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US military defends Africa strategy in light of coups and a drift toward Russia
By SAM METZ Associated Press AGADIR, Morocco (AP) — The head of the United States military’s Africa Command is pushing back against…
Continue ReadingBy SAM METZ Associated Press AGADIR, Morocco (AP) — The head of the United States military’s Africa Command is pushing back against…
Continue ReadingNEW YORK (AP) — Medical supply company Medline Industries is recalling some 1.5 million portable adult bed rails across the U.S. and Canada,…
Continue ReadingBy PATRICK ORSAGOS Associated Press AKRON, Ohio (AP) — Hundreds gathered in an Ohio city to unveil a plaza and statue dedicated to abolitionist…
Continue ReadingBy JIM GOMEZ and JOEAL CALUPITAN Associated Press MANILA, Philippines (AP) — The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies…
Continue ReadingBy DENG MACHOL Associated Press JUBA, South Sudan (AP) — The European Union delegation in South Sudan has denied reports that the group is working…
Continue ReadingRAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) — A South Dakota man is accused of pushing a police officer during the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol, and the…
Continue ReadingBy HYUNG-JIN KIM and KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Manure. Cigarette butts. Scraps of cloth. Waste batteries. Even,…
Continue ReadingBy JEFFREY COLLINS Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina officials have filed 76 counts of ethics violations against the court…
Continue ReadingBy RODNEY MUHUMUZA Associated Press KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — The United States has imposed sanctions on Uganda’s parliament speaker and other…
Continue ReadingBy DOUG FERGUSON AP Golf Writer LANCASTER, Pa. (AP) — For Nelly Korda, this was a most imperfect 10. The No. 1 player in women’s golf had a…
Continue ReadingBy KRISHAN FRANCIS Associated Press COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Colombo and Moscow are starting talks to resolve the issue of Sri Lankans fighting…
Continue ReadingTBILISI, Georgia (AP) — A non-governmental organization in Georgia says it is preparing a lawsuit in the country’s constitutional court to…
Continue ReadingBy JONATHAN LANDRUM Jr. AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Andra Day gained acting acclaim after her starring role in a 2021 Billie Holiday…
Continue ReadingBy HALELUYA HADERO AP Business Writer Federal regulators have given Amazon key permission that will allow it to expand its drone delivery program.…
Continue ReadingBy LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Thursday cleared the way for a National Rifle Association lawsuit…
Continue ReadingBy ALI ZERDIN Associated Press LJUBLJANA, Slovenia (AP) — Slovenia’s government has endorsed a motion to recognize a Palestinian state and sent…
Continue ReadingCOLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A judge has postponed a trial to determine how much the Ohio History Connection must pay to restore public access to a set of…
Continue ReadingTAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — China’s Defense Ministry has denounced U.S. and U.K. affirmations of support for Taiwan’s newly elected…
Continue ReadingSRINAGAR, India (AP) — Officials say a bus carrying Hindu pilgrims skidded and rolled into a deep gorge on a mountainous highway in…
Continue ReadingBy SAMUEL PETREQUIN AP Sports Writer A French court has ruled the auction of a trophy that was awarded to the late Diego Maradona after the 1986…
Continue ReadingBy LEANNE ITALIE AP Lifestyles Writer NEW YORK (AP) — For people putting a life back together after divorce, mundane household objects can be…
Continue ReadingTEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iranian state media say that Syrian President Bashar Assad has met with Iran’s supreme leader in the capital Tehran and…
Continue ReadingPARIS (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron’s office says U.S. President Joe Biden will make his first state visit to France next week after…
Continue ReadingBy MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The special Tony Award that honors educators is going to a Baltimore-based actor, educator,…
Continue ReadingBy JONATHAN LANDRUM Jr. AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Usher will add another prestigious award to his already loaded trophy case. The…
Continue ReadingNICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — The remains of recently identified Greek soldiers who fought in Cyprus against invading Turkish troops nearly a half-century…
Continue ReadingPORTLAND, Maine (AP) — A Maine sheriff is rejecting an allegation that some of his officers arrived at a mass shooting scene reeking of alcohol.…
Continue ReadingBy GHAITH ALSAYED Associated Press IDLIB, Syria (AP) — The main insurgent group in rebel-held northwest Syria has blasted the United States over…
Continue ReadingBy MATT OTT AP Business Writer The number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits ticked up last week, but layoffs remain historically low in…
Continue ReadingBy PAUL WISEMAN AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. economy grew at a sluggish 1.3% annual pace from January through March, the…
Continue ReadingBy HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — For his first all-new book of nonfiction in nearly a decade, Ta-Nehisi Coates traveled the…
Continue ReadingANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkey’s president says his country won’t hesitate to launch a new offensive in northern Syria if Kurdish groups…
Continue ReadingBy MATTHEW LEE AP Diplomatic Writer PRAGUE (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken is assailing Russian attempts to sow discord in…
