AP National News

By GERALD IMRAY Associated Press CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — The South African government has terminated the national state of disaster it…

By DENG MACHOL Associated Press JUBA, South Sudan (AP) — An aid agency in South Sudan says that famine-like conditions the country’s…

By OMAR FARUK Associated Press MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — The U.N. humanitarian agency says that at least 21 people, including six children, have…

By REBECCA BOONE Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Idaho’s Republican governor has signed a bill criminalizing gender-affirming medical care…

MADRID (AP) — A Spanish judge has ordered a psychiatric evaluation for a man held in the slaying of a church officer in the southern city of…

By VANESSA GERA Associated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland has emerged as one Ukraine’s most ardent supporters during Russia’s invasion…

GENEVA (AP) — The Swiss government says it plans to impose an automobile import tax on electric cars, which so far have been exempted from the…

By LIZZIE KNIGHT Associated Press Amid a changing, modernizing world with climate change threatening his home, Senegalese singer-songwriter and…

By PAUL J. WEBER Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The Justice Department announced Wednesday a tentative $144 million settlement with families…

SKOPJE, North Macedonia (AP) — Croatia’s prime minister promises to redouble efforts to help other countries in the region join the European…

By MATTHEW LEE AP Diplomatic Writer BRUSSELS (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Wednesday he has “no doubt” that Russia has…

DETROIT (AP) — An electric Ram pickup truck with up to 500 miles of range per charge and a battery-powered people-hauling Kia SUV are among the new…

By LAÍS MARTINS and LUCAS DUMPHREYS Associated Press BLUMENAU, Brazil (AP) — A man with a hatchet burst into a day care center Wednesday in…

By GARY D. ROBERTSON and HANNAH SCHOENBAUM Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A Democratic state lawmaker in North Carolina announced Wednesday…

LISBON, Portugal (AP) — UEFA member federations have been given a historic chance to vote for female candidates against male opposition for the…

By SUZAN FRASER Associated Press ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — A Turkish Foreign Ministry official says Turkey has closed its airspace to flights to and…

TOKYO (AP) — The International Tennis Federation will play tournaments this year in China. This takes place despite no known resolution to the case…

TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — An opposition politician who ran against authoritarian Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko in the controversial 2020…

PARIS (AP) — French trade union leaders have walked out of talks with the country’s prime minister after failing to find a compromise on the…

By JINTAMAS SAKSORNCHAI Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — Officials say more than 60 self-exiled members of a Chinese Christian church who were…

SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) — Former Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borissov has invited his political opponents to talks on forming a government.…

By KEN RITTER Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — Sen. Jacky Rosen, a Democrat from Nevada who steered a moderate path during her first term in the…

By CIARÁN GILES Associated Press MADRID (AP) — A heated debate in Spain triggered by a 68-year-old celebrity who was reported to have used a…

By PAUL WISEMAN and JOSH BOAK The Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration is pressing its case for a new approach to global…

By SAM KEMMIS of NerdWallet President Biden derided “junk fees” during his State of the Union Address, calling out airline seat selection fees in…

By COLLEEN LONG and DARLENE SUPERVILLE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden will travel to the United Kingdom and Ireland next…

LAS CRUCES, N.M. (AP) — Federal officials have announced the first $196 million of grants in a $1 billion program to repair and replace aging and…

By MEG KINNARD Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Congressman Jim Clyburn is backing a former staffer in her effort to lead South Carolina’s…

LISBON, Portugal (AP) — UEFA president Aleksander Ceferin says soccer bodies and clubs should do more to tackle racist abuse of players. He says…

By RAHIM FAIEZ and EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — The United Nations says it cannot accept a Taliban decision to bar Afghan…

BERLIN (AP) — German airline Lufthansa says it has agreed to sell the remainder of its catering business to European private equity group Aurelius…

By HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — The United States has flown nuclear-capable B-52 bombers to the Korean Peninsula again…

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — A judge has ruled that the Dutch government cannot order Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport, one of Europe’s busiest…

BERLIN (AP) — Official figures show that factory orders in Germany surged in February, posting their third successive increase in another promising…

By DANICA KIRKA and BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press LONDON (AP) — British media are reporting that the husband of former Scottish first minister and…

By JARI TANNER Associated Press HELSINKI (AP) — Finland’s outgoing prime minister, Sanna Marin, says she will resign as the leader of her…

By NICK PERRY Associated Press WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — In her final speech to New Zealand’s Parliament, Jacinda Ardern describes in…

By ERIKA KINETZ Associated Press LONDON (AP) — On Oct. 14, a Russian engineer named Gleb Karakulov boarded a flight from Kazakhstan to Turkey with…

By ERIKA KINETZ Associated Press LONDON (AP) — In October, an officer in Russian President Vladimir Putin’s elite personal security service…