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NEW YORK (AP) — The Metropolitan Opera, New York Philharmonic and Carnegie Hall are dropping their audience mask requirement starting Oct. 24,…

By MARC LEVY and MARK SCOLFORO Associated Press HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — The state and national Republican parties are suing anew in Pennsylvania in…

By BABA AHMED Associated Press BAMAKO, Mali (AP) — Officials say three U.N. peacekeepers have been killed in a roadside bomb attack in northern…

OKMULGEE, Okla. (AP) — Authorities say four Oklahoma men who were last seen riding their bicycles more than a week ago were shot and dismembered.…

By COLLIN BINKLEY and SEUNG MIN KIM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden on Monday officially kicked off the application process…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United Nations chief is demanding an immediate end to hostilities in Ethiopia’s…

By FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Treasury Department said Monday that it has sanctioned a group of high-ranking members of…

By FRANK JORDANS Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Chancellor Olaf Scholz has ordered his ministers to prepare to keep all of Germany’s three…

MOSCOW (AP) — A Russian warplane crashed Monday into a residential area in a Russian city on the Sea of Azov after suffering engine failure,…

MILWAUKEE (AP) — Musician Mike Schank, who was best known for his good guy role in the award-winning documentary film “American Movie,”…

GRAND ISLAND, Neb. (AP) — Authorities say the body of a woman found in the trunk of a car that crashed in south-central Nebraska during a police…

By SAMY MAGDY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — The U.N. says renewed tribal clashes in southern Sudan have killed at least 13 people and wounded more…

By CLAIRE RUSH Associated Press/Report for America PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — The retirement of Oregon’s longest serving congressman, Democratic U.S.…

By LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department is arguing that Steve Bannon should serve six months in prison and…

FORT MYERS, Fla. (AP) — Almost three weeks after Hurricane Ian made landfall in southwest Florida, students in the area’s largest school district…

BERLIN (AP) — The German government is launching a new program to help to bring about 1,000 people who are at risk of persecution in Afghanistan to…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — A former Japanese soldier who suffered sexual harassment while serving in the army says she has…

SWAMPSCOTT, Mass. (AP) — Coyotes surrounded a person walking their dog north of Boston over the weekend but were apparently scared off by police…

BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union has imposed sanctions on Iran’s morality police and the Islamic Republic’s information minister over their…

FERNANDINA BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Two men face attempted murder charges for allegedly firing into each other’s vehicles on a busy Florida highway and…

By RODNEY MUHUMUZA Associated Press KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — A group of Ugandan activists has launched a legal challenge to controversial new…

By HALELUYA HADERO AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The startup union that clinched a historic labor victory at Amazon earlier this year is…

By MARK SHERMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Monday rejected an appeal seeking to give people born in American Samoa…

BENNINGTON, Vt. (AP) — Ezra Miller pleaded not guilty Monday to stealing bottles of liquor from a neighbor’s home, one of a string of arrests…

By YURAS KARMANAU Associated Press TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — A leading Belarusian political activist has been sentenced to 25 years in prison for…

MORRIS, Conn. Authorities say a 250-pound black bear mauled a 10-year-old boy playing in his grandparents’ backyard in Connecticut and tried to…

By MATTHEW PERRONE AP Health Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The maker of a drug intended to reduce premature births is making a last-ditch effort to keep…

By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer NEW YORK (AP) — In Hollywood’s superhero era thus far, there has been one particularly conspicuous absence: While a…

By SUZAN FRASER Associated Press ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkey and Greece traded accusations 92 migrants who were found naked at their joint border,…

BERLIN (AP) — Germany has announced that it is issuing fines of 5.125 million euros ($5 million) against the operators of the messagging app…

By DANA BELTAJI Associated Press From incrementally rising temperatures and seas to an influx of natural disasters, the climate right now certainly…

By DANA BELTAJI Associated Press Addressing climate change — a now ubiquitous term for the warming of the planet caused by humans emitting carbon…

By SYLVIA HUI Associated Press LONDON (AP) — As British Prime Minister Liz Truss struggles to retain her authority, one man is seen to be in the…

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Norwegian police say four Russian nationals — three men and one woman — have been detained after they were seen…

By CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Officials in Nigeria say the death toll from this year’s flooding has risen to 603.…

BEIJING (AP) — China’s ruling Communist Party says it has investigated almost 5 million members for possible corruption over the last decade,…

BERLIN (AP) — King Felipe VI and Queen Letizia of Spain have started a state visit to Germany that was delayed for a year because of the…

By LIZ WESTON of NerdWallet Inflation isn’t leaving your life — at least not right now. While it’s still hanging around, you can take three…

By MICHELLE CHAPMAN AP Business Writer Credit Suisse has agreed to pay $495 million as part of a settlement with the U.S. over a yearslong dispute…

By KARL RITTER Associated Press STOCKHOLM (AP) — Sweden’s parliament has elected conservative leader Ulf Kristersson as prime minister at the…

BRUSSELS (AP) — NATO has begun its annual nuclear exercises in northwestern Europe as tensions simmer over the war in Ukraine and President…

BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union is sending up to 40 experts to Armenia to help watch over its border with Azerbaijan. The move agreed Monday is…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — A scathing report says officers in London’s Metropolitan Police force are getting away with…

BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union has approved a military training mission in Europe for thousands of Ukrainian troops. The 27-nation bloc also…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida has donated religious offerings to a Tokyo shrine viewed by…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s Prime Minister Fumio Kishida has ordered an investigation into the Unification Church.…

By JILL LAWLESS and DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The U.K.’s new Treasury chief ripped up the government’s economic plan on…

By MICHAEL LIEDTKE AP Technology Writer SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — Prosecution witness and former Theranos lab director Adam Rosendorff stood by his…

BERLIN (AP) — Pilots at Eurowings, the German airline Lufthansa’s budget subsidiary, have started their second strike this month in a dispute…

By JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — A Chinese official says the government plans to boost coal production through 2025 to avoid a…

By NICK PERRY Associated Press WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Is Shakespeare still relevant to today’s students? New Zealand’s arts council…

By RIAZAT BUTT and SHAZIA BHATTI Associated Press RAJANPUR, Pakistan (AP) — The first five months of Shakeela Bibi’s pregnancy were smooth. She…

By SABRA AYRES, HANNA ARHIROVA and INNA VARENYTSIA Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Waves of explosives-laden suicide drones struck…

By ANDREW DeMILLO Associated Press LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — The nation’s first trial over a state’s ban on gender-confirming care for…

By HANNAH FINGERHUT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — From his home in Collegeville, Pennsylvania, Graeme Dean says there’s plenty that’s…

By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer BANGKOK (AP) — Stocks were mostly higher in Asia on Tuesday after Wall Street rallied in its latest…

By CHRIS MEGERIAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — This year’s midterm elections are playing out as a strange continuation of the last…

By SUDHIN THANAWALA and GARY FIELDS Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Rhonda Briggins spent much of Election Day in 2020 at an Atlanta polling place…

By MICHELLE R. SMITH Associated Press VENICE, Fla. (AP) — It was less than three weeks before the Sarasota County, Florida, school board election…