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By LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — In the weeks since the FBI searched Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate and seized about…

By CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Nigerian authorities say gunmen have killed 14 people in attacks targeting two communities…

By LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon has announced a number of new programs aimed at helping service members who are…

By ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Stark repudiation by federal judges he appointed. Far-reaching fraud allegations by New York’s…

By BARBARA ORTUTAY AP Technology Writer Actions by Facebook and its parent Meta during last year’s Gaza war violated the rights of Palestinian…

By NOAH TRISTER AP Baseball Writer If Aaron Judge passes Roger Maris, some lucky fan might become this generation’s Sal Durante. As a…

By STEVE KARNOWSKI Associated Press ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz is pushing back against critics who say his administration…

WAUKEGAN, Ill. (AP) — A former suburban Chicago police officer who was fired after he shot into a car two years ago, killing a Black man and…

By WAYNE PARRY Associated Press ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — Irate that a session to discuss a proposed smoking ban during a casino industry…

By MARGARET STAFFORD Associated Press BNSF Railway says in a federal lawsuit that victims of an Amtrak derailment in Missouri should be required to…

By ROB GILLIES Associated Press TORONTO (AP) — An official familiar with the matter says Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has signed off on Canada…

By COREY WILLIAMS Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — A lawyer representing families of victims of a Michigan high school shooting says some teachers…

By DAVID SHARP Associated Press PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Maine is ready to fund tuition for some religious school students for the first time since a…

By MARCY GORDON AP Business Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal regulators are ordering Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and CEO Andy Jassy to testify in the…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — An explosion has occurred outside Mexico’s Attorney General’s Office, injuring police as protesters demonstrating ahead of…

By WAYNE PARRY Associated Press ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — The COVID pandemic forced most U.S. casinos to close for months, causing payrolls,…

By FARNOUSH AMIRI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — House Democrats have pushed through a long-sought policing and public safety package after…

By BRIAN SLODYSKO and JAMES LAPORTA Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican J.R. Majewski has campaigned for a northwestern Ohio…

By SARA BURNETT and JOHN HANNA Associated Press HUTCHINSON, Kan. (AP) — Governors races often are overshadowed by the fight for control of Congress…

By MATT SEDENSKY AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Japan’s prime minister has announced that his nation’s strict border restrictions will…

By TERRY SPENCER Associated Press FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Prosecutors have dropped manslaughter charges against three nurses who were present…

By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A federal appeals panel has rejected First Amendment claims the National Rifle Association…

By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — Federal prosecutors have agreed to dismiss charges against a Massachusetts judge accused of…

By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN Associated Press An Ohio man who testified at a congressional hearing about why he stormed the U.S. Capitol has been sentenced…

By JOE REEDY AP Sports Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Amazon Prime Video’s first regular-season game as the exclusive home of “Thursday Night…

By COLLEEN LONG Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House and the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists say a Republican-led…

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — A fire in an oil refinery in southwestern Argentina has killed at least three people. Firefighters worked throughout…

By MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — In the first-of-its kind, save-the-world experiment, NASA is about to clobber a…

By JIMMY GOLEN and TIM REYNOLDS AP Sports Writers BOSTON (AP) — The Boston Celtics have suspended Ime Udoka for a full year, banning the coach who…

By FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. government has imposed sanctions on Iran’s morality police after the death in…

SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) — At least seven people have been killed in landslides in El Salvador following four days of heavy rains across the…

By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — There’s a new nature documentary series that promises to show viewers incredible…

BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s federal prosecutor’s office says a teenager has been arrested for allegedly planning an Islamist-motivated attack in…

By TODD RICHMOND Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A prosecutor has charged a Wisconsin Department of Justice agent with reckless endangerment…

By JUSTIN SPIKE Associated Press BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Hungary’s governing party says it wants to poll the country’s citizens on whether…

MADDOCK, N.D. (AP) — A woman who brought a wild raccoon into a North Dakota bar, prompting state health officials to issue a warning about…

JOLIET, Ill. (AP) — More than two dozen people have been charged in Illinois with fraudulently obtaining pandemic relief money, with authorities…

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greek authorities have mounted a sea-and-air search for six people reported missing by a group of migrants found on the…

By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A former director of Mississippi’s welfare agency has pleaded guilty to new…

By SAM MCNEIL Associated Press NABLUS, West Bank (AP) — Nablus was a battered city. Shops gaped open to the street, their windows smashed. Street…

By JIM GOMEZ Associated Press MANILA, Philippines (AP) — A Philippine court has dismissed a government petition to declare the Communist Party of…

Associated Press The U.S. Federal Reserve has been the most aggressive in using interest rate hikes to cool inflation that is battering both…

By FRANK JORDANS Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — A top Ukrainian government economist says the country’s efforts to defend itself from Russia…

By KIM CHANDLER Associated Press ATMORE, Ala. (AP) — A federal appeals court has rejected Alabama’s attempt to proceed with the execution of an…

By MATT OTT AP Business Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Average long-term U.S. mortgage rates jumped by more than a quarter-point this week to their…

By KEN SWEET AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The CEOs of the nation’s biggest banks returned to Capitol Hill for a second day Thursday, and…

By TOM DAVIES and ARLEIGH RODGERS Associated Press INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — After an Indiana judge on Thursday blocked the state’s abortion ban…

By JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press GENEVA (AP) — An envoy from China’s Xinjiang province says Chinese authorities are ready for a “fight” with…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — The Unification Church, whose close ties with Japan’s governing party have emerged after the…

