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By BABA AHMED Associated Press BAMAKO, Mali (AP) — The Malian army says 14 soldiers have been killed and nearly a dozen wounded in coordinated…

TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., the biggest contract manufacturer of processor chips for smartphones and other…

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — The University of Memphis plans to retire the jersey of former basketball player Lorenzen Wright during a game next month,…

By TIA GOLDENBERG Associated Press TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Former top Israeli legal officials have spoken out against sweeping changes to the…

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Pakistan’s prime minister says that the United Arab Emirates agreed to extend…

By KAREL JANICEK Associated Press PRAGUE (AP) — Populist billionaire Andrej Babis is leading a field of eight candidates hoping to succeed Milos…

LUETZERATH, Germany (AP) — Police are pressing ahead with the clearance of a condemned village in western Germany where activists are vowing to…

By AMY BETH HANSON Associated Press HELENA, Mont. (AP) — Officials in Republican-controlled Montana want to require authorization before the…

By JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — An industry group says China’s auto sales rose 9.5% in 2022 as electric vehicle purchases…

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Australia has pulled out of an upcoming men’s one-day international cricket series against Afghanistan. Cricket…

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — The Islamic State group has claimed responsibility for a deadly bombing that killed at least five people near the Foreign…

By HANNA ARHIROVA Associated Press A POWER PLANT, Ukraine (AP) — Around some of their precious transformers — the ones that still work, buzzing…

By BEN FINLEY and DENISE LAVOIE Associated Press NEWPORT NEWS, Va. (AP) — The shooting of a first-grade teacher by a 6-year-old boy has plunged the…

By ASHOK SHARMA Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — India has convened a virtual summit of developing countries to evolve a strategy for a redress of…

By ISABEL DEBRE Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — The Palestinian Health Ministry says the Israeli military shot and killed three Palestinians…

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The United Arab Emirates has named a veteran technocrat who both leads Abu…

By KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korean officials are considering creating a domestic fund to compensate Koreans…

By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer BANGKOK (AP) — Shares advanced Friday in Asia after news that U.S. consumer inflation slowed last month…

By RIAZAT BUTT Associated Press KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Last June, a team of female doctors and nurses drove six hours across mountains, dry…

By REBECCA BOONE Associated Press The man charged in the stabbing deaths of four University of Idaho students will have a preliminary hearing in late…

By BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Lindsy Doan didn’t think the water flowing over the creek crossing on San Marcos Road was…

By SEAN MURPHY Associated Press McALESTER, Okla. (AP) — Oklahoma has executed a man convicted of killing an elderly couple and committing other…

LAHORE, Pakistan (AP) — Officials say a key political ally of Pakistan’s former prime minister has won a confidence vote in the Punjab Assembly…

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Rising U.S. consumer prices moderated again last month, bolstering hopes that…

By CHRIS MEGERIAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — For years, problems with classified materials have been a shortcut to controversy in…

By TARA COPP Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden and other past and present U.S. officials are honoring the late Ash Carter, who…

By NICK PERRY Associated Press WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — The leaders of Australia and neighboring Papua New Guinea say they are finalizing a…

By EDNA TARIGAN and DAVID RISING Associated Press JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Widespread opposition to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine…

By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN Associated Press ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — U.S. border authorities have updated their policy for pursuing smugglers and those…

MEDFORD, Ore. (AP) — One of Oregon’s oldest operating newspapers will shut down by the end of the week. The Mail Tribune’s publisher and…

By STEFANIE DAZIO Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Los Angeles police chief says he is concerned about two recent fatal police shootings,…

By DAVID PEREDA Z. Associated Press LIMA, Peru (AP) — Protests against Peruvian President Dina Boluarte’s government that have left 48 people…

By MICHAEL BALSAMO and ZEKE MILLER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden’s legal team has discovered additional documents…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Colombia’s vice-president listened to members of the Security Council condemn the…

By CURT ANDERSON Associated Press ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — Manatee deaths dropped in 2022 from a record high the year before, but Florida…

By MICHAEL GOLDBERG Associated Press/Report for America JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — TikTok will be banned from all Mississippi-issued government devices…

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A federal appeals court has accepted the government’s request to drop appeals of the sentences of two former Minneapolis…

By TOM KRISHER and DAVID KOENIG Associated Press DALLAS (AP) — Until Wednesday, few travelers had ever heard of a Notice to Air Missions, or NOTAM,…

