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By SAMUEL PETREQUIN Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — Belgium authorities are getting worried by a series of school arsons believed to be connected…

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — Alabama is marking the 60th anniversary of one of the most heinous acts during the Civil Rights Movement, the 1963 bombing…

MOSCOW (AP) — Russia’s central bank has raised its key lending rate by one percentage point to 13%, a month after imposing an even larger…

By ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department is challenging efforts by ex-President Donald Trump to disqualify the…

By ALEX ROSENBERG of NerdWallet GoodRx’s prescription savings program offers significant discounts on prescription drugs, but not without some…

PRAGUE (AP) — Prague’s High Court has cancelled a lower court ruling that acquitted former Prime Minister Andrej Babis of fraud charges in a $2…

PARIS (AP) — Apple has agreed to install updates for iPhone 12 smartphones in France after French regulators ordered the company to stop selling…

By ROBERT YOON Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — For the third time in less than eight months, a special election will decide control of the…

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A daughter of a long-detained human rights activist in Bahrain plans to return…

ROME (AP) — A bus reportedly transporting recently arrived migrants has slammed into a truck north of Rome, killing the two drivers. The crash…

LONDON (AP) — The European Union is facing a Friday deadline to decide whether to extend a ban on Ukrainian food imports in five nearby countries.…

DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — Bangladesh is struggling with a record outbreak of dengue fever, with experts saying a lack of a coordinated response is…

By TOM KRISHER AP Auto Writer DETROIT (AP) — About 13,000 auto workers have walked off the job at three targeted factories after their union…

By HUIZHONG WU Associated Press TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — China is sending Vice President Han Zheng to the U.N. General Assembly’s annual high-level…

By ALICIA LEÓN and JOSEPH WILSON MADRID (AP) — The former president of Spain’s soccer federation has arrived at a court in Madrid to give…

STOCKHOLM (AP) — The Nobel Foundation has decided to raise the award amount for this year’s Nobel Prizes by 1 million kronor ($90,000) to 11…

By JINTAMAS SAKSORNCHAI Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — The head of the Move Forward party, which finished first in Thailand’s general election…

By DAKE KANG Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — A human rights lawyer who was arrested in Laos has been deported back to China despite pleas from…

By SAMYA KULLAB Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Blinded by a Russian mortar shell, Ukrainian veteran Ivan Soroka couldn’t see his bride…

By GERALD IMRAY Associated Press CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — Barry Steenkamp, the father of Reeva Steenkamp, the woman who was fatally shot by…

LONDON (AP) — The father, stepmother and uncle of a 10-year-old girl found dead in her U.K. home are due in court on murder charges Friday after…

By SAMY MAGDY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — Libyan authorities blocked civilians from entering the flood-stricken eastern city of Derna on Friday…

By SAMYA KULLAB Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian forces have recaptured a village in the country’s east after intense battles with…

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Asian shares were mostly higher Friday after China reported that its slowing economy showed signs…

PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — Officials in Afghanistan and Pakistan say a key border crossing linking the two countries is open again. The crossing in…

By KARL RITTER Associated Press STOCKHOLM (AP) — Sweden’s King Carl XVI Gustaf celebrates his golden jubilee on Friday, marking 50 years since he…

By MATTHIAS SCHRADER and KIRSTEN GRIESHABER Associated Press BAD HINDELANG, Germany (AP) — Germany’s city of Munich is getting ready to tap the…

By PETER PRENGAMAN Associated Press TEMPE, Ariz. (AP) — For a generation and more, Starbucks’ throwaway cup has been a cornerstone of consumer…

By PETER PRENGAMAN Associated Press TEMPE, Ariz. (AP) — For a generation and more, Starbucks’ throwaway cup has been a cornerstone of…

By ANDREW SELSKY Associated Press EUGENE, Ore. (AP) — Psilocybin tea, wind chimes and a tie-dye mattress await those coming to an office suite in…

By QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA and BASSEM MROUE Associated Press BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraq is stepping up repatriation of its citizens from a camp in northeastern…

BEIJING (AP) — China has reported its factories picked up their pace and retail sales also gained momentum in August, suggesting the economy may be…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The head of the United Nations food agency says a global hunger crisis has left more…