Continue ReadingBy BASSEM MROUE Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanon’s caretaker economy minister says the country’s rulers, fuel companies and…
Continue ReadingDETROIT (AP) — Police have begun dismantling a pro-Palestinian encampment at Wayne State University in Detroit two days after the school suspended…
Continue ReadingBy ILLIA NOVIKOV Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia conducted an array of aerial attacks on Ukraine with cruise missiles, drones and…
Continue ReadingBy DEE-ANN DURBIN AP Business Writer Lab-grown meat is not currently available in any U.S. grocery stores or restaurants. If some lawmakers have…
Continue ReadingBy BARBARA ORTUTAY AP Technology Writer SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — If you use Facebook, WhatsApp or Instagram, you’ve probably noticed a new…
Continue ReadingBy HELEN WIEFFERING and JOSHUA GOODMAN Associated Press The United Nations over the last decade has logged an increasing number of crew members…
Continue ReadingBy HELEN WIEFFERING and JOSHUA GOODMAN Associated Press Abdul Nasser Saleh says he rarely got a good night’s sleep during the near-decade he spent…
Continue ReadingBy MATTHEW DALY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and 22 other Democratic senators are calling on the Justice…
Continue ReadingBy GERALD IMRAY and MOGOMOTSI MAGOME Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Very early counts in South Africa’s national election put the…
Continue ReadingGENEVA (AP) — The U.N. telecommunications agency has kicked off its annual AI for Good conference in hopes of guiding business, consumers and…
Continue ReadingHONG KONG (AP) — Foreign governments expressed concern and activist groups condemned Thursday’s convictions of 14 pro-democracy activists in…
Continue ReadingNEW YORK (AP) — Jury deliberations in Donald Trump’s criminal hush money trial are set to enter a second day as jurors navigate the weighty…
Continue ReadingBEIJING (AP) — China’s Commerce Ministry has announced it will restrict exports of aviation and aerospace-related equipment and technology…
Continue ReadingBy JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A Greek-owned and Marshall Islands-flagged bulk carrier that came under attack…
Continue ReadingBy DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — BHP Group has dropped its 38.6 billion pound or $49.3 billion bid for Anglo American. That ended…
Continue ReadingBy JOSEPH WILSON and TERESA MEDRANO Associated Press MADRID (AP) — Spain’s Parliament is expected to give the final approval to a controversial…
Continue ReadingBy ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer Shares retreated Thursday in Asia after U.S. stocks fell under the weight of higher yields in the bond…
Continue ReadingBy ROD McGUIRK Associated Press MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Traumatized survivors of the massive landslide estimated to have buried hundreds in…
Continue ReadingBy MIKE CORDER Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Police coordinated by the European Union’s justice agency have taken down computer…
Continue ReadingBy RAF CASERT Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — Teens as young as 16 from five countries will be able to vote in the June 6-9 European Union…
Continue ReadingKUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Google plans to invest $2 billion in Malaysia, developing its first data center and a Google Cloud hub in the latest…
Continue ReadingBy KIM CHANDLER Associated Press MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama is set to execute a man convicted of bludgeoning an elderly couple to death 20…
Continue ReadingBy JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran opened a five-day registration period Thursday for hopefuls wanting to run…
Continue ReadingBy MARK STEVENSON and MARÍA VERZA Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico goes into Sunday’s election deeply divided: friends and relatives…
Continue ReadingBy YURI KAGEYAMA Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — The incarceration of 120,000 Japanese Americans, including children, labeled enemies during World…
Continue ReadingQUETTA, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistani officials say Iranian border guards opened fire at a vehicle carrying a group of Pakistanis, killing four people…
Continue ReadingHELEN, Ga. (AP) — A profile of Andrew “Andy” Negra Jr., of Helen, Georgia, one of a dwindling number of veterans took part in the Allies’…
Continue ReadingBy JESSE BEDAYN Associated Press/Report for America COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris will speak to U.S. Air Force…
Continue ReadingBy REGINA GARCIA CANO Associated Press SABANA DE MENDOZA, Venezuela (AP) — One of the most influential politicians in Venezuela once deemed images…
Continue ReadingBy CHRIS MEGERIAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — John Podesta was two months into his new role as President Joe Biden’s global climate envoy…
Continue ReadingBy DAVID KOENIG AP Airlines Writer Boeing is due to tell federal regulators Thursday how it plans to fix the safety and quality problems that have…
Continue ReadingBy EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The UN peacekeeping chief says deep divisions especially among the world’s most…
Continue ReadingBy MICHAEL R. SISAK, JENNIFER PELTZ, ERIC TUCKER and MICHELLE L. PRICE Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The jury in Donald Trump’s hush money…
Continue ReadingBy SIMINA MISTREANU Associated Press TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Chinese President Xi Jinping called for an international peace conference focused on the…
