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By The Associated Press Here’s a collection curated by The Associated Press’ entertainment journalists of what’s arriving on TV, streaming…

By LEANNE ITALIE Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Sex toys and shoes? Try, sex toys IN shoes. A little streetwear label has partnered with a giant…

By FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A high-ranking representative from the Biden administration is set next week to make his first…

MOSCOW (AP) — Russia’s state-owned energy company Gazprom says a key pipeline conveying natural gas to Europe will shut down for three days at…

STOCKHOLM (AP) — Swedish police say two people have been wounded in a shooting at a shopping center in the southern city of Malmo. A suspected was…

Firefighters in Algeria have extinguished all but one of over 50 wildfires that ravaged the country this week, leaving at least 37 people dead and…

By KATE BRUMBACK Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — A judge has declined to block a section of a Georgia election law that bans handing out food and…

PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistani police say a remotely detonated roadside bomb killed two policemen in a former militant stronghold in the…

By MATTHEW BARAKAT Associated Press ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) — British national El Shafee Elsheikh was sentenced to life in prison Friday for his role…

By MEG KINNARD Associated Press The Justice Department under Attorney General William Barr improperly withheld portions of an internal memorandum…

By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press ROME (AP) — The Vatican cardinal accused in a class-action lawsuit in Canada of sexual assault against a woman…

By JOEY CAPPELLETTI Associated Press/Report for America LANSING, Mich. (AP) — A Michigan judge on Friday blocked county prosecutors from enforcing…

By BRADY McCOMBS and SAM METZ Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Transgender girls in Utah will be given the opportunity to participate in…

By JEFFREY COLLINS Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A disbarred South Carolina attorney charged with killing his wife and son has been…

By JAMES MacPHERSON and DAVE KOLPACK Associated Press BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — Lawyers for North Dakota’s lone abortion clinic that two weeks ago…

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Federal health officials confirmed Friday that a Nebraska child died from a rare infection caused by a brain-eating amoeba after…

By ED WHITE Associated Press Defense lawyers have rested their case in the trial of two men charged with conspiring to kidnap Michigan’s…

COPENHAGEN. Denmark (AP) — Finland’s Prime Minister Sanna Marin has taken a drug test “for her own legal protection” after a video was leaked…

By LOLITA C. BALDOR and MATTHEW LEE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. says it will give Ukraine 15 Scan Eagle surveillance drones, 40…

MANCHESTER, England (AP) — Manchester United coaching great Alex Ferguson has been called as a character witness for Ryan Giggs in a court case…

ATLANTA (AP) — A man who opened fire after being robbed outside a mall has been convicted of murder in the fatal shooting of a 7-year-old girl.…

LONDON (AP) — A smaller dose of the monkeypox vaccine appears to still be effective and can be used to stretch the current supply by five times,…

By SYLVIA HUI Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Public health leaders are appealing to Britain’s government to urgently tackle soaring energy…

MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. (AP) — Two swimmers have survived shark attacks this week at South Carolina’s most popular beach. Police say both were bitten…

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greek authorities have raised to 71 the number of migrants who had been aboard a sailboat that reached the southern island of…

By GABRIELA SELSER and CHRISTOPHER SHERMAN Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — Nicaraguan police on Friday raided the residence of a Roman Catholic…

By MICHAEL HILL Associated Press The word is out in New York City and beyond. If you see a spotted lanternfly, stomp it. Kill-on-sight requests in…

BERLIN (AP) — German Chancellor Olaf Scholz appeared Friday before a parliamentary panel in the northern state of Hamburg to answer lawmakers’…

By MOGOMOTSI MAGOME Associated Press KWANONGOMA, South Africa (AP) — South Africa’s ethnic Zulu nation will on Saturday host a coronation event…

BEIRUT (AP) — A Syrian opposition war monitor and a paramedic group say a rocket attack on a crowded market in a town held by Turkey-backed…

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Officials in Poland have arrested an 81-year-old Danish woman traveling from Africa to Canada on suspicion of illegal…

By PAUL BYRNE Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — A fire at a munitions depot inside Russia forced the evacuation of two villages near the border…

By JIM GOMEZ Associated Press MANILA, Philippines (AP) — U.S. Sen. Edward Markey, who was once banned from the Philippines by former President…

By ZEKE MILLER AP White House Correspondent WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — President Joe Biden will host a White House summit next month aimed at…

By JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — A court says Chinese-born Canadian tycoon who disappeared from Hong Kong in 2017 has been…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — A strike by London Underground workers brought the British capital’s transit network to a grinding…

BERLIN (AP) — Berlin police have opened a preliminary investigation against Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas over his comments that Israel had…

By EILEEN NG Associated Press KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Former Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad has accused the U.S. of trying to…

By MSTYSLAV CHERNOV and DEREK GATOPOULOS Associated Press ZOLOCHIV, Ukraine (AP) — Dr. Ilona Butova almost looks out of place in her neatly pressed…

By CRISTIAN JARDAN and STEPHEN McGRATH Associated Press CHISINAU, Moldova (AP) — For tiny Moldova, an impoverished, landlocked nation that borders…

By DAVID KLEPPER Associated Press An anti-vaccine group that has harassed doctors and public officials in Italy and France is still active on…

By DAMIAN J. TROISE and ALEX VEIGA AP Business Writers Wall Street capped a choppy week of trading Friday with a broad slide for stocks that left the…

