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By MATTHEW LEE AP Diplomatic Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Chinese President Xi Jinping’s plans to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin in…

HIGHLAND PARK, Mich. (AP) — Michigan State Police are appealing to the public to share information and help solve the fatal shootings of three men…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Three police officers and one suspect are dead and seven suspected drug cartel members have been arrested following a dramatic…

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A Louisiana couple has run afoul of state law by keeping a 22-pound nutria as a pet. A nutria is a rat-tailed, orange-toothed…

JERUSALEM (AP) — The Israeli military says troops shot a Palestinian who approached soldiers and pulled a knife near the city of Ramallah in the…

By BEN FINLEY Associated Press Irvo Otieno had realized his passion: making hip-hop. He could write a song in less than five minutes. And he was…

By ALICIA RANCILIO Associated Press After playing the con-artist attorney Saul Goodman for six seasons on “Better Call Saul,” Bob Odenkirk is…

By CHRISTINA A. CASSIDY and JULIE CARR SMYTH Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Election officials from states enrolled in a bipartisan effort to…

By DAN GELSTON AP Sports Writer VILLANOVA, Pa. (AP) — Man, the Washington State women’s basketball team has felt like big winners since they…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s president said Friday that U.S. families were to blame for the fentanyl overdose crisis because they don’t hug…

By ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A report from a House committee’s Democrats says Donald Trump’s White House has…

By SCOTT BAUER and TODD RICHMOND Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin’s Democratic Secretary of State Doug La Follette has resigned,…

By FRANCIS KOKUTSE Associated Press ACCRA, Ghana (AP) — Ghana’s president was among hundreds of mourners who paid their last respects at the…

BRITTANY PETERSON Associated Press DENVER (AP) — The Southern Nevada Water Authority on Thursday voted to accept a $2.4 million grant from the U.S.…

By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press VATICAN CITY (AP) — A second high-ranking Vatican official has said Pope Francis authorized spending hundreds…

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A North Carolina teenager is in good condition after sustaining life-threatening injuries when he was struck by a Tesla.…

By JUWON PARK Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Producer Code Kunst arguably one of the most well-known artists in South Korea’s…

By MIKE CORDER and RAF CASERT Associated Press THE HAGUE (AP) — The International Criminal Court says it has issued an arrest warrant for Russian…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Lawyers for Prince Harry asked a judge Friday to rule that a tabloid newspaper libeled the British…

By ZEKE MILLER and FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden on Friday called on Congress to allow regulators to impose…

TELFORD, England (AP) — A British police officer has been allowed to keep her job after a disciplinary panel found her guilty of gross misconduct…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Jacqueline Gold, who helped make lingerie and sex toys a female-friendly mainstream business as head…

By MICHAEL PHILLIS Associated Press States that rely on water from the over-tapped Colorado River want the U.S. Supreme Court to block a lawsuit from…

SAN CLEMENTE, Calif. (AP) — Authorities say about two dozen people forced to flee Southern California apartment buildings that are teetering on the…

By MATTHEW DALY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — In early March, President Joe Biden met with members of Alaska’s bipartisan congressional…

By MUNIR AHMED Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — A top Pakistani court has suspended an arrest warrant for former Prime Minister Imran Khan, giving…

ATLANTA (AP) — A Georgia man who shot at two convenience stores hoping to kill Arab and Black people has been sentenced to serve 20 years in prison…

By MARIA CHENG Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Health officials in Burundi have declared an outbreak of polio linked to the vaccine, the first time…

By REGINA GARCIA CANO Associated Press CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — The U.S. government is pledging more than $171 million for humanitarian and…

By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The estate of rapper Coolio plans to release a studio album later this year that the…

By RUSS BYNUM and BOBBY CAINA CALVAN Associated Press From New York City, to Savannah, Georgia, to the halls of the White House, thousands of people…

By ANITA SNOW Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Led by tough-talking Republican governors weighing presidential runs, Texas and Florida are debating…

By ANDREW WILKS Associated Press ISTANBUL (AP) — Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says his government will move forward with ratifying…

