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By KIMBERLY PALMER of NerdWallet Shoppers are increasingly buying items on social media sites, whether it’s through an influencer post or…

By MIKE CORDER Associated Press AMSTERDAM (AP) — Henk Schiffmaker’s needle whirrs as he tattoos the familiar lines of an elephant on Lilian…

BERLIN (AP) — Writer Salman Rushdie has been awarded a prestigious German prize for his literary work and for his resolve and positive attitude in…

By SYLVIE CORBET Associated Press PARIS (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron is urging European nations to seek more independence on airspace…

MELEKHOVO, Russia (AP) — Imprisoned Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny urged his supporters Monday to begin a broad campaign against…

By MUNIR AHMED Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan’s police have widened its search for human traffickers after a tragedy off the…

By RAJESH KUMAR SINGH, PIYUSH NAGPAL and SIBI ARASU Associated Press BALLIA, India (AP) — A scorching heat wave in two of India’s most populous…

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The United Arab Emirates and Qatar announced the reopening of their embassies on Monday following a yearslong…

By SUSIE BLANN Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — The Kremlin’s spokesman says U.N. aid workers who want to visit areas ravaged by a…

BERLIN (AP) — Voters in the municipality where Neuschwanstein Castle is located have voted to approve a bid for UNESCO World Heritage status for…

TOKYO (AP) — Five people have been killed and 12 others taken to the hospital after a truck collided with a bus in Hokkaido in northern Japan.…

By NICOLE WINFIELD and TRISHA THOMAS Associated Press VATICAN CITY (AP) — In her years running Catholic youth programs in France, Sister Nathalie…

By ACHMAD IBRAHIM and EDNA TARIGAN Associated Press BOGOR, Indonesia (AP) — Japanese Emperor Naruhito has met with Indonesian President Joko Widodo…

By MATTHEW BROWN and CLAIRE SAVAGE Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — Mass shootings and violence killed and wounded people across the U.S. over the…

By COURTNEY BONNELL AP Business Writer LONDON (AP) — Multinational companies including Amazon, Marriott, Hilton are pledging to hire more than…

KELLOGG, Idaho (AP) — A 31-year-old man detained at the scene of a shooting in northern Idaho that left four people dead on Sunday has been booked…

By TED ANTHONY AP National Writer Alternate universes are everywhere these days, from “The Flash” to “Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse.”…

By JOSH BOAK and ZEKE MILLER Associated Press PALO ALTO, California (AP) — President Joe Biden is in California as he ramps up his reelection…

By The Associated Press Loved “Everything Everywhere All at Once?” Can’t get enough of “The Flash” and “Spider-Man: Across the…

By ALI SWENSON Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Lashing out after his arraignment on federal charges last week, Donald Trump took aim at President…

By REBECCA SANTANA Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Ammar Rashed has a stack of letters from U.S. troops attesting to his work during some of the…

By DAVID A. LIEB and ANDREW DeMILLO Associated Press More than 1 million people have been dropped from Medicaid in the past couple months as some…

By The Associated Press This week’s new entertainment releases include albums from Kelly Clarkson and Portugal. The Man, the return of the TV shows…

Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — An earthquake has been recorded off the southern coast of Myanmar with tremors also felt in Thailand, but there are…

By MATTHEW LEE AP Diplomatic Writer BEIJING (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken met on Monday with Chinese President Xi Jinping and said…

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Kamau, the African lion who was a star attraction at California’s Sacramento Zoo, has died at age 16, officials…

By MATTHEW LEE AP Diplomatic Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — An Associated Press reporter whose coverage of the State Department and international…

By BIANCA VÁZQUEZ TONESS, ED WHITE and ADRIAN SAINZ Associated Press Americans across the country this weekend celebrated Juneteenth, marking the…

By MSTYSLAV CHERNOV and LORI HINNANT Associated Press BERISLAV, Ukraine (AP) — Exclusive drone photos and information obtained by The Associated…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Authorities in northern Mexico say they have destroyed 14 homemade armored cars of the kind used by drug cartels to fight land…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — The southern tip of Mexico’s Baja California peninsula has been rattled by an earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of…

BROADWAY, N.C. (AP) — Five people were killed in a house fire in a rural North Carolina town on Sunday, authorities said. The Harnett County…

Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A man stabbed a pit bull to death following a quarrel with the dog’s owner in New York City’s Central…

HONG KONG (AP) — Chinese consumers have been snapping up billions worth of items in China’s first major online shopping festival after emerging…

Netflix gave audiences first looks at some planned and upcoming projects including “Avatar: The Last Airbender,” “One Piece” and the third…

MIFFLINTOWN, Pa. (AP) — Officials are expressing shock and sadness at the death of one state trooper and the serious wounding of another hours…

