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TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s defense minister says two Japanese Maritime Self Defense Force helicopters are believed to have crashed in the Pacific…

By MARY CLARE JALONICK and HALELUYA HADERO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The House passed legislation Saturday that would ban TikTok in the…

BALTIMORE (AP) — A third temporary channel for boats to enter and depart the Port of Baltimore has opened, expanding further shipping access as…

PORT ANGELES, Wash. (AP) — Longtime publisher and Associated Press journalist John Brewer has died. He was 76. Brewer’s close friend Randy…

By ANDREW DeMILLO Associated Press LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — David Pryor, a former Arkansas governor and U.S. senator who was one of the state’s…

By JEAN FERNAND KOENA Associated Press BANGUI, Central African Republic (AP) — Witnesses in Central African Republic say that at least 20 people…

By RONALD BLUM Associated Press Romeo Castellucci has dropped out of his production of Wagner’s Ring Cycle at Belgium’s La Monnaie theater…

TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — Authorities say the New Jersey rabbi serving a decadeslong sentence in a 1994 murder-for-hire plot targeting his wife has…

By JARI TANNER Associated Press HELSINKI (AP) — An artisan roastery based in the Finnish capital has introduced a coffee blend that has been…

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — An Iranian attack on an Israeli desert air base last week as part of…

By JACK THOMPSON Associated Press DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — U.S. officials said that they will begin to withdraw troops from Niger but there is no…

By MIKE CATALINI and MARC LEVY Associated Press NEW HOPE, Pa. (AP) — Mark Houck’s campaign to unseat Republican Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick in…

By AAMER MADHANI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden can breathe a bit easier, at least for the moment, now that Israel and Iran…

By ALEXANDRA OLSON and CLAIRE SAVAGE AP Business Writers Pregnant workers have the right to a wide range of accommodations under new federal…

By LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The most significant case in decades on homelessness has reached the Supreme Court as…

By RIAZ KHAN Associated Press PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — A Pakistani province is warning of heavy loss of life due to glacial melting. The country…

SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) — Bulgarian customs officials say they have seized about 887 pounds of heroin found in a truck with Turkish registration en…

By JACQUELYN MARTIN Associated Press ROCKVILLE, Md. (AP) — The group of first graders had no time to waste — they had matzo to make. The students…

By DAVID CRARY AP National Writer Passover is a major Jewish holiday, celebrated over seven or eight days each year, commemorating the exodus of…

By QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA Associated Press BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraqi authorities say they are investigating an explosion that struck a base belonging to the…

By MOHAMMAD TAUFAN Associated Press PALU, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesian authorities say the country’s elite counterterrorism police have…

By DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — London’s police force has been forced to issue two apologies after officers threatened to arrest…

By MOHAMMAD JAHJOUH and SAMY MAGDY Associated Press RAFAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Gaza hospital officials say an Israeli airstrike on a residential…

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine has launched a barrage of drones across Russia overnight in attacks that appeared to target the country’s energy…

By JINTAMAS SAKSORNCHAI Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — About 1,300 people have fled from eastern Myanmar into Thailand, officials said Saturday,…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico City police say they are investigating a murder suspect as a possible serial killer after bones, a saw, blood and the ID…

By SAMYA KULLAB Associated Press KHARKIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia is exploiting air defense shortages in Ukraine’s Kharkiv region by targeting…

By COLLEEN BARRY Associated Press VENICE, Italy (AP) — Outsider, queer and Indigenous artists are getting an overdue platform at the 60th Venice…

By STEPHEN GROVES and LISA MASCARO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The House is preparing in a rare Saturday session to approve $95 billion in…

By FARNOUSH AMIRI and MARY CLARE JALONICK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — After its midnight deadline, the Senate voted early Saturday to…

By MEAD GRUVER Associated Press Republicans in Wyoming will decide Saturday which presidential candidate will get their state’s votes at the…

By ELLEN KNICKMEYER Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Israel demonstrated its military dominance over adversary Iran in its apparent…

By CHEYANNE MUMPHREY AP Education Writer CONCORD, Calif. (AP) — A year before I-Ting Quinn’s son was old enough for kindergarten, she and her…

By BILL BARROW Associated Press WILMINGTON, N.C. (AP) — Former President Donald Trump is campaigning in North Carolina as he juggles legal troubles…

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuela’s main opposition coalition has agreed to unite behind former diplomat Edmundo González as its challenger to…

By GENE JOHNSON Associated Press ARLINGTON, Wash. (AP) — A major argument for legalizing the adult use of cannabis after 75 years of prohibition…

By STEPHANY MATAT Associated Press WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Former first lady Melania Trump is making a political comeback during the…

By DÁNICA COTO Associated Press CAP-HAITIEN, Haiti (AP) — They call it Okap, home to Haiti’s kings, emancipated slaves and revolutionaries.…

By ANITA SNOW Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Record Store Day celebrates independent retail music sellers who have endured long after megastores…

By MICHAEL GOLDBERG Associated Press/Report for America JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Dau Mabil escaped war-torn Sudan as a child and built a new life in…

BY AYANNA ALEXANDER Associated Press FREEPORT, N.Y. (AP) — A new voting rights law in New York is already having a dramatic effect, with lawsuits…

