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By JONATHAN LANDRUM Jr. AP Entertainment Writer PHOENIX (AP) — Sheryl Lee Ralph is living a career dream: The “Abbott Elementary” star won her…

By KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and his young daughter have taken center stage at a…

By ADAM BEAM Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A five-year experiment aimed at improving care for some of California’s most at-risk…

SAN DIEGO (AP) — A tiny California mouse now has a big title after winning a Guinness World Records title for longevity. A Pacific pocket mouse…

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australia’s Defense Department will remove surveillance cameras made by Chinese…

By GENE JOHNSON Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) — A U.S. judge has upheld Washington’s residency requirement for involvement in the…

By DAVID BAUDER AP Media Writer NEW YORK (AP) — An estimated 27.3 million people watched President Joe Biden’s State of the Union address on…

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A jury has convicted a Minnesota woman accused of shooting her 6-year-old son nine times and hiding his body in her car trunk.…

By MARC LEVY Associated Press HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Pennsylvania is now the latest state where a judge has found the public school funding system…

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A co-host of “Ear Hustle,” the Pulitzer Prize-nominated podcast produced behind bars, was released from San…

By ALEX VEIGA AP Business Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Walt Disney Co. will cut about 7,000 jobs as part of an ambitious companywide cost-savings…

NEW YORK (AP) — New York City police say a shooting outside a Brooklyn high school has injured two students and a school security guard.…

By ANDREA RODRIGUEZ Associated Press HAVANA (AP) — Pope Francis special envoy says the pontiff hopes Cuban authorities will release and grant…

By AMY BETH HANSON Associated Press HELENA, Mont. (AP) — More than two dozen Republican Montana lawmakers are co-sponsoring a bill that would allow…

By SOPHIE AUSTIN Associated Press/Report for America SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A bill backed by California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s administration…

By DAVE COLLINS Associated Press HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — A former University of Connecticut student has pleaded guilty to murder and other charges…

By JULIE WATSON Associated Press SAN DIEGO (AP) — Two U.S. Army veterans who were deported to Mexico a decade ago won their long battle to return…

By JUAN A. LOZANO Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — Police are investigating possible vandalism at the Houston Zoo after workers discovered a…

By SEAN MURPHY Associated Press Writer OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Republican attacks on gender affirming medical care for young people continued…

By ANDREW DeMILLO Associated Press LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders is proposing an education overhaul that includes a…

By MATT O’BRIEN AP Technology Writer REDMOND, Wash. (AP) — Nearly a quarter-century after Google’s search engine began to reshape how we…

By LISA MASCARO, ZEKE MILLER and FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — When President Joe Biden suggested that Republicans want to…

By ANDREW SELSKY Associated Press SALEM, Ore. (AP) — A thirst for rare bottles of bourbon appears set to cost the executive director and other top…

MITCHELL, Ind. (AP) — A sheriff says the second of two southern Indiana police officers shot during a weekend traffic stop has been released from a…

By GARY D. ROBERTSON Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A federal appeals court has sided again with North Carolina’s attorney general in a…

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s lower house of parliament has given final approval to a new law on judicial accountability that the government…

LONDON (AP) — Five climate change protesters have been fined for gluing themselves to the frame of a copy of Leonardo da Vinci’s “The Last…

OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso (AP) — The aid group Doctors Without Borders says two of its employees have been killed in an attack on their vehicle in…

By TARA COPP and LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon says the Chinese balloon shot down off the South Carolina coast…

By TRAVIS LOLLER, JONATHAN MATTISE and ADRIAN SAINZ Associated Press MEMPHIS, Tennessee (AP) — The officer who pulled Tyre Nichols from his car…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — One year after the Super Bowl season was marred by a ban on Mexican avocado shipments, another threat has emerged: An…

By LINDSEY TANNER AP Medical Writer A devastating earthquake in Turkey and Syria has raised questions about how long people can survive in the…

By BASSEM MROUE and KAREEM CHEHAYEB Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — For years, the people of Aleppo bore the brunt of bombardment and fighting when…

By MIKE SCHNEIDER Associated Press ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Facing blowback, the director of Florida’s high school sports governing body is backing…

By EDDIE PELLS AP National Writer DENVER (AP) — More than two years since it was greenlighted by Congress, the panel established to probe the inner…

By STEFANIE DAZIO Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — California voters could decide whether to reinstate voting rights to people in prison on…

By JUSTIN SPIKE Associated Press ADANA, Turkey (AP) — They lifted slabs of cement with enormous cranes and smashed rubble with jackhammers. Then,…

