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Associated Press California’s largest active fire exploded in size on Friday evening, growing rapidly amid bone-dry fuel and threatening…

Associated Press PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Schools in Haiti’s capital and beyond are crumbling as gang violence deepens poverty and disrupts…

Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Arizona is already expected to play a critical role in the race for the White House as it did in 2020. But…

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The European Union says it had made 1.5 billion euros available to support Ukraine, the first tranche of money…

ROME (AP) — The governor of Italy’s northern Liguria region has resigned after being held under house arrest since May as part of a corruption…

Associated Press GENEVA (AP) — In the wake of the Oct. 7 attacks, a small nongovernmental group called Jerusalem Peacebuilders is pressing ahead…

Associated Press PARIS (AP) — A hot-air balloon brought an Olympic ring of fire into a rainy sky and singer Celine Dion belted from the Eiffel…

Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — South African police arrested 95 Libyan nationals in a raid on a suspected secret military training camp on…

Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Former President Barack Obama and former first lady Michelle Obama have endorsed Kamala Harris in her White House…

BEIJING (AP) — Tropical storm Gaemi brought rain to central China on Saturday as it moved inland after making landfall at typhoon strength on the…

Associated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Is the 19th century Champagne on the bottom of the Baltic Sea still fit for a toast? A team of Polish divers…

Associated Press MANILA, Philippines (AP) — The Philippine coast guard says there has been no indication that a big cargo of industrial fuel oil…

Associated Press ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) — Ethiopian lawmakers declared three days of mourning Friday as diggers continued the search for bodies…

NEW DELHI (AP) — The Charaideo Moidam royal burial complex and shrines, built by northeast India’s Ahom dynasty, has been inscribed as a new…

AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — A widespread rally swept Wall Street Friday, lifting far-reaching corners, to close a tumultuous week where…

Associated Press LONDON (AP) — When Donald Trump suggested during the 2016 presidential campaign that he might not honor a U.S. commitment to…

Associated Press PARIS (AP) — Arsonists attacked France’s high-speed rail network early Friday, setting fires that paralyzed train travel to…

AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — A key question is looming for Vice President Kamala Harris as she edges closer to gaining the Democratic…

Associated Press DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — The 2-year-old toddler lay on a foil blanket, her face covered with salve for her burns and her…

NEW DELHI (AP) — India says it has agreed with China to work urgently to achieve the withdrawal of tens of thousands of troops stationed along…

Associated Press VIENTIANE, Laos (AP) — Top diplomats from Southeast Asia have met with China’s foreign minister for talks that come as friction…

Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Signing an agreement with Russia to stop the war with Ukraine would amount to signing a deal with the devil,…

Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Bones dug up from a wartime Army Medical School site in Tokyo decades ago and linked to victims of human experiments…

Associated Press GLOSTER, Miss. (AP) — This southern Mississippi town’s expansive wood pellet plant was so close to Shelia Mae Dobbins’…

Associated Press HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — Thousands of mourners gathered in Hanoi for the second day of the funeral of the man who dominated…

Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Heavy rain has hit northern Japan, triggering floods and landslides, disrupting transportation systems and sending…

Associated Press CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuelans have a crucial decision ahead of them. On Sunday, they decide whether to give President…

Associated Press ROME, N.Y. (AP) — A tornado that touched down in the small, upstate New York city of Rome ripped roofs from houses, reduced brick…

Associated Press MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Officials say at least 26 people have been killed by a gang in three remote villages in Papua New…

Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — When it comes to Republican vice presidential nominee JD Vance’s name, it’s complicated. The…

Associated Press WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu worked to mend ties with Republican presidential candidate…

Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris, the likely Democratic nominee for president, is attempting to bridge divides…

Associated Press COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lanka will hold a presidential election on Sept. 21 that will likely be a test of confidence in…

NEW YORK (AP) — Former film mogul Harvey Weinstein has been transferred from a New York City jail to a hospital to undergo treatment for a variety…

Associated Press ST. LOUIS (AP) — Sixty people allege in new lawsuits filed in Missouri that they were abused as children by dozens of Catholic…

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuela’s government and opposition closed the official presidential campaign season Thursday with demonstrations…

AP Entertainment Writer PARIS (AP) — If given the chance, Pharrell Williams would reintroduce arts competition into the Olympics, reviving a…

TOKYO (AP) — Heavy rain has hit northern Japan, triggering floods and landslides, disrupting transportation systems and sending hundreds of…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — After 80 years, a World War II sergeant killed in Germany has returned home to California. On Thursday, community members lined…

Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada, a longtime leader of Mexico’s Sinaloa cartel, and Joaquín Guzmán López, a son…

Associated Press JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — A walrus calf seemingly left behind by her herd near Alaska’s northernmost city is alert and “sassy”…

Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — The U.S. government will invest $240 million in salmon and steelhead hatcheries in the Pacific Northwest to…

Associated Press NORWICH, Conn. (AP) — Veteran diplomat Martin S. Indyk, an author and leader at prominent U.S. think tanks who devoted years to…

Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — Judith Monarrez crumpled onto her kitchen floor and wept when the news arrived in an email: Gizmo, her pet dog…

DETROIT (AP) — Workers have linked the U.S. and Canadian sides of the new Gordie Howe International Bridge spanning the Detroit River. The Detroit…

Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah’s Supreme Court overturned a death sentence Thursday for a man convicted of murdering a woman to stop…

Associated Press/Report for America SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Justice Elena Kagan says the U.S. Supreme Court should bolster its new ethics code by…

Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — A rising number of heat-related deaths in Texas among residents who lost power during Hurricane Beryl has pushed…

Associated Press PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Gabrielle Giffords, the former Democratic congresswoman who was grievously wounded in a 2011 shooting, is…

Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Protesters against the Gaza war have held a “die-in” across from Lafayette Park and the White House as…

Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Rangers at California’s Death Valley National Park say a European visitor got third-degree burns on his feet…

Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris told reporters on Thursday that she’s “ready to debate Donald Trump.” She…

AP Technology Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Hollywood’s video game performers are going on strike, throwing part of the entertainment industry into…

Associated Press/Report for America DECATUR, Ga. (AP) — Juan Carlos Ramirez Bibiano, an inmate at Telfair State Prison in Georgia, died of heart…