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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Taylor Swift’s acoustic guitar, Eminem’s signed tennis shoes and an ensemble worn by a BTS member are among the items to be…

By TOM DAVIES Associated Press INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Congressman Jim Banks of Indiana has launched a campaign for the U.S. Senate seat being given up…

By RAF CASERT Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union is pushing forward with a major clean tech industrial plan that not only should…

ISLAMABAD (AP) — A provincial official in Afghanistan says nine men were lashed in public as punishment for different crimes. Tuesday’s…

By HANNA ARHIROVA Associated Press DNIPRO, Ukraine (AP) — The death toll from a weekend Russian missile strike on an apartment building in…

BERLIN (AP) — Chancellor Olaf Scholz says he is appointing a regional official as Germany’s new defense minister following the resignation of…

By SUZAN FRASER and ANDREW WILKS Associated Press ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkey and the United States will aim to smooth out a series of…

By JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press DAVOS, Switzerland (AP) — Ukraine’s first lady on Tuesday pressed world leaders and corporate executives at the…

By HANNA ARHIROVA and DASHA LITVINOVA Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Alina Kapatsyna often dreams about getting a phone call from her…

By BHARATHA MALLAWARACHI Associated Press COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Human rights groups are urging Sri Lanka’s government to release a…

By WANJOHI KABUKURU Associated Press MOMBASA, Kenya (AP) — Climate activists in Africa are expressing anger toward the United Nations climate…

By JOHN HANNA Associated Press TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A defense attorney says a man charged with threatening to kill a Kansas congressman is harmless.…

By SAMY MAGDY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — Yemen is seeing its longest-ever pause in fighting, more than nine months. Yemeni, Saudi and U.N.…

By MARC LEVY, BROOKE SCHULTZ and MARK SCOLFORO Associated Press HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Democrat Josh Shapiro has become the 48th governor of…

By MARK STEVENSON Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — The man who was once Mexico’s top security official and in charge of fighting the drug…

By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer BANGKOK (AP) — Asian shares were mostly lower Wednesday after Japan’s central bank kept its lax monetary…

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Italian tennis player Camila Giorgi has denied allegations that she obtained a false COVID-19 vaccine certificate to…

By FRED GOODALL AP Sports Writer TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — So much for notion that Dak Prescott and the Dallas Cowboys might not be up to the challenge of…

FORT PIERCE, Fla. (AP) — Police in Florida said eight people were shot during an Martin Luther King Jr. Day event, with one of the victims listed…

By RIO YAMAT Associated Press A failed Republican candidate who authorities said was angry over his defeat and made baseless claims the election last…

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden will travel to California’s central coast Thursday to visit areas that have been devastated by extreme…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. chief says in a new report that Al-Qaida and Islamic State extremist groups are…

By JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — China’s economic growth fell to its second-lowest level in at least four decades last year…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — More than 90 countries have expressed “deep concern” at Israel’s punitive measures…

DALLAS (AP) — Dallas police say a 14-year-old girl fatally shot an 11-year-old boy at a Dallas apartment complex parking lot after retrieving a gun…

RIDGELAND, Miss. (AP) — A former University of Mississippi and NFL football player has been arrested on kidnapping charges. Jerrell Powe remained…

By LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press GRAFENWOEHR TRAINING AREA, Germany (AP) — Monday was just Day Two for Ukrainian soldiers at the U.S.…

CYRIL, Oklahoma (AP) — An effort to locate a missing 4-year-old Oklahoma girl who authorities believe was killed by a caretaker has become a search…

NEW YORK (AP) — Police say a man made off with $300,000 cash in a bizarre Brink’s truck robbery outside a Brooklyn bank last week. According to…

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Vegas Golden Knights goaltender Robin Lehner and his wife have filed for bankruptcy in Nevada, citing up to $50 million in debts…

By AARON BEARD AP Basketball Writer Alabama men’s basketball coach Nate Oats says the fourth-ranked Crimson Tide is going through “kind of a…

By BILL BARROW Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — America has honored Martin Luther King Jr. with a federal holiday for nearly four decades yet still…

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — U.S. Rep. Suzanne Bonamici of Oregon says she and her husband are recovering at home after being hit by a car. A Portland…

BEECH GROVE, Ind. (AP) — An Indiana man faces criminal charges after a young boy was allegedly seen holding a handgun outside their apartment and…

By RAHIM FAIEZ Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — Tributes are pouring in for a former Afghan female lawmaker who was shot and killed by gunmen in…

EL PASO, Texas (AP) — During a visit to the Texas border city of El Paso, New York Mayor Eric Adams criticized the federal government’s response…

ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — A leading Nigerian presidential candidate is pledging to fight the endemic corruption that has stifled growth for many years.…

By RAQUEL REDONDO Associated Press MADRID (AP) — A Spanish regional chief has contradicted an announcement by a far-right member of his cabinet…

By MIKE CORDER Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The German and Dutch foreign ministers have condemned the deportation by Russians of…

VISALIA, Calif. (AP) — Six people — including a 17-year-old mother and her 6-month-old baby — were killed in a shooting early Monday at a home…

By The Associated Press This week’s new entertainment releases include an album from Lukas Graham, the Showtime series “Your Honor” starring…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. special envoy for Yemen says he is encouraged by intensified regional and…

By COLLEEN BARRY Associated Press TURIN, Italy (AP) — Making his first speaking appearance since #MeToo-era allegations derailed his career, actor…

FORT MYERS, Fla. (AP) — The remains of a man who has been missing since Hurricane Ian hit Florida’s Gulf Coast last year have been recovered from…

By COLLEEN BARRY AP Fashion Writer MILAN (AP) — Milan Fashion Week has closed on a note of tranquility after four days of mostly menswear previews…

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Authorities in South Africa are searching for a tiger that escaped from its enclosure at a farm near Johannesburg over the…

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — A police chief in Memphis, Tennessee, says police officers will face disciplinary action after a 29-year-old Black driver…

By DARLENE SUPERVILLE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Jill Biden’ s advocacy for curing cancer didn’t start with her son’s…

By LLAZAR SEMINI Associated Press TIRANA, Albania (AP) — Albania has handed a verbal note to the British ambassador to Tirana to protest what it…

TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Belarus has opened the trial of a journalist and prominent member of the country’s sizable Polish minority. It was the…

LONDON (AP) — British judges have given the go-ahead for the Court of Appeal to consider challenges to the British government’s plan to send some…

By JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press DAVOS, Switzerland (AP) — The World Economic Forum is back with its first winter meetup since 2020 in the Swiss…

By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN Associated Press ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — New Mexico’s top prosecutor wants to start a conversation with lawmakers and…

BERLIN (AP) — An Austrian theater says it is canceling all shows starring one of its actors after reports surfaced that he was charged with…

BETHLEHEM, West Bank (AP) — Palestinian health officials say that Israeli security forces fatally shot a 14-year-old Palestinian during an early…

By MICHAEL LIEDTKE AP Technology Writer SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — While still grappling with the fallout from a company he did take private, beleaguered…

By COLLEEN SLEVIN and THOMAS PEIPERT Associated Press ENGLEWOOD, Colo. (AP) — For the second time in a month, a Colorado library has closed its…

By FELICIA FONSECA Associated Press FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — Richard Blodgett, a single father, was jailed on a drug charge when a worker from…