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President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin agreed during a lengthy call Tuesday to an immediate pause in strikes against energy infrastructure in the Ukraine war, but the Russian leader stopped short of backing a broader 30-day pause in fighting that the U.S. administration is pressing for.

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President Donald Trump says he is signing an executive order to keep TikTok running in the U.S. for another 75 days. That gives his administration more time to broker a deal to bring the social media platform under American ownership.
 
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FILE- A Lesotho election official makes a phone call as he waits for last minute voters near the eastern Lesotho town of Mokhotlong Saturday May 26, 2012. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay, file)

FILE- A Lesotho election official makes a phone call as he waits for last minute voters near the eastern Lesotho town of Mokhotlong Saturday May 26, 2012. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay, file)

How tiny Lesotho ended up with the highest US tariffs in the world

U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariffs have struck among others the small southern African kingdom of Lesotho, one of the world’s poorest nations. Trump announced a 50% tariff on Lesotho, the highest among all countries.
 
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In Tunisia, snails inch toward replacing red meat as people turn to cheaper protein

 

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Thousands rally against Russian Wagner mercenaries in Central African Republic

 

Workers set up an Oscar statue in the red carpet area before the 97th Academy Awards in Los Angeles, Saturday, March 1, 2025. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
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Workers set up an Oscar statue in the red carpet area before the 97th Academy Awards in Los Angeles, Saturday, March 1, 2025. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
A stand-in walks past Oscar statues in the red carpet area before the 97th Academy Awards in Los Angeles, Saturday, March 1, 2025. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
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A stand-in walks past Oscar statues in the red carpet area before the 97th Academy Awards in Los Angeles, Saturday, March 1, 2025. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
Workers move an Oscar statue through the red carpet area before the 97th Academy Awards in Los Angeles, Saturday, March 1, 2025. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
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Workers move an Oscar statue through the red carpet area before the 97th Academy Awards in Los Angeles, Saturday, March 1, 2025. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
Kieran Culkin, left, winner of the award for best performance by an actor in a supporting role for "A Real Pain," and Jazz Charton at the Governors Ball after the Oscars on Sunday, March 2, 2025, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/John Locher)
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Kieran Culkin, left, winner of the award for best performance by an actor in a supporting role for “A Real Pain,” and Jazz Charton at the Governors Ball after the Oscars on Sunday, March 2, 2025, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/John Locher)
Monica Barbaro arrives at the Oscars on Sunday, March 2, 2025, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
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Monica Barbaro arrives at the Oscars on Sunday, March 2, 2025, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
Lily-Rose Depp arrives at the Oscars on Sunday, March 2, 2025, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
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Lily-Rose Depp arrives at the Oscars on Sunday, March 2, 2025, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
Sean Baker accepts the award for best original screenplay for "Anora" during the Oscars on Sunday, March 2, 2025, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)
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Sean Baker accepts the award for best original screenplay for “Anora” during the Oscars on Sunday, March 2, 2025, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)
Paul Tazewell, winner of the award for best costume design for "Wicked," poses in the press room at the Oscars on Sunday, March 2, 2025, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP)
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Paul Tazewell, winner of the award for best costume design for “Wicked,” poses in the press room at the Oscars on Sunday, March 2, 2025, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP)
Bowen Yang arrives at the Oscars on Sunday, March 2, 2025, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (Photo by Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP)
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Bowen Yang arrives at the Oscars on Sunday, March 2, 2025, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (Photo by Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP)
Gints Zilbalodis, left, accepts the award for best animated feature film for "Flow" from Andrew Garfield during the Oscars on Sunday, March 2, 2025, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)
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Gints Zilbalodis, left, accepts the award for best animated feature film for “Flow” from Andrew Garfield during the Oscars on Sunday, March 2, 2025, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)
Rachel Zegler, left, and Gal Gadot present the award for best visual effects during the Oscars on Sunday, March 2, 2025, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)
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Rachel Zegler, left, and Gal Gadot present the award for best visual effects during the Oscars on Sunday, March 2, 2025, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)
June Squibb arrives at the Oscars on Sunday, March 2, 2025, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP)
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June Squibb arrives at the Oscars on Sunday, March 2, 2025, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP)
Rachel Sennott arrives at the Oscars on Sunday, March 2, 2025, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
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Rachel Sennott arrives at the Oscars on Sunday, March 2, 2025, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
Margaret Qualley arrives at the Oscars on Sunday, March 2, 2025, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
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Margaret Qualley arrives at the Oscars on Sunday, March 2, 2025, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
Adrien Brody, winner of the award for best performance by an actor in a leading role for "The Brutalist," poses in the press room at the Oscars on Sunday, March 2, 2025, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP)
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Adrien Brody, winner of the award for best performance by an actor in a leading role for “The Brutalist,” poses in the press room at the Oscars on Sunday, March 2, 2025, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP)

