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BEIJING (AP) — Australia’s Trade and Tourism Minister Don Farrell appears to be making progress in restoring a nearly decade-long rift in…

By SAMY MAGDY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — Over recent years, Sudan’s military and a separate armed force accumulated power, each suspicious of…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press Japanese and South Korean officials have agreed on a visit later this month by South Korean experts to the…

By STEPHEN SMITH and KEVIN McGILL Associated Press BENTLEY, La. (AP) — They were born and raised in captivity, but as they slowly slithered away…

By AARON MORRISON AP National Writer BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — Tirzah Patterson will dedicate this Mother’s Day to the hardest part of a mother’s…

By REBECCA BOONE Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Idaho mother Lori Vallow Daybell was convicted Friday in the murders of her two youngest…

By MARYCLAIRE DALE Associated Press PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Cassandra Nuñez and her grandmother cast their first ballots in a U.S. presidential…

By GRANT PECK Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — Voters disaffected by nine years of plodding rule by a coup-making army general are expected to…

By ADAM BEAM Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California’s budget deficit is now nearly $32 billion. Gov. Gavin Newsom on Friday…

By VALERIE GONZALEZ, ELLIOT SPAGAT and GIOVANNA DELL’ORTO Associated Press EL PASO, Texas (AP) — The border between the U.S. and Mexico is…

By GABE STERN Associated Press/Report for America CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) — A bipartisan group of Nevada lawmakers has introduced a bill that would…

By AMY BETH HANSON and MATTHEW BROWN Associated Press HELENA, Mont. (AP) — Attorneys for young people suing Montana over damages caused by climate…

By WILSON RING Associated Press DORSET, Vt. (AP) — Deep in a cool, damp cave in Vermont, tens of thousands of furry, chocolate brown creatures…

By CHRIS MEGERIAN and ZEKE MILLER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — When Joe Biden was running for president three years ago, he flew on a white…

By JOEAL CALUPITAN and PATRICK QUINN Associated Press MANILA, Philippines (AP) — A former Philippine opposition senator and justice secretary was…

By The Associated Press New music from the Jonas Brothers, a double feature of Ben Affleck/Jennifer Lopez films and the latest installment in the…

By MEG KINNARD Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Republican presidential hopeful Vivek Ramaswamy says he wants the U.S. voting age raised to…

ARTESIA, N.M. (AP) — Authorities say a 19-year-old New Mexico woman has been charged in the January death of her newborn son. Artesia police say…

By JAKE OFFENHARTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — New York City officials say they will be unable to accommodate an expected influx of…

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — The family of a man killed by police officers in the Kansas City suburb of Independence, Missouri, filed a federal wrongful…

MIAMI (AP) — A South Florida man faces up to five years in federal prison for threatening election workers during the August 2022 primary. Court…

By ANITA SNOW Associated Press From the Rio Grande Valley in Texas to San Diego and Tijuana, many migrants gathered along some sections of the…

MILWAUKEE (AP) — Two people have been sentenced for their roles in a series of shootings that left at least 17 people wounded near the Fiserv Forum…

By MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump was ordered to appear by video at a May 23 hearing in his Manhattan criminal case…

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Tourism official say more than 74 million visitors came to the Orlando, Florida area last year, a benchmark just short of…

By DAVID HAMILTON AP Business Writer SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Twitter has launched encrypted messaging, offering select users the ability to…

By JOHN HANNA Associated Press TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A former Kansas lawmaker who was convicted of 12 felonies for lying on applications for federal…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The prosecutor of the International Criminal Court has announced that judges have issued…

By BECKY BOHRER Associated Press Officials say two climbers last heard from as they prepared to scale a peak in Alaska’s Denali National Park and…

By DIANE JEANTET and DAVID BILLER Associated Press RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — A day after New York Rep. George Santos pleaded not guilty to charges in…

NEW YORK (AP) — The guessing game began a few days ago, when an anonymous, untitled book scheduled for July 9 —— “4C Untitled Flatiron…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Prosecutors in Mexico say they have arrested two more men in the March 3 kidnapping of four Americans and the killing of two of…

By MEG KINNARD Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Republican Sen. Tommy Tuberville is facing backlash for remarks he made about white…

By AMY TAXIN and CHRISTOPHER WEBER Associated Press SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) — A man accused of fatally shooting one person and wounding five others…

By SOPHIE AUSTIN Associated Press/Report for America SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A California state senator and member of a historic task force…

By BARBARA ORTUTAY and MATT O’BRIEN AP Technology Writers Elon Musk said Thursday he has found a new CEO for Twitter, or X Corp. as it’s now…

By AAMER MADHANI and ELLEN KNICKMEYER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan told senior Chinese…

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Authorities say they have captured one of two inmates who escaped Sunday night from a Philadelphia prison. A U.S. Marshals…

By BOUAZZA BEN BOUAZZA Associated Press TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — Tunisia’s interior minister says a national guardsman behind an attack that killed…

By JEFF AMY Associated Press There have been a few cracks in the predictable pattern of Republican-controlled states loosening gun laws while…

ROCKLAND, Maine (AP) — A 123-year-old schooner that was once declared the “Official Windjammer of Maine” by state lawmakers has a new owner,…

By JESSICA GRESKO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Thursday backed a California animal cruelty law that requires more space…

By REBECCA BOONE Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Idaho jurors will soon begin deciding the guilt or innocence of a mother charged in a bizarre…

By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Retired NFL quarterback Brett Favre is ending his lawsuit against sportscaster Pat…

By JOHN HANNA AP Political Writer TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas’ Democratic governor has scuttled a small legal settlement between the state and the…

By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press ROME (AP) — A Vatican official says Pope Francis might meet with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy at the…

By JOHN FLESHER AP Environmental Writer The U.S. Senate has voted to overturn two Biden administration policies intended to protect endangered…

By STEVE PEOPLES AP National Political Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The Republicans in the audience laughed when former President Donald Trump mocked a…

A Russian court gave a two-year suspended sentence Thursday to a St. Petersburg woman who left a note on the grave of President Vladimir…

SAN DIEGO (AP) — Rescues crews have suspended their search for three people who were aboard a Learjet that plunged into the Pacific Ocean about a…

By IVÁN VALENCIA Associated Press ACANDI, Colombia (AP) — Migrants who have hiked into the dense Darien jungle covering the Colombia-Panama border…

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Officials in Missouri’s largest city approved a resolution Thursday to declare it a sanctuary for people seeking or…

By JESSICA GRESKO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court has ruled for a onetime top aide to ex-Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo of New…

FORT MOORE, Ga. (AP) — The Army’s training hub in Georgia is now officially called Fort Moore. The Army completed a name change Thursday…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court has ruled against an organization of Puerto Rican journalists in its quest for documents from the financial…

By MAYSOON KHAN Associated Press/Report for America ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York’s attorney general is suing a gun accessory manufacturer for…

By ZEKE MILLER and JOSH BOAK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden and his administration have been searching for ways he might…

By ALEX VEIGA and MELISSA WINDER Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — The average long-term U.S. mortgage rate fell this week to its lowest level in…

By KAREEM CHEHAYEB Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — U.S. authorities say they have seized over a dozen website domains used by sanctioned Lebanese…

By MARIA CHENG AP Medical Writer LONDON (AP) — The World Health Organization says the global outbreak of mpox is no longer an international…

By GERALD IMRAY and MICHAEL BIESECKER Associated Press CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — The U. S. ambassador to South Africa accused the country…