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BY WAYNE PARRY Associated Press BRICK, N.J. (AP) — Pretty soon it will be beach season again at the Jersey Shore. If last year was any indication,…

NEW YORK (AP) — About 2 million Black & Decker-branded clothing steamers are now under recall after consumers reported dozens of burn injuries…

By LEA SKENE Associated Press BALTIMORE (AP) — A federal program offering loans to small businesses hurt by the collapse of Baltimore’s…

By KATE BRUMBACK Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — The judge overseeing the Georgia election interference case against Donald Trump and others has…

By ADITHI RAMAKRISHNAN AP Science Writer DALLAS (AP) — Some who hope to witness Monday’s total solar eclipse may see the sun obscured by…

By LESLIE AMBRIZ and SIAN WATSON Associated Press BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) — Oscar-nominated actor Dev Patel is making his feature directorial…

HARPER WOODS, Mich. (AP) — A dog missing in California since last summer turned up more than 2,000 miles away in Michigan. Police in a Detroit…

By TRAVIS LOLLER Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The final four of 11 anti-abortion activists charged with blocking access to a Tennessee…

By GARY GERARD HAMILTON Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Giancarlo Esposito has been known to steal scenes and help create memorable TV moments…

By REBECCA SANTANA Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A judge has ruled that migrant children in makeshift camps along the U.S.-Mexico border…

By KIM CHANDLER Associated Press MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Legislation that would authorize a lottery and other types of gambling in Alabama is…

NAPLES, Fla. (AP) — NASA says it’s investigating whether an object that crashed into the roof of a home in southwest Florida last month came from…

By ALEX VEIGA AP Business Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — The average long-term U.S. mortgage rate rose modestly this week, holding below 7% as it has…

By DOUG FEINBERG AP Basketball Writer Caitlin Clark is capping her illustrious college career with another record-breaking season and another set of…

COEUR D’ALENE, Idaho (AP) — Police investigating racist incidents directed toward the Utah women’s basketball team when they were near…

By COLLEEN BARRY Associated Press MILAN (AP) — Day-trippers to Venice who fail to pay 5 euros ($5.43) to enter the lagoon city’s historic center…

LONDON (AP) — A 75-year-old man has been found guilty of the murder of a female British police officer nearly two decades ago during an armed…

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Virginia prison officials say a K-9 has died after “heroically” protecting a correctional officer, who was responding to a…

By KIM CHANDLER Associated Press MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Civil rights organizations and other groups have filed a lawsuit challenging a new Alabama…

By SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A doctor from De Pere becomes the first Democratic candidate in Wisconsin’s 8th…

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — A technical error on a navy missile has spurred Danish authorities to issue a warning, saying there was a risk the…

By JOSH DUBOW AP Sports Writer OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — The Athletics will leave Oakland after this season and play temporarily at a minor league…

By MAKIYA SEMINERA Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster has undergone a minor elective knee surgery for a…

BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Police say a 2-year-old Serbian girl whose disappearance last month gripped the nation died after being hit by a car and…

By WYATTE GRANTHAM-PHILIPS AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Elon Musk’s X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, has started restoring…

By DAN GELSTON AP Sports Writer PHILADELPHIA (AP) — He surveyed the Arizona crowd that had paid to catch a wrestling glimpse of the planet’s…

By DAVE COLLINS Associated Press An early spring nor’easter is hammering the Northeast with heavy snow, rain and high winds, with some northern…

By JARI TANNER Associated Press HELSINKI (AP) — Finland says it will extend the closure of its border crossing points with Russia beyond the…

PARIS (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron says France and its allies “could have stopped” the 1994 Rwanda genocide and “lacked the will…

By JULIA FRANKEL Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Human Rights Watch says an Israeli strike on an apartment building in Gaza last October killed…

By MATTHEW PERRONE AP Health Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The maker of a drug for Lou Gehrig’s disease that recently failed in a study says it will…

By ASHOK SHARMA Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — Dozens of construction workers from India have left for Israel this week to take up jobs there as…

By KATHERINE ROTH Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — When you’re doing your taxes, it can sometimes be hard to know whether to itemize or take…

By CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Nigerian authorities has asked in court for cryptocurrency exchange Binance and two of its…

BIG SUR, Calif. (AP) — As more storms approach California, officials have closed a scenic stretch of iconic Highway 1 where a giant section…

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A federal appeals court upheld a lower court judge’s ruling putting a temporary halt on New Jersey’s primary ballot design,…

By KIM COOK Associated Press Daily lives are noisier than ever, and many travelers are seeking relief in silence. Or as close as they can get to it.…

BRUSSELS (AP) — Police in Italy, Austria, Romania and Slovakia have arrested 22 people as part of an investigation into the suspected theft of…

By GEIR MOULSON Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s defense minister has announced a plan to streamline and reorganize the country’s…

DETROIT (AP) — With U.S. electric vehicle sales starting to slow, Ford Motor Co. says it will delay rolling out new electric pickup trucks and a…

