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PARIS (AP) — France is pledging air defense missiles to protect Ukrainian cities against drone strikes, and an expanded training program for…

By SABRA AYRES Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Pro-Kremlin officials on Sunday blamed Ukraine for a rocket attack that struck the mayor’s…

By TOM GOULD Associated Press NANJUA, Mozambique (AP) — Fleeing beheadings, shootings, rapes and kidnappings, nearly 1 million people are displaced…

By JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press GENEVA (AP) — For their first trip to a celebrated robotics contest for high school students from scores of…

By SAMYA KULLAB Associated Press BAGHDAD (AP) — Singers, actors, sports stars — the list goes on. Iranian celebrities have been startlingly…

By JOE McDONALD Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — Chinese leader Xi Jinping on Sunday called for faster military development and announced no change…

By AL LESAR Associated Press KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — After 15 years of being a rival to Alabama in name only, Tennessee snapped a humbling losing…

RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — The Palestinian Health Ministry says a man has died from a gunshot wound he suffered during confrontations with Israeli…

STOCKTON, Calif. (AP) — A man suspected of killing six men and wounding a woman in a series of shootings in Northern California was arrested before…

The Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Billionaire Elon Musk suggested in a Saturday tweet that his rocket company SpaceX may continue to fund its…

LONDON (AP) — Buckingham Palace says over 1,000 Paddington bears and other teddies left in tribute to the late Queen Elizabeth II in London and…

WILLISTON, N.D. (AP) — Trial has been scheduled for early next year for a North Dakota man accused of setting up an explosives manufacturing…

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greece accuses Turkey of forcing 92 migrants to cross into Greece and stripping them naked before doing so. Greek police said…

By GAVIN GOOD Associated Press CHAMPAIGN, Ill. (AP) — Chase Brown rushed for 180 yards on a career-high 41 carries and caught a 40-yard touchdown…

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ administration plans to continue flying migrants who entered the country illegally…

BENICIA, Calif. (AP) — Han Solo may be a hunk. But “Pan Solo” is a hunk of bread. That’s what a bakery in the San Francisco Bay Area has…

By RODNEY MUHUMUZA Associated Press KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — Ugandan authorities have imposed a travel lockdown on two Ebola-hit districts as part of…

CHICAGO (AP) — A Chicago police officer with ties with the Proud Boys, a far-right extremist group, was suspended for 120 days but won’t be…

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) — The International Rescue Committee says one of its workers was killed in an attack in Ethiopia’s embattled Tigray…

CAMP PENDLETON, Calif. (AP) — The Marine Corps has halted some operations of its new amphibious combat vehicles after one of the armored vehicles…

By ALLEN G. BREED and HANNAH SCHOENBAUM Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — For Hedingham resident Marvin Judd, Nicole Connors and her beloved…

BERLIN (AP) — The acting director of the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says he was “mistreated” upon his arrival at…

The Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Workers at an Apple store in Oklahoma City voted to unionize, marking the second unionized Apple store in the…

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — The trial of a Florida woman accused of dressing up as clown in 1990 and fatally shooting the wife of a man she later…

By COLLEEN LONG Associated Press PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — President Joe Biden strode into the telephone bank at a crowded union hall and eagerly began…

By JOHN LEICESTER Associated Press VERSAILLES, France (AP) — Even close to midnight on a school night, the tipoff was too important to ignore: A…

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis has given encouragement to a major Catholic lay group after the Vatican tightened rules to put checks on their…

By SAMYA KULLAB Associated Press BAGHDAD (AP) — A huge fire blazed Saturday at a notorious prison where political prisoners and anti-government…

By FRANCES D’EMILIO Associated Press ROME (AP) — The honeymoon is finished even before any marriage of political convenience in Italy could…

BRISTOL, Conn. (AP) — A Connecticut police officer who was wounded in an apparent ambush that killed two of his fellow officers fired the shot that…

By BARBARA ORTUTAY AP Technology Writer For months, the Tesla and SpaceX CEO has expressed interest in creating his own version of China’s WeChat…

By JONATHAN DREW Associated Press Callers who dialed 911 during a fatal North Carolina shooting rampage described encountering bodies on the streets…

By ZARAR KHAN Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan is pushing back against a comment by President Joe Biden in which he called the South…

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Police have named two more juvenile suspects in last month’s ambush shooting outside a Philadelphia high school that killed a…

JACKSON, Mich. (AP) — A judge has dismissed a young woman from the jury hearing the trial of three men in connection with a 2020 plot to kidnap…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Former President Barack Obama is headed to Georgia, Michigan and Wisconsin in the closing days of the 2022 campaign to give a…

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — A man drowned and there are reports of missing people as storms batter Crete, causing rivers to overflow and flooding…

By AARON MORRISON Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Gwen Carr sat up straight in her seat as she heard lines of dialogue delivered by the actor…

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — The Polish operator of an oil pipeline running to Germany says it has fixed the damage that caused a leak earlier this week…

By MATTHEW BROWN Associated Press MISSION, S.D. (AP) — After her mother died when Rosalie Whirlwind Soldier was just four years old, she was put…

LONDON (AP) — Three climate activists appeared in a London court on Saturday on charges of criminal damage after protests including throwing soup…

By JIM GOMEZ Associated Press MANILA, Philippines (AP) — At least 133 lawyers have been killed in the Philippines since the 1980s in work-related…

By AMANDA SEITZ Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The news that 70 million people will see an 8.7% boost in their Social Security checks next year…

By GENE JOHNSON Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) — The shooting deaths of two Connecticut officers and wounding of a third punctuated an especially…

By CURT ANDERSON Associated Press ZOLFO SPRINGS, Fla. (AP) — The thousands of oranges scattered on the ground by Hurricane Ian’s fierce winds are…

BERLIN (AP) — German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has called for reforms of the European Union to make it fit for the admission of new countries as well…

By ANDREW DeMILLO Associated Press LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — There are few surprises expected on Election Day in solidly Republican Arkansas, where…

BEIJING (AP) — China is opening a twice-a-decade party conference at which leader Xi Jinping is expected to receive a third five-year term that…

By GARY D. ROBERTSON Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Republican lawmakers and Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper are fighting in legislative…

By YESICA FISCH and LEO CORREA Associated Press ZAPORIZHZHIA, Ukraine (AP) — At least 11 Russian soldiers were killed Saturday in a shooting…

SRINAGAR, India (AP) — Assailants have fatally shot a Kashmiri Hindu man in violence police blamed on militants fighting against Indian rule in the…

By SYLVIA HUI Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Britain’s new Treasury chief on Saturday acknowledged mistakes made by his predecessor and…

By MEHMET GUZEL and ZEYNEP BILGINSOY Associated Press AMASRA, Turkey (AP) — Funerals for miners killed in a coal mine explosion in northern Turkey…