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By JAN M. OLSEN Associated Press COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — A concrete obelisk topped by Soviet stars that was the centerpiece of a monument…

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — An Iranian news agency says that in a rare move, authorities have allowed women to attend a soccer game at the Tehran Azadi…

PARIS (AP) — EU lawmakers have a new reason to be annoyed with Britain: British sewage overflows seeping into the English Channel and North Sea.…

By ANDREA RODRÍGUEZ Associated Press HAVANA (AP) — A package of 63 reforms approved last year was meant to make it easier and more profitable for…

By EMILY ROSE Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — The Israeli military says it has filed terror charges against a senior member of the Islamic Jihad…

By KAT STAFFORD Associated Press The Movement for Black Lives is launching a new climate change initiative Thursday, uniting more than 200 Black…

By HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Anticipation for one of the fall’s likeliest bestsellers has been growing all year. For…

By KATHLEEN RONAYNE Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California set itself on a path Thursday to end the era of gas-powered cars, with…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — The operator of the wrecked Fukushima nuclear power plant says it is postponing the start of the…

ROME (AP) — Italy’s worst drought in 70 years has exposed the piers of an ancient bridge over the Tiber River once used by Roman emperors but…

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The school board and union representing teachers and other employees in Ohio’s largest school district say they have…

MOSCOW (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered the Russian military to increase the number of troops by 137,000 to a total of 1.15…

By HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Anticipation for one of the fall’s likeliest bestsellers has been growing all year. For…

By PAUL WISEMAN AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. economy shrank at a 0.6% annual rate from April through June, the government said in…

By MAE ANDERSON AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Fewer Americans filed for unemployment benefits last week as the labor market continues to stand…

By KIRSTEN GRIESHABER Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — A group that represents cultural organizations in Germany has criticized climate activists for…

By THALIA BEATY Associated Press LANCASTER, Ca. (AP) — Billionaire philanthropist MacKenzie Scott donated $44 million to the Oregon-based mentoring…

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s government says authorities in neighboring Belarus are leveling a memorial site containing the graves of Polish…

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — The president of a local NAACP branch in Florida has resigned, saying that as a South Asian woman she was racially…

ISLAMABAD (AP) — Heavy flooding from seasonal rains in different parts of Afghanistan have left hundreds of people dead in the past month. The…

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Saudi Arabia will grant visas to those holding tickets to the World Cup in neighboring Qatar. The Saudi Foreign…

GENEVA (AP) — The number of monkeypox cases reported globally dropped 21% in the last week, reversing a month-long trend of rising infections. That…

By KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea has signed a $2.25 billion contract with a Russian state-run nuclear…

BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s top court has dismissed appeals in the killing of a regional politician who had advocated helping refugees. The Federal…

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — U.S. Deputy Special Envoy for Climate Rick Duke says Russia’s invasion of Ukraine will…

BANGKOK (AP) — Independent Myanmar media say a former British ambassador to Myanmar who now heads a business ethics advisory group has been…

By DEREK GATOPOULOS and HANNA ARHIROVA Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered a major buildup of his…

By DAVID RISING and GRANT PECK Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — Thailand has entered a phase of political uncertainty, with its prime minister…

By SYLVIA HUI Associated Press LONDON (AP) — A cost-of-living crisis in Britain is about to get worse. Millions of people will pay about 80% more a…

By JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press GENEVA (AP) — The outgoing U.N. human rights chief has suggested her office won’t make good on her promise to…

SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) — Bulgaria’s interior ministry says two police officers were killed as they tried to stop a bus containing migrants who…

By MUNIR AHMED Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — A Pakistani court has barred police from arresting the country’s former prime minister until…

By JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — Asian stock markets followed Wall Street higher on Friday ahead of a speech by the Federal…

By RENATA BRITO Associated Press BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — More than a year after the Taliban takeover that saw thousands of Afghans rushing to…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The moving vans have already started arriving at Downing Street as Britain’s Conservative Party…

By FRANK JORDANS and HANNA ARHIROVA Associated Press NIKOPOL, Ukraine (AP) — The Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in the middle of the fighting in…

By ISABEL DEBRE Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — From Mustafa Moeen’s spot behind the counter, he sees the many faces of…

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Legendary Vietnam War photographer, writer and counter-culture documenter Tim Page has…

ROME (AP) — The head of the Russian Orthodox Church has reportedly canceled his planned attendance at an interfaith meeting in Kazakhstan next…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s national police chief said Thursday he will resign to take responsibility over the…

By JULHAS ALAM Associated Press DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — Hundreds of thousands of Rohingya refugees are marking the fifth anniversary of their…

CHONGQING, China (AP) — The city of Chongqing is known for both soaring temperatures and spicy cuisine, notably its hotpot: a peppery bubbling…

By MARC LEVY Associated Press HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — If Dr. Mehmet Oz is elected to the U.S. Senate this fall, he’ll be the first Muslim ever…

By ZEKE MILLER and AAMER MADHANI Associated Press ROCKVILLE, Md. (AP) — President Joe Biden is calling on Democrats “to vote to literally save…

