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By KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Health officials in South Korea have approved the country’s first domestically…

By NICOLAS VAUX-MONTAGNY, JEFFREY SCHAEFFER and BARBARA SURK Associated Press PARIS (AP) — The lone survivor of a team of Islamic State extremists…

By BHARATHA MALLAWARACHI and PAUL WISEMAN Associated Press COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — A few years ago, Sri Lanka had an economy strong enough to…

By JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — Asian stock markets were mixed Thursday after the U.S. economy contracted and China reported…

By PAOLO SANTALUCIA Associated Press MORTARA, Italy (AP) — The worst drought Italy has faced in 70 years is thirsting paddy fields in the river Po…

By SAMUEL PETREQUIN Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — European Union countries reached a deal following hard-fought talks that dragged into early…

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australia’s new government is putting climate change at the top of its legislative…

BRIDGEPORT, Calif. (AP) — A wildfire in Northern California has forced evacuations as it threatens about 500 homes and other buildings. Authorities…

By MICHAEL HILL Associated Press CLIFTON PARK, N.Y. (AP) — New York’s recreational marijuana market is beginning to sprout, literally, with…

By TOM HAYS, BOBBY CAINA CALVAN and JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Disgraced R&B superstar R. Kelly was sentenced Wednesday to…

By ZEN SOO Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — When the British handed Hong Kong to Beijing in 1997, it was promised 50 years of self-government and…

By SHEIKH SAALIQ and KRUTIKA PATHI Associated Press NEW DELHI, India (AP) — Tensions are high in India’s western Udaipur city. On Tuesday, police…

By HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH and LINDSEY TANNER Associated Press They call her, desperate, scared and often broke. Some are rape and domestic violence…

By JUAN LOZANO, FABIOLA SÁNCHEZ and MARIA VERZA Associated Press SAN ANTONIO (AP) — A Mexican immigration official says that in the chaotic…

By STEVE PEOPLES AP National Politics Writer NEW YORK (AP) — A rare Republican who supports abortion rights found success in Colorado in the first…

By JIM GOMEZ Associated Press MANILA, Philippines (AP) — The thousands of killings under Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte’s campaign against…

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Puerto Rico police say they raided the island’s largest hydroponic marijuana greenhouse, with nearly 2,000…

By ROB MAADDI AP Pro Football Writer The NFL insisted on an indefinite suspension while Deshaun Watson’s legal team argued there’s no basis for…

By DAVID BAUDER AP Media Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Fox News Channel is airing the Jan. 6 committee hearings when they occur during daytime hours, and…

By DÁNICA COTO Associated Press SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Police in the Bahamas say that carbon monoxide poisoning killed three U.S. tourists…

By MIKE STOBBE AP Medical Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Reacting to a surprising and growing monkeypox outbreak, U.S. health officials on Tuesday expanded…

By ADAM BEAM Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Gov. Gavin Newsom’s administration won’t use public money to help people from…

NEW YORK (AP) — New York City Mayor Eric Adams has suggested that former Mayor Rudy Giuliani be investigated for filing a false police report for…

By ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A former Trump White House aide has painted a portrait of a volatile commander-in-chief who…

By JOHN ANTCZAK Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors has returned ownership of prime California…

MCKINNEY, Texas (AP) — New capital murder indictments have been returned against a convicted murderer from the Dallas area whom authorities now…

By BARBARA ORTUTAY AP Technology Writer With abortion now or soon to be illegal in over a dozen states and severely restricted in many more, Big Tech…

By MARK PRATT Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — More than 200 employees at Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts have ratified a contract that includes…

By ANNE D’INNOCENZIO AP Retail Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The Federal Trade Commission says it has sued Walmart for allowing its money transfer…

SANTA CRUZ, Calif. (AP) — A former Air Force sergeant linked to an extremist movement and convicted last month in the 2020 killing of a federal…

CONCORD, N.C. (AP) — Attorneys for the mother of a dead North Carolina man say body-camera footage shows a police officer shot the unarmed man five…

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Dozens of trucks were blocked from entering Buenos Aires as part of growing demonstrations against diesel shortages…

By MICHAEL BALSAMO and SOPHIA TULP Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The man who served as the U.S. Senate’s sergeant at arms and resigned after…

By MANUEL RUEDA Associated Press BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — A Truth Commission has presented its final report on Colombia’s armed conflict, urging…

By HOWARD FENDRICH AP Tennis Writer WIMBLEDON, England (AP) — Serena Williams began — and ended — her comeback at Wimbledon after 364 days out…

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The owner of a Philadelphia building where a firefighter died while on the job this month has been charged with setting the…

By LEAH WILLINGHAM Associated Press CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — At least 2 million Americans don’t have running water or a working toilet at home, a…

BOSTON (AP) — A former assistant soccer coach at the University of Southern California who created fake athletic profiles for the children of…

By LAURAN NEERGAARD and MATTHEW PERRONE Associated Press At least some U.S. adults may get updated COVID-19 shots this fall, as government advisers…

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (AP) — A state lawmaker has been convicted in a fraud scheme involving her medical practice in southwest Missouri. Tricia Derges,…

By DAVID BAUDER AP Media Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The news story that reportedly caused former President Donald Trump to throw his lunch against a…

By KATE BRUMBACK and FARNOUSH AMIRI Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — A British filmmaker who shot interviews with Donald Trump and his inner circle…

By LISA MASCARO AP Congressional Correspondent The House Jan. 6 committee held a surprise hearing Tuesday delivering alarming new testimony about…

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma officials say they’ve reached an opioid settlement with three drug companies that would bring more than $250…

