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By TODD RICHMOND Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — He stripped his shirt off in court. He complains that the prosecutors are “slick.”…

By FRANCES D’EMILIO Associated Press ROME (AP) — Rescuers are searching the waters near a southern Italian island for a 2-week-old baby girl…

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — George Floyd’s killing by Minneapolis police officers in May 2020 sparked widespread anger after millions of people saw video…

By AMY FORLITI Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Two former Minneapolis police officers charged in George Floyd’s death are heading to…

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A man who admitted to setting a police vehicle on fire during protests in Philadelphia over the police killing of George Floyd…

NEW YORK (AP) — Salman Rushdie’s agent says the author has lost sight in one eye and the use of a hand as he recovers from an attack from a man…

JONESBOROUGH, Tenn. (AP) — A skydiver has died after his hard landing from a pregame jump at a Tennessee high school football stadium on Friday,…

By ADAM BEAM ASSOCIATED PRESS SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — California Gov. Gavin Newsom has vowed to serve a full four-year term if he is reelected in…

JERUSALEM (AP) — Albania’s prime minister has arrived in Israel for an official visit that will include a meeting with Israeli cyber defense…

Associated Press MADRID (AP) — The bleating and bells of some 1,200 sheep and 200 goats took over downtown Madrid on Sunday morning as part of a…

By JUSTIN SPIKE Associated Press BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has made veiled comparisons between the Soviet…

By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER and LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — In a telephone call days after the 2020 election, Oath Keepers…

MOSCOW (AP) — Russian regional authorities say a Russian warplane slammed into a residential building in the Siberian city of Irkutsk, killing both…

BEIJING (AP) — The twice-a-decade congress of China’s ruling Communist Party is a tightly choreographed event. So when former Chinese…

By SAMY MAGDY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — A senior health official says two days of tribal fighting in Sudan’s south has killed at least 220…

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel’s Supreme Court has thrown out four legal challenges to a landmark maritime agreement between Israel and Lebanon. The…

By JACK JEFFREY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — On his return home from the U.N. General Assembly this year, Sudan’s top general descended an…

BEIJING (AP) — Chinese President Xi Jinping, the son of a communist revolutionary leader, was a victim of the Cultural Revolution and a provincial…

By TIA GOLDENBERG Associated Press TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — A Palestinian militant group has accused Israel of killing one of its top fighters in a…

By MARK LEWIS Associated Press STAVANGER, Norway (AP) — Norwegian oil and gas workers normally don’t see anything more threatening than North Sea…

BEIJING (AP) — China’s ruling Communist Party has appointed a new all-powerful Politburo Standing Committee, led by General Secretary Xi…

By ALI ZERDIN Associated Press LJUBLJANA, Slovenia (AP) — Early results of Slovenia’s presidential election show a a right-wing politician…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Hurricane Roslyn slammed into a sparsely populated stretch of Mexico’s Pacific coast between the resorts of Puerto Vallarta…

LEAVENWORTH, Wash. (AP) — Wildlife authorities in Washington state killed a black bear Saturday after it charged and injured a woman near a…

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Police say a man has died in a California shooting after a Sacramento high school football game. Investigators believe…

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — A Republican gubernatorial candidate in Alaska faces accusations he sexually harassed a former assistant while he was a…

By JIM VERTUNO AP Sports Writer AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Austrian billionaire Dietrich Mateschitz, the co-founder of energy drink company Red Bull and…

SKOPJE, North Macedonia (AP) — Police in North Macedonia say four Ukrainians have been arrested on suspicion of illegal digging for artifacts at…

By The Associated Press Josephine Melville, a respected British actor and director, died backstage after appearing in a production of “Nine…

By BEN FINLEY Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — The wife of an off-duty police officer killed in a North Carolina mass shooting has recalled…

SEATTLE (AP) — A 31-year-old Seattle man is being held without bail in what police describe as a three-day spate of shootings that left the owner…

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Baton Rouge police say 11 people were hurt in a shooting at a fraternity house near Southern University’s campus in Baton…

By ELLIOT SPAGAT Associated Press SAN DIEGO (AP) — A surge in migration from Venezuela, Cuba and Nicaragua in September brought the number of…

By JUAN A. LOZANO Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — A recent wave of political ads and warnings from some in law enforcement paint a picture of a…

ATLANTA (AP) — The director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has tested positive for COVID-19. The agency said in a statement…

By The Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Joanna Simon, an acclaimed mezzo-soprano, Emmy-winning TV correspondent and one of the three singing Simon…

By SAM METZ Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Just weeks before the Nov. 8 vote, Utah’s senior senator, Republican Mike Lee, is now…

By JAVIER CÓRDOBA Associated Press SAN JOSE, Costa Rica (AP) — Six people, including the German businessman behind Gold’s Gym, are feared…

By STEPHEN GROVES Associated Press SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — Recreational marijuana legalization will be back on the South Dakota ballot in…