By EILEEN NG Associated Press KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Jailed Malaysian ex-Prime Minister Najib Razak has returned to court for a second…

By JULIET LINDERMAN and MARTHA MENDOZA Associated Press BALTIMORE (AP) — On a hot, humid East Coast day this summer, a massive container ship…

By JULIET LINDERMAN and MARTHA MENDOZA Associated Press BALTIMORE (AP) — On a hot, humid East Coast day this summer, a massive container ship…

By MARCY GORDON AP Business Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. lawmakers are anxious to hear from Twitter’s former security chief, who has alarmed…

By JIM GOMEZ Associated Press MANILA, Philippines (AP) — About 100 inmates in an overcrowded jail have climbed atop the roof of a prison building…

MARÍA VERZA MEXICO CITY (AP) — A judge in Mexico has ruled that the former attorney general who oversaw the original investigation into the 2014…

RAFAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Dozens of Islamic Jihad militants have displayed life-sized replicas of their rockets during a parade in the Gaza Strip.…

By KATIE TAM Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — Tropical Storm Ma-on has made landfall in southern China’s Guangdong province after bringing rain…

By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A conservative federal appeals court has upheld Mississippi’s removal of…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United Nations chief is calling on Myanmar’s military-installed government to…

By ANDREW DALTON Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Kobe Bryant’s widow was awarded $16 million as part of a $31 million jury verdict Wednesday…

WAUKEGAN, Ill. (AP) — A suburban Chicago police department says one of its officers fatally shot a man who was advancing toward him armed with a…

GULFPORT, Miss. (AP) — A subsidiary of insurance giant State Farm has agreed to pay the federal government $100 million in restitution over its…

NEW YORK (AP) — New York’s highest court has agreed to hear an appeal from Harvey Weinstein over his 2020 rape conviction. A spokesman for the…

By DON BABWIN and CLAIRE SAVAGE Associated Press/Report for America CHICAGO (AP) — Authorities say three juveniles and one adult have been shot…

By MICHAEL TARM AP Legal Affairs Writer CHICAGO (AP) — Defense lawyers at R. Kelly’s child pornography trial in Chicago have sought to portray a…

By KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea says it found four new fever cases in its border region with China that…

By DON THOMPSON Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Sephora Inc. has settled a lawsuit claiming the company sold customer information…

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden has named Kim Cheatle, a veteran Secret Service official, as the agency’s next director. Her appointment…

By LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon says U.S. military airstrikes in eastern Syria were a message to Iran and…

By DENISE LAVOIE AP Legal Affairs Writer RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A federal ruling that gender dysphoria is covered by the Americans with Disabilities…

By ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Justice Department officials who evaluated then-President Donald Trump’s actions during the…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Ukraine’s president says that “the world’s future” is being decided by his…

MIDDLETOWN, Pa. (AP) — A Pennsylvania school district has announced it’s canceling its high school’s football season while it…

ASHEVILLE, N.C. (AP) — A federal judge has indicated that the case of a transgender inmate suing North Carolina for gender affirming medical care…

By DOUG FERGUSON AP Golf Writer ATLANTA (AP) — Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy are bringing their own version of team golf to the PGA Tour. Woods and…

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Heavy rain and flash floods drenched Mississippi, prompting rescue operations, closures and evacuations Wednesday including…

By MATTHEW DALY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — An internal watchdog says former Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke lied to investigators about…

By JOHN FLESHER Associated Press TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) — The conviction of two men for conspiring to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer…

By STEPHEN GROVES Associated Press SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — A South Dakota ethics board’s finding that Gov. Kristi Noem may have engaged in…

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A man hired last spring to carry out what appeared to be an active shooting at an Omaha, Nebraska, charity — complete with…

BALTIMORE (AP) — A federal prosecutor says a Texas man has been sentenced to six months in federal prison for threatening a Maryland doctor who has…

By FRANK JORDANS Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Germany says it will keep exporting electricity to neighboring France despite calling on citizens…

By COLLEEN SLEVIN Associated Press DENVER (AP) — A law firm that helped defend Ghislaine Maxwell, the socialite convicted of helping financier…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Police say two people have been killed and three others are injured in a shooting in front of a senior citizens center and near…

NEW YORK (AP) — Ani Di Franco has some life thoughts to share — for kids. Rise x Penguin Workshop, an imprint of Penguin Young Readers, announced…

By SAMANTHA HENDRICKSON Associated Press/Report for America COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A strike by teachers in Ohio’s largest school district is…

By MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Years late and billions over budget, NASA’s new moon rocket makes its debut next…

By JIM VERTUNO Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The Texas judge presiding over the trial of the woman accused of killing pro cyclist Anna…

By DÁNICA COTO Associated Press SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Persistent power outages and threats from Puerto Rico’s government have prompted a…

By HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — A top jazz producer and label owner and early producer of bossa nova has died. Creed Taylor was…

By DAVID KLEPPER Associated Press Soon after the Russian invasion, the hoaxes began. Ukrainian refugees were taking jobs, committing crimes and…