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By JOHNSON LAI and HIROYUKI KOMAE Associated Press NAHA, Japan (AP) — Heavy rains intensified by Tropical Storm Mawar are falling on Japan’s main…

SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Oregon Senate Democrats plan to start fining their absent colleagues amid a month-long Republican walkout, a move they hope will…

Associated Press Journalists across the U.S. will walk off their jobs next week at roughly two dozen newsrooms run by Gannett, the largest newspaper…

By AMY BETH HANSON Associated Press Montana’s new law banning drag reading events at public libraries has led to the cancellation of a…

EUGENE, Ore. (AP) — A federal judge ruled on Thursday that a lawsuit brought by young Oregon-based climate activists can proceed to trial years…

By JOE REEDY AP Sports Writer A federal bankruptcy judge has ordered Diamond Sports to pay the full value of its media contracts to the Arizona…

By JACQUES BILLEAUD and SUMAN NAISHADHAM Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Arizona will not approve new housing construction on the fast-growing…

By TOM KRISHER AP Auto Writer DETROIT (AP) — The U.S. government agency charged with keeping the roads safe is slow to investigate automobile…

By MORGAN LEE Associated Press SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — New Mexico’s attorney general and its Environment Department have filed suit against the…

By SARA CLINE Associated Press BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — A bill that would broadly ban K-12 public school employees in Louisiana from discussing…

By BOBBY CAINA CALVAN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — As the annual celebration of the June 4, 1989, Tiananmen uprising approaches, a new exhibit…

By MICHAEL GOLDBERG Associated Press/Report for America LEXINGTON, Miss. (AP) — There are 32 school districts in Mississippi still under federal…

By MICHAEL R. SISAK and MICHAEL BALSAMO Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Two weeks before ending his life, Jeffrey Epstein sat in the corner of his…

WASHINGTON (AP) — A man pleaded guilty Thursday to assaulting Democratic Rep. Angie Craig of Minnesota in the elevator of her Washington apartment…

By JULIE WATSON Associated Press Relatives of two young boys killed by gunfire as they played with kittens in the backyard of their Pennsylvania home…

PHENIX CITY, Ala. (AP) — Authorities in eastern Alabama have fatally shot a man who earlier fired a gun at a utility worker trying to shut off his…

By SOPHIE AUSTIN Associated Press/Report for America SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California is considering legislation to cool down outside areas at…

By DANIEL KOZIN Associated Press IMMOKALEE, Fla. (AP) — Across Florida, workers didn’t show up at construction sites and tomato fields, and…

By MATTHEW LEE AP Diplomatic Writer OSLO, Norway (AP) — The Biden administration is retaliating for Russia’s suspension of the New START nuclear…

By COLLIN BINKLEY AP Education Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — A Republican measure overturning President Joe Biden’s student loan cancellation plan…

The Associated Press DAVENPORT, Iowa (AP) — City documents released Wednesday show engineers and city officials visited a Davenport building nearly…

NEW YORK (AP) — Airbnb is suing New York City over rules that the company says would make it much more difficult for people to turn their property…

By LEA SKENE Associated Press BALTIMORE (AP) — In a story published June 1, 2023, about a new citation program to address low-level crimes in…

By TRISHA AHMED Associated Press/Report for America ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — People are celebrating Minnesota’s new law that restores voting rights…

By KEVIN McGILL Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Louisiana and nine other states filed a lawsuit against the federal government Thursday to…

NEW YORK (AP) — Nearly 90,000 hedge trimmers are being recalled because of a laceration hazard that has caused multiple injuries. That’s…

By DARLENE SUPERVILLE Associated Press COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — President Joe Biden quipped that he got “sandbagged” Thursday after he…

By BEN NUCKOLS Associated Press OXON HILL, Md. (AP) — Fifteen months ago, Dev Shah spent a miserable five hours spelling outdoors in chilly, windy,…

By ANDREW DALTON AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Actor Armie Hammer will not be charged after a long investigation of a woman’s…

