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By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. Security Council is calling for an immediate cease-fire in Sudan to be followed…

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama now has an official state cookie: the Yellowhammer Cookie. Gov. Kay Ivey on Friday signed legislation naming the…

By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Three women who claim Cuba Gooding Jr. sexually abused them — including one upset she never…

By RONALD BLUM Associated Press Kaija Saariaho, who wrote acclaimed works that made her the among the most prominent composers of the 21st century,…

DINWIDDIE, Va. (AP) — The prosecutor handling the case against 10 people charged in the death of a Virginia man who was pinned to the floor while…

PITTSBURGH Police have described how they exchanged fire with a gunman who carried out the deadliest antisemitic attack in U.S. history, frantic to…

By SARA CLINE Associated Press BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — As Louisiana’s legislative session nears adjournment, lawmakers are pushing forward…

By ANITA SNOW Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Retired Phoenix Police Capt. Carroll Cooley, the arresting officer in the landmark case partially…

By MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump’s lawyers are demanding that the judge in his New York City criminal case step…

By The Associated Press YouTube said Friday it will stop removing content that falsely claims the 2020 election or other past U.S. presidential…

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Connecticut lawmakers have voted to tighten the state’s marriage laws, prohibiting anyone under age 18 from being issued a…

TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Belarus is introducing a visa-free travel arrangement with dozens of countries for a month, raising fears that neighboring…

By LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Two Florida men who stormed the U.S. Capitol with other members of the far-right Oath…

By CARLOS VALDEZ and PAOLA FLORES Associated Press LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) — Catholic devotees in Bolivia are preparing for one of the country’s…

By TERESA CRAWFORD and KATHLEEN FOODY Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — The newest addition to the Field Museum on Chicago’s lakefront will give…

By SAM METZ Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The Good Book is being treated like a bad book in Utah after a parent frustrated by efforts to…

QUITO, Ecuador (AP) — Ecuador’s president Guillermo Lasso says he will not run for presidential reelection in the early elections that were…

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The company that makes the opioid addiction treatment drug Suboxone has reached a $102.5 million settlement of antitrust claims…

By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The Mississippi Supreme Court chief justice cannot be sued over a state law that…

By ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The FBI has offered to show top lawmakers next week a bureau document that purports to relate to…

By SARA BURNETT Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — The first Republican presidential debate of the 2024 election cycle will be held Aug. 23, and…

By JOHN FLESHER AP Environmental Writer TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) — Three chemical companies said Friday they had reached a $1.18 billion deal to…

By FREIDA FRISARO Associated Press MIAMI (AP) — It’s time for residents along the southeastern U.S. coastline to get plans in place as the 2023…

By ZEKE MILLER and CHRIS MEGERIAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden celebrated a “crisis averted” in his first speech…

BALTIMORE (AP) — Officials say a Baltimore judge has ordered boxer Gervonta Davis to serve the remainder of his hit-and-run sentence behind bars…

By HOWARD FENDRICH AP Tennis Writer PARIS (AP) — Two years after Naomi Osaka withdrew from the French Open when she was fined, then threatened with…

By JAMES POLLARD Associated Press/Report for America COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Elected officials met a South Carolina community mourning the death of a…

By MORGAN LEE Associated Press SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — An appeals court says an anti-discrimination lawsuit involving Native American hair can go to…

By DAVE COLLINS Associated Press A building under construction partially collapsed Friday in New Haven, Connecticut, when a concrete pour went awry,…

By JUAN ZAMORANO Associated Press NICANOR, Panama (AP) — Panama has launched a security operation along its shared border with Colombia to combat…

By ASHOK SHARMA and KRUTIKA PATHI Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — Rescuers waded through piles of debris and wreckage to pull out bodies and free…

MIAMI (AP) — Tropical Storm Arlene, the first named storm of the Atlantic hurricane season, has formed in the Gulf of Mexico. Forecasters say the…

By JAKE OFFENHARTZ and MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Nearly four years after Jeffrey Epstein’s death, thousands of pages…

MOSCOW (AP) — Imprisoned Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny released excerpts of his correspondence with prison administrators Friday,…

LONDON (AP) — A teenage man who was reported to British anti-terror authorities by his mother was jailed for life on Friday. Matthew King, 19, will…

By NOMAAN MERCHANT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A U.S. official says CIA Director William Burns went to Beijing in May to meet with Chinese…

By JILL COLVIN and ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Department of Justice has informed former Vice President Mike Pence ‘s…

By MIKE SCHNEIDER Associated Press ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — A federal judge overseeing the First Amendment lawsuit that Walt Disney Parks filed against…

By GISELA SALOMON Associated Press MIAMI (AP) — A federal judge in Miami sentenced a Haitian-Chilean businessman Friday to life in prison for his…

By HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Cynthia Weil, a Grammy-winning lyricist of great range and endurance who enjoyed a decades-long…

By JULIE CARR SMYTH Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — In a blow to abortion opponents in Ohio, a fall ballot issue aimed at enshrining access…

By FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. has imposed sanctions on an Iran-based technology firm for its role in facilitating…

By KEN SWEET AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Customers of Chase’s online banking services have seen double transactions, fees and payments in…

NATICK, Mass. (AP) — The Wegmans supermarket chain is closing one of its largest and most unusual stores because it has not attracted enough…

MILWAUKEE (AP) — A school bus in Milwaukee was engulfed in flames moments after the pregnant driver safely evacuated 37 students. The bus was just…

By DENISE LAVOIE and SARAH RANKIN Associated Press PETERSBURG, Va. (AP) — One of Virginia’s most closely watched nomination contests this…

