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WASHINGTON (AP) — A husband and wife from Wisconsin celebrating more than five decades of marriage were killed in a lightning strike outside the…

By MARGERY A. BECK Associated Press LAUREL, Neb. (AP) — Police on Friday arrested a man in the killings of four people in a small northeast…

By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press ROME (AP) — Pope Francis has met with a top official of the Russian Orthodox Church ahead of an expected…

By FARES AKRAM and JOSEPH KRAUSS Associated Press GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israel unleashed a wave of airstrikes Friday on Gaza, killing at…

BLOOMINGTON, Minn. (AP) — The Mall of America reopened Friday as police search for two people involved in a shooting inside the suburban…

By LUIS ANDRES HENAO Associated Press Click and gape at the Vatican’s Sistine Chapel ceiling up close. Click again and join thousands of pilgrims…

By ELENA BECATOROS Associated Press ATHENS, Greece (AP) — The head of Greece’s intelligence service and the general secretary of the prime…

By HALELUYA HADERO AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Amazon on Friday announced it has agreed to acquire the vacuum cleaner maker iRobot for…

BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union says the leaders of Serbia and Kosovo have agreed to meet in Brussels on Aug. 18 to discuss ways to end the…

By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — The Kremlin said Friday that it’s open to talking about a possible prisoner exchange…

By BARRY HATTON Associated Press LISBON, Portugal (AP) — The Catholic Church in Portugal says the archbishop of Lisbon has met with Pope Francis in…

Associated Press Elon Musk accused Twitter of fraud in a countersuit over his aborted $44 billion deal for the social media company, which he claimed…

By DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — A British judge on Friday rejected a request from the parents of a comatose boy to let them move…

By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer BANGKOK (AP) — Economies in the Asia-Pacific are forecast to hit the doldrums this year as decades-high…

By MIKE CORDER Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The leader of the Netherlands’ top agricultural lobby group says a first round of…

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The Federal Reserve sent a sobering message Wednesday after it announced its latest…

By QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA Associated Press BAGHDAD (AP) — Hundreds of thousands of Iraqis heeded the call of an influential Shiite cleric to gather in…

By RISHI LEKHI and SHONAL GANGULY Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — Indian police have detained dozens of lawmakers from the opposition Congress…

By FIRDIA LISNAWATI Associated Press Authorities in Indonesia arrested three foreigners for distributing cocaine on the Indonesian resort island of…

STOCKHOLM (AP) — Norwegian cruise ship operator Hurtigruten says one of its ships has run aground in a fjord off the Nordic country’s west…

By OMAR FARUK Associated Press MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — The al-Shabab extremist group has exploited Ethiopia’s internal turmoil to cross the…

BERLIN (AP) — Officials in Germany say fire accompanied by explosions at a police ammunition depot in a Berlin forest is contained. The head of the…

By JOSEPH WILSON and RENATA BRITO Associated Press BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — As a sex worker and adult film actor, Roc was relieved when he was among…

BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s health minister, an epidemiologist by training who has led the country’s fight against COVID-19 since December, has…

By DOUG FEINBERG AP Basketball Writer The NCAA earned praise last year when it agreed to pay referees at its men’s and women’s basketball…

By DAVID RISING and JIM GOMEZ Associated Press PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — Foreign ministers from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations…

By PAUL WISEMAN AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. employers added an astonishing 528,000 jobs last month despite flashing warning signs of…

By AMANDA BARROSO and LAUREN SCHWAHN of NerdWallet Credit bureau Equifax announced that a computer coding error resulted in the miscalculation of…

By ZEYNEP BILGINSOY and AYA BATRAWY Associated Press ISTANBUL (AP) — Three more ships carrying thousands of tons of corn have left Ukrainian ports.…

By ILAN BEN ZION and ISAAC SCHARF Associated Press TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — A long-lost painting by the British graffiti artist Banksy has…

By STAN CHOE, DAMIAN J. TROISE and ALEX VEIGA AP Business Writers NEW YORK (AP) — Stock indexes closed mostly lower Friday after a roller-coaster…

ASHOK SHARMA Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — India’s central bank has raised its key interest rate by a half percentage point to 5.4% in its…

By KEN RITTER Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — Records show a 54-year-old man jailed in the killing of one person and wounding of two others…

By FELICIA FONSECA Associated Press A New Mexico man who was driving drunk without a valid license barreled through a parade that celebrates Native…

By TASSANEE VEJPONGSA Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — Police and rescue workers say 14 people were killed and dozens badly injured when a fire…

By ELLEN KNICKMEYER, ZEKE MILLER and DAVID RISING Associate Press WASHINGTON (AP) — China cut off contacts with the United States on vital issues…

By AMANDA SEITZ Associated Press Washington (AP) — Reining in the soaring prices of insulin has thus far been elusive in Congress, although…

LIND, Wash. (AP) — A small town in Washington state that was evacuated due to a fast-moving fire was largely spared Friday, while in California…

By KEVIN FREKING Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — After more than a decade of mostly losing out, the Internal Revenue Service may finally get the…

By WILL WEISSERT and THOMAS BEAUMONT Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Democrats are poised to strip Iowa from leading off their…

By SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Republican hopes to reclaim a crucial governor’s seat in swing-state Wisconsin this year…