By HANNAH SCHOENBAUM Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — To casual sports fans and people outside northern Utah, it may look like an NHL team…

By JILL COLVIN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Over the past week, Donald Trump has been forced to sit inside a frigid New York courtroom and…

By NICK PERRY Associated Press GILFORD, N.H. (AP) — A costumed skier races down a slope, hits a pond and hydroplanes halfway across. He pirouettes…

By JUAN ZAMORANO Associated Press PANAMA CITY (AP) — The public portion of a Panamanian trial of more than two-dozen associates accused of helping…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. political chief says the year-old war in Sudan between rival generals vying for…

By FABIOLA SÁNCHEZ Associated Press TEPOTZOTLAN, Mexico (AP) — Dozens of women and men have searched a garbage dump and other sites outside…

By KEN MILLER Associated Press OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A Department of Homeland Security official told survivors and loved ones of the 168 people…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The University of Southern California further shook up its commencement plans Friday, announcing the cancelation of a keynote…

By ELLEN KNICKMEYER and LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.N. World Food Program has agreed to help deliver aid for the…

By KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea says it tested a “super-large” cruise missile warhead and a new…

By BEN FINLEY Associated Press Authorities in Ohio say a man fatally shot an Uber driver because he wrongly assumed she was part of a scam to extract…

By DAVID BAUDER AP Media Writer NEW YORK (AP) — A man who set himself on fire outside the Manhattan courtroom where Donald Trump was on trial…

WASHINGTON (AP) — ABC’s “This Week” — Reps. Michael McCaul, R-Texas, and Ro Khanna, D-Calif.; retired Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer.…

By LEAH WILLINGHAM Associated Press CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — West Virginia will not face a clawback of $465 million in COVID-19 money from the…

By REBECCA BOONE Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — A new Idaho organization says it will ask voters to restore abortion access and other…

By HOLLY RAMER Associated Press BRENTWOOD, N.H. (AP) — A man who alleges he was beaten and raped as a teen at New Hampshire’s youth detention…

ATHENS, Ala. (AP) — The warden of an Alabama prison was arrested Friday on drug charges. The Alabama Department of Corrections says the warden at…

By MARK THIESSEN Associated Press ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Federal prosecutors want to revoke the U.S. citizenship of a South Africa man convicted…

By JIM VERTUNO Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Authorities in Texas say a 10-year-old boy has confessed to an unsolved 2022 killing, telling…

By JOHN HANNA AP Political Writer TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The Democratic governor in Kansas has vetoed proposed tax breaks for anti-abortion counseling…

LEBANON, Ind. (AP) — A central Indiana man who won a primary election for a township board position while charged with killing his estranged wife…

By MARGERY A. BECK Associated Press OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Nebraska Gov. Jim Pillen says he’ll keep his promise to call a special legislative…

By JOSH CORNFIELD Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — Phish opened its four-night stay at the Sphere Thursday with a four-hour show. The concert used…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — A mayoral candidate in a northern Mexico border state has been killed, the 16th political hopeful slain ahead of the June 2…

By HANNAH FINGERHUT Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Iowa men who were victims of child molestation while they were in the Boy Scouts of…

By MARIA SHERMAN AP Music Writer NEW YORK (AP) — On Friday, Taylor Swift released her 11th studio album, “The Tortured Poets Department.” But…

By SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A Wisconsin prosecutor says she won’t bring charges against a Republican lawmaker accused of…

By LISA MASCARO AP Congressional Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) — Staring down a decision so consequential it could alter the course of history…

DENVER (AP) — Federal officials are investigating an unauthorized inflight cockpit visit by a coach for the Colorado Rockies baseball team during a…

By JOHN WAWROW AP Sports Writer ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. (AP) — Buffalo Bills owners Terry and Kim Pegula are exploring the possibility of selling a…

NEW YORK (AP) — Police officials say they are reviewing whether to restrict access to a public park outside the courthouse where former President…

OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Three Northern California law enforcement officers have been charged with involuntary manslaughter in the death of a man who…

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Zedan Racing Stables has appealed a Kentucky Circuit Court ruling that denied its request for a temporary injunction seeking…

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — The flame that will burn at the Olympics is spending the night at the ancient Acropolis in Athens, a week before its handover…

By MARK THIESSEN Associated Press ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — The Air National Guard has delayed personnel changes in Alaska that could have…

By MORGAN LEE Associated Press SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — The U.S. Border Patrol is asserting its authority to seize cannabis shipments amid complaints…

By JOSH FUNK AP Business Writer OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — The Environmental Protection Agency is allowing the sale of gasoline containing a higher blend…

By LEA SKENE Associated Press BALTIMORE (AP) — Salvage crews at the site of the collapsed Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore are turning their…

By DAVE COLLINS Associated Press A convicted rapist has been charged with murder and attempted sexual assault in the killing of a visiting nurse at a…

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A fired Philadelphia police officer has pleaded guilty to murder in the shooting of a fleeing 12-year-old boy. Prosecutors have…

By FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A Bangkok-based plastics firm has agreed to pay $20 million to settle with the U.S. over 467…

By ACACIA CORONADO Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A Texas appeals court has ruled that Republican Attorney General Ken Paxton can face…