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By JIM HEINTZ Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — American basketball star Brittney Griner pleaded guilty Thursday to drug possession charges on the…

By AMR NABIL and ISABEL DEBRE Associated Press MECCA, Saudi Arabia (AP) — It is a scene that stirs hope — and relief — for Muslims around the…

By DANICA KIRKA, JILL LAWLESS and SYLVIA HUI Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced his resignation Thursday after…

By ZEN SOO Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong is shelving a COVID-19 measure that has resulted in dozens of canceled flights in recent…

By CARA ANNA and VASILISA STEPANENKO Associated Press KHARKIV, Ukraine (AP) — Viktor Lazar shares his war-side balcony with a pair of opera glasses…

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australia’s new government has dropped the 4-year-old prosecution of a lawyer over his…

By NASSER KARIMI Associated Press TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Tehran residents accustomed to seething at slow-moving traffic, sweltering in summer heat and…

By AYA BATRAWY Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A staggering 71 million more people around the world are experiencing poverty as…

YUMA, Ariz. (AP) — Prosecutors are seeking a one-year prison sentence for a school board member in southern Arizona for illegally collecting four…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — More than a dozen opposition parties are running in Sunday’s parliamentary elections, but they…

By HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — A South Korea activist says he launched more huge balloons carrying COVID-19 relief…

By MATTHEW BROWN and AMY BETH HANSON Associated Press BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — The Yellowstone National Park area’s weather forecast the…

By EVENS SANON and DÁNICA COTO Associated Press PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — A year has passed since President Jovenel Moïse was assassinated at…

SYDNEY (AP) — Floodwaters were receding in Sydney and its surrounding area Thursday as heavy rain threatened to inundate towns north of…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. Security Council  has delayed an expected vote on extending humanitarian aid…

By NINIEK KARMINI Associated Press JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Foreign ministers from the Group of 20 leading rich and developing nations are…

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The oldest Magellanic penguin at the San Francisco Zoo & Gardens — one of the oldest penguins living under human care…

By JOHN MARSHALL AP Sports Writer PHOENIX (AP) — They shared laughs, smiles, memories. There also were tears, fears, unease. Through the range of…

By WANJOHI KABUKURU Associated Press VANGA, Kenya (AP) — Artisanal fisheries on Kenya’s coast say climate change, overfishing by large foreign…

By STEVE KARNOWSKI Associated Press ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — A federal judge on Thursday sentenced Derek Chauvin to 21 years in prison for violating…

DETROIT (AP) — A Detroit police officer and a suspect have been fatally shot on the city’s west side. Detroit police Chief James White said the…

BRADLEY, W.Va. (AP) — Law enforcement officers shot and killed a man on a federal highway in West Virginia after they say he fled a vehicle crash…

SEATTLE (AP) — An inquest jury has determined that two Seattle police officers were justified in fatally shooting a mentally unstable, pregnant,…

JACKSON, Calif. (AP) — Favorable weather has helped the fight against a wildfire in California’s Gold Country that has forced evacuations in two…

By CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Families of hostages taken by gunmen who attacked a passenger train near Nigeria’s…

By MICHAEL TARM AP Legal Affairs Writer CHICAGO (AP) — Days after a rooftop gunman killed seven people at a parade, attention has turned to how the…

By MARK THIESSEN Associate Press ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Alaska wildlife officials have killed four black bears in a campground recently reserved…

By CLAIRE SAVAGE and HARM VENHUIZEN Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — Two of the victims of a July Fourth parade massacre in a Chicago suburb left…

CHICAGO (AP) — A federal judge Wednesday sentenced Jerry Harris, a former star of the Netflix documentary series “Cheer,” to 12 years in prison…

By JANET McCONNAUGHEY Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service says experts disagree strongly about whether…

SAN DIEGO (AP) — Federal officials say a 38-year-old California woman sentenced to a year in prison for embezzlement managed to avoid being held…

By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN Associated Press ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Virgin Galactic is partnering with a Boeing subsidiary to manufacture its next…

TYLER, Texas (AP) — A former East Texas chief deputy has pleaded guilty to violating a prisoner’s civil rights by using excessive force on…

By JEFF AMY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp says his main campaign committee raised $3.8 million in the two months ended…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Russia has agreed to continue humanitarian aid deliveries from Turkey to rebel-held…

CHICAGO (AP) — A grandson and nephew of Chicago’s two longest-serving mayors has been sentenced to four months in prison after being convicted of…

WASHINGTON (AP) — NASA said Wednesday that contact has been restored with its $32.7 million spacecraft headed to the moon to test out a lopsided…

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Authorities in Haiti say a former sports minister accused of rape, sexual abuse and indecent exposure has been…

By MATTHEW PERRONE AP Health Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The Food and Drug Administration and Juul have agreed to put their court fight on hold while…

By DAVID BAUDER AP Media Writer SYRACUSE, N.Y. (AP) — Former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson’s testimony before the Jan. 6 committee was…

MADISON, Ala. (AP) — A federal judge has approved an agreement to settle a long-running school desegregation case with a north Alabama school…

By FABIOLA SÁNCHEZ Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — Authorities in Mexico City have begun hauling away 177 lions, tigers, jaguars and other…

By BRENDAN FARRINGTON Associated Press TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — A small, rural county just west of Florida’s capital is stunned by an unheard-of…

By JEFF AMY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — A rural Georgia monument that some conservative Christians criticized as satanic and others dubbed…

BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) — The man charged with killing his mother at sea in a plot to inherit millions of dollars is asking a federal court judge to…

By DEE-ANN DURBIN AP Business Writer Amazon will give its U.S. Prime members free access to meal delivery service Grubhub for a year under a deal…