By JOSH BOAK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrats call it the “Inflation Reduction Act.” Republicans say it’s a “tax and…

By AMY TAXIN Associated Press U.S. immigration authorities are planning to issue photo ID cards to immigrants in deportation proceedings in a bid to…

By DAVID RISING Associated Press PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Friday that China’s military…

AURORA, Colo. (AP) — Police in a Colorado suburb say they’re looking for a man who doused two customers with gasoline at a fueling station after…

By JAY REEVES Associated Press Authorities in Alabama say a 12-year-old girl who was held captive for a week with the dismembered remains of her…

By AUDREY McAVOY Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — The Honolulu Board of Water Supply says it detected a small amount of a chemical naturally…

By BARBARA ORTUTAY AP Technology Reporter SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Twitter denied in a court filing that it had deprived its would-be acquirer,…

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — An Alaska newspaper reports that two Anchorage police officers violated department policy during a traffic stop last month…

By ELLIOT SPAGAT Associated Press SAN DIEGO (AP) — The Biden administration says it is pausing plans for a double border wall in San Diego that…

GREENBELT, Md. (AP) — A West Virginia man has been sentenced to three years in federal prison after sending emails that threatened Dr. Anthony…

By ANDREW DALTON AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — A Los Angeles judge has ruled that Kevin Spacey and his production companies must pay…

JAMESTOWN TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) — A western Michigan library faces an uncertain future after a flap over LGBTQ material on its shelves led to the…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Four people have been critically injured after a lightning strike near the White House. The District of Columbia Fire and…

By MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — South Korea joined the stampede to the moon Thursday with the launch of a lunar…

By HANNA ARHIROVA Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Relatives of prisoners of war taken captive by Russia after the fall of Azovstal steel…

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York state health officials issued a more urgent call Thursday for unvaccinated children and adults to get inoculated…

By MARK THIESSEN Associated Press ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Demolition is scheduled to begin this week on a once-opulent downtown Anchorage movie…

By REBECCA SANTANA Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Albert Woodfox, a former inmate who spent decades in isolation at a Louisiana prison and…

By BOB CHRISTIE Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Officials in an Arizona county that weathered issues during Tuesday’s primaries have fired…

By MAURICIO SAVARESE Associated Press SAO PAULO (AP) — Brazil’s former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, currently bidding to return to the…

By JANET McCONNAUGHEY Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The attorney who represented Mystikal on rape and kidnapping charges that were dropped in…

By TRISHA AHMED Associated Press/Report for America BLOOMINGTON, Minn. (AP) — Police in Minnesota confirm three gunshots were fired at the Mall of…

By ALAN FRAM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Democrats have agreed to eleventh-hour changes to their marquee economic legislation, they…

By CAROLYN THOMPSON Associated Press BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — A Black resident of Buffalo, New York, told federal investigators he anonymously tweeted…

By MEG KINNARD Associated Press Former Vice President Dick Cheney excoriated Donald Trump in a new campaign video for his daughter Rep. Liz Cheney,…

By STEFANIE DAZIO Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — At least two robbers ambushed an armored vehicle in broad daylight and opened fire on the…

By SUMMER BALLENTINE Associated Press COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — A top Democratic state lawmaker is asking Illinois and Kansas to cover emergency…

By MARCY GORDON AP Business Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The head of publishing titan Penguin Random House is defending his company’s deal to acquire…

By MATTHEW DALY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — In a surprise victory for Republicans, the Senate on Thursday voted to overturn a Biden…

By ALMUDENA CALATRAVA Associated Press BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — The market welcomed Argentina’s new Economy Minister Sergio Massa with what…

TULARE, Calif. (AP) — California officials say bus heading from Los Angeles to Fresno has crashed and that 24 people were hurt. They said Thursday…

By SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Days after saying that running negative ads is “just bad policy” and politicians who do…

By SARA CLINE Associated Press BATON ROUGE (AP) — Access to abortion in Louisiana has been back-and-forth for weeks — with the state’s three…

BERLIN (AP) — Lufthansa and a union representing its ground staff in Germany have reached a deal to end a pay dispute, a week after a one-day…

By ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Now that WNBA star Brittney Griner has been convicted of drug possession and sentenced to nine…

By HANNAH SCHOENBAUM Associated Press/Report for America RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina Democrats have asked a state court to overturn an…

The Associated Press Benchmark U.S. crude oil for September delivery fell $2.12 to $88.54 a barrel Thursday. Brent crude for October delivery fell…

The Associated Press WNBA All-Star Brittney Griner was convicted and received a 9-year sentence from a Russian judge for drug possession and…

By MARGERY A. BECK Associated Press Authorities say four people have been found dead in two burning homes in a small community in northeastern…

By KEN MILLER Associated Press An Oklahoma judge said six descendants of victims of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre cannot sue for reparations. The…

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — A New Mexico prosecutor says her office will decide whether criminal charges will be filed in the fatal film-set shooting of…

By TOM DAVIES Associated Press INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Police have changed their description of the crash that killed Indiana Republican U.S. Rep.…

By SETH BORENSTEIN AP Science Writer This hurricane season may be a tad quieter than initially projected, but it is still likely to be busier than…