AP National News

By MIKE CORDER Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The Netherlands’ national museum is planning to restretch Rembrandt van Rijn’s…

By GEIR MOULSON Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Angela Merkel is credited with raising Germany’s profile and influence and working to hold a…

By VANESSA GERA Associated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland and several other countries in Central and Eastern Europe are facing the emergence of…

By NINIEK KARMINI Associated Press JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — An Indonesian court has sentenced an Islamic militant who eluded capture for 16 years…

By FRANK JORDANS Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — The European diplomat chairing nuclear talks between Iran and world powers says negotiations in…

Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — The United Nations says fighting between troops loyal to Yemen’s internationally recognized government and…

By THOMAS ADAMSON Associated Press PARIS (AP) — French authorities have announced that a man arrested at Paris-Charles De Gaulle Airport linked to…

By GRANT PECK Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — Facebook’s parent company Meta has announced a new ban on postings linked to Myanmar’s military…

By AGOES BASOEKI Associated Press LUMAJANG, Indonesia (AP) — Heavy rains and torrents of hot lava and mud sliding down an erupting volcano on…

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Saudi media says that authorities have conducted their biggest-ever crackdown on camel beauty contestants that…

By SHEIKH SAALIQ and ASHOK SHARMA Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — India’s air force says the country’s military chief, Gen. Bipin Rawat, his…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has apologized and ordered an inquiry after a leaked video…

By KIRSTEN GRIESHABER Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — German police and customs officers have conducted dozens of raids and arrested at least nine…

MOSCOW (AP) — A Japanese billionaire and his producer rocketed to space on Wednesday and reached the International Space Station several hours…

By JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — Asian stock markets have followed Wall Street higher as investors wait for U.S. inflation data…

By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV and YURAS KARMANAU Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — When the leaders of the Soviet Union’s three Slavic republics met at a…

By GEIR MOULSON Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Olaf Scholz has taken over as Germany’s new chancellor at the head of a three-party coalition…

By GEIR MOULSON Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Olaf Scholz has become Germany’s ninth post-World War II chancellor, opening a new era for the…

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli police say an Israeli woman has been stabbed and lightly wounded in a tense Jerusalem neighborhood. The suspect, a…

BOSTON (AP) — A Massachusetts man who spent over two decades in prison for what a court is calling a wrongful murder and armed robbery conviction…

By FARES AKRAM Associated Press GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — The players race across the pitch on crutches, jostling for the soccer ball, passing…

By AMY FORLITI and STEVE KARNOWSKI Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Jurors at the trial of the former suburban Minneapolis police officer who…

By MARK SHERMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court appears ready to rule that religious schools can’t be excluded from a Maine…

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A company once owned by “Pharma Bro” Martin Shkreli will pay up to $40 million to settle allegations that it jacked…

By BEN FOX Associated Press JOINT BASE MCGUIRE-DIX-LAKEHURST, N.J. (AP) — More than three months after the fall of Kabul to the Taliban, about…

By DON THOMPSON Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Nearly 17 years after being sentenced to die, Scott Peterson was resentenced to life…

By DON BABWIN and SARA BURNETT Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — A jury has completed deliberations for the day in the trial of actor Jussie Smollett…

By FRANK BAJAK and BARBARA ORTUTAY Associated Press Amazon’s cloud-service network suffered a major outage Tuesday, disrupting access to many…

By FRANK BAJAK and BARBARA ORTUTAY Associated Press Amazon’s cloud-service network suffered a major outage Tuesday, disrupting access to many…

TOKYO (AP) — Japan has downgraded its growth estimate for the last quarter, saying weaker consumer spending and trade resulted in a 3.6%…

By NICK PERRY Associated Press WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — A New Zealand man who couldn’t afford to buy beer at a supermarket has pleaded…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Federal officials say six people have been charged in Los Angeles with running a Mexico-based kidnapping ring that took nine…

By EILEEN NG Associated Press PUTRAJAYA, Malaysia (AP) — Malaysia’s Appeal Court has upheld the conviction and 12-year jail sentence of ex-Prime…

TOKYO (AP) — Japan has downgraded its growth estimate for the last quarter, saying weaker consumer spending and trade resulted in a 3.6%…

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Louisiana’s Supreme Court has decided to hear arguments in a pastor’s fight against criminal charges he faces for violations…

By HALELUYA HADERO AP Business Writer A spokesperson for the company that runs the philanthropy of Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg and his wife,…

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Bob Dole will be honored Friday in a private memorial service with President Joe Biden in attendance and a public service at…

GREAT FALLS, Mont. (AP) — A former Montana police chief has pleaded guilty to distributing child pornography via social media. Federal prosecutors…

By NICK PERRY Associated Press WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Australia’s prime minister says his country will join the U.S. in a diplomatic…

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas (AP) — Federal investigators say a dredge operator’s inadequate communication, planning, and risk management likely led to…

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. (AP) — The defense has rested in the Arkansas federal trial of former reality TV star Josh Duggar after a prosecutor sharply…

By JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER and JULIE WATSON Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — The U.S. Navy is contesting orders from Hawaii to suspend use of fuel…

By LARRY NEUMEISTER and TOM HAYS Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — One of Ghislaine Maxwell’s accusers says the British socialite once felt her…

By JANIE HAR Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The Oakland City Council has approved a proposal by Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf to add two new…

By MATTHEW DALY and DAVID PITT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration has lowered annual production requirements for ethanol…

By KIM CHANDLER Associated Press MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama Corrections Commissioner Jeff Dunn is stepping down after six years leading the…

By SEAN MURPHY Associated Press At former Minnesota police officer Kim Potter’s manslaughter trial for fatally shooting Daunte Wright, a Black…

By KEN RITTER Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — One of the nation’s largest health insurance companies and its branches in Nevada have been found…

By CURT ANDERSON Associated Press St. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — Normally giving food to wild animals is considered off limits. But now a dire…