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PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The Philadelphia 76ers are taking the first steps toward building a privately-funded sports and entertainment arena. The…

ISLAMABAD (AP) — The death toll from five weeks of monsoon rains and flash floods jumped to at least 282 in Pakistan on Thursday, officials said,…

By MARIA CHENG and GREGORY GONDWE Associated Press BLANTYRE, Malawi (AP) — As the World Health Organization announces the next step in its rollout…

By HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Michelle Obama will have a book out this fall, “The Light We Carry,” in which she reflects…

By DAVID McHUGH AP Business Writer FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — The European Central Bank has raised interest rates for the first time in 11 years by…

MADRID (AP) — Europe’s recent spate of wildfires is abating amid cooler temperatures. No outbreaks were reported Thursday in Portugal. And French…

By MARIA CHENG AP Medical Writer LONDON (AP) — As the World Health Organization’s emergency committee convened Thursday to consider for the…

By EMILY ROSE Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has testified that he wasn’t to blame for the…

By CHRIS MEGERIAN and WILL WEISSERT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden abruptly canceled a trip to Pennsylvania, where he had…

By RAF CASERT Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union has imposed more sanctions on Russia over the war in Ukraine. The bloc’s 27…

By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer BANGKOK (AP) — Reports by the World Bank and other experts say army-ruled Myanmar’s economy remains…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The two candidates to become Britain’s next prime minister have begun a head-to-head battle for…

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran’s state TV says the country’s foreign ministry recalled its ambassador from Sweden after an Iranian…

BEIJING (AP) — A tornado blew through 11 villages in a farming region of eastern China, damaging homes, killing at least one person and injuring 25…

By JIM GOMEZ Associated Press MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Activists have opened a campaign in the Philippines to prevent a repeat of the abuses and…

HELSINKI (AP) — Wireless and fixed-network equipment maker Nokia has reported second-quarter profit above analyst expectations on strong demand for…

By ZEN SOO Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — China’s internet watchdog has fined ride-hailing firm Didi Global more than 8 billion yuan ($1.2…

By NICOLE WINFIELD and FRANCES D’EMILIO Associated Press ROME (AP) — Italy is headed for an early election after its president accepted…

BERLIN (AP) — The Buchenwald concentration camp memorial says that seven trees dedicated to the memory of victims of the Nazi camp in eastern…

By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Vatican Museums are home to some of the most magnificent artworks in the world, from…

By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Vatican Museums are home to some of the most magnificent artworks in the world, from…

By The Associated Press The message to U.S. lawmakers from Ukraine’s first lady, delivered amid stark and graphic images of civilian bloodshed,…

By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer BANGKOK (AP) — Asian shares were mostly higher on Friday after another day of gains on Wall Street amid a…

YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Japan has reported its trade deficit for the first half of this year totaled nearly 8 trillion yen,…

By KAREEM CHEHAYEB Associated Press BAR ELIAS, Lebanon (AP) — Sitting outside her tent in a camp in eastern Lebanon, a 30-year-old Syrian refugee…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — California Gov. Gavin Newsom is demanding an explanation from UCLA officials about their move to the Big Ten Conference. Newsom…

By BHARATHA MALLAWARACHI Associated Press COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Veteran politician Ranil Wickremesinghe has been sworn in as Sri Lanka’s new…

By STEPHEN WADE AP Sports Writer TOKYO (AP) — The Tokyo Olympics survived the COVID-19 postponement, soaring expenses and some public opposition. A…

By GEIR MOULSON Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Natural gas started flowing through a major pipeline from Russia to Europe on Thursday after a…

SAN DIEGO (AP) — The pop culture extravaganza that is Comic-Con International is back to its old extravagance. Stars, cosplayers and hordes of fans…

By VICTORIA MILKO AP Science Writer JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Thousands of cattle are covered in blisters from highly infectious foot-and-mouth…

By ZEN SOO Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — The oldest-ever male giant panda in captivity has died at age 35 after his health deteriorated. An An…

By CHRIS MEGERIAN and JILL COLVIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Matthew Pottinger was a journalist in China, concerned about the…

By MARY CLARE JALONICK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The House Jan. 6 committee is headed back to prime time for its eighth hearing —…

By LISA MASCARO, FARNOUSH AMIRI and ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Despite desperate pleas from aides, allies, a Republican…

By HANNAH FINGERHUT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A majority of Americans say Congress should pass a law guaranteeing access to legal abortion…

By ALAN FRAM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The right to use contraceptives would be enshrined in law under a measure that Democrats pushed…

By ZEN SOO Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — Baidu, a Chinese search engine and artificial intelligence firm, has unveiled its latest electric…

By STEVE KARNOWSKI Associated Press ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — A federal judge sentenced former Minneapolis police Officer Thomas Lane to 2 1/2 years…

By BETH HARRIS AP Sports Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Soccer player Megan Rapinoe admonished her fellow athletes for not doing enough to speak out and…

OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Truckers protesting a state labor law have effectively shut down cargo operations at the Port of Oakland, one of then…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The head of the U.N. body promoting development is warning that the COVID-19 pandemic,…

By TERRY WALLACE Associated Press Two men were indicted Wednesday in the case of a hot, airless tractor-trailer rig found last month with 53 dead or…

By MARÍA VERZA Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — It was a dramatic moment at the end of Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s…

NEW YORK (AP) — William “Poogie” Hart, a founder of the Grammy-winning trio the Delfonics who helped write and sang a soft lead tenor on such…

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — Authorities say an American Airlines flight headed with 56 people for Nashville, Tennessee, from Florida had to be diverted…

By JUAN A. LOZANO Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — The family of a 9-year-old Houston girl who died after she was shot by a man who had opened fire…

