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MOSCOW (AP) — Authorities say a gas explosion in an apartment building in the Siberian city of Novosibirsk has killed at least 12 people, including…

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Nissan has reported a 55% jump in its October-December profit, as the Japanese automaker gears up…

RAHIM FAIEZ Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — Dozens of Afghans have rushed to the Kabul airport following a rumor that an airlift operation was…

By MATTHEW LEE and ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration says the China balloon shot down by the U.S. was…

By RAF CASERT and SAMUEL PETREQUIN Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — President Volodymyr Zelenskyy asked his Western allies Thursday for more…

By BRIAN MAHONEY AP Basketball Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Kevin Durant’s time in Brooklyn ended Thursday when the Nets traded him to the Phoenix Suns…

By JACK JEFFERY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — Russia’s foreign minister has met with Sudan’s military rulers as the nations seek to deepen…

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australia has rejected a coal mining application based on environmental law for the…

By MOHANED AWAD and JACK JEFFERY Associated Press EL OBEID, Sudan (AP) — A surge in mosquito-borne diseases in recent months has shown the…

By BOBBY CAINA CALVAN Associated Press GARDEN CITY, N.Y. (AP) — On a September day in 2020, New York City Police Officer Baimadajie Angwang kissed…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — The leaders of Japan and the Philippines have agreed to sharply boost their defense ties, allowing…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Pennsylvania Sen. John Fetterman, who had a stroke during his campaign last year, remained hospitalized and undergoing tests…

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Asian shares have fallen after Wall Street retreated for a second day as market watchers…

By JIM GOMEZ Associated Press MANILA, Philippines (AP) — American forces and their allies in Asia are ready for battle after years of joint combat…

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Toyota has reported an 8.1% drop in its net profit in the last quarter as a global shortage of…

By JOSH FUNK Associated Press OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — The fiery derailment of a train carrying toxic chemicals — sending a huge plume of smoke in the…

By JUSTIN SPIKE, GHAITH ALSAYED and ZEYNEP BILGINSOY Associated Press KAHRAMANMARAS, Turkey (AP) — Rescue workers made a final push Thursday to…

By SEUNG MIN KIM, JOSH BOAK and STEVE PEOPLES Associated Press TAMPA, Florida (AP) — President Joe Biden is taking direct aim at Republicans who…

By MATTHEW DALY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden sparked a firestorm in energy circles when he said in Tuesday’s State…

By BIANCA VÁZQUEZ TONESS and SHARON LURYE Associated Press She’d be a senior right now, preparing for graduation in a few months, probably leading…

By ROB GILLIES Associated Press Police have charged a bus driver with first-degree murder after he drove his vehicle at a high speed into a day care…

By DÁNICA COTO Associated Press SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Children are stuck in orphanages across Haiti, unable to leave the increasingly…

By FARAI MUTSAKA and JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press RUSHINGA, Zimbabwe (AP) — While others in her Zimbabwean village agonize over a maize crop…

By JONATHAN LANDRUM Jr. AP Entertainment Writer PHOENIX (AP) — Sheryl Lee Ralph is living a career dream: The “Abbott Elementary” star won her…

By KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and his young daughter have taken center stage at a…

By ADAM BEAM Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A five-year experiment aimed at improving care for some of California’s most at-risk…

SAN DIEGO (AP) — A tiny California mouse now has a big title after winning a Guinness World Records title for longevity. A Pacific pocket mouse…

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australia’s Defense Department will remove surveillance cameras made by Chinese…

By GENE JOHNSON Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) — A U.S. judge has upheld Washington’s residency requirement for involvement in the…

By DAVID BAUDER AP Media Writer NEW YORK (AP) — An estimated 27.3 million people watched President Joe Biden’s State of the Union address on…

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A jury has convicted a Minnesota woman accused of shooting her 6-year-old son nine times and hiding his body in her car trunk.…

By MARC LEVY Associated Press HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Pennsylvania is now the latest state where a judge has found the public school funding system…

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A co-host of “Ear Hustle,” the Pulitzer Prize-nominated podcast produced behind bars, was released from San…

By ALEX VEIGA AP Business Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Walt Disney Co. will cut about 7,000 jobs as part of an ambitious companywide cost-savings…

NEW YORK (AP) — New York City police say a shooting outside a Brooklyn high school has injured two students and a school security guard.…