Continue ReadingBy KANIS LEUNG and ZEN SOO Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — Some of Hong Kong’s best-known pro-democracy activists charged in the city’s…
Continue ReadingBy JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — A judge in Hawaii has halted plans for an artificial wave pool until developers can…
Continue ReadingBy BECKY BOHRER and MARK THIESSEN Associated Press JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — The National Park Services says two climbers are awaiting rescue near the…
Continue ReadingSEATTLE (AP) — Seattle’s embattled police chief has been dismissed, Mayor Bruce Harrel said Wednesday. Harrell said at a news conference that he…
Continue ReadingANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) — Federal labor officials have certified an election to create a union for character and parade performers at Disneyland in…
Continue ReadingBUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Players on Argentina’s women’s squad say they understand why four teammates quit amid a dispute with the…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — Republican Sen. Steve Daines has blocked a Biden administration judicial nominee who would have been…
Continue ReadingBy ED WHITE Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — The state of Michigan says it’s willing to step in and oversee property repairs at 1,900 homes in…
Continue ReadingBy LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Prosecutors at Sen. Bob Menendez’s bribery trial have showed jurors hundreds of texts,…
Continue ReadingBy LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A string of security, logistical and weather problems has battered the plan to deliver…
Continue ReadingRALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — An Ohio man has been sentenced to supervised probation after pleading guilty to threatening to kill a North Carolina state…
Continue ReadingRICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Second-degree murder charges against two sheriff’s deputies and a hospital worker have been reduced to involuntary…
Continue ReadingSAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The man sentenced to 30 years in federal prison for bludgeoning Nancy Pelosi’s husband with a hammer inside their San…
Continue ReadingSEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea’s military says North Korea has fired at least one ballistic missile toward its eastern waters, adding to a…
Continue ReadingBy SEAN MURPHY and ANDREW DEMILLO Associated Press A four-term Democratic incumbent in Houston has been ousted in a statehouse primary race that…
Continue ReadingBy DEE-ANN DURBIN AP Business Writer McDonald’s is fighting back against media reports it says have exaggerated its price increases. In a post on…
Continue ReadingDANVILLE, Calif. (AP) — Authorities say a fugitive dubbed the “bad breath rapist” has been arrested in the San Francisco Bay Area more than 16…
Continue ReadingBy MARK SHERMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — In declining to step aside from two high-profile Supreme Court cases, Justice Samuel Alito has…
Continue ReadingBy LEAH WILLINGHAM Associated Press CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — The first ombudsman of West Virginia’s heavily burdened foster care system has…
Continue ReadingBy JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — After nearly two dozen witnesses, 16 days of testimony and hours of lawyers’ closing…
Continue ReadingVANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) — Alberta officials say a wildfire in western Canada that forced thousands of residents from their homes in the…
Continue ReadingBy SARA CLINE Associated Press BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — A new Louisiana law will make it a crime to knowingly approach within 25 feet (7.6 meters)…
Continue ReadingFLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — Human remains found at the base of Mount Elden in Flagstaff nearly five years ago have been identified as a Phoenix man…
Continue ReadingBy WAYNE PARRY Associated Press ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — New Jersey’s statewide police union is calling for what it calls “real…
Continue ReadingWASHINGTON (AP) — The House Ethics Committee is opening an investigation into Democratic Rep. Henry Cuellar of Texas after his indictment this…
Continue ReadingGRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) — A man accused of killing his Michigan girlfriend after returning to the U.S. following deportation has been ordered to…
Continue ReadingRODANTHE, N.C. (AP) — U.S. National Park Service officials say an unoccupied house has collapsed into the Atlantic Ocean along North Carolina’s…
Continue ReadingBy THALIA BEATY Associated Press For years, less than 2% of philanthropic giving in the U.S. has gone to benefit women and girls, but that could…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — An international law enforcement team has arrested a Chinese national and disrupted a major botnet that…
Continue ReadingNEW ORLEANS (AP) — Authorities say a human skull found padlocked to an exercise dumbbell has been fished out of a New Orleans waterway, leaving…
Continue ReadingBy JIM SALTER Associated Press A Missouri fifth grader has won praise and had an award named for him after he raised more than $7,000 to erase school…
Continue ReadingBy BEN NUCKOLS Associated Press OXON HILL, Md. (AP) — The Scripps National Spelling Bee had its toughest day of competition with the quarterfinal…
Continue ReadingBy TOM KRISHER AP Auto Writer DETROIT (AP) — Despite a long string of recalls that began more than two decades ago, about 6.2 million vehicles with…
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