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By ALEX SANZ and TAMMY WEBBER Associated Press An international effort is underway to evacuate members of Afghanistan’s girls national soccer…

By REBECCA SANTANA Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A small section of New Orleans saw the lights go back on after Hurricane Ida blacked out the…

By TERRY SPENCER Associated Press FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Attorneys for the former student accused of murdering 17 at a Florida high school…

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Florida will start issuing $5,000 fines to businesses, schools and government agencies that require people to show proof…

By JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — Court documents say a 24-year-old Illinois woman submitted a fake COVID-19 vaccination…

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board has set tentative dates for clemency hearings for high-profile death row inmate Julius…

By JULIE WATSON Associated Press SAN DIEGO (AP) — Officials say more than 30 California children are still stuck in Afghanistan after they traveled…

By CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — Police in northwestern Nigeria say gunmen have attacked another remote school, kidnapping…

By FABIOLA SÁNCHEZ Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has delivered his third state of the nation…

TORONTO (AP) — Ontario has become the fourth Canadian province to announce residents will soon have to show proof of vaccination against COVID-19…

By MICHAEL BALSAMO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The first set of federal agents working for the Justice Department began wearing body cameras…

By JAY REEVES Associated Press DES ALLEMANDS, La. (AP) — A Louisiana man who built a levee around his home after Hurricane Katrina thought he was…

By JOHN RABY Associated Press CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A part-time police officer and former firefighter in West Virginia has been indicted on…

By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Paramount Pictures on Wednesday postponed the release of “Top Gun: Maverick,” sending another of…

By CHRISTOPHER SHERMAN Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — Israel Buendía sat up in the bed closest to the window, a machine forcing oxygen into…

By AL-HADJI KUDRA MALIRO Associated Press BENI, Congo (AP) — Rebels in eastern Congo have ambushed a civilian convoy that was under military escort…

By DARLENE SUPERVILLE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House says President Joe Biden will visit Louisiana on Friday to survey storm…

WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. (AP) — A Massachusetts select board has ruled that it does not have the authority to fire the police officer that kept a photo…

By BRYAN ANDERSON Associated Press/Report for America RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina House Republicans have given final legislative approval…

By LUIS ANDRES HENAO, PETER SMITH and MARIAM FAM Associated Press America’s major religious faiths and denominations, often divided on other big…

By TOM HAYS Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — One of R. Kelly’s accusers has told a jury that he kept a gun by his side while he berated her…

NEW YORK (AP) — Authorities say a 9-year-old boy was killed and more than a dozen people were injured in a fire caused by an electric scooter that…

By KEN MILLER Associated Press OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — An Oklahoma judge says she is temporarily blocking a state law banning public school mask…

By TOM FOREMAN Jr. Associated Press WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (AP) — Authorities say one student was killed in a shooting at a North Carolina high school…

By CURT ANDERSON AP Legal Affairs Writer A judge has ordered the examination of a proposed land swap to allow for an on-site memorial to the victims…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — U.K. Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab says he is heading to the region around Afghanistan in a push to…

By Mae Anderson AP Business Writer New York (AP) — Small businesses are struggling in the aftermath of Hurricane Ida, facing days or weeks without…

By MICHAEL PHILLIS, SUMAN NAISHADHAM and TRAVIS LOLLER Associated Press Before reaching the seawalls, levees and other flood controls that shield New…

BEIT UR AL-TAHTA, West Bank (AP) — Hundreds of people are mourning a man Palestinian health officials said was killed by Israeli forces in the…

By CHRISTINA LARSON AP Science Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Archaeologists have uncovered stone tools and hippopotamus bones near ancient lake beds on…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Elton John is releasing an album of collaborations with artists from several generations and genres, including Nicki Minaj,…

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greece’s new right-wing health minister has apologized for past remarks and avowed his “absolute respect” for Holocaust…

By TATIANA POLLASTRI and DAVID BILLER Associated Press SAO PAULO (AP) — Packages have only just started reaching doorsteps in Sao Paulo’s…

By JIM SALTER Associated Press Two Missouri students are being lauded for their fast action on a school bus after the driver passed out. After the…

FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — OPEC and its allies are adding more oil back to the market as demand recovers from the worst of the coronavirus pandemic.…

MADRID (AP) — Households and businesses in Spain will be thinking twice about using appliances and switching on lights starting Thursday when the…

By JOSH BOAK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The government is collaborating on a new internet site to help more Americans apply for and receive…

By JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press GENEVA (AP) — Switzerland’s highest court say an Indian Swiss tycoon could owe the Geneva region about $137…

NEW YORK (AP) — The Vatican has concluded that allegations of sexual abuse dating back a half century against the Roman Catholic Bishop of Brooklyn…

By MATTHEW LEE AP Diplomatic Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration is extending for one year a Trump-era ban on the use of U.S.…

RABAT, Morocco (AP) — Morocco has launched a campaign to administer COVID-19 vaccines to children from 12 to 17. It has become one of the first…

By COLLEEN SLEVIN Associated Press DENVER (AP) — Three suburban Denver officers and two paramedics have been indicted on manslaughter and other…

By JOSEF FEDERMAN Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel’s foreign minister has played down criticism of the country’s regulation of the…

CLEVELAND (AP) — A teenager involved in a botched robbery that ended with the fatal shooting of an undercover Cleveland detective and his informant…

BEIRUT (AP) — Syrian and opposition media are reporting that a Russian-negotiated cease-fire has taken effect in a volatile southern city, ending…

By HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. Rep. Jamie Raskin of Maryland is working on a memoir in which he will reflect on the Jan.…

By CHRISTOPHER SHERMAN and EVENS SANON Associated Press PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — It’s been nearly two months since Haitian President…