By GEIR MOULSON and JON GAMBRELL Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Iran has released one Danish and two Austrian citizens, according to the European…

BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s defense minister says his country will look into a report that former German air force fighter plane pilots have been…

HALIFAX, Nova Scotia (AP) — Rain and a rainy forecast for the weekend have fire officials hopeful they can get the largest wildfire ever recorded…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Critics accuse the British administration of running “government by WhatsApp” due to the…

LONDON (AP) — The British government has appointed a new acting chair for the BBC five weeks after the resignation of Richard Sharp. Sharp resigned…

DETROIT (AP) — Ford is telling owners of more than 140,000 SUVs in the U.S. to park them outside because they can catch fire even when the engines…

CAIRO (AP) — Jill Biden has arrived in Cairo on the second leg of her six-day trip across the Middle East, North Africa and Europe that seeks to…

By LUIS ANDRES HENAO Associated Press LIBERTA, Antigua (AP) — On the same ground where their enslaved ancestors were forced to plant sugar cane,…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s birth rate declined for a seventh consecutive year in 2022 to a record low of 1.26, the…

BY DAVID CRARY AP National Writer In the year since the Supreme Court struck down the nationwide right to abortion, America’s religious leaders and…

By CIARÁN GILES Associated Press MADRID (AP) — Spain’s bishops’ conference says it has found evidence of 728 sexual abusers within the…

By GRAHAM DUNBAR AP Sports Writer GENEVA (AP) — Polish soccer referee Szymon Marciniak has apologized for speaking at a business event tied to a…

BERLIN (AP) — The United Nations has warned that far too little aid is reaching cyclone-hit areas of Myanmar and the country could face a major…

By YURI KAGEYAMA Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Ten-year-old Maholo Terajima Ghnassia is breaking conventions as one of the biggest emerging stars…

By JAN M. OLSEN Associated Press COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Dozen of activists including Indigenous Sami are protesting outside the office of…

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — The Biden administration is implementing a 20-year withdrawal banning oil and gas development outside the boundaries of…

By MONIKA SCISLOWSKA Associated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Polish President Andrzej Duda says he is proposing urgent amendments to a law on…

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australia’s most decorated living war veteran Ben Roberts-Smith has quit his corporate…

By KANIS LEUNG Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — As the 34th anniversary of China’s Tiananmen Square crackdown approaches Sunday, many in Hong…

By JOE McDONALD Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — China’s Ukraine envoy has appealed to other governments to “stop sending weapons to the…

By MUHAMMAD FAROOQ Associated Press KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) — Dozens of protesters are holding a rally in Pakistan’s biggest city of Karachi to…

By GARY GERARD HAMILTON Associated Press New York (AP) — Erykah Badu has unintentionally occupied the role of culture shifter and influencer for 20…

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — American lawyer Kimberly West has been appointed as the chief prosecutor linked to a European Union-backed court…

By JINTAMAS SAKSORNCHAI and GRANT PECK Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — The United Nations anti-drug agency is warning that the huge trade in…

By SUZAN FRASER and CINAR KIPER Associated Press ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, a populist with increasingly…

By ABBY SEWELL and ALBERT AJI Associated Press PALMYRA, Syria (AP) — At the height of the Islamic State group’s rampage across Syria, the…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States has reopened its embassy in the Seychelles after a 27-year absence during which China and other U.S. rivals…

By VALERIE GONZALEZ and ELLIOT SPAGAT Associated Press HARLINGEN, Texas (AP) — U.S. authorities on Thursday expanded slots to seek asylum at land…

By DAVID RISING Associated Press SINGAPORE (AP) — As tensions grow between the United States and China in the Asia-Pacific, Australian Prime…

By STAN CHOE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks rushed higher after a strong report on the U.S. job market eased Wall Street’s worries…

By HANNAH SCHOENBAUM Associated Press/Report for America FORT LIBERTY, N.C. (AP) — Fort Bragg shed its Confederate namesake Friday to become Fort…

By KIMBERLEE KRUESI and JONATHAN MATTISE Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee’s administration accused the…

By WAYNE PARRY Associated Press ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — As a high school senior, Nick was blessed with a deadly accurate jump shot from the…

SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) — El Salvador President Nayib Bukele says he wants to cut the number of municipalities in the country from 262 to 44…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States has signed a trade agreement with Taiwan over opposition from China, which claims the self-ruled island…

By BHARATHA MALLAWARACHI Associated Press COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Debt-stricken Sri Lanka, which declared bankruptcy last year, is showing signs…

By VALERIE GONZALEZ Associated Press HARLINGEN, Texas (AP) — Border Patrol medical staff declined to review the file of an 8-year-old girl with a…

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

By SCOTT McFETRIDGE, HANNAH FINGERHUT and RYAN J. FOLEY Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — An Iowa task force has completed a search for…

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The nation’s employers stepped up their hiring in May, adding a robust 339,000 jobs,…

MIAMI (AP) — A tropical depression has formed in the Gulf of Mexico. National Hurricane Center forecasters said late Thursday that the storm had…

By LISA MASCARO AP Congressional Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) — House Speaker Kevin McCarthy is nothing if not a political survivor.…

By TIM REYNOLDS AP Basketball Writer DENVER (AP) — Nikola Jokic got a triple-double in his NBA Finals debut, Jamal Murray scored 26 points and the…

OTTAWA, Ontario (AP) — Meta is temporarily blocking some Canadian users from accessing news content on Facebook and Instagram as part of a…

By COLLEEN SLEVIN Associated Press DENVER (AP) — A judge agreed Thursday to delay the first criminal trial in the death of Elijah McClain, a…