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

By NICK PERRY Associated Press WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — The United States has opened an embassy in the Solomon Islands in its latest move to…

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — French naval forces in January seized thousands of assault rifles, machine guns…

By ANDREW SELSKY Associated Press SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Police in rural southwest Oregon were on high alert: A man with a history of kidnapping and…

PUNXSUTAWNEY, Pa. (AP) — A furry critter in a western Pennsylvania town has predicted six more weeks of winter during an annual Groundhog Day…

By MUNIR AHMED Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — Officials say Pakistan’s police have arrested a prominent political ally of a former prime…

By JIM GOMEZ and ELLEN KNICKMEYER Associated Press MANILA, Philippines (AP) — The Philippines says it is allowing U.S. forces to broaden their…

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Sony has appointed a company veteran as its president to lead the Japanese electronics and…

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Asian shares were trading mixed Friday ahead of a closely watched U.S. jobs report that may affect…

By COLLEEN LONG and EMILY SWANSON Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — More U.S. adults disapprove than approve of the way President Joe Biden has…

By CHRIS MEGERIAN, FARNOUSH AMIRI and SEUNG MIN KIM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Members of the Congressional Black Caucus have left a…

By WILL WEISSERT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Bitter divisions dominated a recent national Republican Party gathering. And come this weekend,…

By KEVIN FREKING and LISA MASCARO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republicans have voted to oust Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar from the House…

By CORA LEWIS Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The Federal Reserve raised its key rate by a quarter point Wednesday, bringing it to the highest…

By MARGERY A. BECK Associated Press LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — The Nebraska Legislature’s Health and Human Services Committee took nearly eight hours…

By JAMIE STENGLE Associated Press DALLAS (AP) — The two small monkeys who were found in a vacant house a day after being taken from the Dallas Zoo…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Two people have been accused of stealing nearly $3 million from a wealthy ailing investor, moving into his Malibu beach home and…

By JUAN A. LOZANO Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — Attorneys for a former Houston police officer charged with murder in connection with a deadly…

OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A 5-year-old boy who was attacked by a mountain lion while hiking in rural Northern California with his…

By KEN RITTER Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — A Nevada judge has ruled a Colorado dentist unfit for trial following his arrest last month in what…

NEW YORK (AP) — A federal judge in New York City has ordered an ex-gynecologist to jail as he awaits sentencing, following his conviction for…

By ANDREW SELSKY SALEM, Ore. (AP) — The suspect in a violent kidnapping in Oregon — a man who spent little time behind bars for a similar crime…

By BECKY BOHRER and MATTHEW DALY Associated Press JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — The Biden administration has issued a long-awaited study that recommends…

By LISA MASCARO and SEUNG MIN KIM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy met face-to-face…

By JOHN RABY Associated Press CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A health provider has filed a lawsuit seeking to overturn West Virginia’s near-total…

By RICK RYCROFT and ROD McGUIRK Associated Press SYDNEY (AP) — Mourners at the Sydney funeral for Australian Cardinal George Pell, who was once the…

By ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A lawyer for President Joe Biden’s son, Hunter, asked the Justice Department in a letter…

By COLLEEN LONG and SEUNG MIN KIM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Outgoing White House chief of staff Ron Klain burst into tears Wednesday as he…

By LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The most expansive federal report in over two decades on guns and crime shows a shrinking…

By CARLA BRIDI and ELÉONORE HUGHES Associated Press BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — Brazilian lawmakers have voted to reelect the heads of both the…

By KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea says it’s prepared to counter U.S. military moves with the “most…

By MICHAEL HILL and MAYSOON KHAN Associated Press ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York Gov. Kathy Hochul proposed dramatic spending to help New York City…

By HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH Associated Press Police say the man who was fatally shot by police after entering a Target store in Omaha, Nebraska, armed…

By KIMBERLEE KRUESI Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Republican lawmakers continued to block Democratic lawmakers from questioning the…

By MICHAEL LIEDTKE AP Technology Writer SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Elon Musk’s former chief of staff has testified that the billionaire believed he had…

By PAT EATON-ROBB Associated Press HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — A group of Hispanic lawmakers in Connecticut has proposed that the state follow…

