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By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The number of open jobs in the United States rose in July after three months of…

By ISAAC SCHARF Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — The independent commission investigating a deadly stampede at a religious festival in Israel last…

BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Serbia’s populist leader says a government decision to cancel the holding next month of a pan-European LGBTQ event will…

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Four school board members appointed by Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis in one of Florida’s most Democratic counties…

By ANGELA CHARLTON Associated Press PARIS (AP) — French officials say World Cup winner Paul Pogba has paid 100,000 euros ($100,000) to an organized…

By DAVID SHARP Associated Press PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Parents of children enrolled in Maine religious schools fought all the way to the U.S.…

MOSCOW (AP) — A Moscow court has handed a 15-day prison sentence to a 72-year-old liberal politician who drew parallels between Soviet dictator…

By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — Russian prosecutors at the trial of a former journalist asked the court Tuesday to hand him a…

BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s annual inflation rate rose to 7.9% in August, returning to its highest level in nearly half a century after it dipped in…

By LEANNE ITALIE Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — At 24, El Johnson has made up her mind that she won’t bear children, though she and her…

By KIRSTEN GRIESHABER Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — An American court has thrown out a lawsuit against a German museum foundation over a medieval…

By ELENA BECATOROS Associated Press ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greek authorities say they have picked up a group of 30 people from a wooden boat that…

BEIJING (AP) — China says a key congress of the ruling Communist Party at which leader Xi Jinping is expected to be granted a third five-year term…

BEIJING (AP) — China has placed millions of its citizens under lockdown following fresh outbreaks of COVID-19. The measures affected about half of…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — The defense ministers of Japan and Israel have shared concerns about growing global tensions from…

By HUIZHONG WU and JOE McDONALD Associated Press TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey has arrived in Taiwan for a visit focused on…

MONROE, Mich. (AP) — Severe storms that brought damaging winds, heavy rains and flash flooding to parts of the Midwest and the South were blamed…

By KELSEY SHEEHY of NerdWallet Money rules of thumb can be useful guardrails, helping you allocate spending and determine what’s affordable. They…

By FRANK JORDANS, BARBARA SURK and JAN M. OLSEN Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Chancellor Olaf Scholz says Germany is well-prepared to tackle a…

By CARA ANNA Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — The first ship carrying grain from Ukraine for people in the hungriest parts of the world has…

SYDNEY (AP) — An Australian man has been convicted of murdering his wife 40 years ago after a renewed police investigation that was triggered by a…

UTRECHT, Netherlands (AP) — Almost the entire Dutch railway network has been shut down as workers affected by soaring inflation and staff shortages…

By MUNIR AHMED Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — The United Nations and Pakistan have appealed for $160 million in emergency funds for nearly a…

By PAUL BYRNE Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine claimed to have destroyed bridges and ammunition depots and pounded command posts in a…

By LORNE COOK Associated Press PRAGUE (AP) — European Union nations are divided over whether to slap a broad visa ban on Russian citizens over the…

COTABATO, Philippines (AP) — Philippine police officials say suspected Muslim rebels have killed a town police chief and his driver and wounded…

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iranian state TV says an automobile crash in southwestern Iran has killed at least 16 people. The Tuesday crash happened as a…

By YURI KAGEYAMA Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Kazuo Inamori, founder of Japanese ceramics and electronics maker Kyocera who also became a…

By MARIA CHENG AP Medical Writer LONDON (AP) — The World Health Organization’s top director in the Western Pacific, Dr. Takeshi Kasai, has been…

By JOCELYN NOVECK Associated Press PARIS (AP) — An elegant dinner at the Ritz in Paris. A post-midnight drive past the city’s floodlit…

By DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Above all, there was shock. That’s the word people use over and over again when they remember…

By DEREK GATOPOULOS and ADAM PEMBLE Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Before taking a shot, Ukrainian sniper Andriy buries his face in a…

NABLUS, West Bank (AP) — The Israeli military says several Israelis were wounded overnight after they entered the Palestinian West Bank city of…

By JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — Asian stocks followed Wall Street lower Thursday after strong U.S. jobs data fueled expectations…

By KIM CHANDLER Associated Press MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — An anti-death penalty group says Alabama corrections officials apparently botched a…

By JEFFREY COLLINS and JAMES POLLARD Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — The South Carolina House has approved a bill that outlaws abortion…

By KRISHAN FRANCIS and BHARATHA MALLAWARACHI Associated Press COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lanka’s government plans to present an amended budget…

By CHRIS MEGERIAN, MARC LEVY and SEUNG MIN KIM Associated Press WILKES-BARRE, Pa. (AP) — President Joe Biden on Tuesday railed against the “MAGA…

By FARNOUSH AMIRI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Victims of abuse and their families saw a quiet breakthrough this summer when a new bipartisan…

By ELLIOT SPAGAT Associated Press YUMA, Ariz. (AP) — Hours before Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey declared “a major step forward to secure our border”…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. humanitarian chief is warning that Afghanistan faces deepening poverty with 6…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Authorities say a former Southern California man who convinced troubled girls as young as 12 to perform masochistic acts and…

By AAMER MADHANI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Russia has faced technical problems with Iranian-made drones acquired from Tehran this month…

SAN MATEO, Calif. (AP) — A resident of a San Francisco Bay Area senior citizens home died after being mistakenly served dishwashing liquid as…

