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By SCOTT BAUER Associated Press BUTLER, Wis. (AP) — Former Wisconsin Lt. Gov. Rebecca Kleefisch launched her campaign for governor by likening…

CABO SAN LUCAS, Mexico (AP) — Hurricane Olaf is closing in for a strike on the Los Cabos resort region at the tip of Mexico’s Baja California…

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The number of Americans seeking unemployment benefits fell sharply last week to…

By GEIR MOULSON Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Investigators have carried out searches at the German finance and justice ministries in a probe of…

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran’s state TV says Zimbabwe’s ambassador to Tehran has died. The report Thursday did not elaborate on the cause…

AMMAN, Jordan (AP) — A Jordanian court has upheld the convictions of two former senior officials on sedition and other charges connected to an…

By KRISTIN M. HALL AP Entertainment Writer Country stars Chris Stapleton and Eric Church will go toe-to-toe with each other at this year’s…

By CARA ANNA Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Africa’s already thin supply of COVID-19 vaccines has taken another significant hit. The…

By STEVE KARNOWSKI Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar says she has been treated for breast cancer and the treatment…

By ELENA BECATOROS Associated Press ATHENS, Greece (AP) — A year ago on Thursday, Greece’s notoriously squalid refugee camp of Moria on the…

MADRID (AP) — Authorities in southern Spain say one firefighter has died and nearly 1,000 people have been evacuated as a worsening wildfire is…

By PAN PYLAS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — British airline easyJet said it has rejected an unsolicited takeover approach as it announced plans to…

By KAREN MATTHEWS Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Even after two decades, the work to rebuild the World Trade Center complex after its destruction…

By KATHY GANNON Associated Press KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — An estimated 200 foreigners, including Americans, have left Kabul on an international…

ELAINE GANLEY Associated Press PARIS (AP) — France paid tribute Thursday to screen legend Jean-Paul Belmondo, whom President Emmanuel Macron…

ATHENS Thousands of people have turned out on the southern Greek island of Crete to pay their final respects to Greek music great and politician…

By GEIR MOULSON Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Chancellor Angela Merkel says her party is fighting and was always aware that it wouldn’t…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — A key International Atomic Energy Agency official says objective, science-based monitoring is the…

By NINIEK KARMINI Associated Press JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — The foreign minister of Indonesia, the world’s most populous Muslim country, is…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The leader of Northern Ireland’s largest British unionist party says the U.K.’s divorce deal…

By FRANCIS KOKUTSE Associated Press ACCRA, Ghana (AP) — A delegation of West African leaders is to go to Guinea to meet with the junta that toppled…

By VANESSA GERA Associated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s Senate voted has rejected a media bill seen as targeting a U.S.-owned television…

BY DAVID McHUGH AP Business Writer FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — The European Central Bank says it is dialing back some of its massive emergency…

MOSCOW (AP) — Smoke alarms went off at the Russian segment of the International Space Station in the early hours of Thursday, and the crew reported…

By RONALD BLUM AP Sports Writer SAN PEDRO SULA, Honduras (AP) — Antonee Robinson and Ricardo Pepi scored their first international goals after a…

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — The Australian government has confirmed it has refused to allow climate change goals to…

CAIRO (AP) — State-run media reported an apartment building collapsed in a city just outside Egypt’s capital, killing at least three people. The…

BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s foreign minister has arrived in Libya to reopen the country’s embassy in Tripoli. Heiko Maas said Thursday upon his…

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Several Malaysian mothers have won a legal battle for the right to pass their nationality to their children born…

By KONSTANTIN TESTORIDES Associated Press SKOPJE, North Macedonia (AP) — North Macedonia’s government has declared three days of mourning after a…

By TERESA M. WALKER AP Sports Writer NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Eddie George picked a good time for a career change. He’s one of several…

VALDOSTA, Ga. (AP) — Tropical depression Mindy has dumped rain along the Georgia and South Carolina seacoasts during its trek over land and is now…

