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MADRID (AP) — Authorities in Gibraltar have seized 2.6 tons of cannabis resin with an estimated street value of $18 million after a high-speed boat…

By ALEX DANIELS of The Chronicle of Philanthropy Chronicle of Philanthropy Two of the nation’s wealthiest foundations have created a new $7.5…

BELFAST, Maine (AP) — The appearance of a giant rubber duck in a Maine harbor is a whimsical whodunit that has defied sleuths. The large yellow…

MADRID (AP) — Spanish police say that one man was killed and another injured when a ferry smashed into a small boat entering the port of the island…

NEW YORK (AP) — A wood stork typically seen in tropical and subtropical regions migrated to New York City but died 10 days after it was first…

By KATHERINE ROTH Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — For years, advocates of urban gardening have said that growing fresh food empowers residents of…

By MATT O’BRIEN AP Technology Writer The names, Social Security numbers and information from driver’s licenses or other identification of…

BANGKOK (AP) — A human rights group says more than 1,000 people have been killed by security forces in Myanmar since the military seized power…

By KATHY GANNON Associated Press The Taliban’s top political leader has made a triumphal return to Afghanistan. Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar battled…

By MARTIN CRUTSINGER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Home construction fell a sharp 7% in July as home builders struggled to cope with a…

By KEVIN SCHEMBRI ORLAND Associated Press VALLETTA, Malta (AP) — Malta’s attorney general has indicted a leading Maltese businessman in…

By BRYAN ANDERSON Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Tropical Depression Fred has blown into the northeastern U.S. as a post-tropical cyclone,…

BERLIN (AP) — American and German officials held a ceremony to commemorate a U.S. Army helicopter crash that killed 37 soldiers in Bavaria 50 years…

By LORNE COOK and LIUDAS DAPKUS Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union is condemning Belarus for what it says is an attempt to…

By SALLY FRENCH of NerdWallet Preparing and packing for a trip is a different ballgame with all the changes in the travel world since the…

By MEHMET GUZEL TATVAN, Turkey (AP) — Fearing a new refugee crisis, Turkey is reinforcing its border with Iran to stop a potential influx of…

By DANIEL COLE and SYLVIE CORBET Associated Press BORMES-LES-MIMOSAS, France (AP) — A wildfire near the French Riviera has killed two people and is…

By VANESSA GERA Associated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland has deployed hundreds of troops and is laying barbed wire along its border with…

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Helaina Alati was browsing the spice aisle of an Australian supermarket when she came…

By CARA ANNA Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Small children are among those held amid a new wave of detentions of ethnic Tigrayans suspected…

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — A major wildfire burning northwest of the Greek capital is devouring large tracts of pine forest for a third day and…

By MARK CARLSON Associated Press KORTRIJK, Belgium (AP) — A Belgian-British teenager has started the first leg of her quest to become the youngest…

By FIRDIA LISNAWATI Associated Press DENPASAR, Indonesia (AP) — More than a hundred Australian citizens have left the Indonesian tourist island of…

By PAN PYLAS and SYLVIA HUI Associated Press LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has faced accusations of needlessly abandoning…

By AHMAD SEIR, TAMEEM AKHGAR, KATHY GANNON and JON GAMBRELL Associated Press KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Taliban militants have attacked protesters…

By ANNABELLE LIANG Associated Press SINGAPORE (AP) — Asian stock markets are retreating after U.S. central bank policymakers made no firm decision…

BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s health minister has criticized the Roman Catholic Church for its refusal to bless same-sex unions but says his religious…

By SOPHENG CHEANG and DAVID RISING Associated Press PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — Prosecutors are arguing the former head of the Khmer Rouge shared…

By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — The world held its breath 30 years ago when a group of top Communist officials ousted Soviet…

By AGNIESZKA PIKULICKA-WILCZEWSKA Associated Press TERMEZ, Uzbekistan (AP) — As the Taliban took control of Afghanistan, thousands of Afghans…

By The Associated Press KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — The head of the U.N. food agency in Afghanistan says a humanitarian crisis is unfolding with 14…

