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By WAFAA SHURAFA and SAM MEDNICK Associated Press DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza (AP) — Atef Al-Buhaisi, 6, once dreamed of a career building houses. Now, all…

BANGKOK (AP) — FIFA will seek independent legal advice before holding an extraordinary council meeting by July 25 to make a decision on a…

By STEVE KARNOWSKI Associated Press ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — After 73 years and a long fight with the Army, a Korean War veteran from Minnesota who…

By HUIZHONG WU and EMILY WANG FUJIYAMA Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin is focusing on trade and cultural exchanges…

By ELLIOT SPAGAT Associated Press JACUMBA HOT SPRINGS, Calif. (AP) — On many nights, hundreds of migrants squeeze through poles in a border wall or…

By JEFF MARTIN and CURT ANDERSON Associated Press STONECREST, Ga. (AP) — A funeral will be held Friday for a Black U.S. Air Force senior airman who…

By TOM KRISHER and KIM CHANDLER Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — The United Auto Workers union faces the latest test of its ambitious plan to…

By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Catholic Church has a long and controversial history of the faithful claiming to have…

By MEGAN JANETSKY Associated Press HUITZILAC, Mexico (AP) — Cartel violence haunted the central Mexican town of Huitzilac days after a mass…

By MOLLY QUELL Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Israel will respond to charges of genocide at the United Nations’ top court after…

By STEVE KARNOWSKI Associated Press ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Former President Donald Trump’s break from his hush money trial in New York includes a…

By MORGAN LEE Associated Press SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — A New Mexico judge is considering Alec Baldwin’s request to dismiss a grand jury…

By DIDI TANG Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Taiwan is reducing its reliance on the Chinese mainland as it seeks to insulate itself from…

By SHARON LURYE Associated Press On May 17, 1954, the Supreme Court laid out a new precedent: Separate but equal has no place in American schools.…

By LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — An upside-down American flag, a symbol associated with former President Donald Trump’s…

HOUSTON (AP) — Power has been knocked out to nearly 900,000 homes and businesses in the Houston area as southeastern Texas gets pummeled by severe…

SYDNEY (AP) — Football Australia says three A-League players have been arrested for alleged betting corruption after police claimed they…

By HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — The influential sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has again denied that her…

KENT, Wash. (AP) — A suburban Seattle police officer ignored his training and unnecessarily resorted to deadly force when he shot and killed a man…

By LISA MASCARO AP Congressional Correspondent Leaving Washington behind, prominent far-right House Republicans who have pushed this Congress into…

By ADAM BEAM Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s administration says it will cost more than $20 billion…

By TRÂN NGUYỄN and SOPHIE AUSTIN Associated Press/Report for America SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California lawmakers on Thursday voted to keep…

By JUAN A. LOZANO Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — Prosecutors and defense attorneys have discussed in court whether classified documents might play…

By LEA SKENE Associated Press BALTIMORE (AP) — Growing up in the streets of east Baltimore surrounded by poverty and gun violence, two kids named…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United Nations is reporting improved economic prospects since its January forecast…

By MARGERY A. BECK Associated Press OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A measure to repeal a now-defunct Nebraska law that would use public money to fund private…

By ANDREW DeMILLO Associated Press LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Justice Department documents show a federal prosecutor in Arkansas stepped down from…

By MATTHEW BROWN Associated Press BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — The Biden administration on Thursday proposed an end to new coal leasing from federal…

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The American Civil Liberties Union has filed a complaint against a Mississippi school district over a dress code policy based…

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — An Oregon man who met two 15-year-old girls on Snapchat, sexually abused them while traveling through three states and…

By MATTHEW BARAKAT Associated Press Google is asking that a federal judge, rather than a jury, decide whether it violated U.S. antitrust laws by…

By The Associated Press Every WNBA team will start using charter flights to travel to games by May 21. The league is following through on plans to…

By ELLEN KNICKMEYER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A U.S.-built pier is in place to bring humanitarian aid to Gaza by sea, but no one will know…

By JEFF AMY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — A federal judge is rejecting a lawsuit by a former Democratic congressman running for Georgia state…

