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HENDERSONVILLE, N.C. (AP) — A North Carolina aquarium said in February that a stingray became pregnant with no male companion in its tank and now…

By LAURA UNGAR AP Science Writer Scientists have found the genetic root of a disorder that causes intellectual disability, which they estimate…

By PAUL J. WEBER and JAMIE STENGLE Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The Texas Supreme Court on Friday rejected a challenge to one of the most…

By LEAH ASKARINAM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The general election for a race that could determine the Senate majority begins right after…

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Officials in Poland say that a fake news report saying that Prime Minister Donald Tusk was mobilizing 200,000 men starting on…

By MATTHEW PERRONE AP Health Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal health regulators are set to review the first request to approve the mind-altering…

By SETH BORENSTEIN, MARY KATHERINE WILDEMAN and ANITA SNOW Associated Press David Hom suffered from diabetes and felt nauseated before he went out to…

PARIS (AP) — The French interior minister says security authorities have foiled a plan to attack soccer events during the Paris Olympics. Gerald…

By KEN MILLER Associated Press While more than 243,000 people in Texas remain without power following severe storms this week, another round of…

By PATRICK ORSAGOS and JULIE CARR SMYTH Associated Press CLEVELAND (AP) — Imprisoned former Ohio House Speaker Larry Householder has pleaded not…

By LEAH ASKARINAM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — South Dakota Republicans’ tug-of-war over their party identity continues in Tuesday’s…

By MARYCLAIRE DALE Legal Affairs Writer In the familiar images that circulated after her June 1994 death, Nicole Brown Simpson appears frozen in…

By ALI SWENSON Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — As high-stakes elections approach in the U.S. and European Union, publicly available artificial…

BEIJING (AP) — China says it will be “‘hard to meet” calls for discussions on the Russia-Ukraine war because of problems with arrangements.…

JERUSALEM (AP) — The Israeli military has confirmed that its forces are operating in central parts of Rafah in its expanding offensive in the…

By MAYA SWEEDLER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Voters in New Jersey will choose candidates vying to replace Democratic Sen. Bob Menendez, who…

By FARNOUSH AMIRI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A bipartisan group of lawmakers has introduced legislation targeting Iranian officials…

By KELVIN CHAN AP Business Writer LONDON (AP) — The European Union is adding Chinese online retailer Temu to its list of platforms facing the…

BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union has slapped more sanctions on North Korea over its continued efforts to develop ballistic and nuclear missiles…

By MICHELLE CHAPMAN AP Business Writer Tesla is recalling more than 125,000 vehicles to fix a seat belt warning system that may increase the risk of…

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — A price gauge closely tracked by the Federal Reserve cooled slightly last month, a…

By MUIR AHMED Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — A new study by the United Nations children’s agency says developing resilient energy systems to…

By ROBERT YOON Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrats in the nation’s capital will get their chance to weigh in on the race for the White…

MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) — Vermont has become the first state to enact a law requiring fossil fuel companies pay a share of the damage caused by…

VOVCHANSK, Ukraine (AP) — The Associated Press has obtained rare drone footage of the destroyed ruins of the embattled town of Vovchansk in…

By MAYA SWEEDLER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — New Mexico voters will be among the last to cast ballots for presidential nominees when the…

By MICHELLE CHAPMAN AP Business Writer Shares of Trump Media & Technology Group, the owner of social networking site Truth Social, rebounded…

By ROBERT YOON Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Iowa voters will cast ballots in primaries for the narrowly divided U.S. House as well as the…

SANTA CRUZ, Calif. (AP) — Police with batons have approached protesters at the University of California, Santa Cruz. It isn’t immediately…

BERLIN (AP) — Police say an assailant with a knife has attacked and wounded several people in a square in the southwestern German city of Mannheim.…

By ROBERT YOON Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The 2024 presidential primary calendar is drawing to a close with a handful of primaries on…

By MICHELLE L. PRICE and JILL COLVIN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Being convicted of a felony — let alone 34 of them – is the kind of blow…

MOSCOW (AP) — A Russian court has ordered a detained Russian American journalist to be held in jail until Aug. 5 pending her trial on charges of…

NEW YORK (AP) — A day after a New York jury delivered a historic guilty verdict in Donald Trump’s criminal hush money trial, the presumptive…

