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Associated Press AGRA, India (AP) — Rising water from the Yamuna river has reached the outer boundary walls of the iconic Taj Mahal and submerged…

In a story published July 19, 2023, about a protest against beauty salon closures in Afghanistan, The Associated Press used the word “taser” to…

BEIJING (AP) — China’s vice president says his country is willing to work with Washington on reducing global warming as long as its political…

NEW YORK (AP) — Oscar winner Jamie Lee Curtis also has a busy career as a children’s author. Her next work is called “Just One More Sleep”…

By TAMMY WEBBER and NOAH BERGER Associated Press EAST PRAIRIE METIS SETTLEMENT, Alberta (AP) — Carrol Johnston counted her blessings as she stood…

By NICK PERRY Associated Press WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Sarah Leslie thought she was witnessing a stunt when she saw an American soldier…

By FOSTER KLUG Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Blue-roofed huts, a raised slab of concrete and some raked gravel are all that separate the rival…

By ARITZ PARRA Associated Press MADRID (AP) — Venezuela’s former spy chief, retired Maj. Gen. Hugo Carvajal, is being extradited from Spain to…

By ANNE M. PETERSON AP Soccer Writer AUCKLAND, New Zealand (AP) — New Zealand’s Football Ferns are aiming to win fans as well as matches at the…

By JACKIE VELING of NerdWallet Summer is the most expensive time of year to move. Though costs are down this year compared to previous summers,…

By ABDULRAHMAN ZEYAD and DAWOOD SALMAN Associated Press BASRA, Iraq (AP) — For three centuries, the al-Siraji Mosque, with its minaret inlaid with…

By PAUL J. WEBER Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Women who sued Texas after saying they were denied abortions despite serious risks to their…

By CHASE BIERENKOVEN Edmunds The Honda Accord, fresh from a recent redesign, is back to take on the South Korean equivalent, the Kia K5. The Kia…

By EVELYNE MUSAMBI Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — At least four protesters have been injured in Kenya as police clash with demonstrators…

BEIJING (AP) — Amid a steep downturn in relations with the United States, China has looked to a meeting with former U.S. national security adviser…

By DEREK GATOPOULOS, NICOLE WINFIELD and DAVID BRUNAT Associated Press ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Firefighting aircraft and ground crews from several…

By RONALD BLUM AP Baseball Writer Major League Baseball’s takeover of San Diego Padres’ broadcasts involved months of planning, a…

By ZEKE MILLER AP White House Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) — Second gentleman Doug Emhoff next week will become the highest-profile U.S. official…

China says it’s navy ships are preparing for joint exercises with Russia’s sea forces in a sign of Beijing’s continuing support for…

Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — Fifteen people including six policer officers have died by electrocution after a transformer exploded near a…

By ZEN SOO AP Technology Writer HONG KONG (AP) — Chinese e-commerce retailer Temu has filed a lawsuit accusing its rival Shein of violating U.S.…

LONDON (AP) — London’s Metropolitan Police has apologized to the family of private investigator Daniel Morgan, who was killed with an ax 36 years…

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Asian shares were mixed Thursday after Japan reported weaker than expected trade data for June,…

By RAF CASERT Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union says the American candidate to become one of the bloc’s chief economists will…

By ANNE M. PETERSON AP Soccer Writer FIFA President Gianni Infantino could make no guarantee Wednesday that the member federations will distribute…

By TAIWO ADEBAYO Associated Press ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Abubakar Salisu was terrified when he discovered arid sand in the middle of his farmland,…

By HANNA ARHIROVA Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia unleashed intense drone and missile attacks overnight Wednesday, damaging critical…

ISLAMABAD (AP) — Police and rescue officials say 11 workers were killed after a portion of the outer wall of a sprawling building collapsed near an…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s Conservative Party faces a trio of unwanted verdicts from…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press PRAGUE (AP) — The head of Britain’s MI6 intelligence agency says British spies are already using artificial…

By JOSEPH WILSON Associated Press BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — After seeing his Socialists take a drumming in local and regional elections in May,…

NEW YORK (AP) — Major League Baseball had a night of offense not seen in 129 years, with 12 teams scoring double-digit runs. Three games ended…

By MARÍA VERZA Associated Press MANZANILLO, Mexico (AP) — Lost at sea for months on a disabled catamaran, with no way to cook and no source of…

By GRANT PECK and JINTAMAS SAKSORNCHAI Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — Thailand’s Parliament has voted against allowing the leader of the…

By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN Associated Press LOS ALAMOS, N.M. (AP) — The movie about a man who changed the course of the world’s history by…

ST. LOUIS (AP) — The Mega Millions jackpot has risen to an estimated $720 million after no winning ticket was sold — again. It’s now one of two…

By ZEN SOO Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — Chinese livestreamers have set their sights on TikTok shoppers in the U.S. and Europe, hawking…

By DAVID KLEPPER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Days before Spain holds a pivotal election, misleading claims about mail ballots and election…

By JAMES POLLARD Associated Press/Report for America TURBEVILLE, S.C. (AP) — A South Carolina prison unit where older men with lengthier sentences…

By ELLEN KNICKMEYER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Israeli President Isaac Herzog sought to reassure U.S. allies Wednesday on the state of…

By FARNOUSH AMIRI and LISA MASCARO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republicans raised unsubstantiated allegations Wednesday against…

By REBECCA SANTANA Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration is arguing that its new asylum rule is vastly different than…

By STEVE PEOPLES, MEG KINNARD and BRIAN SLODYSKO Associated Press WEST COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — For Ron DeSantis, Tuesday was supposed to be an…

By MARLON GONZÁLEZ and MEGAN JANETSKY Associated Press TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) — Honduras plans to build the only island prison colony in the…

By ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A target letter sent to Donald Trump suggests that a sprawling Justice Department investigation…

By ANUPAM NATH and SIBI ARASU Associated Press KALIAPANI, India (AP) — Indian officials, including at Wednesday’s Group of Twenty ministerial…

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — An ongoing eruption of a remote volcano in Alaska’s Aleutian Islands produced an ash cloud so large Tuesday that…

By HYUNG-JIN KIM, KIM TONG-HYUNG, TARA COPP and LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea stayed silent Wednesday…

By JONATHAN LANDRUM JR. AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — An investigation into Tupac Shakur’s unsolved killing has been revived. It…

SEATTLE (AP) — Police say a Seattle officer shot a person suspected of stabbing a person downtown. Police Sgt. John O’Neil says officers…

By LEA SKENE Associated Press BALTIMORE (AP) — Attorneys for a Baltimore teen accused of fatally shooting a baseball bat-wielding motorist last…

By The Associated Press A first-generation iPhone has sold at auction for $190,373, almost 380 times its original price of $499 when the…

By THOMAS BEAUMONT and JILL COLVIN Associated Press CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (AP) — Former President Donald Trump joked about his legal challenges while…

By BECKY BOHRER Associated Press JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — Authorities say an Alaska man inadvertently filmed his own drowning on a glacial lake with a…

SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) — A powerful 6.5 magnitude earthquake in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of El Salvador shook much of Central…

By JUAN A. LOZANO Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — As a summer heat wave continues to bake most of Texas, family members of inmates are…

By SOPHIE AUSTIN Associated Press/Report for America SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A flawed policy at California State University, the largest higher…

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — A lawyer representing Chinese citizens in Florida has told a federal judge that a new law banning them and some other…

VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) — The union representing port workers in the province of British Columbia has rejected a mediator’s tentative…

PLAINFIELD, Ind. (AP) — An 18-year-old Missouri man charged with murder in the traffic death of Indiana State Police Trooper Aaron Smith has…

By LISET CRUZ and VALERIE GONZALEZ Associated Press Border Patrol does not have protocols for assessing medical needs of children with preexisting…

SARASOTA, Fla. (AP) — Officials say a seventh case of malaria has been documented in a southwest Florida county. The Florida Department of Health…

By LESLIE AMBRIZ Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Author Natalie Beach rose to internet fame in September of 2019 after writing the now-viral…

PONTIAC, Mich. (AP) — A judge has denied a request by 17-year-old Michigan school shooter Ethan Crumbley to dismiss a prosecutors’ motion to seek…

VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) — Canadian officials say say wildfires have already burned a record amount of area in the Canadian province of…

By SARAH RANKIN Associated Press RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s administration says it has finalized new policies on the…

By ACACIA CORONADO Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The White House is criticizing Texas’ operation to stop migrants along the U.S. border…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — An artificial intelligence company executive told the first U.N. Security Council…

By KIM TONG-HYUNG and HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea has fired two short-range missiles into the sea in what…

By KATHIA MARTÍNEZ Associated Press PANAMA CITY (AP) — Former Panamanian President Ricardo Martinelli has been sentenced to more than 10 years in…

CHICAGO (AP) — A 35-year-old woman who prosecutors say operated a multistate prostitution business from a three-story Chicago building that…

BEIRUT (AP) — Syrian state media reports that Israeli airstrikes have hit the area of Damascus. According to Syrian state-run Al-Ikhbariya TV,…

By KIM CHANDLER Associated Press MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama Republicans have advanced proposals to boost the number of Black voters in one of…

By KEVIN McGILL Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Advocates for juveniles held in a former death row building at a Louisiana prison for adults…

By HANNAH FINGERHUT Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds says plans are in progress to appeal a temporary block on the…

GEORGETOWN, Guyana (AP) — Guyana’s government says it will pay $25,000 to parents of each of the 20 children burned to death in a fire at a…

BRIDGEPORT, Conn. (AP) — Human waste leaking from a tractor trailer on a Connecticut highway caused crashes including one involving two state…

By RIO YAMAT, JONATHAN LANDRUM JR. and MARIA SHERMAN Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — Las Vegas police confirmed Tuesday that they served a search…

By SAMANTHA HENDRICKSON Associated Press/Report For America COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Ohio Republican state Rep. Bob Young has been indicted on…

By MOGOMOTSI MAGOME Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — South Africa’s president says that arresting Russian President Vladimir Putin — should…

By JEFF AMY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — A judge has refused to dismiss lawsuits alleging Georgia’s congressional and legislative districts…

NEW YORK (AP) — James Patterson, Suzanne Collins and Margaret Atwood are among thousands of writers endorsing an open letter from the Authors Guild…

By JACK DURA Associated Press BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — The National Park Service says a bison severely injured a Minnesota woman on Saturday in…

By ANNE M. PETERSON AP Sports Writer AUCKLAND, New Zealand (AP) — On the eve of the Women’s World Cup, U.S. Soccer has extended its partnership…

By GRAHAM DUNBAR AP Sports Writer GENEVA (AP) — IOC president Thomas Bach says the key factor for an ultimate decision on letting Russians…

By SAMY MAGDY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — An Egyptian court has sentenced a rights activist to three years in prison over an opinion article he…

NEW YORK (AP) — Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg says he and other city officials have begun cracking down on illegal cannabis shops. His…

By ALINA HARTOUNIAN Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — This summer’s punishing heat wave has baked much of the U.S. in sweat-soaked misery.…

By SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin’s top elections official recently spoke with federal prosecutors as part of the…

By ZOYA TEIRSTEIN, Grist NEW YORK (AP) — Across the planet, animals and the diseases they carry are shifting locations as temperatures rise thanks…