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By KAREEM CHEHAYEB and NINIEK KARMINI Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Large parts of the Muslim world marked the end of the fasting month of Ramadan…

By GENE JOHNSON Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) — Thursday marks marijuana culture’s high holiday, 4/20, when cannabis fans gather in clouds of…

By SEAN MURPHY and JAKE BLEIBERG IDABEL, Oklahoma (AP) — The widow of an Oklahoma man has sued a sheriff and deputies in the state’s southeast…

By SEAN MURPHY and KEN MILLER Associated Press OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — An Oklahoma appeals court has upheld the murder conviction of death row inmate…

By GARY GERARD HAMILTON Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Robin Thede says the fourth season of her hit HBO series “A Black Lady Sketch Show” is…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — The Mexican airline Viva Aerobus says one of its planes suffered an engine failure while covering a domestic route, but that the…

By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Todd Haimes, who led the Roundabout Theatre Company from an off-off-Broadway company…

By FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen has struck a conciliatory tone while talking about strained…

By ALEX VEIGA AP Business Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Sales of previously occupied U.S. homes fell in March and prices edged lower for the second…

DETROIT (AP) — Michelin is recalling more than 542,000 light truck tires in the U.S. because they don’t have enough traction to work in all…

By VANESSA GERA Associated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Yellow daffodils are everywhere in Warsaw this week, a symbol of remembrance of the 1943…

By KEVIN FREKING Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Republican-led House passed a bill Thursday that would bar federally supported schools and…

SRINAGAR, India (AP) — The Indian military says five soldiers were killed when rebels fighting against Indian rule ambushed a military vehicle in…

By FARNOUSH AMIRI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — An IRS special agent is seeking whistleblower protection to disclose information about what…

By TARA COPP Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. has transferred Guantanamo detainee Said bin Brahim bin Umran Bakush back to his home…

By TRISHA AHMED Associated Press/Report for America North Dakota’s Republican Gov. Doug Burgum has signed a veto-proof bill into law that restricts…

LONDON (AP) — Police say they shot and killed a runaway bull that charged through an English village as children were being dropped off at school.…

By LEANNE ITALIE Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Karl Lagerfeld, the subject of this year’s Met Gala, transformed Chanel from frumpy to…

By MICHAEL R. SISAK and LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A federal appeals court has temporarily blocked House Republicans from…

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Badminton has upheld its ban on Russian and Belarusian players in international competitions on the eve of the start…

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Denmark says it is lifting a sailing ban in the area of the Baltic Sea around the gas leaks caused by explosions that…

By PAUL WISEMAN AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits rose last week but remains low by…

By KATHERINE ROTH Associated Press First, Doug Tallamy wrote an influential book urging home gardeners to replace lawns and invasive plants with…

By EDOUARD TAKADJI and SAM MEDNICK Associated Press N’DJAMENA, Chad (AP) — Chad’s authorities say at least 320 Sudanese soldiers have…

By KONSTANTIN TESTORIDES Associated Press The European Union’s border protection agency Frontex has begun its official deployment in North…

By PATRICK WHITTLE Associated Press WEST BATH, Maine (AP) — A sister who discovered a crime scene in which four people were shot to death arrived…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida has denounced a pipe bomb attack at a campaign event he…

BERLIN (AP) — A German court says it has decided not to hear a sex offenses case against a man who also is a suspect in the disappearance of…

By BRIAN MELLEY and JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — A spokesperson says U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is reviewing a report about…

By JUSTIN SPIKE Associated Press BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Hungary has added honey and certain meat products to a list of food items it has…

By ELIZA HAVERSTOCK of NerdWallet Federal parent PLUS loans have become a last resort for many lower-income families paying for a kid’s college…

By HUIZHONG WU Associated Press TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — An activist says officials in Beijing have released four women on bail who were arrested for…

By LORNE COOK Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — European Union lawmakers have approved a series of proposals aimed at ending the long standoff over…

GANGES, France (AP) — Hundreds of protesters opposed to the law raising the retirement age from 62 to 64 have gathered in a small town in southern…

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — A Singaporean man is scheduled to be hanged next week for abetting an attempt to smuggle cannabis into the…

By MARK SHERMAN and JESSICA GRESKO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court initially gave itself a deadline of Wednesday to decide…

By PAT GRAHAM AP Sports Writer DENVER (AP) — Goaltenders search for any activity to help them unwind and not constantly dwell on the game. Some…

By GLENN GAMBOA AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Daniela Fernandez has no trouble attracting volunteers to her group Sustainable Ocean Alliance.…

By JACK JEFFERY and SAMY MAGDY Associated Press KHARTOUM, Sudan (AP) — Sudan’s military has ruled out negotiations with a rival paramilitary…

By MIKE CORDER Associated Press AMSTERDAM (AP) — Associated Press photographer Evgeniy Maloletka won the World Press Photo of the year on Thursday…

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Denmark and the Netherlands plan to provide Ukraine with at least 14 refurbished Leopard 2 battle tanks to be supplied…

HELSINKI (AP) — Wireless and fixed-network equipment maker Nokia has reported lower than expected profits as it warned that the current uncertain…

By LORNE COOK and SAMYA KULLAB Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg has defiantly declared that Ukraine’s…

BERLIN (AP) — A report shows Europeans, particularly in the south of the continent, are being subjected to more heat stress during the summer…

MACEDONIA, Ohio (AP) — Someone in Ohio went to bed $252.6 million richer, before taxes, after hitting the Powerball jackpot. The winning ticket for…

By KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Moon Bin, a singer from South Korean boyband Astro, was found dead at his home in…

Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — An Indian court has dismissed opposition leader Rahul Gandhi’s plea to stay his conviction in a criminal…

KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — An Indian climber who fell into a 980-foot crevasse on Mount Annapurna on Monday has been rescued. An expedition organizer…

By SAM MEDNICK and BABA AHMED Associated Press BAMAKO, Mali (AP) — Ayouba Ag Nadroun was at the market in central Mali in March when Islamic…

By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer Shares were weaker in Asia on Friday, tracking a decline on Wall Street following mixed earnings reports from…

By SOPHENG CHEANG Associated Press PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — Cambodian army chief Hun Manet, who is widely expected to replace his father as the…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai says Washington is not seeking to decouple the American…

By ALFIAN KARTONO and NINIEK KARMINI Associated Press JAYAPURA, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesian security forces have recovered the bodies of four…

By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Not long ago, some were predicting more and more films would be diverted from theaters and sent…

BEIJING (AP) — Hong Kong’s Roman Catholic bishop says he hopes the dioceses of Hong Kong and Beijing will have more exchanges and cooperation.…

By BIANCA VÁZQUEZ TONESS AP Education Writer ATLANTA (AP) — Michael Crowder stands nervously at the front of his third grade classroom, his…

By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer NEW YORK (AP) — After Ben Affleck and Matt Damon test screened their Nike drama “Air,” the film executives at…

By STEPHEN GROVES Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden’s nominee to be the next labor secretary, Julie Su, won praise at her…

By JILL COLVIN and EMILY SWANSON Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Former President Donald Trump has emerged largely unscathed politically from…