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By JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — Asian stocks followed Wall Street higher Friday ahead of a United States inflation update traders…

By JOSEPH WILSON Associated Press BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Firefighter Manuel Rubio had never seen a blaze like the one that raged for the past week…

BO’AO, China (AP) — China’s new No. 2 leader says its economic recovery improved in March and he promised to stay committed to opening to…

By ZEN SOO AP Technology Writer HONG KONG (AP) — Top executives of Chinese e-commerce and financial giant Alibaba says the company is moving toward…

LAFAYETTE, Ind. (AP) — A 16-month-old boy was fatally shot by his 5-year-old sibling at a northwestern Indiana apartment, authorities said. The…

By KAWEEWIT KAEWCHINDA Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — Thai authorities are using helicopters to try to contain a fire that overnight engulfed two…

By JOCELYN GECKER Associated Press SARASOTA, Fla. (AP) — Professors at the New College of Florida are using personal email because they’re afraid…

SONIA PÉREZ D., MORGAN LEE and CLAUDIO ESCALÓN Associated Press SAN MARTIN JILOTEPEQUE, Guatemala (AP) — The last Ana Marina López heard of her…

CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — The Australian Parliament has created landmark new laws that will make the nation’s biggest greenhouse gas polluters…

By MIKE SCHNEIDER Associated Press Turns out the pandemic hasn’t permanently dissuaded people — especially immigrants — from seeking their…

By RIAZ KHAN Associated Press PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — Taliban militants have killed four police officers and wounded six in a pair of attacks in…

By JULIE PACE Associated Press ZAPORIZHZHIA, Ukraine (AP) — The caravan of unmarked vehicles tears across the muddy grass next to the playground.…

By ELLEN KNICKMEYER, MICHAEL WEISSENSTEIN and LISA MASCARO Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — In a highly sensitive U.S. visit, Taiwan’s president…

By MATTHEW DALY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republicans have passed a sprawling energy package that would counter virtually all of…

QUITO, Ecuador (AP) — Ecuador’s Constitutional Court ruled Wednesday the opposition-dominated National Assembly can take up the question of…

By JIM GOMEZ Associated Press MANILA, Philippines (AP) — A fire broke out on a ferry in the southern Philippines and raged overnight for eight…

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — A judge has ordered the U.S. government to resume regular oil and gas lease sales on federal lands in North Dakota. The order…

By LISA BAUMANN Associated Press Actor Melissa Joan Hart said she and her husband helped a class of kindergartners that was fleeing the Nashville…

By SEUNG MIN KIM and LISA MASCARO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden won’t veto a Republican-led measure to end the national…

By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi’s Republican-led Senate has voted against confirming longtime…

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — New Mexico’s special academy for training workers in the film and television industry is a step closer to fruition.…

By HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH Associated Press A spate of threats and false reports of shooters have been pouring into schools and colleges across the…

By SAM METZ and ANNA FURMAN Associated Press PARK CITY, Utah (AP) — When two skiers collided on a beginner run at an upscale Utah ski resort in…

NEW YORK (AP) — A graphic novelist based in Hawaii, a reporter for an offshoot of The Economist and a contributor to The New Yorker are among this…

By GENE JOHNSON Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) — Most gig workers in Seattle will be permanently entitled to paid sick leave and safe time under a…

By JAY COHEN AP Sports Writer CHICAGO (AP) — Chicago Bulls center Andre Drummond missed the team’s 121-110 loss to the Los Angeles Lakers on…

By MARY CLARE JALONICK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley has tried to force a Senate vote on legislation that would ban…

Associated Press DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Syrian state media say Israel has staged airstrikes in the Damascus area and wounded two soldiers. Loud…

By ADAM BEAM Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — When North Carolina in 2016 banned transgender people from using the bathroom of their…

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A judge has dismissed a lawsuit filed by an employee of Catholic Charities of Omaha who says she suffered physical and emotional…

CHICAGO (AP) — A Cook County jury has awarded nearly $5 million to the family of an 84-year-old retired teacher who was killed when a police…

By TRISHA AHMED Associated Press/Report for America North Dakota schools would be required to show students high-quality video of how a human fetus…

By STEFANIE DAZIO Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Prosecutors charged seven California Highway Patrol officers and a nurse with involuntary…

By LEAH WILLINGHAM Associated Press CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — West Virginia Republican Gov. Jim Justice on Wednesday signed a bill banning…

By LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The top U.S. military officer says the Pentagon “has a long ways to go” to beef up its…

By BARBARA ORTUTAY AP Technology Writer SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Twitter says it has removed thousands of tweets showing a poster promoting a “trans…

By JILL COLVIN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — As Donald Trump rails against a possible indictment in New York, his team is leaning into a…

By LEAH WILLINGHAM Associated Press CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A protester arrested for disrupting West Virginia lawmakers as they moved to ban…

By JUAN A. LOZANO and ERIC TUCKER Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — The man who inspired the film “Hotel Rwanda” and was freed by Rwanda last…

By MICHAEL PHILLIS and MARY CLARE JALONICK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Congress on Wednesday approved a resolution to overturn the Biden…

LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. (AP) — Board members picked by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis to oversee the governance of Walt Disney World said Wednesday that…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A cold low pressure system spinning off the coast of California sent bands of rain and snow across the state Wednesday, making…

By JOHN RABY Associated Press Police response times to school shootings have come under greater scrutiny in the 10 months since the deadly event in…

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Washington Wizards shooting guard Bradley Beal is facing a possible misdemeanor charge in central Florida. A fan accused the…

By JOSHUA GOODMAN MIAMI (AP) — The former general counsel for Venezuela’s state-owned oil company pleaded guilty in Miami federal court on money…

By RANDALL CHASE AP Business Writer DOVER, Del. (AP) — Attorneys for a group of Tesla shareholders are asking Delaware’s Supreme Court to…

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, the president of the United Arab Emirates, has appointed his eldest son…