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ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Feel like dissing instead of kissing your former lover this Valentine’s Day? Think your ex is more like a rat than a prince? Do you believe your former paramour should never procreate? Animal shelters and zoos…

The Trump administration's abrupt freeze in foreign aid has closed health clinics offering free care in one of Syria's most vulnerable regions. Residents and people displaced by the country's civil war are affected, along with people…

Vice President JD Vance is set to visit the Dachau concentration camp memorial. He's making a stop at one of the most powerful symbols of World War II on the eve of critical talks with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy about the…

Alternative for Germany appears to be heading for its strongest national election result yet this month and is fielding its first candidate to lead the country. The party is highly unlikely to take a share of power soon. But it has become a…

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has been sworn in as President Donald Trump’s health secretary. The Senate on Thursday confirmed him, voting 52 to 48. It puts the prominent vaccine skeptic in control of $1.7 trillion in federal spending, vaccine…

A New Hampshire town and a bakery owner are scheduled for trial in a First Amendment dispute about a painting of a sun and pastries. The artwork atop Leavitt’s Country Bakery in Conway shows sunbeams shining on a mountain range made of…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Linda McMahon on Thursday sketched out how key functions of the Education Department could be carved up to achieve President Donald Trump's goal of dismantling the agency, vowing to “reorient” the department while…

HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) — A Texas man who killed his strip club manager and another man, then later prompted a massive lockdown of the state prison system when he used a cellphone smuggled onto death row to threaten a lawmaker, was executed…

STARKE, Fla. (AP) — A Florida man convicted of killing a husband and wife at a remote farm in an attack witnessed by the couple’s toddler was put to death Thursday in the state's first execution of the year. James Dennis Ford, 64, was…

Fire authorities in Taiwan say a gas explosion at a department store killed four people and injured 26, fire authorities said. The blast occurred at the food court on the 12th floor of the Shin Kong Mitsukoshi department store in Taichung…

Elon Musk has called for the United States to “delete entire agencies” from the federal government. Musk has consolidated control over large swaths of the government with President Donald Trump’s blessing since assuming leadership of the…

BEIJING (AP) — China’s power industry began construction on nearly 100 gigawatts of new coal plant capacity last year, the most in nearly a decade, a report from two clean-energy groups said Thursday. The development raises concerns about…

President Donald Trump greeted Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the White House with a bear hug and called him a “a great friend of mine,” but nonetheless warned that India won’t be spared from higher tariffs he’s begun imposing on…

Alex Bregman and the Boston Red Sox have agreed to a $120 million, three-year contract, a person familiar with the deal told The Associated Press on Wednesday night. The person spoke to the AP on condition of anonymity because the agreement…

U.S. stocks rallied to the brink of a record after more companies reported fatter profits than expected. The S&P 500 rose 1% Thursday. It got within 0.1% of its all-time high as Wall Street yawned at the latest announcement on tariffs…