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NEW YORK (AP) — The longtime leader of Human Rights Watch says he will step down this summer as executive director. Kenneth Roth ran the New…

By KEN MORITSUGU Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — Police and new fencing are restricting who can leave a locked-down area in Beijing, where…

By JOHN LEICESTER Associated Press PARIS (AP) — As he begins a second term as France’s president, Emmanuel Macron has given the green light…

By DEE-ANN DURBIN, AYSE WIETING and KELVIN CHAN Associated Press ISTANBUL (AP) — Cooking oil prices have been rising worldwide since the COVID-19…

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Asian shares retreated on Wednesday, echoing a broad decline on Wall Street and driven by worries…

By KIM TONG-HYUNG and HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has vowed to accelerate the…

By MATT O’BRIEN and TOM KRISHER Associated Press Coming up with $44 billion to buy Twitter was the easy part for Elon Musk. Next comes the real…

By MARINA VILLENEUVE Associated Press ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Judges on New York’s high court peppered attorneys with sharp questions as they…

By CLAUDIA TORRENS The Associated Press HICKSVILLE, N.Y. (AP) — A New York couple who endured the war on drugs is eager to open a recreational…

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australia’s opposition party has promised to establish a Pacific defense school to…

By STEVE LeBLANC and BEN FOX Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — For years, Vincent Gillespie waged a legal battle to try to gain control of hundreds of…

By YESICA FISCH and JON GAMBRELL Associated Press TORETSK, Ukraine (AP) — The U.S. pressed its allies Tuesday to move “heaven and earth” to…

By JEFF AMY Associated Press RINGGOLD, Ga. (AP) — Former U.S. Sen. David Perdue is building his campaign around Donald Trump and veering to the…

By MARK SHERMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Tuesday questioned lower-court orders that have blocked the Biden…

By ROBERT BURNS AP National Security Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The longer Ukraine’s army fends off the invading Russians, the more it absorbs the…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — A Japanese woman recognized as the world’s oldest person, Kane Tanaka, has died at age of 119,…

SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — Authorities are searching for a man who allegedly kidnapped a 3-month-old baby in the San Francisco Bay Area. The man…

By STEFANIE DAZIO Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Trevor Bauer has sued the woman who accused him of sexual assault…

By SARAH RANKIN Associated Press RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Virginia’s attorney general has launched an inquiry into the Washington Commanders…

By MORGAN LEE Associated Press SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — Law enforcement officials have released a trove of video and photographic evidence in the…