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VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis appears in better health, walking into the Vatican audience hall on his own with a cane for his weekly audience…

NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Sutherland has a memoir coming out in November. The actor reflects on his life of nearly 90 years and his 60-year career in…

By STEFANIE DAZIO and LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Attorneys for Hunter Biden are expected in court in Los Angeles, where…

MOSCOW (AP) — The death toll in last week’s Moscow concert hall attack rose to 140 on Wednesday after another victim died in a hospital, Russian…

By CARLOS MUREITHI Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — A new United Nations report estimates that 19% of the food produced around the world went…

By STEVE DOUGLAS AP Sports Writer Jumping into London’s River Thames has been the customary celebration for members of the winning crew in the…

By TRAVIS LOLLER and JONATHAN MATTISE Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee advocates for gun safety are forming a 3-mile human chain…

Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — China’s nationalist leader Xi Jinping has called for closer trade ties with the U.S. during a meeting with top…

By KIM CHANDLER Associated Press A Democrat who made reproductive rights a centerpiece of her campaign in deeply conservative Alabama has won a…

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A federal appeals court has refused to lift an order that blocks Texas from arresting and deporting migrants suspected of…

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has replaced one of his top security officials. Oleksii Danilov, who served as…

By NICK KURCZEWSKI Edmunds Midsize SUVs with two rows of seating are an excellent option if you want something a little bigger than a small SUV. They…

By ROBERT YOON Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Voting ends Saturday in North Dakota’s Democratic presidential primary, with President Joe…

By KATE ASHFORD of NerdWallet Your home is your sanctuary, but it’s also one of your biggest budget items. And after you retire, it may feel like…

BERLIN (AP) — Police say at least one person has been killed in an accident involving a bus on a highway in eastern Germany and several were…

BERLIN (AP) — German investigators say they are working through hundreds of new tips on the whereabouts of two fugitive suspected ex-members of the…

By YURI KAGEYAMA Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Health supplement products believed to have caused two deaths and sickened more than 100 people have…

By CHRISTOPHER BODEEN Associated Press TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Taiwan has commissioned two new navy ships as a safeguard against the rising threat…

By RIAZ KHAN Associated Press PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistani officials say authorities will perform DNA testing on the remains of the suicide…

By MOHAMMAD ZAATARI and MELANIE LIDMAN Associated Press HEBBARIYE, Lebanon (AP) — An Israeli airstrike on a paramedics center linked to a Lebanese…

TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — A public prosecutor in Tunisia says four people were sentenced to death and two to life in prison for the murder of a…

BANGKOK (AP) — Lawmakers in Thailand’s lower house of Parliament have overwhelmingly approved a marriage equality bill hat would make the country…

By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer BANGKOK (AP) — Asian shares were mixed on Wednesday after Wall Street slipped a bit further from its record…

BEIJING (AP) — Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte is meeting with Chinese leaders for talks that are expected to include the wars in Ukraine and Gaza,…

By JACK THOMPSON Associated Press ZIGUINCHOR, Senegal (AP) — Women play a crucial but underappreciated role in West African farming. One project in…

By NINIEK KARMINI and FADLAN SYAM Associated Press JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesia’s top court is hearing appeals against the presidential…

By STEVE KARNOWSKI Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Court papers show a man accused of helping lead a human smuggling ring was warned about…

SYDNEY (AP) — China has won a nearly three-year-long dispute with Australia at the World Trade Organization over tariffs on steel products that…

By AMY TAXIN Associated Press Southern California’s Imperial Irrigation District supplies water to farmers who grow most of the nation’s…

By COLLIN BINKLEY, ANNIE MA and NOREEN NASIR Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — When she started writing her college essay, Hillary Amofa told the…

By PHILIP MARCELO Associated Press SEAFORD, N.Y. (AP) — They zip around the rink, armed with helmets, pads and mouthguards. They push, bump and…

By ADAM GELLER Associated Press KIBBUTZ NAHAL OZ, Israel (AP) — Months after Hamas attackers killed 1,200 people, a string of Israeli farming…

By ADAM GELLER Associated Press KIBBUTZ NAHAL OZ, Israel (AP) — For a few minutes on a recent afternoon, the sun-bathed silence that fills Nadav…

By STEVE PEOPLES AP National Political Writer NEW YORK (AP) — In his bid to retake the White House, few states hold as much promise for Donald…

By KATE BRUMBACK and RUSS BYNUM Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Attorneys are asking a U.S. appeals court to throw out the hate crime convictions…

By ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The classified documents investigation of Donald Trump appeared to have clear momentum in 2022…

By DARKO BANDIC and JOVANA GEC Associated Press ZAGREB, Croatia (AP) — Religious and neo-conservative groups have been ramping up pressure to ban…

By LEA SKENE Associated Press BALTIMORE (AP) — It was the middle of the night when a dispatcher’s 12-second warning crackled over the radio: A…

By BILL BARROW and LINLEY SANDERS Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Many Americans are unenthusiastic about a November rematch of the 2020…

By DAVID BAUDER AP Media Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The British royal family learned the hard way: in the modern media world, if you don’t fill…