NEW YORK (AP) — Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor has denied an appeal from a New York Police Department detective who asked for an emergency…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Authorities in Mexico have confirmed that a ‘lucha libre’ wrestler had been found dead over the weekend in the north-central…

By BERNIE WILSON and JOHN WAWROW AP Sports Writers SAN DIEGO (AP) — San Diego State football coach Brady Hoke says he didn’t know star punter…

WICHITA FALLS, Texas (AP) — A federal appeals court has upheld a Texas federal court ruling that exempts a group of religious health care providers…

DETROIT (AP) — The National Labor Relations Board has found that Tesla can’t stop factory employees from wearing clothing with union insignia…

WASHINGTON (AP) — First lady Jill Biden has tested negative for COVID-19 and plans to return to Washington on Tuesday. The president’s wife…

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — A new trial is set for March for a North Carolina-based insurance magnate whose previous convictions on corruption-related…

By BRUCE SCHREINER Associated Press FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell says he’s far from satisfied with the federal…

TECUMSEH, Neb. (AP) — A Nebraska death row inmate who strangled his cellmate after complaining he talked too much has died at the state prison in…

By MICHAEL TARM AP Legal Affairs Writer CHICAGO (AP) — Two more accusers have taken the witness stand at R. Kelly’s child pornography and…

OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — A 12-year-old boy is being held on suspicion of shooting and wounding a student at a school in east Oakland, California.…

ROCKFORD, Ill. (AP) — A federal judge has sentenced an Illinois man to 55 years in prison for the shooting death of a deputy U.S. marshal serving…

SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) — A New Jersey man who posed as a former New England Patriots player in order to buy and sell Super Bowl rings that he…

OTTAWA, Ontario (AP) — The Canadian government has raised the Survivors’ Flag on Parliament Hill as a way to honor Indigenous Peoples forced to…

By SETH BORENSTEIN and SIBI ARASU Associated Press The familiar ingredients of a warming world were in place: searing temperatures, hotter air…

by ASTRID SUAREZ and MANUEL RUEDA Associated Press BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Police in Colombia are investigating the murder of two journalists who…

By ARLEIGH RODGERS Associated Press/Report for America INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Before three Dutch soldiers were shot, one fatally, in downtown…

By MARCY GORDON AP Business Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal regulators have sued a data broker they accuse of selling sensitive geolocation data…

By REGINA GARCIA CANO Associated Press CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — The governments of Venezuela and Colombia have taken a step toward normalizing…

By HANNAH SCHOENBAUM Associated Press/Report for America DURHAM, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina U.S. Senate candidate Cheri Beasley is pitching herself…

By ZEKE MILLER AP White House Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden will deliver a prime-time address “on the continued battle for…

By CARLA K. JOHNSON AP Medical Writer People who drink tea may be a little more likely to live longer than those who don’t. That’s…

TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) — A judge has begun hearing evidence to determine if five men will face trial for their alleged roles in a plot to kidnap…

By MARK PRATT Associated Press A Rhode Island judge has ruled in favor of the congregation currently worshiping at the nation’s oldest synagogue.…

By ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A newly unsealed FBI document about the investigation at Mar-a-Lago not only offers new details…

By AAMER MADHANI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden has called the leaders of two U.S. veterans groups assisting Afghans who…

By DAVID A. LIEB Associated Press More than 1 million construction workers across the U.S. won’t have to comply with a federal COVID-19…

IRVINGTON, Ala. (AP) — Authorities in Alabama say they believe a child playing with a cigarette lighter started a mobile home fire that killed the…

ATLANTA (AP) — A prosecutor in Atlanta has announced a sprawling indictment targeting members of what she called a violent street gang that…

By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS and MICHAEL GOLDBERG Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves says he is declaring a state of…

By MARC LEVY Associated Press HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — As attorney general, Josh Shapiro went to court repeatedly to defend Pennsylvania Gov. Tom…

By ANNE D’INNOCENZIO AP Retail Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Walmart has filed a motion to dismiss a lawsuit by the Federal Trade Commission that…

By JOSH FUNK AP Business Writer OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Three of the 12 unions negotiating with the nation’s biggest freight railroads have reached a…

BEIRUT (AP) — A Lebanese legislator says a submarine has ended its mission after locating a boat carrying migrants that sank earlier this year but…

By The Associated Press The talk of tennis — and beyond — for most of the past three weeks has been about Serena Williams and her announcement…

SAN DIEGO (AP) — A member of the San Diego Zoo’s African penguin colony has been fitted with orthopedic footwear to help it deal with a…

By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN Associated Press A Maryland man affiliated with the far-right Proud Boys extremist group was sentenced on Monday to more than…

By HOWARD FENDRICH AP Tennis Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Serena Williams has won her match in the first round of the U.S. Open. Williams beat Danka…

By The Associated Press Here’s a collection curated by The Associated Press’ entertainment journalists of what’s arriving on TV, streaming…

By CURT ANDERSON Associated Press Lawyers who secured a $1.1 billion settlement in the deadly collapse last year of a beachfront Florida condominium…

By HARM VENHUIZEN Associated Press/Report for America MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin’s Republican Assembly leader has withdrawn subpoenas…

WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — Elon Musk’s legal team is demanding to hear from Twitter’s whistleblowing former security chief, who could help…