By PAUL J. WEBER and JAKE BLEIBERG Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s impeachment trial is getting closer…

By CARLA K. JOHNSON AP Medical Writer The psychedelic drug MDMA can reduce symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder, researchers reported in a new…

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A delegation from Yemen’s Houthi rebels have flown into Saudi Arabia for…

BEIJING (AP) — The leaders of China and Zambia have announced an upgrading of their ties to a comprehensive strategic cooperative partnership, as…

By JIM VERTUNO Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s impeachment trial is getting closer to a verdict.…

By KEVIN FREKING Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Republicans whose elections in swing districts next year will determine which party gains…

By MARTHA MENDOZA, CLAIRE GALOFARO and JULIET LINDERMAN Associated Press The U.S. government has warned a Virginia judge that allowing an American…

By The Associated Press Tens of thousands of climate activists around the world are set to march, chant and protest Friday to call for an end to the…

By COLLEEN SLEVIN Associated Press DENVER (AP) — Four years after Elijah McClain died after being stopped by police in Colorado, two of the police…

By TOM KRISHER and DAVID KOENIG AP Auto Writers DETROIT (AP) — About 13,000 U.S. auto workers stopped making vehicles and headed for the picket…

By DAVID SHARP and PATRICK WHITTLE Associated Press PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — After days of torrential rain, flooding, sinkholes and tornadoes, New…

By HYUNG-JIN KIM, KIM TONG-HYUNG and EMMA BURROWS Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has stopped in a far…

By SEUNG MIN KIM and LINLEY SANDERS Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is trumpeting Medicare’s new powers to negotiate…

By FERNANDA PESCE Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican transgender rights activists Kenya Cuevas and Andrea Luna sat in front of their…

By MICHAEL CASEY Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — Flooding in Massachusetts that put several dams at risk have raised concern the structures may…

By DAN GELSTON AP Sports Writer PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Jalen Hurts ran for a pair of 1-yard touchdowns and threw a 63-yard TD pass to DeVonta Smith,…

By DAVID HAMILTON AP Business Writer SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — California has some of the strongest digital privacy laws in the U.S. and is on the verge…

By TRÂN NGUYỄN Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California lawmakers are voting whether to send hundreds of bills to Gov. Gavin Newsom…

By DIANE JEANTET Associated Press RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — When the Brazilian prosecutor in charge of a homicide case targeting Danilo Cavalcante saw…

By GARY D. ROBERTSON Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Former U.S. Sen. Lauch Faircloth of North Carolina has died Thursday. He was 95. The…

By ADAM BEAM Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California lawmakers will vote on a plan that would allow the state to buy electricity.…

By JEFF AMY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — A trial challenging voting district maps in Georgia has concluded, leaving a decision in the hands of a…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Contract talks that could end Hollywood’s writers strike are set to resume next week. The alliance that represents studios,…

DOUGLAS, Ariz. (AP) — The sheriff of Arizona’s easternmost border county is calling on state and federal officials for help with the sudden daily…

By EDGAR H. CLEMENTE Associated Press TAPACHULA, Mexico (AP) — Mexico is on track to receive more asylum applications this year than ever before as…

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — The Alabama Public Library Service has voted to create a list of books that parents might consider inappropriate for…

By MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A last-minute legal challenge by Donald Trump’s lawyers could disrupt a trial scheduled for…

By ELLEN KNICKMEYER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration will withhold less military aid from Egypt over its human rights…

By ADRIAN SAINZ Associated Press MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — A Memphis couple who took in former NFL offensive lineman Michael Oher when he was in high…

By JULIE CARR SMYTH Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The Ohio Attorney General’s Office has once again rejected petition language for a…

By MORGAN LEE Associated Press SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — Ex-President Bill Clinton is eulogizing former New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson as a…

By MARC LEVY Associated Press HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — David McCormick plans to run for U.S. Senate for a second time in Pennsylvania. According to…

By CAROLYN THOMPSON Associated Press BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — A college philosophy professor is fighting to be allowed back on campus more than a year…

By KEN RITTER Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — Casino company Caesars Entertainment has joined Las Vegas gambling rival MGM Resorts International…

