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By LINDSEY TANNER AP Medical Writer The pandemic took a harsh toll on U.S. teen girls’ mental health, with almost 60% reporting feelings of…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United Nations says Syria’s president has agreed to open two new crossing points…

By NARDOS HAILE Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Carolina Herrera is a brand synonymous with elegance and class and in this year’s…

By LEANNE ITALIE AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — When one becomes a mother, Rihanna mused before her epic Super Bowl halftime show,…

By MARK PRATT Associated Press A new report says two Boston police officers who opened fire on a man who had what appeared to be a real gun near a…

DETROIT (AP) — A former Michigan State University basketball star has pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and a firearm charge in the fatal…

By GRAHAM DUNBAR AP Sports Writer GENEVA (AP) — UEFA-appointed investigators have held European soccer’s ruling body mostly responsible for…

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin Republicans have introduced a bill that would further define illegal strip searches after a school superintendent…

JERUSALEM (AP) — The United States has criticized new Israeli plans to build thousands of new homes for Jewish settlers in the occupied West Bank.…

By LISA MASCARO and COLLEEN LONG Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden has fired embattled Architect of the Capitol Brett Blanton,…

SHREVEPORT, La. (AP) — Family members of a Black man who was killed as he tried to flee police in Louisiana have filed a $10 million lawsuit…

MOSCOW (AP) — Russia will postpone the launch of an empty space capsule to the International Space Station pending further investigation of a…

By MARÍA VERZA and ASTRID SUÁREZ Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — Colombia’s government and its largest remaining rebel group have met in…

DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — The World Health Organization says Equatorial Guinea has confirmed its first-ever outbreak of Marburg disease, saying the…

By DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Britain says it has for the first time presented evidence to the UN that Iran is supplying advanced…

By LLAZAR SEMINI Associated Press TIRANA, Albania (AP) — Albanian opposition lawmakers blowing whistles have disrupted a Parliament session to…

By BARBARA ORTUTAY AP Technology Writer In the aftermath of the devastating earthquake in Turkey and Syria, thousands of volunteer software…

By BASSEM MROUE Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — A baby girl born under the rubble of her family’s home in northern Syria after last week’s…

By MICHAEL WARREN Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Roslyn Pope, a college professor and musician who wrote “An Appeal for Human Rights,” laying…

LONDON (AP) — Buckingham Palace says Camilla, Britain’s queen consort, has tested positive for Covid-19 after suffering from cold symptoms. The…

TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto has made the first visit to Belarus by a high-level politician from a European…

MADRID (AP) — Greenpeace says it will appeal a Spanish Supreme Court decision blocking public access on national security grounds to government…

OTTAWA, Ontario (AP) — A blast caused by a gas leak has seriously injured two people and destroyed several homes under construction in an Ottawa…

By KIMBERLEE KRUESI Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — For years, Nashville leaders have watched Tennessee’s GOP-dominated Legislature…

By TERRY SPENCER Associated Press PARKLAND, Fla. (AP) — After a gunman murdered 14 students and three staff members at Parkland’s Marjory…

By DEEPTI HAJELA and MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A man driving a U-Haul truck swerved onto sidewalks and plowed into cyclists…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japanese nuclear regulators have approved contentious safety evaluation changes and draft…

By TOM MURPHY AP Health Writer The CEO of a nonprofit that helps people with medical debt wants to expand the amount of debt her organization buys,…

By JEFFREY COLLINS Associated Press A pathologist detailed the close range shots that killed Alex Murdaugh’s wife and son as prosecutors on…

By KATE BRUMBACK Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — A Georgia judge has ordered the partial release later this week of a report by a special grand…

By DAVID SHARP Associated Press AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — Many Mainers know Democratic Gov. Janet Mills as a level-headed leader, a pragmatic…

By MICHELLE CHAPMAN AP Business Writer The Walt Disney Co. is planning to add an Avatar experience to Disneyland and explore other opportunities at…

