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HOOD RIVER, Ore. (AP) — Gunshots broke out as police in Hood River, Oregon, responded to a call at a home in the scenic vacation town, prompting an…

By URI BLAU of Shomrim and MIKE CATALINI of The Associated Press LAKEWOOD, N.J. (AP) — An Israeli group that assists Jewish prisoners convicted in…

By LEA SKENE Associated Press ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — The protracted legal odyssey of Adnan Syed, whose murder case rose to prominence through the…

By TARA COPP, MATTHEW LEE and LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — After months of agonizing, the U.S has agreed to send…

By GRAHAM DUNBAR AP Sports Writer GENEVA (AP) — The International Olympic Committee has stepped up efforts to explain its position on trying to…

By BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Emergency calls to Monterey Park police after a dance hall shooting killed 11 people and…

By ED WHITE Associated Press A former leader of the Michigan state House had his phone seized as part of a federal investigation that included grand…

NEW YORK (AP) — Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank is planning a book on the House of Representatives, and it will not be flattering. Little,…

By KRYSTA FAURIA Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — For Kim Petras, 2022 was a big year. The singer-songwriter received her first Grammy…

NEW YORK (AP) — Hindenburg Research is a financial research firm with an explosive name and a track record of sending the stock prices of its…

By FRED GOODALL AP Sports Writer TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Tom Brady’s future figures to be busy. The seven-time Super Bowl-winning quarterback’s…

By BEN FINLEY Associated Press The former principal of the Virginia elementary school where a 6-year-old shot his teacher was not aware of reports…

By KAREN MATTHEWS and WAYNE PARRY Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A published report says federal authorities are investigating whether embattled…

SYRACUSE, N.Y. (AP) — Federal prosecutors say a New York man has pleaded guilty to making threatening phone calls to Republican Congresswoman…

BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s interior minister says she plans to run for governor of her home state this fall but to remain the country’s top…

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma’s new attorney general has apologized to one of Gov. Kevin Stitt’s former cabinet secretaries for his…

By STEFANIE DAZIO Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Police on Thursday said there isn’t any evidence that a mass shooting was planned by a…

By JUSTIN SPIKE Associated Press BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Hungary’s foreign minister says what the United States ambassador to Budapest…

By ILAN BEN ZION and SAMY MAGDY Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel’s foreign minister says the country expects to fully normalize ties…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders will deliver the Republican address to the nation in response to President Joe Biden’s…

By CURT ANDERSON Associated Press TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — It’s been six years since Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band embarked on a major…

By LEANNE ITALIE Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Whether looking for love or a casual encounter, 3 in 10 U.S. adults say they have used a dating…

By MATT OTT AP Business Writer The average long-term U.S. mortgage rate declined for the fourth week in a row, a sign of relative stability that…

By STEVE LeBLANC Associated Press CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) — Award-winning actor and bestselling author Bob Odenkirk was feted Thursday as 2023 Man of…

By MARYCLAIRE DALE and TED SHAFFREY Associated Press SAYREVILLE, N.J. (AP) — Authorities say a New Jersey borough councilwoman was found shot to…

By MIKE STOBBE AP Medical Writer NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. health officials said Thursday a company is recalling its over-the-counter eye drops that…

By The Associated Press Rodents predicting weather trends. Why? Just as fair a Groundhog Day question, though, is this: Why not? And more…

NEW YORK (AP) — The NBA 2K League is taking its 2023 season to Washington. The league announced Thursday it will play this season at the District…

By AARON MORRISON AP National Writer MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — The sound of the djembe drums started as a low tremble and grew more distinct as the…

By TOM KRISHER and MIKE HOUSEHOLDER Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — Two men who began their careers on factory floors are competing to lead the…

By DIARLEI RODRIGUES and CARLA BRIDI Associated Press RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Rio de Janeiro’s brutal summer heat has reached 50 degrees Celsius…

By MIKE CORDER Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Appeals judges at a European Union-backed court have upheld most of the convictions…

By CHRIS MEGERIAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Real and fake news will collide again at this year’s White House Correspondents’…

BERLIN (AP) — Nine men suspected of involvement in blowing up dozens of cash machines in Germany and stealing some 5.2 million euros (nearly $5.7…

