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By ED WHITE Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — Lawyers for Michigan’s former health director are urging an appeals court to quickly stop an effort…

By LYNN ELBER AP Television Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Robert Clary, a French-born survivor of Nazi concentration camps during World War II who…

By EVELYNE MUSAMBI Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Bill Gates, currently visiting Kenya, has announced his foundation will spend $7 billion…

By SAM MEDNICK and HANNA ARHIROVA Associated Press KYSELIVKA, Ukraine (AP) — For 10 days, Alesha Babenko was locked in a basement and regularly…

By KEVIN McGILL Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A man who spent nearly four decades behind bars for a 1983 killing has won his freedom after…

By ALICIA RANCILIO Associated Press Clea Shearer and Joanna Teplin, the chatty, upbeat, rainbow-loving duo, already star in the Netflix reality…

By SARAH RANKIN and DENISE LAVOIE Associated Press RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Three University of Virginia football players who were shot on a bus as…

LONDON (AP) — Wimbledon is relaxing its requirement for all-white clothing to allow female players to wear colored undershorts to be more…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Five people, including the top security official for the central Mexico state of Aguascalientes, have died in a helicopter…

By JONATHAN J. COOPER Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Refusing to concede, Kari Lake, the defeated Republican candidate for Arizona governor, said…

By MATT OTT AP Business Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The average long-term U.S. mortgage rate tumbled by nearly a half-point this week, but will likely…

By CURT ANDERSON Associated Press ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — The families of Gabby Petito and Brian Laundrie have reached a $3 million settlement…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Three U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents have been wounded after exchanging gunfire with people “on board a suspected…

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer The Federal Reserve may have to raise its benchmark interest rate much higher than many people expect to…

MOSCOW (AP) — Imprisoned Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny has been transferred to a one-man cell, according to a post on his social media…

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Police in Rhode Island say DNA evidence and the use of forensic genealogy has led to an arrest in a 35-year-old sexual…

BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — New York Gov. Kathy Hochul declared a state of emergency Thursday for parts of western New York ahead of a dangerous storm…

By CIARÁN GILES and JOSEPH WILSON Associated Press MADRID (AP) — Spain’s magistrate associations are calling for the country’s equality…

By DEE-ANN DURBIN AP Business Writer A coalition of consumer groups is asking grocery chains to rethink their digital-only coupons. Consumer Reports,…

By The Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — The family of imprisoned Egyptian activist Alaa Abdel-Fattah says that they have seen him and that his…

BERLIN (AP) — A German man has been sentenced to nearly six years in prison for sending dozens of threatening letters to politicians, lawyers and…

By RONALD BLUM AP Sports Writer The World Cup will sound different this year. Jacqui Oatley will become the first woman play-by-play commentator for…

By LINDSEY TANNER AP Medical Writer Abortion bans in several states allow exemptions for life-threatening health emergencies, but they say mental…

By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press VATICAN CITY (AP) — Italy’s Catholic bishops have provided their first-ever accounting of clergy sexual…

By MATT OTT AP Business Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. job market remains healthy as fewer Americans applied for unemployment benefits last…

By KEN SWEET and MICHELLE CHAPMAN The Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The man who had to clean up the mess at Enron says the situation at FTX is…

By LEANNE ITALIE Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Barbiecore has legs ahead of next year’s release of the live-action “Barbie” movie and…

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Thousands of police have been deployed in Athens and the northern city of Thessaloniki for commemorative marches to mark the…

BENGHAZI, Libya (AP) — Greek authorities say the country’s foreign minister has called off the first leg of his visit to Libya, refusing to…

DETROIT (AP) — Stellantis is recalling nearly 250,000 heavy duty diesel Ram pickups in the U.S. because transmission fluid can leak and cause…

By TIA GOLDENBERG Associated Press TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says Israel and Turkey have agreed to a…

By SUZAN FRASER and COURTNEY BONNELL Associated Press ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — A wartime agreement that unblocked grain shipments from Ukraine and…

By RUSS BYNUM Associated Press WOODBINE, Ga. (AP) — Attorneys for a Georgia jail detainee are demanding the firings and arrests of guards recorded…

By MICHAEL CASEY, JOEAL CALUPITAN and AARON FAVILA Associated Press TACLOBAN, Philippines (AP) — After Typhoon Haiyan’s towering waves…

By ISABEL DEBRE Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel and Jordan have signed a declaration of intent at the U.N. climate conference to conserve…

