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By LORNE COOK Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg is blaming a failure of Afghan leadership for the swift…

By MARTIN CRUTSINGER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. factory production in July posted the strongest gain in 4 months, reflecting a…

By RUSS BYNUM Associated Press CALLAHAN, Fla. (AP) — A surge in coronavirus infections and hospitalizations that’s pounding Florida is…

SKOPJE, North Macedonia (AP) — North Macedonia’s foreign minister says the country expelled a Russian diplomat last week, the second this…

MADRID (AP) — Spanish officials are seeking to justify their policy of sending unaccompanied child migrants back to Morocco. Their explanations…

By SHAH ABBAS Associated Press SRINAGAR, India (AP) — Police in Indian-controlled Kashmir have fired tear gas and warning shots to disperse Shiite…

By JOSEPH PISANI AP Retail Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Americans cut back on their spending last month as a surge in COVID-19 cases kept people away…

By YURI KAGEYAMA Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga has officially expanded and extended the nation’s…

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran’s top leader has appointed a new chief for the country’s navy. The report by the official IRNA news agency said…

By MARK PRATT Associated Press Boston’s Old North Church is getting a $75,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities that will help…

By HUIZHONG WU Associated Press TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — A lawyer says Chinese citizen journalist Zhang Zhan who was sentenced to four years in jail…

By SARA RATHNER of NerdWallet Cryptocurrency is all over the news, and you likely know a few people who invest in crypto. But are you missing out if…

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland has told the European Union that it will shut down a chamber at its Supreme Court devoted to disciplining judges, an…

ROME (AP) — Archaeologists have discovered a remarkably well-preserved skeleton during excavations in the ancient city of Pompeii. The discovery of…

MOSCOW (AP) — A prototype military transport plane has crashed while performing a test flight outside Moscow, killing all three crew members on…

BEIJING (AP) — China says it’s willing to hold talks with the U.S. to promote a “soft landing” in Afghanistan, while heavily criticizing…

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel’s national fire chief says a massive wildfire that has consumed a large swath of forest west of Jerusalem has been…

TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Chinese fighter jets, anti-submarine aircraft and combat ships have conducted assault drills near Taiwan. The People’s…

By ELENA BECATOROS Associated Press ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Hundreds of firefighters backed by more than 30 water-dropping planes are gaining ground…

By DAVID RISING Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — The UN’s nuclear watchdog says Iran continues to produce uranium metal, which can be used in…

By KIRSTEN GRIESHABER Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — German rescue teams have recovered the body of a woman from the water and are still searching…

By DANIEL COLE and ANGELA CHARLTON Associated Press LA GARDE-FREINET, France (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron says firefighters have been…

By NICK PERRY Associated Press WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — New Zealand’s government has taken drastic action by putting the entire nation into…

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Sudoku creator Maki Kaji, whose life’s work was spreading the joy of puzzles, has died at age 69…

By AHMAD SEIR, RAHIM FAIEZ, KATHY GANNON and JOSEPH KRAUSS Associated Press KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — The Taliban have vowed to respect women’s…

By CONSTANTIN GOUVY Associated Press LE BOURGET, France (AP) — The poorest region in mainland France has managed to dramatically speed up its…

By JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — Asian stock markets have rebounded after Wall Street fell on weak retail sales as investors…

By SOPHENG CHEANG and DAVID RISING Associated Press PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — The defense team for the former head of state of Cambodia’s…

By TERENCE CHEA, ETHAN SWOPE and JOHN ANTCZAK Associated Press GRIZZLY FLATS, Calif. (AP) — Pacific Gas & Electric says it has begun shutting…

HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong’s leader Carrie Lam says organizations that cross “red lines” and disregard national security should disband,…

HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong will tighten entry restrictions for travelers arriving from the United States and 15 other countries beginning Friday,…

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Malaysia’s king is calling for an end to political bickering as he begins the process of selecting a new prime…

By BRYAN ANDERSON Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Tropical Depression Fred has weakened to a depression and spawned several apparent…

