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BERLIN (AP) — Berlin’s first conservative mayor in 22 years has taken office following a state election in which he capitalized on discontent in…

By JAKE BLEIBERG Associated Press DALLAS (AP) — A lawyer says a for-profit company that ran a Texas jail along with other defendants has agreed to…

By MICHAEL R. SISAK and JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump’s lawyer sought Thursday to pick apart a decades-old…

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greece’s culture ministry says pets will soon be allowed into more than 120 archaeological sites across the country,…

By BASSEM MROUE Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — A European judicial team is pressing on with its corruption probe of Lebanon’s embattled Central…

By MUNIR AHMED Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — Lawmakers from Pakistan’s ruling party have overwhelmingly backed Prime Minister Shahbaz…

By JOHN HANNA AP Political Writer TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Republican legislators in Kansas have enacted what may be the most sweeping transgender…

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran’s navy seized a Marshall Islands-flagged oil tanker in the Gulf of…

By MARGERY A. BECK Associated Press LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Nebraska lawmakers are set to begin a second round of debate on a bill that would ban…

By KRISTIN M. HALL AP Entertainment Writer NASHVILLE, Tennessee (AP) — Country superstar and newly minted Rock & Roll Hall of Famer Dolly…

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The government’s report Thursday that the economy grew at a 1.1% annual rate last…

By JONEL ALECCIA AP Health Writer A diabetes drug being tested for weight loss is poised to further upend obesity care. Drugmaker Eli Lilly and Co.…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Britain’s High Court has ruled that part of a strike by thousands of nurses planned for next week…

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — A court in Norway has sentenced a former contractor of Russian military company the Wagner Group to 14 days in jail for…

By LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. officials tell The Associated Press the number of reported sexual assaults across the…

By JOE McDONALD Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — Chinese leader Xi Jinping faces daunting obstacles if he is serious about trying to help end the…

By FRANCES D’EMILIO Associated Press ROME (AP) — Ukraine’s prime minister said he asked Pope Francis during a private Vatican audience…

By BASSEM MROUE Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Iran’s foreign minister says Tehran wants Lebanon’s rivals to reach an agreement to elect a…

LONDON (AP) — Traveling to the FA Cup final at Wembley Stadium in London just got much harder for fans of the two Manchester clubs. The British…

By JIM GOMEZ Associated Press ABOARD BRP MALABRIGO (AP) — A Chinese coast guard ship blocked a Philippine patrol vessel steaming into a disputed…

By MOSHE EDRI and TIA GOLDENBERG Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Thursday shrugged off Disney’s lawsuit…

By JINTAMAS SAKSORNCHAI Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — Human rights organizations are urging Thailand to improve conditions in its immigration…

By THALIA BEATY Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — At Michigan State University, children of employees can spend Thursday seeing what it’s like…

BERLIN (AP) — Millions of Turkish citizens living abroad have began voting in national elections that will decide whether President Recep Tayyip…

MADRID (AP) — Spain’s national weather service said temperatures would “reach values typical of summer” across most of the country, with…

By SAMY MAGDY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — Residents say fighting has intensified in Sudan’s war-ravaged region of Darfur during a fragile…

By SOPHIE AUSTIN Associated Press/Report for America SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California approved Thursday a first-in-the-nation, ambitious rule…

KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) — Officials say seven people were killed when a passenger train caught fire in southern Pakistan. Railways official Mohsn…

By STAN CHOE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Wall Street steamed to its best day since January after Meta Platforms became the latest Big Tech…

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Prosecutors and security service personnel in Poland are investigating the remains of an aerial military object that was…

BEIJING (AP) — China’s military has dispatched a pair of navy ships to take part in joint drills with Singapore’s navy and join in a…

By SYLVIA HUI Associated Press LONDON (AP) — When Camilla, Britain’s queen consort, is crowned alongside her husband next week, the moment…

By ROD McGUIRK Asspociated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australia will end a decade-old freeze on the minimum wage for skilled migrant workers…

By PAUL WISEMAN and EVELYNE MUSAMBI Associated Press A restaurant on the outskirts of Nairobi skimps on the size of its chapatis — a flaky, chewy…

By MEHDI EL-AREM and ELAINE GANLEY Associated Press OFF THE COAST OF SFAX, Tunisia (AP) — A young man wearing a baseball cap emblazoned with…

By TIA GOLDENBERG Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s corruption trial has resumed after a…

By SIBI ARASU Associated Press BENGALURU, India (AP) — Asia must rapidly cut fossil fuel subsidies and plow more money into a clean energy…

By WANJOHI KABUKURU Associated Press MALINDI, Kenya (AP) — An international team of climate scientists says the ongoing drought in Eastern Africa…

By JOHN HANNA AP Political Writer TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas health care providers could face criminal charges over accusations about their care of…

HONOLULU (AP) — The U.S. Coast Guard says it’s searching for a cruise ship passenger from Australia in waters south of Hawaii. The ship…

By AMY BETH HANSON, BRITTANY PETERSON and SAM METZ Associated Press HELENA, Mont. (AP) — Montana lawmaker Zooey Zephyr began her first day in…

By LOLITA C. BALDOR, MATTHEW LEE and TARA COPP Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The effort to get private citizens out of Sudan by countries…

By The Associated Press KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Day 2 of the NFL draft is a wrap! There were 16 trades during the second and third rounds,…

By CHRIS MEGERIAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — She swaggered, she jabbed, she inspired. She even joked. Anyone looking for a glimpse of what…

By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER, ERIC TUCKER and TARA COPP Associated Press WORCESTER, Mass. (AP) — The Massachusetts Air National guardsman accused of…

By PAUL WISEMAN AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. economy slowed sharply from January through March, decelerating to just a 1.1%…