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By SYLEJMAN KLLOKOQI Associated Press PRISTINA, Kosovo (AP) — Kosovo has postponed the beginning of the school year for students up through high…

By KATIE WORKMAN Associated Press Looking to kick back with something non-alcoholic this Labor Day? There’s been a real transformation going on…

SKOPJE, North Macedonia (AP) — The foreign ministers of North Macedonia and Greece agree that bilateral ties have improved steadily since the two…

By DAVID KOENIG AP Airlines Writer DALLAS (AP) — Ask anyone old enough to remember travel before Sept. 11, 2001, and you’re likely to get a…

NEW DELHI (AP) — India’s economy grew by 20.1% in the April-June quarter from the same period a year earlier, when it suffered a record…

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea’s National Assembly has approved legislation that bans app store operators such as Google and Apple from…

By WAYNE PARRY Associated Press BERKELEY TOWNSHIP, N.J. (AP) — Friends and fellow lifeguards sat on a Jersey Shore beach and sobbed Tuesday at the…

By KIMBERLEE KRUESI Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Federal officials say the snail darter population has recovered. They say the tiny…

By The Associated Press Johnson & Johnson says its potential HIV vaccine did not provide protection against the virus in a study of young women…

LYONS, Ill. (AP) — Two brothers who told police they buried their mother and sister’s bodies in their suburban Chicago home’s backyard years…

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. home prices jumped by a record amount in June as homebuyers competed for a…

MIAMI (AP) — Hurricane Ida isn’t quite done with the United States, dumping bands of rain from the Gulf Coast into New England. The National…

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greek coast guard authorities say they have intercepted a yacht carrying 124 people believed to be migrants just off the…

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The Netherlands appears to be heading toward talks to form a minority coalition after efforts to piece together a…

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran’s judiciary says that prosecutors have opened criminal cases against six guards at the country’s…

BERLIN (AP) — German Chancellor Angela Merkel says she would never govern with support from the Left party. That’s an option two of her…

WAUKESHA, Wis. (AP) — A Wisconsin school district has reversed a decision to leave a federal free meals program following widespread criticism and…

By MENELAOS HADJICOSTIS Associated Press NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — A Cyprus official says Pope Francis will visit Cyprus in December, making him the…

LONDON (AP) — British government veterinarians have killed an alpaca whose sentence of death made international headlines and pitted animal…

By JOE McDONALD and ZEN SOO AP Business Writers BEIJING (AP) — Hugely popular online games and celebrity culture are the latest targets in the…

By YURAS KARMANAU Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine’s president is visiting the United States in hopes of bolstering security…

By JARI TANNER Associated Press TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Estonia’s parliament has elected the chief of a major national museum as the Baltic…

By COURTNEY JESPERSEN of NerdWallet One of the biggest sale weekends of the year is fast approaching. Labor Day weekend is traditionally filled with…

By SAMUEL PETREQUIN and MIKE CORDER Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — European Union justice and home affairs ministers have pledged to support…

CHICAGO (AP) — A white Chicago police officer has been placed on administrative duty as the city’s police oversight agency investigates his…

By VANESSA GERA Associated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s government has asked the president to declare a state of emergency along the…

BERLIN (AP) — Google has announced that it is investing $1.2 billion by 2030 to expand its cloud computing infrastructure in Germany and to…

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Doctors at Poland’s main children’s hospital say they will carry out a liver transplant on a 6-year-old Afghan…

By DAVID McHUGH AP Business Writer FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — Consumers are seeing higher prices in Europe. Official figures released Tuesday show…

LUCEDALE, Miss. (AP) — Two people were killed and at least 10 others were injured after a roadway collapsed in Mississippi on Monday night.…

By ALEXIA FERNANDEZ CAMPBELL The Center for Public Integrity A Center for Public Integrity investigation finds that the U.S. Postal Service regularly…

By ISABEL DEBRE Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Saudi state TV says that a bomb-laden drone has targeted an airport in…

