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By PETER SMITH Associated Press CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — United Methodist delegates began making historic changes in their policies on sexuality on…
Continue ReadingBy PETER SMITH Associated Press CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — United Methodist delegates began making historic changes in their policies on sexuality on…
Continue ReadingAUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Mike Tyson’s fight against Jake Paul in Texas this summer has been sanctioned as a competitive boxing match rather than…
Continue ReadingMANUEL RUEDA Associated Press BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Colombian President Gustavo Petro says that hundreds of thousands of pieces of ammunition…
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Continue ReadingMILAN (AP) — Energy and environment ministers of the Group of Seven leading industrialized nations have committed to phase out coal power by 2035.…
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Continue ReadingBy CARLA K. JOHNSON AP Medical Writer Regular mammograms to screen for breast cancer should start younger, at age 40, according to an influential…
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Continue ReadingThe Federal Communications Commission has leveraged nearly $200 million in fines against wireless carriers AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile and Verizon for…
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Continue ReadingBy JAMES ROBSON AP Soccer Writer An English study into the causes of ACL injuries to women soccer players has been launched. ‘Project ACL’ will…
Continue ReadingBy HILARY FOX Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Matthew Shardlake steps out of the pages of the late C.J. Sansom’s popular historical mystery…
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Continue ReadingBy ADAM BEAM Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California’s population increased in 2023 for the first time in three years. The…
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Continue ReadingBy THALIA BEATY Associated Press Some 170 foundations, donors and advisors have signed on to a pledge started by the nonprofit Democracy Fund to make…
Continue ReadingMANILA, Philippines (AP) — Chinese coast guard ships have fired water cannons at two Philippine patrol vessels near a disputed shoal in the South…
Continue ReadingBy TODD RICHMOND Associated Press Wildlife researchers say the wolf population on a remote Lake Superior island is stable. But they announced Tuesday…
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Continue ReadingTEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pledged Tuesday to launch an incursion into the southern Gaza city of Rafah,…
Continue ReadingLONDON (AP) — Britain’s Telegraph newspaper group is back up for sale after a takeover bid by a United Arab Emirates-backed consortium collapsed.…
Continue ReadingNEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump’s hush money trial will resume with testimony from the third prosecution witness, Gary Farro, a banker who helped…
Continue ReadingTALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Authorities in Kazakhstan have arrested a former interior minister in connection with deadly unrest that gripped the…
Continue ReadingBy ANNE D’INNOCENZIO AP Retail Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Walmart is launching its biggest store-label food brand in 20 years in terms of its…
Continue ReadingPHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — A senior military official in Cambodia says the huge explosion over the weekend that killed 20 soldiers at an army base…
Continue ReadingBELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Serbia’s new government will include a former intelligence chief who has fostered close ties with Russia and is…
Continue ReadingWARSAW, Poland (AP) — Twenty years after Poland joined the European Union, its finance minister says the country is still not ready to adopt the…
Continue ReadingBEIJING (AP) — China’s Foreign Ministry says rival Palestinian groups Hamas and Fatah made “encouraging progress” in recent talks in…
Continue ReadingBy DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — King Charles III will return to public duties on Tuesday when he visits a cancer treatment charity,…
Continue ReadingLONDON (AP) — London police say a man wielding a sword attacked members of the public and two police officers on Tuesday in the east London…
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Continue ReadingBy RONALD BLUM AP Sports Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The U.S. Soccer Federation and its Mexican counterpart dropped their joint bid to host the 2027…
Continue ReadingBy The Associated Press Officials from Hamas have left Cairo after talks with Egyptian officials on a new cease-fire proposal in Gaza, Egypt’s…
Continue ReadingISLAMABAD (AP) — A Taliban official says a gunman opened fire inside a mosque in western Afghanistan, killing at least six people as they were…
Continue ReadingSHANGHAI (AP) — The first scientist to publish a sequence of the COVID-19 virus in China was staging a sit-in protest after authorities locked him…
Continue ReadingBy ARIEL GILREATH of The Hechinger Report NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Last summer, Derrika Richard felt stuck. She didn’t have enough money to afford…
Continue ReadingBy FABIOLA SÁNCHEZ Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s taking control of its oil from U.S. and British companies is taught in…
Continue ReadingMEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico took control of its most precious natural resource by seizing the oil sector from U.S. companies in a move that’s…
Continue ReadingBy EDNA TARIGAN Associated Press JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Microsoft will invest $1.7 billion over the next four years in new cloud and artificial…
Continue ReadingTHE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Mexico is taking Ecuador to the top U.N. court, accusing the nation of violating international law by storming the…
Continue ReadingBy YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Asian shares mostly rose Tuesday, as investors kept their eyes on potentially market-moving…
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Continue ReadingBy MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida says his governing party’s major defeat in last…
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Continue ReadingBy CAROLYN THOMPSON Associated Press BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — Voters are casting ballots in a special election to fill the upstate New York…
Continue ReadingBy MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The final list of almost 40 new plays and musicals vying for Tony Award nominations this…
Continue ReadingBy MICHAEL R. SISAK, JENNIFER PELTZ, JAKE OFFENHARTZ and COLLEEN LONG Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The first week of testimony at Donald…
Continue ReadingBy EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi lawmakers are expected to vote this week on a proposal that would expand…
Continue ReadingBUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — A medical examiner’s report into the death of Argentine soccer legend Diego Maradona has injected uncertainty into…
Continue ReadingBy MARCOS ALEMÁN Associated Press SAN SALVADOR (AP) — El Salvador’s Congress, which is controlled by President Nayib Bukele New Ideas party,…
Continue ReadingBy EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Actor Ashley Judd, whose allegations against movie mogul Harvey Weinstein helped spark…
Continue ReadingSEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Samsung Electronics on Tuesday reported a 10-fold increase in operating profit for the last quarter as the expansion of…
Continue ReadingBy REBECCA BOONE Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Months after a catastrophic fire burned more than 2,200 homes and killed 101 people in…
Continue ReadingBy SUMMER BALLENTINE Associated Press JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — A panel of lawmakers has dismissed an ethics complaint against Missouri’s…
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