By MICHAEL PHILLIS Associated Press ST. LOUIS (AP) — The Environmental Protection Agency watchdog said the agency distributed about $3 billion to…

By COLLEEN SLEVIN Associated Press DENVER (AP) — A man has been convicted of killing four people at his ex-girlfriend’s home in suburban Denver…

By LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Pentagon officials are cautiously optimistic that an overall decline in reported sexual…

By ANDREW DeMILLO Associated Press LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — The Arkansas Supreme Court has upheld four voting restrictions passed by Republican…

By JOSH FUNK AP Business Writer A key Boeing supplier that makes the fuselages for its popular 737 Max airplanes is laying off about 450 workers.…

UNION CITY, Ga. (AP) — An Atlanta police officer who authorities say shot and killed a Lyft driver who was driving him home was arrested and…

By LEKAN OYEKANMI and VALERIE GONZALEZ Associated Press GALVESTON, Texas (AP) — The U.S. Coast Guard says early estimates show a barge collision in…

LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Six men face charges in connection with the theft of more than 400 vehicles worth about $8 million in Michigan. The state…

By SUDHIN THANAWALA Associated Press Five Americans are facing prison sentences of up to 12 years in the Turks and Caicos Islands on charges they…

LIMA, Peru (AP) — Peruvian lawmakers have begun yet another effort to remove President Dina Boluarte from office as authorities continue various…

By GERALD IMRAY Associated Press CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — Prosecutors say former South African President Jacob Zuma will go on trial for…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The sports streaming platform planned by ESPN, Fox and Warner Bros. Discovery finally has a name. The joint venture will be…

By SUSAN HAIGH Associated Press A former top official in Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont’s budget office has pleaded not guilty to extortion, bribery,…

By ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department has announced three arrests in a complex stolen identity scheme that…

By REBECCA SANTANA and ELLIOT SPAGAT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration is creating a new process aimed at cutting the…

By JIM VERTUNO Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas Gov. Greg Abbot issued a full pardon Thursday to a former U.S. Army sergeant convicted…

By EVELYNE MUSAMBI Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Ethiopia lodged a complaint over statements by the U.S. ambassador after he said the…

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — A major North Carolina political donor and his associate have been convicted a second time of attempting to bribe the…

By RONALD BLUM AP Baseball Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Bad Bunny’s sports representation firm sued the baseball players’ association Thursday,…

By WILL GRAVES AP National Writer SPRING, Texas (AP) — Gymnastics star Simone Biles says she is better equipped to handle the challenges that await…

By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer CANNES, France (AP) — Francis Ford Coppola on Thursday premiered his self-financed opus “Megalopolis” at the…

By ED WHITE Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — A Detroit man who dropped a teenager’s body into a dumpster has been convicted of second-degree…

By YURAS KARMANAU Associated Press TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Authorities in Belarus have announced raids and the seizure of property of 104…

FORT MCMURRAY, Alberta (AP) — A wildfire that has forced thousands of people out of their homes in Canada’s oil sands hub city of Fort McMurray,…

By EVELYNE MUSAMBI Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — The government of South Sudan and rebel opposition groups have signed a “commitment…

By SETH BORENSTEIN AP Science Writer Scientists say temperatures that have gone “crazy haywire” hot, especially in the Atlantic, are close to…

By JUAN A. LOZANO Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — A Texas judge has ruled in favor of a Republican candidate challenging the results in a 2022…

By JOSH DUBOW AP Pro Football Writer Creating the NFL schedule is a complicated process that requires tens of thousands of computers coming up with…

ROME (AP) — An aid group says that the number of unaccompanied children who arrived in the northern Italian city of Trieste through the Balkan…

By MEG KINNARD Associated Press Florida congressman Matt Gaetz has evoked language adopted by the far-right Proud Boys extremist group as he supports…

By JIM SALTER Associated Press Police records show that officers responded nearly 1,000 times in the past three years to an Iowa juvenile treatment…

By AAMER MADHANI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden has marked the 70th anniversary of the Supreme Court decision that struck…

