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PARIS (AP) — Read all about it, right now — or you’ll have to wait another four years. Satirical French newspaper La Bougie du Sapeur only comes out on Feb. 29. It’s a leap year-only publication, filled with cringe-worthy puns and commentary on events of the past four years. The 2024 edition includes an article suggesting France doesn’t need schools …

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Indiana lawmakers passed legislation Thursday that expands the power of the state to verify voters’ addresses and adds an additional residency requirement for first-time voters. The bill’s Republican sponsor state Sen. Mike Gaskill called it a “commonsense bill” that adds protections against fraud, but voting advocates have blasted the changes as new hurdles for people seeking to …

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. MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Caitlin Clark has another career record on her astounding resume: the most points by any major college women’s player to ever take the court. For …

PARIS (AP) — The woman leading a push for a reckoning about sexual abuse in France’s world-renowned cinema industry urged lawmakers Thursday to establish a commission to investigate sex crimes and sexism in the sector. With French film-making in the spotlight ahead of the Oscars next month, Judith Godrèche gave emotional testimony to a French Senate commission Thursday recalling her …

COPENHAGUE (AP) — Un helicóptero que venía de una plataforma petrolera marina se estrelló en el Mar del Norte frente a Noruega, matando a una persona y dejando heridas a cinco, dos de ellas de gravedad, informaron autoridades el jueves. El helicóptero Sikorsky S-92 iba en misión de entrenamiento para la empresa estatal noruega de petróleo y gas, Equinor ASA, …

BUENOS AIRES (AP) — El gobierno descartó que el presidente Javier Milei vaya a expresarse de forma agresiva durante su intervención del viernes ante el Congreso para abrir un nuevo periodo de sesiones ordinarias e instó a los legisladores opositores y a los manifestantes que se agruparán en torno del edificio legislativo a que guarden respeto. “Apelamos, en el marco …

LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Joe Biden and Donald Trump easily won their party’s primaries in Michigan, but Tuesday’s results showed that both candidates have cause for concern in their bid to win the swing state in November. An “uncommitted” vote in Michigan’s Democratic primary was the first indication of how backlash over President Biden’s handling of the Israel-Hamas war in …

This week’s election in Russia is expected to cement President Vladimir Putin’s grip on power until at least 2030. Any opposition figures who could have challenged him are either in prison or exiled abroad. Independent media outlets that could show criticism of his policies have been blocked. And the Kremlin maintains rigid control over the political system and electoral process …

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is signing an executive order aimed at better protecting Americans’ personal data on everything from biometrics and health records to finances and geolocation from foreign adversaries like China and Russia. The move allows the Department of Justice and other federal agencies to take steps to prevent the large-scale transfer of Americans’ personal data to …

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Judges at the International Criminal Court on Wednesday granted reparations of more than 52 million euros ($56 million) to thousands of victims of a convicted commander in the shadowy Ugandan rebel group the Lord’s Resistance Army. The nearly 50,000 victims covered by the order included former child soldiers and children born as a result of …