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QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) — Police say gunmen have opened fire on Pakistani police escorting a team of polio workers during a door-to-door vaccination…

Associated Press TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran’s state media says the country has decided to close all government offices, banks and schools on…

By PIYUSH NAGPAL Associated Press NUH, India (AP) — Indian authorities have imposed a curfew, suspended internet service and deployed thousands of…

By ANNE M. PETERSON AP Sports Writer AUCKLAND, New Zealand (AP) — A goal post saved the United States from elimination at the Women’s World…

By MATT O’BRIEN AP Technology Writer Spend enough time with ChatGPT and other artificial intelligence chatbots and it doesn’t take long…

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said his government is standing firm against…

By DASHA LITVINOVA and EMMA BURROWS Associated Press TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Russian authorities have accused Ukraine in yet another drone attack…

By BELA SZANDELSZKY Associated Press BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — The United States is imposing travel restrictions on citizens of Hungary over…

PARIS (AP) — The French Foreign Ministry says France is planning an imminent evacuation of people seeking to leave Niger after the coup last week…

By HUIZHONG WU Associated Press TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Taiwan has amended three laws governing sexual harassment in a special session of the…

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Asian shares dipped Wednesday after Wall Street took a step back from its big rally as markets…

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Toyota’s profit for the first fiscal quarter jumped to 1.3 trillion yen, or $9 billion, hitting…

BANGKOK (AP) — Myanmar’s military-led government has reduced the prison sentences of ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi in a clemency connected to a…

WHITTIER, Calif. (AP) — Authorities say a police officer has been shot and the suspected gunman wounded in the Los Angeles suburb of Whittier. The…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — A powerful typhoon is approaching Japan’s southwestern island of Okinawa, lashing the region with…

By The Associated Press The Mega Millions jackpot increased to an estimated $1.25 billion after no one beat the odds Tuesday night and won the…

By ACACIA CORONADO Associated Press With pageantry that included balloons, a banner and an outdoor signing ceremony, Texas A&M University…

By MORGAN LEE Associated Press SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — A New Mexico judge told attorneys to “stay the course” on charges including involuntary…

By DASHA LITVINOVA Associated Press TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Its balmy beaches have been vacation spots for Russian czars and Soviet general…

By ED WHITE Associated Press PONTIAC, Mich. (AP) — A psychologist is testifying in a Michigan court where a judge must decide whether the Oxford…

By SAM MEDNICK Associated Press NIAMEY, Niger (AP) — A French military transport plane carrying Europeans from Niger arrived in Paris Wednesday, in…

BEIJING (AP) — Chinese state media say days of unusually heavy rains around China’s capital, Beijing, have flooded houses, torn apart roads and…

By EVENS SANON and MEGAN JANETSKY Associated Press PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Efforts to help Haitians through the gang violence ravaging their…

By KANIS LEUNG Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — Singer and songwriter Coco Lee is being mourned by family and friends at a private ceremony a day…

By JUAN A. LOZANO Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — A Republican judicial candidate who lost a district court election in Harris County, Texas, is…

By AUDREY McAVOY Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — Jan Pappas and Ronald Yasuda hired a contractor to fasten the roof of their 1960s-era home to…

By DAVID A. LIEB Associated Press BONNE TERRE, Mo. (AP) — A Missouri man who abducted and beat a 6-year-old girl to death at an abandoned factory…

NEW DELHI (AP) — A huge crane collapsed at a highway construction site in western India, killing at least 16 workers, the country’s National…

By JILL COLVIN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A longtime Mar-a-Lago staffer who spent years fetching luxury cars for club members is the latest…

By JILL COLVIN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A longtime Mar-a-Lago staffer who spent years fetching luxury cars for wealthy club members is the…

By SAM KEMMIS of NerdWallet Mystery travel involves setting off on a trip where you only know the destination once you board the plane. These trips…

NEW YORK (AP) — Rachel Maddow’s next book will be an exploration into right-wing extremism in the U.S., including a plot to overthrow the…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The $3.9 billion humanitarian appeal for war-torn Ukraine is less than 30% funded as the…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United Nations chief has welcomed Kenya’s offer to “positively consider”…

By DAVE COLLINS Associated Press New York officials have shut down what they call seven unlicensed cannabis dispensaries in the western part of the…

By MARGERY A. BECK Associated Press LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — An out-of-session hearing by the Nebraska Legislature’s Education Committee is…

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A brightly flashing “X” sign has been removed from the San Francisco headquarters of the company formerly known as Twitter…

By MATTHEW BARAKAT Associated Press A federal appeals court is allowing Kentucky to enforce a recently enacted ban on gender-affirming care for young…

BRIDGEPORT, Conn. (AP) — A former millionaire real estate developer has been sentenced to more than five years in prison for fraud involving a…

By STEFANIE DAZIO Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Los Angeles Clippers shooting guard Amir Coffey was arrested on a firearms misdemeanor in…