By FRANK JORDANS, SETH BORENSTEIN and DANIEL COLE Associated Press SAINT-PAUL-LES-DURANCE, France (AP) — Teams working on two continents have…

By The Associated Press UNITED NATIONS — The United Nations development agency says Afghanistan is teetering on the brink of “universal…

By ROBERT BURNS AP National Security Writer KUWAIT CITY (AP) — U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin says the al-Qaida extremist group that used…

By JONATHAN LANDRUM Jr. AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Stevie Wonder will headline Global Citizen Live’s star-studded 24-hour event…

By WILLIAM J. KOLE Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — Both of the hijacked jetliners that slammed into the World Trade Center towers flew out of…

By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer Shares are higher in Asia as investors stepped up buying despite another decline on Wall Street that kept the…

HONG KONG (AP) — A dozen Hong Kong pro-democracy activists have pleaded guilty to participating in an unauthorized candlelight vigil to mark…

By JIM MUSTIAN and JAKE BLEIBERG Associated Press MONROE, La. (AP) — As the Louisiana State Police reel from the deadly 2019 arrest of Ronald…

By DENISE LAVOIE Associated Press RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Crews have halted searching for the day for a time capsule from 1887 believed buried in the…

By JIM MUSTIAN and JAKE BLEIBERG Associated Press MONROE, La. (AP) — As the Louisiana State Police reel from the deadly 2019 arrest of Ronald…

By DAVID KLEPPER Associated Press While the Sept. 11 attacks united much of America in grief and anger, conspiracy theories about what happened that…

By DAVID KLEPPER Associated Press While the Sept. 11 attacks united much of America in grief and anger, conspiracy theories about what happened that…

GAUHATI, India (AP) — Authorities working overnight rescued 82 people after two passenger ferries collided in a river in northeastern India. The…

By ERIC TUCKER, MICHAEL BALSAMO and LISA MASCARO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Law enforcement concerned by the potential for violence at a…

By LINDSAY WHITEHURST and MICHAEL BALSAMO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Foes of the new Texas law that bans most abortions have been looking…

By LEANNE ITALIE Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — New York’s first female governor. American Girl dolls. The Statue of Liberty. Prabal Gurung…

By BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — A lawyer for New York real estate heir Robert Durst says his client is an old, defenseless man…

By LINDSEY TANNER AP Medical Writer Symptoms that persist, recur or begin a month or more after a COVID-19 infection can affect children and teens as…

By DEE-ANN DURBIN AP Business Writer In pre-COVID times, business events like conferences and trade shows routinely attracted more than 1 billion…

By JOCELYN NOVECK AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Sailboats wafted by on the Hudson River and the setting sun sparkled on the water as Proenza…

JOHNSON LAI Associated Press SU’AO, Taiwan (AP) — Taiwan’s president has overseen the commissioning of a new domestically made navy warship…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japan has extended a coronavirus state of emergency in Tokyo and 18 other areas until the end of…

By ROB GILLIES Associated Press TORONTO (AP) — The leaders of Canada’s opposition parties have used the second debate of the campaign to…

SYDNEY (AP) — Australia’s SBS TV has quoted a Taliban spokesperson as saying women’s sports will be banned by his group in Afghanistan. The…

By CEDAR ATTANASIO Associated Press / Report for America SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — An anti-abortion rights billboard along a New Mexico interstate is…

By KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Civil defense forces carrying rifles and health workers wearing gas masks and red…

By JACQUES BILLEAUD Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Lawyers defending the founders of Backpage.com against allegations they knowingly ran ads for…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The new head of the U.N. nuclear test ban treaty organization says his goal is to have…

By ERIC TUCKER, MICHAEL BALSAMO and LISA MASCARO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Law enforcement concerned by the potential for violence at a…

NEW YORK (AP) — A former nurse who co-founded and once ran the cult-like NXIVM group has been sentenced to 3 1/2 years in prison. Nancy Salzman…

By DAVID KOENIG AP Airlines Writer United Airlines says more than half its workers who weren’t vaccinated last month have gotten the shots…

