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NEW YORK (AP) — “Star Trek” actor and political activist George Takei has a picture book scheduled for next spring that draws upon his early…

By MICHAEL R. SISAK, BOBBY CAINA CALVAN and JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Former President Donald Trump returned to his New York…

By PAN PYLAS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — A British army investigation has concluded that a 19-year-old soldier is believed to have taken her own…

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkey’s foreign minister says Kurdish militants behind a suicide bombing in the Turkish capital face robust retaliation…

By KATHERINE ROTH Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — You may not know her name. But Dorothy Liebes was a celebrity in her day — a weaver and…

LONDON (AP) — U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak on Wednesday proposed raising the legal age that people in England can buy cigarettes by one year,…

WINNIPEG, Manitoba (AP) — The Canadian province of Manitoba has elected the first First Nations premier of a province in Canada. Manitobans elected…

By LORNE COOK Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — European Union countries have overcame a new obstacle in their yearslong quest to overhaul the…

By JUSTIN SPIKE Associated Press BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Hungary’s foreign minister says that his government wants guarantees from Kyiv that a…

By JULIA FRANKEL Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli police say they have arrested several people suspected of spitting in the direction of…

LONDON (AP) — British police have opened an investigation into corporate manslaughter at a northern England hospital after a neonatal nurse was…

By HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Judy Blume, James Patterson and Michael Connelly are among 24 prominent writers who have raised…

By DARLENE SUPERVILLE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Jill Biden is urging women to talk to their doctors about getting mammograms or other…

MOSCOW (AP) — Sirens have wailed across Russia and television stations interrupted regular programming to broadcast warning signals as part of…

By STEFANIE DAZIO Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Picketing has begun at Kaiser Permanente hospitals as some 75,000 workers who say…

BENNINGTON, Vt. (AP) — Police say a man has been accused of stalking a woman in New York via his small airplane, flying out of an airport in nearby…

By MARK SHERMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court is taking up a case that could make it harder to sue hotels when their…

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greece is urging other European Union member states to adopt a proposed plan to sanction countries that refuse to accept…

BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — A court in Serbia has released from a brief detention a Kosovo Serb leader who has been linked to a clash with Kosovo…

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Shares in Scandinavian Airlines have dropped more than 90% after the ailing carrier announced new shareholders in a…

By SALLY FRENCH of NerdWallet For Disney fans, Halloween is among the most desirable (and expensive) times to visit its theme parks. That’s largely…

By DEE-ANN DURBIN AP Business Writer Uber is adding a new task to its list of services: mailing consumers’ return packages. The ride-hailing and…

ZAGREB, Croatia (AP) — Firefighters are battling a huge fire in a plastics factory in eastern Croatia and authorities have asked residents to…

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Japanese Agriculture Minister Ichiro Miyashita says Tokyo hopes to resolve the issue of Chinese ban on its seafood…

By GRAHAM DUNBAR AP Sports Writer GENEVA (AP) — FIFA is set to approve the reintegration of Russian youth teams into under-17 competitions and ease…

By CHASE BIERENKOVEN Edmunds A little outdoors goes a long way, and America’s national parks and outdoor spaces are some of the most stunning on…

BRATISLAVA, Slovakia (AP) — Slovakia says it will resume checks at the border with Hungary to reduce growing numbers of migrants entering the…

By The Associated Press A court in Moscow has handed a former state TV journalist a 8 1/2-year prison term in absentia for protesting Russia’s war…

By NICOLE WINFIELD and SETH BORENSTEIN Associated Press VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis is shaming and challenging world leaders to take concrete…

By KEN RITTER and SCOTT SONNER Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — A United States appeals court planned to hear Wednesday from lawyers trying to…

MADRID (AP) — Emergency services on the Spanish Canary Islands say more than 500 migrants have reached there in four large wooden boats this week.…

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) — Saudi Arabia says it will maintain a production cut of 1 million barrels of oil a day through the end of the year.…

By MUNIR AHMED Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — Lawyers for Pakistan’s imprisoned former Prime Minister Imran Khan are opposing his closed-door…

