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By MUNIR AHMED and RIAZAT BUTT Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan’s former Prime Minister Imran Khan says he is pausing his march on the…

BERLIN (AP) — Official figures show that German factory orders were down 4% in September compared with the previous month, underlining expectations…

By FRANK JORDANS and SETH BORENSTEIN Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — When world leaders, diplomats, campaigners and scientists descend on Sharm…

By KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea has scrambled about 80 military aircraft, including advanced F-35 fighter…

By SETH BORENSTEIN AP Science Writer Thirty years ago there was hope that a warming world could clean up its act. It didn’t. The United States…

By HANNA ARHIROVA and ADAM SCHRECK Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Dmytro Bondarenko is ready for the worst. He’s filled the storage…

By ASHOK SHARMA and SHONAL GANGULY Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — Haze and smog have enveloped the skyline of India’s capital region…

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran is marking the 1979 takeover of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran as its…

By KAREEM CHEHAYEB Associated Press BHANINE, Lebanon (AP) — Shadia Ahmed panicked as rainwater flooded her shack one night, drenching her seven…

By HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH Associated Press KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) — When Planned Parenthood decided four years ago to open a new clinic in a…

By STAN CHOE and DAMIAN J. TROISE AP Business Writers NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks rallied Friday, but only after yo-yoing several times, as Wall Street…

By KIM CHANDLER and MARK THIESSEN Associated Press WEST POINT, Ga. (AP) — Loretta Williams lives in Alabama but drove to Georgia to buy a lottery…

By DAVE COLLINS Associated Press HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Infowars host Alex Jones is facing the possibility of having more penalties heaped onto the…

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — A moderately strong earthquake has struck Turkey’s western province of Izmir, causing panic among residents and toppling…

By RONALD BLUM AP Baseball Writer PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Justin Verlander beamed like a first-time big leaguer, and the Houston Astros feted the…

By AAMER MADHANI Associated Press OCEANSIDE, Calif. (AP) — President Joe Biden on Thursday told supporters “we’re gonna free Iran” after…

By MIKE STOBBE AP Medical Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The rate of deaths that can be directly attributed to alcohol rose nearly 30% in the U.S. during…

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — America’s employers kept hiring vigorously in October, adding 261,000 positions, a…

By MICHAEL R. BLOOD and AMY TAXIN Associated Press OCEANSIDE, Calif. (AP) — President Joe Biden is urging voters to go to the polls to support…

BEIJING (AP) — Chinese President Xi Jinping has called for peace talks over Ukraine and warned against the conflict going nuclear in a meeting with…

By KATHY McCORMACK Associated Press CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — U.S. Rep. Chis Pappas has accused his Republican challenger of treating politics as a…

By MARC LEVY Associated Press HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — TV icon Oprah Winfrey is endorsing Democrat John Fetterman in Pennsylvania’s hotly contested…

SEATTLE (AP) — A judge in Washington state has temporarily blocked Albertsons from paying a $4 billion dividend to investors as part of the grocery…

By ANDREW DALTON AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — A massage therapist who says Harvey Weinstein sexually assaulted her after she worked…

By BRIAN MAHONEY AP Basketball Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The Brooklyn Nets suspended Kyrie Irving for at least five games without pay Thursday,…

By REBECCA BOONE Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — A federal appellate court on Wednesday said a national beauty pageant has a First Amendment…

By GENE JOHNSON Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) — A former housekeeper for Amazon founder Jeff Bezos says she and other employees suffered unsafe…

By GENE JOHNSON Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) — A divided Washington Supreme Court on Thursday approved a registered sex offender’s application…

By COLLEEN SLEVIN Associated Press DENVER (AP) — A Colorado woman convicted of plotting to kidnap her son from foster care after associating with…

By MAE ANDERSON AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — General Mills and Audi are the latest big advertisers to pause ads on Twitter as questions swirl…

DELPHI, Ind. (AP) — A northern Indiana judge has recused himself from the case of two slain teenage girls. Indiana Supreme Court spokeswoman…

By STEVE KARNOWSKI Associated Press TONKA BAY, Minn. (AP) — Control of state government hangs in the balance in Minnesota, one of the few Midwest…

By FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The crime-fighting arm of the IRS has identified more than $32 billion in funds this past…

By GARY D. ROBERTSON Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina’s health agency is weighing whether to challenge a judge’s order…

By ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration is offering a reward of up to $5 million for information about a…

By LINDSAY WHITEHURST and ALANNA DURKIN RICHER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal prosecutors have rested their case against Oath Keepers…

BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) — A Vermont man charged with killing his wife with a meat cleaver and injuring his mother-in-law five years ago has been found…

By RYAN KRYSKA and MICHAEL BALSAMO Associated Press HOBOKEN, N.J. (AP) — The FBI said Thursday that it had received credible information about a…

By TOM DAVIES Associated Press INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Records show Republican Indiana secretary of state candidate Diego Morales voted in one county…

By ELLIOT SPAGAT Associated Press House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says her husband, Paul Pelosi, was released from the hospital Thursday after his…

LONDON (AP) — A British court has ordered commodities company Glencore to pay more than 280 million pounds for using bribes to bolster its oil…

By MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A Manhattan judge said Thursday he will appoint an independent monitor “to ensure there is…

By DON THOMPSON Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California’s attorney general will not seek criminal charges against Los Angeles…

By SAM METZ Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Family members of a 22-year-old woman whose boyfriend admitted to killing her last year have…

NEW YORK (AP) — George Booth, a prize-winning cartoonist for The New Yorker who with manic affection captured the timeless comedy of dogs and cats…

By HARM VENHUIZEN Associated Press/Report for America MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A top Milwaukee elections official has been fired after sending falsely…

PARIS (AP) — A far-right lawmaker in France has come under criticism after he responded to a Black lawmaker’s question about migrants stranded at…

By RICK CALLAHAN Associated Press INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — An Indianapolis doctor who performed an abortion on a 10-year-old rape victim from Ohio is…

By LOLITA C. BALDOR and TARA COPP Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. and South Korea are jointly warning North Korea that use of any kind…

By CARLA BRIDI Associated Press BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — President Jair Bolsonaro met briefly on Thursday with the envoy coordinating the transfer…

By DAVID BAUDER AP Media Writer NEW YORK (AP) — CNBC is canceling Shepard Smith’s nightly newscast after two years, with its new president…

By BARBARA ORTUTAY AP Technology Writer Elon Musk wants to change how Twitter doles out its checkmark badges for verified accounts. While the “blue…

ROME (AP) — Two weeks after a New York jury sided with Kevin Spacey in a sexual abuse lawsuit, an Italian film museum announced Thursday that the…

By ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden says he hopes Russian President Vladimir Putin will be more willing to…

By KARENA PHAN and ALI SWENSON Associate Press Election experts oppose hand-counting ballots because it takes longer than counting with machines,…

By FRANK BAJAK Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — Top U.S. election security officials say protecting the nation’s voting systems has become…

By LISA MASCARO AP Congressional Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer is predicting that Democrats will keep their…

DOHA, Qatar (AP) — Authorities in Qatar have acknowledged that three firefighters died last week during what officials say was a routine exercise…

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The Minneapolis City Council has unanimously approved a former public safety director from New Jersey as the city’s next…

By BARRY HATTON Associated Press LISBON, Portugal (AP) — Ukraine is counting on more Western technological support as its war against Russia drags…

The Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — Three more people have been killed in the past seven months by Takata air bag inflators that exploded and…

By JEFF AMY Associated Press DAWSON, Ga. (AP) — Someone like Erika Hardwick has come to the door of millions of Georgia voters. A paid canvasser…

By DAVID KLEPPER Associated Press Researchers say nearly 1 in 5 videos suggested by YouTube in response to a search for terms related to next…

By ERIKA KINETZ, OLEKSANDR STASHEVSKYI, VASILISA STEPANENKO Associated Press BUCHA, Ukraine (AP) — The first man arrived at 7:27 a.m. Russian…

By DÁNICA COTO Associated Press SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Hundreds of cats have long slinked through the cobblestone streets of Puerto Rico’s…

PAULINA, La. (AP) — Authorities in southeast Louisiana’s St. James Parish say all but two families have been allowed to return to their homes…

