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By RONALD BLUM Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Only four women conducted the Metropolitan Opera in its first 133 years ending in 2016, but now…

By WILL WEISSERT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — As pro-Palestinian demonstrations escalate on college campuses around the country, critics of…

By JULIA FRANKEL, MELANIE LIDMAN and JACK JEFFERY Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — The Israeli tanks that entered the periphery of Rafah early…

By KELVIN CHAN and ALI SWENSON Associated Press LONDON (AP) — AI fakery is quickly becoming one of the biggest problems confronting us online.…

By LISA MASCARO and KEVIN FREKING Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Embattled House Speaker Mike Johnson is working to position himself as in…

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s Prime Minister Donald Tusk says he is calling a special meeting of the secret services to discuss alleged Russian…

By EVELYNE MUSAMBI Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Kenya’s government has begun bulldozing homes built in flood-prone areas and promising…

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — A tennis player has been awarded $9 million in damages by a jury in federal court in Florida after accusing the U.S. Tennis…

By LEANNE ITALIE AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Who won the Met Gala? Nature and its many blooms, along with some far-flung princesses. It…

By ED WHITE Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — The trial is underway in Detroit in the death of a 17-year-old girl whose disappearance led to a…

By LINDSAY WHITEHURST and MICHELLE L. PRICE Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Porn actor Stormy Daniels has taken the witness stand in the hush…

By HALELUYA HADERO AP Business Writer TikTok and its Chinese parent company ByteDance are suing the U.S. federal government to challenge a law that…

LONDON (AP) — Prince Harry has arrived in London to mark the 10th anniversary of the Invictus Games but he won’t see his father on this…

By DOUG FERGUSON AP Golf Writer The PGA Championship field next week at Valhalla includes everyone from the top 100 in the world. The list officially…

By The Associated Press TORONTO (AP) — Police are investigating a shooting outside rapper Drake’s mansion in Toronto that left a security…

Apple on Tuesday unveiled its next generation of iPad Pros and Airs — lineups that will boast faster processors, new sizes and a new display…

The Associated Press Belarus has launched drills involving missiles and warplanes capable of carrying tactical nuclear weapons. Close ally Russia has…

By BRUCE SHIPKOWSKI Associated Press An Ohio doctor who drew national attention when she told state legislators that COVID-19 vaccines made people…

By JAMIE STENGLE Associated Press IRVING, Texas (AP) — The Boy Scouts of America is changing its name for the first time in its 114-year history…

FORT WAYNE, Ind. (AP) — A judge has delayed until October the murder trial of an Indiana man charged in the killings of two teenage girls after the…

ATLANTA (AP) — The Atlanta City Council has agreed to pay $3.8 million to settle a lawsuit by the family of a church deacon who died in a struggle…

By JAMIE STENGLE Associated Press IRVING, Texas (AP) — Founded in 1910, the Boy Scouts of America achieved a vaunted status in the United States.…

By ANTHONY IZAGUIRRE Associated Press ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — A New York judge has blocked a politically important abortion rights amendment from…

By DAVID KLEPPER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump is not the president, but that doesn’t stop many of his most loyal…

By MARIA CHENG Associated Press ROSEAU, Dominica (AP) — Scientists studying the sperm whales that live around the Caribbean island of Dominica have…

Associated Press KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Pope Francis has appointed Reverend James Mark Beckman as Bishop of Knoxville, Tennessee, almost a year…

By ANTHONY IZAGUIRRE Associated Press ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York Gov. Kathy Hochul says she regrets making an offhand remark that suggested Black…

By JILL LAWLESS and MARTIN MEISSNER Associated Press MALMO, Sweden (AP) — Competition in the 68th Eurovision Song Contest kicks off Tuesday in…

By MAE ANDERSON AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — A deadline is looming for millions of businesses who may be entitled to a payout in a $5.5…

By MAURICIO SAVARESE Associated Press TORRES, Brazil (AP) — More than 80% of residents in Brazil’s southern city of Porto Alegre do not have…

BEIRUT (AP) — The United States has repatriated 11 of its citizens from sprawling camps in northeastern Syria that house tens of thousands of…

By TARA COPP and FREIDA FRISARO Associated Press FORT WALTON BEACH, Fla. (AP) — The U.S. Air Force says a 23-year-old Airman supporting its Special…

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit by a Maine woman who accused school officials of encouraging her teen’s gender…

BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Authorities in Spain’s Catalonia region say they will ease restrictions on water use for a wide area including Barcelona…

By JENNA FRYER AP Auto Racing Writer Roger Penske on Tuesday said he has suspended the president of Team Penske along with three others for two races…

By The Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — A Chinese court sentenced the former head of one of the country’s three major state-owned phone carriers…

By MUNIR AHMED Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan’s military says a suicide bombing that killed five Chinese engineers and a Pakistani…

By HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Colm Tóibín’s “Long Island,” the Irish novelist’s follow-up to the acclaimed…

By DEE-ANN DURBIN AP Business Writer Instacart is partnering with Uber Eats to offer restaurant deliveries to its customers. The San Francisco-based…

By ILLIA NOVIKOV Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian counterintelligence investigators say they have foiled a Russian plot to…

NEW YORK (AP) — Witness testimony in Donald Trump’s hush money trial is set to move forward again and all eyes are on who will be called…

