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By DAVID RISING Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — An American aircraft carrier is due to make a port call in Vietnam on Sunday. The rare visit by one…

By SOPHENG CHEANG Associated Press PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — Pro-government Cambodian lawmakers have unanimously approved changes to the…

BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s parliament has approved plans to attract more skilled workers to Europe’s biggest economy and help address labor…

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Denmark’s top prosecuting authority says it has approved the extradition of a Danish national accused of involvement…

By DAVID BRANDT AP Baseball Writer PHOENIX (AP) — The percentage of Black players in Major League Baseball has been on the decline for decades, but…

By MOGOMOTSI MAGOME Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Authorities in South Africa say at least 31 people are believed to have died in a gas…

By LAURA UNGAR AP Science Writer Dr. Kylie Cooper chokes up thinking about the patients she left behind in Idaho. One who often comes to mind is…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — The governor of Japan’s southern prefecture of Okinawa has called for more diplomatic efforts…

BEIJING (AP) — A Chinese city government says an explosion at a steel mill has killed four people and left five hospitalized with injuries. The…

By The Associated Press For months, the outspoken millionaire head of the Wagner private mercenary force bombarded Russia’s military leaders with…

BERLIN (AP) — The German parliament has approved the construction of a memorial in Berlin to the Jehovah’s Witnesses persecuted under the Nazis.…

By DÁNICA COTO Associated Press SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Tropical Storm Cindy has formed behind Tropical Storm Bret. Forecasters say…

By STAN CHOE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Another drop for stocks helped drag Wall Street to its first losing week in the last six. The…

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Four Thai nationals have been charged with human trafficking in a Malaysian court over the 2015 discovery of mass…

BERLIN (AP) — Storms and heavy rain across a large swath of Germany have flooded roads and forced the closure of some major railway routes, but…

By KIRSTEN GRIESHABER Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — When Berlin Rabbi Yehuda Teichtal first talked about his dream of building Germany’s biggest…

By MATTHEW PERRONE AP Health Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — A powerful animal sedative in the illicit drug supply is complicating the U.S. response to…

By DEREK GATOPOULOS Associated Press ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greeks heading to the polls Sunday for a second general election in five weeks, with…

By HAVEN DALEY Associated Press LOS GATOS, Calif. (AP) — At Tyler Malek’s ice cream parlors, one cook’s trash is another chef’s…

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Malaysia’s government says it will take legal action against Facebook’s parent company, Meta Platforms, for…

By JACK JEFFERY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — Saudi Arabia is hosting its biggest Hajj pilgrimage in three years, starting Monday. But for many…

By MICHAEL RUBINKAM and TASSANEE VEJPONGSA The Associated Press PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Interstate 95 reopened Friday less than two weeks after a…

By KELVIN CHAN AP Business Writer Twitter needs to do more work to fall in line with the European Union’s tough new digital rulebook, a top EU…

By HUIZHONG WU Associated Press TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — A disbarred Chinese human rights lawyer has been forced to move 13 times in two months as…

By WILL WEISSERT and MICHELLE L. PRICE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Former Vice President Mike Pence used a Friday gathering of some of the…

By SCOTT SONNER Associated Press RENO, Nev. (AP) — Environmentalists, ranchers and others have fought for years against lithium mining ventures in…

By BEN FINLEY Associated Press NORFOLK, Va. (AP) — The fatal implosion of the Titan submersible has drawn attention to the murkily regulated waters…

By COLLEEN LONG and ZEKE MILLER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is warning that Republicans seeking a nationwide ban on…

By DÁNICA COTO Associated Press PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — A gang rampaged through the Cite Soleil slum, killing and raping and setting fire to…

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — A suspected Russian diplomat is apparently squatting on the site of Moscow’s…

By RIAZAT BUTT Associated Press MECCA, Saudi Arabia (AP) — Muslim pilgrims streamed into the holy city of Mecca on Friday ahead of the start of…

PEORIA, Ill. (AP) — A woman has pleaded guilty to federal charges stemming from the straw purchase of a gun used to fatally shoot one central…

OTTAWA, Ontario (AP) — Canada’s Senate on Thursday passed a bill that will require Google and Meta to pay media outlets for news content that…

By FARNOUSH AMIRI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republicans have released testimony from two IRS whistleblowers who allege that the…

AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — Maine lawmakers have launched into an emotional debate over expanding abortion access, delivering impassioned appeals. The…

By COLLEEN LONG Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Three top reproductive rights groups are endorsing President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala…

By JOHN FLESHER AP Environmental Writer TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) — Chemical manufacturer 3M Co. will pay at least $10.3 billion to settle lawsuits…

By STEPHEN WHYNO AP Sports Writer A person with knowledge of the sale tells The Associated Press the Qatar Investment Authority is buying a roughly…

By BRIAN MAHONEY AP Basketball Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Victor Wembanyama was the presumed No. 1 pick for months, the rare certainty in an NBA draft…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Somalia’s “dire hunger emergency” is spiraling upward with one-third of the…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva offered Thursday to help try to gain the release of a Roman Catholic bishop…

By SOPHIE AUSTIN and FRANK BAJAK Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California’s public pension fund says the personal data of more…

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Police say two people were found dead following a shooting outside a McDonald’s restaurant in the Florida Panhandle.…

