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By TED ANTHONY AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The U.N. General Assembly is unfolding this week under a thundercloud of deep pessimism.…

By MARÍA VERZA Associated Press CIUDAD ACUÑA, Mexico (AP) — An informal camp of migrants is slowly growing along the banks of the Rio Grande.…

By ANDREW DALTON AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Britney Spears said in a court filing that she agrees with her father that the…

By AYA BATRAWY and ABDULLAH AL-SHIHRI Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Saudi Arabia’s monarch expressed hope that the…

By JIM VERTUNO Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A Texas death row inmate’s murder conviction has been overturned because a prosecutor in…

By MICHAEL R. SISAK and MICHELLE L. PRICE Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A New York City inmate who died of a medical emergency in a floating…

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (AP) — Prosecutors in Virginia have dropped all charges against a man charged with hiring a hitman to kill his ex-wife after…

By SYLVIA HUI Associated Press LONDON (AP) — A coroner presiding over an inquest into the death of British woman who was poisoned by a…

By MICHAEL MELIA Associated Press A Connecticut high school that recently resumed full in-person learning for the first time since the pandemic hit…

By BRENDAN FARRINGTON Associated Press TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — A federal judge has struck down part of a Florida immigration enforcement law as…

By ALAN FRAM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate negotiators say bipartisan congressional talks on overhauling policing practices have ended…

By SAMY MAGDY Associated Press A powerful Libyan east-based commander says he has suspended his role as leader of a self-styled Libyan army,…

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s broadcasting regulators have extended the license of Discovery Inc.-owned TVN24. But they also also adopted a…

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has announced that masks will be required inside temples to limit the spread…

NEW YORK (AP) — Jim Sheeler, a former Rocky Mountain News journalist who won a Pulitzer Prize for his extensive and compassionate reporting on the…

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell signaled Wednesday that the Fed plans to announce…

By JIM SALTER Associated Press The St. Louis County prosecutor’s office is investigating an incident caught on cellphone video in which white…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The new rulers of Afghanistan have an uphill battle in their efforts to be recognized in…

By JOCELYN GECKER Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Schools have welcomed students back to classrooms but face a new challenge: a shortage of…

By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — New York prosecutors have charged a Los Angeles man with perjury, saying he falsified emails…

By MIKE SILVERMAN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The Met Opera’s season opens on Monday, and for the first time in its 138-year history it will…

By JILL COLVIN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Former President George W. Bush will headline a fundraiser for top Donald Trump critic Liz Cheney…

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — A region in southern Poland has revoked an anti-LGBT resolution under the threat of losing European Union funding. The…

By SARA CLINE Associated Press/Report for America A broken power-sharing deal, the lingering possibility of a Republican walkout and a COVID-19 case…

ROME (AP) — Italian authorities say the uncle of an 18-year-old woman who disappeared months ago after refusing an arranged marriage in Pakistan…

By COLLEEN SLEVIN Associated Press DENVER (AP) — Colorado officials say three assisted living facility workers are being prosecuted in the death of…

By PAN PYLAS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has conceded that a post-Brexit trade deal with the U.S. is not…

By KATE BRUMBACK Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — A man who was punched and kicked in the head by Georgia police officers during a traffic stop four…

By SOPHIA TAREEN Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — The Rev. Jesse Jackson is headed home a month after he was hospitalized for a breakthrough…

HOUSTON (AP) — A former Houston police officer has pleaded guilty to misdemeanor charges for taking part in the Jan. 6 storming of the U.S. Capitol…

By DAVID KOENIG AP Airlines Writer DALLAS (AP) — The vast majority of United Airlines employees are deciding to get vaccinated against COVID-19…

By ZENEL ZHINIPOTOKU and LLAZAR SEMINI Associated Press PRISTINA, Kosovo (AP) — Ethnic Serbs blocked the Kosovo-Serbia border for a third straight…

