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By ANDREW DeMILLO, THOMAS PEIPERT and DYLAN LOVAN Associated Press RICHMOND, Ky. (AP) — The United States has destroyed the last of its declared…

By TERRY TANG and GEORGE WALKER IV Associated Press HAZEL GREEN, Ala. (AP) — A partnership between the U.S. Forest Service and historically Black…

By BILL BARROW Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter are marking their 77th wedding anniversary with a quiet Friday at their…

By THOMAS BEAUMONT Associated Press COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa (AP) — Campaigning in Iowa on Friday, former President Donald Trump attacked Florida Gov.…

By JILL COLVIN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Seven weeks before the premiere debate of the 2024 GOP primary, anxiety is building that the event…

By AYANNA ALEXANDER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — For a century, the League of Women Voters in Florida formed bonds with marginalized…

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Another month, another solid gain for America’s job market. The pace of hiring…

SEATTLE (AP) — A passenger aboard an Alaska Airlines flight from Atlanta to Seattle Wednesday is accused of making a bomb threat that caused pilots…

ISLAMABAD (AP) — The Taliban says beauty salons have been banned in Afghanistan because they offered services forbidden by Islam and caused…

PHOENIX (AP) — Adults in Arizona can now obtain contraceptive medications over the counter at a pharmacy without a doctor’s prescription under a…

NEW YORK (AP) — Uber Eats, DoorDash and Grubhub have sued New York City to block its new minimum pay rules for food delivery workers. The recently…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Biden administration attorneys say a Louisiana-based federal judge’s order broadly limiting executive branch communications…

By ADAM BEAM Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Some of the nation’s largest truck makers have pledged to not sell new gas-powered…

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greece’s conservative government is promising to continue a multi-billion euro defense modernization program during its…

By DAVID SHARP Associated Press AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — The Maine Senate has given final approval to a bill that would expand access to abortions…

By TARA COPP and LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States has decided to send cluster munitions to Ukraine to help its…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is condemning Israel’s excessive use of force…

WIMBLEDON, England (AP) — Frances Tiafoe is still waiting on his sneakers from Travis Scott. The American tennis player advanced to the third round…

VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) — Wildfires raging across Canada have already broken records for total areas burned, the number of people forced…

By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Federal prosecutors say a former Indiana congressman should pay nearly $1.4 million to cover…

By SUSAN HAIGH Associated Press HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — A Connecticut state lawmaker attacked as she left a Muslim prayer service is accusing local…

By JUAN A. LOZANO Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — The case of a Texas man who was reported missing as a teenager in 2015 and found alive last week…

By FABIANO MAISONNAVE Associated Press RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest dropped 33.6% in the first six…

By TIM REYNOLDS AP Basketball Writer LAS VEGAS (AP) — San Antonio Spurs rookie Victor Wembanyama said Thursday he believes Britney Spears grabbed…

STURGEON BAY, Wis. (AP) — A Wisconsin police officer who ran into a burning barn and rescued three cows trapped inside says the bovines “made a…

By MATTHEW PERRONE AP Health Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. officials have granted full approval to a closely watched Alzheimer’s drug for…

By JULIE CARR SMYTH Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The railroad industry has sued to block a new minimum crew-size requirement that Ohio…

By STEVE LeBLANC Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — John Berylson, an American businessman and owner of English soccer team Millwall who was remembered…

GRAND MARAIS, Minn. (AP) — A 40-acre plot of Minnesota forest land connected to a polygamous sect once led by Warren Jeffs is up for sale. News…

By NOMAAN MERCHANT, LOLITA C. BALDOR and ELLEN KNICKMEYER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration has decided to provide…

By ED WHITE Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — An engineering company accused of partial responsibility for Flint’s lead-contaminated water in 2014…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The lengthy process of putting the retired space shuttle Endeavour on display in the vertical launch position will begin this…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is calling for a robust international force to…

By RANDALL CHASE Associated Press DOVER, Del. (AP) — A Delaware man has been sentenced to life in prison for his role in a drug-related street feud…

LAHORE, Pakistan (AP) — Officials in Pakistan say the death toll from two weeks of monsoon rains rose to at least 55 on Thursday after at least 12…

By PATRICK WHITTLE Associated Press The company that owned a submersible that imploded on its way to explore the wreck of the Titanic says it has…

By SIBI ARASU Associated Press Maritime nations have been finalizing a plan Thursday to slash emissions from the shipping industry to net zero by…

CAROLYN THOMPSON BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — Authorities say a fire in a Buffalo costume shop where a trapped firefighter died earlier this year has been…

By DAVID SHARP Associated Press AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — Maine lawmakers failed to override the governor’s veto of a bill aimed to ensuring more…

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis will travel to the periphery of Roman Catholicism this summer becoming the first pontiff to visit Mongolia. The…

By MICHELLE L. PRICE Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is defending an anti-LGBTQ video his campaign shared online that…

By JOSH FUNK AP Business Writer OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — The company that wants to build a mine in southeast Nebraska has signed a deal with a major…

YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK, Calif. (AP) — A hiker has been missing in Yosemite National Park since last weekend after being swept away by a cold and…

By SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin’s governor attempted to lock in a school funding increase for the next 400…

By KRYSTA FAURIA Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Johnny Knoxville is no stranger to head injuries. In the decades since he rose to fame as the…

By CHRISTINA LARSON AP Science Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — When archaeologists first discovered the 5,000-year-old ornate tomb in Spain, they assumed…

