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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…

By DEREK GATOPOULOS Associated Press CAPE SOUNION, Greece (AP) — When Stelios Zompanakis quit his job at Greece’s central bank to try his luck at…

By CARA ANNA Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Even as Ethiopia’s warring sides attend their first formal peace talks in a devastating…

NEW DELHI (AP) — India will contribute half a million dollars to the United Nations’ efforts to counter global terrorism. India’s…

By The Associated Press The Astros and Phillies travel Friday to Texas, where Game 6 of the World Series will be played a night later. Houston is on…

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland says it has chosen the U.S. government and Westinghouse to build its first nuclear power plant. The announcement is an…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. Mideast envoy said 2022 is on course to be the deadliest year for Palestinians…

By WAYNE PARRY Associated Press MIDDLETOWN, N.J. (AP) — Survivors of storms that pounded several U.S. states say the nation’s disaster aid system…

By BARBARA ORTUTAY, TOM KRISHER and MATT O’BRIEN AP Business Writers Twitter’s newly minted owner, the self-described “free speech…

By HARM VENHUIZEN Associated Press/Report for America MILWAUKEE (AP) — In Wisconsin’s tight U.S. Senate race, Democrat Mandela Barnes’…

By EVENS SANON Associated Press PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — The sun shone down on Stanley Joliva as medical staff at an open-air clinic hovered…

By MAURICIO SAVARESE Associated Press SAO PAULO (AP) — Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro and former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva made…

By NICHOLAS RICCARDI Associated Press DENVER (AP) — Democratic Sen. Michael Bennet and Republican challenger Joe O’Dea have clashed repeatedly in…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. Security Council has voted unanimously to extend the U.N. political mission in…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A man who spent more than 38 years behind bars for a 1983 murder and two attempted murders has been released from a California…

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — A 4.1-magnitude earthquake shook a small agricultural county in South Korea’s central region on Saturday, but officials…

SEATTLE (AP) — Facebook parent company Meta has been ordered to pay $10.5 million in legal fees to Washington state, atop a nearly $25 million fine…

By RONALD BLUM AP Baseball Writer HOUSTON (AP) — Grammy-nominated singer Eric Burton lost track of the lyrics during “The Star-Spangled…

By SEUNG MIN KIM and MARC LEVY Associated Press PHILADELPHIA (AP) — An energized President Joe Biden returned Friday to the Keystone State, his…

By MICHAEL BIESECKER and BERNARD CONDON Associated Press The man accused of breaking into House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s California home and…

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — British officials say they have seized more than 880 pounds (400 kilograms) of cocaine from a boat in Caribbean…

WASHINGTON (AP) — ABC’s “This Week” — Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla. __ NBC’s “Meet the Press” — Gov. Chris Sununu, R-N.H. __ CBS’…

By MICHAEL GOLDBERG Associated Press/Report for America JACKSON, Miss (AP) — Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves has extended the state of emergency over…

By MARY CLARE JALONICK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — It’s something that goes along with being a member of Congress, no matter your party or…

By AAMER MADHANI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden will make a week-long, three country trip next month for a quartet of…

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Federal prosecutors say they lack evidence to prove that one of two men accused in a July Fourth mass shooting plot in…

By FABIANO MAISONNAVE Associated Press RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — In an effort to get more votes and win reelection, the governor of the Brazilian state…

By ANDREW SELSKY Associated Press SALEM, Ore. (AP) — U.S. Department of Homeland Security officials in the Trump administration compiled extensive…

By MATT O’BRIEN AP Technology Writer Twitter’s unending fight against spam accounts is now a problem for new owner Elon Musk. He pledged in…

By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS Associated Press MOUND BAYOU, Miss. (AP) — The tiny, all-Black town of Mound Bayou became a safe haven for Emmett Till’s…

By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A Colorado businessman has been convicted of charges that he and others siphoned hundreds of…

By DON THOMPSON Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A former police officer already imprisoned for one fatal shooting in a wealthy San…

By ANDREW DALTON AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — An attorney for Harvey Weinstein on Friday repeatedly challenged a woman over why she…

By JOHN HANNA Associated Press TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A northeastern Kansas man is facing a felony charge of threating to kill one of the state’s…

By KEN RITTER Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — A rural Nevada county awash with voting machine conspiracy theories has stopped its unprecedented…

By JAY REEVES Associated Press Descendants of the Alabama steamship owner responsible for illegally bringing 110 African captives to America aboard…

By BECKY BOHRER Associated Press JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — A report released by a U.S. House committee says backers of a proposed copper and gold mine…

By HALELUYA HADERO and SOPHIA TULP The Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Shortly after Elon Musk took control of Twitter, some conservative…

DELPHI, Ind. (AP) — Police investigating the unsolved slayings of two teenage girls killed during a 2017 hiking trip in northern Indiana will hold…

By ACACIA CORONADO Associated Press UVALDE, Texas (AP) — Just hours after voting started in Texas, Kimberly Rubio cast her ballot in the same…

By The Associated Press This week’s new entertainment releases include albums by A Boogie Wit Da Hoodie and Phoenix, Daniel Radcliffe takes on…

By HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer Jerry Lee Lewis, the untamable rock ‘n’ roll pioneer whose outrageous talent, energy and ego collided on such…

By SUZAN FRASER Associated Press ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has laid out his vision for Turkey in the next…

By LEANNE ITALIE and FRED GOODALL Associated Press Tom Brady and Gisele Bündchen have finalized their divorce, they announced Friday, ending the…

By MIKE SCHNEIDER Associated Press Want to know the age and sex breakdown of people of Japanese ancestry in your U.S. state or territory? You may not…

By FELICIA FONSECA and KATHLEEN RONAYNE Associated Press FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — The Interior Department announced Friday that it will consider…

By JOSEPH KRAUSS Associated Press Qatar has summoned the German ambassador over remarks by Germany’s interior minister, who appeared to criticize…

By AARON MORRISON AP National Writer As the first-ever feature-length retelling of the lynching of Emmett Till goes into wide release, so does an art…

By HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer Jerry Lee Lewis, the untamable rock ‘n’ roll pioneer whose outrageous talent, energy and ego collided on such…

WINNIPEG, Manitoba (AP) — Canada’s government says it is imposing sanctions on 35 more Russians in response to that country’s invasion of…

By ÁLVARO BARRIENTOS Associated Press OVIEDO, Spain (AP) — A Polish human rights activist, a celebrated Mexican archaeologist and a Japanese…

By JOHN HANNA AP Political Writer TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The most influential anti-abortion group in Kansas politics is urging voters in mailers to…

By TRAVIS LOLLER Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A Tennessee judge has ordered the state to provide better care for a death row inmate who…

By YURAS KARMANAU Associated Press TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Authorities in Belarus added 625 people, most of them with political opposition ties, to…