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LONDON (AP) — The Grand National is implementing a series of significant changes that will take effect from next year in an effort to make the…

By MIKE CORDER Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Armenia is urging the United Nations’ top court to impose new interim orders on…

HELSINKI (AP) — The Finnish Security and Intelligence Service says Finland’s relationship with Russia has significantly deteriorated due to the…

By KELVIN CHAN AP Business Writer LONDON (AP) — The head of Elon Musk’s social media platform X says the company formerly known has Twitter has…

BERLIN (AP) — Prosecutors say a former member of communist East Germany’s secret police has been charged with murder over the killing of a Polish…

NYON, Switzerland (AP) — UEFA has postponed Israel’s European Championship qualifying game against host Kosovo on Sunday. The decision by…

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — The Malaysian government has questioned a move by Goldman Sachs to file for arbitration in a dispute connected with…

BERLIN (AP) — Germany is offering military help to Israel and promising to crack down on support for the militant Hamas group at home following its…

TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Taiwan is closely watching the war in the Middle East sparked by the unprecedented attack on Israel by Hamas militants from…

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Dozens of activists in Norway are blocking the entrance to one of the main operators of a wind farm they say hinders the…

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s top automaker Toyota and Idemitsu, a major oil company, say they will cooperate on…

By The Associated Press President Vladimir Putin has arrived in Kyrgyzstan on a rare trip abroad for the Russian leader who was indicted by the…

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Asian shares mostly rose Thursday as investors awaited the release of U.S. consumer price data and…

By KRISHAN FRANCIS Associated Press COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lanka says that it has reached an agreement on key terms and principles on its…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Colombian President Gustavo Petro’s commitment to transform long-marginalized rural…

By ANDREW DALTON AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Strike talks have broken off between Hollywood actors and studios. The alliance of…

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australia’s Foreign Minister Penny Wong is crediting improved relations with China for…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s government is convening a religious affairs council to decide whether to seek a court…

By MICHAEL HILL Associated Press RAVENA, N.Y. (AP) — New York is dramatically expanding a legal marijuana market plagued by a sluggish rollout of…

By AMY BETH HANSON and HALELUYA HADERO Associated Press A federal judge is scheduled to hear arguments in a case filed by TikTok and five Montana…

By JOSEPH KRAUSS and WAFAA SHURAFA Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Palestinians in Gaza spent the night in pitch darkness, surrounded by the…

By TAIWO ADEBAYO Associated Press ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Most of the population in conflict-affected countries like Niger, Mali, Burkina Faso, Chad…

By DAVID BRANDT AP Baseball Writer PHOENIX (AP) — The hard-hitting Arizona Diamondbacks rode a record-setting barrage of solo homers in the third…

By DAVID CRARY AP National Writer It’s been 25 years since Matthew Shepard, a gay 21-year-old University of Wyoming student, died six days…

By LISA MASCARO, FARNOUSH AMIRI and STEPHEN GROVES Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Having won the nomination to be the next House speaker, Rep.…

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — While revealing new details about one of the most famed CIA operations of all…

By SEAN MURPHY Associated Press GREENWOOD, Ark. (AP) — An Oklahoma man who was freed after being imprisoned for decades on a murder conviction says…

By RIO YAMAT Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — Duane “Keffe D” Davis is the last living suspect in one of hip-hop’s most enduring…

By TARA COPP Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Within hours of the horrific attack by Hamas, the U.S. began moving warships and aircraft to the…

By LISA MASCARO and KEVIN FREKING Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — With his walker positioned on the mound, Rep. Steve Scalise threw out the…

By DAVID KOENIG AP Business Writer As the auto workers strike approaches the one-month mark, more Americans sympathize with the striking workers than…

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Inflation in the United States likely eased again last month, though the decline might…

NEW YORK (AP) — Nets coach Jacque Vaughn says their opponent from Israel still wants to play an exhibition game Thursday night in Brooklyn, days…

By JEFF AMY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — A seventh person has been arrested on murder charges after a South Korean woman’s body was found…

By HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — A U.S. nuclear-powered aircraft carrier has arrived in South Korea in a demonstration…

By DAVE CAMPBELL AP Sports Writer MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — José Abreu homered for the third time in two games, a two-run rocket in the fourth inning…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s president has honored a former defense secretary whose high-profile arrest in the U.S. three years ago strained…

