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By JEFFREY COLLINS Associated Press FORT LAWN, S.C. (AP) — Democrats in South Carolina may be holding the nation’s first presidential primary. But the party is struggling inside the Southern state. Democrats have lost 31 straight statewide elections in South Carolina. The Republican governor won by 17 percentage points in 2022. The state’s only Democratic

By TOM KRISHER AP Auto Writer DETROIT (AP) — Tesla is recalling nearly all of the vehicles it has sold in the U.S. because some warning lights on the instrument panel are too small. The recall of nearly 2.2 million vehicles announced Friday by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is a sign of stepped-up

By ROBERT YOON Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Nevada again holds the first-in-the-West slot in the presidential campaign calendar. But this year’s showdown in the Silver State won’t look like it did in previous years. Nevada will hold Democratic and Republican primaries on Tuesday, but the GOP primary will be non-binding and former President Donald

By KEVIN McGILL and STEPHEN SMITH Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — It’s Carnival season in New Orleans and that means lines are long outside local bakeries and the pace inside is brisk as workers strive to meet customer demand for king cakes — those brightly colored seasonal pastries that have exploded in popularity over

By PAN PYLAS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The two 16-year-old convicted killers of a transgender teenager in northwest England nearly a year ago have been given minimum sentences of 20 and 22 years. Justice Amanda Yip lifted the reporting restrictions on naming the murderers of 16-year-old Brianna Ghey. They were identified at Manchester Crown

By ZEN SOO AP Technology Writer SINGAPORE (AP) — After a U.S. senator grilled the Singaporean CEO of Tiktok about his nationality and affiliation with the Chinese Communist Party, Singaporeans are complaining about ignorant — or even racist — views of their country. TikTok CEO Shou Chew and executives of other technology firms such as

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — A man who died this week at a Japanese hospital told police before he passed away that he was one of the country’s most wanted fugitives and had been on the run for nearly 50 years for being part of a radical group that conducted bombings in

PARIS (AP) — French farmers are gradually lifting their roadblocks around Paris and elsewhere in the country. The move comes one day after the government offered over 400 million euros ($436 million) in various measures meant to answer their grievances over low earnings, heavy regulation and unfair competition from abroad. On major highways around the

By JUSTIN SPIKE Associated Press BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — A bipartisan group of U.S. lawmakers are urging Hungary to immediately ratify Sweden’s application to join NATO. They say that patience with the Central European country is “wearing thin.” Hungary is the only country in the 31-nation military alliance that hasn’t yet backed Sweden’s membership bid.

LONDON (AP) — The Japanese Grand Prix will stay on the Formula One calendar until at least 2029 after a five-year contract extension  to keep the race at the Suzuka Circuit. It’s a sign of confidence in the Japanese GP ahead of a move, from its usual date in September or October, to April, which

By ILLIA NOVIKOV Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — A Ukrainian intelligence official says his country has repeatedly asked Russia to hand over the bodies of scores of prisoners of war who Moscow claimed were killed in the downing of a Russian military transport plane by Ukrainian forces. Millitary intelligence spokesman Andrii Yusov said that

TOKYO (AP) — Winger Junya Ito has been removed from Japan’s squad at the Asian Cup in the midst of sexual assault allegations that he has denied. Japan is the favorite to win the Asian Cup for a fifth time. The tournament is being played in Qatar. Japan is to play Iran in the quarterfinals

BERLIN (AP) — Local buses, trams and subway trains were canceled in much of Germany on Friday as transport employees walked off the job in the country’s third transport-related strike in two weeks. The Ver.di service workers’ union called Friday’s “warning strike,” a common tactic in German contract negotiations, earlier this week. It said that

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Authorities in Norway have issued several landslide and avalanche warnings for the southern part of the country as it continues to get hammered by bad weather. Officials said on Friday that roads in the north also might have to be closed at short notice. Some 200 passengers slept inside the airport

By EILEEN NG Associated Press KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Malaysia’s Pardons Board said Friday it has reduced ex-Prime Minister Najib Razak’s 12-year jail sentence by half and sharply cut a fine, less than two years into his sentence from a corruption case linked to the theft of billions of dollars from state coffers. With

By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer BANGKOK (AP) — Chinese markets have retreated despite a fresh flurry of measures to help prop up the ailing property sector. Shanghai’s Composite index dropped 1.5% after dipping sharply lower earlier in the afternoon. The retreat came after the International Monetary Fund forecast that China’s economy will expand at

ISTANBUL (AP) — Turkey’s state-run news agency says police have arrested seven people on suspicion of selling information to the Israeli intelligence service Mossad. The suspects, who allegedly passed details to Mossad via private detectives, were detained in a joint operation with Turkey’s National Intelligence Organization on Friday. The Anadolu news agency says police anti-terror

By MIKE CORDER Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The United Nations’ top court says it has jurisdiction to rule on a request by Ukraine for a declaration that Kyiv is not responsible for genocide. The ruling Friday comes in the preliminary phase of a case filed by Ukraine alleging that Moscow used trumped-up