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — The four members of the Swedish pop quartet ABBA, who triumphed at the 1974 Eurovision Song Contest with the peppy love…

BANGKOK (AP) — Thai police say they have broken up a large network that illegally helped foreigners, mostly Russians, to stay in Thailand long-term…

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Papua New Guinea’s prime minister has visited the site of a massive landslide that is…

By JUSTIN SPIKE Associated Press BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán is pushing back against some NATO proposals that…

By The Associated Press The French interior minister says French authorities in New Caledonia have regained full control of their Pacific…

By DAVID McHUGH AP Business Writer FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — Inflation ticked up to an annual 2.6% in Europe in May. The new figure released on…

BRATISLAVA, Slovakia (AP) — Slovakia’s populist prime minister, Robert Fico, has been released from hospital where he was treated after an…

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — South Africa is heading closer to the reality of a national coalition government for the first time as partial election results…

By ILLIA NOVIKOV Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian officials say Russian ballistic missiles have slammed into an apartment block in…

By JON GAMBRELL and LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Joint British-U.S. airstrikes targeting Yemen’s Houthi…

By MATTHEW LEE and KAREL JANICEK Associated Press PRAGUE (AP) — NATO foreign ministers are meeting in the Czech capital to prepare for this…

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Saudi Arabia says it will sell a second sliver of stock in its state oil giant Aramco worth billions of dollars,…

By FRANCIS KOKUTSE Associated Press ACCRA, Ghana (AP) — A toddler in the West African country of Ghana has set the record as the world’s youngest…

By PAOLO SANTALUCIA, GIADA ZAMPANO, ANNIE RISEMBERG and BOUBACAR DIALLO Associated Press ROME (AP) — The suicide of a young man from Guinea inside…

By PAOLO SANTALUCIA, GIADA ZAMPANO, ANNIE RISEMBERG and BOUBACAR DIALLO Associated Press ROME (AP) — It was still dark and quiet outside when…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The UN refugee chief says the number of people fleeing their homes because of war,…

By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer Asian shares were higher on Friday as investors shrugged off yet another decline on Wall Street, while an…

By JOVANA GEC Associated Press BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Voters in Serbia will go to the polls this weekend in a municipal election in dozens of…

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A former speaker of Iran’s parliament has registered as a possible candidate in the Islamic Republic’s June…

By DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Marie Scott experienced British forces landing on the Normandy coast through her earphones.…

By DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — As a young Women’s Royal Naval Service officer in World War II, Christian Lamb tried to make…

By DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Pat Owtram didn’t need to go to war. It came to her. As the Nazis took control of Germany and…

By DAVE COLLINS Associated Press Family and friends of Jennifer Dulos are expected to offer emotional testimony as her late husband’s former…

By DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Dorothea Barron got a sneak preview of the Normandy landings from a watchtower on the coast of…

By ADAM BEAM Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California Gov. Gavin Newsom is facing criticism for his proposal to eliminate an optional…

By DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — What did you do in the war, Granny? For British women who came of age during World War II, the…

By OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ Associated Press SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — A California judge is considering whether to recall the death sentence of a man…

By TERESA DE MIGUEL, MEGAN JANETSKY AND RODRIGO ABD Associated Press AKTUN TUYUL CAVE SYSTEM, Mexico (AP) — Mexico’s outgoing leader has rapidly…

By TERESA DE MIGUEL, MEGAN JANETSKY AND RODRIGO ABD Associated Press Aktun Tuyul Cave System, MEXICO (AP) — Mexico’s outgoing leader has rapidly…

By MATTHEW BROWN Associated Press COLSTRIP, Mont. (AP) — Actions by President Joe Biden’s administration that could hasten closures of…

By ANDREW DeMILLO Associated Press LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — A new federal regulation protecting the rights of transgender students has prompted…

By KRUTIKA PATHI and SHEIKH SAALIQ Associated Press SAMASTIPUR, India (AP) — Narendra Modi swept to power a decade ago on promises to transform…

By JONATHAN MATTISE Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A federal lawsuit claims police officers in a Tennessee city were paid off to obstruct…

By FERNANDA FIGUEROA Associated Press Earning her bachelor’s degree from the University of California at Riverside was surreal for Angelina Chavez,…