Inside the Oscars: What you didn’t see on the broadcast

What you see on the television broadcast is only part of the story at the Oscars. There’s a whole world of action happening in between commercial breaks, and at the lobby bar in the Dolby Theatre — where nominees and winners convene, comiserate and celebrate.
 
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Complete list of winners at the 97th Academy Awards

 

Key Oscar moments, from Zoe Saldaña’s emotional win and ‘Oz’ opening to Kieran Culkin’s baby wish

 

Ariana Grande goes full Glinda, ‘Wicked’ bestie Erivo does Elphaba proud in green on Oscars carpet

 

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Strip club Cinderella story ‘Anora’ wins best picture at the 97th Academy Awards

 

‘No Other Land,’ an Israeli-Palestinian collaboration, wins Oscar for best documentary

 
Specialist Anthony Matesic works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, Friday, April 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

Markets plunge with S&P 500 down 6% and Dow down 2,200 after China retaliates against Trump tariffs

 
President Donald Trump waves as he arrives at the Trump International Golf Club, Friday, April 4, 2025, in West Palm Beach, Fla. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

As stock market continues plummeting over tariffs, Trump spends the day at his golf course

 
A screen displays financial news as traders work on the floor at the New York Stock Exchange in New York, Thursday, April 3, 2025. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

Think twice before bailing out of the stock market, financial advisers say

 

President Donald Trump announced Friday that Boeing will build the Air Force’s future F-47 fighter jet, which the Pentagon says will have stealth and penetration capabilities that would be essential in a potential conflict with China.

The Latest: Judge vows to determine if Trump ignored order blocking deportation flights

 

  1. Democrats’ new digital strategy tops trending charts but also draws mockery from allies and foes

     
    Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., speaks during a hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, May 21, 2024. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

  2. Israeli forces push deeper into Gaza and destroy its only cancer hospital

     
    Displaced Palestinians, carrying their belongings, wood and other items, move between southern and northern Gaza along a beach road away from the areas where the Israeli army is operating after Israel's renewed offensive in the Gaza Strip, in the outskirts of Gaza City, Friday March 21, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

  3. Jonathan Majors is on a redemption tour. For what, he won’t say

     
    Jonathan Majors poses for a portrait on Wednesday, March 19, 2025, in New York. (Photo by Andy Kropa/Invision/AP)

  4. NYC will eventually have to abandon part of its water supply if it keeps getting saltier

     
    The New Croton Dam and the New Croton Reservoir that supplies part of New York City's drinking water is seen in Cortlandt, N.Y., on Thursday, March 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Ted Shaffrey)

  5. Texas measles outbreak expected to last for months, though vaccinations are up from last year

     
    Matt Caldwell, left, a Lubbock Fire Department official, administers a measles, mumps and rubella vaccine to Clair May, 61, at the Lubbock Health Department, Feb. 26, 2025, in Lubbock, Texas. (AP Photo/Mary Conlon, File)

  6. Australian tourist killed and 2 injured as snorkeling boat capsizes off Indonesia’s Bali island

     
    In this photo released by Klungkung District Police, passengers sit on a boat carrying tourists including a number of Australians that capsized in the waters off Nusa Penida Island, in Bali, Indonesia, Friday, March 21, 2025. (Klungkung District Police via AP)