By MOGOMOTSI MAGOME Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — The former South African speaker of parliament has been arrested over allegations that she…

By MATT OTT AP Business Writer The number of Americans applying for jobless benefits rose to their highest level in two months last week, but layoffs…

By PAN PYLAS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The British government says it will grant extensions to several large U.K. airports unable to meet the…

MOSCOW (AP) — Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has warned that prospective negotiations to end the fighting in Ukraine could be successful…

By DORANY PINEDA and SUMAN NAISHADHAM Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — Sea-level rise and increasingly ferocious storms are eroding thousands of…

By ALICIA RANCILIO Associated Press After playing the role of Elsbeth Tascioni, a quirky lawyer who is often underestimated, 19 times over the course…

By DEEPA BHARATH, DAVID CRARY and MARIAM FAM Associated Press Throughout history, solar eclipses have had profound impact on adherents of various…

By JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press GENEVA (AP) — The U.N.’s leading human rights body has agreed to measures aimed at putting pressure on Myanmar…

PARIS (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron has dismissed as “ridiculous” remarks by Russia’s defense minister suggesting that Ukraine and…

By THALIA BEATY Associated Press Much about billionaire philanthropist MacKenzie Scott’s giving remains a mystery, but a recent round of grants to…

By HOWARD FENDRICH AP Tennis Writer Saudi Arabia will host the WTA Finals as part of a three-year deal with the women’s professional tennis tour…

NEW YORK (AP) — Bestselling author Eoin Colfer has a new set of adventures ready for young Juniper Lane. Roaring Brook Press announced Thursday…

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — A new diplomatic crisis between Poland and Israel has erupted following the death of a Polish aid worker in Gaza. The Polish…

By RISDEL KASASIRA Associated Press KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — Ugandan gay rights activists asked the international community to mount more pressure on…

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Malaysia’s imprisoned former Prime Minister Najib Razak is seeking to serve the rest of his prison term under house…

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Kuwait is holding national elections for the fourth time in as many years as the oil-rich country seeks to break…

By KONSTANTIN TESTORIDES Associated Press SKOPJE, North Macedonia (AP) — North Macedonia’s presidential race kicked off on Thursday, with seven…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — More than 600 British jurists, including three retired judges from the U.K. Supreme Court, are…

BANGKOK (AP) — Myanmar’s main pro-democracy resistance group says its armed wing launched drone attacks on the airport and a military…

By HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea’s president has met the leader of thousands of striking junior doctors…

By HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Former President Bill Clinton has a memoir coming out this fall about his years since leaving…

By CIARÁN GILES Associated Press MADRID (AP) — Spanish authorities say a cruise ship stuck in the northeastern port of Barcelona will be able to…

PARIS (AP) — Lebanon’s billionaire caretaker prime minister has denied all allegations of money laundering after a complaint was formally…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass vowed that cleanup would happen at a home where mounds of garbage and debris had piled up several…

By WILL WEISSERT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The government’s chief human resources agency has issued a new rule making it harder to fire…

By ALEXA ST. JOHN Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is awarding $20 billion in grants for clean energy…

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Tonga’s prime minister says he is open to Beijing’s offer of security support for…

ERIKA KINETZ and SOLOMIIA HERA The Associated Press DOVHENKE, Ukraine (AP) — Yukov says the same thing to all the mothers. He tells them to talk…

By ERIKA KINETZ and SOLOMIIA HERA Associated Press DOVHENKE, Ukraine (AP) — The smell in the car is sick and sweet, the overpowering scent of…

BERLIN (AP) — Austria’s justice minister says she plans to tighten the country’s rules on espionage, which currently is explicitly banned if…

By KELVIN CHAN AP Business Writer Monday’s total solar eclipse might become one of the year’s most filmed and photographed events. As the…

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Asian shares mostly rose Thursday after a firm finish on Wall Street, as expectations remained…

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Indonesian President-elect Prabowo Subianto has held talks with Malaysia’s leader on bolstering bilateral ties as…

BANGKOK (AP) — Panicked passengers have jumped into the sea to escape a raging ferry fire in the Gulf of Thailand, and all 108 people on board are…

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian troops launched waves of Shahed drones against the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv overnight, killing four people and…

By MARIA SHERMAN AP Music Writer It’s never really the end of the road for Kiss. The hard rock quartet have sold their catalog, brand name and IP…

By JOHN HANNA AP Political Writer TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Top Republican lawmakers and the Democratic governor in Kansas have brokered a deal on…

By LORNE COOK Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — NATO will celebrate on Thursday 75 years of collective defense across Europe and North America as…

By The Associated Press Video and photos of suspects in a mass shooting show them apparently being brutalized by Russian security forces — without…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United States and its Western allies are feuding with Russia over its diamond…

By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Federal prosecutors have plenty of stern words to say about 87-year-old British billionaire…

By ADAM BEAM Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California school districts are preparing for the impacts of a new minimum wage for fast…