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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Department of Veterans has announced grant programs to help veterans who are homeless or who are at risk of losing their…

By The Associated Press Elon Musk is offering to go through with his original proposal to buy Twitter for $44 billion. The offer came just two weeks…

By ANDREW SELSKY Associated Press SALEM, Ore. (AP) — When U.S. Forest Service personnel carried out a planned burn in a national forest in Oregon…

By MEGAN JANETSKY Associated Press HAVANA (AP) — Hurricane Ian caused an island-wide blackout when it tore through western Cuba in late September.…

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is set to travel to New Mexico next week just days before the Nov. 8 midterm elections. The White House says…

By ED WHITE Associated Press A judge in Michigan is hearing evidence to determine if a police officer will stand trial for second-degree murder in…

By MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Two NASA spacecraft at Mars have recorded the biggest meteor strikes and impact…

By KIMBERLEE KRUESI Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A white former Nashville police officer who pleaded guilty to fatally shooting a Black…

CHICAGO (AP) — The owner of a senior housing facility on Chicago’s North Side where three women died amid a brief May heat wave has been fined…

By GENE JOHNSON Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) — The Republican mayor of Wenatchee, a small city in central Washington’s orchard country, didn’t…

TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — A court in Belarus has sentenced another independent journalist to three years in prison. It’s the second prison…

By MIKE SCHNEIDER Associated Press It has been a month since Hurricane Ian ravaged southwest Florida. Now multimillion-dollar cleanup contracts are…

By ANDREW SELSKY Associated Press SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Oregon voters are being asked to decide whether the state should be the first in the nation to…

LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak will not attend a major United Nations climate conference next month, the government said…

By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — A new exhibit celebrating King Tut is about to land in several cities with a very modern…

By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN Associated Press A Tennessee man who dragged a police officer into a mob of rioters during the U.S. Capitol attack has been…

By BARBARA SURK and OLEG CETINIC Associated Press PARIS (AP) — France’s TotalEnergies has reported third-quarter net income of $6.6 billion…

By SUSAN HAIGH Associated Press HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — National Republicans see an opportunity this year to finally flip a U.S. House seat in blue…

MOSCOW (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin has denied having any intentions of using nuclear weapons in Ukraine but described the conflict…

CLAYTON, Mo. (AP) — A Missouri jury has convicted a father and son for attacking a Pokemon Go rival in a dispute that ended with all three men in a…

By The Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Country star Alan Jackson will receive the CMA Willie Nelson Lifetime Achievement Award at the…

By TARA COPP and LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A new U.S. defense strategy says China remains the greatest security challenge…

NORTH LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — An Arkansas motorcyclist carrying a gasoline-filled backpack was expected to survive after he was engulfed by a…

By JIM SALTER Associated Press ST. LOUIS (AP) — The 19-year-old gunman who forced his way into a St. Louis school and killed two people purchased…

PARIS (AP) — In a show of France’s military prowess, President Emmanuel Macron has visited a Caesar cannon firing range and missile testing…

By MUNIR AHMED Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — Thousands of people mourned an outspoken Pakistani journalist as the nation’s spy chief and…

By LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer When Cate Blanchett stepped out of her first screening for “Tár,” she wanted to immediately go back and watch it…

COPENJHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — A man suspected of spying for Russia in Norway had bought a one-way ticket out of the Scandinavian country for the day…

By MATT OTT and ALEX VEIGA AP Business Writers WASHINGTON (AP) — Average long-term U.S. mortgage rates topped 7% for the first time in more than…

By MATT O’BRIEN AP Technology Writer Elon Musk is telling Twitter advertisers he is buying the platform to “help humanity” and doesn’t…

GUNTERSVILLE, Ala. (AP) — An Alabama man who was charged with killing two women and a boy months after being paroled from prison was convicted of…

By BHARATHA MALLAWARACHI Associated Press COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Thousands of Sri Lankans have marched in the capital to urge the government to…

By PETER SMITH Associated Press CARMICHAELS, Pa. (AP) — In one of the most closely watched races in one of the most contested of battleground…

HELSINKI (AP) — Danish lender Danske Bank says it will book a 14 billion Danish kroner ($1.9 billion) provision in the third quarter for impending…

By MATT OTT AP Business Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Slightly more Americans applied for unemployment benefits last week as the labor market remains…

By ALAN SUDERMAN Associated Press A former CIA officer who spied on Qatar’s rivals to help the tiny Arab country land this year’s World Cup is…

By ANDREW WELSH-HUGGINS Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The Columbus Museum of Art has opened a comprehensive exhibit on artist and…

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland has dismantled four communist-era monuments honoring Red Army soldiers, in a renewed drive to remove symbols of…

By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer Shares were mostly lower in Asia on Friday after a mixed session on Wall Street, where tech sector losses…

By ELENA BECATOROS Associated Press ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greece’s prime minister says he is ready to “extend a hand of friendship” to…

By The Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran’s supreme leader and its president have tried to link the nationwide protests…

By MIKE CORDER Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — China has reportedly established dozens of “overseas police stations” in nations…

By RODNEY MUHUMUZA and HAJARAH NALWADDA Associated Press KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — Uganda’s Ebola outbreak is under control, a top public health…

MOSCOW (AP) — Russian lawmakers have given preliminary approval to a bill that imposes tough new restrictions on activities to promote LGBTQ rights…

By HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Prince Harry’s memoir, an object of obsessive anticipation worldwide since it was first…

By ERIKA KINETZ Associated Press ZDVYZHIVKA, Ukraine (AP) — The carnage left by Russian soldiers on the road to Kyiv wasn’t random. It was…

BEIJING (AP) — Seagate Technology says the U.S. Department of Commerce has warned it may charge the computer hard-drive maker with violating…

BEIJING (AP) — Figures reported by Chinese tech giant Huawei indicate its revenue rose in the latest quarter as infrastructure sales helped to…

By JILL LAWLESS and DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The Northern Ireland Assembly has failed to elect a speaker, setting the stage for…

By SEUNG MIN KIM Associated Press SYRACUSE, N.Y. (AP) — President Joe Biden is focusing on economic issues as he fine-tunes his closing argument in…

By The Associated Press Russian President Vladimir Putin says Moscow has no intention to use nuclear weapons in Ukraine. Speaking on Thursday at a…

By JOSH BOAK Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — The Agriculture Department has announced $759 million in grants and loans to enable rural…

By DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Shell’s earnings have more than doubled in the third quarter. That has fueled the debate over…

By LIUDAS DAPKUS Associated Press VILNIUS, Lithuania (AP) — Russian TV personality Ksenia Sobchak — the glamorous daughter of Russian President…

By ANDREW MELDRUM Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian forces attacked Russia’s hold on the southern city of Kherson on Thursday…

By COLLEEN BARRY Associated Press MILAN (AP) — Exactly 100 years ago Friday, the Black Shirt March on Rome triggered events that brought Italian…