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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…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The leaders of Britain and Japan have signed defense agreement that could see troops deployed to…

By FARNOUSH AMIRI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republicans on Wednesday opened their long-promised investigation into President Joe…

La SALLE, Ill. (AP) — Officials say a large fire that sent smoke plumes towering over a northern Illinois chemical plant has been contained and no…

TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) — An Ohio man who federal officials say is a member of the far-right anti-government group the boogaloo boys has pleaded not…

LONDON (AP) — Britain’s governing Conservative Party has suspended a lawmaker who spread misinformation about COVID-19 vaccines. The party…

By MICHAEL PHILLIS Associated Press The series of storms that have struck California have poured water on a state mired in a years-long drought.…

By DEE-ANN DURBIN AP Business Writer Thousands of travelers were stranded at U.S. airports due to an hours-long computer outage. If a flight is…

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The Dutch government has backtracked on restrictions it placed on family members joining asylum-seekers who are…

By LORNE COOK Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — A European Parliament official says the president of the EU assembly wants to clamp down on the…

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — An Iranian state-linked news agency says a former senior defense official has been sentenced to death after…

LVIV, Ukraine (AP) — Polish President Andrzej Duda says that the European Union nation has decided to send a company of Leopard tanks to help…

By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The Screen Actors Guild has announced nominations to its 29th annual awards, heaping honors on…

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — The Cayman Islands says it will start culling feral cats to help save a dwindling colony of brown booby birds. The…

By MANU FERNÁNDEZ and JOSEPH WILSON Associated Press MADRID (AP) — Farmers from southeastern Spain have protested against a government order to…

BERLIN (AP) — More than 244,000 people have applied for asylum in Germany last year and more than 1 million Ukrainian refugees who have come to the…

By FARAI MUTSAKA Associated Press HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — Zimbabwe has brought in a law that bans health workers such as nurses and doctors from…

By COLLEEN SLEVIN Associated Press DENVER (AP) — A judge is set to consider whether authorities should be punished after the media obtained…

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — A police spokesman in Kabul says an explosion near the Foreign Ministry in the Afghan capital has caused casualties. It…

By DARLENE SUPERVILLE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Surgeons removed a cancerous lesion above first lady Jill Biden ‘s right eye and one…

By SYLVIA HUI Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Around 25,000 U.K. ambulance workers went on strike Wednesday, walking out for the second time since…

By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Lizzo, Taylor Swift and Harry Styles lead the 2023 iHeartRadio Music Awards nominations…

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — A man has died of injuries suffered in an Indianopolis apartment fire this week that left four children ages 15 months, 3, 12…

LODZ, Poland (AP) — The discovery in central Poland of hundreds of objects that were most likely hidden by their Jewish owners during World War II…

BEIRUT (AP) — Hussein Husseini, a former Lebanese parliament speaker and the father of the 1989 Taif Agreement that ended the country’s 15-year…

By ELENA BECATOROS Associated Press ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greece’s government says the country’s former and last king will be buried as…

BEIJING (AP) — Chinese state TV says Beijing is preparing to allow airlines to fly more routes between China and the United States following the…

By DAVID McHUGH and VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV Associated Press FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — Russia’s still making plenty of money from oil sales…

By DAVID KOENIG and MICHELLE CHAPMAN AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Thousands of flights across the U.S. were canceled or delayed after a…

By SAMY MAGDY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — A new report has found that weapons supplied by the United Kingdom and the United States and used by a…

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — China’s new foreign minister has sidestepped a new call by the African Union for permanent representation on the United…

By NICOLAE DUMITRACHE AND STEPHEN McGRATH Associated Press BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — A court in Romania’s capital Bucharest has rejected an…

By MUNIR AHMED Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan’s prime minister says several countries and international institutions have pledged…

Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — From electric cars and boats to wireless TVs to the latest phones and tablets, there was a wide range of…

By JEFF AMY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — A South Korean solar panel maker says it will invest more than $2.5 billion in two Georgia factories.…

STOCKHOLM (AP) — Sweden’s center-right coalition government says it will present legislation which will enable the construction of new nuclear…

By MEHMET GUZEL and SUZAN FRASER Associated Press ISTANBUL (AP) — A court in Istanbul has convicted the president of the Turkish Medical…

By JOSH DUBOW AP Pro Football Writer Coaching changes paid off in a big way for several teams this season. From impressive turnarounds for…