By LISA RATHKE Associated Press Counting nose hairs in cadavers, repurposing dead spiders and explaining why scientists lick rocks, are among the…

By STEPHEN GROVES and LISA MASCARO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is expected on Capitol Hill next week…

By SCOTT McFETRIDGE Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A jury has found an Iowa teenager guilty of second-degree murder and voluntary…

By MARTÍN ADAMES ALCÁNTARA and DÁNICA COTO Associated Press DAJABON, Dominican Republic (AP) — The Dominican Republic’s president has…

By ADRIAN SAINZ Associated Press MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — A fifth former Memphis police officer has pleaded not guilty to federal civil rights charges…

By JACK DURA Associated Press BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — Three families and a pediatrician in North Dakota are seeking to block the state’s ban on…

ST. LOUIS (AP) — Criminal prosecutions have more than doubled in St. Louis since the city’s progressive prosecutor resigned under fire. The St.…

By KIM CHANDLER Associated Press BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — Sixty years ago, a bomb planted by Ku Klux Klan members ripped through a Birmingham…

By MAE ANDERSON AP Business Writer The Internal Revenue Service said Thursday it will pause accepting claims for a pandemic-era tax credit until 2024…

By BOB SMIETANA of Religion News Service Stephen Mason’s life has been shaped by guitars, barber shears and the Bible. And then there was the dad…

By BRUCE SCHREINER Associated Press LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — The wife of Republican gubernatorial nominee Daniel Cameron has dismissed the Democratic…

By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Thirty Seconds to Mars is back with a new clutch of songs born from the pandemic collected…

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) — A Detroit-area businessman has been sentenced to more than two years in federal prison for bribing the head of a…

By MICHAEL RUBINKAM Associated Press They caught him just in time. After eluding a police dragnet in southeastern Pennsylvania for two weeks, escaped…

By DAVID BAUDER AP Media Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Megyn Kelly has welcomed Donald Trump for an interview eight years after he erupted at her over her…

By KEVIN McGILL Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Increases in federal flood insurance premiums that are projected to surpass 700% over the…

By JOSH FUNK Associated Press OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — An explosion inside a shipping container at the world’s largest railyard prompted…

By DAVID SHARP Associated Press New England is in the crosshairs of Hurricane Lee but is usually protected from the worst of a hurricane’s wrath by…

By ANDREW DeMILLO Associated Press LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders has signed a new law that will restrict the…

BY EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Democratic nominees for two statewide offices are saying that Mississippi should…

FORT WAYNE, Ind. (AP) — A northeastern Indiana man faces felony charges after he was shot in the back by a 2-year-old boy who found the weapon on a…

MIAMI (AP) — Officials say a city of Miami commissioner accused of bribery and money laundering has been arrested on multiple corruption charges.…

By STEPHANIE LIECHTENSTEIN Associated Press VIENNA (AP) — Britain, France and Germany have announced that they will keep their sanctions on Iran…

By KAREN MATTHEWS Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Three artworks believed to have been stolen during the Holocaust from a Jewish art collector and…

Associated Press By JULIA FRANKEL JERUSALEM (AP) — Jordan rejected a U.S. request to release a former top Jordanian official imprisoned in an…

BEDFORD PARK, Ill. (AP) — Police say a tent collapse in suburban Chicago injured at least 26 people. Bedford Park Police Chief Tom Hansen says five…

By LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Hunter Biden was indicted Thursday on federal firearms charges, the latest and weightiest…

By MAURICIO SAVARESE Associated Press SAO PAULO (AP) — Brazil’s Supreme Court has handed a 17-year prison sentence to a supporter of former…

By KEVIN McGILL and SARA CLINE Associated Press BATON ROUGE, LA. (AP) — A federal appeals court has temporarily halted a judge’s order to remove…

By COLLEEN LONG and EMILY SWANSON Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — About half of Americans say they have little or no confidence that the Justice…

By JACK DURA Associated Press The last of four men charged in a scheme to steal millions of dollars worth of crude oil in western North…

By JOSEF FEDERMAN Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will meet billionaire businessman Elon Musk during a trip to…

By RANDALL CHASE Associated Press DOVER, Del. (AP) — A Delaware woman who pleaded guilty to killing her 3-year-old daughter and dumping her…