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By JUAN A. LOZANO and MARÍA VERZA Associated Press DEL RIO, Texas (AP) — The “amistad,” or friendship, that Del Rio, Texas, and Ciudad Acuña,…
Continue ReadingBy JUAN A. LOZANO and MARÍA VERZA Associated Press DEL RIO, Texas (AP) — The “amistad,” or friendship, that Del Rio, Texas, and Ciudad Acuña,…
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Continue ReadingTALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Officials say a banking error has caused dozens of Florida teachers to see their state-issued $1,000 bonus checks bounce.…
Continue ReadingROME (AP) — Thousands of people have demonstrated in cities across Italy to support Afghan women. They’re demanding continued international…
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Continue ReadingBy COLLEEN BARRY AP Fashion Writer MILAN (AP) — Gucci has launched an e-commerce site featuring refurbished vintage Gucci pieces alongside capsule…
Continue ReadingPASCO, Wash. (AP) — Police say a school bus driver was stabbed after he had picked up students from a Washington state elementary school and died…
Continue ReadingBy TRISHA THOMAS Associated Press ROME (AP) — Rome has been invaded by Gauls, Visigoths and vandals over the centuries, but the Eternal City is now…
Continue ReadingUNITED NATIONS (AP) — Britain’s Prince Harry and Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, have met with a top United Nations official amid the world…
Continue ReadingREDDING, Calif. (AP) — Damage assessment teams went out Saturday to determine how many buildings have burned in a forest fire that has displaced…
Continue ReadingBy MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Matt Amodio’s historic run on “Jeopardy!” has now netted him more than $1 million in…
Continue ReadingTUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — More than 100 officials of Tunisia’s Islamist party Ennahdha have announced their resignations to protest their…
Continue ReadingDENVER, Colo. (AP) — A report from Colorado investigators says a 6-year-old girl who died in a fall from a theme park ride this month wasn’t…
Continue ReadingBy SARAH BLAKE MORGAN Associated Press DEL RIO, Texas (AP) — An Ohio man is among those who made their way to the Texas border city of Del Rio,…
Continue ReadingBy MICHAEL HILL Associated Press New York City schools have been temporarily blocked from enforcing a vaccine mandate for its teachers and other…
Continue ReadingBy JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Amid an outcry over the U.S. treatment of Haitian asylum-seekers, the beleaguered island…
Continue ReadingMOSCOW (AP) — About 400 demonstrators gathered in central Moscow to protest alleged tampering in the national parliament election in which the…
Continue ReadingBy KIMBERLEE KRUESI Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A third federal judge has blocked Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee’s order allowing families…
Continue ReadingJACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi will soon start rebuilding a section of highway that collapsed during torrential rainfall brought by Hurricane…
Continue ReadingBy MARC LEVY Associated Press HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — The most closely watched attempt by Republicans to examine the 2020 presidential election came…
Continue ReadingDUNMORE, Pa. (AP) — Authorities say four teenagers have been charged with a plot to attack a Pennsylvania high school in 2024 on the 25th…
Continue ReadingBy STEVE PEOPLES AP National Political Writer NEW YORK (AP) — President Joe Biden is losing support among critical groups in his political base as…
Continue ReadingBy MALLIKA SEN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi didn’t directly mention Pakistan or China in his speech to…
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Continue ReadingBy KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — The powerful sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un says her country will take…
Continue ReadingBy TOM MURPHY AP Health Writer Billions more in profits are at stake for some vaccine makers as the U.S. moves toward dispensing COVID-19 booster…
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Continue ReadingBEIRUT (AP) — Lebanon’s national news agency says a Syrian man has died after swallowing gasoline he was siphoning out of his vehicle’s…
Continue ReadingBy JANET McCONNAUGHEY Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The National Transportation Safety Board says a fatal head-on crash between two towboats…
Continue ReadingBy JEFF AMY Associated Press PERRY, Ga. (AP) — The rewards of an early Donald Trump endorsement were on display Saturday evening in Georgia. A…
Continue ReadingBy BEN FINLEY Associated Press Lawyers for the man who tried to assassinate President Ronald Reagan are scheduled to argue in court that 66-year-old…
Continue ReadingBy ZENEL ZHINIPOTOKU and LLAZAR SEMINI Associated Press PRISTINA, Kosovo (AP) — Kosovo government officials say a public building was set on fire…
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Continue ReadingBy MARK SHERMAN and JESSICA GRESKO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — To some observers, the Supreme Court is facing the most serious threat to its…
Continue ReadingBy ROB GILLIES Associated Press TORONTO (AP) — China, the U.S. and Canada completed a high-stakes prisoner swap Saturday with joyous homecomings…
