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By SHEIKH SAALIQ and BISWAJEET BANERJEE Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — Preparations are underway in India’s northern Ayodhya city to mark the…

By ANNA FURMAN Associated Press Over the past three months, on banners and T-shirts and balloons and social media posts, one piece of imagery has…

By DAVID McHUGH and HANNA ARHIROVA Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine’s hard-won economic stability is under threat again as the…

By JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press DAVOS, Switzerland (AP) — The top diplomats of Iran and the United States sit down for public — and separate —…

By MARK SHERMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court is taking up challenges by commercial fishermen to a fee requirement that…

By SYLVIE CORBET Associated Press PARIS (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron has made a point of showing his leadership hasn’t faded in more…

By HOLLY RAMER Associated Press ROCHESTER, N.H. (AP) — Kristina Amyot’s life has drastically improved since the last New Hampshire primary, but…

By MICHAEL R. SISAK, LARRY NEUMEISTER and JAKE OFFENHARTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Less than a year after convincing a jury that former…

By CLAIRE SAVAGE Associated Press Sentencing is scheduled Wednesday in Chicago for an American woman who pleaded guilty to helping kill her mother…

By KEIRAN SMITH Associated Press WELLINGTON (AP) — New Zealand’s first refugee lawmaker has resigned after several media reports aired…

By SOPHIE AUSTIN Associated Press/Report for America SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A lawsuit is accusing the deputy director of the California…

By KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — The United States, South Korea and Japan conducted combined naval exercises involving…

By ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Lawyers for former President Donald Trump are foreshadowing elements of their defense in the…

By ZEN SOO AP Business Writer HONG KONG (AP) — China’s economy for the October-December quarter grew at a quicker rate, allowing the Chinese…

By MARIA SHERMAN AP Music Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — The 2024 Coachella festival lineup is here! Lana Del Rey, Doja Cat, and Tyler, the Creator will…

BEIJING (AP) — China’s population dropped by 2 million people in 2023 in the second straight annual drop as births fell and deaths jumped. The…

By GENE JOHNSON Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) — Three Washington state police officers who were cleared of criminal charges in the 2020 death of…

By MARY CLARE JALONICK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley has been hospitalized in the Washington area with an infection…

By SUMMER BALLENTINE Associated Press COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — What’s expected to be an expensive and bitter fight over Missouri abortion-rights…

By HANNAH SCHOENBAUM Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah’s Republican legislative leaders took aim at social media companies on the…

By JONATHAN J. COOPER Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — A federal judge has ruled that the third-party group No Labels can prohibit members from…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United Nations says Russia’s intense missile and drone attacks across Ukraine in…

By JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Police say two New York City officers have been shot as they struggled with a domestic violence…

HALF MOON BAY, Calif. (AP) — A woman whose body was found in the water near where a small plane crashed into the ocean off the California coast has…

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A man accused of faking his death and fleeing the U.S. to avoid rape charges in Utah denied at a court appearance Tuesday…

By CHRISTINE FERNANDO Associated Press The U.S. Election Assistance Commission is searching for its fourth leader since 2019, just as voting begins…

By JOHN HANNA AP Political Writer TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The top judicial official in Kansas says the state’s courts need at least $2.6 million…

By MICHAEL LIEDTKE AP Technology Writer Apple is prepared to remove the blood-oxygen sensor from its internet-connected watches if a court doesn’t…

By JOSH DUBOW AP Pro Football Writer SANTA CLARA, Calif. (AP) — For one night at least, San Francisco 49ers All-Pro fullback Kyle Juszczyk was not…

By CLAIRE RUSH Associated Press PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — The Pacific Northwest is bracing for more hazardous winter weather after a weekend storm that…

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Attorneys for the first inmate slated to be put to death with nitrogen gas have asked a federal appeals court to block the…

By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN Associated Press ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — The New Mexico Supreme Court says personal injury lawsuits brought against tribal…

By DAVID BAUDER and LEA SKENE Associated Press Writers The return of a struggling newspaper from an investment firm to a local owner would normally…

By ALI SWENSON Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — ChatGPT maker OpenAI has outlined a plan to prevent its artificial intelligence tools from being…

By SETH BORENSTEIN AP Science Writer Much of the United States is shivering through brutal cold as most of the rest of the world is feeling unusually…

By THOMAS ADAMSON AP Fashion Writer PARIS (AP) — At Paris Fashion Week, Pharrell Williams unveiled his sophomore collection for Louis Vuitton, a…

NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — St. John’s coach Rick Pitino is recovering from COVID-19 and will miss his team’s game against Seton Hall on Tuesday night.…

NEW YORK (AP) — The prospect of a JetBlue-Spirit Airlines merger has taken a major hit in court. A federal judge on Tuesday sided with the Biden…