By DEREK GATOPOULOS Associated Press ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greece’s center-right government replaced top public security officials following the…

By JULHAS ALAM Associated Press DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — A Bangladesh anti-terrorism tribunal has sentenced six Islamist militants to death in the…

BERLIN (AP) — Official statistics show that the number of unemployed people in Germany declined slightly in August, unusually for the summer month,…

QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistan’s counter-terrorism police say 11 militants of the Islamic State group were killed in a raid in restive…

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s constitutional court has reopened but then recessed its proceedings in a case over whether Polish or European…

ISTANBUL (AP) — The Turkish president the United Arab Emirates’ de-facto leader have spoken by telephone, in a sign of easing tensions between…

By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press VENICE (AP) — Venice’s central place in the history of battling pandemics provides the backdrop to this…

By JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — Asian stock markets have gained as investors weighed the economic impact of the spread of the…

By CHALIDA EKVITTHAYAVECHNUKUL Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — Lawmakers in Thailand have begun a no-confidence debate targeting Prime Minister…

By TOM VERDIN Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — The Caldor Fire near Lake Tahoe can be measured in more than acres burned. While it has…

By JAY REEVES and STACEY PLAISANCE Associated Press CROWN POINT, La. (AP) — New Orleans largely escaped catastrophic flooding during Hurricane Ida,…

By LEAH WILLINGHAM Associated Press/Report for America For Shelly Savoie, time is running out at the Motel 6 in Bossier City, Louisiana. So are…

By KEVIN MCGILL, CHEVEL JOHNSON and MELINDA DESLATTE Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Louisiana communities battered by Hurricane Ida are now…

By MARINA VILLENEUVE Associated Press ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Resigning from office probably didn’t end former Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s legal problems,…

By SAM METZ and JANIE HAR Associated Press/Report for America SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. (AP) — Firefighters are bracing for strong winds a day after…

By LOLITA C. BALDOR and MATTHEW LEE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — As the final five U.S. military transport aircraft lifted off out of…

By AAMER MADHANI and KEVIN FREKING Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is defending the way the U.S. ended its 20-year…

By BECKY BOHRER Associated Press JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — Alaska residents don’t know how much money they might get from the state’s oil wealth…

By AAMER MADHANI and ZEKE MILLER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden still faces daunting challenges born of the hasty end of…

By KATHY GANNON, TAMEEM AKHGAR and JOSEPH KRAUSS Associated Press KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — The Taliban are reveling in their victory after the…

By SOPHIA EPPOLITO Associated Press/Report for America SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Members of the faith widely known as the Mormon church remain deeply…

By ADAM BEAM Associated Press SITES, Calif. (AP) — It’s been seven years since California voters agreed to borrow billions of dollars to…

By SARA BURNETT Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — Illinois Democrats were poised to set new legislative boundaries over objections from Republicans…

WEST MELBOURNE, Fla. (AP) — Authorities say a Florida deputy was wounded, and the man who shot him was killed during a traffic stop. Brevard County…

SAN DIEGO (AP) — Federal prosecutors say they will not seek the death penalty for a 22-year-old former nursing student charged in a deadly shooting…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — U.S. climate envoy John Kerry is in Tokyo meeting Japan’s foreign minister to discuss efforts…

By BECKY BOHRER Associated Press JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — Alaska residents don’t know how much money they might get from the state’s oil wealth…

By ADAM BEAM Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — The California Legislature has voted to guarantee people can call out their bosses publicly…

By AUDREY McAVOY Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — The mayor of Honolulu says the city will soon require patrons of restaurants, bars, museums,…

By MANUEL RUEDA Associated Press BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — A court in Colombia has refused to allow a trial for a retired general accused of offering…

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Florida state education officials have begun to make good on threats to withhold funding from local school districts that…

By MARY CLARE JALONICK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol is asking…

A federal grand jury has indicted a defrocked American priest on charges of having sex with minors while running a children’s shelter in a remote…

By STEFANIE DAZIO Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — The man who stockpiled illegal fireworks in his South Los Angeles backyard — which were…

