USC’s Bronny James declares for NBA draft and enters transfer portal after 1 season
By BETH HARRIS AP Sports Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Bronny James will enter the NBA draft after one season at Southern California that was shortened…
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Condemned inmate could face ‘surgery without anesthesia’ if good vein is elusive, lawyers say
By JIM SALTER Associated Press ST. LOUIS (AP) — Missouri’s execution protocol allows for “surgery without anesthesia” if the typical…
Continue Reading Zimbabwe introduces new currency as depreciation and rising inflation stoke economic turmoil
BY FARAI MUTSAKA Associated Press HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — Zimbabwe has launched a new currency to replace its previous one that in recent months…
Continue Reading NYC to pay $17.5M to settle suit over forced removal of religious head coverings during mug shots
By KAREN MATTHEWS Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — New York City has agreed to pay $17.5 million to settle a lawsuit filed by two Muslim women who…
Continue Reading Incendiary device thrown at German synagogue door, but damage minor and no injuries
BERLIN (AP) — Police say an incendiary device has been thrown at a door of a synagogue in northwestern Germany but caused only minor damage. No one…
Continue Reading US East Coast earthquake rattles millions, but region escapes sweeping damage
By JENNIFER PELTZ and MIKE CATALINI Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — An unusual East Coast earthquake has shaken millions of people from New York…
Continue Reading Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orban receives a medal from pro-Russia Bosnian Serb president Dodik
BANJA LUKA, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) — Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orban has received a medal from the pro-Russian leader of Bosnia’s Serbs,…
Continue Reading What we know about the Baltimore bridge collapse as a third body is found and Biden visits
BALTIMORE (AP) — A third body has been found at the site of last week’s bridge collapse in Baltimore. Meanwhile, a tentative timeline has been…
Continue Reading J&J to pump another $13B into its MedTech business with Shockwave deal
By TOM MURPHY AP Health Writer Johnson & Johnson is pumping more money into heart care with a roughly $13 billion deal for Shockwave Medical,…
Continue Reading McDonald’s buys its Israeli restaurants from franchisee who sparked costly boycotts
By DEE-ANN DURBIN AP Business Writer McDonald’s is buying its restaurants in Israel from a longtime franchisee, hoping to reset sales that have…
Continue Reading Peru’s president interrogated by prosecutors for hours amid expanding ‘Rolexgate’ probe
By FRANKLIN BRICEÑO and MEGAN JANETSKY Associated Press LIMA, Peru (AP) — Peruvian President Dina Boluarte has begun testifying to prosecutors on…
Continue Reading US-Chinese military talks resume on safety in the air and at sea after a nearly 2-year break
By LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. and Chinese defense officials have met for the first time in nearly two years to…
Continue Reading Sean Paul helped bring dancehall to the masses. With a new tour, he’s ready to do it all over again
By MARIA SHERMAN AP Music Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — It has been 21 years since Sean Paul’s dancehall anthem “Get Busy” topped the Billboard…
Continue Reading Austria likely to be largely ice-free within 45 years as glaciers recede quickly, experts say
VIENNA (AP) — Experts say Austrian glaciers receded last year at a rapid pace and the Alpine country is likely to be largely ice-free in 40 to 45…
Continue Reading Israeli ambassador, summoned by Poland in protest, apologizes for death of Polish aid worker
By VANESSA GERA Associated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s deputy foreign minister has handed a diplomatic note to Israel’s ambassador…
Continue Reading Right to children or children’s rights? Surrogacy debate comes to a head in Rome
By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press ROME (AP) — An international campaign to ban surrogacy received a strong endorsement Friday from the Vatican,…
Continue Reading Egyptian authorities arrest 10 after a pro-Gaza rally calling for severing ties with Israel
CAIRO (AP) — A human rights lawyer in Egypt says the authorities have arrested 10 activists who participated in a pro-Palestinian protest where…
Continue Reading ASEAN finance leaders end meetings in Laos, pointing to challenges from geopolitics, volatile prices
By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer LUANG PRABANG, Laos (AP) — Southest Asian finance ministers and central bank governors have ended meetings…
Continue Reading Scandals blight Denmark’s buildup of its armed forces as it eyes possible threats from Russia
By JAN M. OLSEN Associated Press COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — A series of scandals has blighted Denmark’s Armed Forces at a time when the country,…
Continue Reading Japan’s Kishida, ahead of US trip, seeks stronger military ties with Washington and other partners
By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida says he wants to strengthen military and weapons development…
Continue Reading Senior doctors in England agree on a pay deal with the government to end a yearlong dispute
By PAN PYLAS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Senior doctors in England have accepted a pay offer from the British government that ends a yearlong…
Continue Reading German investigators seize fake US bills with a face value of over $103 million
BERLIN (AP) — German investigators say they have seized counterfeit U.S. dollar bills with a face value of over $103 million, which apparently came…
Continue Reading Norway wants a ‘historic increase’ in defense spending of $56 billion over the next 12 years
COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — The Norwegian center-left governnment wants “a historic increase” in defense spending with 600 billion kroner ($56…
Continue Reading Russian officials again try to link the Moscow concert attack with Ukraine despite Kyiv’s denials
By DASHA LITVINOVA Associated Press TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Russian authorities have again tried to link the deadly attack on a Moscow concert hall…
Continue Reading Cleanup begins as spring nor’easter moves on. But hundreds of thousands still lack power
By NICK PERRY and LISA RATHKE Associated Press GILFORD, N.H. (AP) — Snow showers lingered Friday as the cleanup began following a major spring…
Continue Reading A senior UK lawmaker fell victim to a sexting scam. His colleagues are being urged to go to police
By PAN PYLAS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — British lawmakers who may have been targeted in a sexting scam were urged Friday to go to police, after…
Continue Reading Survivors of Taiwan’s historic quake recall harrowing moments of tremors, being trapped under rocks
By JOHNSON LAI and HUIZHONG WU Associated Press HUALIEN, Taiwan (AP) — Taiwan residents endured harrowing experiences when the ground shook with…
Continue Reading India’s opposition makes its election case, calling Modi an autocrat and promising aid to the poor
By ASHOK SHARMA Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — India’s main opposition party vowed to boost social spending and reverse what it views as a…
Continue Reading A pro-Western career diplomat faces an ally of the populist premier in Slovakia’s presidential vote
BRATISLAVA, Slovakia (AP) — A pro-Western career diplomat and a close ally of Slovakia’s populist Prime Minister Robert Fico are facing each…
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