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By BILL BARROW Associated Press COLLEGE PARK, Ga. (AP) — Former President Barack Obama has returned to the campaign trail in Georgia, framing the…

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australian Broadcasting Corporation reports the first group of Australian women and…

By BIANCA VÁZQUEZ TONESS and SHARON LURYE AP Education Writers The COVID-19 pandemic devastated poor children’s well-being, not just by closing…

By NICK PERRY Associated Press WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern appeared awestruck Thursday to be standing…

By WAYNE PARRY Associated Press HOBOKEN, N.J. (AP) — After Superstorm Sandy struck the northeast U.S. in 2012, an unprecedented effort began to…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United States and its Western allies have dismissed Russia’s claims that banned…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s Cabinet has approved a hefty economic package including 29 trillion yen ($200 billion) in…

By HYUNG-JIN KIM and KIM TONG-HYUNG SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea fired two short-range ballistic missiles toward the sea on Friday in its…

By GABRIELA SELSER Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega says new sanctions imposed on his government by the…

BROKEN ARROW, Okla. (AP) — Eight people were found dead in a burning Tulsa-area house in what was being investigated as multiple homicides, police…

By ANDREW DALTON AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — A dancer in a film produced by Harvey Weinstein testified Thursday that she was…

By BOB CHRISTIE Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Arizona’s attorney general has agreed not to enforce a near total ban on abortions at least…

By MARK STEVENSON Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — Residents of a town in north-central Mexico were stunned to see a dog running down the street…

PHOENIX (AP) — Phoenix police have made an arrest in connection with a burglary at the campaign headquarters for Katie Hobbs, the Democratic…

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. nuclear chief says a new nuclear test explosion by North Korea “would be yet another confirmation of a program…

The Georgia prosecutor investigating possible illegal election interference in the 2020 election has urged the Supreme Court not to stand in the way…

MORGAN LEE Associated Press SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — A sheriff’s department submitted on Thursday its investigative findings to prosecutors in…

By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN Associated Press ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — The Biden administration’s approval of oil leases in a corner of New Mexico that…

By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — For a second time this year, jurors get a chance to decide if a Colorado businessman helped…

By GABE STERN, KEN RITTER and SCOTT SONNER Associated Press PAHRUMP, Nev. (AP) — An unprecedented hand-count of mail-in ballots in a rural Nevada…

By MATTHEW LEE AP Diplomatic Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The State Department has ordered the families of U.S. embassy staffers in the Nigerian…

GAINESVILLE, Fla. (AP) — University of Florida faculty members have expressed their displeasure with Nebraska U.S. Sen. Ben Sasse being named as…

By KRISTIE RIEKEN AP Sports Writer HOUSTON (AP) — Dusty Baker grew up watching Black stars shine in the World Series, paving his path to a life…

By CLAIRE RUSH Associated Press/Report for America PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders kicked off a multi-state tour in Oregon on…

By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The sentencing of a former United Nations communications specialist was punctuated by the…

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — A man convicted of child abuse and other charges stemming from the 2016 death and dismemberment of an Albuquerque girl was…

By PETER SMITH Associated Press PITTSBURGH (AP) — In what has become an annual ritual, Pittsburgh’s Jewish community Thursday honored the…

By HALELUYA HADERO AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Amazon has reported that it returned to profitability after two consecutive quarters of…

LAFAYETTE, Ind. (AP) — A jury has acquitted a man of neglect charges after he was accused with his ex-wife of abandoning an adopted daughter. The…

By DAVE KOLPACK Associated Press FARGO, N.D. (AP) — The North Dakota attorney general says some poll workers who created confusion and frustration…

By KATE BRUMBACK Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — The parents of a 23-year-old Georgia man who died after using kratom have filed a wrongful death…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. nuclear chief says he is sending inspectors to two locations in Ukraine where…

By AUDREY McAVOY Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — Hawaii officials are warning residents of the Big Island that the world’s largest active…

By MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — It’s taken just three days to seat a jury of 12 people in the tax fraud trial of Donald…

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Divers have found more human remains at drought-stricken Lake Mead near Las Vegas, authorities said Thursday. A National Park…

By HARM VENHUIZEN Associated Press/Report for America MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Police say a Pennsylvania woman who was killed alongside her daughter in…

VANCOUVER, Canada (AP) — Secretary of State Antony Blinken says the U.S. and Canada will work together to “cut the insecurity  knot” that has…

By KEN MILLER Associated Press OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma is suing the Federal Bureau of Prisons for custody of a state death row inmate who the…

MILAN (AP) — A man grabbed a knife from a supermarket shelf Thursday and stabbed five people, killing one and wounding four others, including…

By MATTHEW DALY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden has signed an international agreement that compels the United States and…

TULSA, Okla. (AP) — Police say a naked suspect in a Tulsa apartment clubhouse burglary broke from custody, jumped into a pond and drowned. Tulsa…

KEARNEY, Mo. (AP) — Officials say one construction worker died and three others were injured when a bridge under construction collapsed in a rural…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Department of Veterans has announced grant programs to help veterans who are homeless or who are at risk of losing their…

By The Associated Press Elon Musk is offering to go through with his original proposal to buy Twitter for $44 billion. The offer came just two weeks…

By ANDREW SELSKY Associated Press SALEM, Ore. (AP) — When U.S. Forest Service personnel carried out a planned burn in a national forest in Oregon…

By MEGAN JANETSKY Associated Press HAVANA (AP) — Hurricane Ian caused an island-wide blackout when it tore through western Cuba in late September.…

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is set to travel to New Mexico next week just days before the Nov. 8 midterm elections. The White House says…