By MATT OTT AP Business Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The number of Americans filing for jobless benefits rose slightly last week despite the Federal…

By KAREEM CHEHAYEB Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanon’s embattled banks have decided to remain indefinitely closed after rejecting a…

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Saudi Arabia said Thursday it will launch a training program with the goal of sending its own astronauts,…

By SCOTT McFETRIDGE Associated Press CHURDAN, Iowa (AP) — In the 1970s when George Naylor said he wanted to grow organic crops, the idea…

By MUNIR AHMED Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan’s former Prime Minister Imran Khan has apologized in court over his outburst against a…

DETROIT (AP) — Tesla is recalling nearly 1.1 million vehicles in the U.S. because the windows can pinch a person’s fingers when being rolled…

By ELEANOR REICH Associated Press TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Israel has started administering doses of the new COVID-19 vaccine tailored to fight the…

JERUSALEM (AP) — The Palestinian militant group Hamas is threatening hostile actions against Israel over what it called “violations against…

BANGKOK (AP) — Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim says he believes his three-party alliance has a “fair chance” of winning a general…

HELSINKI (AP) — Finnish and Estonian rescue officials say a crude oil tanker caught fire in the Gulf of Finland, but the crew was able to…

By HOWARD FENDRICH AP Tennis Writer LONDON (AP) — It was quite a collection of tennis luminaries sharing the black indoor hard court for a Laver…

By LIUDAS DAPKUS Associated Press VILNIUS, Lithuania (AP) — The three Baltic states say they are not prepared to automatically offer asylum to…

By HANNA ARHIROVA Associated Press ZAPORIZHZHIA, Ukraine (AP) — Russia escalated its military and political campaign Thursday to capture Ukrainian…

By LORNE COOK Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — European Union officials say the world’s biggest trading bloc is determined to impose more…

TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s central bank has intervened to stem the yen’s decline against the U.S. dollar. Earlier Thursday, the dollar rose…

By ZEN SOO and ALICE FUNG Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — The head of Hong Kong’s largest journalist group has been granted bail. Ronson Chan…

By NICOLAS GARRIGA and SYLVIE CORBET The Associated Press SAINT-NAZAIRE, France (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron has called for a “massive…

By The Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Clashes between Iranian security forces and protesters angry over the death of a…

By OMER FAROOQ Associated Press HYDERABAD, India (AP) — A rush for tickets for an India-Australia Twenty20 cricket match has left 20 people injured…

By DAVID RISING Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — A United Nations-appointed human rights expert is calling for governments and companies to…

LISBON, Portugal (AP) — Portugal’s national airline TAP Air Portugal says hackers obtained the personal data of some of its customers and have…

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Norway’s central bank has raised its key policy interest rate by a quarter-percentage point as other banks around the…

By HUIZHONG WU Associated Press TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Taiwan is considering an end to its quarantine requirement for all arrivals in mid-October.…

By ZEYNEP BILGINSOY Associated Press ISTANBUL (AP) — Turkey’s central bank has delivered another massive interest rate cut despite eye-popping…

By KELVIN CHAN Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The Bank of England raised its key interest rate Thursday by another half-percentage point to the…

By FRANCES D’EMILIO Associated Press ROME (AP) — The main candidates in Italy’s general election Sunday to elect a new Parliament and…

GENEVA (AP) — Switzerland’s central bank has carried out the biggest hike ever to its key interest rate. It’s following the U.S. Federal…

HOBART, Australia (AP) — Wildlife experts on Thursday rescued 32 of the 230 whales that were found stranded on the wild and remote west coast of…

By FARAI MUTSAKA Associated Press HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — Dozens of women holding babies rushed to take their places on wooden benches at a clinic…

By ELENA BECATOROS Associated Press PRUDYANKA, Ukraine (AP) — The four soldiers lay in the grass, sleeping bags and cans of food, some opened,…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — A powerful magnitude 6.8 earthquake struck Mexico early Thursday, causing at least two deaths, damaging buildings and setting…

By SYLVIA HUI and FRANK JORDANS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — On a blustery November day last year Britain’s future king stood before world…

By EBRAHIM NOROOZI Associated Press KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Aid agencies say the number of children working in Afghanistan is growing ever since…

By TOM KRISHER AP Auto Writer DETROIT (AP) — Some Hyundai and Kia cars and SUVs are missing a “key” anti-theft device, and thieves know. An…

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australia has honored Queen Elizabeth II with a day of mourning and a wreath of golden…

By JULIE WATSON and REGINA GARCIA CANO Associated Press SAN DIEGO (AP) — Since escaping two weeks ago, officials say the fugitive Malaysian defense…

By JOSHUA GOODMAN Associated Press MIAMI (AP) — Executive directors of the Inter-American Development Bank voted unanimously Thursday to recommend…

By DÁNICA COTO Associated Press SAN SALVADOR, Puerto Rico (AP) — President Joe Biden said Thursday the full force of the federal government is…

By PIA SARKAR Associated Press Heads of state from Tuvalu and the Marshall Islands have launched a “Rising Nations Initiative” as they race…

By JOSH BOAK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House is reaching out to local governments. It hosted officials from North Carolina on…

By DAVE COLLINS and PAT EATON-ROBB Associated Press WATERBURY, Conn. (AP) — Alex Jones took the stand Thursday at his Connecticut defamation trial,…

By PIA SARKAR and JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — One day after Ukraine’s president laid out a forceful case against…