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A herd of city goats well-known in Portland, Oregon, were temporarily set free Tuesday morning in what appeared to be an act…

By JUAN A. LOZANO and MICHAEL GRACZYK Associated Press HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) — Texas has executed an inmate convicted of killing three teenagers…

By JEFFREY COLLINS Associated Press Alex Murdaugh’s paralegal is testifying at his double murder trial about the betrayal she felt when she…

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Norway’s justice minister has apologized for having failed to admit, when quizzed in Parliament, that she had…

SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) — Bulgarian prosecutors have charged a former energy minister in the previous, pro-Western government with mismanagement that…

By RIO YAMAT Associated Press NORTH LAS VEGAS, Nev. (AP) — A former “Dances With Wolves” actor accused of sexually abusing Indigenous women and…

By KATHERINE ROTH Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — It was Valentine’s Day 1917 in the Minnesota farming village of Lewiston, and Fred Roth — a…

By MARY CLARE JALONICK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — As the new chairman of the Senate committee that oversees health and labor issues,…

By KIMBERLEE KRUESI and JONATHAN MATTISE Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A top Tennessee Republican lawmaker says the state should stop…

By ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Chinese surveillance balloon that traversed the United States before being shot down last…

By RAF CASERT and SAMUEL PETREQUIN Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — A whirlwind 36 hours are taking Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy from…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Authorities in northern Mexico say they have found the bodies of 14 people in an overturned pickup truck submerged in a canal.…

By BEN FINLEY Associated Press NORFOLK, Va. (AP) — The families of two students at a Virginia elementary school where a 6-year-old shot his teacher…

BOSTON (AP) — An effort to digitize more than 200 Boston Pops radio broadcasts conducted by John Williams from 1979 until 1991 is almost complete.…

NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump’s former lawyer Michael Cohen met yet again Wednesday with New York City prosecutors who have spent years examining…

By ANDREW DAMPF AP Sports Writer MERIBEL, France (AP) — Mikaela Shiffrin woke up to the news that LeBron James had broken the NBA scoring record…

By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press ROME (AP) — European bishops are demanding the immediate release of Nicaraguan clergy who have been detained in…

HAMDEN, Conn. (AP) — A Connecticut teenager has been jailed on numerous charges after a fight in school led to the discovery of a gun and a…

MADRID (AP) — Spain’s government has pledged stronger action against cybercrime, which has come to account for about a fifth of all offenses…

By EDMAR BARROS and FABIANO MAISONNAVE ALTO ALEGRE, Brazil (AP) — Brazilian authorities have launched an operation to reclaim Yanomami Indigenous…

By HANNA ARHIROVA Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian tennis player and Olympic bronze medalist Elina Svitolina has pushed for a total…

By GRAHAM DUNBAR AP Sports Writer GENEVA (AP) — The International Olympic Committee has pushed back against the mayor of Paris by insisting there…

By DIOMANDE BLE BLONDE and KRISTA LARSON Associated Press YAMOUSSOUKRO, Ivory Coast (AP) — Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel has been honored…

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Denmark’s royal palace says Queen Margrethe II will undergo “major back surgery” later this month. The palace said…

Associated Press KIGALI, Rwanda (AP) — A driver whose car hit and killed a Rwandan investigative journalist has pled guilty and been fined by the…

By NOEL SICHALWE Associated Press LUSAKA, Zambia (AP) — A Zambian official has announced that eight Croatians rearrested in the southern African…

By YURAS KARMANAU Associated Press TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — A Belarusian court has sentenced a journalist and prominent member of the…

By FRANCESCO SPORTELLI Associated Press FLORENCE, Italy (AP) — Visitors to one of Florence’s most iconic monuments — the Baptistry of San…

BRUSSELS (AP) — Authorities in Belgium seized about 1.5 million euros in cash during raids targeting an alleged criminal organization suspected of…

HELSINKI (AP) — Firefighters are working for a second day to fully extinguish a blaze at a U.S. company’s drone plant in Latvia. Local police…

By DOUG FEINBERG AP Basketball Writer Brittney Griner texted her good friend Diana Taurasi on Tuesday morning asking how the USA Basketball training…

By KELVIN CHAN AP Business Writer LONDON (AP) — Microsoft’s stalled $68.7 billion deal to buy video game company Activision Blizzard has hit a…

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — The world’s biggest shipper, Denmark’s A.P. Moeller-Maersk, says 2022 was its most profitable year but warned that a…

By TARA COPP Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The extraordinary scene of U.S. fighter jets getting ready to strike a Chinese balloon had many…