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By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — The Ukrainian-born winner of this year’s Miss Japan beauty pageant says she has renounced her…

By RAF CASERT Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union’s executive arm is shelving an anti-pesticides proposal in yet another…

NEW DELHI (AP) — A fire has raced through a firecracker factory in central India on Tuesday, killing six people and injuring about 40 others as it…

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Nintendo has reported healthy sales and profits on the back of the hit “Super Mario Bros.…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said Tuesday that he was “shocked and sad” to learn that King…

By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer BANGKOK (AP) — Shares were mixed Tuesday in Asia, where Chinese stocks surged after a government investment…

By MATTHEW LEE, WAFAA SHURAFA and SAMY MAGDY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken was in Cairo on Tuesday for a…

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Toyota is raising its full fiscal year profit forecast after reporting its October-December…

By JOHN ANTCZAK, CHRISTOPHER WEBER and JULIE WATSON Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Rainfall from one of the wettest storms in Southern…

BEIJING (AP) — Thousands of motorists were stuck on highways in central China as heavy snow snarled travel during the annual Lunar New Year rush.…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Nine members of the United Nations Security Council have condemned “indiscriminate”…

By HUIZHONG WU Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — Chinese American rapper Bohan Phoenix has straddled both countries in his career. Working with…

By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The Mississippi Supreme Court is scheduled to hear arguments over a state law that…

By PAT EATON-ROBB and MICHAEL HILL Associated Press HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Cannabis retailers in Connecticut are experiencing a shortage of…

By STEPHEN WADE AP Sports Writer TOKYO (AP) — Look for Lionel Messi to play in Wednesday’s friendly in Tokyo with Inter Miami facing Japanese…

By LISA MASCARO AP Congressional Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. House is ready to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas.…

By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer BANGKOK (AP) — A major Chinese state investment fund has promised to expand its purchases of stock index…

By ED WHITE Associated Press PONTIAC, Mich. (AP) — A jury in Michigan is returning to court for the second day of deliberations in the trial of a…

By MORGAN LEE Associated Press SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — Republican contenders are set to file petitions to appear on New Mexico’s June 4 primary…

By ZEKE MILLER AP White House Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is going small to try to win big in November. With 10 months to…

By RIAZAT BUTT Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan is holding elections for a new parliament on Thursday. No less than 44 political parties…

By CLAIRE SAVAGE Associated Press/Report for America LINCOLN, Ill. (AP) — Women stream into the courtroom and sit shoulder to shoulder, coats…

By BROOKE SCHULTZ Associated Press/Report for America HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — The balance of power in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives is…

LONDON (AP) — King Charles III has been diagnosed with an unspecified type of cancer. Buckingham Palace says the king has begun outpatient…

By LAURIE KELLMAN and BILL BARROW Associated Press MAULDIN, S.C. (AP) — Donald Trump has a well-worn playbook against women who challenge him. For…

By MARK SHERMAN and NICHOLAS RICCARDI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court will be taking its first look in the 156-year history of…

By MICHELLE L. PRICE, JONATHAN J. COOPER and GABE STERN Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — The presidential primary campaign is headed west to…

By NICK PERRY and KATHY McCORMACK Associated Press LITTLETON, N.H. (AP) — The quaint town of Littleton, New Hampshire, is seeing more tourists,…

By W.G. RAMIREZ Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — One night after Taylor Swift earned her fourth career Grammy for album of the year, her boyfriend…

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — A ship traveling through the southern Red Sea was attacked by a suspected Yemen Houthi…

HONOLULU (AP) — The U.S. Coast Guard says a 60-year-old man sailing from California to Hawaii arrived in the islands over the weekend. The agency…

By MARK STEVENSON Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s president has proposed giving people pensions equal to their full salaries at the…

By KEN RITTER Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — Federal and local officials say they’re taking steps to crimp counterfeiting, ground drones…

By JIWON SONG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea’s recent escalation of threats and more tests of weapons aimed at South…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley has requested Secret Service protection after receiving a growing number of threats during her…

By ANDREW WILKS Associated Press ISTANBUL (AP) — A year ago, a devastating 7.8 magnitude earthquake struck southern Turkey and northwestern Syria,…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Russia accused the United States of “aggression” against Iraq and Syria aimed at…

By MARGERY A. BECK Associated Press LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Conservative lawmakers who want to intertwine religion with school curriculum in…

By ROB MAADDI AP Pro Football Writer LAS VEGAS (AP) — The Philadelphia Eagles will be the host team for the NFL’s first regular-season game…

VANCOUVER, Wash. (AP) — Police say a man wielding a samurai sword and threatening to hurt people was arrested after he entered a Walmart store in…

ISTANBUL (AP) — Millions of people across Turkey on Tuesday will mourn the loss of more than 53,000 friends, loved ones and neighbors in the…

URBANA, Ill. (AP) — A 73-year-old man has been sentenced to five years in prison for driving a car into a planned abortion clinic in eastern…