By MICHAEL RUBINKAM Associated Press A federal judge says an Ohio elected official’s constitutional rights were violated when her colleagues on a…

By ANDREW DALTON AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Emmy Awards reached a record low in ratings. The Monday night show hosted by…

By STEFANIE DAZIO and BRIAN MAHONEY Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — A woman has alleged that New York Knicks owner James Dolan sexually…

By COLLEEN SLEVIN Associated Press DENVER (AP) — The shooter who killed five people and endangered the lives of over 40 others at a LGBTQ+…

By FARNOUSH AMIRI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republicans are halting plans to hold Hunter Biden in contempt of Congress this week for…

By THOMAS BEAUMONT Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ team had knocked on 947,000 doors across Iowa while the…

By WAYNE PARRY Associated Press ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — There is both good news and bad news for Atlantic City’s casinos and racetracks…

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Supporters of former rebel leader Guy Philippe have launched protests that paralyzed some cities across Haiti as they…

By SAMANTHA HENDRICKSON Associated Press/Report For America COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Several transgender candidates vying for state office in Ohio are…

TERRE HAUTE, Ind. (AP) — Officials say an inmate has died following an apparent fight with another inmate at a federal prison in western Indiana.…

By JAMES POLLARD Associated Press/Report for America COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Alex Murdaugh faces a steep uphill battle in his push for a new murder…

By MARY CLARE JALONICK and LISA MASCARO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden has invited the top four congressional leaders and…

By LISA MASCARO AP Congressional Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) — Sen. Bernie Sanders is forcing congressional colleagues to vote on whether to have…

By SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin’s powerful Republican Assembly leader says he hopes the liberal-controlled state…

UVALDE, Texas (AP) — The Justice Department is planning this week to release findings of an investigation into the 2022 Uvalde, Texas, school…

By HOLLY RAMER, BILL BARROW and JEFFREY COLLINS Associated Press CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — Donald Trump scored a record victory in the Iowa caucuses.…

BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Serbian opposition supporters were back in the streets on Tuesday, accusing President Aleksandar Vucic’s populist…

By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER Associated Press A federal judge has rejected a bid for a new trial for Peter Navarro, a Trump White House official convicted…

NEW YORK (AP) — Erika Ayers Badan is stepping down as the CEO of Barstool Sports. Badan said in a video posted to social media on Tuesday she feels…

By VALERIE GONZALEZ Associated Press McALLEN, Texas (AP) — The drowning deaths of three migrants have brought new urgency to an extraordinary…

By CHINEDU ASADU ABUJA, Nigeria Associated Press (AP) — Nigeria’s leader says his government will embark on “massive education” of youth as…

By DAN GELSTON AP Sports Writer PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Jason Kelce stood on the sideline in tears as the final seconds ticked off in his likely final…

TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Retired wrestler Hulk Hogan and a friend rescued a teenage girl who was trapped in an overturned vehicle after a crash in…

By WAYNE PARRY Associated Press UNION, N.J. (AP) — A New Jersey firefighter says a kink in a fire hose stretched out in the smoky darkness of a…

By KEVIN FREKING Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The chairmen of the top tax policy committees in Congress announced a bipartisan agreement…

DALLAS (AP) — A federal judge is siding with the Biden administration and blocking JetBlue Airways from buying Spirit Airlines, saying the $3.8…

By BERENICE BAUTISTA Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — For filmmaker Issa López, the first question was where? The Mexican director behind…

By AAMER MADHANI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A top White House official says the ongoing threat by Yemen’s Houthi rebels to commercial…

By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Sit down and talk to Justin Tranter for just a while and likely a hit song will emerge. The…

SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic (AP) — Private and public companies in the Dominican Republic are preparing for a voluntary six-month pilot…

By KEN SWEET and CORA LEWIS The Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is expected to propose rules this week…

By DEE-ANN DURBIN AP Business Writer Rapper and entrepreneur Sean “Diddy” Combs has withdrawn his lawsuit against Diageo as part of a settlement…

By BASSEM MROUE Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Judicial officials say a judge at Lebanon’s highest court has suspended an arrest warrant against…

By MIKE SCHNEIDER Associated Press ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Disney is hoping a recent decision bolstering a Florida prosecutor’s First Amendment case…

Iran has launched attacks in Pakistan targeting what it described as bases for the militant group Jaish al-Adl. The state-run IRNA news agency says…

By JULIA FRANKEL Associated Press KIBBUTZ NIR OZ, Israel (AP) — Standing in the ruins of her home in the Nir Oz farming village on the Gaza border,…

By TAIWO ADEBAYO ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Shell has reached an agreement with a consortium of companies to sell its onshore business in…

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkey’s president has vowed to widen military operations against groups linked to Kurdish militants in neighboring…

By CHRISTINE FERNANDO and SUMMER BALLENTINE The Associated Press JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Reproductive rights activists in Missouri agree they…