By ZEKE MILLER and MATTHEW PERRONE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — After struggling for months to persuade Americans to get the COVID-19…

By ROBERT BURNS, ELLEN KNICKMEYER and ZEKE MILLER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden’s national security adviser Jake…

By ROBERT BURNS AP National Security Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Built and trained at a two-decade cost of $83 billion, Afghan security forces…

By TERENCE CHEA Associated Press FIREBAUGH, Calif. (AP) — A deepening drought threatens California’s $6 billion almond industry, which produces…

By WILL WEISSERT and ALAN FRAM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans are lining up to blister President Joe Biden’s handling of…

By MARK STEVENSON and EVENS SANON Associated Press LES CAYES, Haiti (AP) — Officials in Haiti have raised the death toll from a powerful weekend…

By BHARATHA MALLAWARACHI Associated Press COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — When a 51-year-old tutor suffered a heart attack in Sri Lanka’s capital,…

By KEN RITTER and SAM METZ Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — Large events like concerts and football games in one of the nation’s…

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — New Mexico will begin routinely collecting demographic data about sexual orientation and gender identity during government…

By ADAM BEAM Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — The leader of the California Assembly has ordered all of its employees to receive the…

By DAVID BAUDER AP Media Writer NEW YORK (AP) — News organizations are juggling safety concerns with the demands of a rapidly-changing story on the…

By STEVE KARNOWSKI Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Prosecutors have asked a judge to reject a request by media outlets to unseal the names of…

DALLAS (AP) — A murder suspect has been released from jail after his trial was postponed when Dallas police revealed they had lost a massive amount…

By KEVIN McGILL Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — President Joe Biden’s administration is appealing a federal judge’s order that…

VANCOUVER, Wash. (AP) — The Pierce County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office says the fatal shooting of Kevin Peterson Jr., a Black man killed by…

By SOPHIA EPPOLITO Associated Press/Report for America SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A Utah reptile center employee is recovering after an alligator yanked…

By JIM MORRIS Associated Press VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) — Lawyers for a senior executive for Chinese communications giant Huawei…

By JAMES ANDERSON Associated Press The summer surge of the highly infectious delta variant of the coronavirus made for a disruptive start of the…

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — It’s video footage that could become some of the defining images of the fall of Kabul: Afghans desperate to escape…

By KATHLEEN RONAYNE Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California Gov. Gavin Newsom is sharpening his message as he hits the campaign trail…

HOUSTON (AP) — The attorney for a 2-year-old girl struck by a foul ball during a 2019 Houston Astros game at Minute Maid Park says the Astros have…

By STEVE KARNOWSKI Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A rapidly growing wildfire in northeastern Minnesota has expanded to at least 1,500 acres…

By JAMES MacPHERSON Associated Press BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — Bakken Energy and Mitsubishi Power Americas say they are acquiring a synthetic natural…

By EUGENE GARCIA Associated Press QUINCY, Calif. (AP) — Firefighters are keeping an eye on a lone, emaciated bear cub that may have lost its mother…

T-Mobile says it is investigating a leak of its data after someone took to an online forum offering to sell the personal information of cellphone…

By YURAS KARMANAU Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — A Belarusian activist who stabbed himself in the neck two months ago to protest political…

By HALELUYA HADERO AP Business Writer Edgar Villanueva is on a mission to change philanthropy. The 44-year-old racial justice activist argues…

KALAMAZOO, Mich. (AP) — Authorities say the suspect in the fatal shooting of a sheriff’s deputy in southwestern Michigan had been involved in a…

By ROBERT BURNS AP National Security Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Built and trained at a two-decade cost of $83 billion, Afghan security forces…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. Security Council is calling for an immediate end to violence in Afghanistan…

By BETH HARRIS Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Selma Blair says she’s in remission from multiple sclerosis as a result of undergoing stem…

By BRENDON DERR, RYLEE KIRK, ANNE MICKEY, ALLISON VAUGHN, MCKENNA LEAVENS and LEILANI FITZPATRICK Howard Center for Investigative Journalism…

