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By STEVE KARNOWSKI Associated Press ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — A deadly standoff in Minnesota started with a 911 call in which the caller said “Help…

NEW YORK (AP) — The first person charged for violating a 2020 law that forbids conspiracies to taint international sports events through…

By ANTHONY McCARTNEY AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Former talk show host Wendy Williams has been diagnosed with the same form of…

By JULIA FRANKEL Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — When the Biden administration imposed sanctions this month against Israeli settler Yinon Levi…

By MIKE SCHNEIDER Associated Press ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Almost a year after Florida lawmakers passed a law giving Florida’s governor control over…

By The Associated Press Kirk Herbstreit and Chris Fowler are in the game. ESPN “College GameDay” analyst Herbstreit and network broadcaster…

An Ohio mother who left her 16-month-old daughter home alone in a playpen for 10 days last summer while she went on vacation pleaded guilty on…

By SETH BORENSTEIN AP Science Writer Scientists have confirmed what became of a star that exploded in a stunning supernova visible to Earth more than…

By BRENDAN FARRINGTON Associated Press TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Florida is on the verge of passing one of the nation’s most restrictive bans on…

HOBE SOUND, Fla. (AP) — The PGA Tour will have to wait for the 15-year-old son of Tiger Woods. In a pre-qualifier Thursday, Charlie Woods took a 12…

MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) — A New Hampshire man has been convicted of second-degree murder in the death of his 5-year-old daughter, who police believe…

Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — Hydeia Broadbent, a prominent HIV/AIDS activist known for her inspirational talks in the 1990s as a young child…

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — The former chief of Haiti’s National Police who was recently accused in the assassination of President Jovenel…

By MIKE CORDER Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — An international investigative team says that its probe into a 2015 attack in Syria…

By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A Minnesota man who repeatedly attacked police officers during the U.S. Capitol riot,…

LONDON, Ontario (AP) — A Canadian man found guilty of using his pickup truck to kill four members of a Muslim family has been sentenced to life in…

By MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A private lunar lander circled the moon while aiming for a touchdown Thursday that…

AVA, Mo. (AP) — Authorities in Missouri say a 35-year cold case killing has been solved, thanks to someone who came forward with information about…

By KIM CHANDLER Associated Press MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — A second in vitro fertilization provider in Alabama is pausing parts of its care to…

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — U.S. Sen. Kevin Cramer of North Dakota is seeking reelection. The first-term Republican senator announced his reelection…

By ALEX VEIGA AP Business Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — The average long-term U.S. mortgage rate rose this week for the third time in as many weeks,…

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s lawmakers have voted to approve over-the-counter access to the morning-after pill for ages 15 and above in a…

By TODD RICHMOND Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin is asking the state Supreme Court to overturn a 174-year-old…

By BERT WILKINSON Associated Press GEORGETOWN, Guyana (AP) — The parents of two teenagers who survived a fire that killed 20 people at a high…

By REGINA GARCIA CANO Associated Press LA PARAGUA, Venezuela (AP) — Families and friends have started burying loves ones who were among at least 16…

By JEFF AMY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia’s automatic voter registration has put almost all eligible citizens on the rolls, but now…

NEW YORK (AP) — Customers of AT&T, the country’s largest wireless provider, are reporting widespread outages. Some iPhone users saw SOS…

By HANNAH FINGERHUT Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — U.S. authorities have accused another sanitation company of illegally hiring at least…

MOSCOW (AP) — Russia’s President Vladimir Putin has taken a co-pilot’s seat in a nuclear-capable strategic bomber, a flight that appeared…

By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writher Ella Mills knows we all want to eat healthier. But the English food writer and businesswoman also knows…

By RUSS BYNUM Associated Press SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — As a proposed mine on the edge of the Okefenokee Swamp nears final approval, Georgia lawmakers…

By THOMAS BEAUMONT and JOEY CAPPELLETTI Associated Press WATERFORD TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) — The Michigan Republican Party is facing a cash crunch and…

By ALEX VEIGA AP Business Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Sales of previously occupied U.S. homes rose in January as homebuyers seized upon easing…

By JIM MUSTIAN and JOSHUA GOODMAN Associated Press BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — The way prosecutors tell it, Joseph Bongiovanni went to work for years with…