SKOPJE, North Macedonia (AP) — Police and public health officials in North Macedonia say at least 10 people have died and many others injured by a…

By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer The Toronto International Film Festival is uniquely reliant on crowds, which has made its 2021 edition particularly…

WASHINGTON (AP) — A prominent conservative defense attorney whose disappearance from court stalled a slew of U.S. Capitol riot cases says he has…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Four migrant defense groups in Mexico say they have sought court injunctions to block what they call “massive” deportations…

By DÉBORA ÁLVARES and DIANE JEANTET Associated Press BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — The Brazilian Supreme Court’s Chief Justice Luiz Fux has issued a…

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Former Puerto Rican boxer Juan Manuel López has been charged in a domestic violence case and released under…

By DON BABWIN Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — A lawsuit filed six years ago that alleged the Chicago Police Department’s stop-and-frisk policy…

RIVERHEAD, N.Y. (AP) — Authorities say a Suffolk County employee secretly installed dozens of machines in his workplace in a cryptocurrency scheme…

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — U.S. Rep. Darren Soto of Florida says that he recently tested positive for COVID-19 and believes he has only mild symptoms…

By MARCOS ALEMÁN Associated Press SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) — Salvadorans trying to pay for a cup of coffee or receive money sent from…

By JOHN SEEWER Associated Press BERLIN HEIGHTS, Ohio (AP) — One week has gone by since the 20-year war in Afghanistan came to an end. But the harsh…

MIAMI (AP) — A swath of the Florida Panhandle was under a tropical storm warning after Tropical Storm Mindy made landfall Wednesday night.…

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Bob Odenkirk is back shooting “Better Call Saul,” six weeks after a heart attack. Odenkirk tweeted a photo of himself…

By AAMER MADHANI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration has removed 18 people appointed to U.S. military academy boards by…

By DAVID BAUDER AP Media Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Television viewers are ready for some football. Three college games from the opening weekend of the…

By DAVID KLEPPER Associated Press While the Sept. 11 attacks united much of America in grief and anger, conspiracy theories about what happened that…

By LINDSAY WHITEHURST and MICHAEL BALSAMO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Foes of the new Texas law that bans most abortions have been looking…

By ALAN FRAM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Congress’ two top Democrats seem like they’re leaving the door open to ultimately reducing…

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Lawyers for a former Minneapolis City Council member are objecting to new language for a ballot measure on the future of…

By WILSON RING Associated Press MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) — Vermont Gov. Phil Scott says he’s “incredibly disappointed” by the allegations…

By RUSS BYNUM Associated Press SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — Two years after a cargo ship overturned along the Georgia seacoast, the heavy lifting to remove…

LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has won a vote in Parliament for a big tax hike designed to pay for short-term health…

By DAVID BAUDER AP Media Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Former CBS News President Susan Zirinsky has formed a new studio to make documentaries and other…

By JULIET LINDERMAN and CLAIRE GALOFARO Associated Press HOUMA, La. (AP) — As one of the most powerful hurricanes in the nation’s history…

By ANDREW DeMILLO Associated Press LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — An Arkansas appeals court has reversed a lower court judge’s order that Little Rock…

By SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Former Republican officeholders and election experts say that the GOP-ordered investigation…

By BOBBY CAINA CALVAN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — New York City’s medical examiner’s office is continuing the difficult task of…

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The Oklahoma attorney general’s office has asked the state’s Court of Criminal Appeals to push back execution dates for…

By JULIET LINDERMAN and CLAIRE GALOFARO Associated Press HOUMA, La. (AP) — As one of the most powerful hurricanes in the nation’s history…

By IRENE YAGÜE and JOSEPH WILSON Associated Press MADRID (AP) — Protests in Spain to denounce a rise in hate crimes against LGBTQ people have gone…

CAIRO (AP) — A United Nations panel says at least 18,000 Yemeni civilians have been killed or wounded by airstrikes since the country’s war…