NEW YORK (AP) — The publisher of such bestsellers as the “What to Expect” books for parents and the “Brain Quest” educational series has…

By BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — New York real estate heir Robert Durst has testified that he lied for years about sending…

By BOBBY CAINA CALVAN and JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press New York (AP) — Vaccine mandates are expanding in New York. The state ordered hospital…

MOSCOW (AP) — Russian officials say the bodies of all eight victims of a tourism helicopter crash in Russia’s far-east region of Kamchatka have…

By KEVIN McGILL Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Planned Parenthood is asking a federal appeals court to reconsider the question of whether the…

By ROB HARRIS AP Global Soccer Writer LONDON (AP) — Former Afghanistan women’s national team captain Khalida Popal can hear the distress and…

By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer CANNES, France (AP) — In Leos Carax’s “Annette,” an enchantingly demented rock opera, Adam Driver sings in some…

DRYDEN TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) — A former Michigan congressman who quit the Republican Party to protest GOP efforts to overturn Joe Biden’s victory…

By HALELUYA HADERO and GLENN GAMBOA AP Business Writers Humanitarian aid is flowing into Haiti following Saturday’s deadly 7.2-magnitude…

CAIRO (AP) — Sudanese leaders have visited a disputed area along the country’s eastern borders with Ethiopia. The visit to al-Fashaqa area comes…

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — The U.S. company Discovery Inc. says it has been granted a Dutch license that would allow it to keep broadcasting its…

By SAM METZ AP / Report for America CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) — Republican Adam Laxalt has filed to run for U.S. Senate in Nevada, setting the stage…

By CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — Police in Nigeria say gunmen have abducted 15 students and four staffers from a school in…

MOSCOW (AP) — The Russian embassy in Kabul has alleged that Afghan President Ashraf Ghani fled from Kabul with four cars and a helicopter stuffed…

By PAN PYLAS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — British Defense Secretary Ben Wallace has held back tears as he conceded that Britain was unlikely to…

By TODD RICHMOND Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — One of the Catholic church’s top officials and fiercest critics of Pope Francis has…

By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Tune in to catch “Nine Perfect Strangers” and you’ll find drama and suspense. But…

By RALPH D. RUSSO AP College Football Writer Alabama is No. 1 in The Associated Press Top 25 preseason college football poll for fourth time in the…

By KRISTIN M. HALL AP Entertainment Writer NASHVILLE, Ten.. (AP) — R&B legend Ray Charles, who helped redefine country music in the Civil…

By SOPHIA TAREEN Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — Five years after Barack Obama chose a Chicago site for his presidential center, construction has…

By SYLVIA HUI and LORNE COOK Associated Press LONDON (AP) — European leaders say they will press for a unified international approach to dealing…

By DARIA LITVINOVA Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — An Afghan military plane crashed in Uzbekistan over the weekend and Uzbek authorities issued…

By VANESSA GERA Associated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s government says its ambassador to Israel will remain in Poland until further…

By SAMYA KULLAB Associated Press A young Afghan woman stands between two worlds at Kabul’s airport, engulfed in panic as thousands of Afghans…

CHICAGO (AP) — Chicago police say a 7-year-old girl was fatally shot and her 6-year-old sister was seriously wounded when someone opened fire as…

By JAY REEVES Associated Press Health officials have an unsteady partner as they try to get more people vaccinated against COVID-19 in the Bible…

BANGKOK (AP) — Thai police and anti-government protesters have clashed for a second straight day in Bangkok as anger over the handling of the…

By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Marc Maron, Bill Maher, Michelle Wolf, Ronny Chieng and Nick Kroll will headline this…

By MATTHEW PERRONE AP Health Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The former head of the Food and Drug Administration says there is a strong case for…

BEIJING (AP) — Chinese prosecutors say Chinese-Canadian pop star Kris Wu has been arrested on suspicion of rape. The high-profile case followed an…