By MICHELLE CHAPMAN AP Business Writer The parent of Silicon Valley Bank filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy a week after the tech-focused bank failed…

GENEVA (AP) — The U.N. human rights chief called on Belarus to end its “systematic repression” of critics and immediately release people held…

BERLIN (AP) — German authorities say police have detained 42 people as part of a crackdown on gangs suspected of blowing up cash machines.…

DETROIT (AP) — Ford is recalling more than 1.5 million vehicles in the U.S. in two actions to fix leaky brake hoses and windshield wiper arms that…

By GEIR MOULSON Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Lawmakers in Germany have agreed to reduce the size of the country’s increasingly bloated…

BEIJING (AP) — China is appealing to other governments to treat its companies fairly after Britain and New Zealand joined the United States in…

PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — Officials say a fire raged through a wooden house in northwest Pakistan, killing 10 people, including women and children.…

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Prince Joachim of Denmark is moving to the United States to take up the post of defense industry attache at the Danish…

By SOPHENG CHEANG Associated Press PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — Centuries-old cultural artifacts that had been illegally smuggled out from Cambodia…

By FLORENT BAJRAMI and LLAZAR SEMINI Associated Press PRISTINA, Kosovo (AP) — A United States envoy has urged Serbia and Kosovo to implement a…

JERUSALEM (AP) — Hundreds of elite officers in Israel’s military reserves say they will not show up for duty starting on Sunday in protest over…

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The government’s response to the failure of two large banks has already involved…

By GERALD HERBERT and KEVIN McGILL Associated Press ATCHAFALAYA NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE, La. (AP) — Officials with the Biden administration have…

By KAREL JANICEK Associated Press PRAGUE (AP) — Slovakia’s government on Friday approved a plan to give Ukraine its fleet of 13 Soviet-era MiG-29…

By SYLVIE CORBET and BARBARA SURK Associated Press PARIS (AP) — Angry protesters took to the streets in Paris and other cities for a second day on…

QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) — Mourners have attended the funeral of a Pakistani female field hockey player who died in a migrant boat crash off Italy’s…

By TOM GOULD Associated Press MAPUTO, Mozambique (AP) — Mozambicans are planning marches across the country to honor Azagaia, a popular protest…

By PREDRAG MILIC Associated Press PODGORICA, Montenegro (AP) — Montenegro is holding a presidential election this weekend that is seen as a test of…

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida says hats off to South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol for…

By STAN CHOE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Wall Street’s week of turmoil closed with drops for stocks. The S&P 500 fell 1.1% Friday, led…

By MICHAEL CASEY and DAVID KOENIG Associated Press LEOMINSTER, Mass. (AP) — The music was blaring on a February afternoon when Francisco Torres…

By NICK PERRY Associated Press WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — New Zealand lawmakers and other workers inside the nation’s Parliament will be…

By LISA MASCARO AP Congressional Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) — Besieged Republican Rep. George Santos arrives on the House floor most days to…

By AUDREY McAVOY Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — Honolulu prosecutors have filed charges against four police officers alleging a cover-up in…

By KANIS LEUNG Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong’s most popular boy band Mirror, a major driving force behind the revival of the local…

BEIJING (AP) — China’s foreign minister has told his Ukrainian counterpart that Beijing is concerned about the grinding conflict there spinning…

By JOHN DANISZEWSKI Associated Press BAGHDAD (AP) — Along the Tigris River, young Iraqi men and women in jeans and sneakers danced with joyous…

CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australia said it’s planning to buy up to 220 Tomahawk cruise missiles from the United States after the U.S. State…

By JOHN DANISZEWSKI Associated Press BAGHDAD (AP) — It’s been 20 years since the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq began March 20, 2003. President George…

By JENNIFER McDERMOTT and JOEAL CALUPITAN Associated Press MALABON, Philippines (AP) — Marilene Capentes pushes a cart along the streets of Malabon…

SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Oregon will temporarily suspend rebates for buying or leasing an electric vehicle for a year starting in May because too many…