By TOM WITHERS AP Sports Writer CLEVELAND (AP) — A sculpture commemorating the famous 1967 meeting of Muhammad Ali, Jim Brown and other athletes…

By MICHAEL R. BLOOD AP Political Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — California’s newly appointed U.S. senator is facing a risky decision: whether or…

By MORGAN LEE Associated Press SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — A federal judge will allow enforcement of a public health order that suspends the right to…

NEW YORK (AP) — Three books that explore and celebrate the diversity of American culture were awarded Kirkus Prizes on Wednesday night, with each…

By TRÂN NGUYỄN Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed a law to fast-track low-income housing on…

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The Internal Revenue Service says Microsoft owes the U.S. Treasury $28.9 billion in back taxes, plus penalties and interest.…

TRÂN NGUYỄN Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Sacramento leaders and Gov. Gavin Newsom’s administration announced Wednesday the state…

HOOVER, Ala. (AP) — An Alabama woman accused of falsely telling police she was abducted after stopping to check on a toddler wandering along a…

ELWOOD, N.Y. (AP) — A police officer has shot and killed a man who charged at authorities with two swords on New York’s Long Island, and the…

By ISABEL DEBRE and FATIMA SHBEIR Associated Press GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — Hallways filled with screaming voices. A terrible stench in the…

By DANIEL SHAILER The Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — A Mexican government official says the military continues to obstruct the search for…

By SAM McNEIL KIBBUTZ BE’ERI, Israel (AP) — Trudging down a cul-de-sac turned to rubble, an Israeli army commander stopped in front of one…

By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — One of the people being sued by the Mississippi Department of Human Services over…

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Spending more than three and a half days aloft and traveling more than 1,653 miles, a French ballooning team has traveled…

By TOM KRISHER AP Auto Writer DETROIT (AP) — The United Auto Workers union significantly escalated its strikes against Detroit Three automakers…

By CHEYANNE MUMPHREY AP Education Writer After serving more than a month of in-school suspension over his dreadlocks, a Black high school student in…

By LISA RATHKE Associated Press CASTLETON, Vt. (AP) — Vermont State Police have released a sketch of a person of interest in the killing of a…

DAVENPORT, Iowa (AP) — An Iowa man has been sentenced to two life terms for killing a 10-year-old girl who was missing for eight months before her…

By JONATHAN MATTISE Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Nashville officials have filed a lawsuit challenging a new Tennessee law that lets…

By JAKE OFFENHARTZ Associated Press New York (AP) — A prominent crime patrol leader in New York City’s Orthodox Jewish community was…

By DAVE SKRETTA AP Basketball Writer LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — An independent panel has downgraded five Level I violations lodged by the NCAA against…

By JOSH FUNK AP Business Writer Kansas became the 10th state in the nation Wednesday to require two-person railroad crews over the objections of the…

PATNA, India (AP) — A government official and news reports say a passenger train has derailed in eastern India, killing at least four people and…

By BEN FINLEY Associated Press NORFOLK, Va. (AP) — The company that owns the salvage rights to the Titanic said it has cancelled plans to retrieve…

By SCOTT SONNER Associated Press RENO, Nev. (AP) — A preliminary investigation suggests there was confusion among pilots just before a fatal…

TITUSVILLE, Fla. (AP) — Bruce Weaver, a Florida-based photographer who captured a definitive image of space shuttle Challenger breaking apart into…

By DAVE COLLINS Associated Press A criminal charge has been dropped against a Connecticut man who found a bag containing nearly $5,000 in cash…

By MICHAEL R. SISAK and JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump obtained hundreds of millions of dollars in loans using…

PITTSBURGH (AP) — A 19-year-old man has pleaded guilty to third-degree murder in the death of a 15-year-old student shot last year in a school van…

By JULIE CARR SMYTH and NICHOLAS RICCARDI Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Dysfunction within the Republican Party isn’t limited to the…

By JIM VERTUNO AP Sports Writer AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A woman awaiting trial in the killing of professional cyclist Anna Moriah Wilson tried to run…

By COREY WILLIAMS Associated Press Authorities say former NFL player Sergio Brown has been arrested in Southern California nearly a month after the…

By MARY CLARE JALONICK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The speaker of the House is normally elected every two years, in January, when the House…