By CURT ANDERSON AP Legal Affairs Writer ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — A grand jury has formally charged a Florida man accused of massacring a family…

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — A report from the Federal Aviation Administration shows the pilot of a hot air balloon that crashed in New Mexico in June…

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — The corruption trial of former South African President Jacob Zuma has been postponed until Oct. 26. The judge says he needs…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has told world leaders at the United Nations that humanity has to “grow up”…

By TOM HAYS Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Closing arguments have begun in the sex trafficking trial of R&B singer R. Kelly. Prosecutor…

By CURT ANDERSON Associated Press ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — Search teams were back out at a Florida nature park to look for the boyfriend of…

By FRANK JORDANS Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s health minister has partly blamed “incitement” against the government’s pandemic…

By ASHOK SHARMA Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — India’s Supreme Court has ruled that women will be able to take the entrance examination for…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — A library devoted to Japanese novelist Haruki Murakami’s writings, scrapbooks and record…

By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Most TV dramas try to tell stories over a few years with maybe half a dozen central…

By MATTHEW PERRONE, LAURAN NEERGAARD and MIKE STOBBE Associated Press The U.S. has moved a step closer to offering booster doses of Pfizer’s…

By ALEX VEIGA AP Business Writer Sales of previously occupied U.S. homes fell in August and the pace of price growth eased, the latest sign the…

By DEE-ANN DURBIN AP Business Writer Reusable packaging is about to become more common at groceries and restaurants worldwide. Loop, which collects…

By JAY REEVES Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The wrecked boats, docks and processing equipment left by Hurricane Ida has some wondering what…

By LLAZAR SEMINI Associated Press TIRANA, Albania (AP) — An Albanian appeals court has sentenced the country’s former chief prosecutor to two…

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A home health nurse who discovered the bodies of a prominent Minnesota businessman and his wife in a murder-suicide case is…

By CARA ANNA, DANICA KIRKA and SHEIKH SAALIQ Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Travelers and authorities from India and many African countries…

By CALVIN WOODWARD Associated Press KAMOURASKA, Quebec (AP) — At the Canadian border one night this month, a man from Atlanta pulled up in his car,…

By LIUDAS DAPKUS Associated Press Writer VILNIUS, Lithuania (AP) — Lithuanian cybersecurity authorities are urging the country’s governmental…

By BASSEM MROUE Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanon’s state news agency says a former government minister has asked the country’s top…

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Police say a drive-by shooting at a school bus stop in Kentucky left a 16-year-old student dead and another hospitalized.…

By DAVID McHUGH AP Business Writer FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — The European Central Bank has carried out its first climate change stress test. The…

By DARKO BANDIC Associated Press ZAGREB, Croatia (AP) — Croatian police say they have established the identity of a woman who was found in a remote…

By JONATHAN LANDRUM Jr. AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Rihanna might be extremely consumed with rolling out her popular lingerie line,…

By BHARATHA MALLAWARACHI Associated Press COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lankan police are investigating an incident in which the government prisons…

By JAMEY KEATEN and DREW COSTLEY Associated Press GENEVA (AP) — The World Health Organization is setting a higher bar for policymakers and the…

By SYLVIE CORBET Associated Press PARIS (AP) — The most significant rift in decades between the United States and France seems on the mend after…

LONDON (AP) — Environmental activists who have repeatedly blocked Britain’s busiest highway face possible imprisonment after a judge granted an…

LONDON (AP) — Netflix says it has bought the works of Roald Dahl, the late British author of celebrated children’s books such as “Charlie and…

BRUSSELS (AP) — As winter looms, the European Trade Union Confederation says three million European workers can’t afford heating their houses…

TYBEE ISLAND, Ga. (AP) — Police in a Georgia Island town say they’ve arrested a woman who witnesses say threw an injured puppy into the…

By COLLEEN BARRY AP Fashion Writer MILAN (AP) — Nigeria-born designer Joy Meribe opened Milan Fashion Week on Wednesday with her debut runway…

