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By AUDREY McAVOY Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — Mikala Jones, a Hawaii surfer known for shooting awe-inspiring photos and videos from the inside…

By REBECCA BOONE Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Two advocacy groups and an attorney who works with sexual assault victims are suing Idaho…

ROLLING HILLS ESTATES, Calif. (AP) — Leaders of a Southern California city hit by a destructive landslide are planning to vote on a resolution to…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — U.S. authorities have arrested a California man accused of killing three women in the Mexican border city of Tijuana and…

By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The Justice Department has reversed its position that Donald Trump can’t be held…

By CHRISTOPHER WEBER Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Charles Manson follower Leslie Van Houten, a former homecoming princess who at 19 helped…

By DAVID SHARP Associated Press PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Maine Gov. Janet Mills has signed into law a supplemental budget that includes establishment…

By SAM METZ Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The Utah Supreme Court grilled attorneys representing the state on Tuesday over their claim that…

By YURAS KARMANAU Associated Press Writer TALLINN, ESTONIA (AP) — A Belarusian artist who dumped manure outside an office of President Alexander…

By KEN RITTER and BEATRICE DUPUY Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — Police say a man was arrested and a woman described as his hostage was released…

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) — Boxing heavyweight champion Tyson Fury and ex-UFC heavyweight champion Francis Ngannou will fight Oct. 28 in Riyadh,…

By LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden’s pick to serve as America’s top military officer is warning…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. Security Council has failed to approve either of two rival resolutions…

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The landmark First Bank of the United States in Philadelphia, subject of a fierce debate in the early years of the American…

By BEN NUCKOLS AP Sports Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — A PGA Tour executive has told Congress that Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund agreed to…

By ANDREW WILKS Associated Press ISTANBUL (AP) — Turkey made a surprise pledge to drop its opposition to Sweden joining NATO, paving the way for…

By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The 61st New York Film Festival will kick off with Todd Haynes’ “May December,” a juicy drama…

By RIO YAMAT Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — An employee has testified that she thought she might die when a Las Vegas police officer allegedly…

By BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press LONDON (AP) — A Romanian man who was part of an international human smuggling ring was sentenced Tuesday to more…

The Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — No winning ticket drawn Monday means the Powerball jackpot is an estimated $725 million ahead of…

By SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The sales tax in Milwaukee will go up 2 cents per dollar next year after the Common Council…

NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — Crews extinguished the intensely burning fire aboard a cargo ship docked in New Jersey after nearly a week and are now…

By KAREN MATTHEWS Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The fossilized skeletons of an aerial predator with a 20-foot wingspan and an aquatic reptile…

By ADRIAN SAINZ Associated Press MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Authorities say an arrest warrant has been issued for a close friend of Memphis Grizzlies…

By MATT O’BRIEN AP Technology Writer A federal judge has handed Microsoft a major victory by declining to block its looming $69 billion…

By JEAN-YVES KAMALE Associated Press KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — Local authorities say that three people have been killed in a helicopter crash in…

By TOM KRISHER AP Auto Writer DETROIT (AP) — Stellantis and the U.S. government are urging owners of some 2003 Dodge Ram pickups to stop driving…

By MATTHEW BARAKAT Associated Press FALLS CHURCH, Va. (AP) — A federal appeals court has again blocked construction on a contentious natural gas…

BERLIN (AP) — A German surgeon has been ordered to pay a fine of $7,900 for parachuting into the stadium before a European Championship match in…

By HOWARD FENDRICH AP Tennis Writer WIMBLEDON, England (AP) — Elina Svitolina is back in her first Grand Slam semifinal since 2019. She got there…

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Dutch police say a pilfered palm tree led them to detain a homeless man who was sentenced to 18 years in neighboring…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s Supreme Court has ruled that restrictions imposed by a government ministry on a…

By SALLY HO Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) — Major League Baseball’s quest for the crown of cool will be on display Tuesday when its top players…

By BRUCE SCHREINER Associated Press LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Republican gubernatorial nominee Daniel Cameron wants to award recruitment and retention…

By ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — In a monthslong inquiry, which included reviewing tens of thousands of pages of documents from…

By ALLEN G. BREED, RANDY HERSCHAFT Associated Press The apocalyptic scene is still burned into Mike Buttery’s memory 50 years later: Black smoke…

By ANDREW DALTON AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Leonardo DiCaprio is bringing a scholarships and a climate education program to his…

By STEVE KARNOWSKI Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Members of a deeply conservative Amish community in Minnesota don’t need to install…

DEARBORN, Mich. (AP) — U.S. auto safety regulators are investigating complaints that the doors on some Ford Escapes can open while the SUVs are…

By FRANK JORDANS Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s conservative opposition leader says large-scale migration is one of the country’s…

By GLENN GAMBOA AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Red Hot Chili Peppers, Ms. Lauryn Hill and Megan Thee Stallion will headline this year’s…

By LISA RATHKE Associated Press ANDOVER, Vt. (AP) — A storm that dumped up to two months of rain in two days in Vermont and other parts of the…

VILNIUS, Lithuania (AP) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has received a hero’s welcome at a concert in Lithuania’s capital where he…

By JULIA FRANKEL Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli authorities have evicted a Palestinian family from their contested apartment in…

BEIJING (AP) — Chinese Foreign Minister Qin Gang is ill and the country’s senior diplomat will take his place at a two-day summit of the…

By KATE ASHFORD of NerdWallet You’re probably not using paper checks for most things. But are you returning payments to medical providers and…

By TOM KRISHER AP Auto Writer DETROIT (AP) — Whenever the United Auto Workers union begins negotiating a new contract with Detroit’s three…

