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By BHARATHA MALLAWARACHI Associated Press COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lanka’s government says it’s cutting down expenses in the latest…

BERLIN (AP) — Two German government ministers are calling for authorities to relax the application of rules enabling the prosecution of people who…

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The U.S. Navy has seized over 2,100 assault rifles from a ship in the Gulf of…

By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press ROME (AP) — Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni has made her first official visit to see Pope Francis, fulfilling…

By MELISSA LAMBARENA of NerdWallet After the holiday season, those “buy now, pay later” bills will come due. If you’ve taken on too much debt…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — After weeks of hype and days of leaks, readers got a chance to judge Prince Harry’s book for…

BERLIN (AP) — Austrian media say a Vienna court has acquitted former Austrian Vice Chancellor Heinz-Christian Strache of trying to change laws to…

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — The director of the World Health Organization’s Europe office says the agency sees “no immediate threat” for the…

By PANAGIOTIS BALASKAS and ELENA BECATOROS Associated Press MYTILENE, Greece (AP) — A group of 24 Greek and foreign aid workers and volunteers who…

By FRANCESCO SPORTELLI Associated Press POMPEII, Italy (AP) — The newly restored remains of an opulent house in Pompeii that likely belonged to two…

BERLIN (AP) — The CEO of energy company Uniper has decided to step down after the German government nationalized the gas supplier last month.…

BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanon’s militant Hezbollah group has condemned the cartoons published recently by the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo…

LONDON (AP) — British officials and space scientists said Tuesday they were disappointed but not deterred after the first attempt to launch…

By ANDREW MELDRUM Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian forces are escalating their onslaught against Ukrainian positions around the…

By KANIS LEUNG Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — A lawyer for jailed Hong Kong pro-democracy publisher Jimmy Lai says her team has asked for an…

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Asian shares were mostly higher Wednesday, boosted by a rally on Wall Street that came ahead of…

By SYLVIE CORBET The Associated Press PARIS (AP) — French Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne has unveiled a contentious pension overhaul aimed at…

By SAMY MAGDY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — Egypt’s statistics bureau says the nation is continuing to battle surging inflation amid a…

By BRIAN MELLEY and CHRISTOPHER WEBER Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Sinkholes swallowed cars and floodwaters swamped towns and swept away a…

By VADIM GHIRDA and STEPHEN McGRATH BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — A court in Romania’s capital Bucharest has upheld the 30-day arrest of divisive…

By DAVID BILLER and FELIPE MELLO Associated Press RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — “No amnesty! No amnesty! No amnesty!” The chant reverberated off the…

By HUIZHONG WU Associated Press TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Lithuanian lawmakers on a visit to Taiwan have taken aim at China, saying the world’s…

By KEN MORITSUGU Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — Chinese embassies stopped issuing new visas for South Koreans and Japanese in apparent retaliation…

By RALPH D. RUSSO AP College Football Writer Reggie Bush, whose Heisman Trophy victory for Southern California in 2005 was vacated because of NCAA…

By RALPH D. RUSSO AP College Football Writer INGLEWOOD, Calif. (AP) — Georgia is No. 1 in the final Associated Press college football poll,…

By MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Allen Weisselberg, a longtime executive for Donald Trump ‘s real estate empire whose…

BY LEA SKENE Associated Press BALTIMORE (AP) — Baltimore officials are rolling out their latest plan to steer squeegee workers away from busy…

By FELICIA FONSECA Associated Press FORT DEFIANCE, Ariz. (AP) — Buu Nygren was sworn in Tuesday as the next president of the vast Navajo Nation, a…

By ACACIA CORONADO Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Samantha Sorsby-Jones watched friends at her Texas high school go to great lengths to get…

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Islam’s annual hajj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia will return to pre-pandemic…

By JUAN A. LOZANO and MICHAEL GRACZYK Associated Press HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) — A former suburban Houston police officer was executed Tuesday for…

By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer The Golden Globes returned to the air Tuesday with a red carpet flush with celebrities, comedian Jerrod Carmichael as a…

SYDNEY (AP) — The United States has accused a former military pilot of illegally training Chinese military pilots. The U.S. is now trying to…

By JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — Wang Jian is anxious to get back to work teaching basketball to children now that China has…

By COLLEEN LONG and CHRISTOPHER SHERMAN Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — President Joe Biden,  Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador…

By ANDREW DeMILLO Associated Press LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Sarah Huckabee Sanders is set to be sworn in as Arkansas’ 47th governor and the…

