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By TAMEEM AKHGAR, RAHIM FAIEZ and JON GAMBRELL Associated Press KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — The Taliban have captured two major Afghan cities, the…

By ASHOK SHARMA Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — An Indian rocket has failed in its attempt to put a satellite into orbit to provide real-time…

By JOE McDONALD and NG HAN GUAN Associated Press DANDONG, China (AP) — A Chinese court has sentenced a Canadian entrepreneur to 11 years in prison…

By NICK PERRY Associated Press WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — New Zealand plans to begin a cautious reopening of its borders to international…

By MARY CLARE JALONICK, MICHAEL BALSAMO and ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Senators have met privately with a former U.S. attorney…

By GARY FIELDS and MICHAEL BALSAMO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge has cleared the way for a defamation case by Dominion Voting…

By ROBERT BURNS and LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Afghan government forces are collapsing even faster than in the worst-case…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — An Army veteran who plotted to bomb a white supremacist rally in Southern California has been convicted of federal charges that…

CHICAGO (AP) — An Indiana man charged with supplying the semiautomatic handgun used to shoot two Chicago police officers — one fatally — has…

By MICHAEL BALSAMO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The NAACP is urging the Justice Department to investigate whether a federal crime was being…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — When the Tokyo Olympics began during a rising number of coronavirus cases, the majority of the host…

ASHBURN, Va, (AP) — A northern Virginia school board has voted to expand access for transgender students to school facilities and groups. The…

GREENVILLE, Calif. (AP) — California’s largest single wildfire in recorded history continued to grow after destroying more than 1,000 buildings,…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Authorities say a California surfing school owner has been charged with killing his two young children with a spear gun in…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican icon Vicente Fernandez is in critical but stable condition after being hospitalized for a fall last week, according to…

ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — A judge has agreed to keep in place a Sept. 28 sentencing date for the gunman found criminally responsible in the shooting…

By PAUL J. WEBER and ACACIA CORONADO Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas Republicans are ratcheting up efforts to end a 31-day standoff…

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A federal judge in San Francisco has ordered a new mental health evaluation for a Mexican man acquitted of murder in the 2015…

By DÁNICA COTO Associated Press SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Puerto Rico’s governor says all employees at restaurants or other enclosed places…

By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — A helicopter carrying tourists has crashed into a deep volcanic crater lake on the Kamchatka…

By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Salvator Mundi, a painting of Jesus Christ attributed to Leonardo da Vinci, has been enveloped in…

By JOHN RABY Associated Press CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — The owner of a shuttered pharmaceutical plant that recently idled hundreds of workers has…

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Police have confirmed that two members a hip-hop group with ties to the multiplatinum rap group Wu-Tang Clan were fatally…

By JUAN ZAMORANO Associated Press PANAMA CITY (AP) — The governments of Panama and Colombia have agreed to impose a daily limit on the number of…

By JONATHAN LEMIRE and LISA MASCARO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden’s belief that bipartisanship is still possible in a…

By MALLIKA SEN The Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — After months of holding on to power, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo abruptly resigned Tuesday. What…

By YURAS KARMANAU Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Belarus says it has rescinded its permission for the U.S. ambassador’s appointment…

By LAURAN NEERGAARD AP Medical Writer Researchers report a third dose of Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine substantially improved protection for organ…

By JIM MORRIS Associated Press VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) — A Canadian justice department lawyer says a senior executive for Chinese…

By SONIA PÉREZ D. Associated Press GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — Central American migrants being expelled by the U.S. and flown deep into Mexico for…

By DAVID SHARP Associated Press PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — The Postal Service’s aging fleet of trucks is soldiering on even as a contract for greener…

By TODD RICHMOND Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wildlife officials in Wisconsin have set a 300-animal limit for this fall’s wolf hunt.…

By MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Scientists have fine-tuned the path of the asteroid Bennu and say the odds of it…

NEW YORK (AP) — A Taiwanese man has been sentenced to six years in prison after admitting to defrauding a program designed to rescue businesses…

LAURENS, S.C. (AP) — Authorities in Laurens, South Carolina, say a 28-year-old man is facing charges after tattooing a child inside a fast-food…

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) — Heat and humidity broiled parts of Indiana, Illinois, Michigan and other midwestern states Wednesday while storms…

By NICHOLAS RICCARDI and MIKE SCHNEIDER Associated Press Almost 120 years ago, African American domestic workers settled in the Como neighborhood of…

