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LUFKIN, Texas (AP) — A giraffe named Twiga who died over the weekend at an East Texas zoo at the age of 31 was among the oldest giraffes being…

By MEAD GRUVER Associated Press CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — A college student who authorities say admitted setting fire to a building slated to become…

By JESSE BEDAYN Associated Press/Report for America DENVER (AP) — Two Democratic representatives in Colorado are alleging that their colleagues…

By DÁNICA COTO Associated Press SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — A U.N. agency tasked with regulating the deep sea is debating whether to open the…

By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN Associated Press ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — The Southwestern U.S. is bracing for another week of blistering temperatures.…

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s parliamentary coalition has given initial approval to a contentious bill to limit…

PHOENIX (AP) — Phoenix says it’s making progress in complying with a court order to close a large homeless encampment known as “The Zone,”…

By MEAD GRUVER Associated Press (AP) — A helicopter pilot faces up to $10,000 in fines and a year in jail for making an illegal lakeside landing in…

By JAKE BLEIBERG Associated Press DALLAS (AP) — Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has picked a longtime aide to serve as the state’s second acting attorney…

By The Associated Press Tenor Joseph Calleja has withdrawn from the title role in “Parsifal” that opens the annual Richard Wagner Festival at…

By ALICIA RANCILIO Associated Press Steven Soderbergh’s latest project is the series “Full Circle” for Max debuting Thursday. It’s…

By MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Astronomers have discovered the most distant black hole yet using NASA’s Webb…

By CLAUDIA LAUER PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A day before killing four people in a mass shooting in Philadelphia last week, authorities say the gunman went…

By ISABELLA O’MALLEY, BRITTANY PETERSON and DREW COSTLEY Associated Press Schools in New Delhi were forced to close Monday after heavy monsoon…

By KEVIN McGILL Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The Biden administration asked a federal appeals court Monday to temporarily block a lower…

By JOHN RABY Associated Press CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — West Virginia University says nearly half of its academic programs are under evaluation.…

By SUSAN HAIGH Associated Press Lowell P. Weicker Jr. is being remembered as a towering figure in Connecticut politics. Weicker, who died June 28,…

CAIRO (AP) — Libya’s chief prosecutor says a court in the east of the country has sentenced five people to life in prison after they were…

By LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Marine Corps is without a confirmed leader for the first time in a century as Gen.…

By GARY B. GRAVES AP Sports Writer Kentucky racing officials have approved the rollout of sports betting, which will take effect when the NFL season…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — British detectives met with representatives of the BBC on Monday over allegations that a leading…

By SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Democrat Rebecca Cooke, a former small business owner and past member of the state’s…

By MARIA SHERMAN AP Music Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Madonna says she is focused on her health and getting back on stage after a “serious…

SAN DIEGO (AP) — Military officials say a 14-year-old girl reported missing from her San Diego home was found in the barracks at Camp Pendleton…

By YURAS KARMANAU Associated Press TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — A prominent Belarusian journalist is facing up to six years in prison as part of the…

By GABE STERN Associated Press/Report for America SPARKS, Nev. (AP) — Retired Army Capt. Sam Brown is running for the U.S. Senate in Nevada again.…

By MARK PRATT Associated Press The suspect in the 1982 Tylenol poisonings that killed seven people in the Chicago area, triggered a nationwide panic,…

WARREN, Pa. (AP) — Police searching for a homicide suspect who used bed sheets to escape from a northwestern Pennsylvania jail say he is likely…

NEWPORT BEACH, Calif. (AP) — A California judge has dismissed sex charges against a reality TV show doctor and his girlfriend who had been accused…

WARREN, Mich. (AP) — A suburban Detroit police officer who punched a 19-year-old Black man in the face and slammed his head to the ground is now…

By ED WHITE Associated Press PONTIAC, Mich. (AP) — Two sons of the late singer Aretha Franklin gave opposing opinions Monday about the Queen of…

By KELVIN CHAN AP Business Writer LONDON (AP) — The European Union has signed off on a new agreement over the privacy of people’s personal…

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — The United Nations humanitarian chief tells The Associated Press that Sudan appears to be in a civil war “of the most…

By MEG KINNARD Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — John Warren — the multimillionaire businessman who forced South Carolina Gov. Henry…

By FRANK JORDANS Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Scientists say crushing temperatures that blanketed Europe last summer may have led to more than…

By KIM TONG-HYUNG and HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — The powerful sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has alleged…

FRANKLIN, Tenn. (AP) — A Tennessee soccer coach is accused of drugging and raping at least 10 boys between the ages of 9 and 17 after photos and…

By JOHN HANNA AP Political Writer TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas must stop allowing transgender people to change the sex listed on their driver’s…

By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Raymond “Red” Reddington is finally hanging up his famous black fedora and — fitting…

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran’s official news agency says a fire erupted at an oil refinery and injured eight firefighters in the country’s…

By BASSEM MROUE Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — The commander of the U.N. peacekeeping force deployed on the tense Lebanon-Israel border has relayed…

By ALEKSANDAR FURTULA Associated Press LEIDEN, Netherlands (AP) — The Netherlands and Indonesia on Monday hailed the return of hundreds of cultural…

LAWRENCEVILLE, Ga. (AP) — Police have arrested a man suspected of shooting and injuring an investigator with a metro Atlanta prosecutor’s office…

By BASSEM MROUE Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Syrian Kurdish fighters have carried out an attack in northern Syria, killing at least five members…