By YURI KAGEYAMA Associated Press URAWA, Japan (AP) — One Japanese creation grabbing attention on the Oscars red carpet wasn’t a movie. It was…

By MAURICIO SAVARESE and SYLVIE CORBET Associated Press SAO PAULO (AP) — The Brazilian and the French presidents announced on Tuesday a plan to…

By SUSAN HAIGH and TRÂN NGUYỄN Associated Press Famed American artist and sculptor Richard Serra has died at his home in Long Island, New York, at…

By HANNAH SCHOENBAUM Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A Utah woman who authorities say fatally poisoned her husband in 2022, then published a…

By DÉBORA REY Associated Press BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Judges overseeing a high-profile human rights trial in Argentina have convicted 11…

By KIM CHANDLER Associated Press The private liberal arts school Birmingham-Southern College in Alabama has announced it will close at the end of…

By DENG MACHOL Associated Press JUBA, South Sudan (AP) — South Sudan’s government says schools will reopen next week following a two-week closure…

By TALES AZZONI AP Sports Writer MADRID (AP) — Teenagers Lamine Yamal and Endrick took the spotlight and Vinícius Júnior had a quiet game as…

By MAURICIO SAVARESE and DIARLEI RODRIGUES Associated Press RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Dozens of kids and teenagers from Rio de Janeiro’s Mare…

By JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Former President Donald Trump got a break this week when an appeals court cut down the amount of…

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — The federal government is asking a court to halt California’s enforcement of a rule requiring prison guards be…

By SUMMER BALLENTINE Associated Press COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — Days after Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey blamed an after-school fight on a…

BOSTON (AP) — A Rwandan man who authorities say took part in the country’s 1994 genocide before making his way to the U.S. has been indicted by a…

By JOSH FUNK Associated Press The collision of three Norfolk Southern trains in Pennsylvania early this month highlights the shortcomings of the…

By JEFFREY COLLINS Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Federal prosecutors say convicted killer Alex Murdaugh didn’t tell the truth when FBI…

By DAVID BAUDER AP Media Writer NEW YORK (AP) — NBC News will cut ties with former Republican National Committee chief Ronna McDaniel, hired last…

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — A former North Dakota Republican state senator has ended his campaign for the state’s only U.S. House seat. Tom Campbell, a…

HOUSTON (AP) — Police are investigating the death of an 8-year-old girl whose body was found inside a large pipe for a lazy river at a Houston…

By GARY FIELDS Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Former Justice Department official Jeffrey Clark could face sanctions, including disbarment in…

By JEFF AMY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia’s Republican state senators are making another attempt to impose a conservative stamp on the…

By JONATHAN LANDRUM Jr. AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Sean “Diddy” Combs’ lawyer said Tuesday that the searches of the…

By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN Associated Press ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Top officials were gathering Tuesday in southern New Mexico to mark the 25th…

By JULIE CARR SMYTH and SAMANTHA HENDRICKSON Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Two families of transgender minors have filed a constitutional…

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — A federal court has dismissed an attempt by conservative Pennsylvania lawmakers to overturn automatic voter registration,…

By HANNAH FINGERHUT Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The Iowa attorney general’s office said it is still working on an audit of its…

By MATTHEW PERRONE, AMANDA SEITZ and CHRISTINE FERNANDO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. Supreme Court justices on Tuesday did not appear…

By MICHAEL CASEY Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — Two former officials of a Massachusetts veterans home where at least 76 people died during the…

By CHRISTOPHER WEBER Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — A mountain lion killed a man and seriously wounded his brother last weekend in northern…

By WAYNE PARRY Associated Press The bridge that collapsed into a Maryland river after a ship strike was iconic — erected almost five decades ago,…

By TARA COPP Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon says a controversial policy that allows service members to be reimbursed for travel if…

By STEFANIE DAZIO Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — A Southern California police department has been handcuffed by Lego. The Danish toy company…

By YURAS KARMANAU Associated Press TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — A prominent journalist in Belarus has been designated a political prisoner by the…

BOSTON (AP) — The city of Boston will pay about $4.6 million to settle a wrongful death lawsuit stemming from the police killing of a mentally ill…

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Indiana officials have revoked the liquor license of an Indianapolis bar where one person was killed and five others, including…

By KEVIN McGILL Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Advocates for adult victims of childhood sexual abuse say they will ask Louisiana’s Supreme…

By MEG KINNARD Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has picked a California lawyer and philanthropist who’s never held…

BERKELEY, Calif. (AP) — The city of Berkeley, California, has agreed to halt enforcement of a ban on natural gas piping in new homes and buildings…

LAS VEGAS (AP) — A Nevada judge tentatively set an August trial date for a former Las Vegas-area elected official accused of killing an…

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Republican legislators have approved a bill that would require Kansas abortion providers to ask their patients why they want to…

By TIM BOOTH AP Sports Writer SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — Utah coach Lynne Roberts said her team experienced a series of “racial hate crimes” after…

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — A convicted child molester has been sentenced to 220 years in federal prison for producing child sexual abuse material…