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By COLLEEN BARRY Associated Press FLORENCE, Italy (AP) — A Florence appeals court on Wednesday opens a new slander trial against Amanda Knox based…

By TIA GOLDENBERG and WAFAA SHURAFA Associated Press TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — U.S. President Joe Biden has called Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin…

By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer BANGKOK (AP) — Shares were mixed Wednesday in Asia after U.S. stock indexes held at a near standstill ahead…

By ANDREI POPOVICIU Associated Press PIKINE, Senegal (AP) — A new approach in Senegal is mixing a small number of hard-of-hearing students into…

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei reiterated on Wednesday a promise to retaliate against Israel over the killings…

By JOVANA GEC Associated Press LAPOVO, Serbia (AP) — Zeljko Ilicic saved his first horse from certain death 12 years ago and found his calling. The…

By MARGERY A. BECK Associated Press OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Conservative activist Charlie Kirk is calling on Nebraska Republicans to put pressure on…

By HANNAH SCHOENBAUM Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Reminders of the 2002 Winter Olympics are nestled in every nook and cranny of…

By MICHAEL GOLDBERG Associated Press/Report for America JACKSON, Miss (AP) — Six former Mississippi law enforcement officers who pleaded guilty to…

By REBECCA BOONE Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Chad Daybell, a self-published doomsday fiction author, is on trial in Idaho in the deaths of…

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Opening statements are expected Wednesday in the trial of an Idaho man charged with killing his wife and his…

By MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A former longtime executive in Donald Trump’s real estate empire is set to be sentenced for…

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — An eagerly awaited report Wednesday on consumer prices will show whether inflation is…

By NINIEK KARMINI Associated Press JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — The Eid al-Fitr holiday marking the end of the Islamic holy month of Ramadan is being…

By JANIE McCAULEY AP Sports Writer STANFORD, Calif. (AP) — Tara VanDerveer, the winningest basketball coach in NCAA history, announced her…

SEATTLE (AP) — Court documents show a University of Washington football player has been arrested and charged with raping two women in Seattle.…

HONG KONG (AP) — At least four people were killed and another 12 injured in a fire in a building in Hong Kong. The fire broke out at a building…

By JACQUES BILLEAUD and MORGAN LEE Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — The Arizona Supreme Court has delivered a landmark decision in giving the…

By DAVID HAMILTON AP Business Reporter SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A Senate subcommittee has opened an investigation into the safety of Boeing jetliners,…

By EVELYNE MUSAMBI Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — A public hospital in Kenya’s capital, Nairobi, has laid off 100 doctors who are taking…

By LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer LAS VEGAS (AP) — Warner Bros. isn’t resting on its “ Barbie ” laurels: The 100-year studio has its sights on a…

By KIM CHANDLER Associated Press MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama’s election’s chief said President Joe Biden could be left off the…

By ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The federal judge presiding over the classified documents case against former President Donald…

By RIO YAMAT Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — The final curtain will come down this summer on Cirque du Soleil’s long-running Las Vegas show…

By KIMBERLEE KRUESI Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee’s GOP-controlled Senate has advanced legislation allowing the death…

By MICHAEL R. BLOOD AP Political Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — In a decision that could leave voters doing a double take, a California appeals court…

By STEFANIE DAZIO Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Authorities in Southern California say an infant girl and her sister who were found on a busy…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Former Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Julio Urías has been charged with five misdemeanors stemming from his arrest last September…

By ANTHONY IZAGUIRRE Associated Press ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York City will end its relationship with a medical services company tasked with…

By JULIE CARR SMYTH and SAMANTHA HENDRICKSON Associated Press/Report for America COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A former top utility regulator awaiting…

By MEAD GRUVER Associated Press Oregon lottery officials say the winner of the eighth-biggest lottery prize in U.S. history won’t be announced for…

COLUMBUS, Miss. (AP) — Two Mississippi businessmen have been cleared of all charges in a case where they were accused of fraudulently receiving…

By ANDREW DeMILLO Associated Press LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — A top lawmaker says he expects the audit report on the $19,000 lectern purchased for…

By JONATHAN MATTISE and KIMBERLEE KRUESI Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Republican lawmakers in Tennessee have cleared a significant…

By COLLIN BINKLEY AP Education Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Another group of Republican-led states is suing to block the Biden administration’s new…

BOISE, Idaho. (AP) — An Air Canada Boeing 737 Max 8 landed safely in Idaho after experiencing an in-flight emergency Tuesday when pilots received a…

By GRAHAM LEE BREWER, HALELUYA HADERO and SHAWN CHEN Associated Press Two tribal nations are accusing social media companies of contributing to high…

By JOSH FUNK Associated Press The California homeless charity that received $53 million over the years from investors who wanted a private lunch with…