By CHRIS LEHOURITES AP Sports Writer WIMBLEDON, England (AP) — Novak Djokovic’s experience was on display at Wimbledon on Monday. And so was…

By JOEY CAPPELLETTI Associated Press LANSING, Mich. (AP) — An actor best known for his roles on “CSI: NY” and “The Good Doctor” will run…

BEIJING (AP) — Leaders of the Solomon Islands and China have promised to expand relations that have fueled unease in Washington and Australia about…

By MICHAEL BALSAMO and MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Disgraced sports doctor Larry Nassar, who was convicted of sexually…

By ELDAR EMRIC Associated Press SREBRENICA, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) — Jews and Muslims have come together in Bosnia on the eve of the 28th…

By JOEY CAPPELLETTI Associated Press LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Former Michigan state Sens. Curtis Hertel Jr. and Tom Barrett will face off for the 7th…

BERLIN (AP) — Prosecutors in Berlin say a Russian citizen has been charged with attempted homicide and attempted arson for placing an explosive or…

By GRAHAM DUNBAR AP Sports Writer GENEVA (AP) — Ukrainian soccer club Dynamo Kyiv has told Turkish rival Fenerbahce it had “blood on your…

By LLAZAR SEMINI Associated Press TIRANA, Albania (AP) — Albanian special prosecutors have demanded that a lawmaker and former deputy prime…

By ACACIA CORONADO Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Republican Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas has drawn another Democratic challenger in the 2024 U.S.…

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli troops have shot and killed an alleged Palestinian gunman during new unrest in the West Bank. Monday’s shooting came…

By RIO YAMAT Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — A jury was seated Monday afternoon in the trial of a Las Vegas police officer accused of stealing…

BY SAMY MAGDY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — Egypt’s statistics bureau says the country’s annual inflation rate has set a record high,…

By KARL RITTER and SUZAN FRASER Associated Press VILNIUS, Lithuania (AP) — URGENT: NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg says Turkey’s…

By MIKE CORDER and RAF CASERT Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte says he plans to leave politics after…

By KANIS LEUNG Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong’s newly named Roman Catholic cardinal says he hopes for reconciliation and wants the…

The Associated Press Russia’s Defense Ministry has released a video of the country’s military chief. The video made public on Monday is the first…

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran has sentenced a popular rapper to six years and three months in prison over his participation in protests…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s industry minister has visited the tsunami-wrecked Fukushima nuclear power plant to see…

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — A U.S. honeymoon couple who survived severe burns when New Zealand’s White Island volcano erupted in 2019 are…

By ERIKA KINETZ Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — Nearly 50,000 Russian men have died in the war in Ukraine, according to the first independent…

By MARIAM FAM Associated Press RABAT, Morocco (AP) — The game was sparsely attended; it was midweek and the match wasn’t going to be a…

BEIJING (AP) — A man with a knife killed six people and wounded one Monday at a kindergarten in southeastern China, police and a news report said…

By MARIAM FAM Associated Press RABAT, Morocco (AP) — The game was sparsely attended; it was midweek and the outcome wasn’t much in doubt: the…

By LORNE COOK Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — When it comes to criticizing the NATO members who fail to spend enough on defense, tiny Luxembourg…

BEIJING (AP) — Employers across much of China were ordered Monday to limit outdoor work due to scorching temperatures, while the east and southwest…

By NINIEK KARMINI and JIM GOMEZ Associated Press JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Myanmar’s prolonged civil strife, tensions in the disputed South China…

By STEPHEN GROVES and CHRISTINA A. CASSIDY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Congress is considering renewed efforts to shore up voting and election…

By JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — Asian stock markets followed Wall Street higher Tuesday ahead of an update on U.S. consumer…

By SEUNG MIN KIM, JILL LAWLESS and CHRIS MEGERIAN Associated Press WINDSOR, England (AP) — President Joe Biden and King Charles III, two leaders…

By JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen says Washington will listen to Chinese complaints about…

By ARLEIGH RODGERS and MICHAEL GOLDBERG Associated Press/Report for America CHICAGO (AP) — On an early morning in June, Flower Nichols and her…

By SARA BURNETT Associated Press As the Republican presidential primary intensifies this summer, most White House hopefuls are devoting their time to…

By ARLEIGH RODGERS and MICHAEL GOLDBERG Associated Press/Report for America CHICAGO (AP) — On an early morning in June, Flower Nichols and her…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The delivery of humanitarian aid to Syria’s rebel-held northwest from neighboring…

SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) — President Nayib Bukele of El Salvador has been nominated by his New Ideas party to run for reelection in next…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Torrential rain has pounded southwestern Japan, triggering floods and mudslides and leaving two…

By ALMUDENA CALATRAVA and NATACHA PISARENKO Associated Press LA PLATA, Argentina (AP) — Archbishop Victor Manuel Fernández, chosen by Pope Francis…

By DOUG FERGUSON AP Golf Writer PEBBLE BEACH, Calif. (AP) — Allisen Corpuz picked the right time and the right place for her first big win. She won…

By MEG KINNARD Associated Press Roy Herron, a longtime Tennessee state lawmaker and former chairperson of the state Democratic Party, died Sunday…

NEW YORK (AP) — In a story published July 9, 2023, about a man arrested in six shootings on a scooter, The Associated Press, quoting New York City…

By HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea’s president says it’s time to clearly demonstrate strong international…