By MATTHEW BARAKAT Associated Press LEESBURG, Va. (AP) — A jury has acquitted the longtime spokesman for a northern Virginia school system of…

By ANDREW DALTON AP Entertainment Writer The weapons supervisor charged with involuntary manslaughter in the shooting death of a cinematographer on…

By MATTHEW DALY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The government’s traffic safety agency says it will require that heavy trucks and buses…

By GARY D. ROBERTSON Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina Republican legislators have rolled out adjustments to the state’s new…

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — The Florida Supreme Court has refused to reinstate a Florida prosecutor who was removed by Gov. Ron DeSantis after making…

By BRUCE SCHREINER Associated Press FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Attorney General Daniel Cameron’s office has asked the FBI to investigate an…

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A Missouri woman imprisoned for more than four decades for a murder she says she didn’t commit will get a court…

By DAVID BAUDER AP Media Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The two leading GOP presidential contenders had very different interview experiences with Fox News…

TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis announced Thursday that the state has filed a lawsuit against the Biden administration and the U.S.…

By KIMBERLEE KRUESI Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Nearly three months after a shooter killed six people at her daughter’s school…

By MICHAEL MAROT AP Sports Writer INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Two Buffalo Bills trainers say they stuck to their pre-planned treatment when Damar Hamlin…

By THOMAS ADAMSON AP Fashion Writer PARIS (AP) — History, fashion, and star power came together at Givenchy’s latest menswear show at Les…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s Supreme Court has overturned yet another set of electoral law changes favored by President Andrés Manuel López…

By MARK PRATT Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — A renowned Titanic expert, a world record-holding adventurer, two members of one of Pakistan’s…

By HALELUYA HADERO AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — A Congressional report published Thursday offered a blistering critique of popular Chinese…

By ZANE IRWIN Associated Press DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — A lawyer for Senegal’s embattled opposition leader Ousmane Sonko has filed a lawsuit in…

By DARLENE SUPERVILLE and FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi brought his comedy game to…

By JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Pop star Kesha and producer Dr. Luke have settled nearly a decade of suits and countersuits over…

By SYLVIE CORBET Associated Press PARIS (AP) — The French government says that Zambia has reached a deal with China and several other government…

By MATTHEW PERRONE AP Health Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved the first gene therapy to treat a deadly…

By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The intersex documentary “Every Body” shines a warm spotlight on a much-misunderstood community,…

By ELLEN KNICKMEYER and SYLVIE CORBET Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden on Thursday defended his harsh public comments on…

By KIMBERLEE KRUESI and JONATHAN MATTISE NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A lockdown on a Tennessee’s legislative office building in Nashville has been…

By DIANE JEANTET Associated Press RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — A federal court has sentenced Brazilian engineer Mário Marcelo Santoro to 27 years in…

ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan has collected DNA samples from more than 200 families following last week’s sinking of an overcrowded smuggling vessel…

By HOLLY RAMER, JENNIFER McDERMOTT and BEN FINLEY Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — About an hour and a half into its voyage, a missing submersible on…

By BEATRICE DUPUY and COLLEEN SLEVIN Associated Press DENVER (AP) — A brief but fierce storm pummeled concertgoers at the iconic Red Rocks…

By HANNAH SCHOENBAUM Associated Press/Report for America RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina has given final legislative approval to a bill banning…

MACON, Ga. (AP) — A doctors’ group that promotes animal rights is makin’ a fuss over the Macon Bacon baseball team. The Physicians…

By MATTHEW PERRONE AP Health Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. regulators have sent warning letters to dozens of retailers selling fruity disposable…

By PAUL WISEMAN AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Chair Jerome Powell reiterated that the Federal Reserve will likely raise interest rates at…

By JAKE OFFENHARTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Two relatives helped indicted U.S. Rep. George Santos stay out of detention while he awaits…

HAVEN DALEY SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The giant canvas pink triangle that is one of the LGBTQ+ community’s Pride month symbols in San Francisco is…

By SETH BORENSTEIN AP Science Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — A new survey says America’s honeybee hives just staggered through the second highest…

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — In a story published June 22, 2023, about the NTSB hearings on the Ohio train derailment, The Associated Press quoted National…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that a man whose conviction on gun charges was called into question by a recent high court…

By CHRIS MEGERIAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — In the year since the Supreme Court overturned the national legal right to abortion, President…

By STEVE LeBLANC Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — The desperate search for a submersible that disappeared while taking five people to view the…

By JESSICA GRESKO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court ruled against the Navajo Nation on Thursday in a dispute involving water…

By ALEX VEIGA AP Business Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Sales of previously occupied U.S. homes edged higher in May and the national median sale price…

By DÁNICA COTO Associated Press SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Tropical Storm Bret swirled close to St. Vincent late Thursday as it began pushing…

By EVELYNE MUSAMBI Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Kenyans are preparing for tough times after lawmakers approved tax increases that are…

By MATT OTT AP Business Writer The number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits remained elevated last week, a possible sign that the…

ST. LOUIS (AP) — A teenage volleyball player from Tennessee is suing the city of St. Louis and two drivers who struck her in February, causing her…

By FRANK JORDANS Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — The German government has announced draft plans to boost domestic research into development of…

SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — The rapper Quando Rondo has been jailed after being indicted on drug and gang charges in his hometown of Savannah. The…