By JIMMY GOLEN AP Sports Writer BOSTON (AP) — Researchers have diagnosed chronic traumatic encephalopathy in a Major League Soccer player for the…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court has put on hold a lower court ruling that Louisiana must draw new congressional districts before the 2022…

FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — A new judge must be assigned to oversee the murder case against a former Texas police officer after defense attorneys…

By MATTHEW BARAKAT Associated Press ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) — The first American to be convicted in a U.S. jury trial of joining the Islamic State had…

By The Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — From the moment he first faced criminal charges, in 2006, Jeffrey Epstein has been the object of public…

By LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer Recent Oscar winners Ariana DeBose, Troy Kotsur and Billie Eilish are among the 397 individuals who have been invited…

By TOM FOREMAN Jr. Associated Press A lawsuit filed by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission claims two employees with a North Carolina company…

Associated Press President Joe Biden plans to meet on July 12 at the White House with Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador. Mexico’s…

By ANDREA RODRÍGUEZ Associated Press HAVANA (AP) — Cuban authorities say they have intercepted more than a dozen speedboats arriving from the…

By TERRY SPENCER Associated Press FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — A jury of seven men and five women has been tentatively chosen to decide whether…

PIERRE, S.D. (AP) — South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem has appointed the lead prosecutor in the Senate impeachment trial against former Attorney General…

CONKLIN, N.Y. (AP) — A state trooper is being lauded for crawling about 15 feet into a culvert pipe in upstate New York to rescue a missing golden…

By PAT EATON-ROBB Associated Press Prominent civil rights attorney Ben Crump says he will lead the legal fight on behalf of a Black man in…

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The California attorney general’s office says hate crimes in 2021 shot up 33% to nearly 1,800 reported incidents. That…

PARIS (AP) — A Paris court has ruled that the French government failed to sufficiently stock up on surgical masks at the outset of the coronavirus…

MILTON KEYNES, England (AP) — Red Bull has terminated the contract of Formula One test and reserve driver Jüri Vips on Tuesday for using a racial…

By JEFFREY SCHAEFFER and MASHA MACPHERSON Associated Press PARIS (AP) — France’s lower house of parliament has elected Yaël Braun-Pivet of…

By The Associated Press Woody Allen told Alec Baldwin during a live interview Tuesday on Instagram that he is mulling ending his movie-making career,…

By JONATHAN MATTISE and KIMBERLEE KRUESI Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A federal court has allowed Tennessee’s ban on abortion as…

MOSCOW (AP) — President Vladimir Putin says Russia is trying to build relations with the Taliban and that Russia wants to see all the ethnic groups…

By NICHOLAS K. GERANIOS Associated Press SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — Wildlife advocates say there has been a distressing uptick in wolf poaching cases in…

By FLORENT BAJRAMI and LLAZAR SEMINI Associated Press PRISTINA, Kosovo (AP) — The European Union’s delay in allowing visa-free travel for the…

By NOMAAN MERCHANT and ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A year and a half after the deadly U.S. Capitol insurrection, the most…

By CHRIS MEGERIAN and ELLIOT SPAGAT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden says the deaths of migrants who were in the back of a…

By Edwin Kindzeka Moki Associated Press YAOUNDE, Cameroon (AP) — Suspected separatist rebels in western Cameroon attacked rural villages, killing…

By WAFAA SHURAFA Associated Press GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — Gaza’s Hamas rulers have released a video of a captive Israeli citizen it has…

BERLIN (AP) — Police say there are no signs of foul play in the case of an eight-year-old boy who was found in a rainwater sewer more than a week…

By CHARLIE RIEDEL and SUMMER BALLENTINE Associated Press MENDON, Mo. (AP) — The toll from the Missouri railroad crossing where an Amtrak train…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Nissan is recalling nearly 323,000 Pathfinder SUVs in the U.S. because the hoods can unexpectedly fly open and block the…

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Airbnb says it’s making its party ban permanent. The short-term-rental company said Tuesday that the temporary ban it put…

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — The government of Trinidad & Tobago has closed schools as forecasters warned that a tropical disturbance would…

By MATT OTT AP Business Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. consumer confidence slipped to its lowest level in 16 months as persistent inflation and…

By ZEKE MILLER and AAMER MADHANI Associated Press MADRID (AP) — President Joe Biden is opening his three-day visit to a NATO summit by pledging to…

AMSTERDAM (AP) — Dutch prosecutors have demanded life sentences for five alleged gangsters accused of six murders, four attempted murders and…

By ISABEL DEBRE Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The man considered to be the wealthiest oligarch in Russia, who has been…

ELMAU, Germany (AP) — Italian Premier Mario Draghi says the Indonesian presidency of the Group of 20 nations has ruled out in-person participation…

BERLIN (AP) — German police have conducted raids across the country targeting individuals and premises linked to a banned Islamic extremist group.…

By ED WHITE Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — The Michigan Supreme Court has thrown out charges against former Gov. Rick Snyder and others in the…

MOSCOW (AP) — A Russian court has rejected an appeal by imprisoned opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who contended that prison authorities…

BERLIN (AP) — A group tracking antisemitism in Germany says it documented more than 2,700 incidents in the country last year, including 63 attacks…

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — A fire at a prison in southwestern Colombia has killed at least 51 people and injured a dozen more, prison authorities…

LONDON (AP) — Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has told lawmakers in Edinburgh that she plans to hold a fresh referendum on Scottish…

By JILL LAWLESS and JOSEPH WILSON Associated Press MADRID (AP) — Turkey agreed Tuesday to lift its opposition to Sweden and Finland joining NATO,…