By JUSTIN SPIKE Associated Press BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Hungary’s nationalist government has delayed holding a vote on Sweden’s membership…

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — The U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization has set a target to further increase aquaculture production to meet rising…

By GEIR MOULSON Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — German lawmakers have called on the government to deliver further long-range weapons to Ukraine, but…

By JOSEPH WILSON Associated Press BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Dani Alves, one of the most successful soccer players of his generation, was found guilty…

By The Associated Press FERGUSON, Mo. (AP) — Police say a fire that killed five members of a Missouri family was intentionally set by the mother.…

By DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The chaotic debate over a cease-fire in Gaza reverberated through Britain’s Parliament as the…

DETROIT (AP) — Volkswagen is recalling more than 261,000 cars in the U.S. to fix a potential fuel leak that can increase the risk of fires. The…

By WAFAA SHURAFA and MELANIE LIDMAN Associated Press RAFAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israeli strikes killed at least 48 people in southern and central…

By MIKE SILVERMAN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The Metropolitan Opera is staging its first new production of Verdi’s opera “La Forza…

LISBON, Portugal (AP) — Guinness World Records has ruled against a Portuguese dog that died last year keeping the title of oldest canine ever. GWR…

BALLSTON SPA, N.Y. (AP) — A man accused of kidnapping a 9-year-old girl from a state park in upstate New York pleaded guilty to two felony counts…

By VANESSA GERA Associated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk says the border crossings with Ukraine are being added to…

By PREDRAG MILIC Associated Press PODGORICA, Montenegro (AP) — A court in Montenegro has ruled that Terraform Labs founder Do Kwon should be…

By HANNA ARHIROVA Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — An official says Russian forces are probing Ukrainian defenses for weak points in the…

A number of Americans are dealing with cellular outages on AT&T, Cricket Wireless, Verizon, T-Mobile and other service providers, according to…

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkey’s central bank has left its key interest rate unchanged at 45%, pausing a series of aggressive rate hikes aimed at…

By JAN M. OLSEN Associated Press COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — The head of the Jewish Community in Denmark says the number of antisemitic incidents…

By The Associated Press A Russian military blogger has died in an apparent suicide after facing a barrage of criticism for revealing heavy losses in…

BERLIN (AP) — Police say five people have been injured in an incident at a school in the western German city of Wuppertal and a suspect has been…

ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan’s media regulators have blocked the social media platform X, formerly Twitter, with users across the country enduring…

PRAGUE (AP) — Czech farmers are driving their tractors and other vehicles to to several border crossings to join forces with their colleagues from…

SRINAGAR, India (AP) — A foreign skier has been killed and three others rescued after an avalanche hit a popular Himalayan ski resort in…

By COLLEEN BARRY and LLAZAR SEMINI Associated Press MILAN (AP) — Albania has agreed to host two migrant processing centers on its territory that…

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The Dubai-based budget carrier FlyDubai has seen record earnings of $572 million in 2023, boosted by carrying…

By EMMA BURROWS Associated Press A prominent Russian opposition figure has appeared in court, urging Russians not to give up after the death of…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — A whale as long as a train car that died after straying into a port in Osaka last month is set to…

TIRANA, Albania (AP) — Albania’s Parliament on Thursday approved a deal for the country to hold thousands of migrants rescued in international…

GHAZNI, Afghanistan (AP) — The Taliban have carried out a double public execution at a stadium in southeastern Afghanistan. A crowd of thousands,…

PARIS (AP) — France’s defense minister says Russian forces threatened to shoot down French military flights patrolling last month over…

By HANNAH FINGERHUT Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — An animated fetus that develops over the course of a three-minute video has become a…

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Candidates for Iran’s parliament began campaigning for the country’s first election since the crackdown on the nationwide…

By ZEN SOO AP Technology Writer SINGAPORE (AP) — As the aviation sector seeks ways to make air travel less polluting and more sustainable,…

By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer Japan’s benchmark Nikkei 225 index has surged past the record it set in 1989 before its financial bubble…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Los Angeles City Ethics Commission has rejected a proposed settlement between the city and former CBS executive Les Moonves.…