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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Police are investigating a shooting in Florida’s capital city that left one dead and eight wounded after “dozens and…

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — As he watched a dozen or more unconscious partygoers carried out from a narrow backstreet packed with youngsters dressed…

LONDON (AP) — An attacker threw firebombs an immigration center in the English port town of Dover before killing himself. Police say two people…

By COLLEEN BARRY Associated Press PREDAPPIO, Italy (AP) — Several thousand black-clad fascist sympathizers chanted and sang in praise of Benito…

By GARY D. ROBERTSON and GEOFF MULVIHILL Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Abortion access in several states could hinge on the outcome of…

HELSINKI (AP) — A venomous 2.2-meter  (7 foot) king cobra that escaped from its home in a Swedish zoo has returned back home by itself, bringing a…

By MARÍA TERESA HERNÁNDEZ Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — During the Day of the Dead celebrations that take place in late October and early…

By BASSEM MROUE and ABBY SEWELL Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — President Michel Aoun left Lebanon’s presidential palace Sunday, marking the…

By GARY D. ROBERTSON Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — The stakes in elections for a pair of North Carolina Supreme Court seats this fall are…

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli forces have shot and killed a Palestinian motorist who slammed his car into bus stop in the occupied West Bank. It was the…

By AAMER MADHANI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden’s administration is taking stock of a newly empowered Xi Jinping as…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — As the United States and Japan further strengthen their military alliance, they’ve turned to…

By JESSICA GRESKO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court will take up the issue of affirmative action again Monday — the second…

By SAM MEDNICK Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia resumed its blockade of Ukrainian ports on Sunday, cutting off urgently needed grain…

By KIM TONG-HYUNG and ADAM SCHRECK Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Itaewon, the neighborhood where at least 151 people were killed in a…

By ILAN BEN ZION Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — One of Israel’s most extremist politicians, known for his inflammatory anti-Arab speeches…

LONDON (AP) — The British government insisted Sunday it has robust cybersecurity for government officials, after a newspaper reported that former…

By ZEN SOO Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — World leaders have expressed sadness and condolences after at least 151 people were killed in a crowd…

By DENG MACHOL Associated Press MINGKAMAN, South Sudan (AP) — In a country where the maternal mortality rate is one of the highest in the world, a…

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The FIFA World Cup may be bringing as many as 1.2 million fans to Qatar, but…

By JIM GOMEZ Associated Press MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Victims of a huge mudslide set off by a storm in a coastal Philippine village that had…

By KIM TONG-HYUNG and HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Koreans mourned and searched for relatives lost in the…

By MAURICIO SAVERESE and DIANE JEANTET Associated Press SAO PAULO (AP) — Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has done it again: Twenty years after first…

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The Powerball jackpot keeps getting larger because players keep losing. It happened again Saturday night as no one matched…

N’DJAMENA, Chad (AP) — Authorities say a French national working in wildlife conservation has been abducted in northeastern Chad by unknown…

By MEGAN JANETSKY Associated Press HAVANA (AP) — Cuban state media say at least five people died when a boat off northern Cuba traveling north…

By HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Gerald Stern, one of the country’s most loved and respected poets who wrote with spirited…

By QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA Associated Press BAGHDAD (AP) — A gas tanker has exploded near a soccer field  in northeastern Baghdad. Security officials…

JERUSALEM (AP) — The Israeli military says a Palestinian militant fired at the entrance to an Israeli settlement in the occupied West Bank, killing…

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — A state watchdog says New York regulators failed to do all they could to sideline a poorly maintained stretch limousine that…

LANSING, Mich. (AP) — A judge has dismissed part of a lawsuit filed by eight women alleging sexual harassment and assault by a former University of…

By MARINA VILLENEUVE Associated Press ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Republican election officials around New York refused to process absentee ballots amid a…

RICHMOND, Ind. (AP) — A prosecutor wants the death penalty for a man charged with killing an Indiana police officer. Wayne County Prosecutor Mike…

EVERETT, Wash. (AP) — A Washington city’s dress code ordinance saying bikini baristas must cover their bodies at work has been ruled…

BERLIN (AP) — A top security official in eastern Germany says those behind a suspected arson attack on a hotel intended to house refugee families…

By KONSTANTIN TESTORIDES Associated Press SKOPJE, Macedonia (AP) — North Macedonia has begun building a railway linking it to Bulgaria. The project…

CROWN POINT, Ind. (AP) — A fifth-grade teacher in northwestern Indiana charged with felony intimidation after authorities say she told a student…

By MARC LEVY Associated Press MALVERN, Pa. (AP) — On a chilly Saturday morning in mid-October, state and national Republican Party leaders made…

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (AP) — More than 3,000 people on Saturday took part in the first Pride march in South Africa since the COVID-19…

LONDON (AP) — Protesters in Halloween costumes have marched in cities around Britain to demand more affordable child care. The March of the Mummies…

By KIM TONG-HYUNG and HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — A mass of mostly young people among tens of thousands who gathered…

By JUSTIN KABUMBA and KRISTA LARSON Associated Press GOMA, Congo (AP) — Rebels have seized control of two major towns in eastern Congo and doubled…

By ZARAR KHAN Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan’s interior minister has alleged the country’s former premier, Imran Khan, who is…

By CHRIS MEGERIAN, JONATHAN J. COOPER and STEVE PEOPLES Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — An America that can already feel like it’s hurtling…

By ADAM BEAM Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — The good times might soon be over for California’s government. Tax collections in the…

By PATRICK WHITTLE Associated Press PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — The federal government has outlined a strategy to try to protect an endangered species…

By DEE-ANN DURBIN AP Business Writer Halloween treats have a tricky problem: plastic packaging that’s difficult to recycle. As America loads up on…

By DAVID KLEPPER Associated Press Pivotal elections in Brazil and the United States will present an early test to Twitter’s new owner Elon Musk…

By DANIEL POLITI Associated Press BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — As a Brazilian journalist living in Argentina, Luciana Taddeo says she spends…

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — A former presidential candidate who led a political party in Haiti has been shot to death in the capital. The slaying…

By REBECCA REYNOLDS Associated Press LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Police saw Carmon Tussey walking briskly toward a crowded Louisville bar carrying a…

By BRIAN WITTE Associated Press ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — Wes Moore could soon make history if elected Maryland’s first Black governor, and he’s…

By TAIJING WU Associated Press TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Some 120,000 people paraded in the streets of Taipei despite the rainy weather in the city’s…

QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) — Authorities say a shootout with militants in northwestern Pakistan killed two soldiers. Also on Saturday in Pakistan,…

By MARK SHERMAN and HANNAH SCHOENBAUM Associated Press CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (AP) — Once a bastion of segregation, the University of North Carolina now…

By JEFF McMILLAN Associated Press Lately, drag has been dragged through the mud. The art form has been cast in a false light in recent months by…

By ANDREW MELDRUM Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia announced Saturday that it will immediately suspend its implementation of a…

By ZARAR KHAN Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan’s foreign ministry says that a 75-year-old from Pakistan who was the oldest prisoner…

LONDON (AP) — The head of Britain’s Royal Navy said he is “deeply disturbed” by allegations that female submariners were bullied and sexually…

By ZEN SOO Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong customs seized 1.8 metric tons (2 tons) of liquid methamphetamine in the city’s…

By MIKE CORDER Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Hannah Pick-Goslar, one of Jewish diarist Anne Frank’s best friends, has died at…