By MARGARET STAFFORD Associated Press LIBERTY, Mo. (AP) — A Kansas City man accused of shooting a Black teenager will face a preliminary hearing in…

MIRAMAR, Fla. (AP) — Spirit Airlines and Air Canada have been dealing with technical issues that have delayed some of the airlines’ flights.…

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — A federal jury in Florida has awarded $63.5 million to a pair of businessmen who claimed a city of Miami commissioner…

By KAREN MATTHEWS Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Stony Brook University in New York will receive $500 million from a philanthropic foundation…

By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN and CHRISTOPHER L. KELLER Associated Press COUNSELOR, N.M. (AP) — One of the top oil producing states in the U.S. is…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Trinidad and Tobago’s Ambassador Dennis Francis has been elected as the next president…

By JUSTIN SPIKE Associated Press BULBOACA, Moldova (AP) — The leaders of France and Germany have urged new municipal elections in northern Kosovo…

By TODD RICHMOND Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Democratic Gov. Tony Evers has raised the gay pride flag over the Wisconsin Capitol in a…

By KEN SWEET AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Customers of Venmo, PayPal and CashApp should not store their money with those apps for the long…

By KATHLEEN FOODY Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — A Chicago woman facing federal conspiracy charges in the 2014 killing of her mother during a…

By ED WHITE Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — Prosecutors dropped murder charges Thursday against a man who spent nearly 21 years in prison for the…

By MICHAEL R. BLOOD AP Political Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — You’d have to go back a generation — to 1988 — to find the last time a…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The release of “Diablo IV” is right around the corner. Early access for the highly anticipated action role-playing video game…

By FATIMA HUSSEIN, MATTHEW LEE, ELLEN KNICKMEYER and ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. has imposed sanctions on an Iranian…

By GERALD IMRAY Associated Press CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov met in South Africa with counterparts from…

By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN and ALANNA DURKIN RICHER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A member of the far-right Oath Keepers extremist group who was…

By MARK SHERMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court has unanimously revived whistleblower lawsuits claiming that supermarket and…

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Prosecutors say an Indianapolis man who pleaded guilty to fatally shooting a U.S. Postal Service mail carrier has been…

BERLIN (AP) — The German soccer federation will hold a weekend of mourning for the 15-year-old player who died after a post-match brawl at an…

By SCOTT STROUD Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Standing before a packed house at The Basement, one of Nashville’s most intimate music…

By ALEX VEIGA AP Business Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — The average long-term U.S. mortgage rate climbed this week to its highest level since November,…

By JEFFREY COLLINS Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A store owner in South Carolina charged with murder this week after shooting a teen he…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Authorities in western Mexico have told families of eight missing youths that among the human remains found in dozens of bags in…

By MATTHEW LEE AP Diplomatic Writer OSLO, Norway (AP) — The United States will soon open a small diplomatic mission in Norway that will be its…

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Saudi Arabia has executed a Nepali national after his conviction for stabbing a Saudi to death. The state-run…

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A 29-year-old fitness instructor popular on social media in Saudi Arabia faces charges that could see her…

By KELSEY SHEEHY of NerdWallet A single viral video on TikTok can launch your business into the stratosphere. But getting — and holding —…

By KAREEM CHEHAYEB Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — A Lebanese judicial official says Lebanon’s military tribunal has charged five people allegedly…

STOCKHOLM (AP) — Four people have been injured in an incident in Eskilstuna west of Stockholm, police said. Police said the incident on Thursday…

By JONEL ALECCIA AP Health Writer The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is warning consumers not to use versions of the popular weight-loss drug used…

BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s disease control agency warns that rising temperatures due to global warming will increase the likelihood of heat stroke,…

By BABACAR DIONE and SAM MEDNICK Associated Press DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — A court in Senegal’s capital says opposition leader Ousmane Sonko has…

By LORNE COOK Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Data Protection Supervisor claims that the EU’s border and coast guard agency is…