STOCKHOLM (AP) — The appeals trial of an Iranian citizen who was sentenced to life by a Swedish court for committing war crimes and murder during…

BERLIN (AP) — Authorities say a 17-year-old suspected of killing one of his teachers at a vocational school in Germany is said to have had…

By SAMUEL PETREQUIN Associated Press STOCKHOLM (AP) — There are concerns in the European Union that Sweden’s ambitions for its presidency of…

By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV and MARCIA DUNN Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — Russia will send up a new capsule next month to bring back three space…

KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — Thousands of supporters of Nepal’s former royal family have held a rally demanding the restoration of monarchy in the…

By KELVIN CHAN AP Business Writer LONDON (AP) — A report by the World Economic Forum says climate change is the global economy’s biggest…

By RISDEL KASASIRA Associated Press KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — Uganda’s latest outbreak of the Ebola virus is over. Uganda’s government and the…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The U.K. and the European Union are inching closer to settling a post-Brexit trade dispute that has…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI and KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japan and South Korea are defending their public health restrictions on…

By MARTHA MENDOZA and CHRISTOPHER WEBER Associated Press SANTA CRUZ, Calif. (AP) — Laurie Morse shoveled wet sand into bags in the pouring rain…

By ANDREW MELDRUM Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — The fate of a devastated salt-mining town in eastern Ukraine hung in the balance Wednesday…

LONDON (AP) — British counterterrorism police are investigating after border officers seized cargo contaminated with uranium at London’s Heathrow…

By TERRY SPENCER Associated Press FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — More than four years after gunmen killed emerging rap star XXXTentacion during a…

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Asian shares were mixed Thursday ahead of a closely watched report on U.S. inflation viewed as a…

By ANDREW DALTON AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Standout moments from the Golden Globe Awards, which returned to television Tuesday…

By NICK PERRY Associated Press WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — New Zealand had its hottest year on record in 2022, beating a mark set just a year…

By FRANK JORDANS Associated Press LUETZERATH, Germany (AP) — Police in riot gear began evicting climate activists Wednesday from a condemned…

By MARIA CHENG AP Medical Writer LONDON (AP) — The World Health Organization is forming a committee on “formal complaints of abusive conduct.”…

By MARIA CHENG AP Medical Writer LONDON (AP) — The World Health Organization is forming a committee on “formal complaints of abusive conduct.”…

By FRANK JORDANS Associated Press ERKELENZ, Germany (AP) — The fate of a tiny village has sparked heated debate in Germany over the country’s…

By The Associated Press KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Afghan women and girls who once played a variety of sports say they have faced intimidation from…

By THALIA BEATY Associated Press The founder of FedEx, Fred Smith, believes that if you’ve done well, you should give back to the public interest.…

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — The spokesman for Tigray forces in Ethiopia says they have handed over heavy weapons as a key part of the agreement signed…

BEIJING (AP) — China has renewed its threat to attack Taiwan, warning foreign politicians who interact with the self-governing island that they are…

By LEAH WILLINGHAM Associated Press CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — West Virginia Secretary of State Mac Warner is running for governor. The Republican…

By ROD McGUIRK, NICOLE WINFIELD and NICK PERRY Associated Press ROME (AP) — Pope Francis on Wednesday paid tribute to Cardinal George Pell, who…

By WILL WEISSERT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The infighting was so intense a year ago that Democrats who controlled both the White House and…

By FATIMA HUSSEIN and JOSH BOAK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The federal government is on track to max out on its $31.4 trillion borrowing…

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The Mega Millions prize has grown again to an estimated $1.35 billion after there was no winner of the lottery’s latest…

By AUDREY McAVOY Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — Hawaii’s new attorney general says more than two dozen elders won’t be subject to another…

By ASHRAF KHALIL Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The fatal shooting of a middle-school student has sparked public uproar in Washington as the…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Student and civic groups in Mexico have expressed outrage over the arrest and jailing of three students for trying to plant…

By SCOTT McFETRIDGE Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Iowa’s largest school district has canceled classes for a second day due to an…

By CLAIRE RUSH Associated Press/Report for America SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Oregon’s newly sworn-in Democratic Gov. Tina Kotek signed three…

By CLAIRE SAVAGE Associated Press/Report for America CHICAGO (AP) — Illinois lawmakers approved during the last day of their lame-duck session a…