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TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — The Israeli military says its aircraft have struck a rocket production workshop run by the militant Hamas group in the Gaza Strip. The strike early Thursday came hours after Palestinian militants fired a rocket into Israel’s south. The exchange caused no casualties but further raised tensions during a particularly violent

By JIM GOMEZ Associated Press MANILA, Philippines (AP) — The United States and the Philippines on Thursday announced plans to expand America’s military presence in the Southeast Asian nation, with access to four more bases as they seek to deter China’s increasingly aggressive actions toward Taiwan and in the disputed South China Sea. The agreement

By MARGERY A. BECK Associated Press LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — The Nebraska Legislature’s Health and Human Services Committee took nearly eight hours of testimony Wednesday before adjourning without a vote on whether to advance a bill that would outlaw abortion at a point before many women know they’re pregnant. Hundreds of people crowded the halls

By JOE Mcdonald AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — Asian stock markets gained Thursday after the Federal Reserve said the U.S. economy is moving toward lower inflation but more interest rate hikes are planned. Shanghai, Tokyo, Hong Kong and Sydney advanced. Oil prices rose. Wall Street’s benchmark S&P 500 index closed 1% higher after the

By KRUTIKA PATHI and SHEIKH SAALIQ Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — Embattled Indian billionaire Gautam Adani’s flagship company says it is reviewing its fundraising options after calling off a $2.5 billion share offering that was seen as a crucial test of investor confidence. The decision followed the loss of billions of dollars in market

By RICK RYCROFT and ROD McGUIRK Associated Press SYDNEY (AP) — Mourners at the Sydney funeral for Australian Cardinal George Pell have remembered him as a victim of a campaign to punish him regardless of his guilt. Pell was once the most senior Catholic convicted of sex abuse. Sydney Archbishop Anthony Fisher hailed Pell as

By NICK PERRY and ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australia is removing the British monarchy from its bank notes. The nation’s central bank said Thursday its new $5 bill would feature an Indigenous design rather than an image of King Charles III. But the king is still expected to appear on coins.

By BECKY BOHRER and MATTHEW DALY Associated Press JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — The Biden administration has issued a long-awaited study that recommends allowing a major oil development on Alaska’s North Slope. The U.S. Bureau of Land Management’s recommendation is not final. It calls for up to three drilling sites initially, fewer than the five pursued

By JUAN A. LOZANO Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — Attorneys for a former Houston police officer charged with murder in connection with a deadly drug raid three years ago are decrying publicity in the case. They’re also suggesting newly discovered evidence could undermine prosecutors’ claims that the couple who lived at the raided home were

TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — The Israeli army says it targeted a Hamas military site with airstrikes after militants fired a rocket into the country from Gaza, raising already heightened tensions. The military says the site targeted early Thursday in the central Gaza Strip was used by Hamas for rocket manufacturing. There are no immediate

By RIO YAMAT Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — Nathan Chasing Horse trained his wives to use firearms, instructing them to “shoot it out” with police officers if they ever tried to “break their family apart,” according to records obtained by The Associated Press. If that failed, the actor from “Dancing With Wolves” said they

By JOHN RABY Associated Press CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A health provider has filed a lawsuit seeking to overturn West Virginia’s near-total abortion ban. The lawsuit filed on behalf of the Women’s Health Center of West Virginia asks to block the four-month-old abortion ban while the case is heard in federal court. The Women’s Health

By JUAN A. LOZANO and MICHAEL GRACZYK Associated Press HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) — Texas has executed an inmate convicted of fatally shooting a Dallas police officer nearly 16 years ago following a high-speed chase. Wesley Ruiz received a lethal injection Wednesday evening at the state penitentiary in Huntsville. His execution was carried out after the

By KEN RITTER Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — A Nevada judge has ruled a Colorado dentist unfit for trial following his arrest last month in what authorities characterized as a terror attack on a solar power facility serving Las Vegas Strip casinos. Mohammed Reza Mesmarian’s attorney said Wednesday that psychiatrists found his client was

By HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH Associated Press Police say the man who was fatally shot by police after entering a Target store in Omaha, Nebraska, armed with an AR-15-style rifle had obtained the weapon just four days earlier at a sporting goods store. No one else was hurt. Court records show that the man, identified by police