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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…

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…