By SEAN MURPHY Associated Press OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt is granting another temporary reprieve to death row inmate Richard…

By THOMAS PEIPERT Associated Press DENVER (AP) — Colorado voters are set to decide whether to decriminalize psychedelic mushrooms for those 21 and…

CAIRO (AP) — The United Nations estimates that four months of sporadic tribal clashes have killed up to 359 people since July in Sudan’s…

By MEGAN JANETSKY Associated Press HAVANA (AP) — Two former beauty queens — Fabiola Valentín of Puerto Rico and former Mariana Valera of…

By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — If it was show time at any of the city’s myriad off-Broadway theaters, audience members…

By MASSIMO di NONNO and COLLEEN BARRY Associated Press ABOARD THE GEO BARENTS (AP) — Humanitarian groups caring for 1,000 rescued migrants aboard…

By MICHAEL TARM AP Legal Affairs Writer CHICAGO (AP) — Chicago police documents obtained by The Associated Press show investigators believe they…

By DAVID McHUGH AP Business Writer FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — The International Energy Agency says Europe could face a severe natural gas shortage…

By The Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iranian protesters and security forces have clashed in a town near the capital, where…

By DENG MACHOL Associated Press JUBA, South Sudan (AP) — A new report says nearly 8 million people in South Sudan, or about two-thirds of the…

By MATTHEW LEE AP Diplomatic Writer MUENSTER, Germany (AP) — Top diplomats from the world’s major industrialized democracies have opened two days…

By TOM KRISHER AP Auto Writer DETROIT (AP) — Stellantis and the U.S. government are warning owners of 276,000 older vehicles to stop driving them…

By SARAH RANKIN Associated Press STAFFORD, Va. (AP) — The race for Virginia’s 7th Congressional District is a nail-biter in the final stretch…

By DAVID BAUDER AP Media Writer NEW YORK (AP) — An urgency in the ringing guitar and thunderous drums that opened the 1985 album “Scarecrow”…

By ERIKA KINETZ, OLEKSANDR STASHEVSKYI and VASILISA STEPANENKO Associated Press BUCHA, Ukraine (AP) — The first man arrived at 7:27 a.m. Russian…

By MATT OTT AP Business Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Applications for jobless benefits fell slightly last week with the U.S. job market remaining…

BERLIN (AP) — The International Committee of the Red Cross says it is seeking support to create what it calls a “digital red cross/red crescent…

By FABIANO MAISONNAVE and JORGE SAENZ Associated Press CARAUARI, Brazil (AP) — Even in the most biodiverse rainforest of the world, the pirarucu,…

MADRID (AP) — Thousands of workers have rallied in Madrid in a protest called by Spain’s labor unions to demand higher wages to offset the higher…

By MUNIR AHMED and RIAZAT BUTT Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — A gunman opened fire at a protest rally in eastern Pakistan on Thursday, slightly…

By DAVIDDE CORRAN and BOBBY CAINA CALVAN Associated Press The nondescript building in Delaware would probably not garner much attention if it…

By HANNA ARHIROVA Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Europe’s largest nuclear power plant is relying on emergency generators to run its safety…

By CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Police in Nigeria say they are searching  for 21 people abducted by gunmen while working…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A prize founded by Britain’s Prince William to honor groundbreaking environmental solutions will broadcast its second ceremony…

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — A court in Amsterdam has ruled that the trial of the alleged shooter and getaway driver in the slaying of a prominent…

By NEAL MORTON, The Hechinger Report MESA, Ariz. (AP) — A teacher-in-training darted among students, tallying how many needed his help with a…

By DÉBORA REY Associated Press BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — In the middle of the concrete jungle that is Argentina’s bustling capital, a…

BERLIN (AP) — German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has told leaders of six Balkan countries that aspire to join the European Union that “it is high time…

By DENISE LAVOIE and SARAH RANKIN Associated Press RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Virginians have used a tip line that Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin set up…

TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — A German member of the European Parliament says a visit by his country’s chancellor to China has stirred major…

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greece’s coast guard says at least five children are among the 22 people confirmed dead in the sinking of a sailing…