By COLLEEN SLEVIN Associated Press DENVER (AP) — The mother of an autistic boy shown being hit and punched by a school bus aide released a copy of…

By SOPHIE AUSTIN Associated Press/Report for America SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A federal appeals court has upheld California’s authority to…

NEW YORK (AP) — Scrabble is getting a bit of a makeover, at least in Europe. Mattel has unveiled a double-sided board that features both the…

By JOE REEDY AP Sports Writer South Carolina’s 87-75 victory over Caitlin Clark and Iowa in the women’s NCAA championship game averaged 18.9…

By BRIAN WITTE Associated Press ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — A Maryland senator says a third channel will open this month at Baltimore’s port after the…

By MATTHEW PERRONE AP Health Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The company responsible for a global recall of sleep apnea machines is now legally barred…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Speaker Mike Johnson will delay sending the House’s articles of impeachment against Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro…

By TARA COPP and MATTHEW LEE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The State Department has greenlighted an emergency $138 million in foreign military…

By DARLENE SUPERVILLE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Paul Simon will sing for guests at Wednesday’s White House state dinner for Japan.…

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Colombian prosecutors say they will call former President Álvaro Uribe to trial for the alleged crimes of bribery of…

NEWPORT NEWS, Va. (AP) — A former assistant principal at a Virginia elementary school has been indicted on eight felony counts of child neglect in…

BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Spain’s parliament has agreed to consider a proposal that could grant residency and work permits to hundreds of thousands…

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Ja Morant acted in self-defense when a teenager accused the two-time NBA All-Star of punching him during a pickup game at the…

TULSA, Okla. (AP) — An Oklahoma judge is ordering a Kansas City Chiefs superfan known as “ChiefsAholic” who admitted to robbing multiple banks…

By DAVID SHARP Associated Press PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — The sister of one of the victims of the deadliest mass shooting in Maine history is accusing…

By SOPHIA TAREEN and KATHLEEN FOODY Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — Plainclothes Chicago police officers fired nearly 100 gun shots over 41 seconds…

By The Associated Press The Vatican has issued a new document rejecting the concept of changing one’s biological sex – a setback for transgender…

By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A Florida mother has been sentenced to a month in prison and three months of home confinement…

By LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer LAS VEGAS (AP) — Movie theater owners who gathered in Las Vegas this week for the annual CinemaCon convention and…

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuela’s government says the country’s former oil minister has been arrested on allegations of corruption. The…

By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The new film “Civil War” is an ominous attempt to turn widely held American anxieties into a…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico has released security camera video of the moments when Ecuadorian authorities forced their way into Mexico’s embassy,…

By JONATHAN J. COOPER Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — An Arizona Supreme Court decision that will end virtually all abortions in the state puts the…

By MARIA SHERMAN AP Music Writer Luke Combs leads the nominees for the 2024 Academy of Country Music Awards with eight nods to his name, it was…

By TRÂN NGUYỄN Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A state audit has found that California spent $24 billion to tackle homelessness over…

By PATRICK WHITTLE and RODRIQUE NGOWI Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — Myrtle, an ancient green sea turtle that has delighted visitors to the New…

Jacques Billeaud Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — The Arizona Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that the state can enforce its long-dormant law…

By DÁNICA COTO and EVENS SANON Associated Press PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Fresh gunfire has erupted in Haiti’s capital, forcing aid…

By DOUG FEINBERG AP Basketball Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The basketball world can’t get enough of Caitlin Clark and now that the college season is…

By TARA COPP Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Air Force is betting a large part of its future air warfare on a fleet of more than 1,000…

LONDON (AP) — Nobel prize-winning physicist Peter Higgs, who proposed the existence of the Higgs boson particle, has died at age 94, the University…

BROWNVILLE, N.Y. (AP) — Authorities say a Long Island doctor who was headed to upstate New York to see the solar eclipse with her family fell out…

By MOGOMOTSI MAGOME Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — South Africa’s Electoral Court has ruled that former President Jacob Zuma can run for…

By REBECCA BOONE Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — An Idaho teenager is charged with attempting to providing material support to the terrorist…

By YURAS KARMANAU Associated Press TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — The wife of Nobel Peace Prize laureate and Belarusian activist Ales Bialiatski says…

Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Members of Congress on Tuesday are calling for the immediate release of Russian opposition figure Vladimir…

By ANNIE MA AP Education Writer Despite gains in faculty diversity at American universities over the last two decades, Black and Hispanic professors…

By The Associated Press George Lucas will receive an honorary Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival next month, festival organizers announced…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s president is expressing dissatisfaction with the country’s first presidential debate ahead of the election…

By JENNIFER PELTZ and MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump’s lawyers asked a New York appeals court Tuesday to lift…