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By GIADA ZAMPANO Associated Press VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis has canceled an audience scheduled for Saturday as a precaution after coming down with mild flu, the Vatican press office said in a short statement, without adding further details. Francis was scheduled to meet with Rome deacons in the morning. Vatican spokesman Matteo Bruni

By EMMA BURROWS and JOANNA KOZLOWSKA Associated Press The body of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny has been handed over to his mother, a top aide to Navalny said Saturday on his social media account. Ivan Zhdanov, the director of Navalny’s Anti-Corruption Foundation, made the announcement on his Telegram account and thanked “everyone” who had

By GRANT PECK Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — Ever since Myanmar’s military announced it is implementing conscription to fill its ranks, Thwel sees very few options. The 25-year-old schoolteacher in Myanmar’s southern Mon state believes she must flee the country or face fatal consequences. She’s a supporter of the Civil Disobedience Movement, which carries out

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Chip giant Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. has opened in an official ceremony its first semiconductor plant in Japan as part of its ongoing global expansion. This comes as Japan is trying to regain its presence in the chip production industry. TSMC Chairman Mark Liu and founder

By MARIAM FAM Associated Press Olfa Hamrouni doesn’t know much about her granddaughter; not her favorite toy nor food — is it the pasta the child’s mother loves, or something else? The Tunisian grandmother doesn’t even let her mind go there. “I don’t want to know. What for but more heartache?” she said. For now,

By JOHN HANNA and GEOFF MULVIHILL Associated Press TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The recent Alabama Supreme Court ruling that frozen embryos are legally protected children is highlighting how support for the idea that a fetus should have the same rights as a person underpins far less dramatic laws and proposals from abortion foes across the

By SUSIE BLANN Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — President Volodymyr Zelenskyy welcomed Western leaders to Kyiv Saturday to mark the second anniversary of Russia’s full-scale invasion, as Ukrainian forces run low on ammunition and foreign aid hangs in the balance. Allies from the EU and the Group of Seven wealthy democracies rallied around Kyiv

By RUSS BYNUM Associated Press ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. (AP) — It’s a showdown that treats evading police and wrestling over beer like they were Olympic sports. The Florida Man Games made its debut Saturday in St. Augustine, with a dozen teams competing in events inspired by some of Florida’s most harrowing and hilarious headlines. Organizer

By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer “Oppenheimer” continued to steamroll through Hollywood’s awards season on Saturday, winning the top prize, for outstanding cast, along with awards for Cillian Murphy and Robert Downey Jr., at the 30th Screen Actors Guild Awards. Lily Gladstone won for her leading performance in “Killers of the Flower Moon.” Cillian Murphy

By LISA RATHKE Associated Press NEWPORT, Vt. (AP) — Plunging into a frozen lake and swimming laps may not be everyone’s good time but it is for some winter swimmers. There’s nothing better for swimmers who return year after year to a northern Vermont lake near the Canadian border. The 10th annual Memphremagog Winter Swimming

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Hundreds of mourners attended a funeral mass for a Kansas City-area DJ who was killed during a celebration rally of the Chiefs’ Super Bowl victory. Lisa Lopez-Galvan was remembered Saturday during a funeral mass as a loving mother and wife who saw each day as a chance for excitement and

By SAMYA KULLAB Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — The future looks bleak for war-weary Ukraine: It is beset by shortages in soldiers and ammunition, as well as doubts about the supply of Western aid. Ukrainian forces also face a Russian enemy that has recently seized the initiative on the battlefield. Two years after Russia’s

By RUTH BROWN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Flaco, the Eurasian eagle-owl who escaped from New York City’s Central Park Zoo and became one of the city’s most beloved celebrities as he flew around Manhattan, has died, zoo officials announced Friday. A little over one year after he was freed from his cage at

By MEG KINNARD and WILL WEISSERT Associated Press CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — Donald Trump won South Carolina’s Republican primary on Saturday, easily beating former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley in her home state and further consolidating his path to a third straight GOP nomination. Trump has now swept every contest that counted for Republican delegates, adding

By MATT BROWN Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Former President Donald Trump claims his multiple criminal indictments have boosted his support among Black Americans because they see him as a victim of discrimination. He appeared to compare his legal plight to the historic legacy of prejudice in the U.S. legal system during a speech

By FABIOLA SÁNCHEZ Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — A Roman Catholic priest in Mexico says churchmen have helped arrange a truce between two warring drug cartels whose turf wars have blooded the state of Guerrero. It is the latest in a series of attempts by bishops and priests to get cartels to talk to

NEW YORK (AP) — Fire officials say one person was killed and 17 were injured in a fire at an apartment building in New York City on Friday. Officials said at a news conference that twelve people were taken to area hospitals, and four were in critical condition. One person, whose identity has not yet

By LEAH WILLINGHAM Associated Press CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — Some Republican lawmakers in West Virginia want to ban transgender youth at risk for self-harm or suicide from accessing medical interventions such as hormone therapy. The GOP-controlled Legislature banned such interventions last year while allowing the self-harm and suicide exception. Now, a group of lawmakers want

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A Southern California socialite has been found guilty of murder and other charges in the hit-and-run deaths of two young brothers in a crosswalk more than three years ago. A Los Angeles jury returned the verdict Friday. Authorities said Rebecca Grossman, wife of a prominent Los Angeles burn doctor, fatally struck

By BEN NUCKOLS AP Sports Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — NCAA President Charlie Baker says action by Congress was needed to protect what he described as the “95 percent” of athletes whose ability to play college sports would be endangered by a court ruling or regulatory decision declaring them as employees of their schools. Baker spoke