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By THOMAS PEIPERT Associated Press DENVER (AP) — Colorado voters are set to decide whether to decriminalize psychedelic mushrooms for those 21 and…

CAIRO (AP) — The United Nations estimates that four months of sporadic tribal clashes have killed up to 359 people since July in Sudan’s…

By MEGAN JANETSKY Associated Press HAVANA (AP) — Two former beauty queens — Fabiola Valentín of Puerto Rico and former Mariana Valera of…

By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — If it was show time at any of the city’s myriad off-Broadway theaters, audience members…

By MASSIMO di NONNO and COLLEEN BARRY Associated Press ABOARD THE GEO BARENTS (AP) — Humanitarian groups caring for 1,000 rescued migrants aboard…

By MICHAEL TARM AP Legal Affairs Writer CHICAGO (AP) — Chicago police documents obtained by The Associated Press show investigators believe they…

By DAVID McHUGH AP Business Writer FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — The International Energy Agency says Europe could face a severe natural gas shortage…

By The Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iranian protesters and security forces have clashed in a town near the capital, where…

By DENG MACHOL Associated Press JUBA, South Sudan (AP) — A new report says nearly 8 million people in South Sudan, or about two-thirds of the…

By MATTHEW LEE AP Diplomatic Writer MUENSTER, Germany (AP) — Top diplomats from the world’s major industrialized democracies have opened two days…

By TOM KRISHER AP Auto Writer DETROIT (AP) — Stellantis and the U.S. government are warning owners of 276,000 older vehicles to stop driving them…

By SARAH RANKIN Associated Press STAFFORD, Va. (AP) — The race for Virginia’s 7th Congressional District is a nail-biter in the final stretch…

By DAVID BAUDER AP Media Writer NEW YORK (AP) — An urgency in the ringing guitar and thunderous drums that opened the 1985 album “Scarecrow”…

By ERIKA KINETZ, OLEKSANDR STASHEVSKYI and VASILISA STEPANENKO Associated Press BUCHA, Ukraine (AP) — The first man arrived at 7:27 a.m. Russian…

By MATT OTT AP Business Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Applications for jobless benefits fell slightly last week with the U.S. job market remaining…

BERLIN (AP) — The International Committee of the Red Cross says it is seeking support to create what it calls a “digital red cross/red crescent…

By FABIANO MAISONNAVE and JORGE SAENZ Associated Press CARAUARI, Brazil (AP) — Even in the most biodiverse rainforest of the world, the pirarucu,…

MADRID (AP) — Thousands of workers have rallied in Madrid in a protest called by Spain’s labor unions to demand higher wages to offset the higher…

By MUNIR AHMED and RIAZAT BUTT Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — A gunman opened fire at a protest rally in eastern Pakistan on Thursday, slightly…

By DAVIDDE CORRAN and BOBBY CAINA CALVAN Associated Press The nondescript building in Delaware would probably not garner much attention if it…

By HANNA ARHIROVA Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Europe’s largest nuclear power plant is relying on emergency generators to run its safety…

By CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Police in Nigeria say they are searching  for 21 people abducted by gunmen while working…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A prize founded by Britain’s Prince William to honor groundbreaking environmental solutions will broadcast its second ceremony…

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — A court in Amsterdam has ruled that the trial of the alleged shooter and getaway driver in the slaying of a prominent…

By NEAL MORTON, The Hechinger Report MESA, Ariz. (AP) — A teacher-in-training darted among students, tallying how many needed his help with a…

By DÉBORA REY Associated Press BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — In the middle of the concrete jungle that is Argentina’s bustling capital, a…

BERLIN (AP) — German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has told leaders of six Balkan countries that aspire to join the European Union that “it is high time…

By DENISE LAVOIE and SARAH RANKIN Associated Press RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Virginians have used a tip line that Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin set up…

TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — A German member of the European Parliament says a visit by his country’s chancellor to China has stirred major…

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greece’s coast guard says at least five children are among the 22 people confirmed dead in the sinking of a sailing…

By EDDIE PELLS AP National Writer It only took a few seconds for Rachel Kennedy to grab her phone after she left the checkout line at the…

By DAVID KLEPPER Associated Press Conspiracy theories about mail ballots. Anonymous text messages warning voters to stay home. Fringe social media…

By HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — When Kim Kap Soo watched live broadcasts of the harrowing Halloween party crush that…

By DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The Bank of England has announced its biggest interest rate increase in three decades as it tries to…

By MOGOMOTSI MAGOME Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — South African police are investigating the discovery of at least 21 bodies suspected of…

By RAF CASERT and COLLEEN BARRY Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — New far-right Premier Giorgia Meloni has used her first visit to European Union…

By ELAINE KURTENBACH and GRANT PECK Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — Amnesty International is urging suppliers of aviation fuel to Myanmar to…

By CARA ANNA Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Officials close to the Ethiopian peace talks say the copy of the “permanent cessation of…

By GEIR MOULSON Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Chancellor Olaf Scholz is making his first visit to China as German leader this week, a…

By JOSEF FEDERMAN Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday appeared set to return to power as head of…

By YURAS KARMANAU Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Not long after Russian tanks rolled into Ukraine, soldiers broke down the office door of…

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press SINIYAH ISLAND, United Arab Emirates (AP) — An ancient Christian monastery possibly dating as far back as the…

By WANJOHI KABUKURU Associated Press MOMBASA, Kenya (AP) — The U.N. climate summit is back in Africa after six years and four consecutive…

By FRANK JORDANS Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Luetzerath may be 1,000 miles from Ukraine, but it is an indirect victim of Russia’s invasion and…

By CLAIRE RUSH Associated Press/Report for America PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — The tents proliferating on sidewalks in downtown and residential…

By KAREEM CHEHAYEB and ABBY SEWELL Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — The recent maritime border deal between Lebanon and Israel allocates rights to…

By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press AWALI, Bahrain (AP) — Pope Francis urged Bahrain authorities on Thursday to renounce the death penalty and…

By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer BANGKOK (AP) — A new study shows more than 100,000 people die in fishing-related accidents each year and…

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Some 1.2 million people are expected to pour into Qatar during the upcoming…

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Shares were mostly higher in Asia on Friday led by a 5.8% jump in Hong Kong’s Hang Seng index as…

By SCOTT McFETRIDGE Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Perplexed that it seems no one can win the gigantic $1.5 billion Powerball prize? A…

By ISABEL DEBRE Associated Press RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — The apparent comeback of former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the dramatic rise…

BEIJING (AP) — Canadan public broadcaster CBC says it is closing its China bureau after the Chinese government ignored requests to base a reporter…

By AUDREY McAVOY Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — The ground is shaking and swelling at Mauna Loa, the largest active volcano in the world,…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Tropical Depression Lisa has moved into southern Mexico a day after making landfall as a hurricane in the Central American…

By KIM TONG-HYUNG and MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea fired at least six missiles into the sea on Thursday,…

By HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Bono opened his book tour Wednesday night in what he called a “transgressive” mood, a…

By LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Years after about 1,900 National Guard and Reserve soldiers were swept up in a recruiting…

By AAMER MADHANI and CHRIS MEGERIAN Associated Press ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — President Joe Biden took off on a personal final-days campaign sprint…

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell sought to strike a delicate balance at a moment…

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australian police have offered a 1 million Australian dollar ($633,000) reward for…

By GABE STERN Associated Press/Report for America RENO, Nev. (AP) — The ACLU of Nevada has asked the state’s secretary of state to investigate…

NEW YORK (AP) — Former President Donald Trump has settled a lawsuit filed by a group of protesters who say they were roughed up by the…

By MARCOS ALEMAN Associated Press SANTA TECLA, El Salvador (AP) — El Salvador’s government took its efforts against the country’s powerful…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United States says it will seek to oust Iran from the U.N.’s premiere global body…

LANSING, Mich. (AP) — A man charged in the hammer killings of two women after he showed cellphone photos of their beaten bodies to sheriff’s…

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The Philadelphia Phillies’ 7-0 win over Houston in Game 3 of the World Series was seen by 11,162,000 viewers on Fox, down…

By MARY CLARE JALONICK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A top ally of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is demanding fresh answers from the U.S. Capitol…

WAVERLY, Ohio (AP) — An Ohio woman who helped plan the 2016 slayings of eight members of another family says the massacre was her husband’s idea.…