By JOHN FLESHER AP Environmental Writer CASCADE TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) — It’s an increasingly familiar sight in U.S. cities and suburbs: A van…

By MATTHEW LEE AP Diplomatic Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Last week’s attack on author Salman Rushdie and the indictment of an Iranian national in a…

By DAVID KLEPPER Associated Press An anti-vaccine group that has harassed doctors and public officials in Italy and France is still active on…

By SAM METZ and KATHLEEN RONAYNE Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Hydroelectric turbines may stop turning. Las Vegas and Phoenix may be…

By AMANDA SEITZ Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Millions of people in the United States will be spared from big increases in health care costs…

By MICHELLE L. PRICE Associated Press PEEKSKILL, N.Y. (AP) — At a recent rally with union workers and other supporters in the downtown square of…

By BOB CHRISTIE Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — An Arizona judge is considering whether to allow the state to enforce a near-total ban on abortions…

By DAVID RISING Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — China’s response to U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan was anything but…

By MICHAEL TARM AP Legal Affairs Writer CHICAGO (AP) — A woman who says she was sexually abused hundreds of times by R. Kelly as a minor testified…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A California man prosecutors called a serial killer has been convicted of raping and killing two women in the 1980s after…

By DAVE KOLPACK Associated Press FARGO, N.D. (AP) — The school board in North Dakota’s most populous city reversed course Thursday on its…

By TERRY WALLACE and CLAUDIA LAUER Associated Press A Pennsylvania man has been charged with abuse of a corpse, receiving stolen property and other…

NEW YORK (AP) — The newest meme stock on Wall Street, Bed Bath & Beyond, tumbled even further in after-hours trading Thursday after a…

BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — A Republican candidate for Congress in western New York said in an interview that U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland…

By MARÍA VERZA Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — The Truth Commission established to clear up the 2014 disappearances of 43 students in southern…

By GENE JOHNSON The Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) — The Washington Supreme Court says that under state law, it’s OK for judges to award…

Associated Press WATSONVILLE, Calif. (AP) — Two planes collided in Northern California while trying to land at a local airport and at least two of…

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Government health insurance provider Centene Corp. says it no longer plans to create an East Coast campus in Charlotte,…

HUTCHINSON, Kan. (AP) — A former Hutchinson, Kansas, police officer is suspected of committing a series of sexual assaults between 2012 to 2018…

By KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — The sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said her country will never accept South…

ATLANTA (AP) — A Georgia judge has again denied bond for Atlanta rapper Young Thug, one of nearly 30 people charged in a sweeping indictment…

BUENOS AIRES (AP) — Paraguay Vice President Hugo Velázquez Moreno says he will not resign from his post, backtracking on a vow he made last week…

By JUAN A. LOZANO Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — The only remaining legal issue still pending for Cleveland Browns quarterback Deshaun Watson is…

By MAYSOON KHAN Associated Press/Report for America ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Authorities say a prominent New York-based horse trainer whose horse won…

By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — Three men, including a Mafia hitman, have been charged in the 2018 prison killing of…

By JOSH FUNK AP Business Writer OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — The head of the nation’s largest railroad union says recommendations designed to help resolve…

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Apple disclosed serious security vulnerabilities for iPhones, iPads and Macs that could potentially allow attackers to take…

By DANIEL POLITI, ALMUDENA CALATRAVA and LEONARDO LA VALLE BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Opera star Placido Domingo’s name has appeared in…

By JOEY CAPPELLETTI Associated Press/Report for America LANSING, Mich. (AP) — An anti-abortion coalition in Michigan filed a challenge on Thursday…

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Kansas City police say a woman has been jailed after her 2-year-old son was found dead in a home strewn with apparent drugs…

By JOHN FLESHER AP Environmental Writer TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) — A federal judge will stay in charge of a lawsuit that seeks to close a Great…

By BROOKE LEFFERTS and MIKE CIDONI LENNOX Associated Press The prequel to “Game of Thrones’’ is set to forge its own storytelling path, with a…

By BRUCE SCHREINER Associated Press LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Kentucky’s governor is pointing to signs of progress as federal emergency…

By ANDREW SELSKY Associated Press SALEM, Ore. (AP) — The head of Oregon’s public defenders’ office was fired Thursday in a clash over how to…

By FABIANO MAISONNAVE Associated Press RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has removed one of the directors of the…

By ANTHONY IZAGUIRRE Associated Press TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has announced criminal charges against 20 people for…

ATLANTA (AP) — A member of southern rap group Nappy Roots is recovering Thursday after being robbed and kidnapped outside the brewery he co-owns in…

By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer CANNES, France (AP) — George Miller’s “Three Thousand Years of Longing” spans millennia, but it can often feel…

By DAVID KOENIG AP Airlines Writer DALLAS (AP) — Labor unions are pushing U.S. airlines not to buy back their own stock. The unions want the…

WYATT, Mo. (AP) — Authorities say a 3-year-old Missouri girl has died from injuries sustained in a gas explosion that killed her father and hurt…

By MARGARET STAFFORD Associated Press State officials say sports fans should be able to place legal bets in Kansas beginning on Sept. 1. Kansas…

By MARGERY A. BECK and JOSH FUNK Associated Press OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A child likely died from a rare infection caused by a brain-eating amoeba…