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TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey is hailing economic and educational cooperation with Taiwan, marked by a $12 billion investment in…

By GARANCE BURKE and JASON DEAREN Associated Press Local law enforcement agencies from suburban Southern California to rural North Carolina have been…

By AMANDA SEITZ Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration hopes to make getting a COVID-19 booster as routine as going in for the…

By GARANCE BURKE and JASON DEAREN Associated Press Local law enforcement agencies from suburban Southern California to rural North Carolina have been…

By KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — As the war in Ukraine stretches into its seventh month, North Korea is hinting at its…

By NICHOLAS RICCARDI and SUSAN HAIGH Associated Press DENVER (AP) — The anxious-looking women talk directly to the camera, warning that the…

By COLLIN BINKLEY AP Education Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Math and reading scores for America’s 9-year-olds fell dramatically during the first two…

By DANIEL NIEMANN Associated Press GELSDORF, Germany (AP) — Solar installations on arable land are becoming increasingly popular in Europe and…

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australia’s foreign minister on a visit to East Timor is warning the nation against…

CASTAIC, Calif. (AP) — Firefighters are battling two California blazes that are raging in rural areas and have prompted evacuations in the midst of…

By MIKE FITZPATRICK AP Baseball Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Brandon Nimmo saved Jacob deGrom and the New York Mets with a breathtaking catch atop the…

By YURI KAGEYAMA Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — A small robot with a clip-like hand and the smarts to know which drinks are popular is part of an…

By WANJOHI KABUKURU ASSOCIATED PRESS MOMBASA, Kenya (AP) — Gabon’s President Ali Bongo Ondimba said at the third Africa Climate Week conference…

By EILEEN NG Associated Press KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Malaysian former first lady Rosmah Mansor has been ordered to serve 10 years in prison…

RICHMOND, Ind. (AP) — An eastern Indiana police officer shot in the head during a traffic stop will be taken off life support on Thursday. The…

By DAVID PORTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A defamation lawsuit against actor Alec Baldwin by the family of a Marine killed in Afghanistan…

By LISA MASCARO AP Congressional Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) — At first, Republicans were highly critical of the FBI search of Donald Trump’s…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s federal government has apologized to relatives of those who died in a 2011 arson attack at a casino that killed…

By JANIE HAR and ADAM BEAM Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California will establish a new court program to steer and even force…

By SUSAN HAIGH Associated Press HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — An assistant principal at a public elementary school in Connecticut is facing an…

By BECKY BOHRER Associated Press JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — Democrat Mary Peltola won the special election for Alaska’s only U.S. House seat on…

By BOB CHRISTIE Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Arizona’s Supreme Court says the state Senate can keep hundreds of records related to its…

By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A prosecutor says an international yoga business founder arrested on tax charges is a flight…

By REBECCA BOONE Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — A former Idaho lawmaker convicted of raping a 19-year-old legislative intern has been…

BY SAMY MAGDY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — The body that oversees Egypt’s Suez Canal says an oil tanker ran aground in Egypt’s Suez Canal,…

By ADAM BEAM Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California lawmakers have voted to make vasectomies cheaper for men. The legislation passed…

By COLLEEN SLEVIN Associated Press DENVER (AP) — A defense expert says forcibly administering anti-psychotic medication to a man charged with…

By JIM SALTER Associated Press St. Louis’ top prosecutor has filed a motion asking a judge to vacate the conviction that sent a man to prison…

By KEVIN McGILL Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A former chief of patrol for the New York City Police Department will serve temporarily as…

By JOEY CAPPELLETTI and SARA BURNETT Associated Press LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Supporters of expanding voting access in Michigan say they will appeal…

By SEAN MURPHY Associated Press OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma Attorney General John O’Connor is urging prosecutors and law enforcement…

By KATHLEEN FOODY Associated Press A once obscure Michigan elections panel is back in the spotlight after rejecting a ballot initiative seeking to…