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran says it has agreed with Saudi Arabia to reschedule an Asian Champions League match after the Saudi team walked out at the…

By CHRIS MEGERIAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is announcing another $9 billion in federal student loan debt forgiveness.…

By JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press GENEVA (AP) — The international Red Cross is calling for the ouster of the head of the Belarus Red Cross, who…

By DASHA LITVINOVA Associated Press Russia says its air defenses shot down 31 Ukrainian drones in a nighttime attack on border regions. The Russian…

By COLLEEN BARRY Associated Press VENICE (AP) — Firefighters worked until dawn Wednesday to remove the wreckage of a bus that crashed in a borough…

STOCKHOLM (AP) — Swedish media say the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences may have announced the winners of this year’s Nobel Prize in chemistry…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press MANCHESTER, England (AP) — British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak plans to tell his Conservative Party he’s not…

By SHEIKH SAALIQ Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — Police in New Delhi have arrested the editor of a news website and one of its administrators…

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Three homes were destroyed by a forest fire and a man was injured by a falling tree in…

JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Chinese-owned video platform TikTok says it will halt its online retail operation in Indonesia to comply with the…

By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer BANGKOK (AP) — Asian markets were sharply lower on Wednesday after Wall Street tumbled as it focused on the…

NEW DELHI (AP) — Twenty-three Indian army soldiers are missing after a cloudburst triggered flash floods in the northeastern state of Sikkim. The…

By JERRY HARMER and JUTARAT SKULPICHETRAT Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — Police say a teenage boy who allegedly shot two people dead and wounded…

By CHRISTOPHER BODEEN Associated Press TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Prosecutors in Taiwan have indicted two leaders of the island’s tiny Taiwan…

KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — A lockdown has been imposed and security heightened in a city in southwest Nepal to prevent clashes between Hindus and…

TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Flights were canceled and schools were closed in parts of Taiwan on Wednesday as the island braced for strong winds and…

By MICHAEL CASEY Associated Press Federal authorities have started removing hazardous materials from the Maui wildfires and laying the groundwork to…

MANILA, Philippines (AP) — The Philippine coast guard says three Filipino fishermen have died in the disputed South China Sea after their boat was…

By LEAH WILLINGHAM Associated Press WILLIAMSON, W.Va. (AP) — Kaitlyn Adkins is studying law to help families in her community impacted by the…

By EVENS SANON and DÁNICA COTO Associated Press PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Woodberson Seïde held his stepsister’s hand as they walked…

By DIDI TANG Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — For much of the world, China’s Xinjiang region is notorious, a place where ethnic Uyghurs face…

By JANIE HAR Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The body of the late U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein will lie in state at San Francisco’s City Hall…

By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis is opening a big meeting on the future of the Catholic Church. Progressives…

By RIO YAMAT and KEN RITTER Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — The man facing a murder charge in the fatal shooting of Tupac Shakur in Las Vegas 27…

By KEVIN FREKING Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Rep. Kevin McCarthy had support from 208 members of his conference to remain as House speaker.…

By STEPHEN GROVES Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — For the first time ever, a House speaker had been voted out of leadership. Lawmakers were…

SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) — A male nanny who worked for families across Southern California was convicted of sexually assaulting 16 young boys in his…

SYDNEY (AP) — A lawyer for a former U.S. military pilot accused of illegally training Chinese aviators has told a Sydney court that an extradition…

BALTIMORE (AP) — Multiple people were shot at Morgan State University in Baltimore on Tuesday, police said. The Baltimore Police Department said…

By AUDREY McAVOY Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — Residents from fire-stricken Lahaina on Tuesday delivered a petition asking Hawaii Gov. Josh…

By HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea has slammed the United States over a Pentagon report that labeled it a…

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Colombia’s government has issued a long awaited public apology for the extrajudicial killings of 19 civilians who were…

By GARY D. ROBERTSON Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Now that Kevin McCarthy is out of his job as House speaker, one of his top lieutenants…

By COLLEEN SLEVIN and MATTHEW BROWN Associated Press DENVER (AP) — Defense attorneys for two Denver-area police officers charged in the 2019…