By BRITTNEY J. MILLER, Cedar Rapids Gazette CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (AP) — Amid a major drought in the Western U.S., a proposed solution comes up…

By AUDREY McAVOY Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — A whale that washed ashore in Hawaii over the weekend likely died in part because it ate large…

PARIS (AP) — Interpol says police in southeastern France have arrested a convicted murderer linked to Italy’s most powerful organized crime…

By JIM HEINTZ Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin has attended commemorations of the 80th anniversary of the Soviet…

LONDON (AP) — The U.K. government says it will hold a public inquiry into whether the deadliest bombing in Northern Ireland’s decades of violence…

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — An Iranian director who was arrested last summer, weeks before his latest film was released to widespread…

By JOVANA GEC Associated Press BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Serbia’s populist president has warned during a chaotic parliamentary session that the…

By MICHAEL CASEY Associated Press HILDALE, Utah (AP) — Ayahuasca is a psychedelic tea whose roots go back hundreds of years to ceremonial use by…

By MICHAEL CASEY Associated Press HILDALE, Utah (AP) — The tea tasted bitter and earthy, but Lorenzo Gonzales drank it anyway. On that frigid night…

By KRUTIKA PATHI Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — India’s Gautam Adani was Asia’s richest man when the U.S. short-selling firm…

By CARA ANNA Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Africa’s public health agency says countries with deadly cholera outbreaks on the continent…

By KATE ASHFORD of NerdWallet A new year means changes to Medicare, including updated premiums and deductibles and sometimes big policy moves. In…

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli police have arrested an American tourist after he allegedly knocked down and broke a statue of Jesus in a church in…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The U.K. government says is responding to “deeply shocking” revelations that debt collectors…

By KELVIN CHAN AP Business Writer LONDON (AP) — Global energy giant Shell says annual profits doubled to a record high last year as oil and gas…

By PAUL J. WEBER and KEN MILLER Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Thousands of frustrated Texans shivered in homes without power for a second…

By JAY COHEN AP Sports Writer Back at the very beginning, right when the idea of water polo in Ghana started swimming into reality, Prince Asante got…

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre of Norway says the oil-rich Scandinavian country will become one of the world’s top…

By AAMER MADHANI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is playing host to former President Bill Clinton to mark the 30th…

By LORNE COOK Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Parliament has removed the protective immunity of two lawmakers linked to one of the…

BY AYANNA ALEXANDER Associated Press JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — Not far from the postcard images of Jacksonville — the white sand beaches, the…

By NICOLE WINFIELD, CHRISTINA MALKIA and JEAN-YVES KAMALE Associated Press KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — Pope Francis led Congo’s young people in a…

By LORNE COOK Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — Senior members of the European Union’s executive branch are in Ukraine looking to boost…

By DAVID McHUGH AP Business Writer FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — The European Central Bank has hiked interest rates by another half-point and vows a…

By SUSIE BLANN Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian missiles hit residential areas in an eastern Ukrainian city Thursday for the second…

By RIAZ KHAN Associated Press PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistani police say a suicide bomber who killed 101 people in the northwestern city of…

By KANIS LEUNG Associated Press Hong Kong (AP) — Hong Kong will give away air tickets and vouchers to woo tourists back. The international…

By TIA GOLDENBERG Associated Press TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Israel’s attorney general says Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu must not be involved…

VIENNA (AP) — An Austrian court has convicted four men of terrorist offenses and participation in murder over their alleged links to a sympathizer…

VIENNA (AP) — The Austrian government says it has ordered four diplomats based in Vienna, including two at Moscow’s mission to United Nations…

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran has formally blamed Israel for a drone attack that targeted a military…

By KRUTIKA PATHI and SHEIKH SAALIQ Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — Indian conglomerate Adani Enterprises called off its $2.5 billion share…

By DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The Bank of England has raised interest rates by half a percentage point as it sought to tame…

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

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press London (AP) — U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has angry unions to the left of him, anxious Conservative Party…

By ANTHONY IZAGUIRRE and TERRY SPENCER Associated Press TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Florida could make it easier for juries to hand down the death…

By TIA GOLDENBERG Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel’s West Bank settler population now makes up more than half a million people, a…