By ED WHITE Associated Press A judge in Michigan is hearing evidence to determine if a police officer will stand trial for second-degree murder in…

By MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Two NASA spacecraft at Mars have recorded the biggest meteor strikes and impact…

By KIMBERLEE KRUESI Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A white former Nashville police officer who pleaded guilty to fatally shooting a Black…

CHICAGO (AP) — The owner of a senior housing facility on Chicago’s North Side where three women died amid a brief May heat wave has been fined…

By GENE JOHNSON Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) — The Republican mayor of Wenatchee, a small city in central Washington’s orchard country, didn’t…

TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — A court in Belarus has sentenced another independent journalist to three years in prison. It’s the second prison…

By MIKE SCHNEIDER Associated Press It has been a month since Hurricane Ian ravaged southwest Florida. Now multimillion-dollar cleanup contracts are…

By ANDREW SELSKY Associated Press SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Oregon voters are being asked to decide whether the state should be the first in the nation to…

LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak will not attend a major United Nations climate conference next month, the government said…

By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — A new exhibit celebrating King Tut is about to land in several cities with a very modern…

By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN Associated Press A Tennessee man who dragged a police officer into a mob of rioters during the U.S. Capitol attack has been…

By BARBARA SURK and OLEG CETINIC Associated Press PARIS (AP) — France’s TotalEnergies has reported third-quarter net income of $6.6 billion…

By SUSAN HAIGH Associated Press HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — National Republicans see an opportunity this year to finally flip a U.S. House seat in blue…

MOSCOW (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin has denied having any intentions of using nuclear weapons in Ukraine but described the conflict…

CLAYTON, Mo. (AP) — A Missouri jury has convicted a father and son for attacking a Pokemon Go rival in a dispute that ended with all three men in a…

By The Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Country star Alan Jackson will receive the CMA Willie Nelson Lifetime Achievement Award at the…

By TARA COPP and LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A new U.S. defense strategy says China remains the greatest security challenge…

NORTH LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — An Arkansas motorcyclist carrying a gasoline-filled backpack was expected to survive after he was engulfed by a…

By JIM SALTER Associated Press ST. LOUIS (AP) — The 19-year-old gunman who forced his way into a St. Louis school and killed two people purchased…

PARIS (AP) — In a show of France’s military prowess, President Emmanuel Macron has visited a Caesar cannon firing range and missile testing…

By MUNIR AHMED Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — Thousands of people mourned an outspoken Pakistani journalist as the nation’s spy chief and…

By LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer When Cate Blanchett stepped out of her first screening for “Tár,” she wanted to immediately go back and watch it…

COPENJHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — A man suspected of spying for Russia in Norway had bought a one-way ticket out of the Scandinavian country for the day…

By MATT OTT and ALEX VEIGA AP Business Writers WASHINGTON (AP) — Average long-term U.S. mortgage rates topped 7% for the first time in more than…

By MATT O’BRIEN AP Technology Writer Elon Musk is telling Twitter advertisers he is buying the platform to “help humanity” and doesn’t…

GUNTERSVILLE, Ala. (AP) — An Alabama man who was charged with killing two women and a boy months after being paroled from prison was convicted of…

By BHARATHA MALLAWARACHI Associated Press COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Thousands of Sri Lankans have marched in the capital to urge the government to…

By PETER SMITH Associated Press CARMICHAELS, Pa. (AP) — In one of the most closely watched races in one of the most contested of battleground…

HELSINKI (AP) — Danish lender Danske Bank says it will book a 14 billion Danish kroner ($1.9 billion) provision in the third quarter for impending…

By MATT OTT AP Business Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Slightly more Americans applied for unemployment benefits last week as the labor market remains…

By ALAN SUDERMAN Associated Press A former CIA officer who spied on Qatar’s rivals to help the tiny Arab country land this year’s World Cup is…

By ANDREW WELSH-HUGGINS Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The Columbus Museum of Art has opened a comprehensive exhibit on artist and…

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland has dismantled four communist-era monuments honoring Red Army soldiers, in a renewed drive to remove symbols of…

By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer Shares were mostly lower in Asia on Friday after a mixed session on Wall Street, where tech sector losses…

By ELENA BECATOROS Associated Press ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greece’s prime minister says he is ready to “extend a hand of friendship” to…

By The Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran’s supreme leader and its president have tried to link the nationwide protests…

By MIKE CORDER Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — China has reportedly established dozens of “overseas police stations” in nations…

By RODNEY MUHUMUZA and HAJARAH NALWADDA Associated Press KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — Uganda’s Ebola outbreak is under control, a top public health…

MOSCOW (AP) — Russian lawmakers have given preliminary approval to a bill that imposes tough new restrictions on activities to promote LGBTQ rights…

By HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Prince Harry’s memoir, an object of obsessive anticipation worldwide since it was first…

By ERIKA KINETZ Associated Press ZDVYZHIVKA, Ukraine (AP) — The carnage left by Russian soldiers on the road to Kyiv wasn’t random. It was…

BEIJING (AP) — Seagate Technology says the U.S. Department of Commerce has warned it may charge the computer hard-drive maker with violating…

BEIJING (AP) — Figures reported by Chinese tech giant Huawei indicate its revenue rose in the latest quarter as infrastructure sales helped to…

By JILL LAWLESS and DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The Northern Ireland Assembly has failed to elect a speaker, setting the stage for…

By SEUNG MIN KIM Associated Press SYRACUSE, N.Y. (AP) — President Joe Biden is focusing on economic issues as he fine-tunes his closing argument in…