BELLA VISTA, Ark. (AP) — A $6.3 million settlement has been reached in a lawsuit over an underground fire at a dumping site in northwest Arkansas.…

By JOHN FLESHER AP Environmental Writer GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) — Federal regulators have canceled a policy that weakened their authority to…

By SEUNG MIN KIM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden says that U.S. military officials believe it’s “not a good idea” for…

By GABE STERN Associated Press/Report for America Officials say a fire at the Hoover Dam was isolated to the single area in an exceedingly rare case…

By ASHRAF KHALIL Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Steve Bannon’s lawyers are trying to establish at his criminal contempt trial that the…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Two U.S. tourists have been injured by a crocodile at Mexico’s Puerto Vallarta resort when one went swimming in the ocean at…

By DAVE KOLPACK Associated Press FARGO, N.D. (AP) — The North Dakota attorney general’s office says a motion seeking to block enforcement of…

BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union moved closer to imposing more sanctions on Russia after its 27 ambassadors backed a series of measures to ban…

By STEFANIE DAZIO Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Video shows a Southern California police officer shoot and kill a Black man who was running…

Associated Press RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Less than three months before Brazil’s presidential election, Brazilian politician Ciro Gomes has made…

By STEVE KARNOWSKI Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Police have released body-camera video from a six-hour standoff that ended with officers…

A lawyer says a civil rights advocate and former president of the North Carolina branch of the NAACP has been found dead. Attorney Mark Cummings says…

BY SONIA PÉREZ D. Associated Press GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — The U.S. State Department has named 60 current and former officials, as well as some…

LAFAYETTE, Ind. (AP) — An Indiana man who ran into a burning home and saved five people, including a 6-year-old girl he jumped out of a…

By JONATHAN MATTISE Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A federal magistrate judge has ordered an attorney suing a private prison firm over an…

JERUSALEM (AP) — The Israeli military has confirmed one of its worst-kept secrets, publicly acknowledging for the first time that it uses unmanned…

By TERRY SPENCER Associated Press FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Eyewitnesses to the killings of 17 people by Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz are…

DETROIT (AP) — Two former presidents of the United Auto Workers who were convicted of corruption at the union have been released early from prison…

DENVER (AP) — The 12 people who died in the Colorado theater shooting are being remembered a decade after they were killed. Dozens of people…

PANAMA CITY (AP) — Three weeks of continuous demonstrations and road blockades to protest high fuel and food costs in Panama have begun to cause…

By CAROLYN THOMPSON, ANNIE MA and JAKE BLEIBERG Associated Press UVALDE, Texas (AP) — When the shooting began at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde,…

By LISA MASCARO AP Congressional Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) — A bipartisan group of senators has reached agreement on proposed changes to the…

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — In his first media interview since having a stroke two months ago, Democratic Senate nominee John Fetterman of Pennsylvania…

By NICHOLAS RICCARDI and COLLEEN SLEVIN Associated Press DENVER (AP) — Colorado’s secretary of state has informed two candidates who lost…

By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer NEW YORK (AP) — India’s film industry is one of the most vast and varied in the world. It’s really not one but…

By SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The key to dispelling conspiracy theories and misinformation about how elections are run is to…

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Emergency dispatch recordings show that one of the four first responders killed in last weekend’s New Mexico…

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — A nurse who previously worked at a Florida hospital has been sentenced to a year and a day in federal prison for stealing…

By JIM VERTUNO Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A woman accused of killing professional cyclist Anna Moriah Wilson as a romantic rival has…

By TODD RICHMOND Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Republican lawmakers have erased regulations allowing Wisconsin election clerks to fill in…

By KATE BRUMBACK and JEFF AMY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — A federal appeals court has overturned a lower court ruling and said Georgia’s…

By LISA MASCARO AP Congressional Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate unexpectedly launched a new push Wednesday to protect same-sex marriage…

By LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — When “Top Gun: Maverick” roared into theaters in late May, the Air Force was ready. The…

By MUNIR AHMED Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan’s former prime minister is accusing the current government of mismanaging the…

By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The trial of R. Kelly’s manager opened Tuesday on charges that he forced the cancellation of…

By TODD RICHMOND Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin Attorney General Josh Kaul has filed a lawsuit seeking to hold nearly 20 companies…

By MARCOS ALEMÁN Associated Press SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) — El Salvador’s congress has granted President Nayib Bukele another 30-day…

By KEN MILLER Associated Press OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A federal audit report sharply criticizes Oklahoma officials for a lack of oversight and…

LJUBLJANA, Slovenia (AP) — Authorities in Slovenia have scheduled a presidential election for Oct. 23 to choose a successor to the current centrist…

By FARNOUSH AMIRI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A ban on certain semi-automatic weapons is moving forward in the House. Democrats on the House…

By TOM DAVIES Associated Press INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Leaders of Indiana’s Republican-dominated Senate on Wednesday proposed banning abortion with…

By CURT ANDERSON Associated Press ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — Fewer manatee deaths have been recorded so far this year in Florida compared to the…

AKRON, Ohio (AP) — An attorney for Jayland Walker’s family has joined the NAACP in asking the U.S. Department of Justice to investigate his…

By STEFANIE DAZIO Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Federal authorities are offering a $5,000 reward for information about the man who allegedly…

By MENELAOS HADJICOSTIS Associated Press NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — The Greek Cypriot president of Cyprus has dismissed proposals put forward by the…

By JAKE BLEIBERG Associated Press UVALDE, Texas (AP) — Facing massive public pressure, Uvalde’s top school official has recommended the firing of…

By KATE BRUMBACK Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — A judge in New York has ordered Rudy Giuliani to appear next month before a special grand jury in…

DETROIT (AP) — The company that makes Can-Am Ryker motorcycles is warning people not to ride some of them because a handlebar bolt can break,…