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By STEFANIE DAZIO Associated Press A background investigator failed to check a would-be trooper’s mental health history, allowing him to be hired…

TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Investments in Israel’s tech sector dropped by nearly half in 2022, reflecting a global economic slowdown.…

By JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A nursing strike that has disrupted patient care at two of New York City’s largest hospitals…

MIAMI (AP) — Miami Marlins ace Sandy Alcantara, the 2022 National League Cy Young winner, was awarded a key to the city of Miami from Mayor Francis…

By LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department is proposing changes to how it runs federal prisoners’ deposit…

By ZEKE MILLER AP White House Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden said he was surprised when informed that government records were…

WILLOWBROOK, Ill. (AP) — The former operator of a suburban Chicago medical equipment cleaning plant has agreed to pay $408 million to settle…

DETROIT (AP) — Traffic crashes in the U.S. cost society $340 billion in one year, or just over $1,000 for each of the country’s 328 million…

By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A far-right internet personality who streamed live video while he stormed the U.S. Capitol…

SPRINGFIELD, Ga. (AP) — A Georgia school district is being sued by students who say they were barred from wearing Black Lives Matter T-shirts to…

By ADAM BEAM Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California Gov. Gavin Newsom says the state will have a $22.5 billion budget deficit.…

By ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON Associated Press MIAMI (AP) — The head of the Florida Democratic Party has resigned after a disastrous midterm election in…

By TARA COPP Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon says about 100 Ukrainians will head to Oklahoma’s Fort Sill as soon as next week to…

By KELVIN CHAN AP Business Writer LONDON (AP) — TikTok’s CEO has met with European Union officials about strict new digital regulations in the…

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Kendrick Lamar is returning to Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival this summer along with headliners Foo Fighters and…

By JIM GOMEZ Associated Press MANILA, Philippines (AP) — The Philippine Supreme Court has declared unconstitutional a 2005 pact by China, the…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Democratic Rep. Katie Porter of California said Tuesday she will seek the U.S. Senate seat currently held by Sen. Dianne…

By SETH BORENSTEIN AP Science Writer DENVER (AP) — Costly weather disasters kept raining down on America last year, pounding the nation with 18…

GENEVA (AP) — The Swiss town of Davos will host 52 heads of state and government and nearly 600 CEOs as the World Economic Forum hosts its annual…

MADRID (AP) — Spain’s foreign ministry says it has repatriated two women and 13 children from refugee camps in Syria. Spanish newspaper El…

By DÁNICA COTO Associated Press SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Lizards that once dwelled in forests but now slink around urban areas have…

By NOEL SICHALWE Associated Press LUSAKA, Zambia (AP) — Eight Croatian nationals have pleaded not guilty to charges of child trafficking before a…

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER and DAVID MCHUGH Associated Press Writers WASHINGTON (AP) — The Federal Reserve has only a limited role to play in combating…

By TERESA CRAWFORD Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — After nearly three months of lottery losing, will someone break the trend Tuesday night and win…

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The global economy will come “perilously close” to a recession this year, led…

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran has sentenced a Belgian aid worker to a lengthy prison term and 74 lashes after convicting him of espionage…

STOCKHOLM (AP) — Sweden’s SAPO domestic security agency has warned that it expects Russia to increase activities threatening Swedish security in…

By HOWARD FENDRICH AP Tennis Writer Less than 10 minutes into the first episode of “Break Point,” the Netflix docuseries about professional…

By AVET DEMOURIAN Associated Press YEREVAN, Armenia (AP) — Armenia’s prime minister says his country has refused to host military drills planned…

By MIKE STOBBE AP Medical Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Mpox is no longer the exploding health crisis that it appeared to be less than six months ago. So…

By HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Authors Ottessa Moshfegh and Susan Choi and actors John Turturro and Mary-Louise Parker will be…

By DAVID McHUGH AP Business Writer FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — Warm weather is helping Europe keep the lights and heat on this winter despite Russia…

KATHMADU, Nepal (AP) — Nepal’s newly appointed prime minister has secured a decisive vote of confidence in parliament with support from both his…

BRUSSELS (AP) — NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg says he’s confident that Finland and Sweden will join the military alliance. Sweden…

By SUSAN HAIGH and PAT EATON-ROBB Associated Press MONTVILLE, Conn. (AP) — Connecticut’s first round of recreational cannabis sales for adults 21…

By BHARATHA MALLAWARACHI Associated Press COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lanka’s government says it’s cutting down expenses in the latest…

BERLIN (AP) — Two German government ministers are calling for authorities to relax the application of rules enabling the prosecution of people who…

