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The AP Top 25 women’s college basketball poll is back every week throughout the season! Get the poll delivered straight to your inbox with AP Top 25 Poll Alerts. Sign up here. IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — Caitlin Clark’s final regular-season home game at Iowa is likely to bring one of the priciest tickets in women’s college basketball history. The …

MIAMI (AP) — La viuda de un destacado disidente cubano que falleció en un misterioso choque automovilístico presentó una demanda por muerte por negligencia contra un exembajador de Estados Unidos sospechoso de trabajar para Cuba, acusando al exdiplomático de compartir inteligencia que envalentonó a los líderes comunistas cubanos para asesinar a un importante rival. Oswaldo Payá murió en 2012 cuando …

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. told Australia’s Parliament on Thursday that the strategic partnership between the two nations was more important than ever with the rule of law and peace in the region under threat from China. Marcos told a special joint sitting of the two chambers during a state visit that the Philippines would not …

BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union took a major step Thursday in ending its standoff with member state Poland, saying it would start releasing billions of euros that were frozen over what the bloc said were the previous Polish government’s backsliding on democratic principles. The move is an important reward for Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk, who has sought relentlessly …

NEW YORK (AP) — Three dozen leaders at news organizations around the world have signed a letter expressing solidarity with journalists in Gaza, calling for their safety and freedom to report in the war zone. The letter, released Thursday, was spearheaded by the Committee to Protect Journalists, which said at least 89 journalists and media workers have been killed in …

DETROIT (AP) — The agency that regulates U.S. telecommunications is considering a rule that could stop domestic abusers from tracking victims through vehicles that are connected wirelessly. Federal Communications Commission Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel is asking other commissioners to start the process of drawing up new regulations. “Survivors of domestic abuse shouldn’t have to choose between giving up their vehicle and …

N’DJAMENA, Chad (AP) — Several people were killed Wednesday in the central African country of Chad in what the government said was an attack by an opposition group on the national security agency’s office in the capital. Government spokesman Abderaman Koulamallah said in a statement that the attack on the National State Security Agency, or ANSE, was carried out by …

KAMANYOLA, Congo (AP) — United Nations peacekeepers handed over their first military base to security forces in eastern Congo on Wednesday as part of an eventual withdrawal after decades of operating in the country. The handover comes as violence soars in the conflict-riddled region. Peacekeepers transferred responsibility and equipment at its base in Kamanyola in South Kivu province to Congo’s …

BETHESDA, Maryland, EE.UU. (AP) — El presidente estadounidense Joe Biden “sigue siendo apto para el cargo”, escribió su doctor el miércoles después de que le realizaran un examen físico anual que generó gran expectativa mientras el político de 81 años intenta ser reelegido en noviembre. “El presidente Biden es un hombre de 81 años saludable, activo y robusto que sigue …

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Supporters who want to make South Carolina the next-to-last U.S. state to pass a hate crimes law increasing penalties for some crimes fueled by race, gender or sexual orientation are running out of time to get what could be a decisive vote in the state Senate. They brought survivors of a racist massacre that killed nine …