By RALPH D. RUSSO AP College Football Writer INGLEWOOD, Calif. (AP) — Stetson Bennett flashed a wry grin as he walked off the field, stopping to…

By JOHN O’CONNOR AP Political Writer SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — The Illinois Senate has approved a ban on semiautomatic weapons. The measure…

By KEVIN FREKING Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republicans began their tenure in the majority Monday by passing a bill that would…

LIMA, Peru (AP) — At least 13 people died Monday in southeast Peru as protests seeking immediate elections resume in neglected rural areas of the…

By MORGAN LEE Associated Press SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — The New Mexico Supreme Court is considering a legal challenge to a congressional map that…

By HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Charles Simic, the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet who awed critics and readers with his singular…

JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — A powerful deep-sea earthquake has damaged village buildings in a lightly populated island chain in eastern Indonesia.…

NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) — Graduate teachers and researchers at Yale University have overwhelmingly voted to unionize. Results released Monday…

By KEVIN FREKING Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Lawmakers no longer have to walk through metal detectors before gaining access to the House…

By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN Associated Press ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Authorities in New Mexico’s largest city say a suspect believed to be…

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Iowa’s largest school district has cancelled classes for Tuesday after determining there had been a cyber attack on its…

By HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH Associated Press MISSION, Kan. (AP) — The Environmental Protection Agency announced Monday that it has reached an…

By NICHOLAS RICCARDI and DAVID KLEPPER Associated Press Enraged protesters broke into government buildings that are the very symbol of their…

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — George Floyd’s family is ready to take applications from businesses for grants funded by money from their wrongful death…

By ZEKE MILLER AP White House Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department is reviewing a batch of potentially classified documents found…

MOLINE, Ill. (AP) — Equipment manufacturer John Deere and the American Farm Bureau Federation have signed an agreement that ensures farmers and…

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Former U.S. Rep. Madison Cawthorn of North Carolina has confirmed that he has moved to Florida. The Republican officially left…

By LEAH WILLINGHAM Associated Press GLASGOW, W.Va. (AP) — Bill Gates is looking to West Virginia as he plans for the next phase of his effort to…

By JONATHAN J. COOPER Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs has praised President Joe Biden’s weekend trip to the U.S.-Mexico…

By BEN FINLEY and DENISE LAVOIE Associated Press NEWPORT NEWS, Va. (AP) — A Virginia police chief says a 6-year-old student fired the handgun that…

By SEAN MURPHY Associated Press Writer OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The Oklahoma Department of Corrections says a condemned inmate’s spiritual…

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Authorities in Puerto Rico have arrested Randy Ortiz Acevedo of the popular reggaeton duo Jowell & Randy on…

By STEVE KARNOWSKI Associated Press ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Minnesota’s chief elections officer is calling on state lawmakers to make it easier…

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) — Several hundred protesters expressed anger and frustration, and demanded justice Monday for a Bangladeshi American college…

TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — A federal judge has put a temporary hold New Jersey’s new legislation drafted after the U.S. Supreme Court expanded gun…

By SCOTT McFETRIDGE Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — An estimated $1.1 billion Mega Millions jackpot drawing has people lined up at…

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — The U.S. government says it’s investing $1 million to establish a park-and-ride system for Puerto Rico’s…

By MICHELLE CHAPMAN AP Business Writer The Securities and Exchange Commission is charging McDonald’s former CEO Stephen Easterbrook with making…

By JOHN WAWROW and CAROLYN THOMPSON Associated Press ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. (AP) — Bills safety Damar Hamlin said he returned to Buffalo on Monday…

By MICHAEL CASEY Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — Harvard University has rescinded a fellowship it had offered to a leading human rights activist…

BOSTON (AP) — The wife of a late Massachusetts man is suing the companies involved in the 2021 production of “American Horror Story” on Cape…

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuela’s socialist government has ordered the arrest of three exiled former lawmakers at the forefront of renewed…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico ended 2022 with 7.82% annual inflation, the highest rate in more than two decades. What Mexican families felt most was…

By CARA RUBINSKY Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — From an AI oven that promises to warn you when your food is about to burn to a mixing bowl…

By CLAIRE RUSH Associated Press/Report for America SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Liberal Democrat Tina Kotek unveiled measures to combat homelessness as she…

By JOSEF FEDERMAN Associated Press Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s new government has wasted no time implementing its ultra-nationalist…

By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press ROME (AP) — The Vatican has reopened the investigation into the 1983 disappearance of the 15-year-old daughter…

By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A prosecutor told jurors at the outset of a death penalty trial that the man charged with…