HONG KONG (AP) — Police say four members of a Hong Kong university student union have been arrested for allegedly advocating terrorism by paying…

BEIJING (AP) — China’s ruling Communist Party has expelled a leading internet censor and accused him of a range of crimes and rule breaking from…

By ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON Associated Press BOYNTON BEACH, Fla. (AP) — A South Florida suburb holds deep ties to the town in southwestern Haiti that…

By KATE BRUMBACK Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia’s State Election Board has taken a step toward a possible eventual takeover of elections…

By TOM HAYS and JIM MUSTIAN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A prosecutor has introduced a jury to the sex abuse claims against R&B star R.…

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — A prominent Cambodian labor union leader has been sentenced to two years in prison for inciting social unrest with…

By BRIAN MELLEY and TERENCE CHEA Associated Press POLLOCK PINES, Calif. (AP) — California’s top fire official says blazes raging across…

BY ALAN FRAM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Top Democrats are planning House votes next week on a budget resolution that would clear a path for…

By BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Robert Durst said he deeply regretted telling his life story to filmmakers in hopes of…

By EILEEN NG Associated Press KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Malaysia’s king says the new prime minister he picks must swiftly test his leadership…

By MATT SEDENSKY AP National Writer Just a week before Afghanistan’s collapse, things looked staggeringly different, but even for a country scarred…

By LINDSAY WHITEHURST and JAMES ANDERSON Associated Press TOOELE, Utah (AP) — Tens of thousands of wild horses roam the American West, their power…

By MARK STEVENSON and EVENS SANON Associated Press LES CAYES, Haiti (AP) — Pressure for a coordinated response to Haiti’s deadly weekend…

SYDNEY (AP) — Australia’s most populous state has reported a record 633 new infections as concerns grew about the delta variant’s spread beyond…

By MARK BAKER Associated Press SYDNEY (AP) — Australia-based Associated Press photographer Mark Baker is spending 14 days in mandatory hotel…

By BOB CHRISTIE Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey is upping the pressure on the growing number of public school districts…

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Colombian officials say at least 1,150 people fled their homes in the country’s Choco province over the weekend to…

HOUSTON (AP) — Prosecutors have dropped a murder charge against a Houston police officer for his role in a fraudulent drug raid that left two…

By LEAH WILLINGHAM Associated Press/Report for America JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Missisippi, one of the nation’s least vaccinated states, has…

CENTENNIAL, Colo. (AP) — A former Nevada prison inmate was sentenced Tuesday to three consecutive life sentences in the long-unsolved 1984 hammer…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Treasury Department is releasing a shipment of tiles that were intended for a northern Virginia mosque but were…

By JAMIE STENGLE and JULIE WATSON Associated Press DALLAS (AP) — Across the U.S., the agencies that resettle refugees and volunteers are scrambling…

LIMA, Peru (AP) — Peru’s foreign secretary has resigned amid criticism for comments he made about terrorism in the country in the late 20th…

NEW YORK (AP) — Gov. Andrew Cuomo has granted clemency to 10 people in his last days in office. Cuomo has issued pardons and clemencies on several…

ROCK HILL, S.C. (AP) — Nearly 30 years after an infant girl’s stabbed body was found floating on a South Carolina river, authorities have…

By STEVE KARNOWSKI Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The embattled chair of the Minnesota Republican Party says she won’t resign amid the…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United Kingdom is calling for an immediate and sustained pause in clashes and unrest…

By JUAN A. LOZANO Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — As the new school year begins for Texas students, at least four school districts have had to…

By JOSHUA GOODMAN Associated Press CLEVELAND (AP) — A major Thai asphalt company has been implicated for money laundering in a criminal complaint…

By CARLA K. JOHNSON AP Medical Writer U.S. health officials may soon recommend COVID-19 booster shots for fully vaccinated Americans. While many…

BY ALAN FRAM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Top Democrats are planning House votes next week on a budget resolution that would clear a path for…

By GARY D. ROBERTSON Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina lawmakers have finalized legislation to raise the minimum age to get…