By The Associated Press Slovakian Prime Minister Robert Fico was gravely injured in an apparent assassination attempt that rocked the small country…

By MAYSOON KHAN Associated Press/Report for America ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — A disability rights advocate made a complaint to New York State Police…

ROHNERT PARK, Calif. (AP) — The chancellor of the California State University system has suspended the president of its Sonoma campus for…

DENVER (AP) — A fiery crash involving a tanker truck has shut down a stretch of Colorado’s main east-west highway on the outskirts of Denver. The…

By ZEKE MILLER and JILL COLVIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden campaign says Vice President Kamala Harris has accepted an invitation…

PHOENIX (AP) — Authorities say a truck driver has been killed after a tank holding waste material depressurized at a Phoenix facility that is being…

By GARY D. ROBERTSON Associated Press A statue of the late Rev. Billy Graham has been unveiled at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, where it will stand…

By MARTÍN ADAMES ALCÁNTARA and MEGAN JANETSKY Associated Press VERON, Dominican Republic (AP) — As soaring violence and political turmoil grip…

By STAN CHOE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Through its long history, the Dow Jones Industrial Average has offered a way for people to get a…

By LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department on Thursday formally moved to reclassify marijuana as a less…

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A Minnesota state trooper who’s charged with murder for fatally shooting a motorist as he tried to pull away from a traffic…

By JEFF MARTIN and CURT ANDERSON Associated Press STONECREST, Ga. (AP) — A lawyer for the family of Roger Fortson says the bodycam footage of the…

By MIKE CATALINI and LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Sen. Bob Menendez says his wife has breast cancer and will require a…

By ZENEL ZHINIPOTOKU and LLAZAR SEMINI Associated Press PRISTINA, Kosovo (AP) — Kosovo’s government is making a last-minute effort to convince…

By SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin election officials have voted to provide more details to voters than normal to avoid…

By FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. Chairman Martin Gruenberg is sitting for a second day of…

By STEPHEN GROVES Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republicans plan to deliver a rebuke to President Joe Biden for putting a pause on a…

By MATT OTT AP Business Writer The average rate on a 30-year mortgage in the U.S. fell for the second straight week, giving some relief to home…

By RAF CASERT Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — In an increasingly vitriolic political climate, the last thing needed in the runup to the June…

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Authorities say human bones found inside the chimney of a Wisconsin music store in 1989 have been identified as those of a man…

By BOUAZZA BEN BOUAZZA and SAM METZ Associated Press TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — Lawyers in Tunisia took to the streets on Thursday to protest a string…

By MARK SHERMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Thursday rejected a conservative-led attack that could have undermined the…

By RYAN KRYSKA AP Sports Writer EA Sports has revealed an image of the College Football 25 cover that features Michigan running back Donovan Edwards,…

By MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — The Webb Space Telescope has discovered the earliest known merger of black holes.…

BOSTON (AP) — A Massachusetts teen who participated in a spicy tortilla chip challenge on social media died from ingesting a substance containing a…

By MARIA SHERMAN AP Music Writer Drake is the leading nominee for next month’s BET Awards, followed closely by Nicki Minaj. The Canadian rapper…

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Xander Schauffele made four birdies over his first seven holes Thursday to kick off the PGA Championship, while Tiger Woods…

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — A Turkish court has sentenced dozens pro-Kurdish politicians to between nine and 30 years in prison over deadly riots that…

By JAN M. OLSEN Associated Press COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — A majority of European Union countries are calling for more agreements with countries…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The head of the association representing athletic directors of Football Bowl Subdivision schools is stepping down this fall after…

By WILL GRAVES AP National Writer SPRING, Texas (AP) — Gymnastics star Simone Biles says she is better equipped to handle the challenges that await…

MADRID (AP) — Spanish police say they have dismantled a major methamphetamine distribution network of the Mexican Sinaloa cartel after making a…

By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — To say Cage the Elephant’s latest album had a turbulent birth would be an understatement.…

By TERESA CRAWFORD Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — Police have dismantled a pro-Palestinian encampment early Thursday at DePaul University in…