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BEIJING (AP) — Chinese authorities say 11 people were killed when a roof collapsed at a middle school gymnasium in the country’s far…

By JOSEPH WILSON and CIARÁN GILES Associated Press MADRID (AP) — Spain may be facing political gridlock and possibly a new election, but a…

By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press ROME (AP) — The Jesuits said Monday that a famous artist priest is definitively expelled from the religious…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press IWAKI, Japan (AP) — Within weeks, the tsunami-hit Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant is expected to start…

By LEAH WILLINGHAM and MATTHEW DALY Associated Press CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A half-century ago, the nation’s top health experts urged the…

By MICHELLE L. PRICE Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Set aside the polls, the fundraising numbers or Donald Trump’s name recognition as metrics…

By VALERIE GONZALEZ and ACACIA CORONADO Associated Press EAGLE PASS, Texas (AP) — Wrecking ball-sized buoys on the Rio Grande. Razor wire strung…

By The Associated Press This week’s new entertainment releases include a new album from Post Malone, a movie starring Zach Galifianakis about the…

JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Rescuers say an overloaded passenger boat has capsized off Indonesia’s Sulawesi island with 15 people killed.…

By KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea’s military says North Korea has fired two short-range ballistic…

CHINO VALLEY, Ariz. (AP) — A 3.8 magnitude earthquake shook a northern Arizona town Sunday afternoon but there was no immediate word on any…

The Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Minneapolis is backing away from enforcing laws that criminalize buying psychedelic plants or using them in…

QUITO, Ecuador (AP) — Authorities in Ecuador say the mayor of the country’s third largest city has been slain in a shooting that killed one…

RAYMONDVILLE, Texas (AP) — First there was Gone Girl. Now there is Gone Goat. The search for a rodeo goat that has been missing for more than a…

By NICK PERRY Associated Press WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — New Zealand’s justice minister has resigned after police filed charges against her…

PARIS (AP) — Danish rider Jonas Vingegaard has won the Tour de France for a second straight year as cycling’s most storied race finished on the…

STOW, Mass. (AP) — Three people were injured when a small plane crashed into a residential neighborhood in Massachusetts. A spokesperon for Stow…

By AYESHA MIR Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — It’s last call for New York City’s celebration of baring it all. Sunday’s Bodypainting Day…

BEIRUT (AP) — The Organization of Islamic Cooperation has suspended the status of Sweden’s special envoy over Quran burnings that sparked mass…

SAN ANTONIO (AP) — The San Antonio fire chief says three people were killed and three others have been injured in a house fire. Fire Department…

MILAN (AP) — A high-profile Egyptian activist who was recently released from prison has landed in Italy, where the government championed his case.…

By JUSTIN KABUMBA Associated Press GOMA, Congo (AP) — Officials say a soldier in northeastern Congo opened fire on family members and others who…

WASHINGTON CROSSING, Pa. (AP) — Search teams in Pennsylvania were focusing on one underwater area Sunday as they try to find a 9-month-old boy…

By LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer “ Barbenheimer ” didn’t just work – it spun box office gold. The social media-fueled fusion of Greta…

By JINTAMAS SAKSORNCHAI Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — Hundreds of people have rallied in  the Thai capital Bangkok to demand that conservative…

By CASSIDY HETTESHEIMER Associated Press MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Nouhaila Benzina will make history when she steps onto the field for…

By The Associated Press Extreme weather has forced people to flee their homes in Greece and China. Wildfires raged in Greece for a sixth day amid…

BY SAMY MAGDY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — A senior United Nations official says a salvage team is set to begin siphoning oil out of the decaying…

KEY WEST, Fla. (AP) — On his 68th birthday, a white-bearded Wisconsin man won the Hemingway Look-Alike Contest, a highlight of Key West’s annual…

BANGKOK (AP) — The Central Bank of army-ruled Myanmar will issue a new banknote worth twice as much as the current highest denomination. It took…

By YOUCEF BOUNAB Associated Press PARIS (AP) — Neighborhoods in northeast Paris have struggled for years with the scourge of crack cocaine and its…

ROME (AP) — Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni has called for new, more equal relationships between Europe and migrants’ countries of origin and…

By ANNE D’INNOCENZIO AP Retail Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Elon Musk said Sunday that he plans to change the logo of Twitter to an “X” from…

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran’s state media say militants shot and killed four highway policemen Sunday in the country’s southeast. The…

By SARA BURNETT Associated Press In many election cycles, there’s a snappy shorthand used to describe the type of voters who may help decide…

