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By TRAVIS LOLLER Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A transgender child and her parents are suing the Tennessee Department of Education over…

JERUSALEM (AP) — The Israeli military says it is sending additional forces to the area around the Gaza Strip as it braces for possible attacks…

By ZEKE MILLER, MIKE STOBBE and MICHAEL BALSAMO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The federal government declared a public health emergency…

By DAVID BAUDER AP Media Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Alyssa Farah Griffin, a former Trump administration spokeswoman who broke from her old boss in…

WASHINGTON (AP) — A 36-year-old central Missouri man is facing federal charges alleging he took a gun to the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol. Jerod…

By LLAZAR SEMINI Associated Press TIRANA, Albania (AP) — A U.S. security firm says a cyberattack that temporarily shut down some Albanian…

By TOM KRISHER AP Auto Writer DETROIT (AP) — The death toll from exploding air bag inflators made by Takata Corp. has risen to 19 in the U.S. and…

By NASSER KARIMI Associated Press TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Mourners have poured out in large numbers onto the streets of Tehran to pay their respects to…

STILLWATER, Minn. (AP) — Hundreds of people gathered at a Minnesota golf course to remember a 17-year-old boy who was fatally stabbed during a…

By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A judge on Thursday made it likely she’ll rule in weeks rather than months whether NFL…

By VANESSA GERA Associated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Polish officials say they’re seeing a change in migration over the country’s border with…

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A former police chief was able to take postings at multiple successive U.S. Army bases despite allegations that he sexually…

By PAUL J. WEBER Associated Press DALLAS (AP) — Hungary’s autocratic Prime Minister Viktor Orban urged cheering American conservatives on…

By TERRY TANG The Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — For a comedy, Jo Koy’s new movie “Easter Sunday” had a lot of waterworks. The film…

By JIM VERTUNO Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — An attorney for the parents of a child killed in the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre who…

By DYLAN LOVAN Associated Press LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — The federal government filed civil rights charges Thursday against four Louisville police…

By MARGERY A. BECK Associated Press Three family members killed during a shooting last month at an eastern Iowa state park were shot, stabbed and/or…

By MOGOMOTSI MAGOME Associated Press KRUGERSDORP, South Africa (AP) — Community members in the South African city of Krugersdorp have beaten…

BY DENG MACHOL Associated Press JUBA, South Sudan (AP) — Parties to the peace deal ending South Sudan’s devastating civil war have again delayed…

By ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal grand jury investigating efforts to undo the results of the 2020 presidential election…

LONDON (AP) — More than 700 Amazon warehouse workers in England staged a protest Thursday in a dispute over pay. It’s the latest sign of…

By BRUCE SCHREINER Associated Press HINDMAN, Ky. (AP) — National Guard soldiers rushed to distribute bottled water to flood-ravaged eastern…

By ELIZABETH MONROY Associated Press SABINAS, Mexico (AP) — Efforts to rescue 10 miners trapped in a collapsed and flooded coal mine in northern…

By BASSEM MROUE Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — A large section of Beirut’s giant port grain silos, shredded by a massive explosion two years ago,…

By MATT OTT AP Business Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The average long-term U.S. mortgage rate fell below 5% for the first time in four months this…

By MICHAEL CASEY Associated Press PROCTOR, Vt. (AP) — Weeks after surviving one of the deadliest and most destructive wildfires in California…

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — The Polish foreign ministery has summoned the charge d’affaires of Belarus to express its concern after a Belarusian…

By DAVID KLEPPER and SOPHIA TULP Associated Press In the thick of Kansas’ contentious debate over abortion rights, the anonymous text messages…

CINCINNATI (AP) — There’s a new mouth to feed to at Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden. A full-term hippopotamus was born Wednesday night. The…

By BOBBY CAINA CALVAN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — When camp counselor Allie Tarantino was flipping through a magazine years ago, he came upon…

By JUSTIN SPIKE Associated Press POKROVSK, Ukraine (AP) — Around 50 mourners escort two caskets draped in satin fabric through a leafy cemetery in…

By MATT OTT AP Business Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — More Americans applied for jobless benefits last week as the number of unemployed continues to…

PARIS (AP) — French Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne has announced the creation of a new position of ambassador for LGBTQ rights, in efforts to fight…

BY DREW COSTLEY AP Science Writer Billions of dollars in climate and environment investments from the Inflation Reduction Act could flow to…

By DÁNICA COTO Associated Press SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Former Puerto Rico Gov. Wanda Vázquez has been arrested on bribery charges related…

By TODD RICHMOND and DAVID A. LIEB Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — As Wisconsin’s longest-serving Assembly speaker, Republican Robin…

ROME (AP) — Pope Francis has promoted a Vatican nurse to be his “personal health care assistant” The Vatican announced the appointment of…

BANGKOK (AP) — Myanmar’s military government says a Japanese video journalist detained while covering a brief pro-democracy march has been…

BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s annual Oktoberfest festival is finally on again for this fall, following a two-year hiatus due to the coronavirus…

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press Negotiators from Iran, the United States and the European Union have resumed monthslong, indirect talks over…

By LINDSAY WHITEHURST and ALANNA DURKIN RICHER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court ruling expanding gun rights threatens to upend…

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australia’s new government announced on Thursday it plans to prevent development of a…

By DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The Bank of England has announced its biggest interest rate increase in 27 years. The central bank…

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — The Sydney apartment where the bodies of two Saudi sisters were found in June is back on…

BEIJING (AP) — China is staging live-fire military drills in six self-declared zones surrounding Taiwan in response to a visit by U.S. House…

By JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — “Where you went grad,” is a common question posed in Hawaii Pidgin to find out…

By KIRSTEN GRIESHABER Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — A large fire triggered by explosions at an ammunition dump is raging in a major Berlin urban…

By SAM McNEIL Associated Press AL-FAKHEET, West Bank (AP) — After repeatedly rebuilding his home only to have it demolished by Israeli soldiers,…

By COLLEEN BARRY Associated Press MILAN (AP) — Italy’s firebrand former interior minister, Matteo Salvini, has put migration at the center of his…

By BABA AHMED Associated Press BAMAKO, Mali (AP) — Bamako, Mali’s bustling riverside capital of more than 2.5 million people, is on heightened…

By JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — Asian stock markets rose Friday ahead of an update on the health of the U.S. jobs market while…

By JOSH DUBOW AP Pro Football Writer Cliff Branch was the epitome of what Al Davis coveted in a receiver during his decades running the Raiders.…

By JIM HEINTZ Associated Press KHIMKI, Russia (AP) — A judge in Russia convicted American basketball star Brittney Griner of drug possession and…

By KRISHAN FRANCIS Associated Press COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — An international human rights group says Sri Lanka’s government is using emergency…

By DAVID RISING Associated Press PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi is stressing his country’s efforts to strengthen…

By KAREL JANICEK and JOVANA GEC Associated Press PRAGUE (AP) — Liudmyla Chudyjovych used to have a career as a lawyer in Ukraine and big plans for…

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Toyota’s profit fell nearly 18% from a year earlier in the April-June quarter as a semiconductor…

By JOHNSON LAI and HUIZHONG WU Associated Press KEELUNG, Taiwan (AP) — China says it has conducted “precision missile strikes” in the…

By HAVEN DALEY and CHRISTOPHER WEBER Associated Press KLAMATH RIVER, Calif. (AP) — California firefighters made gains against the state’s…

By NICK PERRY Associated Press WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — The government of the Solomon Islands is tightening its control over the nation’s…

By TERRY SPENCER Associated Press FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Roses brought to honor love on that Valentine’s Day in 2018 lay withered,…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.S. ambassador to the United Nations is heading to Africa, saying she is going to…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A suspect mistakenly released from a Los Angeles County jail where he was being held on suspicion of shooting Lady Gaga’s dog…

BEIJING (AP) — Police in southern China have arrested a 47-year-old man suspected of an attack that killed three people and injured six others at a…

By DARLENE SUPERVILLE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Jill Biden barnstormed the country during her debut year as first lady as if on a…

By JONATHAN MATTISE and KIMBERLEE KRUESI Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Andy Ogles, a far-right county mayor, won Tennessee’s crowded…

By LISA MASCARO AP Congressional Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) — At a dinner with the president of Finland shortly after Russia invaded Ukraine,…

By BOBBY CAINA CALVAN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Even in hindsight, Nichole Schmidt can’t be sure if anything could have been done to…

By THALIA BEATY Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The virtual cat hero from the new video game sensation “Stray” doesn’t just wind along…

By DAVID RISING Associated Press PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — The Association of Southeast Asian Nations is calling for calm in the Taiwan Strait,…

By AAMER MADHANI and EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Russia is dismissing a claim by U.S. officials that it’s working to…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The federal government is proposing tougher rules for when airlines must give passengers refunds for changing their travel plans.…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — The construction of facilities needed for a planned release of treated radioactive wastewater into…

By DANIEL POLITI Associated Press BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Argentina’s third economy minister in a month has been sworn in, and as his…

TOLAR, Texas (AP) — One firefighter has suffered burns and two others have been treated for heat exhaustion while fighting a new North Texas…

By BOB CHRISTIE Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Officials in an Arizona county are vowing to overhaul their election procedures after a shortage of…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Chrissy Teigen and her husband John Legend are expecting another child nearly two years after the couple suffered a pregnancy…

By KEN RITTER Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — A Las Vegas-based corporate owner of thousands of residential rental properties in several U.S.…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — A journalist was among four people killed inside a beer shop in central Mexico, the 13th media worker killed in the country this…

CENTRAL ISLIP, N.Y. (AP) — A former schoolteacher from suburban New York City has been sentenced to 30 months in prison for mailing dozens of…

HAMPSHIRE, Ill. (AP) — Illinois State Police say an eighth person has died from a fiery crash involving a wrong-way car on an interstate in…

By MICHAEL LIEDTKE and OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ Associated Press BERKELEY, Calif. (AP) — A group of protesters broke through an 8-foot chain fence erected…

By LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration has filed its first legal challenge to a state abortion ban since…

GONZALES, La. (AP) — A Louisiana judge has refused to set any bond for rapper Mystikal, who is accused of raping and choking a woman at his home…

By ALAN FRAM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans see inflation, taxes and immigration as Democratic weak spots worth attacking in the…

By BOB CHRISTIE Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Arizona voters relegated House Speaker Rusty Bowers to the history books after the conservative…