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By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Asian shares are mixed amid concerns over troubled Chinese real estate developer Evergrande and…
Continue ReadingBy YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Asian shares are mixed amid concerns over troubled Chinese real estate developer Evergrande and…
Continue ReadingBy PHILIP MARCELO Associated Press NEWTON, Mass. (AP) — A Rwandan woman who was orphaned during her country’s genocide and lost part of her leg…
Continue ReadingBy BOBBY CAINA CALVAN and DAVID PORTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — As residents across the Northeast U.S. recover from the catastrophic…
Continue ReadingBy NOAH BERGER Associated Press QUINCY, Calif. (AP) — A man and his daughter are bringing donated motorhomes to people who have lost everything in…
Continue ReadingBy EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Pakistan’s top diplomat has some ideas from his country on how to engage the new…
Continue ReadingBy EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The head of the U.N. food agency says 16 million people in Yemen are marching toward…
Continue ReadingBy LISA MASCARO and ALAN FRAM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Top congressional Democrats say they and the White House have agreed to a…
Continue ReadingBy ALAN FRAM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate negotiators say bipartisan congressional talks on overhauling policing practices have ended…
Continue ReadingBy LINDSEY TANNER AP Medical Writer The delta variant is causing a surge in infections among kids in the U.S. and elsewhere, but experts say there…
Continue ReadingBy JUAN A. LOZANO, MARIA VERZA and JULIE WATSON Associated Press DEL RIO, Texas (AP) — A confluence of factors caused the sudden arrival of…
Continue ReadingBy PIA SARKAR Associated Press The inequity of COVID-19 vaccine distribution came into sharp focus Thursday as many of the African countries whose…
Continue ReadingBy KRISTIN M. HALL AP Entertainment Writer NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Grammy-winning singer-songwriter Brandi Carlile added another trophy to her…
Continue ReadingHARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Robert Gentile, a mobster who for years denied suspicions from authorities that he knew anything about artwork stolen in a…
Continue ReadingBy MARK STEVENSON Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — Investigators in northern Mexico found six sets of skeletal remains and are performing tests…
Continue ReadingBy JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — A foreign business group in China says the ruling Communist Party’s campaign to tighten control…
Continue ReadingINDIANAPOLIS (AP) — A mother is upset with an Indiana school after a staff member gave a haircut to her son who is autistic. Jonathan Battle-Hayum,…
Continue ReadingANGOLA, La. (AP) — A white man convicted of the apparently random killing of a Black men has been found dead shortly after being transferred to a…
Continue ReadingBy JONATHAN J. COOPER Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — A lawyer for several Arizona abortion providers urged a federal judge Wednesday to block a…
Continue ReadingTAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Three people have been indicted in a multi-state conspiracy involving the forced labor of Mexican agricultural immigrants. A…
Continue ReadingBy DON THOMPSON Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California will be the first state to bar mega-retailers from firing warehouse workers…
Continue ReadingBy JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy certainly wasn’t the only world leader at this…
Continue ReadingSAN DIEGO (AP) — Federal authorities have accused an alleged top Mexican drug cartel lieutenant of helping smuggle tons of methamphetamine,…
Continue ReadingFLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — The U.S. government has released projections that indicate an even more troubling outlook for a river that serves 40…
Continue ReadingBROOKINGS, S.D. (AP) — A South Dakota woman accused in the July 2019 starvation death of a 3-year-old girl has been sentenced to 75 years in…
Continue ReadingFAYETTEVILLE, W.Va. (AP) — West Virginia’s largest outdoor festival won’t have one of its main attractions this year because of the ongoing…
Continue ReadingBy KANTELE FRANKO Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A federal judge has dismissed some of the biggest unsettled lawsuits filed by men who say…
Continue ReadingBy MEG KINNARD Associated Press A total of a dozen inmates are now facing charges after a South Carolina jail riot in which two guards were held…
Continue ReadingBy MICHAEL LIEDTKE AP Technology Writer SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — Former U.S. Secretary of Defense James Mattis testified Wednesday in the trial of…
Continue ReadingBy JULIE WATSON Associated Press Army veteran Spencer Sullivan has never felt more victorious. Sullivan spent years fighting to get his Afghan…
Continue ReadingMEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico has so many criminals to deal with that critics are openly wondering why the government has sought to lock up 31…
Continue ReadingBy ADAM BEAM Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed two laws aimed at protecting the privacy of…
Continue ReadingBy CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said the central bank will overhaul its financial…
Continue ReadingREDWOOD CITY, Calif. (AP) — A California judge says she plans to re-sentence Scott Peterson to life in prison this fall in the 2002 murders of his…
