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By ISABEL DEBRE Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The United Arab Emirates has announced a major plan to stimulate its economy…
Continue ReadingBy ISABEL DEBRE Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The United Arab Emirates has announced a major plan to stimulate its economy…
Continue ReadingBy TED ANTHONY AP National Writer SHANKSVILLE, Pa. (AP) — The act of remembering is a complex one, particularly when it comes to an event like…
Continue ReadingBy AIJAZ HUSSAIN Associated Press SRINAGAR, India (AP) — Police in Kashmir have opened a case against family members of late resistance leader Syed…
Continue ReadingBy NICK PERRY Associated Press WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — The Islamic State-inspired extremist who attacked shoppers in a New Zealand…
Continue ReadingBy MATT O’BRIEN and PAUL WISEMAN AP Business Writers The pandemic didn’t just threaten Americans’ health when it slammed the U.S. in 2020.…
Continue ReadingBy PREDRAG MILIC Associated Press CETINJE, Montenegro (AP) — Riot police in Montenegro have fired tear gas at protesters who fired gunshots in the…
Continue ReadingBy ABDUL SATTAR Associated Press QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistani police say a suicide bomber detonated his explosives near a security checkpoint…
Continue ReadingBy HUIZHONG WU and KATIE TAM Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — The group behind the annual Tiananmen Square memorial vigil in Hong Kong says it…
Continue ReadingSYDNEY (AP) — A surfer was fatally bitten by a shark off eastern Australia’s coast as many locals went to beaches to celebrate Father’s Day. An…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press LUCEDALE, Miss. (AP) — A 16-year-old girl says she heard vehicles crashing all around the pickup truck where she and her mother…
Continue ReadingBy MATT SEDENSKY and AARON MORRISON Associated Press MARRERO, La. (AP) — Parishioners of a church outside New Orleans were surprised to find…
Continue ReadingDUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Saudi Arabia says it has intercepted a ballistic missile fired by Yemen’s Houthi rebels, which sent debris…
Continue ReadingBy ANDREW DALTON AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Testimony from more than 20 women showed that adult film actor Ron Jeremy used his…
Continue ReadingWASHINGTON (AP) — The District of Columbia’s Metropolitan Police Department says three people were killed and three others were wounded…
Continue ReadingBy JEFFREY COLLINS Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina coach turned quarterback Zeb Noland threw for four touchdowns on 13…
Continue ReadingBy ANDREW DALTON AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Testimony from more than 20 women showed that adult film actor Ron Jeremy used his…
Continue ReadingSACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Hospitals in the heart of California’s Central Valley are running out of beds in their intensive care units because…
Continue ReadingIn a story published September 3, 2021, about the coronavirus outbreak in California, The Associated Press erroneously reported that the San Joaquin…
Continue ReadingBy GEOFF MULVIHILL Associated Press Four companies say they’ll move ahead with a $26 billion settlement of lawsuits over the opioid crisis. An…
Continue ReadingBy MICHAEL R. BLOOD AP Political Writer CULVER CITY, Calif. (AP) — Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren joined California Gov. Gavin Newsom to urge…
Continue ReadingESTILL, S.C. (AP) — A family attorney says a lawyer from a prominent South Carolina legal family who found his wife and son shot to death at their…
Continue ReadingNEW YORK (AP) — The New York Times reports Facebook has apologized for putting a “primates” label on a video of Black men. The newspaper says…
Continue ReadingBy DARLENE SUPERVILLE Associated Press Vice President Kamala Harris is set to visit California’s Bay Area on Wednesday to campaign with Gov.…
Continue ReadingBy BRUCE SCHREINER Associated Press FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear says he’s calling the Republican-led legislature into…
Continue ReadingNEW YORK (AP) — Willard Scott, the beloved weatherman who charmed viewers of NBC’s “Today” show with his self-deprecating humor and cheerful…
Continue ReadingCOLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A South Carolina sheriff’s department has brought charges against two inmates after a jail riot in which two guards…
Continue ReadingBy NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press VENICE (AP) — Antonio Banderas and Penelope Cruz have brought some laughs to the Venice Film Festival.…
Continue ReadingBy KELLI KENNEDY Associated Press MIAMI (AP) — South Beach’s sizzling party scene is about to undergo a massive boost in police presence against…
Continue ReadingJERUSALEM (AP) — The new Israeli president has met with the Jordanian king in a new sign of improved relations between the two countries. President…
Continue ReadingBy MARCOS ALEMAN Associated Press SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) — El Salvador’s top court and its election authority have tossed aside what…
Continue ReadingWASHINGTON (AP) — Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg and his spouse, Chasten, are celebrating the arrival of not one — but two — bundles…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The mysterious deaths of a Northern California family of hikers and their dog have led federal officials to…
Continue ReadingBy MICHAEL BIESECKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Coast Guard said Saturday that cleanup crews are responding to a sizable oil spill…