  7. A NASA spacecraft will make another close pass of the sun

     
    This image made available by NASA shows an artist's rendering of the Parker Solar Probe approaching the Sun. It's designed to take solar punishment like never before, thanks to its revolutionary heat shield that's capable of withstanding 2,500 degrees Fahrenheit (1,370 degrees Celsius). (Steve Gribben/Johns Hopkins APL/NASA via AP, File)

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Former President Jimmy Carter smiles as he returns to Maranatha Baptist Church in Plains, Ga., to teach Sunday school, June 9, 2019, less than a month after falling and breaking his hip. (Curtis Compton/Atlanta Journal-Constitution via AP, File)

Former President Jimmy Carter smiles as he returns to Maranatha Baptist Church in Plains, Ga., to teach Sunday school, June 9, 2019, less than a month after falling and breaking his hip. (Curtis Compton/Atlanta Journal-Constitution via AP, File)

Jimmy Carter: Many evolutions for a centenarian ‘citizen of the world’

The 39th and longest-lived U.S. president, James Earl Carter Jr., died Sunday at the age of 100. His life ended where it began, in Plains, Georgia.
 
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Jimmy Carter’s hometown remembers him

 

Jimmy Carter and Playboy: How ‘the weirdo factor’ rocked ’76

 
A crew member uses a tree processor to strip bark and branches from logs before being transported to a mill, Tuesday, June 6, 2023, near Camptonville, Calif. (AP Photo/Godofredo A. Vásquez)

Trump administration rolls back forest protections in bid to ramp up logging

President Donald Trump’s administration has rolled back environmental protections around future logging projects on more than half of U.S. national forests under an emergency designation issued Friday that cites the dangers of wildfires.
 
Damaged equipment sits on a farm struck by Wednesday night's tornado on Thursday, April 3, 2025, in Lake City, Ark. (AP Photo/Adrian Sainz)

Nearly half of National Weather Service offices have 20% vacancy rates, and experts say it’s a risk

 
In this image from video provided by SpaceX, a Dragon capsule carrying four space tourists prepares to splash down in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of California on Friday, April 4, 2025. (SpaceX via AP)

Four space tourists return to Earth after a private flight over the poles

 
Students walk on the University of Texas campus in Austin, Texas., Sept. 27, 2012. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)

Federal officials are quietly terminating the legal residency of some international college students

 
Passersby walk past Sayles Hall on Brown University's campus in Providence, R.I., May 7, 2012. (AP Photo/Steven Senne, File)

Brown University to see half a billion in federal funding halted by Trump administration

 

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  4. Officials say a Russian strike in central Ukraine kills 14 people, including six children

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British police charge comedian Russell Brand with rape and sexual assault

 

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  3. Ex-assistant says filmmaker Paul Schrader sexually assaulted her and backed out of settlement deal

  4. Musical theater’s beloved show ‘The Last Five Years’ finally makes it to Broadway

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Maya Angelou memoir, Holocaust book are among those pulled from Naval Academy library in DEI purge

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Duke forward Cooper Flagg, Associated Press Player of the Year, answers a question during a news conference ahead of the Final Four college basketball games in the NCAA Tournament Friday, April 4, 2025, in San Antonio. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

Duke freshman star Cooper Flagg named the AP men’s college basketball player of the year

 

  1. NBA fines Grizzlies’ Ja Morant $75,000 for continued finger-gun gestures, after warning him to stop

  2. Dodgers’ Mookie Betts will make White House visit after skipping previous celebration under Trump

  3. Women’s Final Four brings powerhouses UConn, UCLA, Texas and South Carolina to Tampa

  4. At Final Four, Houston slowing Duke’s Cooper Flagg could come down to a stopper named Joseph Tugler

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  6. Travis Hunter and Shedeur Sanders put on a show for all 32 NFL teams at Colorado’s pro day

  7. Gretzky witnesses Ovechkin moving 1 goal back of his record as he joins the chase in person