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The U.S. Navy has seized over 2,100 assault rifles from a ship in the Gulf of…

By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press ROME (AP) — Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni has made her first official visit to see Pope Francis, fulfilling…

By MELISSA LAMBARENA of NerdWallet After the holiday season, those “buy now, pay later” bills will come due. If you’ve taken on too much debt…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — After weeks of hype and days of leaks, readers got a chance to judge Prince Harry’s book for…

BERLIN (AP) — Austrian media say a Vienna court has acquitted former Austrian Vice Chancellor Heinz-Christian Strache of trying to change laws to…

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — The director of the World Health Organization’s Europe office says the agency sees “no immediate threat” for the…

By PANAGIOTIS BALASKAS and ELENA BECATOROS Associated Press MYTILENE, Greece (AP) — A group of 24 Greek and foreign aid workers and volunteers who…

By FRANCESCO SPORTELLI Associated Press POMPEII, Italy (AP) — The newly restored remains of an opulent house in Pompeii that likely belonged to two…

BERLIN (AP) — The CEO of energy company Uniper has decided to step down after the German government nationalized the gas supplier last month.…

BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanon’s militant Hezbollah group has condemned the cartoons published recently by the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo…

LONDON (AP) — British officials and space scientists said Tuesday they were disappointed but not deterred after the first attempt to launch…

By ANDREW MELDRUM Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian forces are escalating their onslaught against Ukrainian positions around the…

By KANIS LEUNG Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — A lawyer for jailed Hong Kong pro-democracy publisher Jimmy Lai says her team has asked for an…

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Asian shares were mostly higher Wednesday, boosted by a rally on Wall Street that came ahead of…

By SYLVIE CORBET The Associated Press PARIS (AP) — French Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne has unveiled a contentious pension overhaul aimed at…

By SAMY MAGDY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — Egypt’s statistics bureau says the nation is continuing to battle surging inflation amid a…

By BRIAN MELLEY and CHRISTOPHER WEBER Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Sinkholes swallowed cars and floodwaters swamped towns and swept away a…

By VADIM GHIRDA and STEPHEN McGRATH BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — A court in Romania’s capital Bucharest has upheld the 30-day arrest of divisive…

By DAVID BILLER and FELIPE MELLO Associated Press RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — “No amnesty! No amnesty! No amnesty!” The chant reverberated off the…

By HUIZHONG WU Associated Press TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Lithuanian lawmakers on a visit to Taiwan have taken aim at China, saying the world’s…

By KEN MORITSUGU Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — Chinese embassies stopped issuing new visas for South Koreans and Japanese in apparent retaliation…

By RALPH D. RUSSO AP College Football Writer Reggie Bush, whose Heisman Trophy victory for Southern California in 2005 was vacated because of NCAA…

By RALPH D. RUSSO AP College Football Writer INGLEWOOD, Calif. (AP) — Georgia is No. 1 in the final Associated Press college football poll,…

By MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Allen Weisselberg, a longtime executive for Donald Trump ‘s real estate empire whose…

BY LEA SKENE Associated Press BALTIMORE (AP) — Baltimore officials are rolling out their latest plan to steer squeegee workers away from busy…

By FELICIA FONSECA Associated Press FORT DEFIANCE, Ariz. (AP) — Buu Nygren was sworn in Tuesday as the next president of the vast Navajo Nation, a…

By ACACIA CORONADO Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Samantha Sorsby-Jones watched friends at her Texas high school go to great lengths to get…

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Islam’s annual hajj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia will return to pre-pandemic…

By JUAN A. LOZANO and MICHAEL GRACZYK Associated Press HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) — A former suburban Houston police officer was executed Tuesday for…

By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer The Golden Globes returned to the air Tuesday with a red carpet flush with celebrities, comedian Jerrod Carmichael as a…

SYDNEY (AP) — The United States has accused a former military pilot of illegally training Chinese military pilots. The U.S. is now trying to…

By JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — Wang Jian is anxious to get back to work teaching basketball to children now that China has…

By COLLEEN LONG and CHRISTOPHER SHERMAN Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — President Joe Biden,  Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador…

By ANDREW DeMILLO Associated Press LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Sarah Huckabee Sanders is set to be sworn in as Arkansas’ 47th governor and the…

By RALPH D. RUSSO AP College Football Writer INGLEWOOD, Calif. (AP) — Stetson Bennett flashed a wry grin as he walked off the field, stopping to…

By JOHN O’CONNOR AP Political Writer SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — The Illinois Senate has approved a ban on semiautomatic weapons. The measure…