AP National News

By BHARATHA MALLAWARACHI Associated Press COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — The International Monetary Fund says it has reached a preliminary agreement to…

By BASSEM MROUE Associates Press BEIRUT (AP) — Forty years since Hezbollah was founded at the height of Israel’s 1982 invasion of Lebanon, the…

By MATT O’BRIEN and KELVIN CHAN AP Technology Writers Microsoft’s plan to buy video game giant Activision Blizzard for $68.7 billion could…

By CALEB JONES Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — The last bits of ash and greenhouse gases from Hawaii’s only remaining coal-fired power plant…

By JAY REEVES Associated Press CHILDERSBURG, Ala. (AP) — Michael Jennings wasn’t breaking any laws or doing anything that was obviously…

By JAY REEVES Associated Press CHILDERSBURG, Ala. (AP) — Michael Jennings wasn’t breaking any laws or doing anything that was obviously…

By COLLIN BINKLEY AP Education Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Math and reading scores for America’s 9-year-olds fell dramatically during the first two…

TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey is hailing economic and educational cooperation with Taiwan, marked by a $12 billion investment in…

By GARANCE BURKE and JASON DEAREN Associated Press Local law enforcement agencies from suburban Southern California to rural North Carolina have been…

By AMANDA SEITZ Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration hopes to make getting a COVID-19 booster as routine as going in for the…

By GARANCE BURKE and JASON DEAREN Associated Press Local law enforcement agencies from suburban Southern California to rural North Carolina have been…

By COREY WILLIAMS and MICHELLE L. PRICE Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — About 2 in 10 U.S. adults say they or someone close to them has had a…

By KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — As the war in Ukraine stretches into its seventh month, North Korea is hinting at its…

By NICHOLAS RICCARDI and SUSAN HAIGH Associated Press DENVER (AP) — The anxious-looking women talk directly to the camera, warning that the…

By DANIEL NIEMANN Associated Press GELSDORF, Germany (AP) — Solar installations on arable land are becoming increasingly popular in Europe and…

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australia’s foreign minister on a visit to East Timor is warning the nation against…

By DON THOMPSON Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California is moving to add wine and distilled spirits containers to its struggling…

CASTAIC, Calif. (AP) — Firefighters are battling two California blazes that are raging in rural areas and have prompted evacuations in the midst of…

By MIKE FITZPATRICK AP Baseball Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Brandon Nimmo saved Jacob deGrom and the New York Mets with a breathtaking catch atop the…

By YURI KAGEYAMA Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — A small robot with a clip-like hand and the smarts to know which drinks are popular is part of an…