By MARK TAKAHASHI Edmunds The fully redesigned 2022 Honda Civic will be of interest for many small-sedan shoppers. The Civic has been one of the most…

By ANDREW WILKS Associated Press ISTANBUL (AP) — The Turkish Defense Ministry says one of its warships issued a warning to a Greek research vessel…

By MIKE CORDER Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — A Dutch court has ruled that border police can use ethnicity as one of the criteria…

BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanon’s new energy ministry says it is raising the price of fuel by 16% percent. The Wednesday price hike is the second in five…

By ERIN HURD of NerdWallet Vacation home rentals are increasingly popular among travelers, especially during the pandemic. The problem for many savvy…

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Seven female lawmakers from Afghanistan have arrived in Greece as part of the wider evacuation effort and are expected to…

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian police say the car of a top aide to the country’s president came under heavy gunfire, seriously wounding the…

By DAVID RISING Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — A U.S.-based cybersecurity company says it has uncovered evidence that an Indian media…

By KATHY GANNON Associated Press KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — The Taliban’s newly appointed envoy to the United Nations is urging quick world…

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s constitutional court has resumed the proceedings in a case over whether Polish or European Union law has primacy…

By WASBIR HUSSAIN Associated Press GAUHATI, India (AP) — Indian officials have burned about 2,500 old rhino horns to spread awareness of the need…

PRAGUE (AP) — Czech President Milos Zeman has been released from the hospital. Zeman was admitted to Prague’s military hospital on Sept. 14 for…

By SAM MEDNICK Associated Press OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso (AP) — Nearly a year and a half after being abducted by Islamic extremists in Burkina…

By ARITZ PARRA Associated Press TODOQUE, Canary Islands (AP) — A wall of lava up to 12 meters (40 feet) high is bearing down on a Spanish island…

By MICHAEL LIEDTKE and BARBARA ORTUTAY AP Technology Writers BERKELEY, Calif. (AP) — Apple’s and Google’s cooperation with the Russian…

By DAN GELSTON AP Sports Writer PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A person with direct knowledge of Ben Simmons’ plans tells The Associated Press the…

TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Israel has reopened a crossing with the occupied West Bank for the first time since six prisoners tunneled out of a nearby…

By KIRSTEN GRIESHABER Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Hundreds of immigrants are running in Germany’s national election on Sunday, raising the…

By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer Asian shares are mostly higher after the Federal Reserve signaled it may begin easing its extraordinary…

By BASSEM MROUE Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Coronavirus cases are surging to the worst levels of the pandemic in a rebel stronghold in Syria.…

By JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — A Chinese real estate developer that is struggling to avoid defaulting on billions of dollars of…

By MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Former President Donald Trump on Tuesday sued his estranged niece and The New York Times over…

By BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — A California judge has ordered the last person seen with Kristin Smart before she vanished from…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Racism, climate change and the world’s worsening divisions will take center stage at…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Officials say an 87-year-old woman found dead inside a freezer in the garage of her Southern California home was a retired…

By ELLIOT SPAGAT, MARIA VERZA, JUAN A. LOZANO and SARAH BLAKE MORGAN Associated Press DEL RIO, Texas (AP) — U.S. officials say many of the…

By ALEXANDRA JAFFE, COLLEEN LONG and BEN FOX Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. Border Patrol agents tied to images showing aggressive tactics…

By ROBERT JABLON Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Willie Garson, who played Stanford Blatch on TV’s “Sex and the City” and its movie…

By LISA MASCARO and KEVIN FREKING Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Calling fellow Democrats to the White House, President Joe Biden is pushing in…

By ZEKE MILLER Associated Press President Joe Biden says the U.S. is doubling its purchase of Pfizer’s COVID-19 shots to share with the world.…

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — A sports association official says seven female taekwondo athletes who fled Taliban-controlled Afghanistan have…