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By The Associated Press Russia’s security service arrested an American reporter for The Wall Street Journal on espionage charges, the first…

By SHARON JOHNSON Associated Press FORT CAMPBELL, Ky. (AP) — Nine people were killed in a crash involving two Army Black Hawk helicopters in…

By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press ROME (AP) — Pope Francis has shown a “marked improvement” after being given intravenous antibiotics for a…

By JOSEPH WILSON Associated Press BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Firefighter Manuel Rubio had never seen a blaze like the one that raged for the past week…

BO’AO, China (AP) — China’s new No. 2 leader says its economic recovery improved in March and he promised to stay committed to opening to…

By TIA GOLDENBERG Associated Press HAIFA, Israel (AP) — Amal Oraby is usually a fixture at street protests. But as tens of thousands of Israelis…

LAFAYETTE, Ind. (AP) — A 16-month-old boy was fatally shot by his 5-year-old sibling at a northwestern Indiana apartment, authorities said. The…

By SAM METZ Associated Press PARK CITY, Utah (AP) — Gwyneth Paltrow wasn’t to blame for a 2016 collision with a retired optometrist on a beginner…

SONIA PÉREZ D., MORGAN LEE and CLAUDIO ESCALÓN Associated Press SAN MARTIN JILOTEPEQUE, Guatemala (AP) — The last Ana Marina López heard of her…

CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — The Australian Parliament has created landmark new laws that will make the nation’s biggest greenhouse gas polluters…

By MIKE SCHNEIDER Associated Press The county that encompasses Manhattan added more than 17,000 residents in the year ending last July. That’s…

By ELLEN KNICKMEYER, MICHAEL WEISSENSTEIN and LISA MASCARO Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — In a highly sensitive U.S. visit, Taiwan’s president…

By MATTHEW DALY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republicans have passed a sprawling energy package that would counter virtually all of…

QUITO, Ecuador (AP) — Ecuador’s Constitutional Court ruled Wednesday the opposition-dominated National Assembly can take up the question of…

By JIM GOMEZ Associated Press MANILA, Philippines (AP) — A fire broke out on a ferry in the southern Philippines and raged overnight for eight…

By LEAH WILLINGHAM Associated Press CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A protester arrested for disrupting West Virginia lawmakers as they moved to ban…

By SEUNG MIN KIM and LISA MASCARO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden won’t veto a Republican-led measure to end the national…

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — New Mexico’s special academy for training workers in the film and television industry is a step closer to fruition.…

By RIAZ KHAN Associated Press PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — Taliban militants have killed four police officers and wounded six in a pair of attacks in…

By JAY COHEN AP Sports Writer CHICAGO (AP) — Bulls center Andre Drummond missed the team’s game against the Los Angeles Lakers after he…

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — A judge has ordered the U.S. government to resume regular oil and gas lease sales on federal lands in North Dakota. The order…

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A judge has dismissed a lawsuit filed by an employee of Catholic Charities of Omaha who says she suffered physical and emotional…

CHICAGO (AP) — A Cook County jury has awarded nearly $5 million to the family of an 84-year-old retired teacher who was killed when a police…

Associated Press DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Syrian state media say Israel is staging airstrikes in the Damascus area. Loud explosions were heard over…

By TRISHA AHMED Associated Press/Report for America North Dakota schools would be required to show students high-quality video of how a human fetus…

By LISA BAUMANN Associated Press Actor Melissa Joan Hart said she and her husband helped a class of kindergartners that was fleeing the Nashville…

By JOHN RABY Associated Press CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — West Virginia will no longer allow children and young teens to marry. Republican Gov. Jim…

By ADAM BEAM Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A California lawmaker wants to end a ban on state-funded travel to states with…

SKOPJE, North Macedonia (AP) — Austrian President Alexander Van der Bellen is urging rival political parties in North Macedonia to end a dispute…

By SARAH RANKIN Associated Press NORTH CHESTERFIELD, Va. (AP) — Family, friends and other mourners gathered at a Virginia church to remember Irvo…

By ASHRAF KHALIL Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republicans are accusing Washington, D.C. officials of losing control of the capital…