Continue ReadingBy NICOLE WINFIELD and TRISHA THOMAS Associated Press VENICE (AP) — Afghan female filmmakers who fled the Taliban are begging the world to not…
Continue ReadingBy ZEKE MILLER and DARLENE SUPERVILLE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden will visit all three 9/11 memorial sites to…
Continue ReadingFARMINGTON, Utah (AP) — A paraplegic man who was injured on a roller coaster is now suing a Utah amusement park, saying his paralyzed leg wasn’t…
Continue ReadingKYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian officials say Russian security officers have detained five minority Crimean Tatar activists and raided the home of…
Continue ReadingBy PAN PYLAS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Britain’s Brexit minister has warned of a long-term chill in relations between the U.K. and the…
Continue ReadingFLAT ROCK, Mich. (AP) — Ford and Michigan environmental officials say one of the automaker’s plants is the source of benzene vapor in sewers that…
Continue ReadingSAN DIEGO (AP) — The Navy has declared five missing sailors dead nearly a week after a helicopter crashed in the ocean off San Diego. The Navy has…
Continue ReadingBERLIN (AP) — Thousands of activists have protested in Berlin for a more inclusive and progressive society. The German news agency dpa reported…
Continue ReadingBERLIN (AP) — Tens of thousands have protested in Switzerland for the legalization of same-sex marriage in the Alpine country. The protests…
Continue ReadingBy JAMIE STENGLE Associated Press DALLAS (AP) — A judge has temporarily shielded some Texas abortion clinics from being sued by the state’s…
Continue ReadingBy ELLEN KNICKMEYER Associated Press A U.S. official says the United States plans to send Afghan evacuees who require more screening to a site in…
Continue ReadingBy WAYNE PARRY Associated Press CRANFORD, N.J. (AP) — Flood-stricken families and business owners across the Northeast are hauling waterlogged…
Continue ReadingBy DARIA LITVINOVA Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — Several dozen Russians have gathered in Moscow to protest the crackdown by Russian authorities on…
Continue ReadingROME (AP) — Italian police were hunting for a tobacco shop owner in Naples who allegedly ran off on a motor scooter with a customer’s…
Continue ReadingPARIS (AP) — Sharks and rays have seen declines in their populations since 2014 and more and more are now threatened with extinction. That’s…
Continue ReadingLA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) — Bolivian rescue workers say they have recovered the body of a U.S. climber who died at about 6,200 meters (more than 20,000…
Continue ReadingBy BOBBY CAINA CALVAN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Experts call it “warning fatigue,” and no one can be sure what role it might have played…
Continue ReadingBy JULIE WATSON and BERNARD CONDON Associated Press SAN DIEGO (AP) — Veteran-led rescue groups say the Biden administration’s estimate that no…
Continue ReadingBy NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press VENICE, Italy (AP) — Jessica Chastain has been friends with Oscar Isaac since their Julliard days but says it…
Continue ReadingBy GEOFF MULVIHILL Associated Press The end of the Purdue Pharma bankruptcy case has left a bitter taste for those who wanted to see more…
Continue ReadingBy NICHOLAS RICCARDI Associated Press DENVER (AP) — Democrats are wondering if they erred in pushing too hard in some states for a nonpartisan…
Continue ReadingBy KATHY GANNON Associated Press KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Taliban special forces in camouflage fired their weapons into the air, bringing an…
Continue ReadingGAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — Hamas operatives have launched a number of incendiary balloons from Gaza into Israel, protesting the continuing…
Continue ReadingBy KIRSTEN GRIESHABER Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s top health official has called on more citizens to get vaccinated. He is warning…
Continue ReadingBy DAVID CRARY AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Among the people killed in the 9/11 terror attacks, Mychal Judge, a Catholic chaplain with New…
Continue ReadingBy DAVID CRARY AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Among the people killed in the 9/11 terror attacks, Mychal Judge, a Catholic chaplain with New…
Continue ReadingBy LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer VENICE, Italy (AP) — Edgar Wright and Anya Taylor-Joy gathered Saturday on the Lido to speak about their new film…
Continue ReadingBy ROXANA HEGEMAN Associated Press BELLE PLAINE, Kan. (AP) — It’s one of the nation’s most iconic marketing slogans, but today the checkoff…
Continue ReadingBy JUAN A. LOZANO Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — Texas’ new law allowing most people to carry handguns in public without a permit or training…
Continue ReadingBy PREDRAG MILIC Associated Press PODGORICA, Montenegro (AP) — Protesters clashed with hundreds of riot police in the old capital of Montenegro…
Continue ReadingBy JEFF AMY Associated Press The dismal state of power in Hurricane Ida’s wake is a distressingly familiar scenario for Entergy Corp. Louisiana’s…
Continue ReadingBy TAMEEM AKHGAR, MATTHEW LEE, LOLITA C. BALDOR, RAHIM FAIEZ and CALVIN WOODWARD Associated Press The Afghanistan war ended with an odd unity between…
Continue ReadingBy TAMEEM AKHGAR, MATTHEW LEE, LOLITA C. BALDOR, RAHIM FAIEZ and CALVIN WOODWARD Associated Press The Afghanistan war ended with an odd unity between…
Continue ReadingBy NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press VENICE, Italy (AP) — Guitarist Jimmy Page says he turned down a lot of “pretty miserable” pitches over the…
