Pakistan, Afghan Taliban trade fire at border crossing
By RIAZ KHAN Associated Press PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — Officials say Pakistani border guards and Afghan Taliban forces have exchanged fire at a…
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Tatum scores All-Star record 55, Team Giannis wins 184-175
By TIM REYNOLDS AP Basketball Writer SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Jayson Tatum put on a record-setting show, and made Giannis Antetokounmpo look like a…
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By KEVIN McGILL Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A teenager died and a 4-year-old girl was among the wounded when gunfire broke out along the…
Continue ReadingLeiji Matsumoto, known for antiwar anime, space tales, dies
By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Leiji Matsumoto, the anime creator known for ”Space Battleship Yamato” and other classics using…
Continue ReadingCongress delegation visits Taiwan in tense US-China moment
By HUIZHONG WU Associated Press TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — A delegation of U.S. lawmakers has met with the head of Taiwan’s legislature as part of a…
Continue ReadingIsraeli government advances judicial overhaul despite uproar
By LAURIE KELLMAN and ILAN BEN ZION Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government on Tuesday for the first…
Continue ReadingHigh-risk volcano search for Philippine plane with 4 aboard
By JIM GOMEZ Associated Press MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Philippine authorities are prepared to send a search mission near the crater of a restive…
Continue ReadingAsian shares mostly fall after US trading closed for holiday
By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Asian shares were mostly lower Tuesday in quiet trading after U.S. markets were closed for…
Continue ReadingRecord 6,542 guns intercepted at US airport security in 2022
By REBECCA SANTANA Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — The woman flying out of Philadelphia’s airport last year remembered to pack snacks,…
Continue ReadingTrump absent as Iowa 2024 GOP caucus train begins to roll
By THOMAS BEAUMONT Associated Press URBANDALE, Iowa (AP) — Nikki Haley is swinging through Iowa this week fresh off announcing her presidential…
Continue Reading14 passengers killed, 63 injured in bus crash in Pakistan
ISLAMABAD (AP) — Officials say a speeding passenger bus has crashed off a motorway and overturned in eastern Pakistan, killing 14 passengers and…
Continue ReadingDownpour kills at least 36 in Brazil, cities cancel Carnival
By MAURICIO SAVARESE Associated Press SAO PAULO (AP) — Heavy rain caused flooding and landslides that have killed 36 people on the northern coast…
Continue ReadingOakland airport, 50K in Bay Area lose power due to fire
OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — A power substation fire temporarily caused outages at the Oakland International Airport and left 50,000 customers around the…
Continue ReadingRicky Stenhouse Jr. wins longest Daytona 500 in history
By JENNA FRYER AP Auto Racing Writer DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Ricky Stenhouse Jr. has had a roller coaster career in which he had to fight to…
Continue ReadingNorth Korea fires 2 missiles in tests condemned by neighbors
By HYUNG-JIN KIM and KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea fired two short-range ballistic missiles into the sea…
Continue ReadingButtigieg warns Norfolk Southern to support Ohio community
By JOSH BOAK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg is warning the CEO of Norfolk Southern that the freight…
Continue ReadingWinners of the 2023 British Academy Film Awards
LONDON (AP) — “All Quiet on the Western Front” is the big winner at the 2023 British Academy Film Awards. The antiwar German drama took…
Continue ReadingUS averts UN diplomatic crisis over Israeli settlements
By EDITH M. LEDERER and MATTHEW LEE Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The Biden administration has averted a potential diplomatic crisis over…
Continue ReadingBlackhawks C Toews dealing with long COVID-19 symptoms
CHICAGO (AP) — Chicago Blackhawks captain Jonathan Toews says he is dealing with symptoms of long COVID-19 and chronic immune response syndrome.…
Continue ReadingMeta testing new subscription service for verified accounts
By DEE-ANN DURBIN AP Business Writer Meta is testing a new subscription service that would let Facebook and Instagram users pay for a verified…
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