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By ALBERT AJI Associated Press DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Two Palestinian officials say a blast at a military base has killed five militants of a…

By GRAHAM DUNBAR AP Sports Writer LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) — Olympic sports bodies are meeting amid ongoing uncertainty about if and how Russian…

By JOHNSON LAI and HIROYUKI KOMAE Associated Press NAHA, Japan (AP) — A weakened Tropical Storm Mawar headed toward Japan’s southern archipelago…

By JARI TANNER Associated Press HELSINKI (AP) — Latvian lawmakers have picked the Baltic country’s long-serving and popular foreign minister as…

By DENG MACHOL and SAM MEDNICK Associated Press MAGWI COUNTY, South Sudan (AP) — Many South Sudanese are returning to areas riddled with mines left…

By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis has asked aides to get to the bottom of how at least $17 million was…

By MIKE CORDER Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — United Nations appeals judges have significantly expanded the convictions of two…

By FARES AKRAM Associated Press KHUZAA, Gaza Strip (AP) — Locals call it “watermelon salad.” But this delicacy popular in the southern Gaza…

By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Vatican is seeking clarity after the former director of its U.S. missionary fundraising…

By The Associated Press He’s heir to the throne in one of the oldest monarchies in the Middle East and a descendant of the Prophet Muhammad.…

By RADUL RADOVANOVIC Associated Press ZVECAN, Kosovo (AP) — Hundreds of ethnic Serbs on Wednesday gathered in a town in northern Kosovo, days after…

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Asian benchmarks were mostly higher Thursday after the United States House of Representatives…

By NICK PERRY Associated Press WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — New Zealand’s national airline is asking passengers to step on the scales before…

BEIJING (AP) — China’s ruling Communist Party has warned of the risks posed by advances in artificial intelligence while calling for heightened…

By STEPHEN WADE AP Sports Writer OYAMA, Japan (AP) — Eri Yoshida sat in the dugout of an all-dirt baseball field in rural Japan, surrounded by rice…

By CLAUDIA LAUER and MIKE CATALINI The Associated Press Vanessa Martinez was finishing preparations for her daughter’s second birthday in September…

By DAVE COLLINS Associated Press HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — A former Connecticut state representative has been sentenced to 27 months in prison for…

By ED KOMENDA Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) — Telling executives to “strive harder,” hundreds of corporate Amazon workers protested what they…

By STEVE LeBLANC Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — A couple whose young children were taken by social workers and police in the middle of the night…

By COLLIN BINKLEY AP Education Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — As an alternative to affirmative action, colleges from California to Florida have tried a…

By THOMAS BEAUMONT and WILL WEISSERT Associated Press SALIX, Iowa (AP) — Ron DeSantis is making a four-stop blitz through Iowa during his first…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. Security Council is encouraging Iraq’s recently formed government to deliver…

By FARNOUSH AMIRI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans in Congress are locked in an escalating fight with the director of the FBI. The…

By MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A private crew is back on Earth after a nine-day trip to the International Space…

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australia’s House of Representatives has voted overwhelming in favor of holding a…

By GARY GERARD HAMILTON Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — “The Ride,” a new eight-episode Prime Video series, documents the peaks and valleys of…

By CLAIRE RUSH Associated Press/Report for America PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — The driver of the semitruck involved in a fatal crash on Interstate 5 in…

By MARGERY A. BECK Associated Press LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Nebraska lawmakers have advanced a bill to comply with a voter ID requirement mandated by…

By CARLA BRIDI and DIANE JEANTET Associated Press BRASILIA (AP) — The Brazilian president’s strong support of Venezuela’s authoritarian…

By JOE REEDY AP Sports Writer Major League Baseball will take over broadcasts of San Diego Padres games beginning Wednesday after Diamond Sports…

By COLLEEN LONG Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The head of the U.S. Border Patrol announced that he’s retiring, after seeing through a…

By JOSH BOAK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Even with new spending restraints included in the congressional debt limit deal, the U.S.…

By MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Ten months before Donald Trump is scheduled to stand trial in his historic New York City…

FORT PIERCE, Fla. (AP) — A South Florida art dealer was sentenced Tuesday to two years and three months in federal prison in connection with a…

NEW YORK (AP) — A third man has been charged in the 2002 shooting death of Run-DMC star Jam Master Jay, prosecutors said Tuesday, marking the…

By HYUNG-JIN KIM and KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea’s attempt to put its first spy satellite into space…

By GABE STERN Associated Press/Report for America CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) — Republican Gov. Joe Lombardo signed a bill into law that makes it a…

By JESSE BEDAYN Associated Press/Report for America DENVER (AP) — Colorado is tackling a surge in eating disorders with its acting governor signing…

By JAKE OFFENHARTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A New York City police officer is speaking out against the use of “courtesy cards” by…

By SEAN MURPHY Associated Press OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Two separate federal lawsuits have been filed by whistleblowers against Oklahoma’s new…

By MARYCLAIRE DALE Associated Press NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. (AP) — A church associate of a pastor and town councilwoman who was gunned down in her SUV…

By LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. military says a Chinese fighter jet flew aggressively close to a U.S.…

PARIS (AP) — Novak Djokovic has drawn criticism from Kosovo’s tennis federation — but not from French Open organizers — after offering his…

MIAMI (AP) — A white man has been sentenced to probation in South Florida for pulling a gun and yelling racial slurs in a traffic confrontation…

By BEN NUCKOLS Associated Press OXON HILL, Md. (AP) — Navneeth Murali would strongly prefer for the Scripps National Spelling Bee to get rid of the…