Continue ReadingBy MALLIKA SEN and NINIEK KARMINI Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Indonesia’s leader says inclusiveness and a sustainable, green economy will be…
Continue ReadingBy JONATHAN J. COOPER and BOB CHRISTIE Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — A Republican official in Arizona resigned Tuesday from the board overseeing…
Continue ReadingBy COLLEEN BARRY AP Fashion Writer MILAN (AP) — Italy’s fashion capital is again alive with the sound of shoppers swarming boutiques and editors…
Continue ReadingBy STEFANIE DAZIO Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Federal lawmakers have introduced legislation Wednesday that would change 19th century…
Continue ReadingBy JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Melvin Van Peebles, a Broadway playwright, musician and movie director whose work ushered in the…
Continue ReadingBy MARIA CHENG AP Medical Writer LONDON (AP) — Scientists have found evidence of a drug-resistant form of malaria in Africa. Researchers detected…
Continue ReadingBy JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — An Illinois woman is wanted in Hawaii after she didn’t show up for a virtual…
Continue ReadingBy JORGE GARMA Associated Press SAN SEBASTIAN, Spain (AP) — Taking center stage in a prestigious Spanish film festival to receive a top career…
Continue ReadingBy JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. General Assembly is pledging to redouble efforts to combat racism around the…
Continue ReadingBy ACACIA CORONADO and NICHOLAS RICCARDI Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Latino groups are bracing for possible fights over redistricting.…
Continue ReadingBy JEFFREY COLLINS Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — The South Carolina Supreme Court has ruled a state law preventing anyone from moving a…
Continue ReadingBy LYNN ELBER AP Television Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Mayim Bialik knew she’d be busy around this time of year, but not this busy. Besides…
Continue ReadingBy MICHAEL BALSAMO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge has ruled the man who claimed he had a bomb in a pickup truck near the U.S.…
Continue ReadingBy MIKE SCHNEIDER Associated Press ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Florida’s new surgeon general has signed new protocols allowing parents to decide whether…
Continue ReadingTHREE RIVERS, Calif. (AP) — Growing armies of firefighters are battling wildfires in the heart of California’s sequoia country. A big increase in…
Continue ReadingBy MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Most playwrights who dip their toes into musical theater for the first time go small. Not…
Continue ReadingBy MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Even in a crazy year with so many ups and downs, consider the last 12 months of Aaron…
Continue ReadingBy TED ANTHONY AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The U.N. General Assembly is unfolding this week under a thundercloud of deep pessimism.…
Continue ReadingBy MARÍA VERZA Associated Press CIUDAD ACUÑA, Mexico (AP) — An informal camp of migrants is slowly growing along the banks of the Rio Grande.…
Continue ReadingBy ANDREW DALTON AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Britney Spears said in a court filing that she agrees with her father that the…
Continue ReadingBy AYA BATRAWY and ABDULLAH AL-SHIHRI Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Saudi Arabia’s monarch expressed hope that the…
Continue ReadingBy JIM VERTUNO Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A Texas death row inmate’s murder conviction has been overturned because a prosecutor in…
Continue ReadingBy MICHAEL R. SISAK and MICHELLE L. PRICE Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A New York City inmate who died of a medical emergency in a floating…
Continue ReadingVIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (AP) — Prosecutors in Virginia have dropped all charges against a man charged with hiring a hitman to kill his ex-wife after…
Continue ReadingBy SYLVIA HUI Associated Press LONDON (AP) — A coroner presiding over an inquest into the death of British woman who was poisoned by a…
Continue ReadingBy MICHAEL MELIA Associated Press A Connecticut high school that recently resumed full in-person learning for the first time since the pandemic hit…
Continue ReadingBy BRENDAN FARRINGTON Associated Press TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — A federal judge has struck down part of a Florida immigration enforcement law as…
Continue ReadingBy ALAN FRAM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate negotiators say bipartisan congressional talks on overhauling policing practices have ended…
Continue ReadingBy SAMY MAGDY Associated Press A powerful Libyan east-based commander says he has suspended his role as leader of a self-styled Libyan army,…
Continue ReadingWARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s broadcasting regulators have extended the license of Discovery Inc.-owned TVN24. But they also also adopted a…
Continue ReadingSALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has announced that masks will be required inside temples to limit the spread…
Continue ReadingNEW YORK (AP) — Jim Sheeler, a former Rocky Mountain News journalist who won a Pulitzer Prize for his extensive and compassionate reporting on the…
Continue ReadingBy CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell signaled Wednesday that the Fed plans to announce…
Continue ReadingBy JIM SALTER Associated Press The St. Louis County prosecutor’s office is investigating an incident caught on cellphone video in which white…
