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By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Asian shares were mostly higher Friday as Tokyo’s benchmark momentarily touched a 34-year high,…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Highly radioactive water leaked from a treatment machine at the tsunami-hit Fukushima Daiichi…

By MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — NASA’s newest climate satellite has blasted off to survey the world’s…

SYDNEY (AP) — Papua New Guinea Prime Minister James Marape has become the first Pacific leader to address Australia’s parliament. He vowed…

By MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer A total solar eclipse is coming to North America. On April 8, the sun will pull another disappearing act across…

By JOHN HANNA AP Political Writer TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas is set to nearly double state legislators’ pay at the start of next year, making…

By JULIE WATSON Associated Press SAN DIEGO (AP) — The helicopter carrying five Marines that crashed during stormy weather in the mountains outside…

By EDNA TARIGAN Associated Press JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Seventeen-year-old Naima Khairiya Ismah started being bombarded by social media posts…

By ILLIA NOVIKOV and MANUEL RUEDA Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine’s ranks are depleted by two years of war. As it battles Russia,…

By COLLEEN LONG, ZEKE MILLER and SEUNG MIN KIM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — How it began: President Joe Biden was urgently seeking more money…

By BISWAJEET BANERJEE and ASHOK SHARMA Associated Press LUCKNOW, India (AP) — An Indian state has approved an unprecedented uniform code for…

By MICHELLE L. PRICE, JONATHAN J. COOPER and GABE STERN Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — Former President Donald Trump won Nevada’s Republican…

By MARK SHERMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court seems poised to reject attempts to kick former President Donald Trump off the…

By ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — After hours of talking about faith and family, redemption and war, the grieving American mother…

By PATRICK WHITTLE Associated Press AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — Police who testified before an independent commission investigating the response to a…

By MORIAH BALINGIT AP Education Writer Like a lot of mothers, North Dakota state Rep. Emily O’Brien struggled to find infant care when her…

By FARNOUSH AMIRI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A group of progressive lawmakers are fighting back against a multimillion-dollar campaign to…

By MARY CLARE JALONICK and STEPHEN GROVES Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A former youth minister in the Baptist church, Oklahoma Sen. James…

By MICHAEL R. BLOOD AP Political Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — After a symbolic snub in Nevada’s primary, Nikki Haley’s presidential campaign…

By VICTORIA MILKO Associated Press MUYNAK, Uzbekistan (AP) — Toxic dust storms, anti-government protests, the fall of the Soviet Union — for…

By TOM ODULA Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Police in Kenya say a murder suspect who was awaiting extradition to the United States has…

By MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Lawyers involved in Donald Trump’s civil fraud trial told the judge they had no information…

By SETH BORENSTEIN and STEVE KARNOWSKI Associated Press ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — For the eighth straight month in January, Earth was record hot,…

DETROIT (AP) — Henry Fambrough of the iconic R&B group The Spinners has died. He was 85. A spokesperson for the group says Fambrough died…

By KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol reiterated that the country would not seek its…

By WILL WEISSERT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Self-help author and spiritual guru Marianne Williamson on Wednesday announced the end of her…

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A judge has dismissed a lawsuit seeking to block the University of California from renaming a leading law school whose…

By KIM CHANDLER Associated Press MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — A group of Alabama lawmakers has unveiled a sweeping gambling bill that could authorize a…

BURBANK, Calif. (AP) — The Walt Disney Co. says it is paying $1.5 billion for a stake in “Fortnite” maker Epic Games. It said Wednesday it will…

By SUMMER BALLENTINE Associated Press JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Missouri senators have voted against allowing abortion in cases of rape and…