By LOLITA C. BALDOR and MATTHEW LEE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — As the final five U.S. military transport aircraft lifted off out of…

By WAYNE PARRY Associated Press BERKELEY TOWNSHIP, N.J. (AP) — New Jersey authorities say a young lifeguard was killed and seven other people…

GARLAND, Texas (AP) — Investigators are looking into whether a Texas man was inspired by foreign terrorists when he fatally shot a Lyft driver in a…

SKOPJE, North Macedonia (AP) — A first group of 149 Afghan evacuees has landed in North Macedonia, where they will stay for a few months pending…

By JONATHAN MATTISE Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Attorneys general from 20 states have sued President Joe Biden’s administration…

DALLAS (AP) — Dallas city officials say an ongoing audit of police crime data has found that the data missing from the city’s computer…

By SEAN MURPHY The Associated Press OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — An Oklahoma civil rights group has filed a federal lawsuit claiming a new anti-protest…

By ELLEN KNICKMEYER Associated Press U.S. military planes have carried the last U.S. service members and diplomats from Kabul’s airport, ending…

By DAVID EGGERT Associated Press LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Republicans are launching a ballot drive to tighten Michigan’s voting and election laws,…

By MATTHEW DALY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Hurricane Ida knocked out all eight transmission lines that deliver power to New Orleans,…

By JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press  A divided U.N. Security Council is pressing the Taliban to live up to pledges to let people leave Afghanistan…

LINCOLN, Maine (AP) — A U.S. Army veteran who died while performing a rescue of a downed helicopter in Somalia has been immortalized with a new…

By STEVE KARNOWSKI Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Officials leading the fight against wildfires in northeastern Minnesota are warning about a…

BOZEMAN, Mont. (AP) — Montana State University said Monday that the founders of an insurance company are donating $101 million to its nursing…

By PATTY NIEBERG Associated Press/Report for America DENVER (AP) — The Colorado secretary of state has sued to remove a rural county’s election…

By TERRY WALLACE Associated Press The electric utility Griddy Energy has reached a settlement with Texas state officials over crushing electric bills…

By HOWARD FENDRICH AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Full-throated shouts and hearty applause have returned to the U.S. Open tennis tournament.…

CHICAGO (AP) — An Illinois judge has reversed a ruling to bar a divorced mother from seeing her 11-year-old son because she isn’t vaccinated…

By ROBERT BURNS and LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — After two decades, the United States has completed its withdrawal from…

By DAVID PITT Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — An Iowa woman has amended her lawsuit over the state’s ban on mandatory face masks in…

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A storied New Orleans jazz site where a young Louis Armstrong once worked toppled when Ida blew through Louisiana as one of the…

By JANET MCCONNAUGHEY, MICHAEL KUNZELMAN and JEFF AMY Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The levees, floodwalls and floodgates that protect New…

CHICAGO (AP) — Family members say the Rev. Jesse Jackson’s wife has been moved from intensive care back into a regular room at the Chicago…

By MELINDA DESLATTE and RUSS BYNUM Associated Press BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Louisiana hospitals in Hurricane Ida’s path have been forced to…

By DAVID FISCHER Associated Press MIAMI BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Officials with a South Florida museum are collecting the photos, notes and other…

By MEG KINNARD Associated Press Disability rights groups and parents of children with disabilities want an immediate halt to a South Carolina law…

By CURT ANDERSON AP Legal Affairs Writer ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — A federal judge is considering claims that a new Florida law designed to deter…

By KATHY GANNON Associated Press KABUL,Afghanistan (AP) — On the eve of the final U.S. troop withdrawal from Afghanistan, some Kabul residents…

NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — The chairman of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee says the “retrograde vision” of Turkey’s president to…

By CHRISTINA LARSON AP Science Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Despite a few high-profile conservation success stories, birds of prey worldwide are in…

By DAVID McFADDEN Associated Press BALTIMORE (AP) — Baltimore’s first new Catholic school in nearly 60 years has opened its door to students.…