Continue ReadingBy EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The new rulers of Afghanistan have an uphill battle in their efforts to be recognized in…
Continue ReadingBy JOCELYN GECKER Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Schools have welcomed students back to classrooms but face a new challenge: a shortage of…
Continue ReadingBy LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — New York prosecutors have charged a Los Angeles man with perjury, saying he falsified emails…
Continue ReadingBy MIKE SILVERMAN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The Met Opera’s season opens on Monday, and for the first time in its 138-year history it will…
Continue ReadingBy JILL COLVIN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Former President George W. Bush will headline a fundraiser for top Donald Trump critic Liz Cheney…
Continue ReadingWARSAW, Poland (AP) — A region in southern Poland has revoked an anti-LGBT resolution under the threat of losing European Union funding. The…
Continue ReadingBy SARA CLINE Associated Press/Report for America A broken power-sharing deal, the lingering possibility of a Republican walkout and a COVID-19 case…
Continue ReadingROME (AP) — Italian authorities say the uncle of an 18-year-old woman who disappeared months ago after refusing an arranged marriage in Pakistan…
Continue ReadingBy COLLEEN SLEVIN Associated Press DENVER (AP) — Colorado officials say three assisted living facility workers are being prosecuted in the death of…
Continue ReadingBy PAN PYLAS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has conceded that a post-Brexit trade deal with the U.S. is not…
Continue ReadingBy KATE BRUMBACK Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — A man who was punched and kicked in the head by Georgia police officers during a traffic stop four…
Continue ReadingBy SOPHIA TAREEN Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — The Rev. Jesse Jackson is headed home a month after he was hospitalized for a breakthrough…
Continue ReadingHOUSTON (AP) — A former Houston police officer has pleaded guilty to misdemeanor charges for taking part in the Jan. 6 storming of the U.S. Capitol…
Continue ReadingBy DAVID KOENIG AP Airlines Writer DALLAS (AP) — The vast majority of United Airlines employees are deciding to get vaccinated against COVID-19…
Continue ReadingBy ZENEL ZHINIPOTOKU and LLAZAR SEMINI Associated Press PRISTINA, Kosovo (AP) — Ethnic Serbs blocked the Kosovo-Serbia border for a third straight…
Continue ReadingBy CURT ANDERSON AP Legal Affairs Writer ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — A grand jury has formally charged a Florida man accused of massacring a family…
Continue ReadingALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — A report from the Federal Aviation Administration shows the pilot of a hot air balloon that crashed in New Mexico in June…
Continue ReadingJOHANNESBURG (AP) — The corruption trial of former South African President Jacob Zuma has been postponed until Oct. 26. The judge says he needs…
Continue ReadingBy JILL LAWLESS Associated Press British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has told world leaders at the United Nations that humanity has to “grow up”…
Continue ReadingBy TOM HAYS Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Closing arguments have begun in the sex trafficking trial of R&B singer R. Kelly. Prosecutor…
Continue ReadingBy CURT ANDERSON Associated Press ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — Search teams were back out at a Florida nature park to look for the boyfriend of…
Continue ReadingBy FRANK JORDANS Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s health minister has partly blamed “incitement” against the government’s pandemic…
Continue ReadingBy ASHOK SHARMA Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — India’s Supreme Court has ruled that women will be able to take the entrance examination for…
Continue ReadingBy MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — A library devoted to Japanese novelist Haruki Murakami’s writings, scrapbooks and record…
Continue ReadingBy MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Most TV dramas try to tell stories over a few years with maybe half a dozen central…
Continue ReadingBy MATTHEW PERRONE, LAURAN NEERGAARD and MIKE STOBBE Associated Press The U.S. has moved a step closer to offering booster doses of Pfizer’s…
Continue ReadingBy ALEX VEIGA AP Business Writer Sales of previously occupied U.S. homes fell in August and the pace of price growth eased, the latest sign the…
Continue ReadingBy DEE-ANN DURBIN AP Business Writer Reusable packaging is about to become more common at groceries and restaurants worldwide. Loop, which collects…
Continue ReadingBy JAY REEVES Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The wrecked boats, docks and processing equipment left by Hurricane Ida has some wondering what…
Continue ReadingBy LLAZAR SEMINI Associated Press TIRANA, Albania (AP) — An Albanian appeals court has sentenced the country’s former chief prosecutor to two…
Continue ReadingMINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A home health nurse who discovered the bodies of a prominent Minnesota businessman and his wife in a murder-suicide case is…
Continue ReadingBy CARA ANNA, DANICA KIRKA and SHEIKH SAALIQ Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Travelers and authorities from India and many African countries…
Continue ReadingBy CALVIN WOODWARD Associated Press KAMOURASKA, Quebec (AP) — At the Canadian border one night this month, a man from Atlanta pulled up in his car,…
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