By WALTER BERRY Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Authorities say a man’s anger over drug abuse drove him to fatally shoot four men and wound a…

By CHRISTOPHER WEBER and AMY TAXIN Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — A California appeals court said Tuesday that Leslie Van Houten, who…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Clayton Kershaw says he disagrees with the Los Angeles Dodgers’ decision to welcome a satirical LGBTQ+ group called the…

By MARGERY A. BECK Associated Press LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — The American Civil Liberties Union is suing to block a new Nebraska law combining a…

RIDGELAND, Wis. (AP) — Authorities are investigating a van-car collision that injured 14 people, including two fatally, in northwestern Wisconsin.…

NEW YORK (AP) — HBO said 2.9 million people watched or streamed the series finale of “Succession” on Sunday night, a series record that is…

By SAM METZ and NOMAAN MERCHANT Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — U.S. Rep. Chris Stewart, R-Utah, is planning to leave Congress due to his…

HALIFAX, Nova Scotia (AP) — The premier of the Canadian province of Nova Scotia is begging people to stay out of the woods and avoid any activity…

Authorities are asking the public to share any video or information as they investigate a weekend shooting that left eight teens wounded outside a…

PARIS (AP) — Ten noted thinkers, writers and filmmakers, including Ken Loach and Nobel literature laureate Annie Ernaux, have signed an open letter…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United Nations says that for the first time in Syria’s 12-year war people in every…

By ED DAVEY A consumer class action lawsuit filed Tuesday claims Delta Air Lines inaccurately billed itself as the world’s “first…

By BEN NUCKOLS Associated Press OXON HILL, Md. (AP) — The middle school-age spellers who make it to the finals of the Scripps National Spelling Bee…

YATES, N.Y. (AP) — Authorities say a New York fertility doctor who was accused of using his own sperm to impregnate several patients has died in a…

By BILL BARROW Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Former first lady Rosalynn Carter has dementia and remains at home, her family has announced.…

By KELVIN CHAN AP Business Writer LONDON (AP) — Robots are on display at the International Conference on Robotics and Automation in London, where…

By JONEL ALECCIA AP Health Writer Federal health officials say people who worked with food while sick or contagious were linked to about 40% of food…

By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN Associated Press A Pennsylvania restaurant owner who screamed death threats directed at then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi while…

By ALICIA RANCILIO Associated Press If you like your summer reads to be like your summer movies — big, explosive and fast-paced, then look no…

NEW DELHI (AP) — India’s top wrestlers have held off for now from throwing their medals into the country’s sacred Ganges River as part of an…

By JIM VERTUNO and PAUL J. WEBER Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — On the way to Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton becoming a rising figure in…

By GEOFF MULVIHILL Associated Press A federal court ruling cleared the way Tuesday for OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma’s settlement of thousands of…

By MARK SHERMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — One Supreme Court justice explained her absence from a case. One justice didn’t. The…

By SCOTT McFETRIDGE, HANNAH FINGERHUT and ERIN HOOLEY Associated Press DAVENPORT, Iowa (AP) — Five residents of a six-story apartment building that…

MILAN (AP) — Authorities say two Italian intelligence agents and one retired Israel agent were among the four dead when a sudden storm sank a…

By JEFFREY COLLINS Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A South Carolina gas station owner has been charged with murder in the death of a…

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Malaysia’s maritime agency said Tuesday a Chinese barge likely plundered two World War II British shipwrecks in…

JERUSALEM (AP) — The Israeli army says Palestinian gunmen shot and killed an Israeli civilian Tuesday near the entrance to a Jewish settlement in…

By TERRY SPENCER Associated Press FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — A former Florida sheriff’s deputy is about to be tried on charges he failed to…

By MATT OTT AP Business Writer Consumer confidence fell in May as Americans became more pessimistic about the labor market, on top of elevated…

BERLIN (AP) — A central figure in a German tax evasion scandal has been convicted and sentenced to more than eight years in prison, the second…

By MATT O’BRIEN AP Technology Writer Scientists and tech industry leaders, including high-level executives at Microsoft and Google, issued a…

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greece’s Education Ministry says it has been targeted in a cyberattack described as the most extensive in the country’s…

By DARLENE SUPERVILLE Associated Press WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — President Joe Biden marked Tuesday’s eighth anniversary of one of the saddest days…

DETROIT (AP) — U.S. highway safety regulators have closed an investigation into Tesla allowing video games to be played on center touch screens…

By JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — China’s foreign minister has met Tesla CEO Elon Musk and said U.S.-Chinese relations require…

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — A humanitarian charity says that hundreds of refugees in Kenya’s Dadaab camps have been affected by a cholera outbreak as…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Boris Johnson established an independent inquiry while he was U.K. prime minister into the…

By JAN M. OLSEN Associated Press COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Norwegian authorities said Tuesday that a beluga whale, which was first spotted in…

BERLIN (AP) — Austrian authorities say three patients have died in a fire that broke out overnight at a hospital in a town just outside Vienna. The…

By JEAN-YVES KAMALE Associated Press KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — Local authorities say at least 17 people have been killed by extremist rebels in…

By RAF CASERT Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — The United States and the European Union’s top justice official are criticizing Polish plans for a…

By MELISSA LAMBARENA of NerdWallet If you’re struggling to keep up with payments or save toward a goal, continuing to use a credit card for all…

By AMIR VAHDAT and JON GAMBRELL Associated Press TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran’s state-run news agency says international inspectors have closed off…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — A Japanese court has ruled that the government’s policy against same-sex marriage is…