By GEIR MOULSON Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — An unpopular government with a reputation for constant infighting. An economy stuck in a rut. A…

By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer An official survey shows that factory activity in China slowed more than expected in May, suggesting further…

By DAVE CAMPBELL AP Sports Writer MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Luka Doncic had a 20-point first quarter on his way to 36 points for his high this postseason,…

By DAVID RISING Associated Press SINGAPORE (AP) — Top defense officials, government leaders and diplomats from around the world are gathering in…

By STEPHEN McGRATH and NICOLAE DUMITRACHE Associated Press BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — Andrew Tate, the divisive social media influencer awaiting…

By HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea says that leader Kim Jong Un has supervised firing drills involving the…

By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN Associated Press ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — A New Mexico judge has granted Mark Zuckerberg’s request to be dropped from…

By MICHAEL R. SISAK, JENNIFER PELTZ, MICHELLE PRICE and JILL COLVIN Associated Press Writers NEW YORK (AP) — History happened just as everyone was…

BY FARAI MUTSAKA Associated Press NKANDLA, South Africa (AP) — Some young South Africans in a poor, rural area of rolling hills were determined to…

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Two Minneapolis police officers and four civilians were injured Thursday in what officials are calling an active-shooter…

By STEVE PEOPLES AP National Political Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Having been convicted of 34 felonies, Donald Trump cannot own a gun, hold public…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The divided U.N. Security Council has voted to extend an arms embargo on South Sudan…

SOUTHINGTON, Conn. (AP) — A Connecticut state trooper has been killed after getting hit by a car while making a traffic stop on an interstate…

By MARY CLARE JALONICK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican lawmakers are reacting with fury to the felony conviction of former President…

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — The U.S. Department of Labor wants a federal judge to prevent Hyundai and two other Alabama companies from what the…

MIAMI (AP) — Two Citgo oil executives detained for nearly five years in Venezuela have sued their former employer for more than $400 million. The…

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A Minneapolis teenager has been sentenced to more than 30 years for a fatal shooting that shut down the Mall of America during…

By ANDREW SELIGMAN AP Sports Writer CHICAGO (AP) — The Chicago Bears are set to be featured on “Hard Knocks” for the first time. HBO and the…

By BEN NUCKOLS Associated Press OXON HILL, Md. (AP) — Bruhat Soma is undefeated in his last three spelling bees. The 12-year-old won the Words of…

By MICHAEL R. SISAK, JILL COLVIN, MICHELLE L. PRICE and ALANNA DURKIN RICHER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump’s conviction on 34…

NEW YORK (AP) — Former President Donald Trump has been found guilty on all 34 counts in his criminal hush money trial. It is the first time a…

By MARCO DI MARCO Associated Press GRINDAVIK, Iceland (AP) — Lava continues to spurt from a volcano in southwestern Iceland but the activity has…

By NICHOLAS RICCARDI Associated Press DENVER (AP) — Donald Trump may be convicted of a felony and reside in Florida, a state notorious for…

COMMERCE CITY, Colo. (AP) — Police in Colorado say a man’s sturdy necklace probably saved his life by blocking a bullet fired at his neck. The…

By MICHELLE CHAPMAN AP Business Writer Shares of Trump Media & Technology Group, the owner of social networking site Truth Social, have slumped…

By JOE REEDY AP Sports Writer The conference finals and Bronny James’ decision to remain in the draft are far from the only things dominating NBA…

By LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — American officials say the U.S. and Britain have struck 13 Houthi targets in several…

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — U.S. ambassador to the Vatican and former U.S. Senator Joe Donnelly is stepping down and returning to Indiana. President Joe…

By SPENCER RIPCHIK Associated Press SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. (AP) — Saratoga Race Course is getting ready to be the center of the horse racing world…

By GERALD IMRAY Associated Press The real politicking in South Africa may start after the election results are announced as the country faces the…

AZUSA, Calif. (AP) — Authorities say an 81-year-old man who investigators alleged had terrorized a Southern California neighborhood for years with…

By HOLLY RAMER Associated Press CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — A commercial truck driver who was acquitted in the 2019 deaths of seven motorcyclists in New…