By KRISHAN FRANCIS Associated Press COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — A Sri Lankan Roman Catholic leader says the government must win back the confidence…

BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Flash floods have swept cars down streets in a seaside town in northeastern Spain as other parts of the country were hit by…

By RUSS BYNUM Associated Press SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — A Georgia judge says he won’t allow attorneys for the men charged with killing Ahmaud…

BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s central bank says it has been inundated with more than 50 million euros’ ($59 million) worth of damaged bank notes…

By KATE BRUMBACK Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — A judge has struck down a Trump-era rule that eliminated federal protections for some wetlands and…

By SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Nearly half of the money being spent on a Republican-ordered investigation into Wisconsin’s…

By SAMY MAGDY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — Two human rights groups have accused both sides in the Yemen conflict of using starvation as a weapon…

By SAMUEL PETREQUIN Associated Press LJUBLJANA, Slovenia (AP) — Senior European Union officials say the Taliban’s takeover of Afghanistan and the…

HOLYOKE, Mass. (AP) — Authorities in Massachusetts have arrested two men they allege were digging in an area of protected fossilized dinosaur…

By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Lil Nas X has been awarded the inaugural Suicide Prevention Advocate of the Year Award from…

By SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin regulators have backed down on requirements that operators of a startup that allows…

By DAVID BAUDER AP Media Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Julie Pace, a longtime Washington journalist who managed coverage of the U.S. government during a…

MADRID (AP) — Europol says that over 100 people were arrested when police in Spain busted an illegal drug ring earlier this summer. The European…

By LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer VENICE, Italy (AP) — Hope for the future of cinema was front of mind for many as the Venice International Film…

By RONALD MONTOYA Edmunds If this were a normal year, Labor Day would traditionally kick off the start of end-of-model-year vehicle clearance sales.…

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LONDON (AP) — Britain’s media regulator has cleared TV personality and journalist Piers Morgan of any violations for making comments about…

By TOUSSAINT N’GOTTA Associated Press ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast (AP) — The World Health Organization says new tests show Ivory Coast didn’t…

By DAVID PORTER and MARK SCOLFORO Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The remnants of Hurricane Ida blew through the mid-Atlantic states with at least…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japan is aiming to give a technological upgrade to government services and recordkeeping with the…

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel is granting a promotion to the handler of an agent who spied on the United States, more than 30 years after the episode…

By ALEXANDER TURNBULL and SYLVIE CORBET Associated Press PARIS (AP) — France has started administering booster shots of COVID-19 vaccine to people…

By FRANCES D’EMILIO Associated Press VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis says thanks to surgery that removed a portion of his colon he can now…

BERLIN (AP) — Police in eastern Germany have arrested a 30-year-old man on suspicion of killing his wife and young child. City police in Zwickau…

By TASSANEE VEJPONGSA Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — Shopping malls, restaurants, parks and schools have reopened in Thailand’s capital after…

LONDON (AP) — Leading scholars and lawyers are joining politicians and human rights groups in Britain for the first large-scale conference to…

By FRANCES D’EMILIO Associated Press ROME (AP) — Italian police have outnumbered demonstrators at several main train stations as COVID-19…

By The Associated Press UNITED NATIONS — The president of the U.N. Security Council says the U.N.’s most powerful body will not take its focus…

By ARITZ PARRA and FRANK JORDANS Associated Press MADRID (AP) — Pope Francis criticized the West’s recent involvement in Afghanistan as an…

HONG KONG (AP) — Popular Hong Kong singer and pro-democracy activist Denise Ho will not be allowed to perform at one of the city’s top theaters…

By SETH BORENSTEIN and JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press GENEVA (AP) — A new report from the United Nations weather agency finds the world is getting…

By NICK PERRY Associated Press WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Micronesia’s leader says he’ll continue to walk around his island nation…

By KRUTIKA PATHI Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — More students in India will be able to step inside a classroom for the first time in nearly 18…

ADGER, Ala. (AP) — Two electric company employees contracted to work with Alabama Power were killed while working on storm restoration. WBMA-TV…

By BASSEM MROUE Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Many Lebanese are more openly criticizing the powerful Iran-backed Hezbollah group as the country…

By SAM METZ, JANIE HAR and JOHN ANTCZAK Associated Press/Report for America SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. (AP) — Officials say they lucked out with…

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel approved a series of measures easing its blockade of the Gaza Strip, including opening the main commercial crossing with…

BEIJING (AP) — Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi has warned U.S. climate envoy John Kerry that deteriorating U.S.-China relations could undermine…

By JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — Asian stock markets are higher as investors waited for U.S. jobs data that might influence when…

By JAY REEVES Associated Press HOUMA, La. (AP) — Main Street in the Louisiana town of Houma resembles a canyon of rubble after Hurricane Ida. Metal…

By JESSICA GRESKO, PAUL J. WEBER and MARK SHERMAN Associated Press The nation’s most far-reaching curb on abortions has taken effect in Texas, with…

By REBECCA SANTANA, MELINDA DESLATTE and JANET MCCONAUGHEY Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Residents of Louisiana communities hit hard by…

SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. (AP) — The wildfire threatening communities around Lake Tahoe has drawn what officials call an aggressive response to try…

By TERENCE CHEA and MICHELLE L. PRICE Associated Press SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. (AP) — While more than 20,000 people packed roads leading out of…

By ROBERT BURNS and LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Army Gen. Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, say it’s…

By MATTHEW DALY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Response to disasters such as Hurricane Ida falls primarily to state and local officials, but…

By AAMER MADHANI, LYNN BERRY and ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden used his first meeting with a foreign leader…