Continue ReadingBy ANDREA ROSA and NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press ALGHERO, Sardinia (AP) — Catalan separatist leader Carles Puigdemont is vowing to keep…
Continue ReadingBy HASSAN BARISE Associated Press MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — Police said a vehicle laden with explosives rammed into cars and trucks at a checkpoint…
Continue ReadingMADRID (AP) — Flights to and from the Spanish island of La Palma have been canceled because of an ash cloud spewing out of a volcano that has been…
Continue ReadingKABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — The Taliban have hanged a dead body from a crane in a main city square in Afghanistan. The gruesome display in the…
Continue ReadingBy EGILL BJARNASON Associated Press REYKJAVIK, Iceland (AP) — Icelanders are voting in a general election dominated by climate change, with an…
Continue ReadingHONG KONG (AP) — The Hong Kong group that had organized annual vigils in remembrance of victims of the Chinese military’s crushing of the…
Continue ReadingBy JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — In a U-turn, Britain says it will issue thousands of emergency visas to foreign truck drivers to…
Continue ReadingBy SEBABATSO MOSAMO Associated Press SWARTKOPS, South Africa (AP) — South Africa has sent a train carrying COVID-19 vaccines into one of its…
Continue ReadingQUETTA, Pakistan (AP) — The military says Pakistani security forces have killed six militants of a separatist group in a raid at their hideout in…
Continue ReadingZAGREB, Croatia (AP) — Authorities in Croatia’s capital say a 56-year-old man is suspected of killing three young children. Local media…
Continue ReadingMIAMI (AP) — Forecasters expect Hurricane Sam to intensify into a major storm on Saturday. No coastal watches or warnings are in effect for the…
Continue ReadingBy JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press GENEVA (AP) — Voters in Switzerland are set to decide on Sunday whether to allow same-sex marriages. The wealthy…
Continue ReadingNAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — One man said he counted 55 corpses as he escaped from his town in northern Ethiopia. Another asserted he was rounded up with…
Continue ReadingSHENZHEN, China (AP) — An executive of Chinese global communications giant Huawei Technologies has returned from Canada following a legal…
Continue ReadingBy SUZAN FRASER and AYSE WIETING Associated Press ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Refugees fleeing the conflict in Syria once were welcomed in neighboring…
Continue ReadingBy JUSTIN SPIKE and VANESSA GERA Associated Press BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — An uptick in anti-European Union rhetoric in Hungary and Poland has some…
Continue ReadingBy GEIR MOULSON Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s closely fought election on Sunday will set the direction of the European Union’s most…
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Continue ReadingBy LISA MASCARO and JONATHAN LEMIRE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden says talks over his $3.5 trillion rebuilding plan have…
Continue ReadingBy ANDREW DeMILLO Associated Press CABOT, Ark. (AP) — Former White House press secretary Sarah Sanders might be running for governor of Arkansas,…
Continue ReadingBy DAVID SHARP Associated Press SACO, Maine (AP) — Since the death of George Floyd and the protests that followed, police departments around the…
Continue ReadingBy DAVE COLLINS Associated Press NEW LONDON, Conn. (AP) — Military academy students say that 10 years after the end of “don’t ask, don’t…
Continue ReadingBy NOMAAN MERCHANT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Taliban’s takeover of Kabul has deepened the mutual distrust between the U.S. and…
Continue ReadingPANAMA CITY (AP) — Nine bodies of suspected migrants have been found near a remote community in the Panamanian jungle close to the border with…
Continue ReadingBy ERIKA KINETZ Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — Dozens of far-right extremists use Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and Twitter to promote their…
Continue ReadingREDDING, Calif. (AP) — Firefighters hope shifting winds and cooling temperatures over the next few days will aid their efforts to battle a…
Continue ReadingBy SALLY HO Associated Press The speeches may be scripted, but the United Nations General Assembly can sometimes be the only direct window into the…
Continue ReadingBy MARÍA VERZA and JUAN LOZANO Associated Press DEL RIO, Texas (AP) — U.S. authorities say the Texas border crossing where thousands of Haitian…
Continue ReadingBy EVENS SANON and DÁNICA COTO Associated Press PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — The U.S. has expelled some 2,000 migrants to Haiti this week via more…
Continue ReadingTAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Taiwan’s main opposition Nationalist Party has chosen former leader Eric Chu as its new chairperson in an election…
Continue ReadingBy ADAM BEAM Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California will strike the word “alien” from its state laws. Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a…
Continue ReadingBy MALLIKA SEN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Prime Minister Imran Khan sought to cast Pakistan as the victim of American ungratefulness and an…
Continue ReadingADEL OMRAN Associated Press TRIPOLI, Libya (AP) — Hundreds of protesters have gathered in Libya’s capital of Tripoli to oppose a decision by the…
