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HINESBURG, Vt. (AP) — A Vermont family’s chicken is back home after hitching a ride last month in the undercarriage of their pickup truck and…

By MOGOMOTSI MAGOME Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — According to a health official in South Africa, methanol was found in the blood of the 21…

By KEN RITTER and FELICIA FONSECA Associated Press BOULDER CITY, Nev. (AP) — A transformer exploded at Hoover Dam, producing a thick cloud of black…

By ADAM BEAM Associated Press SACRAMENTO, California (AP) — Individual health insurance rates are going up across the country. The coronavirus…

By KAREN MATTHEWS and MICHELLE L. PRICE Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Former New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio is dropping out of the crowded…

By JOHN RABY Associated Press CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — West Virginia’s attorney general has asked a court to stay a ruling that struck down a…

By ASHRAF KHALIL Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal prosecutors have called their first witness to the stand and have begun building their…

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The Academy of Country Music Awards is heading to Texas next year as they continue their live-streaming partnership with…

By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS and LEAH WILLINGHAM Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The Mississippi abortion clinic that was at the center of the…

By TOM FOREMAN Jr. Associated Press WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (AP) — A settlement between the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and journalist…

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — A female lion was fatally injured while being introduced to a newly acquired male companion at the Birmingham Zoo in…

By SYLVIA HUI Associated Press LONDON (AP) — A lawsuit against the British government says officials at the U.K.’s Foreign Office had…

By GERALD IMRAY AP Sports Writer CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — Champion runner Caster Semenya heads into this year’s world championships…

By TOM KRISHER AP Auto Writer WARREN, Mich. (AP) — In their first rollouts of electric vehicles, America’s automakers targeted people who value…

By EMILY ROSE Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel’s new prime minister has made an unannounced visit to the border with Lebanon. Yair Lapid…

By DARLENE SUPERVILLE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Jill Biden and Olena Zelenska, the first lady of Ukraine, have met again, this time at the…

By SEUNG MIN KIM, CHRIS MEGERIAN and MATTHEW DALY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden will travel to Massachusetts on Wednesday…

MADRID (AP) — A new law in Spain requiring an explicit expression of consent in sexual relations won’t take effect just yet after the country’s…

By RAF CASERT Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union is set to propose energy cuts and savings as the 27-nation bloc expects Russian…

By MARK STEVENSON Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — The capture of fugitive drug lord Rafael Caro Quintero was hailed by U.S. authorities as an…

By MATT O’BRIEN AP Technology Reporter Tesla CEO Elon Musk lost his fight to delay Twitter’s lawsuit against him as a Delaware judge on…

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — A federal trial has been delayed for an Arkansas man who was photographed with his feet on a desk in House Speaker Nancy…

LONDON (AP) — British officials have bought another 100,000 doses of vaccine to stop monkeypox as the number of cases across the country has risen…

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A former lottery computer technician convicted in a scheme to rig computers to win jackpots for himself, friends and family…

By HALELUYA HADERO AP Business Writer Amazon has filed a lawsuit against administrators of more than 10,000 Facebook groups it accuses of…

By JUSTIN SPIKE Associated Press BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Lawmakers in Hungary have passed a resolution that calls for curbing the power of the…

By SAMY MAGDY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — A Sudanese official says the death toll from days of tribal clashes that have rocked a southern…

RABAT, Morocco (AP) — Nearly three dozen migrants were sentenced to jail time in Morocco on Tuesday for attempting to scale a border wall last…

By FRANK BAJAK AP Technology Writer BOSTON (AP) — A popular Chinese-made automotive GPS tracker used in 169 countries has severe software…

By TERRY SPENCER Associated Press FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Jurors in the penalty trial of Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz viewed graphic…

By FARNOUSH AMIRI and MARY CLARE JALONICK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The chairman of the House Jan. 6 committee has tested positive for…

By MARK STEVENSON Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — The Mexican government has invoked national security powers to forge ahead with a tourist…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japanese authorities have obtained court approval to extend the detention of the suspect in former…