FLORENCE, Wis. (AP) — Workplace safety officials are investigating the death of a 16-year-old boy from injuries he received last week at a…

By ISABELLA O’MALLEY Associated Press As a warming Earth simmered into worrisome new territory this week, scientists said the unofficial…

By The Associated Press Ricky Martin and Jwan Yosef are divorcing after nearly six years of marriage, the couple announced Thursday. “For some…

By JULIA FRANKEL Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — A Palestinian man has opened fire near an Israeli settlement in the occupied West Bank, killing…

By BOUAZZA BEN BOUAZZA and RENATA BRITO Associated Press TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — Tensions have spiked dangerously in a Tunisian port city after three…

MOSCOW (AP) — Russia’s Foreign Ministry on Thursday announced the expelling of nine Finnish diplomats and shutting down Finland’s consulate in…

By PAUL WISEMAN AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. job openings slipped in May but remained at levels high enough to show the American…

By MELISSA LAMBARENA of NerdWallet So-called alternative credit cards from financial technology companies can offer you the opportunity to build…

BRUSSELS (AP) — The trial of 10 men accused over the 2016 suicide bombings at Brussels airport and a subway station is taking a major step toward…

By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer NEW YORK (AP) — There are, as a rule, only so many places you can go as an action movie after leaving Tom Cruise…

By CHRIS LEHOURITES AP Sports Writer WIMBLEDON, England (AP) — The courts are finally dry at Wimbledon and the sun is even shining through the…

By MOGOMOTSI MAGOME and GERALD IMRAY Associated Press BOKSBURG, South Africa (AP) — The death toll in a toxic gas leak in South Africa blamed on an…

By MATT OTT AP Business Writer The number of Americans applying for jobless benefits rose last week, but remains at healthy levels despite the…

By JULIA FRANKEL Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — An Israeli court has acquitted a border police officer who was charged with reckless…

By PETER SMITH Associated Press More than 6,000 United Methodist congregations — a fifth of the U.S. total — have now received permission to…

LANSING, Mich. (AP) — A missing 2-year-old Michigan girl who disappeared during an attack on her mother was found dead nearly 100 miles (161…

PAMPLONA, Spain (AP) — Tens of thousands of people have packed the town hall square in the northern Spanish city of Pamplona to celebrate the…

NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — Two firefighters were killed battling a blaze that began when cars caught fire deep inside a cargo ship carrying 5,000 cars at…

By PAN PYLAS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — A girl was killed Thursday when an SUV crashed into an elementary school on a very narrow road in the…

By KANIS LEUNG Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong police have arrested another person accused of supporting overseas activists who…

LONDON (AP) — The head of global energy giant Shell says it would be “irresponsible” to cut oil and gas production at a time when the world…

YURI KAGEYAMA Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — The minister charged with an overhaul of this nation’s digitized system to assign a number to all…

BERLIN (AP) — Lawmakers in Germany have failed to agree on new rules regulating assisted suicide. They voted Thursday to reject two proposals drawn…

By CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Authorities in Nigeria say they have activated a national response plan ahead of…

STOCKHOLM (AP) — A Turkish man has been found guilty of attempted aggravated extortion, weapons possession and attempted terrorist financing,…

By CIARÁN GILES Associated Press MADRID (AP) — A Spanish migrant rights group says 951 migrants have died while trying to reach Spain by sea in…

By SIBI ARASU Associated Press The president of this year’s United Nations’ climate talks urged the oil and gas industry Thursday to reach net…

By JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen plans to tell Chinese officials that Washington wants healthy…

By ANNA FRANTS Associated Press MINSK, Belarus (AP) — The mercenary leader who led a short-lived mutiny against the Kremlin is in Russia and his…

By ANIRUDDHA GHOSAL Associated Press HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — A human rights advocacy group says it found allegations of dozens of labor and…

BEIJING (AP) — The leader of the Solomon Islands will visit China next week, highlighting the accelerating contest between Beijing and Washington…

By BASSEM MROUE and KAREEM CHEHAYEB Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Israeli forces have shelled a southern Lebanese border village after several…

By ASHWINI BHATIA Associated Press DHARMSALA, India (AP) — The Dalai Lama has celebrated his 88th birthday among hundreds of supporters and exiled…

By ED WHITE Associated Press PONTIAC, Mich. (AP) — Five years after her death, the final wishes of music superstar Aretha Franklin are still…

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australia’s center-left government has distanced itself from the postponement of…

BEIJING (AP) — China says 239 people died from COVID-19 in June in a significant uptick months after it lifted most containment measures. The…

By KANIS LEUNG Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong lawmakers on Thursday passed an amendment to a law to eliminate most directly elected…

By JADE LE DELEY and LORI HINNANT Associated Press CRETEIL, France (AP) — At 19, he was the oldest of the group of teens accused of lobbing Molotov…

By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer BANGKOK (AP) — Asian shares slipped Friday after another decline on Wall Street, where hopes for an end to…

BEIJING (AP) — Employers in Beijing have been ordered to stop outdoor work after scorching summer heat in the Chinese capital was forecast to reach…

By AUDREY McAVOY Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — The town of Hauula packs hundreds of homes into a narrow strip of land sandwiched between…

By SETH BORENSTEIN and ISABELLA O’MALLEY Associated Press Sweltering heat is blanketing much of the planet, and the past seven days have been…

By ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON and ERIC TUCKER Associated Press MIAMI (AP) — Donald Trump’s valet, Walt Nauta, pleaded not guilty Thursday to charges…