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By MATT OTT AP Business Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Fewer Americans applied for jobless aid last week with the number of Americans collecting…

By DEEPA BHARATH of The Associated Press and ADELLE BANKS of Religion News Service Associated Press About two years ago, when coronavirus cases began…

By LLAZAR SEMINI Associated Press TIRANA, Albania (AP) — An official funeral ceremony has been held in Albania for former President Bujar Nishani,…

By SEAN MURPHY, JILL BLEED and KATHLEEN FOODY Associated Press A gunman who killed his surgeon and three other people at a Tulsa medical office…

MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Philippine troops have killed a suspected militant and captured another after a brief gunbattle with rebels aligned with…

By EMILY WANG FUJIYAMA Associated Press SHANGHAI (AP) — Shanghai’s landmark old city garden has sprung back to life as residents took…

By JESSICA GRESKO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — John Hinckley Jr., who shot President Ronald Reagan in 1981, is saying thank you to the people…

Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The OPEC oil cartel and allied producing countries including Russia will raise production by 648,000 barrels per day…

BERLIN (AP) — German lawmakers say the country’s parliament will set up a commission of inquiry into last year’s evacuation mission from…

By NOHA ELHENNAWY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — The United Nations says that Yemen’s warring parties have agreed to renew a nationwide truce for…

By JOHN LEICESTER and ELENA BECATOROS Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian forces in the country’s east are locked in a grinding…

NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — Cypriot police say a 24 year-old Syrian man believed to be among 43 other Syrian migrants who reached Cyprus aboard two…

BERLIN (AP) — Authorities in Bavaria say they’re releasing all previously unpublished files on the attack at the 1972 Munich Olympics…

GENEVA (AP) — Dozens of mostly Western countries have criticized North Korea’s weapons programs as its government takes over the rotating…

By CIARÁN GILES Associated Press Madrid (AP) — Spain’s armed forces have fired an army captain after a video was posted on social media showing…

By GRANT PECK Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — The United Nations’ humanitarian relief agency says the number of people displaced within…

By AIJAZ HUSSAIN Associated Press SRINAGAR, India (AP) — Assailants have fatally shot a Hindu bank manager and a worker from India in…

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkey’s state-run news agency says Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu has sent a letter to the United Nations…

By JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — China’s government has accused Washington of jeopardizing peace after U.S. envoys began trade…

By DANICA KIRKA and JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Queen Elizabeth II stepped gingerly onto the Buckingham Palace balcony Thursday,…

By VANESSA GERA Associated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — The independence of Poland’s courts is at the heart of a dispute with the European…

By ABDUL KHALIQ Associated Press WASHIR, Afghanistan (AP) — Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers have begun a campaign to eradicate poppy cultivation,…

By SAMY MAGDY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — For many Libyans, clashes that erupted in the capital of Tripoli last month were all too familiar — a…

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Asian shares rose Friday amid mixed signs for investors such as rising energy prices and COVID-19…

By JOSEPH KRAUSS Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli forces have shot and killed two Palestinians in the occupied West Bank during what the…

By NICK PERRY Associated Press WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Australia and China are continuing their tit-for-tat diplomatic rivalry in the…

By JADE LE DELEY Associated Press PARIS (AP) — Across France, more than 300 people have reported being pricked out of the blue with needles at…

By MICHAEL R. BLOOD AP Political Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — California is a heavily Democratic state, but the Republican Party retains pockets of…

By BARBARA ORTUTAY Associated Press An 18-year-old was undergoing treatment for an eating disorder when she learned she was pregnant, already in the…

By CHRIS MEGERIAN and COLLIN BINKLEY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — As college graduates wait to see whether President Joe Biden will wipe out…

By DENISE LAVOIE AP Legal Affairs Writer FAIRFAX, Va. (AP) — A jury’s finding that both Johnny Depp and Amber Heard were defamed during their…

By STEVE McMORRAN AP Sports Writer WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — New Zealand Rugby has been given approval to sign a ground-breaking deal with…

CHICAGO (AP) — A Chicago police officer has been hospitalized in critical condition after she was shot on the city’s South Side. In a news…

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — The California Highway Patrol has agreed to pay nearly $4 million to settle a lawsuit that said the agency was…

By YURI KAGEYAMA Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Shuntaro Tanikawa used to think poems descended like an inspiration from the heavens. At 90, he sees…

By CHRISTINA LARSON AP Science Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — China’s carbon emissions have dipped notably over the past three quarters — but…

By BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — The presiding justice of the California appeals court in Sacramento has retired as part of a…

By KATHLEEN FOODY and CAROLYN THOMPSON Associated Press Doors – both the one the gunman entered and the one police did not open for over an hour…

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — A $5,000 reward has been given to a person who provided help in capturing an inmate who sparked a nationwide manhunt after…

By DAVID PORTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The police agency that patrols New York City’s main bus terminal has agreed to stop sending…

By WILSON RING Associated Press MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) — Federal prosecutors say a conspiracy that resulted in the murder of a Vermont man grew out…

BALTIMORE (AP) — Baltimore is suing one of the country’s largest manufacturers of “ghost gun” kits. Mayor Brandon Scott announced the…

By AAMER MADHANI and ELLEN KNICKMEYER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is leaning towards making a visit to Saudi Arabia —…