By DARIA LITVINOVA Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — Russian authorities have levied new criminal charges against imprisoned opposition leader Alexei…

By VANESSA GERA Associated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s parliament has passed a law that would prevent former Polish property owners,…

ST. HENRY, Ohio (AP) — Authorities in Ohio say three brothers have died after they were overcome by fumes in a manure pit. Rescue crews found the…

By TAMEEM AKHGAR and JON GAMBRELL Associated Press KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Officials says the Taliban seized three more Afghan provincial…

By ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — House Democrats who have spent years investigating Donald Trump are entitled to some of the…

By KEN RITTER Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — A prosecutor told a judge that a Las Vegas homeowner accused of shooting three tenants after an…

By MICHELLE CHAPMAN and DAVID KOENIG AP Business Writers Southwest Airlines says it no longer expects to be profitable in its third quarter. Its…

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — A former Florida deputy who worked at a school for children with emotional and behavioral problems has been fired…

By STACEY PLAISANCE Associated Press JEFFERSON, La. (AP) — The rapidly escalating surge in COVID-19 infections is once again overwhelming hospitals…

NEW YORK (AP) — R&B star R. Kelly will face an anonymous jury made up of seven men and five women when his New York City sex trafficking trial…

By LISA RATHKE Associated Press A former Vermont ski resort president has reached a plea deal over a failed plan to build a biotechnology plant using…

By BRIAN SLODYSKO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrats are renewing their push to enact their marquee elections bill. They’re…

NEW YORK (AP) — Former NFL player Nate Burleson will join ‘CBS This Morning’ as one of the show’s three co-hosts next month. Burleson…

By FARAI MUTSAKA Associated Press LUSAKA, Zambia (AP) — Zambia’s main opposition leader has warned the military deployed on the streets ahead of…

By SUZAN FRASER Associated Press ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkish officials say heavy rains have triggered severe floods and mudslides in northern…

By LYNN ELBER AP Television Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — A new host has been chosen for the long-running “Jeopardy!” to fill the void left…

By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN Associated Press ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — A top executive with global energy giant Iberdrola is promising more perks if…

By SARA CLINE Associated Press/Report for America PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Gov. Kate Brown on Tuesday announced a statewide indoor mask requirement…

By LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The highly contagious delta variant is fueling a surge in coronavirus cases as…

By ANDREW DALTON AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Real estate heir Robert Durst testified at his murder trial that he has changed his…

KINGSTON, N.H. (AP) — A man has pleaded guilty to a disorderly conduct charge stemming from an explosive gender reveal party that was heard by…

By GILLIAN FLACCUS Associated Press PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — People have headed to cooling centers as the Pacific Northwest began sweltering under…

RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — Palestinian health officials say a man has succumbed to a gunshot wound suffered during clashes with Israeli forces last…

By NICHOLAS K. GERANIOS Associated Press ROCKFORD, Wash. (AP) — A drought in eastern Washington state that is the worst since 1977 has devastated…

By VANESSA GERA Associated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s parliament has voted in favor of a bill that would force Discovery Inc., the U.S.…

By ALAN FRAM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer is conceding that Democrats face a tough pathway to delivering…

By MOGOMOTSI MAGOME Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — South African President Cyril Ramaphosa on Wednesday said he tried to combat corruption he…

By MARTIN CRUTSINGER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. budget deficit hit $2.54 trillion for the first 10 months of this budget year,…

By CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — Nigeria’s information minister says the government soon will lift the country’s…

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer Asian shares are mixed as caution set in among investors following another wobbly day of trading on Wall Street.…

By MARINA VILLENEUVE and JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York Lt. Gov. Kathy Hochul is pledging to set a better tone in…

By JOCELYN GECKER and KATHLEEN RONAYNE Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — California will become the first state in the nation to require all…

By LINDSEY TANNER and MIKE STOBBE AP Medical Writers The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is urging all pregnant women to get vaccinated…

BERLIN (AP) — The German government has agreed to provide 30 billion euros ($35 billion) to help rebuild regions hit by devastating floods last…

By TARIK EL BARAKAH Associated Press RABAT, Morocco (AP) — The foreign ministers of Israel and Morocco have signed three accords in a new step…

By DÁNICA COTO Associated Press SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Tropical Storm Fred has weakened to a tropical depression while sweeping over the…

By HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The only child of Alfred Hitchcock has died. Pat Hitchcock, who made a memorable appearance in…

By The Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — YouTube has suspended U.S. Sen. Rand Paul for seven days after the Kentucky Republican posted a…