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By EDDIE PELLS AP National Writer It only took a few seconds for Rachel Kennedy to grab her phone after she left the checkout line at the…

By DAVID KLEPPER Associated Press Conspiracy theories about mail ballots. Anonymous text messages warning voters to stay home. Fringe social media…

By HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — When Kim Kap Soo watched live broadcasts of the harrowing Halloween party crush that…

By DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The Bank of England has announced its biggest interest rate increase in three decades as it tries to…

By MOGOMOTSI MAGOME Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — South African police are investigating the discovery of at least 21 bodies suspected of…

By RAF CASERT and COLLEEN BARRY Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — New far-right Premier Giorgia Meloni has used her first visit to European Union…

By ELAINE KURTENBACH and GRANT PECK Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — Amnesty International is urging suppliers of aviation fuel to Myanmar to…

By CARA ANNA Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Officials close to the Ethiopian peace talks say the copy of the “permanent cessation of…

By GEIR MOULSON Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Chancellor Olaf Scholz is making his first visit to China as German leader this week, a…

By JOSEF FEDERMAN Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday appeared set to return to power as head of…

By YURAS KARMANAU Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Not long after Russian tanks rolled into Ukraine, soldiers broke down the office door of…

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press SINIYAH ISLAND, United Arab Emirates (AP) — An ancient Christian monastery possibly dating as far back as the…

By WANJOHI KABUKURU Associated Press MOMBASA, Kenya (AP) — The U.N. climate summit is back in Africa after six years and four consecutive…

By FRANK JORDANS Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Luetzerath may be 1,000 miles from Ukraine, but it is an indirect victim of Russia’s invasion and…

By CLAIRE RUSH Associated Press/Report for America PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — The tents proliferating on sidewalks in downtown and residential…

By KAREEM CHEHAYEB and ABBY SEWELL Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — The recent maritime border deal between Lebanon and Israel allocates rights to…

By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press AWALI, Bahrain (AP) — Pope Francis urged Bahrain authorities on Thursday to renounce the death penalty and…

By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer BANGKOK (AP) — A new study shows more than 100,000 people die in fishing-related accidents each year and…

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Some 1.2 million people are expected to pour into Qatar during the upcoming…

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Shares were mostly higher in Asia on Friday led by a 5.8% jump in Hong Kong’s Hang Seng index as…

By SCOTT McFETRIDGE Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Perplexed that it seems no one can win the gigantic $1.5 billion Powerball prize? A…

By ISABEL DEBRE Associated Press RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — The apparent comeback of former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the dramatic rise…

BEIJING (AP) — Canadan public broadcaster CBC says it is closing its China bureau after the Chinese government ignored requests to base a reporter…

By AUDREY McAVOY Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — The ground is shaking and swelling at Mauna Loa, the largest active volcano in the world,…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Tropical Depression Lisa has moved into southern Mexico a day after making landfall as a hurricane in the Central American…

By KIM TONG-HYUNG and MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea fired at least six missiles into the sea on Thursday,…

By HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Bono opened his book tour Wednesday night in what he called a “transgressive” mood, a…

By LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Years after about 1,900 National Guard and Reserve soldiers were swept up in a recruiting…

By AAMER MADHANI and CHRIS MEGERIAN Associated Press ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — President Joe Biden took off on a personal final-days campaign sprint…

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell sought to strike a delicate balance at a moment…

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australian police have offered a 1 million Australian dollar ($633,000) reward for…

By GABE STERN Associated Press/Report for America RENO, Nev. (AP) — The ACLU of Nevada has asked the state’s secretary of state to investigate…

NEW YORK (AP) — Former President Donald Trump has settled a lawsuit filed by a group of protesters who say they were roughed up by the…

By MARCOS ALEMAN Associated Press SANTA TECLA, El Salvador (AP) — El Salvador’s government took its efforts against the country’s powerful…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United States says it will seek to oust Iran from the U.N.’s premiere global body…

LANSING, Mich. (AP) — A man charged in the hammer killings of two women after he showed cellphone photos of their beaten bodies to sheriff’s…

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The Philadelphia Phillies’ 7-0 win over Houston in Game 3 of the World Series was seen by 11,162,000 viewers on Fox, down…

By MARY CLARE JALONICK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A top ally of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is demanding fresh answers from the U.S. Capitol…

WAVERLY, Ohio (AP) — An Ohio woman who helped plan the 2016 slayings of eight members of another family says the massacre was her husband’s idea.…

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A Philadelphia City Council member and his wife have been acquitted of corruption charges in federal court. Jurors deliberated…

By MATTHEW LEE AP Diplomatic Writer MUNSTER, Germany (AP) — Top diplomats from the world’s major industrialized democracies will grapple with the…

By BRIAN MELLEY and STEFANIE DAZIO Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — As the former captain in charge of the Hollywood Division of the Los Angeles…

PAULINA, La. (AP) — The derailment of six train cars and a subsequent acid leak has prompted road closures and evacuations in a Louisiana…

By MARGARET STAFFORD Associated Press KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) — A former Kansas undersheriff has been found not guilty in the death of a man he shot…

By MATTHEW DALY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration is making $4.5 billion available through a low-income home energy…

By KEITH RIDLER Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — A high-profile Idaho attorney who has defended in state and federal courts some of the most…

By JEFF AMY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Big money continues to roll into Georgia’s governor’s race even as Republican incumbent Brian Kemp…