By TOM KRISHER AP Auto Writer DETROIT (AP) — Federal safety investigators want Tesla to tell them how it developed the fix in a recall of more than…

By TERRY SPENCER Associated Press FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — The FBI has laid out a detailed case showing why agents believe a Florida man is…

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Iran and the United Nations’ nuclear watchdog are still negotiating over how to implement a…

PRAGUE (AP) — The Czech Republic’s highest court on Tuesday ruled to dismiss part of a law requiring people to undergo gender-affirmation…

By CARLY FLANDRO of Idaho Education News and VALERIA OLIVARES of The Dallas Morning News NAMPA, Idaho (AP) — When Christina Zimmerman returned to…

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — A Polish government official says that bugging devices were detected in a room where Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk was…

TOURMALET PASS, France (AP) — France’s president is hosting China’s leader at a remote mountain pass in the Pyrenees on Tuesday for private…

By ERICK KAGLAN Associated Press LOME, Togo (AP) — Togolese President Faure Gnassingbe has signed a controversial new constitution that eliminates…

BRUSSELS (AP) — EU countries have approved a plan worth 6 billion euros ($6.45 billion) to support Western Balkan states aimed at accelerating…

BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s top prosecutor’s office says that authorities are searching the European parliament office of a prominent German…

By ZEKE MILLER AP White House Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is set to issue a forceful condemnation of antisemitism during a…

DIEN BIEN PHU, Vietnam (AP) — Vietnam has started commemorations for the 70th anniversary of the Dien Bien Phu battle in which the French colonial…

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Australian police say a 16-year-old boy who was shot dead by police after stabbing a…

TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — An American English-language tutor has been arrested in Moscow on hooliganism charges for reportedly breaking into a…

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Japanese video-game maker Nintendo’s announcement about a successor to its Switch home…

LONDON (AP) — British officials say the names and bank details of thousands of serving British soldiers, sailors and air force members have been…

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Malaysia will not interfere in business relations between arms manufacturers and other countries, its defense…

By GERALD IMRAY Associated Press CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — Rescue teams have worked through the night searching for dozens of construction…

BEIJING (AP) — Chinese state media are reporting a knife attack with possible deaths at a hospital in the country’s southwest. The official…

By JOCELYN NOVECK AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Many celebrities are Met Gala regulars, invited again and again. Then there are the…

By The Associated Press An Israeli tank brigade has seized control of the Gaza Strip side of the Rafah border crossing with Egypt, authorities say,…

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Police have arrested some 125 activists as they broke up a pro-Palestinian demonstration camp at the University of…

By JEROME PUGMIRE AP Sports Writer The Olympic torch will finally enter France. It’s due to reach the southern seaport of Marseille on…

By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer Asian markets forged higher Tuesday after another day of gains on Wall Street, although Hong Kong’s…

By EVELYNE MUSAMBI Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Kenya says the Republic of Congo’s military has released two Kenya Airways staffers…

JERUSALEM (AP) — The Israeli military said it had established “operational control” over the Gaza side of the Rafah crossing in the southern…

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — A woman accused of serving her ex-husband’s family poisonous mushrooms with lunch has pleaded not guilty in an…

By KRUTIKA PATHI and SHEIKH SAALIQ Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — Millions of Indians across 93 constituencies are voting as Prime Minister…

By ALEXA ST. JOHN, SEAN MURPHY and JIM SALTER Associated Press OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Powerful storms have erupted in the central United States,…

By KONSTANTIN TESTORIDES Associated Press SKOPJE, North Macedonia (AP) — Voters in Northern Macedonia go to the polls Wednesday for a double…

By JOVANA GEC and DUSAN STOJANOVIC Associated Press BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s visit to European ally Serbia on Tuesday…

By EMMA BURROWS Associated Press Vladimir Putin begins his fifth term as Russian president in an opulent Kremlin inauguration Tuesday, after…

By ISABELLA VOLMERT Associated Press INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Several competitive and expensive primary races will be decided Tuesday in Indiana’s…

By KAREN MATTHEWS and STEVE LeBLANC Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A Monday deadline for pro-Palestinian protesters to leave an encampment at…

By SEUNG MIN KIM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Bernie Sanders and Joe Biden share a bond that was forged through a hard-fought Democratic…

By SEUNG MIN KIM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Bernie Sanders and Joe Biden share a bond that was forged through a hard-fought Democratic…

By SIBI ARASU and KRUTIKA PATHI Associated Press CHENNAI, India (AP) — Prime Minister Narendra Modi has wielded near-total control over Indian…

By STEVE KARNOWSKI Associated Press ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — A Minnesota Senate ethics panel is expected to begin considering what to do with a…

By MICHAEL R. SISAK, JENNIFER PELTZ, ERIC TUCKER and JAKE OFFENHARTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump returns to his hush money trial…

By ANDREW DALTON AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Stuntwoman Jeannie Epper has died at age 83. She did stunts for many of the most…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Russia has defended its veto of a U.N. resolution calling on all nations to prevent a…

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — An extra day and the lure of an appearance by the Rolling Stones pushed attendance at the 2024 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage…

By JEFF AMY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — A Georgia State Supreme Court candidate has filed a federal lawsuit claiming a state agency is…

By GENE JOHNSON Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) — The Federal Aviation Administration has opened an investigation into Boeing after the beleaguered…