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli police say they shot a Palestinian who was suspected of carrying out a stabbing attack in Jerusalem, and the Palestinians…

KEENE, N.H. (AP) — Authorities say a small plane crashed into a building in New Hampshire, killing the two people on board and sparking a large…

BERLIN (AP) — Tens of thousands of people gathered in Germany’s capital Saturday to show solidarity with antigovernment protesters in Iran,…

ROME (AP) — Nearly 300 migrants disembarked have disembarked in the southern Italian port of Taranto after being rescued at sea in five different…

By JIM VERTUNO AP Sports Writer AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — With Formula’s One popularity and viewership booming in the United States, ESPN and the…

By DAVE COLLINS Associated Press HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones has asked a Connecticut judge to throw out a nearly $1…

By TRISHA AHMED Associated Press/Report for America MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Inside the Minneapolis Police Academy’s sprawling campus on the…

By MIKE CATALINI Associated Press The Supreme Court’s June ruling that overturned Roe v. Wade and left the question of abortion rights up to…

MARSEILLE, France (AP) — A supporter of French club Marseille has been handed preliminary charges including attempted murder for allegedly firing a…

By LAURA UNGAR AP Science Writer ELIZABETHTOWN, Ky. (AP) — A growing body of research shows that bipolar disorder, schizophrenia and the in-between…

By LEAH WILLINGHAM Associated Press CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — Voters in West Virginia will get the final say on a ballot question that would amend…

By TARA COPP Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Weapons stockpile shortages across Europe could force hard choices as Ukraine’s allies balance…

By JOSH BOAK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden wants to tame inflation. He wants Congress to protect access to abortions. He…

ISLAMABAD (AP) — A spokesman says former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan has challenged an election commission ruling disqualifying him from…

By The Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Observers of Britain’s governing structure can be forgiven for scratching their heads in recent weeks as…

By FRANCES D’EMILIO Associated Press ROME (AP) — The Vatican and China have extended their oft-criticized deal on the appointment of bishops.…

BERLIN (AP) — Zilli Schmidt, a survivor of the Auschwitz and Ravensbrueck concentration camps, has died at 98. She had become a vocal advocate for…

By JEFFREY COLLINS Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Months after accusing disbarred attorney Alex Murdaugh of killing his wife and son, South…

LONDON (AP) — The lightning-fast race to replace Liz Truss as British Prime Minister got even wilder Saturday as former leader Boris Johnson jetted…

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) — Thousands of people in towns across Ethiopia have staged demonstrations against what they say is interference by…

By ANDREW MELDRUM and JOANNA KOZLOWSKA Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian-installed authorities in Ukraine told all residents of the…

ISTANBUL (AP) — Turkey’s state-run news agency is reporting that Finnish officials will arrive in Ankara on Tuesday to discuss their country’s…

By FRANCES D’EMILIO Associated Press ROME (AP) — Giorgia Meloni has become the first woman installed as Italy’s premier. Meloni took…

By COLLEEN BARRY Associated Press MILAN (AP) — As Giorgia Meloni becomes Italy’s first female premier, the world is watching closely to see…

By CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Ocheiga Enoch isn’t expecting much of a rice harvest from north-central Nigeria after…

By ROD McGUIRK Associoted Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Japan and Australia have signed a new bilateral security agreement to reflect the…

By The Associated Press Ukrainian forces pressing an offensive in the country’s south have zeroed in on Kherson, a regional capital that was…

By KEVIN FREKING and FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — IRS pleas for more funding from Congress — made over the years by one…

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australia has proposed tougher penalties for companies that fail to protect customers’…

By FABIOLA SÁNCHEZ Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — In a shelter on Mexico City’s east side, Venezuelan mechanic José Cuicas is waiting…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Hurricane Roslyn grew to Category 4 force on Saturday as it headed for a collision with Mexico’s Pacific coast, likely north…

By PAUL J. WEBER Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The Texas Department of Public Safety fired an officer Friday who was at the scene of the…

By JILL COLVIN and MICHAEL LIEDTKE Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The Republican National Committee has filed a lawsuit against tech giant…

By KEN MORITSUGU Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — China’s ruling Communist Party reaffirmed President Xi Jinping’s continued dominance in…

ATHERTON, Calif. (AP) — Three decades after a car was reported stolen in Northern California, police are digging the missing convertible out of the…

By YURI KAGEYAMA Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — The man who married a former Japanese princess has passed the New York bar exam, defying detractors…

By KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea’s former defense minister and coast guard chief have been arrested over…

FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — A federal judge has ruled that relatives of people who died in the crashes of two Boeing 737 Max planes are crime victims.…

ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — A video clip shows Maryland Republican governor candidate Dan Cox accepting a gift from a young man wearing a shirt with a…

By JONATHAN LANDRUM Jr. AP Entertainment Writer SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) — A jury sided with Cardi B on Friday in a copyright infringement case…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United States and key Western allies accused Russia on Friday of using Iranian…