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By DEEPTI HAJELA and LINLEY SANDERS Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — If you’re feeling — YAWN — sleepy or tired while you read this and wish you could get some more shut-eye, you’re not alone. A majority of Americans say they would feel better if they could have more sleep, according to a new

SYDNEY (AP) — The people killed and wounded by an assailant at a Sydney shopping mall were mostly women. Ashlee Good died saving her wounded baby. Dawn Singleton worked at a fashion boutique and was soon to be married. Jade Young was a mother of two and an architect. Pikria Darchia was an artist and

By SAMUEL PETREQUIN AP Sports Writer French President Emmanuel Macron says the opening ceremony for the Paris Olympics planned on the River Seine could be shifted instead to the Stade de France if the security threat is deemed too high. Speaking Monday to French media BFM-TV and RMC, Macron said France’s law enforcement forces will

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — The country in which China has gained most influence in the South Pacific, Solomon Islands, goes to the polls on Wednesday in an election that could shape the region’s future. Prime Minister Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare, who switched the Solomons’ allegiances from Taiwan to Beijing and

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — That Tanzanian government says that flooding in the country has killed 58 people in the last two weeks as heavy rains continue. Floods due to ongoing heavy rains in Tanzania have killed 58 people, the government has said. The coastal region was hit hardest, with 126,831 people affected, according to the

LIVERPOOL, N.Y. (AP) — Authorities say two law enforcement officers were fatally shot while looking for a driver who fled a traffic stop in upstate New York. Authorities said Monday the shooter was also killed in an exchange of gunfire with police. The shootings took place shortly after 8 p.m. Sunday in Liverpool, about 6

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Australian police are examining why a lone assailant who stabbed six people to death in a busy Sydney shopping mall and injured more than a dozen others targeted women while avoiding men. New South Wales state Police Commissioner Karen Webb said on Monday detectives would question

By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer BANGKOK (AP) — Asian shares skidded Tuesday following a slump on Wall Street after higher yields in the U.S. bond market cranked up pressure on stocks. The Shanghai Composite index lost 1.4% to 3,013.84 even though the Chinese government reported that the economy grew at a faster-than-forecast annual rate

By AIJAZ HUSSAIN and SHEIKH SAALIQ Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his government are increasingly wielding strong-arm tactics to subdue political opponents and critics of the ruling Hindu-nationalist party ahead of the nationwide elections that begin this week. A decade into power, and on the cusp of securing

TANA TORAJA, Indonesia (AP) — Rescuers have recovered the bodies of a 3-year-old girl and her mother who were the last victims still missing after landslides on Indonesia’s Sulawesi Island that killed 20 people. The rescue chief said the mother and child were found close to each other. Mud loosened by torrential rain poured from

By THEODORA TONGAS and DEREK GATOPOULOS Associated Press ANCIENT OLYMPIA, Greece (AP) — No one knows what music in ancient Greece sounded like or how dancers once moved. Every two years, a new interpretation of the ancient performance gets a global audience. It takes place in southern Greece at a site many still consider sacred:

By JUAN A. LOZANO Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — Attorneys for rap star Travis Scott argued in court Monday that he should be dismissed from hundreds of lawsuits filed over the deadly 2021 Astroworld festival, saying he was not responsible for safety planning and watching for possible dangers at the Houston event. But attorneys for

By DUSAN STOJANOVIC Associated Press ZAGREB, Croatia (AP) — Croatia’s upcoming parliamentary election, set for Wednesday, follows a campaign that was marked by heated exchanges between the country’s two top officials. The ballot pits the ruling conservative Croatian Democratic Union, or HDZ, led by acting Prime Minister Andrej Plenkovic against an alliance of centrist and

By MORGAN LEE Associated Press SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — A movie weapons supervisor was sentenced to 18 months in prison in the fatal shooting of a cinematographer by Alec Baldwin on the set of the Western film “Rust,” during a hearing Monday in which tearful family members and friends gave testimonials that included calls

By MATTHEW LEE, QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA, and ZEKE MILLER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is hosting Iraq’s leader at the White House as his administration works to prevent an escalation in Mideast hostilities following Iran’s weekend attack on Israel. Biden is meeting Monday with Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani for talks intended

By CHRISTINE FERNANDO Associated Press As Union and Confederate armies clashed in a bloody fourth year of the Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln tasked one man to create the legal code for Arizona, almost 50 years before the territory became a state. New York judge William Thompson Howell wrote 500 pages that spanned provisions on

By DOUG FERGUSON AP Golf Writer AUGUSTA, Ga. (AP) — Scottie Scheffler spent more time looking at his feet than any of the white leaderboards at Augusta National, all of them showing what everyone was watching — a Masters champion again, the undisputed best player in golf. He prefers to stay in his own little

DENVER (AP) — Colorado’s Democratic-controlled House has passed a bill that would ban the sale and transfer of semiautomatic firearms. It’s a major step for the legislation after roughly the same bill was swiftly killed by Democrats last year. The House passed the bill on Sunday and it’s now on its way to the state

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Authorities say a strong magnitude 6.5 earthquake has struck Papua New Guinea, but there is no tsunami alert or immediate report of damage. The U.S. Geological Survey said in a statement the quake struck the South Pacific Island nation 110 kilometers (68 miles) southeast of the West New Britain provincial capital

A Native American-led nonprofit says it has purchased about 40 acres of land in South Dakota’s Black Hills area. The Cheyenne River Youth Project announced in a statement on April 11 that it bought the tract of land adjacent to Bear Butte State Park. The executive director of the project says the area is considered