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By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japan has become the fifth country in history to reach the moon. Its spacecraft, which wasn’t carrying astronauts, landed on the lunar surface early Saturday. But an issue with the power supply means that the mission could be in jeopardy. Officials say they need more time to

By ASHRAF KHALIL and ALANNA DURKIN RICHER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Thousands of opponents of abortion rights rallied under falling snow on Friday at the annual March for Life, as speakers urged the impassioned crowd to capitalize on the movement’s major victory in the Supreme Court and keep fighting until abortion is eliminated. Months

By JULIA FRANKEL, NAJIB JOBAIN and BASSEM MROUE Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — A member of Israel’s War Cabinet cast doubt on the country’s strategy for releasing hostages held by Hamas, saying only a cease-fire can free them, as the prime minister rejected the United States’ calls to scale back its offensive. The comments by

By JAYAMPATHI PALIPANE Associated Press COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lankan authorities say they have arrested tens of thousands of people in a monthlong crackdown on drugs and are vowing to continue despite U.N. criticism of possible human rights violations during the “heavy-handed” operation. Acting police chief Deshabandu Tennakoon told The Associated Press on

By The Associated Press A Russian official says a Ukrainian drone has struck an oil storage depot in western Russia, causing a massive blaze. It is the latest incident in Ukrainian forces’ apparently extended campaign of attacks on Russian soil ahead of the war’s two-year anniversary. Russian officials and news reports said four oil reservoirs

JERUSALEM (AP) — A member of Israel’s War Cabinet has confirmed reports that early in the war against Hamas in Gaza, an Israeli preemptive strike against Lebanon’s Hezbollah militia was called off at the last minute. Gadi Eisenkot, a former army chief, says he was among those arguing against such a strike in what he

By FOSTER KLUG Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japan has landed a spacecraft on the moon, an attempt at the world’s first “pinpoint lunar landing.” Saturday’s milestone puts Japan in a club previously occupied by only the United States, the Soviet Union, India and China. A raft of countries and companies are also plotting moon

By MEAD GRUVER Associated Press WHEATLAND, Wyo. (AP) — Oliver Baez spent two months rehearsing a scene for a school play in which his character confronts another student about bullying a gay student who takes his own life. After much preparation, the 12-year-old’s small scene turned into a big problem among school officials in Wheatland,

By STAN CHOE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Wall Street returned to record heights Friday to cap a punishing, two-year round trip dogged by high inflation and worries about a recession that seemed inevitable but hasn’t arrived. The S&P 500, which is the centerpiece of many 401(k) accounts and the main measure that

By GABE STERN Associated Press/Report for America RENO, Nev. (AP) — Seven Republicans vying for the Republican U.S. Senate nomination in Nevada circled the familiar talking points of GOP politics at a debate, while also taking shots at the front-runner, who made an apparently strategic decision not to attend. The debate in a Reno casino

By CLAIRE RUSH Associated Press PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Two weeks of storms that have turned roads into icy death traps, frozen people to death from Oregon to Tennessee and caused power outages that could take weeks to fix continued to sock both coasts with another round of weather chaos on Friday. The rain, snow,

By ACACIA CORONADO and JAKE BLEIBERG Associated Press UVALDE, Texas (AP) — A Texas prosecutor has convened a grand jury to investigate the Uvalde school shooting that killed 21 people, multiple media have reported. Uvalde County District Attorney Christina Mitchell told the San Antonio Express-News for a report published Friday that a grand jury has

By CHRISTOPHER WEBER Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — A small airplane that crashed into the ocean off the California coast on Sunday was constructed piece by piece over nearly a decade, one of tens of thousands of home-built aircraft that are part of a high-flying hobby taking off across the country. Federal investigators said

DAVAO, Philippines (AP) — A landslide set off by days of heavy rain buried a house where people were holding Christian prayers in the southern Philippines, killing at least 10 people, including five children, officials said Friday. Two people were injured, and at least one more villager remained unaccounted for following the landslide in a

By VALERIE GONZALEZ and PAUL J. WEBER Associated Press McALLEN, Texas (AP) — Texas’ refusal to allow Border Patrol agents into a park along the U.S.-Mexico border is a new marker in the state’s deepening rift with the Biden administration over immigration. For nearly a week as of Wednesday, Texas has denied entry to Border

By KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea says it has tested a nuclear-capable underwater attack drone in response to a combined naval exercise by South Korea, the United States and Japan this week, as it continues to blame its rivals for raising tensions in the region. The purported drone test

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican marines have detained one of the top leaders of the Gulf drug cartel, the gang that kidnapped four Americans and killed two of them in March 2023. The public safety department of the border state of Tamaulipas said the suspect was arrested in the neighboring state of Nuevo Leon, and

By JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A man who served 14 years in prison for a deadly 1990s shooting in New York has been exonerated. Brooklyn prosecutors said Thursday they now believe the killer was an acquaintance the man has implicated for decades. Steven Ruffin was paroled in 2010 and has since

By CLAIRE RUSH and GENE JOHNSON Associated Press PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Majiah Washington noticed a flash outside her home this week in Portland, where a dangerous storm had coated the city with ice. Opening her blinds, she saw a red SUV with a downed power line on it and a couple who had been