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By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Coming nearly straight from the Oscars with a truck full of Kenergy, Ryan Gosling and Emily Blunt rolled into South By Southwest to premiere “The Fall Guy,” an affectionate, action-fueled ode to stunt work and the dedicated professionals that throw their bodies into filmmaking. “The

By YURI KAGEYAMA Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — A commercial rocket trying to put a satellite into orbit has been intentionally exploded shortly after liftoff in central Japan. The company behind the rocket said the launch was aborted five seconds after liftoff early Wednesday. Space One’s president said the problem that necessitated the decision was

JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesia authorities say a fishing boat that was carrying 37 people capsized in rough seas off Indonesia’s Sulawesi island, killing at least two people and leaving 24 others missing. The Dewi Jaya 2 was on its way from a port in Jakarta to Lombok Island near Bali carrying tons of fish

By HUIZHONG WU Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — An explosion caused by a suspected gas leak ripped through a building in northern China, killing two people and injuring 26 others. Authorities said the blast occurred in a fried chicken shop early Wednesday morning in the city of Sanhe. The city is around 39 miles east

By FABIOLA SÁNCHEZ Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — Two detectives looking for 43 students who went missing almost 10 years ago were found unharmed after they themselves disappeared in Mexico’s Pacific coast state of Guerrero. Officials did not say Tuesday how the man and woman were found or whether they had been freed from

By DAKE KANG Associated Press CHENGDU, China (AP) — Some investors in a troubled Chinese trust fund are facing financial ruin under a government plan to return a fraction of their money back. They are casualties of China’s broader troubles as the financial industry is squeezed by a slump in the property industry that has

By MARK THIESSEN Associated Press ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Alaska’s annual Iditarod dog sled race ended with a victory for the ages: One of the biggest names in the sport came from behind after a moose attack to win the grueling, dayslong contest for an unprecedented sixth time. But Dallas Seavey’s record-setting win late Tuesday

By KELVIN CHAN AP Business Writer LONDON (AP) — European Union lawmakers are set to give final approval to the 27-nation bloc’s artificial intelligence law Wednesday, putting the world-leading rules on track to take effect later this year. Lawmakers in the European Parliament are poised to vote in favor of the Artificial Intelligence Act five

By The Associated Press Vladimir Putin is poised to sweep to another six-year term in this week’s presidential election, even though Russians are dying in Ukraine in a war grinding through its third year and his country is more isolated than ever from the rest of the world. The all-but-certain outcome comes through his rigid

By MELANIE LIDMAN Associated Press TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — When Shawn Landis, an evangelical Christian from Pennsylvania, heard about the Oct. 7 Hamas attack on southern Israel, he knew he would come to Israel to volunteer as soon as it was safe. Five months later, he was chopping vegetables in a Tel Aviv kitchen,

By CARLA K. JOHNSON AP Medical Writer Don’t be surprised if your doctors start writing you overly friendly messages. They could be getting some help from artificial intelligence. New AI tools are helping doctors communicate with their patients, some by answering messages and others by taking notes during exams. It’s been 15 months since OpenAI

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOMIOKA, Japan (AP) — The head of the U.N. atomic agency has told local Japanese representatives at a meeting in Fukushima that the ongoing discharge of treated radioactive wastewater at the ruined nuclear power plant has met safety standards and that any restrictions on products from the region are not

By RUSS BYNUM Associated Press SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — There was no green beer, no pickup trucks towing parade floats or throngs of tourists in gaudy green outfits. Instead, just a few dozen of Savannah’s early Irish immigrants marched a half-mile from a hotel near the riverfront to attend a special service at what then

By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi Republican Gov. Tate Reeves has signed a new law that will allow women to receive Medicaid coverage earlier in pregnancy. It’s an effort to improve health outcomes for mothers and babies in a poor state with the nation’s worst rate of infant mortality. The

By SAMANTHA HENDRICKSON Associated Press/Report For America COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Republicans vying for candidacy in Ohio’s upcoming March primary might be running for increasingly red congressional seats, but that doesn’t make for an uneventful election next week — especially as the GOP seeks a champion to flip the district of the longest serving woman