WOODSTOCK, Ill. (AP) — A judge has ruled that a suburban Chicago woman who pleaded guilty in her 5-year-old son’s beating death cannot challenge…

By COLLIN BINKLEY AP Education Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Hundreds of thousands of students who attended the for-profit Corinthian Colleges chain…

By R.J. RICO Associated Press As a public figure, Johnny Depp faced a high bar to win his libel lawsuit against his ex-wife Amber Heard. According to…

By DAVID BAUDER AP Media Writer NEW YORK (AP) — There’s no mystery about how millions of fans of Netflix’s sci-fi drama “Stranger…

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The second of two self-described members of an anti-government extremist group accused in Minnesota of dealing firearm…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United Nations says ahead of Thursday’s expiration of a two-month truce in Yemen…

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — A judge in Puerto Rico has found sufficient evidence to order the arrest of the mayor and finance director of one of…

By JONATHAN MATTISE Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A contractor involved in cleaning up the nation’s worst coal ash spill says…

POLK CITY, Fla. (AP) — Professional golfer Bart Bryant was killed and his wife was injured when a truck slammed into their SUV while they were…

The Associated Press U.S. Interior Secretary Deb Haaland has tested positive for COVID-19 and has mild symptoms. The Interior Department says Haaland…

By MARYCLAIRE DALE Associated Press PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A veteran Philadelphia homicide detective has been convicted of sexually assaulting or…

By LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A ban on transgender athletes playing on girls’ sports teams is being challenged in…

By LAURAN NEERGAARD AP Medical Writer In a novel experiment, a woman with advanced pancreatic cancer saw her tumors dramatically shrink after…

By MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Anger over Russia’s invasion of Ukraine turned bloody in a Brooklyn karaoke bar. Prosecutors…

PRAGUE (AP) — A fire at a nursing home in the Czech Republic that takes care of people suffering from Alzheimer disease has injured more than 50.…

By STEVE REED AP Sports Writer SOUTHERN PINES, N.C. (AP) — Dottie Pepper recalls being paired with Meg Mallon for the final round of the 1991 U.S.…

By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer NEW YORK (AP) — With London’s stages closed for much of the pandemic, Mark Rylance — one of the theater’s most…

By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A former product manager at an online marketplace has been arrested in what federal…

By MIKE CATALINI Associated Press TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — Roughly two dozen New Jersey residents are demanding federal officials speed up and improve…

By MARK PRATT Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — A civil rights group says workers at a McDonald’s restaurant in Massachusetts intentionally put…

By BARBARA ORTUTAY and MICHAEL LIEDTKE AP Technology Writers SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Sheryl Sandberg, the No. 2 executive at Facebook owner Meta, who…

By ROB GILLIES Associated Press TORONTO (AP) — Indigenous leaders have met with Canadian bishops and were told that Pope Francis won’t add…

By JIM MUSTIAN and JAKE BLEIBERG Associated Press Gov. John Bel Edwards agreed on Wednesday to a request from Louisiana lawmakers that he and his top…

By SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin Democratic Gov. Tony Evers says that if he loses reelection in November, Republicans…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — The head of Mexico’s Navy has admitted that the country’s Caribbean coast is facing an atypical problem with a kind…

By TOM KRISHER AP Auto Writer DETROIT (AP) — Ford’s chief executive says the global auto industry is headed for a huge price war in the coming…

By ANDREW DeMILLO Associated Press LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — The gunmen in two of the nation’s most recent mass shootings legally bought the…

SALEM, Ind. (AP) — A young boy found dead inside a suitcase in a heavily wooded area of southern Indiana was laid to rest Wednesday following a…

LJUBLJANA, Slovenia (AP) — Slovenia’s parliament has voted into office a new, center-left government, replacing a right-wing one that had pushed…

TULSA, Okla. (AP) — President Joe Biden marked the 101st anniversary of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, saying “hell was unleashed” when a white…

By MARGERY A. BECK Associated Press OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A federal judge has thrown out a lawsuit against prosecutors filed by the family of a white…

By ANTHONY IZAGUIRRE Associated Press TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Reproductive health providers have sued Florida over a new law banning abortions…

LARGO, Fla. (AP) — A Florida man has been identified after authorities say he waded into a lake inhabited by alligators to find Frisbees and other…

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The Texas primary runoff between Democratic U.S. Rep. Henry Cuellar and his progressive challenger, Jessica Cisneros, was too…

FAIRFAX, Va. (AP) — After a six-week trial, a civil jury in Virginia spent about 12 hours over three days deliberating defamation claims by Johnny…

PESCADERO, Calif. (AP) — Authorities say a quick-thinking custodian safely confined a mountain lion in an empty classroom after it entered a…

By CHRISTINA LARSON AP Science Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Scientists have discovered the world’s largest plant off the Australia coast — a…

By CAROLYN THOMPSON Associated Press BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — The white man accused of killing 10 Black people in a racist attack on a Buffalo…

BRUSSELS (AP) — European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen says Croatia is ready to join the group of countries using the euro single…

By CURT ANDERSON Associated Press ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — U.S. wildlife officials have agreed to revise the critical habitat designation for…

By MARIA CHENG Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The World Health Organization assumes the coronavirus outbreak in North Korea is “getting worse,…