By TERRY SPENCER Associated Press FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Prosecutors and attorneys for Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz are battling over…

By JEREMY LINDENFELD Religion News Service (RNS) — Outside the small Texas town of Elsa, a sheet metal fence too tall to see over surrounds a few…

By DAVID KOENIG AP Airlines Writer President Joe Biden plans to nominate the CEO of the Denver airport to become the next head of the Federal…

By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer NEW YORK (AP) — To a large degree, modern blockbuster moviemaking has depended on the appeasement of fans to keep…

By JENNIFER McDERMOTT, GEOFF MULVIHILL and HANNAH SCHOENBAUM Associated Press PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Democratic governors in states where abortion…

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Records show the U.S. Department of Justice is investigating potential civil rights violations in Texas’ multibillion-dollar…

By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi’s only abortion clinic has been buzzing with activity in the…

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Police say bullets that grazed two police officers during a Fourth of July fireworks show in Philadelphia and prompted an…

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A judge in West Virginia’s capital has struck down a law that would have funneled state money into a program that…

By AMIR VAHDAT and NASSER KARIMI Associated Press TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iranian state TV said Wednesday that the country’s paramilitary…

By BOB CHRISTIE Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey has signed legislation that will provide $1.2 billion over three years to…

By MATTHEW PERRONE and TOM MURPHY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. pharmacists can now prescribe the leading COVID-19 pill directly to…

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal Reserve officials were concerned at their meeting last month that consumers…

BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — A driver accused of shooting at police officers during a long car chase through the streets of New York’s second-largest…

By MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A company that has performed appraisals on some of Donald Trump’s most prized properties has…

By HOWARD FENDRICH AP Tennis Writer WIMBLEDON, England (AP) — Rafael Nadal extended his Grand Slam winning streak to 19 matches with a 3-6, 7-5,…

OTTAWA (AP) — One of the candidates for the leadership of Canada’s Conservative Party has been disqualified over allegations of financial…

By MARTHA IRVINE AP National Writer CHICAGO (AP) — A woman — stunned and speechless in the chaos of a July 4 parade massacre — walked up to…

By ERIC TUCKER Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The FBI director and the leader of Britain’s domestic intelligence agency are raising alarms about…

By GHAITH AL-SAYED and BASSEM MROUE Associated Press IDLIB, Syria (AP) — Syrians in the last major rebel stronghold of the war-torn country are…

By ANDREW DALTON AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — A 32-year-old man who grew up on the same streets in the same gang as Nipsey Hussle was…

By JEAN-YVES KAMALE and IGNATIUS SUUNA Associated Press KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — Congo’s presidency said Wednesday that Rwanda and Congo have…

By JONATHAN MATTISE Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A bid to bring the 2024 Republican National Convention to Nashville has hit a…

By CORA LEWIS and ADRIANA MORGA The Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A deadline is fast approaching for teachers, librarians, nurses and others who…

By JILL COLVIN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Attorneys representing Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina said Wednesday he intends to challenge…

CLEVELAND (AP) — A man has pleaded guilty and was sentenced to life in prison for a botched robbery that ended with the fatal shooting of an…

Associated Press Associated Press CUPERTINO, Calif. (AP) — Apple plans to roll out a “lockdown” option for iPhones, iPads and Mac computers…

By COLLIN BINKLEY AP Education Writer New rules proposed by the Biden administration on Wednesday would make it easier for borrowers to get their…

NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — Cyprus has brought back compulsory mask-wearing in all indoor areas for everyone age 12 and over amid a surge of COVID-19…

By DARLENE SUPERVILLE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House says President Joe Biden has called the wife of WNBA player Brittney…

MIAMI (AP) — The Norwegian Cruise Line company is dropping a requirement that passengers test negative for COVID-19 before sailing. The company…

By WILSON RING Associated Press One week after its parent company found a way to get Ben & Jerry’s ice cream sold in east Jerusalem and the…

By BRITTANY PETERSON Associated Press DENVER (AP) — For National Park Service fisheries biologist Jeff Arnold, it was a moment he’d been…

By MATTHEW DALY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Energy Department is teaming with actor Robert Downey Jr. to recruit up to 1,000 new workers…

By LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer Film scholar Jacqueline Stewart has been named the next director and president of the Academy Museum of Motion…

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s prime minister has accused Russian agencies of accused Russian agencies of hacking into government systems and…

By SYLVIA HUI Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Britain’s beleaguered Prime Minister Boris Johnson is fighting for his political future after two of…

By AAMER MADHANI and JOSH BOAK Associated Press CLEVELAND (AP) — President Joe Biden has used an Ohio visit to showcase federal action aimed at…

MANDAN, N.D. (AP) — A man sentenced to life in prison for killing four people at a North Dakota business is appealing his conviction. An attorney…

AMSTERDAM (AP) — Several environmental groups have launched legal action against Dutch airline KLM over advertisements that promote flying as a…

SAN ANTONIO (AP) — All but six of the 53 migrants found dead or dying in a tractor-trailer in Texas last week have been identified. Officials in…

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. employers advertised fewer jobs in May as the economy has shown signs of…

By DENISE LAVOIE AP Legal Affairs Writer RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Police in Richmond, Virginia, say they thwarted a planned July 4 mass shooting after…

By THOMAS ADAMSON AP Fashion Writer PARIS (AP) — An enfant terrible has appeared in a new guise as designer Olivier Rousteing of Balmain took a…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The head of the U.N. food agency is warning that the spike in food, fuel and fertilizer…

MOSCOW (AP) — A top Russian official has warned the U.S. that it could face the “wrath of God” if it pursues efforts to help establish an…

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Somalia’s president has called for assistance from Turkey to combat the effects of severe drought that is threatening the…