By ANDREW DAMPF AP Sports Writer MERIBEL, France (AP) — When Paula Moltzan finished second behind Mikaela Shiffrin for the U.S. ski team’s first…

BERLIN (AP) — A German newspaper critic had animal feces smeared on her face by a ballet director in the city of Hannover after he apparently took…

BY RAFAL NIEDZIELSKI Associated Press SWIETOSZOW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s president and defense minister have met with Polish and foreign…

PRAGUE, Czech Republic (AP) — Czech Republic midfielder Jakub Jankto posted a video on social media on Monday saying he is gay, making him one of…

By MEGAN JANETSKY and FERNANDA PESCE Associated Press PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Nadia hushes the crying 3-month-old baby swaddled in her arms,…

By FRANK JORDANS Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s main opposition party is celebrating its victory in a Berlin state election re-run made…

BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s main opposition party has launched an effort to expel from its ranks a former head of the country’s intelligence…

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Arne Treholt, the former Norwegian Foreign Ministry official who was convicted of spying for the Soviet Union in what…

By The Associated Press More than four in ten Jews in the United States feel their status in America is less secure than it was a year earlier,…

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Norway’s intelligence serivce says Russia is the main security threat for Norway and Europe. The domestic security…

By JESSE BEDAYN Associated Press/Report for America DENVER (AP) — On Colorado’s northeastern plains, where the pencil-straight horizon divides…

By COLLEEN BARRY Associated Press MILAN (AP) — Former Premier Silvio Berlusconi has once again put himself at odds with Premier Giorgia Meloni by…

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A Kansas City police officer was hit by gunfire and wounded at the department’s headquarters shortly after the Chiefs won…

LONDON (AP) — “Killing Eve” star Jodie Comer has been named best actor at London’s WhatsOnStage awards. Female performers dominated the…

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi has offered a monologue of praise for…

SAMYA KULLAB and YURAS KARMANAU Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Fierce battles raged outside Bakhmut as Russian forces pushed their advance…

By SAMY MAGDY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — A leading rights group has urged the U.S. and Libya to clarify the legality of a surprise extradition…

By ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House is defending the shootdowns of three unidentified objects in as many days even as…

By ANDREW DAMPF AP Sports Writer COURCHEVEL, France (AP) — Overall World Cup winners Mikaela Shiffrin, Federica Brignone and Aleksander Aamodt…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Britain has announced a security review after several unidentified objects were shot down in the…

By WAYNE PARRY Associated Press TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — For years, some New Jersey lawmakers have introduced bills that would ban smoking in Atlantic…

By BARRY HATTON Associated Press LISBON, Portugal (AP) — A committee looking into historic child sex abuse in the Portuguese Catholic Church says…

SYDNEY (AP) — A retired Australian judge investigating the convictions of a mother in the deaths of her four children has been told there is a…

By JOSEF FEDERMAN Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Tens of thousands of Israelis protested outside the parliament building in Jerusalem in a show…

By DAVID McHUGH AP Business Writer FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — Europe’s economic prospects are looking up, at least a little. The European…

SYDNEY (AP) — The wife of a former U.S. military pilot accused by the United States of illegally training Chinese aviators says her husband is…

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Koji Sato, appointed the next president at Japan’s top automaker Toyota, has outlined a…

By BABAR DOGAR Associated Press LAHORE, Pakistan (AP) — Officials say Pakistan’s police have arrested at least 50 suspects in a mob lynching of a…

By SOPHENG CHEANG Associated Press PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — One of Cambodia’s last free media outlets has ceased operations after Prime…

By MEHMET GUZEL, SUZAN FRASER and SARAH EL DEEB Associated Press ADIYAMAN, Turkey (AP) — The desperate search for earthquake survivors in Turkey…

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Fourteen years after a financial crisis nearly brought Dubai to its knees,…

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Dubai again is planning for the takeoff of flying taxis in this futuristic…

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A pro-reform newspaper says Iran has relased an award-winning filmmaker more than six months after arresting him…