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By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A Connecticut man who used a stolen riot shield to crush a police officer in a doorframe…

MOSCOW (AP) — Finland’s embassy in Moscow says it received an envelope containing white powder. It has turned the envelope and two other sealed…

By STEPHEN WHYNO AP Sports Writer Dan Snyder has an agreement in principle to sell the Washington Commanders to a group led by Josh Harris and…

By WILL WEISSERT and TOM DAVIES Associated Press INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Top Republican hopefuls for the 2024 presidential race vowed Friday at the…

By SUMAN NAISHADHAM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration floated two ideas this week to reduce water usage from the…

MOSCOW (AP) — A lawyer for jailed Russian opposition figure Vladimir Kara-Murza Jr. says the prosecutor in  Kara-Murza’s closed-door trial…

By The Associated Press Here’s a collection curated by The Associated Press’ entertainment journalists of what’s arriving on TV, streaming…

By REBECCA SANTANA and ELLIOT SPAGAT Associated Pres BETHESDA, Md. (AP) — A Cuban official says Cuba plans to resume accepting deportation flights…

By WAYNE PARRY Associated Press New Jersey’s Department of Environmental Protection has charged itself with damaging habitat for threatened and…

By GEOFF MULVIHILL Associated Press Before the U.S. Supreme Court stepped in Friday, access to an abortion pill was in line to become more cumbersome…

By OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The 38-year-old tech consultant charged with the murder of Cash App founder Bob Lee made…

ESCANABA, Mich. (AP) — A paper mill in northern Michigan is closing for up to three weeks for scrubbing after authorities confirmed at least 21…

By JESSICA GRESKO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court is allowing challenges to the structure of two federal agencies to go…

DIMMITT, Texas (AP) — An explosion at a dairy farm in the Texas Panhandle that critically injured one person and killed an estimated 18,000 head of…

By AHMAD EL-KHATIB Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — The leader of Lebanon’s militant Hezbollah group claims that Israel did not hit Hamas or…

By JOSHUA GOODMAN Associated Press MIAMI (AP) — Authorities in Venezuela have charged with corruption a businessman who is a fugitive in a separate…

By JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press GENEVA (AP) — The Swiss federal chancellery says that Elisabeth Kopp, an advocate of equal rights and the…

By ANTHONY IZAGUIRRE Associated Press TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has signed a bill to ban abortions after six weeks of…

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Dutch prosecutors say an anti-Islam activist who tore pages out of the Quran and called it a “fascist book” in…

MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. (AP) — Minneapolis will allow broadcasts of the Muslim call to prayer at all hours, becoming the first major U.S. city to allow…

By MARK SHERMAN and JESSICA GRESKO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court is temporarily keeping in place federal rules for use of an…

RICHMOND, Ind. (AP) — Firefighters have doused the flames at a major industrial fire in Indiana fueled by tons of scrap plastics, but crews…

By JEFFREY COLLINS Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — The 12 U.S. soldiers died in a pine forest in South Carolina in 1780, their bodies…

PARIS (AP) — Paris Saint-Germain coach Christophe Galtier says he feels hurt “at the deepest level” of his humanity by accusations that he made…

By JAN M. OLSEN Associated Press COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — A senior Norwegian spy agency officer says ”the intelligence threat from Russia is…

By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER and ERIC TUCKER Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — Billing records of an Internet social media platform helped the FBI identify…

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — A senior Federal Reserve official said Friday that there has been little progress on…

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Americans cut their spending at retail stores and restaurants in March for the second…

MOSCOW (AP) — Belarusian air force crews have completed their training in the use of tactical nuclear weapons as part of Russia’s plan to deploy…

By CIARÁN GILES Associated Press MADRID (AP) — A Spanish mountain climber has emerged from a cave 70 meters (230 feet) underground after spending…

By FREIDA FRISARO and TERRY SPENCER Associated Press FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Workers at one of Fort Lauderdale’s landmark restaurants spent…

By DEEPA BHARATH The Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Rev. Edward Siebert’s journey with “The Pope’s Exorcist,” a film about…

By JUSTIN SPIKE Associated Press BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Hungary’s prime minister is seeking to bring down the temperature on spiraling…

CHISINAU, Moldova (AP) — A fugitive Moldovan oligarch and opposition party leader was sentenced in absentia Thursday to 15 years in jail for his…

By ARNIE STAPLETON AP Sports Writer DENVER (AP) — Not since Jamal Murray was dropping 50 points on the Utah Jazz back in the NBA’s bubble in…

By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer OTARU, Japan (AP) — U.S. Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm says the Group of Seven wealthy nations can…

MOSCOW (AP) — Russia’s entire Pacific Fleet has been put on high alert for snap drills that will involve practice missile launches. The…

By ELAINE GANLEY and ANGELA CHARLTON Associated Press PARIS (AP) — France’s Constitutional Council on Friday approved an unpopular plan to raise…

BEIJING (AP) — China’s defense minister will visit Moscow for meetings with his Russian counterpart and other military officials. The Defense…

BEIJING (AP) — China won’t sell weapons to either side in the war in Ukraine, the country’s foreign minister said Friday, responding to…

By AHMED AL-HAJ and SAMY MAGDY Associated Press SANAA, Yemen (AP) — An exchange of more than 800 prisoners by Yemen’s warring parties has begun.…

By FRANK JORDANS Associated Press LINGEN, Germany (AP) — Germany is shutting down its last three nuclear power plants on Saturday as part of an…