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By MARY CLARE JALONICK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer is leading a bipartisan congressional delegation to China next week, traveling to the country amid heightened tensions and after several members of President Joe Biden’s Cabinet visited. His office says that Schumer, a Democrat, and Republican Sen. Mike Crapo of Idaho

By EVENS SANON and DÁNICA COTO Associated Press PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Foreigners with guns are met with hostility in most countries in the world. But the departure of armed soldiers and police from Haiti in 2017 after nearly two decades on the streets helped criminals seize control of much of the country. Gangs have

By MEAD GRUVER Associated Press Utah U.S. Rep. John Curtis says he will not run to succeed Mitt Romney in the Senate. The announcement leaves the race to replace Romney clear of one of Utah’s best known Republicans. Curtis is a former mayor of the city of Provo. He’s been in Congress since 2017. In

By BROOKE SCHULTZ Associated Press/Report for America HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Most Pennsylvania lawmakers want to move their state’s presidential primary election up from late April. But disagreements arose in the House on Tuesday over whether to embrace a Senate-backed plan that would shift the election to mid-March. A House committee first rejected, but later

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press MANCHESTER, England (AP) — U.K. Home Secretary Suella Braverman has railed against unauthorized migrants, human-rights laws and “woke” critics of her hardline policies at the Conservative Party’s annual conference. Braverman is trying to secure her place as the flag-bearer of the party’s law-and-order right wing. In a speech she called

By MARK SHERMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court seems likely to preserve the work of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau against a conservative-led challenge. Even some conservative justices sounded skeptical Tuesday of arguments that the agency, created after the 2008 financial crisis to regulate mortgages, car loans and other consumer finance, violates

By GIADA ZAMPANO Associated Press ROME (AP) — Hundreds of small tremors have shaken a densely populated volcanic area west of the Italian city of Naples in recent weeks, pushing the government to quickly redraft mass evacuation plans, even though experts don’t see an imminent risk of eruption. In the latest of a long string

By JINTAMAS SAKSORNCHAI and TIAN MACLEOD JI Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — Authorities in Thailand’s capital say at least two people were killed when a teenage boy with a handgun opened fire in a major shopping mall in the center of Bangkok. A police spokesperson told reporters a suspect was taken into custody after the

By MEG KINNARD and JILL COLVIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Former Vice President and GOP candidate Mike Pence will take questions on national security and foreign policy Tuesday afternoon at Washington’s Georgetown University. The appearance will be the first in a series of conversations with 2024 Republican presidential candidates on the topic co-hosted by

By JONATHAN J. COOPER Associated Press A group laying the groundwork for a possible third-party presidential ticket is pleading with state Democratic Party officials not to interfere with its work after President Joe Biden said its leaders have a democratic right to create a new party. No Labels officials pointed to the president’s recent comments

By GERALD IMRAY Associated Press CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — South Africa has culled about 7.5 million chickens in an effort to contain dozens of outbreaks of two separate strains of avian influenza that threaten to create a shortage of eggs and poultry for consumers, the government and national poultry association said Tuesday. At

By MARIA SHERMAN AP Music Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — In the first few minutes on the phone with The Associated Press, Chappell Roan shared a revealing fact about herself. “I have a ‘princess’ tramp stamp, that was my first tattoo,” the 25-year-old pop singer laughed. “And it was kind of a ‘f—- you’ to

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press MANCHESTER, England (AP) — Britain’s Home Secretary Suella Braverman has railed against unauthorized migrants, human-rights laws and “woke” critics of her hardline policies at the Conservative Party’s annual conference. Braverman is trying to secure her place as the flag-bearer of the party’s law-and-order right wing. In a speech she called