By ASHOK SHARMA Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — Hundreds of rescuers ended a four-day search for scores of people still missing after heavy…

By DEMETRIS NELLAS Associated Press ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Firefighters are struggling through the night to contain 82 wildfires across Greece, 64…

BEIJING (AP) — Five people have died and three are missing after heavy rains caused flooding and a landslide in eastern China. State media reported…

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Russian tennis player Vera Zvonareva has been banned from entering Poland, the country’s Ministry of the Interior says.…

By EDNA TARIGAN Associated Press JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — British pop rock band The 1975 announced on Sunday it was canceling its shows in Jakarta…

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — More than 30 people were injured when a deck collapsed at a Montana country club during a weekend golf tournament, police…

By FARAI MUTSAKA Associated Press HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — In Zimbabwe, the low number of women standing as candidates in general elections…

By JIM SALTER Associated Press O’FALLON, Mo. (AP) — In the national reckoning that followed the police killing of George Floyd three years…

By SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin’s Supreme Court will flip from majority conservative to liberal control in…

By JAMIE STENGLE Associated Press DALLAS (AP) — As the Taliban swept back into power in Afghanistan in the summer of 2021, Fahima Sultani and her…

By DARLENE SUPERVILLE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden will establish a national monument honoring Emmett Till, the Black…

By ANNE M. PETERSON AP Sports Writer AUCKLAND, New Zealand (AP) — A man has been charged with arson after several small fires broke out Saturday…

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says he is undergoing a procedure to receive a pacemaker. In a short video statement released at 2 a.m.…

By MATTHEW BROWN Associated Press BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — A health clinic in a Montana town plagued by deadly asbestos contamination must pay the…

By DAVID RISING Associated Press PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — Hun Sen has been Cambodia’s autocratic prime minister for nearly four decades,…

By SOPHENG CHEANG and DAVID RISING Associated Press PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — The ruling party of Cambodia’s longtime Prime Minister Hun…

BY KIM CHANDLER and JEFF AMY Associated Press MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — The fight over Alabama’s congressional map is shifting back to federal…

By DENNIS WASZAK Jr. AP Pro Football Writer FLORHAM PARK, N.J. (AP) — The New York Jets’ third practice of training camp marked the first session…

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A mountain climber and a cliff diver have died in separate incidents at national recreation spots in the West, officials…

Associated Press SILVER SPRING, Md. (AP) — A police officer in a Washington, D.C., suburb shot and killed a man after reports he had committed an…

A Connecticut man has been convicted of murder in the stray-bullet killing of the mother of a two-time Olympian rifle shooter from Puerto Rico. A…

HALIFAX, Nova Scotia (AP) — Four people are missing after intense thunderstorms dumped record amounts of rain across a wide swath of Canada’s…

By MARK THIESSEN Associated Press ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — A rescue and recovery dive team was deployed Saturday after a helicopter with a pilot…

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — A deadlocked jury prompted a mistrial Saturday in the South Florida trial of rapper YNW Melly on charges that he…

HAVRE, Mont. (AP) — A train derailment in northern Montana spilled freight and left cars tangled up along a major east-west railroad corridor but…

MOSCOW (AP) — Russia’s National Guard says security forces killed a heavily-armed gunman who broke into a private house in Moscow’s suburbs…

PHOENIX (AP) — A federal judge has ruled that an Arizona law limiting how close people can get to recording law enforcement is unconstitutional,…

Associated Press CLARKSVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A freshman football player at Austin Peay State University has died after a single-car crash near the…

ATLANTA (AP) — The Muscogee (Creek) Nation has asked a federal appellate court in Atlanta to reinstate its case against the Poarch Creek Band of…

BHARATHA MALLAWARACHI Associated Press COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lanka is considering the possibility of allowing the use of the Indian rupee…

WASHINGTON CROSSING, Pa. (AP) — The family of a 2-year-old girl swept away along with another child by a flash flood that engulfed their vehicle on…

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — A judge has dismissed hate crime and other charges against a white woman who spat on a Black woman during competing protests…

By DEMETRIS NELLAS Associated Press ATHENS, Greece (AP) — A large wildfire burning on the Greek island of Rhodes for a fifth day has forced…

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Malaysia’s government Saturday cut short a music festival after the lead singer of British band The 1975…

By The Associated Press The intense heat hitting much of the globe keeps on coming. Greece is baking under yet another heat wave, farmers in Vermont…