By LEA SKENE Associated Press BALTIMORE (AP) — A weekend shooting in west Baltimore’s Upton neighborhood killed two people and left three others…

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — San Francisco building inspectors have given Twitter’s construction contractor two weeks to submit a corrected building use…

By SAMY MAGDY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — A tanker transporting liquefied natural gas broke down in the Suez Canal on Wednesday but traffic in…

By GISELA SALOMON Associated Press MIAMI (AP) — Four key suspects in the killing of Haiti’s president appear for the first time in U.S. federal…

By CHRISTINA LARSON AP Science Writer SILVA JARDIM, Brazil (AP) — A pioneering campaign to vaccinate endangered monkeys in Brazil against yellow…

CAMBRIDGE, Ohio (AP) — Philadelphia Eagles reserve offensive lineman Josh Sills has been indicted on rape and kidnapping charges that stem from an…

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A second man pleaded guilty in the death of a 15-year-old outside a suburban Minneapolis school in a shooting that also…

By BRIAN MELLEY and KATHLEEN FOODY Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Disgraced Los Angeles celebrity lawyer Tom Girardi has been indicted in Los…

By NOMAAN MERCHANT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The new top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee is calling for more information…

By MICHELLE L. PRICE Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — New campaign finance reports show that former President Donald Trump’s political operation…

By TERESA M. WALKER AP Pro Football Writer Nobody drove Tom Brady harder than the record-setting quarterback himself. That’s even if his 23rd…

By JEFFREY COLLINS Associated Press A state agent testifying in Alex Murdaugh’s double murder trial meticulously reconstructed activity from his…

LIDO BEACH, N.Y. (AP) — A humpback whale that washed ashore on a New York beach this week was likely killed by a vessel, federal authorities said…

By JONATHAN LANDRUM Jr. and KRISTIN M. HALL AP Entertainment Writers The Beyhive is all abuzz over the possibility that Beyoncé will have a chance…

By ASHRAF KHALIL Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A man shot three people, killing one, in a Wednesday morning rampage in the nation’s capital…

By DÁNICA COTO Associated Press SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Jamaica’s prime minister says his government is willing to send soldiers and police…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — The former director of a zoo in southern Mexico killed four of the zoo’s pygmy goats and served them up at a Christmas-season…

By BRIAN WITTE Associated Press ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — Maryland Gov. Wes Moore is emphasizing his commitment to service in his first State of the…

By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER Associated Press Federal authorities say a well-known former investigative journalist for ABC News has been arrested on a…

By RAHIM FAIEZ Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — Afghanistan’s Taliban-appointed foreign minister has asked Pakistani authorities to look for the…

LONDON (AP) — Qatar Airways and Airbus have reached a settlement in a longstanding legal dispute over the A350 jetliner and billions of orders for…

TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — The Israeli military says its aircraft have struck a rocket production workshop run by the militant Hamas group in the Gaza…

By CHEYANNE MUMPHREY and SHARON LURYE Associated Press BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — High school senior Kahlila Bandele is used to courses that don’t…

By GERALD IMRAY Associated Press CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — The judge presiding over former South African President Jacob Zuma’s corruption…

By FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A Russian arms dealer, his son and a group of front companies across Asia, Europe and the…

By JONATHAN LANDRUM Jr. AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Dr. Dre will celebrate the 30th anniversary of “The Chronic” with a…

By SUSIE BLANN Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia is mustering its military might in the Luhansk region of Ukraine, officials said…

By JOE REEDY AP Sports Writer CUPERTINO, Calif. (AP) — Apple has kicked off a 10-year partnership with Major League Soccer with the launch of…

ALBURGH, Vt. (AP) — Authorities say a Vermont man died after participating in a brawl among spectators at a middle school basketball game. Police…

By MADDIE BURAKOFF AP Science Writer NEW YORK (AP) — For thousands of years, ancient Egyptians mummified their dead in the search for eternal life.…

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — AMC Entertainment Holdings, the world’s biggest cinema chain, has decided to exit Saudi Arabia’s…

PRAGUE (AP) — Officials in the Czech Republic say the government will end checks on the country’s border with Slovakia that were renewed last…