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran’s state media say President Ebrahim Raisi didn’t depart on a three-nation tour to Africa as planned. Raisi was…

By CIARÁN GILES Associated Press MADRID (AP) — Spain’s right-wing opposition leader has put Socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez on the…

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — A giant panda has given birth to squirming, squealing healthy twin girls at a South Korean theme park. Ai Bao gave birth…

TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Paraguay’s president-elect, Santiago Pena, has arrived in Taipei for a visit meant to reinforce relations between Taiwan…

By BRIAN SLODYSKO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — For decades, the University of Hawaii law school has marketed its Jurist-In-Residence program…

By JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — An industry group says China’s auto sales rose 8.8% over a year earlier in the first half of…

By SAMY MAGDY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — A prominent rights group has called for the International Criminal Court to investigate atrocities in…

By BRIAN SLODYSKO and ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — For colleges and libraries seeking a boldfaced name for a guest lecturer, few…

By GERALD IMRAY AP Sports Writer Champion runner Caster Semenya won a potentially landmark legal decision for sports on Tuesday when the European…

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australia’s most decorated living war veteran has lodged an appeal against a civil…

SREBRENICA, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) — Thousands of people are gathering in Srebrenica for the annual ritual of commemorating the 1995 massacre in…

By MUNIR AHMED Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — Saudi Arabia has deposited $2 billion into Pakistan’s central bank, a much-needed financial…

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Police in Norway’s capital briefly stopped four Americans who rode through an Oslo tunnel on electric scooters, and a…

By EDNA TARIGAN and NINIEK KARMINI Associated Press JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesia’s top diplomat is warning of the threat posed by nuclear…

By JINTAMAS SAKSORNCHAI and DAVID RISING Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — Thai police say the dismembered body of a 62-year-old German businessman…

BEIJING (AP) — The Solomon Islands has signed an agreement to boost cooperation with China on law enforcement and security matters in a move likely…

LONDON (AP) — Official figures in the U.K. show that wages are still rising at record highs, as inflation remains stubbornly high. The Office for…

By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer BANGKOK (AP) — Asian shares were mostly higher on Wednesday after stocks advanced on Wall Street as…

By JULIA FRANKEL Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Protesters in Israel have blocked highways and thronged the country’s main international…

By BINAJ GURUBACHARYA Associated Press KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — All six people on board a helicopter carrying Mexican tourists were killed when it…

By KARL RITTER Associated Press VILNIUS, Lithuania (AP) — When long-neutral Sweden applied for NATO membership together with Finland, both expected…

By RAF CASERT Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — Protesters and legislators are converging on the European Union parliament as the bloc prepares a…

By KANIS LEUNG Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong leader John Lee says the city will ban marine products from “a large number…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — In a grim report, the U.N. is warning that at the current rate of global progress 575…

By TRISHA AHMED and CHARLIE NEIBERGALL Associated Press GENOA, Neb. (AP) — A grandmother wearing beaded necklaces of bright red, yellow and blue…

BANGKOK (AP) — Thai authorities say at least two people have been killed after an elevated road being built in Bangkok collapsed. Another 11 people…

By HANNAH FINGERHUT Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Iowa’s Republican-led Legislature passed a bill banning most abortions after roughly…

By KATE BRUMBACK Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — A grand jury being seated Tuesday in Atlanta will likely consider whether criminal charges are…

By CHRISTINA A. CASSIDY and LINLEY SANDERS Associated Press Few Republicans have high confidence that votes will be tallied accurately in next…

By WYATTE GRANTHAM-PHILIPS AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Amazon Prime Day is here. And, once again, experts are warning consumers of scams.…

By SAMYA KULLAB Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine’s Energy Minister says the catastrophic collapse of a dam in southern Ukraine…

By HALELUYA HADERO Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Celebrities, lawmakers, brands and everyday social media users are flocking to Meta’s freshly…

QUINCY, Wash. (AP) — Authorities in central Washington told some people to leave their homes immediately as a new, growing wildfire sparked west of…

By CHRIS MEGERIAN, SEUNG MIN KIM and KARL RITTER Associated Press VILNIUS, Lithuania (AP) — NATO leaders said Tuesday that they would allow Ukraine…

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press A New Zealand prosecutor says tourists received no health and safety warnings before they landed on the country’s…

By RONALD BLUM AP Baseball Writer SEATTLE (AP) — Of course a Junior had to do something special in Seattle. Vladimir Guerrero Jr. won the All-Star…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The owner of the Los Angeles Times has sold the San Diego Union-Tribune to MediaNews Group. The move was announced Monday and…

LONG BEACH, Calif. (AP) — Authorities say a pilot escaped with only minor injuries after a single-engine plane crashed nose-first into the roof of…

By ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON Associated Press MIAMI (AP) — Lawyers for former President Donald Trump are asking a judge to postpone his criminal trial…

By LOLITA C. BALDOR and TARA COPP Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Fred S. Hoffman, a longtime Associated Press reporter who covered the Defense…

By EMILIO LUGO Associated Press TOLUCA, Mexico (AP) — Mexican authorities say masked gunmen set fire to a public market in the central city of…

By SETH BORENSTEIN and MIKE SCHNEIDER Associated Press ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Record ocean heat has invaded Florida with a vengeance. Water…

By SONIA PÉREZ D. Associated Press GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — With tensions surrounding Guatemala’s June 25 election heightening, President Alejandro…

EVANSTON, Ill. (AP) — Northwestern fired coach Pat Fitzgerald on Monday amid a hazing scandal that called into question his leadership of the…