PARIS (AP) — Lionel Messi arrived two years ago wearing a T-shirt emblazoned with ”Ici C’est Paris” (This Is Paris) — a favorite cry among…

By TOM KRISHER AP Auto Writer DETROIT (AP) — The U.S. government is turning up the pressure on ARC Automotive to recall 67 million potentially…

By FABIANO MAISONNAVE LADARIO, Brazil (AP) — One year after the killings of British journalist Dom Phillips and Indigenous expert Bruno Pereira,…

By LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer It’s no secret that Christopher Nolan made “Oppenheimer” to be seen on the big screen, but not all “big…

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — A 57-year-old truck driver was detained Thursday after loads of potatoes were found spilled on a key bridge linking two…

The U.S. Coast Guard has suspended the search for a 35-year-old man who was reported missing from a Carnival cruise ship off of Florida’s…

BERLIN (AP) — The world is set to add a record amount of renewable electricity capacity this year as governments and consumers seek to offset high…

By SIBI ARASU Associated Press BENGALURU, India (AP) — The Indian government will not consider any proposals for new coal plants for the next five…

By THOMAS ADAMSON Associated Press VERSAILLES, France (AP) — The Versailles flower gardens were once a symbol of the French king’s expeditionary…

BERLIN (AP) — Investigators say a train derailment a year ago in the German Alps that left five people dead was caused primarily by damaged…

MADRID (AP) — The Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative (DNDi), a nonprofit that undertakes research to find treatments for millions of…

By HOWARD FENDRICH AP Tennis Writer PARIS (AP) — The group that runs the French Open tennis tournament has hired an artificial intelligence company…

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkey’s election board has certified the results of the May 28 presidential runoff election. It confirmed that Recep…

By EVA VERGARA Associated Press SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — Chile’s state-owned copper mining giant Codelco has shut down its Ventanas copper…

BERLIN Sympathizers of a young woman given a lengthy prison sentence for participating in attacks on neo-Nazis and other right-wing extremists have…

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Across the U.S. economy, a number of industries are facing the same formidable…

By JUAN A. LOZANO Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — A federal judge did not make an immediate decision on the fate of a revised version of a federal…

BEIJING (AP) — China’s government has criticized the United States’ plans to sign a trade treaty with Taiwan, calling on Washington to stop…

BERLIN (AP) — A leading Argentine meteorologist has been elected as the first female head of the United Nations weather agency. The World…

NEW DELHI (AP) — Nepal’s prime minister has held talks with his Indian counterpart as India and its rival China bid for influence in the tiny…

BERLIN (AP) — German prosecutors say they will examine objects that were found in a search in Portugal last week for clues regarding the…

By DAVID McHUGH AP Business Writer FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — Europe is getting a break on inflation. Price increases for the 20 countries that use…

By MATTHEW LEE and LORNE COOK Associated Press OSLO, Norway (AP) — NATO is ramping up pressure on member nation Turkey to drop its objections to…

QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistan’s military says militants have attacked a security post near the border with Iran, triggering a shootout…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The British government is resisting an order to hand over a sheaf of former Prime Minister Boris…

By JACK JEFFERY and AAMER MADHANI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House has announced it will levy sanctions against people “who are…

By JUSTIN SPIKE and RAF CASERT Associated Press BULBOACA, Moldova (AP) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s unrelenting quest for more…

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

By NICK PERRY Associated Press WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — New Zealand police have filed five murder charges against the man they say lit a…

SINGAPORE (AP) — Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong says he has tested positive for COVID-19 for a second time in less than two weeks, in a…

By MARK BAKER and ROD McGUIRK Associated Press SYDNEY (AP) — A judge in a civil case says a decorated Australian veteran unlawfully killed…

By SYAWALLUDIN ZAIN and DAVID RISING Associated Press SINGAPORE (AP) — China and Singapore have laid the groundwork for a hotline between the two…

By KRISHAN FRANCIS Associated Press COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lanka’s Central Bank has reduced its interest rates for the first time since…