By KATHY McCORMACK Associated Press CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — A judge denied a request to end parole supervision for the getaway driver in the case of a…

By MICHAEL R. BLOOD AP Political Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Los Angeles City Council is struggling with a still-unfolding racism scandal that…

By The Associated Press Reactions to the death of Jeff Beck, rock innovator and guitar virtuoso who died Wednesday. “The six stringed Warrior is no…

By JOHN HANNA AP Political Writer TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas’ anti-abortion Republican attorney general is asking the state’s highest court to…

By ROB GILLIES Associated Press TORONTO (AP) — Canadian police are asking victims to come forward after a group of eight to 10 teenage girls…

By HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — No, the public has not tired of hearing about Prince Harry. Sales for “Spare” have…

FRISCO, Texas (AP) — Universal Parks & Resorts is bringing a theme park to Texas that will focus on entertaining young children. Officials…

By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Jeff Beck, a guitar virtuoso who pushed the boundaries of blues, jazz and rock ‘n’…

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Authorities say a six-year-old girl has been found dead in a retention pond after going missing from a South Florida…

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — A group of Florida college professors are asking a federal judge to block Gov. Ron DeSantis from requesting spending data…

By ED WHITE Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — A judge has ordered a Detroit museum to hold onto an 1888 painting by Vincent van Gogh. The order comes…

By KATHY McCORMACK Associated Press CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — A second arrest has been made in the case of the daughter of MLB Hall of Fame pitcher…

JEFF AMY Associated Press (AP) — Georgia state lawmakers are pushing back on a state court ruling that forced some of them to testify during an…

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — A Florida drawbridge operator won’t be going to prison for causing a bicyclist to fall to her death last year.…

By MARY CLARE JALONICK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republicans are taking early action on abortion now that they are in the majority.…

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The 14th Mississippi child has died from COVID-19. The state’s department of health says the child was an infant under the…

By JIM SALTER Associated Press A Christian boarding school in Missouri that’s been under intense scrutiny over abuse allegations will close…

KENOSHA, Wis. (AP) — Prosecutors and attorneys for a Wisconsin man accused of killing his wife with antifreeze in 1998 have delivered opening…

By TOM KRISHER AP Auto Writer DETROIT (AP) — The head of the National Transportation Safety Board is expressing concern about the safety risks that…

By DAVE COLLINS Associated Press Five Connecticut police officers have pleaded not guilty to charges accusing them of cruelly mistreating a Black man…

By SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A Republican member of Wisconsin’s bipartisan elections commission is standing by comments…

By SOPHIE AUSTIN Associated Press/Report for America SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California’s capital city is known for the many trees that…

By SEAN MURPHY Associated Press Writer OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The Oklahoma Department of Corrections has reversed its position and now says it will…

By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — Russia’s top military officer has been put in charge of troops fighting in Ukraine on…

By MEGAN JANETSKY Associated Press MIAMI (AP) — Western Union says it has resumed remittance services between the U.S. and Cuba in a limited…

By JESSICA GRESKO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court is allowing New York to continue to enforce for now a sweeping new law…

By EVENS SANON Associated Press PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Hundreds of Haitians are flocking daily to the sole immigration office in…

By The Associated Press SANTA BARBARA, Calif. (AP) — Tatjana Patitz, one of an elite group of famed supermodels who graced magazine covers in the…

By The Associated Press Naomi Osaka is pregnant and plans to return to competition in 2024, the tennis star announced Wednesday. The former world No.…

NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — The government of Cyprus said Wednesday it will require all passengers arriving from China to produce evidence of a negative…

By KEVIN McGILL Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Flag-waving admirers lined the sidewalk outside the National World War II Museum in New Orleans…

By LOLITA C. BALDOR and MATTHEW LEE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The top national security officials from the U.S. and Japan have unveiled…

By MICHELLE L. PRICE Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — State and local Republican leaders in New York on Wednesday called for the immediate…

By BROOKE SCHULTZ and MARC LEVY Associated Press HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Pennsylvania’s state Senate is postponing a trial seeking to remove…

By JOHN WAWROW AP Sports Writer ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. (AP) — The “Prayers for Damar 3” have been answered. Buffalo Bills safety Damar Hamlin is…

By CARLA BRIDI and NATÁLIA SCARABOTTO Associated Press BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — Skittish Brazilian authorities spared no effort to boost security…