By MARYCLAIRE DALE and ALI SWENSON Associated Press PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Philadelphia Sheriff Rochelle Bilal’s campaign is acknowledging that…

SOUTH BEND, Ind. (AP) — Members of a northern Indiana community are mourning and searching for answers as they gather for the funeral of six…

By KIMBERLEE KRUESI and JONATHAN MATTISE Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee once again announced that he wants…

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — The U.S. Virgin Islands has finalized a long-awaited deal that will allow officials to build a public school on St.…

By JAKE OFFENHARTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A video showing a group of migrants brawling with police in Times Square has touched off a…

By MARIA SHERMAN AP Music Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — When the 2024 Grammy nominees were first announced, women dominated in the major categories.…

By STEVE KARNOWSKI Associated Press South Dakota prosecutors have charged a Sioux Falls man with murder in the death of a deputy who was struck while…

HOUSTON (AP) — Authorities say a Texas mother and her 1-year-old son died after a fire engulfed their Houston home, but not before she was able to…

By ANDREW DeMILLO Associated Press LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Water is again flowing in an east Arkansas town that had been without service for more…

WAILUKU, Hawaii (AP) — The Maui Police Department says it is releasing a preliminary report about its response to the wildfire that destroyed the…

By BECKY BOHRER Associated Press JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — An appeals court panel is deciding whether to let stand the Biden administration’s…

By JIMMY GOLEN AP Sports Writer A National Labor Relations Board regional official has decided that Dartmouth basketball players are employees of the…

By ANNE D’INNOCENZIO AP Retail Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Gap has tapped American fashion designer Zac Posen as the chain’s creative…

By JAVIER ARCIGA AND ELLIOT SPAGAT Associated Press JACUMBA HOT SPRINGS, Calif. (AP) — A sweeping Senate bill on border security would bring…

By MARY CLARE JALONICK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A provision of border security legislation that would give the U.S, a new authority to…

By STEPHEN GROVES and LISA MASCARO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Facing a torrent of criticism from Republicans, Senate leaders on Monday…

By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — A day after Taylor Swift made music history at the Grammy Awards, a band formed long before…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Four bus and taxi drivers are dead following apparently coordinated attacks by gunmen in the city of Chilpancingo, the capital…

Associated Press Camila Lange, who is 7-months-pregnant, on Monday sat with her husband and dog in what used to be their home in Vina del Mar, Chile.…

By STEVE LeBLANC Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — The brother of a man suspected in four arsons involving Jewish institutions in the Boston area in…

By JOHN O’CONNOR AP Political Writer SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — The federal wire fraud and money laundering trial against William “Sam”…

By CLAUDIA LAUER Associated Press The Justice Department proposed changes Monday to rules governing state-run programs that provide financial…

SENATOBIA, Miss. (AP) — An attorney says a 10-year-old Black child who urinated near his own mother’s car in Mississippi will no longer be…

By CORA LEWIS Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — For Americans who lacked savings prior to the pandemic, financial stress is rising. A combination of…

By DENISE LAVOIE AP Legal Affairs Writer RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A Virginia doctor who was sentenced to 40 years in prison after prescribing more than…

By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — An average of 16.9 million viewers tuned in to watch Taylor Swift make history at the…

Associated Press SILT, Colo. (AP) — Republican Rep. Lauren Boebert now has a temporary restraining order against ex-husband Jayson Boebert, after…

By MARK SCOLFORO Associated Press HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — About 200 people protesting the Pennsylvania state government’s investments in Israel…

By PHILIP MARCELO Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Bob Beckwith, a retired firefighter whose chance encounter with the president amid the rubble of…

By CHRISTOPHER SHERMAN Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — El Salvador’s Nayib Bukele has called himself the “world’s coolest dictator” or…

By The Associated Press LONDON (AP) — As King Charles III receives treatment for cancer, he remains Britain’s monarch and head of state. His Son,…

By COLLEEN SLEVIN Associated Press DENVER (AP) — The Black girls lay facedown in a parking lot, crying “no” and “mommy” as a police officer…

By ED DAVEY Associated Press At least 112 people have been killed by wildfires in central Chile, leading its president to declare two days of…

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Protests have shut down major cities in Haiti as demonstrators clash with police and demand the resignation of Prime…

By JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press GENEVA (AP) — Scientists at the world’s largest atom smasher have expressed confidence about moving forward with…

By DARLENE SUPERVILLE Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — President Joe Biden on Monday congratulated hospitality workers for reaching a tentative…

THESSALONIKI, Greece (AP) — Police in northern Greece have removed students occupying a law school during the exam period to protest government…

By JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Jam Master Jay was known for his anti-drug advocacy as part of the groundbreaking rap group…

By AAMER MADHANI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration is rolling out a new policy that will allow it to impose visa…

By BASSEM MROUE Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — U.S.-backed Kurdish fighters in Syria have liberated a Yazidi woman who had been held by the Islamic…

By AHMED AL-HAJ Associated Press SANAA, Yemen (AP) — Yemen’s internationally recognized presidential council has sacked the prime minister.…