By MARK LONG AP Pro Football Writer Aaron Rodgers and his peers around the NFL are calling for teams to tear up their turf playing surfaces and…

By ANDREW SELIGMAN and JOHN WAWROW AP Sports Writers ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill. (AP) — With the galloping horses long gone, the Chicago Bears see 326…

By ROB MAADDI AP Pro Football Writer From the owner’s suite to the front office to the sideline, the number of women in the NFL is steadily rising.…

MILAN (AP) — Italian police have issued 18 arrest warrants for Italians and Tunisians accused of operating a migrant-trafficking route on…

By MIKE CORDER and RAF CASERT Associated Press SCHIPHOL, Netherlands (AP) — A Dutch court has convicted three men of murder for their role in…

By SETH BORENSTEIN, SAMY MAGDY and FRANK JORDANS Associated Press SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt (AP) — Diplomats say they are far from reaching a deal…

By HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol hopes for greater cooperation with Saudi Arabia,…

PARIS (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron says “sports should not be politicized” only days after it was announced that he would attend the…

By DEE-ANN DURBIN AP Business Writer Starbucks workers at more than 100 U.S. stores are on strike Thursday in their largest labor action since a…

By FOSTER KLUG Associated Press NUSA DUA, Indonesia (AP) — China and India, after months of refusing to condemn Russia’s war in Ukraine, did not…

BEIJING (AP) — A Chinese spokesperson has accused Canada of acting in a “condescending manner” following a testy exchange between President Xi…

By ZEN SOO Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — American game developer Blizzard Entertainment says it will suspend most of its game services in…

By STEPHEN McGRATH and CRISTIAN JARDAN Associated Press CHISINAU, Moldova (AP) — Massive blackouts that temporarily hit more than a half-dozen…

By QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA Associated Press BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraq’s army says firefighters have put out a fire in Baghdad airport for a second time…

By DANICA KIRKA, JILL LAWLESS and SYLVIA HUI Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Millions of British people face higher taxes and steeper energy bills…

By VANESSA GERA Associated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — The long border between Finland and Russia runs through thick forests and is marked only by…

By BHARATHA MALLAWARACHI Associated Press COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — The Sri Lankan government is being urged to drop charges against two protest…

By SAM McNEIL Associated Press KONOMIE ISLAND, Australia (AP) — Below the turquoise waters off the coast of Australia is one of the world’s…

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkey’s state-run news agency says security forces have detained a suspect wanted in connection with the deadly…

By EVELYNE MUSAMBI Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Authorities say two people have died after a multi-story building under construction…

By JOHN LEICESTER Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian airstrikes have targeted Ukraine’s energy facilities as the first snow of the…

By ISABEL DEBRE Associated Press On the Instagram accounts of fashion models and superstars last month, the sheikhdom of Qatar looked like one…

By SETH BORENSTEIN AP Science Writer SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt (AP) — Men usually outnumber and outrank women negotiators in climate talks, except…

By JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — Asian stocks were mixed Friday after Wall Street declined following indications the Federal…

By SEAN MURPHY Associated Press McALESTER, Okla. (AP) — Oklahoma has executed a man for the torture killing of his girlfriend’s 3-year-old son in…

By ABBY SEWELL Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Syria’s largest Palestinian camp was once bustling with activity: It was crowded with…

By KIM CHANDLER Associated Press ATMORE, Ala. (AP) — Alabama’s execution of a man convicted in the 1988 murder-for-hire slaying of a…

By GILLIAN FLACCUS Associated Press PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — U.S. regulators approved a plan to demolish four dams on a California river and open up…

By LISA MASCARO AP Congressional Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Thursday that she will not seek a leadership…

By JOE McDONALD Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — China’s southern metropolis of Guangzhou plans to build quarantine facilities with almost 250,000…

By BILL BARROW Associated Press AUGUSTA, Ga. (AP) — Republicans insist they’re working together to help Herschel Walker unseat Democratic…

By LINDSEY TANNER AP Medical Writer U.S. home births increased slightly in the pandemic’s second year, rising to the highest level in decades,…

By HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Tess Gunty’s “The Rabbit Hutch,” a sweeping debut novel set in a low-income housing…

By JILL COLVIN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Former Vice President Mike Pence said Wednesday that voters are “looking for new leadership”…

By DAVID RISING Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — Myanmar’s military-controlled government released an Australian academic, a Japanese filmmaker,…

By LYNN ELBER AP Television Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Jay Leno underwent surgery for serious burns suffered when flames erupted as he worked on a…