By JUAN A. LOZANO and ERIC TUCKER Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — The man who inspired the film “Hotel Rwanda” and was freed by Rwanda last…

By STEFANIE DAZIO Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Prosecutors charged seven California Highway Patrol officers and a nurse with involuntary…

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Washington Wizards shooting guard Bradley Beal is facing a possible misdemeanor charge in central Florida. A fan accused the…

By JOSHUA GOODMAN MIAMI (AP) — The former general counsel for Venezuela’s state-owned oil company pleaded guilty in Miami federal court on money…

By RANDALL CHASE AP Business Writer DOVER, Del. (AP) — Attorneys for a group of Tesla shareholders are asking Delaware’s Supreme Court to…

By KEVIN McGILL and MATTHEW BROWN Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Oil companies offered a combined $264 million for drilling rights in federal…

By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — An FBI informant who marched to the U.S. Capitol with fellow Proud Boys members has…

By CURT ANDERSON Associated Press ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — The effort to feed thousands of pounds of lettuce to starving manatees in Florida has…

By RALPH D. RUSSO AP College Sports Writer A congressional hearing targeting what one lawmaker called “NIL chaos” in college sports drifted into…

By BEN FINLEY, ADRIAN SAINZ and HOLLY MEYER Associated Press Details from the rich, full lives of the three adults killed Monday at a Nashville…

By SETH BORENSTEIN AP Science Writer A seemingly relentless series of severe storms, likely with deadly tornadoes, are forecast to rip across parts…

By THOMAS ADAMSON Associated Press PARIS (AP) — Paris sanitation workers are starting to clean up debris from a more than three-week-long strike, a…

By MENELAOS HADJICOSTIS Associated Press NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — Cyprus’ justice minister has unveiled a host of measures to combat fan violence…

By MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The Manhattan grand jury investigating hush money paid on Donald Trump’s behalf is scheduled…

By MATTHEW LEE AP Diplomatic Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration is offering support for the creation of an international court to…

By HANNAH SCHOENBAUM Associated Press/Report for America RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina residents can now buy a handgun without getting a…

By FRANCES D’EMILIO Associated Press ROME (AP) — Italy’s government has endorsed legislation that would outlaw laboratory-grown food and…

By TRAVIS LOLLER, KIMBERLEE KRUESI and DENISE LAVOIE Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Hundreds of people have gathered at a candlelight…

By BRUCE SCHREINER Associated Press FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Republican lawmakers in Kentucky on Wednesday swept aside the Democratic governor’s…

By MATT O’BRIEN AP Technology Writer Are tech companies moving too fast in rolling out powerful artificial intelligence technology that could…

By WAYNE PARRY Associated Press ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — Democratic U.S. Senators from four states want federal environmental officials to…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A cold low pressure system spinning off the coast of California sent bands of rain and snow across the state Wednesday, making…

MARYLAND HEIGHTS, Mo. (AP) — Five St. Louis-area police officers are injured after being struck by an SUV driven by a suspected drunken driver.…

By ISABELLA O’MALLEY and DANA BELTAJI Associated Press The countries of the United Nations led by the island nation of Vanuatu adopted what…

SENECA FALLS, N.Y. (AP) — The National Women’s Hall of Fame has announced a new group of inductees. Among the honorees are social justice…

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — A mysterious object found at the bottom of the Baltic Sea, which Danish authorities had hoped could provide clues to the…

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Asian shares were mixed Thursday following a rally on Wall Street as worries over banks following…

By JANIE HAR Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The leader of California’s first-in-the-nation reparations task force on Wednesday said it…

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Investigators in Sweden have determined that a powdered substance found in letters received by several county boards is…

By JULIE PACE and HANNA ARHIROVA Associated Press ON A TRAIN FROM SUMY TO KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine’s president invited his powerful…

By GEOFF MULVIHILL Associated Press The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday approved selling naloxone without a prescription, setting the…

By JAMEY KEATEN and COURTNEY BONNELL Associated Press GENEVA (AP) — Credit Suisse violated a plea agreement with U.S. authorities by failing to…