By MICHELLE L. PRICE Associated Press After five frustrating years of mire and bureaucratic delays, Bahaudin Mujtaba and wife Lisa had hoped this…

By CHRISTINA A. CASSIDY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — House Democrats are offering a new proposal to update the landmark Voting Rights Act. The…

By DAVID BAUDER AP Media Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated trends in how people are watching television differently. A study…

By PAUL J. WEBER Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has tested positive for COVID-19. His office said Tuesday…

By ANDREA RODRÍGUEZ Associated Press HAVANA (AP) — Cuba’s government has spelled out laws against using social media or the internet to stir up…

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Acting United States Attorney Jennifer Arbittier Williams has announced Tuesday that a former United States Golf Association…

By PATTY NIEBERG Associated Press/Report for America DENVER (AP) — Colorado Gov. Jared Polis has rescinded a 19th century proclamation that called…

By BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Robert Durst has testified he would lie to get out of trouble and had lied during sworn…

GREENSBURG, Pa. (AP) — A former relief pitcher for the Pittsburgh Pirates has been sentenced to two to four years behind bars for statutory sexual…

By JONATHAN MATTISE and ADRIAN SAINZ Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — An order by the Tennessee governor letting parents opt their children…

KALAMAZOO, Mich. (AP) — The family of a man identified as a suspect in the fatal shooting of a deputy in southwestern Michigan said he had been…

By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer CANNES, France (AP) — Sean Penn is sort of done with movies. He’s still making them, here and there. But Penn is…

By RICK CALLAHAN Associated Press INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Indiana health officials say they are notifying nearly 750,000 residents that a cybersecurity…

By MOGOMOTSI MAGOME Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Health activists in Africa have slammed Johnson & Johnson for exporting vaccines…

By CARLOS VALDEZ and JOSHUA GOODMAN Associated Press LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) — Bolivia’s past interim government came to power by sidestepping…

By ZEINA KARAM and AYA BATRAWY Associated Press Many women in Afghanistan remain at home because they are too terrified to venture into a new world…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg has announced that he and husband Chasten have become parents.  Buttigieg, the first…

By STEPHEN GROVES Associated Press SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — A witness to an incident last week involving MyPillow chief executive Mike Lindell says…

By MATTHEW LEE, ASHRAF KHALIL and GARY FIELDS Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Multiple federal agencies that operated in Afghanistan and worked…

BEIRUT (AP) — Syrian state TV says Israel carried out a missile attack, targeting a military position in southern Syria. There was no immediate…

By CURT ANDERSON AP Legal Affairs Writer ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — A Florida judge has refused to close pretrial hearings to the media and public…

JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — A ship that sank four decades ago off Kodiak Island has suddenly started leaking diesel fuel, and last month’s…

By MEAD GRUVER Associated Press CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — A Missouri family alleges in a federal lawsuit that Yellowstone National Park rangers and…

BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Serbia’s autocratic leader Aleksandar Vucic has challenged Twitter to close his account like it did with Donald…

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — A jury has acquitted a Little Rock police officer who was accused of using excessive force in the 2016 fatal shooting of a…

By COREY WILLIAMS Associated Press Automaker FCA US has been fined $30 million after admitting that it paid off leaders of the United Auto Workers to…

PHOENIX (AP) — In a story published August 17, 2021, about a lawsuit seeking to overturn provisions of a new Arizona abortion law, The Associated…

By DAVID PITT Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — State Fairs in Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Minnesota and Wisconsin are offering COVID-19…

Associated Press NOUAKCHOTT, Mauritania (AP) — The Mauritanian Coast Guard has rescued a group of seven migrants from a stranded boat in the…

By GEOFF MULVIHILL Associated Press A member of the family that owns Purdue Pharma has told a court that the family will not contribute billions to…

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — A former North Carolina state lawmaker has received probation and a $1,000 fine after pleading guilty a year ago to an…

CLEARWATER, Fla. (AP) — A security camera at a Florida aquarium recorded a group of women changing clothes, and top executives watched the video.…