By GARY D. ROBERTSON Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Former Vice President Mike Pence has visited North Carolina to help support U.S. Senate…

By LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Days after the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection, Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes tried to…

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A Democratic state senator from Tennessee who is running to represent the Nashville area in Congress says her husband has…

By SARA CLINE Associated Press BATON ROUGE (AP) — With midterm elections less than a week away, a Louisiana congressional candidate is touting the…

HOUSTON (AP) — Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner has revealed that he underwent surgery and six weeks of radiation therapy for bone cancer in his jaw…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. refugee chief says Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has driven some 14 million…

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Madison Children’s Museum has fired a Wisconsin man with cognitive disabilities after he wore an Adolf Hitler costume…

By JUAN A. LOZANO Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — Rapper Takeoff died from gunshot wounds to the head and torso following a shooting outside a…

BERLIN (AP) — German officials have agreed on the main details of a plan to provide up to 200 billion euros ($198 billion) in subsidies to…

By STEPHEN GROVES Associated Press SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — Republican Gov. Kristi Noem was looking to shore up support for her South Dakota…

By ALICIA RANCILIO Associated Press When NBC canceled the sci-fi family drama “Manifest” last year after three seasons, fans were devastated: The…

By GLENN GAMBOA AP Business Writer Sara Campos remembers being inspired to start skateboarding after playing Tony Hawk videogames on the California…

NEW YORK (AP) — A jury has started deliberating in the case of a Donald Trump loyalist accused of using his access to the Republican former…

By SAMY MAGDY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — Egypt’s foreign minister has urged world leaders and negotiators to deliver on previously made…

By CORA LEWIS Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Mortgage rates continue to jump, home sales slump and credit cards and auto loans increase. Savings…

BERLIN (AP) — German officials have cleared the way for a public transport pass costing 49 euros ($48.50) per month that will be valid nationwide.…

By JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Filmmaker Paul Haggis told jurors Wednesday that he believed he had a consensual encounter with…

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Two Belgian activists who targeted Johannes Vermeer’s “Girl with a Pearl Earring” painting in a climate…

By JOSH FUNK AP Business Writer OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — The Agriculture Department announced more than $223 million in grants and loans Wednesday to…

By MEG KINNARD and ALMAZ ABEDJE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Associated Press is the only news organization that does all of the…

The Associated Press IDAHO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — The Colorado city of Idaho Springs said Wednesday that it has agreed to pay $7 million to a…

By KONSTANTIN TESTORIDES Associated Press SKOPJE, North Macedonia (AP) — North Macedonia’s parliament has adopted a law preventing organizations…

By MOGOMOTSI MAGOME and CARA ANNA Associated Press PRETORIA, South Africa (AP) — Ethiopia’s warring sides agreed Wednesday to a permanent…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Shehan Karunatilaka wrote his Booker Prize-winning novel “The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida” to…

By SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A Wisconsin appeals court and a circuit judge this week shot down attempts backed by liberals…

By WAYNE PARRY Associated Press ASBURY PARK, N.J. (AP) — A grand jury has declined to bring criminal charges against a New Jersey police officer…

By KEN MILLER Associated Press The search for remains of victims of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre has turned up 21 additional coffins in unmarked…

By MIKE CATALINI Associated Press It’s Election Day, and you’ve decided you’re going to vote in person. You get there and — choose your own…

By SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers is asking voters in his state to worry about Republican Tim Michels.…

By KIMBERLEE KRUESI and JONATHAN MATTISE Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — More than 200 votes have been cast in the wrong races in…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Protesters opposed to the Supreme Court’s decision overturning abortion rights briefly interrupted arguments at the court…

By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Is Fleetwood Mac’s landmark album “Rumours” better than “To Pimp a Butterfly”…

By COLLEEN LONG and ZEKE MILLER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — It was his last stop of the day on a West Coast swing, a backyard fundraiser at…

By SCOTT McFETRIDGE Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Think you’re a sure bet for Wednesday night’s estimated $1.2 billion Powerball…

By AAMER MADHANI and ZEKE MILLER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House has accused North Korea of covertly shipping a “significant…

By COREY WILLIAMS and ANDREW WELSH-HUGGINS Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — The FBI has arrested two alleged members of the far-right…

By BARRY HATTON Associated Press LISBON, Portugal (AP) — A senior Ukrainian government official says Elon Musk has given assurances to Ukraine that…

By MICHAEL PHILLIS Associated Press Michigan officials say nearly all the lead pipes in Benton Harbor, Michigan, have been replaced. Michigan Gov.…

By CLAIRE RUSH Associated Press/Report for America PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Portland’s official slogan is “The City That Works,” but after a…

By ZEKE MILLER and COLLEEN LONG Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Warning that democracy itself is in peril, President Joe Biden called on…

By DÁNICA COTO Associated Press SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Deep sea mining is getting a close look this week as scientists, lawyers and…

By JEFF AMY Associated Press MILLEDGEVILLE, Ga. (AP) — The Democrat running to be Georgia’s top elections official says says incumbent…

BERLIN (AP) — The German government says that it plans to make plastic manufacturers contribute to the cost of cleaning up litter in streets and…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Hurricane Lisa has made landfall on the Caribbean coast of Belize. The U.S. National Hurricane Center says Lisa had maximum…