By ANDREA RODRIGUEZ Associated Press HAVANA (AP) — Pope Francis special envoy says the pontiff hopes Cuban authorities will release and grant…

By AMY BETH HANSON Associated Press HELENA, Mont. (AP) — More than two dozen Republican Montana lawmakers are co-sponsoring a bill that would allow…

By SOPHIE AUSTIN Associated Press/Report for America SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A bill backed by California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s administration…

By DAVE COLLINS Associated Press HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — A former University of Connecticut student has pleaded guilty to murder and other charges…

By JULIE WATSON Associated Press SAN DIEGO (AP) — Two U.S. Army veterans who were deported to Mexico a decade ago won their long battle to return…

By JUAN A. LOZANO Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — Police are investigating possible vandalism at the Houston Zoo after workers discovered a…

By SEAN MURPHY Associated Press Writer OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Republican attacks on gender affirming medical care for young people continued…

By ANDREW DeMILLO Associated Press LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders is proposing an education overhaul that includes a…

By MATT O’BRIEN AP Technology Writer REDMOND, Wash. (AP) — Nearly a quarter-century after Google’s search engine began to reshape how we…

By LISA MASCARO, ZEKE MILLER and FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — When President Joe Biden suggested that Republicans want to…

By ANDREW SELSKY Associated Press SALEM, Ore. (AP) — A thirst for rare bottles of bourbon appears set to cost the executive director and other top…

MITCHELL, Ind. (AP) — A sheriff says the second of two southern Indiana police officers shot during a weekend traffic stop has been released from a…

By GARY D. ROBERTSON Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A federal appeals court has sided again with North Carolina’s attorney general in a…

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s lower house of parliament has given final approval to a new law on judicial accountability that the government…

LONDON (AP) — Five climate change protesters have been fined for gluing themselves to the frame of a copy of Leonardo da Vinci’s “The Last…

OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso (AP) — The aid group Doctors Without Borders says two of its employees have been killed in an attack on their vehicle in…

By TARA COPP and LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon says the Chinese balloon shot down off the South Carolina coast…

By TRAVIS LOLLER, JONATHAN MATTISE and ADRIAN SAINZ Associated Press MEMPHIS, Tennessee (AP) — The officer who pulled Tyre Nichols from his car…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — One year after the Super Bowl season was marred by a ban on Mexican avocado shipments, another threat has emerged: An…

By LINDSEY TANNER AP Medical Writer A devastating earthquake in Turkey and Syria has raised questions about how long people can survive in the…

By BASSEM MROUE and KAREEM CHEHAYEB Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — For years, the people of Aleppo bore the brunt of bombardment and fighting when…

By MIKE SCHNEIDER Associated Press ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Facing blowback, the director of Florida’s high school sports governing body is backing…

By EDDIE PELLS AP National Writer DENVER (AP) — More than two years since it was greenlighted by Congress, the panel established to probe the inner…

By STEFANIE DAZIO Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — California voters could decide whether to reinstate voting rights to people in prison on…

By JUSTIN SPIKE Associated Press ADANA, Turkey (AP) — They lifted slabs of cement with enormous cranes and smashed rubble with jackhammers. Then,…

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A herd of city goats well-known in Portland, Oregon, were temporarily set free Tuesday morning in what appeared to be an act…

By JUAN A. LOZANO and MICHAEL GRACZYK Associated Press HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) — Texas has executed an inmate convicted of killing three teenagers…

By JEFFREY COLLINS Associated Press Alex Murdaugh’s paralegal is testifying at his double murder trial about the betrayal she felt when she…

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Norway’s justice minister has apologized for having failed to admit, when quizzed in Parliament, that she had…

SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) — Bulgarian prosecutors have charged a former energy minister in the previous, pro-Western government with mismanagement that…

By RIO YAMAT Associated Press NORTH LAS VEGAS, Nev. (AP) — A former “Dances With Wolves” actor accused of sexually abusing Indigenous women and…

By KATHERINE ROTH Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — It was Valentine’s Day 1917 in the Minnesota farming village of Lewiston, and Fred Roth — a…

By MARY CLARE JALONICK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — As the new chairman of the Senate committee that oversees health and labor issues,…

By KIMBERLEE KRUESI and JONATHAN MATTISE Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A top Tennessee Republican lawmaker says the state should stop…