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Ukraine has become an association country of the International Energy Agency. Both stressed Tuesday that closer cooperation…

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — A top administrative court has ruled that Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s decision to pull Turkey out of a key…

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel’s military says its aircraft struck a post of the militant Hamas group in the Gaza Strip in response to a gunshot…

By LEAH WILLINGHAM Associated Press CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — West Virginia’s only abortion clinic has resumed scheduling patients for abortions…

By ERIC TUCKER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The FBI and Justice Department recently disrupted the activities of a hacking group that was…

By TERRY WALLACE and KEN MILLER Associated Press A North Texas wildfire continued to grow Tuesday amid sweltering temperatures and dry conditions…

By RANDALL CHASE AP Business Writer DOVER, Del. (AP) — Elon Musk’s attempt to delay a lawsuit filed against him by Twitter after he tried to walk…

By MOGOMOTSI MAGOME Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — The toxic chemical methanol has been identified as a possible cause of the deaths of 21…

By FRANCES D’EMILIO Associated Press ROME (AP) — Italy’s art squad police say they have thwarted the potential illegal sale by a Vienna…

By DARLENE SUPERVILLE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Jill Biden and Education Secretary Miguel Cardona are kicking off a summer learning tour…

By KAREEM CHEHAYEB Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanese security forces, accompanied by an investigative judge, have raided the country’s…

By COREY WILLIAMS Associated Press A study says that a nearly 80-year-old law intended to put distressed and tax-delinquent Chicago-area properties…

By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press ROME (AP) — The Vatican has centralized and overhauled its investment strategy after a botched deal lost tens…

By BOB EDME and JOHN LEICESTER Associated Press LA TESTE-DE-BUCH, France (AP) — Investigators probing the suspected deliberate lighting of what has…

By MELISSA LAMBARENA of NerdWallet When inflation has you on a tight budget, a credit card may seem like an easy option to stay afloat. Without a…

By DON BABWIN Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — Emmett Till left his mother’s house on Chicago’s South Side in 1955 to visit relatives in…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The fractious race to replace Boris Johnson as Britain’s prime minister has narrowed. Three…

BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union’s executive arm has proposed earmarking 500 million euros for joint defense procurement in the wake of the…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s foreign minister says he expects South Korea to take appropriate steps toward resolving…

By SUSIE BLANN Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian missiles have struck cities and villages in eastern and southern Ukraine as Russian…

LONDON (AP) — The World Health Organization says coronavirus cases have tripled across Europe in the past six weeks, accounting for nearly half of…

By THALIA BEATY Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) — Dominique Davis was inside a Seattle-area church one day in March 2021 when a man with a handgun…

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran’s judiciary has ordered one of the country’s leading filmmakers to serve out a six-year prison sentence…

By WANJOHI KABUKURU Associated Press MOMBASA, Kenya (AP) — Officials are meeting in Kigali in Rwanda this week as part of the continent’s…

NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — A government official says the president of Cyprus  has tested positive for the coronavirus. President Nicos Anastasiades…

By DAVID KOENIG and KELVIN CHAN Associated Press FARNBOROUGH, England (AP) — Airplanes are a minor contributor to global greenhouse-gas emissions,…

By FRANCES D’EMILIO Associated Press ROME (AP) — Italy has had dozens of governments since the end of World War II. The  country is very…

MULTAN, Pakistan (AP) — Officials say Pakistani rescuers have resumed a search for 29 people who were missing after a passenger boat carrying…

By DAVID KOENIG and KELVIN CHAN Associated Press FARNBOROUGH, England (AP) — Airplanes are a minor contributor to global greenhouse-gas emissions,…

BANGKOK (AP) — Scattered pro-democracy rallies have taken place across military-ruled Myanmar to mark the 75th anniversary of the assassination of…

ISLAMABAD (AP) — The Taliban says at least 31 people have been injured after an earthquake shook a remote area of eastern Afghanistan. Abdul Wahid…

