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President Vladimir Putin is facing a battlefield stalemate in Ukraine and growing war fatigue among Russians and appears ready to change the narrative around the conflict.

MECCA, Saudi Arabia (AP) -- Altaf Qadri is an award-winning Kashmiri photojournalist based in Dubai, with more than 16 years of experience, including work with The Associated Press.

Shrey Parikh has won the Scripps National Spelling Bee, beating Ishaan Gupta in a lightning-round tiebreaker. Shrey is a 14-year-old from Rancho Cucamonga, California.

A Blue Origin rocket has exploded during a test at the launch pad. Thursday night's blast was felt in nearby Cape Canaveral and Cocoa Beach, Florida, and briefly turned the sky orange.

A court investigation found that a federal judge had an affair with a police officer, including having sex in chambers overheard by staff, but remains on the bench with a "private reprimand."

A Van Buren Township landfill is barred from accepting shipments of radioactive waste from Manhattan Project-era sites, a Wayne County Circuit Court judge ruled Wednesday.

Firefighters are battling a large fire at an apartment complex in Dallas. The blaze erupted Thursday afternoon where debris of one collapsed building lay heaped on the ground while flames and black smoke billowed into the sky.

Artificial intelligence company Anthropic said Thursday it raised $65 billion in private funding that will push its valuation to $965 billion, a whopping number that makes the 5-year-old research laboratory behind the Claude chatbot one of the world ...

President Donald Trump has claimed that the Obama and Biden administrations spent "hundreds of millions of dollars" to fix the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool and alleged that renovations he is currently overseeing will be much more economical.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- El Departamento de Justicia de Estados Unidos inició una investigación para determinar si E.