Continue ReadingRICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Officials say eight Virginia Commonwealth University students have been charged with hazing in a fraternity pledge’s…
Continue ReadingBy EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — It’s almost certain that Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers won’t get to speak at this…
Continue ReadingAUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas Gov. Greg Abbott is lauding another new abortion law that tightens limits on abortion-inducing medications. Opponents…
Continue ReadingBy MICHAEL R. BLOOD AP Political Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — U.S. Rep. Karen Bass is planning to run for Los Angeles mayor, bringing a high-profile…
Continue ReadingBy HALELUYA HADERO AP Business Writer If you’ve been on social media, or texted with GIF-loving friends, Drew Scanlon’s face has likely appeared…
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Continue ReadingBy The Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Barbados Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley didn’t phone in her speech at the U.N. General Assembly on…
Continue ReadingBy EVENS SANON and DÁNICA COTO Associated Press PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — The U.S. has expelled some 2,000 migrants to Haiti this week via more…
Continue ReadingBy COLLEEN BARRY AP Fashion Writer MILAN (AP) — Donatella Versace pumped energy into Milan Fashion week with a star-filled runway and front row,…
Continue ReadingBy MEG KINNARD Associated Press Attorneys for the federal government have opposed Dylann Roof’s request for a new appellate hearing, arguing that…
Continue ReadingBy LYNN ELBER AP Television Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Ry Russo-Young knew she had a story worth hearing, but it was one she was struggling to tell.…
Continue ReadingBy GENE JOHNSON Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) — An administrative law judge has recommended that a Native American tribe in Washington state once…
Continue ReadingBy GRANT SCHULTE Associated Press OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Nebraska lawmakers have advanced new congressional boundaries that could make it harder for…
Continue ReadingBy MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — New York City is facing mounting pressure to solve its spiraling jail crisis, with members of…
Continue ReadingBy SALLY HO Associated Press Unsurprisingly, the coronavirus pandemic was THE talking point at the United Nations General Assembly this week —…
Continue ReadingBy IRIS SAMUELS Associated Press/Report for America Medication abortion accounts for about 40% of all abortions in the U.S. The increasingly common…
Continue ReadingMIAMI (AP) — Far from land, Hurricane Sam has strengthened into a Category 4 hurricane in the Atlantic Ocean. No coastal watches or warnings were…
Continue ReadingBy CURT ANDERSON AP Legal Affairs Writer ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — A judge has denied a Florida Republican congressional candidate’s petition…
Continue ReadingBy JOHN HANNA and SUMMER BALLENTINE Associated Press TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Reports of sexual assaults have fueled protests on at least eight U.S.…
Continue ReadingBy MATTHEW BARAKAT Associated Press FALLS CHURCH. Va. (AP) — A northern Virginia school system said it is removing two books from school libraries,…
Continue ReadingBy SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin Republican state lawmakers are asking the U.S. Supreme Court to dismiss a…
Continue ReadingKAILUA-KONA, Hawaii (AP) — The Ironman World Championship is being held outside Hawaii for the first time in four decades. That is because of…
Continue ReadingBy MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — New York City’s medical examiner says actor Michael K. Williams died of acute drug…
Continue ReadingMIAMI (AP) — Officials say an orangutan has died at Zoo Miami following a dental surgery. The South Florida zoo says Kumang, a 44-year-old Bornean…
Continue ReadingBy The Associated Press This week’s new entertainment releases include new music from Brandi Carlile and the Doobie Brothers, as well as the return…
Continue ReadingBy REBECCA BOONE Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — An advocacy group for older adults has filed a civil rights complaint against Idaho over…
Continue ReadingBy JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. General Assembly meeting of world leaders has been packed with global gloom. But…
Continue ReadingREDDING, Calif. (AP) — Thousands of people are under evacuation orders as a wildfire suspected of being started by arson rages in Northern…
Continue ReadingSAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Tall trees are venerated across California, but an appeals court ruling this week says one towering Monterey Pine at the…
Continue ReadingBy CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Restaurant and hotel owners struggling to fill jobs. Supply-chain disruptions forcing…
Continue ReadingBy MIKE SCHNEIDER Associated Press U.S. Census Bureau officials are pondering whether to produce less granular data in the next release of 2020…
Continue ReadingBy JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Joel Coen, in his first solo outing as a filmmaker, premiered a strikingly stark, black-and-white…
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