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TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Tens of thousands of Israelis have gathered in central Tel Aviv to protest plans by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s new government to overhaul the country’s legal system and weaken the Supreme Court. The protest presents an early challenge to Netanyahu and his ultranationalist national security minister, who has ordered police

By RYAN PEARSON AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Hollywood’s awards season has found an unlikely underdog in “RRR.” S.S. Rajamouli’s three-hour maximalist action epic is one of India’s most expensive and top-grossing films of all time. It pairs two of the country’s biggest stars, N.T. Rama Rao Jr. and Ram Charan, topping Netflix

By STEPHEN McGRATH AND VADIM GHIRDA Associated Press BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — Romanian authorities descended on a compound near Bucharest on Saturday to tow away a fleet of luxury cars and other assets worth an estimated $3.9 million in the case investigating Andrew Tate, the divisive social media personality who is detained in the country

By ZEKE MILLER AP White House Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) — Lawyers for President Joe Biden found more classified documents at his home in Wilmington, Delaware, than previously known, the White House acknowledged Saturday. White House lawyer Richard Sauber said in a statement that a total of six pages of classified documents were found during a

By ZEKE MILLER AP White House Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) — Lawyers for President Joe Biden found more classified documents at his home in Wilmington, Delaware, than previously known, the White House acknowledged Saturday. White House lawyer Richard Sauber said in a statement that a total of six pages of classified documents were found during a

By KONSTANTIN TESTORIDES Associated Press SKOPJE, North Macedonia (AP) — Authorities in North Macedonia have announced that four prison officers including a police commander have been arrested under suspicion of having helped a prisoner convicted of murder escape while being transferred to a hospital. The prosecutor’s office said Saturday that the commander in charge of

By KRISTIN M. HALL AP Entertainment Writer NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — She was dubbed a “rock princess,” but Lisa Marie Presley staked her own musical claim as a singer-songwriter, allowing her to express herself apart from — but sometimes alongside — her megastar father. Presley, who died Thursday at 54, bore a heavy weight: The

By ASHRAF KHALIL Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg has been in the national spotlight a lot lately, and not always for positive reasons. The 2020 Democratic presidential candidate and onetime mayor of South Bend, Indiana, has been the public face of a string of transportation-related mishaps, including this past week’s temporary

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — A senior Ukrainian Foreign Ministry official says President Volodymyr Zelenskyy wants to visit the United Nations to address a high-level meeting of the 193-member General Assembly on the eve of the first anniversary of Russia’s Feb. 24 invasion of his country if the security situation

By ANDREW WILKS Associated Press ISTANBUL (AP) — A senior Turkish official says Sweden and Finland are unlikely to be able to join NATO before June. A spokesman and foreign policy adviser to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Saturday that Sweden and Finland believe that the new laws will be fully effective and completed

TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — Gas prices dropped in New Jersey and also ticked down across the nation at large, analysts said. AAA Mid-Atlantic says the average price of a gallon of regular gas in New Jersey on Friday was $3.27, down four cents from last week. Drivers were paying $3.37 a gallon on average a

By SYLVIA HUI and HANNA ARHIROVA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak on Saturday promised to provide tanks and artillery systems to Ukraine, amid renewed missile attacks by Moscow targeting multiple Ukrainian cities for the first time in nearly two weeks. Nine people were killed and 64 others wounded in the

By ANDREW WILKS Associated Press ISTANBUL (AP) — A senior Turkish official says Sweden and Finland are unlikely to be able to join NATO before June. A spokesman and foreign policy adviser to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Saturday that Sweden and Finland believe that the new laws will be fully effective and completed

BLOOMINGTON, Indiana (AP) — A 56-year-old woman has been charged after an 18-year-old Indiana University student repeatedly was stabbed in the head on a public bus in an attack the school says was because the victim is Asian. The victim told investigators she was standing and waiting for the exit doors to open on a

PRAGUE (AP) — Almost fult results show that populist billionaire Andrej Babis and main challenger retired army Gen. Petr Pavel are running neck and neck in the Czech presidential election. Babis is a former prime minister and he is narrowly leading with 35.7% of the vote with ballots from 95% polling stations counted. Pavel is

By ELLEN KNICKMEYER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — For an idled worker at a Kabul-based aid group, Abaad, that helps abused Afghan women, frightened and often tearful calls are coming in, not only from her clients but also from her female colleagues. A Dec. 24 order from the Taliban barring aid groups from employing women

BERLIN (AP) — Germany has inaugurated its second liquefied natural gas terminal. It is part of a drive by Europe’s biggest economy to put reliance on Russian energy sources firmly behind it. Chancellor Olaf Scholz took part in Saturday’s ceremony in Lubmin, on the Baltic Sea coast, less than a month after he inaugurated Germany’s

CAIRO (AP) — Archaeologists unearthed an ancient tomb in the southern Egyptian city of Luxor, known for its treasures dating back to the pharaohs, authorities said Saturday. Mostafa Waziri, secretary-general of the Supreme Council of Antiquities, said an Egyptian-British mission found the royal tomb in an ancient site on the west bank of the Nile

PRAGUE (AP) — Early results in the Czech presidential election show that populist billionaire Andrej Babis is in the lead. The Czech Statistics Office said Saturday that Babis had 38% of the vote with ballots from about 50% of polling stations counted. Main challenger retired army Gen. Petr Pavel was running second with 32.5% while