Continue ReadingBy ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON and KELLI KENNEDY Associated Press MIAMI (AP) — Florida is in the grip of its deadliest wave of COVID-19 since the pandemic…
Continue ReadingBy The Associated Press LOGAN, W.Va. (AP) — When a mine industry conflict a hundred years ago sparked the largest armed uprising in the United…
Continue ReadingBy TOM HAYS Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The third week of the R. Kelly sex-trafficking trial in New York City saw more accusers, including a…
Continue ReadingBy JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Nearly 3,000 people were killed in the 9/11 terror attacks. Yet an estimated 33,000 or more…
Continue ReadingBy GARY FIELDS Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Traditionally, the process of getting an opinion from the U.S. Supreme Court takes months and…
Continue ReadingSpanish rescuers have pulled 208 migrants from small boats that were headed to either the Iberian Peninsula’s southern coast or Spain’s Canary…
Continue ReadingBy JESSICA GRESKO and PAUL J. WEBER Associated Press The road to a Texas law that bans most abortions in the state began in a town called Waskom,…
Continue ReadingBy ALBERT AJI and SARAH EL DEEB Associated Press DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — A senior Lebanese government delegation has asked Syria to allow Egyptian…
Continue ReadingBy PAN PYLAS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — One of the U.K.’s largest suppliers of seasonal influenza vaccines warns there could be delivery…
Continue ReadingISTANBUL (AP) — A collision between a freight train and a minibus in northwest Turkey has killed six people and injured seven others. Turkish news…
Continue ReadingThe Associated Press TEHRAN — Iran’s president is calling for elections in Afghanistan to determine the future of the country, where he hopes…
Continue ReadingBy ESTHER CUNEO Associated Press PAPEETE, Tahiti (AP) — France’s worst virus outbreak is unfolding 12 times zones away from Paris, devastating…
Continue ReadingBy MATT SEDENSKY, CHEVEL JOHNSON and AARON MORRISON Associated Press HOUMA, La. (AP) — The energy company that is providing power to Louisiana says…
Continue ReadingREBECCA SANTANA Associated Press MARRERO, La. (AP) — As the power outages from Hurricane Ida have dragged on, many people have decided to get out…
Continue ReadingBy DAISY NGUYEN Associated Press SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. (AP) — Bulldozers with giant blades, crews armed with shovels and a fleet of aircraft…
Continue ReadingBy JOSH BOAK Associated Press LAPLACE, La. (AP) — Less than a week after Hurricane Ida battered the Gulf Coast, President Joe Biden walked the…
Continue ReadingSACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California’s governor and legislative leaders are seeking $16.7 million in state money to help resettle Afghan refugees…
Continue ReadingBy MAURICIO SAVARESE and DÉBORA ÁLVARES Associated Press SAO PAULO (AP) — Some cities in Brazil are providing booster shots of the COVID-19…
Continue ReadingBy GRANT PECK Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — Thai Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha has won votes of confidence in Parliament, helping to steady…
Continue ReadingBy HOWARD FENDRICH AP Tennis Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Naomi Osaka says she is thinking of taking another break from tennis after her title defense at…
Continue ReadingAUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A state judge has shielded, for now, Texas abortion clinics from lawsuits by an anti-abortion group under a new state abortion…
Continue ReadingBy JONATHAN J. COOPER Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Prosecutors say the founders and managers of the lucrative classified site Backpage.com knew…
Continue ReadingBy NICK PERRY Associated Press WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Court documents have identified 32-year-old Ahamed Samsudeen as the extremist who was…
Continue ReadingCHICAGO (AP) — The Rev. Jesse Jackson’s wife will be released from a Chicago hospital where she has been treated for COVID-19. A statement Friday…
Continue ReadingWASHINGTON (AP) — Guest lineups for the Sunday news…
Continue ReadingSACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Hospitals in the heart of California’s Central Valley are running out of beds in their intensive care units because…
Continue ReadingBy EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United Nations chief is again urging countries to withdraw all foreign fighters and…
Continue ReadingBy WAYNE PARRY and MIKE CATALINI Associated Press MANVILLE, N.J. (AP) — Storm evacuees in Manville, a central New Jersey town along the…
Continue ReadingNEW YORK (AP) — Ride-hailing companies Uber and Lyft say they will cover the legal fees of any driver who is sued under the new law prohibiting…
Continue ReadingSAN DIEGO (AP) — The Marine Corps on Friday halted waterborne operations for its new amphibious vehicle that resembles an armored seafaring tank…
Continue ReadingBy MOHAMED IBRAHIM Associated Press/Report for America MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar and her progressive congressional allies have…
Continue ReadingBy MELINDA DESLATTE Associated Press BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — The owner of seven Louisiana nursing homes that were evacuated to a warehouse where…
Continue ReadingBy KATHLEEN RONAYNE and MICHAEL R. BLOOD Associated Press SACRAMENTO (AP) — California Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom has been attacking his…
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