By MATTHEW LEE AP Diplomatic Writer BEIJING (AP) — The United States and China have failed to overcome their most serious disagreements but were…

By STEPHEN WHYNO AP Hockey Writer Marty Walsh wasn’t a man in a hurry to leave the Biden administration. Less than halfway through the…

By MEG KINNARD Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina Republicans have set Feb. 24 as the date of their 2024 presidential primary.…

By LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer DC and Warner Bros.’ long-in-the-works superhero movie “The Flash” opened to $55 million in its first three days…

By ILAN BEN ZION Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel’s government has granted a pro-settlement firebrand authority over planning in the…

HAMPTON BEACH, N.H. (AP) — A hovercraft traveling from Cape Cod to Nova Scotia became a beachside attraction when it was deliberately run aground…

MILWAUKEE (AP) — A bus driver was arrested on a charge of driving under the influence while transporting the Pittsburgh Pirates from Chicago to…

By COLLEEN BARRY AP Fashion Writer MILAN (AP) — The architecture at Prada’s showroom shifts with every season, but never so fluidly as for…

ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has declared a national day of mourning for citizens who died when a fishing trawler…

WILLOWBROOK, Ill. (AP) — At least 23 people were shot, one fatally, early Sunday during a gathering in a suburban Chicago parking lot that drew…

By JOHN ROGERS Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — You could call her the mother of Father’s Day. The late Sonora Smart Dodd launched the…

By BISWAJEET BANERJEE Associated Press LUCKNOW, India (AP) — At least 96 people died in two of India’s most populous states over the last…

By TIA GOLDENBERG Associated Press TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says he opposes any interim agreement…

By SARA BURNETT Associated Press In a 2024 Republican presidential field full of long-shot candidates, Miami Mayor Francis Suarez may be — on paper…

ST. LOUIS (AP) — Officials say an overnight shooting in downtown St. Louis killed one teenager and wounded nine others. St. Louis Metropolitan…

By TIA GOLDENBERG Associated Press TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday his government intends to move…

By KIRSTEN GRIESHABER Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Austrian authorities say they have foiled a possible attack on Vienna’s Pride parade by…

By KEMO CHAM and SAM MEDNICK Associated Press FREETOWN, Sierra Leone (AP) — Sierra Leoneans are heading to the polls on Saturday, June 24, to…

By YURAS KARMANAU Associated Press TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — For nearly three years, a harsh crackdown on dissent in Belarus by its authoritarian…

By TIA GOLDENBERG Associated Press LOD, Israel (AP) — A relentless wave of violent crime within Israel’s Palestinian minority is turning cities…

By LLAZAR SEMINI Associated Press SHENGJIN, Albania (AP) — Hundreds of Afghans are languishing in Albania, waiting for the U.S. visas they were…

GEORGE, Wash. (AP) — Two people were killed and three others injured after police said a shooter began firing “randomly” into a crowd at a…

By MARK THIESSEN Associated Press ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — The cruise ship with about 1,000 passengers anchored off Nome, too big to squeeze into…

By TRÂN NGUYỄN Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California Governor Gavin Newsom is proposing an end to public disclosure of…

MANILA, Philippines (AP) — All 120 passengers and crew members aboard a Philippine ferry that caught fire at sea on Sunday were rescued safely and…

CARSON, Calif. (AP) — Authorities say a shooting at a Southern California home left eight people wounded. KABC-TV says authorities were dispatched…

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — Police have hunted down a velociraptor that was stolen from outside a South Dakota arts and science center. Sioux Falls…

LEWISTOWN, Pa. (AP) — A state trooper and a suspect were killed Saturday in a shootout in central Pennsylvania, hours after the suspect seriously…

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Authorities say a man died of injuries after what a jail official called altercations and an escape attempt at the county…

By STEVE PEOPLES AP National Political Writer GARDNERVILLE, Nevada (AP) — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Saturday condemned Walt Disney World and the…

By FRANK BAJAK AP Technology Writer BOSTON (AP) — In early June, sporadic but serious service disruptions plagued Microsoft’s flagship office…

BRADENTON, Fla. (AP) — Rolling Stones frontman Mick Jagger and his dancer girlfriend Melanie Hamrick have put their Florida home up for sale. A…

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The city of St. George must issue a permit for a Utah-based group that organizes drag performances to host an all-ages drag…

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A federal judge has given Enbridge three years to shut down a section of an oil and gas pipeline that crosses reservation…

St. LOUIS (AP) — Video shows a security officer for St. Louis light rail repeatedly punch a man in the head as he lay facedown at a busy platform.…

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. (AP) — An enslaved man who fled Arkansas in 1841 seeking freedom in Canada, only to be forcibly returned to the U.S., has been…

By JOSEPH WILSON Associated Press BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez’s Socialists have received an unexpected…