ends with a white…

By SETH BORENSTEIN AP Science Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Get ready for what nearly all the experts think will be one of the busiest Atlantic…

By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER and WYATTE GRANTHAM-PHILLIPS Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department filed a sweeping antitrust lawsuit…

By JESSICA DONATI Associated Press DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Chad has sworn in Mahamat Deby Itno as the president on Thursday after holding elections…

By GRANT PECK Associated Press BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) — Myanmar’s military government appears to be considering reviving a massive China-backed…

By ANDREW DALTON AP Entertainment Writer The Stones will roll through the Ozarks this summer. The Rolling Stones announced Thursday that at the end…

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — A woman in Denmark did not have her human rights violated when she was not given vegan food by a hospital when…

By BRIAN AROLA CNHI News MANKATO, Minn. (AP) — Seven tough weeks passed with her husband in the hospital before Nancy Gag Braun found long-term…

By TARA COPP and MATTHEW LEE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Two U.S. officials say the Biden administration is expected to announce an…

By MARCIA MOORE CNHI News PLATTSBURGH, N.Y. (AP) — Thousands of older Americans are in adult day services that provide safe, stimulating places for…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim has said his country does not have a “China-phobia”…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Critics say British Labour Party leader Keir Starmer is dutiful, managerial and a bit dull. The…

By KRYSTA FAURIA Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — When Amazon Studios debuted “Red, White & Royal Blue” last summer, they did so without…

By MATT O’BRIEN and BARBARA ORTUTAY AP Technology Writers President Joe Biden’s administration is pushing the tech industry and financial…

By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press ROME (AP) — A long-delayed and complex project to bring a subway line under ancient Roman ruins and through…

By MATT OTT AP Business Writer The number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits fell last week as layoffs remained historically low levels.…

By LOUISE DIXON Associated Press CANNES, France (AP) — It’s been a dog’s life at this year’s Cannes Film Festival — or should that be the…

By CARSON GERBER of CNHI News and NICKY FORSTER and DEVI SHASTRI of The Associated Press Norma Upshaw was living alone south of Nashville when her…

By CARSON GERBER of CNHI News and NICKY FORSTER and DEVI SHASTRI of The Associated Press Norma Upshaw, 82, was living alone south of Nashville, when…

By JAMES POLLARD Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Red Nose Day has raised $370 million since 2015 to fund anti-poverty efforts. This year, Comic…

By STEVE LeBLANC Associated Press CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) — Harvard University planned to hold its commencement Thursday following a weekslong…

KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — A Kenyan climber attempting to scale the world’s highest mountain has been found dead near the summit. A government…

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Protesters packed up and left a pro-Palestinian encampment at Philadelphia’s Drexel University after the school announced a…

By ABBY SEWELL Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — The World Bank says poverty in Lebanon has tripled over the course of a decade during which the small…

By HANNAH SCHOENBAUM and JESSICA DONATI Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY, Utah (AP) — The family of an American caught up in a failed coup attempt…

BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Commission has imposed a fine of 337.5 million euros ($366 million) on food company Mondelez, the owner of Oreo…

By REBECCA BOONE Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Idaho Democrats will caucus across the state Thursday to select their nominee for the White…

By CHALIDA EKVITTHAYAVECHNUKUL Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — A Bangkok hospital says many of the more seriously injured people who were on the…

By ILLIA NOVIKOV Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian missiles slammed into Ukraine’s second-largest city in the northeast of the…

By MUNIR AHMED Associated Pess ISLAMABAD (AP) — Doctors are treating hundreds of victims of heatstroke at hospitals across Pakistan. People started…

MADRID (AP) — Spanish police say they have recovered the fourth of five paintings by Irish-born painter Francis Bacon that were stolen from a…

By FRANK BAJAK AP Technology Writer ARLINGTON, Virginia (AP) — U.S. intelligence agencies are scrambling to embrace the AI revolution, convinced…

By GIOVANNA DELL’ORTO Associated Press MARSEILLE, France (AP) — Brought into the international spotlight by the ban on hijabs for French…

By FRANK BAJAK AP Technology Writer ARLINGTON, Virginia (AP) — Long before generative AI’s boom, a Silicon Valley firm contracted to collect…

BEIJING (AP) — Chinese state media have reported that electric vehicle maker Tesla has begun construction of a factory in Shanghai to make its…

By AAMER MADHANI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden and Kenya’s William Ruto want economies around the globe to take…

By DOUG FEINBERG AP Basketball Writer Toronto has been awarded the WNBA’s first franchise outside the United States, with the expansion team set to…

By JOSEPH KRAUSS Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Diminished but not deterred, Hamas is still putting up a fight after seven brutal months of war…

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Norway says it will further tighten its restrictions on the entry of people from Russia, saying those with tourist visas…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Britain’s political party leaders are crisscrossing the country on the first day of a six-week…

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A missile has splashed down in the waters of the Red Sea, but caused no damage to a passing commercial vessel in…

MOSCOW (AP) — Russian news reports say a deputy chief of the military general staff has been arrested on charges of large-scale bribery. The arrest…

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The top United Nations court is set to rule on an urgent request by Mexico to order Ecuador to protect Mexican…