By JAMEY KEATEN and EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press GENEVA (AP) — China’s discriminatory detention of Uyghurs and other mostly Muslim…

By MARGARET STAFFORD Associated Press A Kansas school district has settled a lawsuit filed by a teacher who was suspended because she refused to use…

By MATTHEW BARAKAT Associated Press FALLS CHURCH, Va. (AP) — A nurse practitioner from northern Virginia has sued CVS Health after she says she was…

DETROIT (AP) — General Motors says a new electric vehicle battery plant built in Ohio has started producing cells, which could help customers get…

By TERRY CHEA and OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ Associated Press OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — An unprecedented red tide in the San Francisco Bay Area is killing…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Yet another mother searching for her disappeared son has been killed in northern Mexico. At least three volunteer search…

By JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — Four families have filed a lawsuit against the United States, saying the Navy…

By JAMES MacPHERSON and GRETCHEN EHLKE Associated Press BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — Volunteers are organizing in North Dakota to finish the harvest work…

By ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The FBI investigation into top-secret government information discovered at Mar-a-Lago is zeroing…

By ARLEIGH RODGERS Associated Press/Report for America INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Authorities say in an arrest affidavit that the 22-year-old man accused…

By KATE BRUMBACK Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Lawyers for John Eastman say they advised their client to assert attorney-client privilege and…

By LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Reports of sexual assaults across the U.S. military jumped by 13% last year, driven by…

By AAMER MADHANI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States says it has determined that Russia is suffering “severe manpower…

By HOWARD FENDRICH AP Tennis Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Serena Williams can call it “evolving” or “retiring” or whatever she wants. And she can…

By LYNN ELBER and MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writers So many TV shows, so few nominees who will end up clutching trophies at the Primetime Emmy…

By DÁNICA COTO Associated Press SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — An international banker accused of bribing Puerto Rico’s then-governor to undermine…

By JEFFREY COLLINS COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Authorities say a woman killed while looking out the window of her South Carolina home was intentionally…

By MICHAEL GOLDBERG and LEAH WILLINGHAM Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The water pressure at James Brown’s home in Jackson was so low the…

By JAMES POLLARD Associated Press/Report for America COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — While the results of this month’s Kansas abortion vote have shaken…

Associated Press Israel has launched airstrikes targeting Syria’s Aleppo International Airport. Syrian state media on Wednesday did not report…

By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer NEW YORK (AP) — When “The Woman King” rises up in theaters on Sept. 16, it will emerge as a potent force on a…

By ANTHONY IZAGUIRRE Associated Press TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Florida has sued federal health officials, accusing them of stalling the…

JERUSALEM (AP) — Palestinian officials say a detainee held without charge or trial by Israel will suspend his nearly six-month hunger strike after…

By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Lawyers for three Black NFL coaches alleging racial bias by the league took aim directly at…

BOSTON (AP) — Federal transportation officials say in a highly critical report that the Boston-area’s aging subway system has for years neglected…

PORT CHESTER, N.Y. (AP) — Several live lizards were wrongly delivered to a residence in a town just north of New York City. Police in Port Chester…

By DON THOMPSON Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California won’t allow teens age 15 and up to be vaccinated against the…

By MICHAEL HILL Associated Press SCHOHARIE, N.Y. (AP) — A judge rejected a plea agreement that would have meant no prison time for the operator of…

ATLANTA (AP) — A fire broke out on the rooftop of a skyscraper under construction in downtown Atlanta on Wednesday, bringing dozens of firefighters…

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — An 83-year-old missionary nun from Louisiana has been released nearly five months after she was kidnapped from her bed in the…

By COREY WILLIAMS Associated Press A 19-year-old man was charged Wednesday with first-degree murder in a series of apparently random shootings over…

By SETH BORENSTEIN AND REBECCA SANTANA Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — It’s been quiet — too quiet — this Atlantic hurricane season,…

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina’s influential state chapter of the NAACP has lost its federal tax-exempt status for failing to file tax…

By SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin’s bipartisan elections agency will be asking the GOP-controlled Legislature to pay…

By STEVE KARNOWSKI Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Bird flu has returned to the Midwest earlier than authorities expected after a lull of…

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The Secretary of State’s Office says a conservative podcaster who embraces former President Donald Trump’s discredited…

NEW LONDON, Conn. (AP) — The Coast Guard Academy is disenrolling seven cadets for failing to comply with the military’s COVID-19 vaccination…

By BRENDAN FARRINGTON Associated Press TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — U.S. Rep. Charlie Crist is resigning his seat in Congress to focus on his…

By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer NEW YORK (AP) — For the first time in three years, the fall movie industrial complex is lurching back into high gear.…

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A federal judge says Wisconsin voters with disabilities can get help returning their ballots, despite a state Supreme Court…

IRVING, Texas (AP) — The changing Big 12 Conference plans to have discussions with ESPN and Fox about a potential early extension of its media…

By LAURA UNGAR AP Science Writer A growing number of scientists is trying to help people reach a goal humans have been chasing throughout history:…

By JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A man has been convicted again in the first retrial stemming from scrutiny of a once-lauded New…

By KAREEM CHEHAYEB Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Internet shutdowns are plaguing Lebanon, as the country’s telecom workers go on strike.…

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Lucinda Williams, Chris Isaak, Brandi Carlile and Indigo Girls are among the performers who will take the stage at the…

By SYLVIA HUI Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The two candidates vying to become Britain’s next prime minister are making their final push to win…

By PREDRAG MILIC Associated Press PODGORICA, Montenegro (AP) — A rapid deployment team of FBI cyber experts is heading to Montenegro to investigate…

NEW DELHI (AP) — The Indian government says the country’s economy grew by 13.5% in the April-June quarter from a year earlier, pushed up by a…

By EMILY ROSE Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel is imposing sanctions on 20 companies and individuals operating across the Middle East that…

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greek authorities say two earthquakes with magnitude 5.3 and 4.7 have rocked the eastern Aegean Sea island of Samos but no…

By JUAN A. LOZANO Associated Press LA PORTE, Texas (AP) — It’s the only surviving battleship that served in both world wars, having fought in…

MOSCOW (AP) — Call it a slice of life. One of Mikhail Gorbachev’s most notable appearances after he resigned as leader of the collapsed…

By CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Nigeria’s emergency services says one person has died after a three-story building…

By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The return of dragons has been a hit. Now it’s time for the return of the elves and…

By LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer Catherine Deneuve is not that fond of reminiscing, even as she prepares to collect a Lifetime Achievement Award at the…

GENEVA (AP) — Independent human rights experts working with the United Nations say Spain violated the political rights of members of the Catalan…

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea plans to challenge a World Bank tribunal’s order to pay $216.5 million plus interest to Texas-based Lone…

By MICHAEL R. SISAK and MICHAEL BALSAMO Associated Press A former California prison chaplain who pleaded guilty to forcing an inmate to have sex with…

BERLIN (AP) — German prosecutors have raided the office of JPMorgan Chase & Co. in Frankfurt as part of a broader tax evasion investigation…

By MARK PRATT Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — There is a silver lining to the drought affecting the northeastern U.S. that has frustrated farmers,…

By MICHAEL CANTU Edmunds The 2023 Chevrolet Bolt EV received a huge discount for the new model year and is one of the most affordable new electric…

BERLIN (AP) — German lawyer Hans-Christian Stroebele has died at age 83. He defended members of the far-left Red Army Faction and later became the…

By KATE ASHFORD of NerdWallet Continuing to work past the traditional retirement age gives many the opportunity to add more money to their nest egg…

By DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — It was a warm Saturday evening and journalists had gathered at a Paris restaurant to enjoy the last…

NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — Cyprus has lifted the obligatory use of face masks in all indoor areas after the island nation’s top health official said…