STOCKHOLM (AP) — Scandinavian Airlines pilots in Sweden, Norway and Denmark have called off a strike that ran for 15 days and caused major…

By DANICA KIRKA and JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Britain shattered its record for highest temperature ever registered Tuesday amid a…

CAIRO (AP) — A passenger bus slammed into a parked trailer truck on a highway in southern Egypt early on Tuesday, killing 23 people and injuring at…

JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Rescuers are searching for 13 passengers from a boat that sank in bad weather and high waves while traveling between…

By ACHMAD IBRAHIM and NINIEK KARMINI Associated Press BOGOR, Indonesia (AP) — East Timor’s President Jose Ramos-Horta says he hopes Asia’s…

By CHALIDA EKVITTHAYAVECHNUKUL Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — Thai lawmakers began debating on a final no-confidence debate targeting Prime…

By RAF CASERT Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union has started membership negotiations with Albania and North Macedonia. The step in…

BEIJING (AP) — A gas explosion after a partial building collapse in the northern Chinese port city of Tianjin has left three people missing and 11…

By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer BANGKOK (AP) — Asian shares advanced Wednesday after Wall Street rallied to its best day in more than three…

By ISABEL DEBRE Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — It began with a message that appeared on Danah al-Mayouf’s phone from an…

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — A five-year report says Australia’s environment continues to deteriorate due to…

BEIJING (AP) — Authorities in southern China have apologized for breaking into the homes of people who had been taken to a quarantine hotel in the…

By NASSER KARIMI and VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV Associated Press TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin won staunch support from Iran on…

By GREG BEACHAM AP Sports Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Juan Soto bet heavily on his own talent and health by turning down a massive, long-term…

By KRISHAN FRANCIS Associated Press COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lanka’s prime minister and acting president Ranil Wickremesinghe faces two…

By HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH Associated Press Freddy Fernandez almost wasn’t here, on his couch in his Missouri home, his baby on his lap, gnawing on…

By LISA MASCARO AP Congressional Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. House overwhelmingly approved legislation Tuesday to protect same-sex and…

By BRIAN WITTE Associated Press ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — Dan Cox, a far-right state legislator endorsed by former President Donald Trump, won the…

By ALAN FRAM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrats will push ahead on restraining pharmaceutical prices and extending health insurance…

By ANNIE MA New research shows students largely made academic gains this past year that paralleled their growth pre-pandemic and outpaced the…

MANILA, Philippines (AP) — The East Asia Super League has started production on a reality TV series covering the inaugural season of the…

JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — An Indonesian military jet crashed on a nighttime training mission on the main island of Java, killing its pilot. The…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Investigators said another autopsy of a young woman whose mysterious death shocked Mexico has shown that she died of asphyxia by…

By KRUTIKA PATHI and BHARATHA MALLAWARACHI Associated Press COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — A day after Sri Lanka’s president fled, Mohamed Ishad…

By FARNOUSH AMIRI and MARY CLARE JALONICK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Two former White House aides are expected to testify at the House Jan.…

By BRUCE SCHREINER Associated Press LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — U.S. Sen. Rand Paul is accusing Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell of cutting a…

By STEFANIE DAZIO Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Thieves broke into an unattended Brink’s tractor-trailer parked at a remote Southern…

By ANDREA RODRÍGUEZ Associated Press HAVANA (AP) — The young people come and go on their electric motorcycles at this highway outside Cuba’s…

Associated Press QUITO, Ecuador (AP) — Officials say a riot in an Ecuadorian prison has left at least 13 inmates dead, more than two months after a…

By LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press A total of 376 officers converged on Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas — more than the entire police…

By BEN FINLEY Associated Press Archaeologists in Virginia have begun excavating three suspected graves at the original site of one of the nation’s…

By JIM VERTUNO Associated Press A massive but uncoordinated and chaotic law enforcement response. A “regrettable” culture of noncompliance on…