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By DAVE KOLPACK Associated Press WAHPETON, N.D. (AP) — When North Dakota State College of Science suffered a heartbreaking loss in early September…

HALSEY, Neb. (AP) — Firefighters have nearly contained a large wildfire in the Nebraska Sandhills that has burned roughly 30 square miles and led…

ROCHESTER, N.Y. (AP) — City officials agreed to pay $12 million to the children of Daniel Prude, a Black man who died after police held him down…

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The Mississippi solicitor general has argued to a federal appeals court that the U.S. Justice Department overreached in suing…

By BRIAN WITTE Associated Press ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — The family of the victim in the murder case chronicled in the first season of the…

By CARA ANNA Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Food security, consumer rights and biodiversity groups are protesting Kenya’s reversal of a…

By FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The International Monetary Fund is once again lowering its projections for global economic…

By MICHAEL RUBINKAM Associated…

NEW YORK (AP) — Jada Pinkett Smith has a lifetime of thoughts she’d like to set down. The actor, singer entrepreneur and host of “Red Table…

By SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A Wisconsin judge is prohibiting voters from canceling their original absentee ballot and…

By KATHY McCORMACK Associated Press CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — “Missing Millions” is a 1922 silent film with a darkly prescient title — like…

By KATHLEEN RONAYNE, MICHAEL CASEY and GEOFF MULVIHILL Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — In California’s capital, massive tent…

By EDUARDO VERDUGO Associated Press SAN MIGUEL TOTOLAPAN, Mexico (AP) — A drug gang shot to death 20 people, including a mayor and his father, in…

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Two young children died and their mother was hospitalized after two family dogs attacked them at their home in Tennessee,…

By MIKE CORDER Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — A Dutch court has ordered the government and its asylum-seeker accommodation agency…

By HALELUYA HADERO NEW YORK (AP) — Amazon will hire 150,000 full-time, part-time and seasonal employees across its warehouses ahead of the holiday…

A fire broke out late Wednesday evening at an Amazon facility in upstate New York that’s voting in a union election next week. In a statement, an…

BRUSSELS (AP) — EU lawmakers have condemned the crackdown on media freedom in military-ruled Myanmar. In a resolution adopted Thursday, MEPs called…

By JOVANA GEC Associated Press BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Hungary’s foreign minister says his country and Austria will provide Serbia with…

By MATT OTT AP Business Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — More Americans filed for unemployment benefits last week, but the labor market remains strong even…

WASHINGTON (AP) — WNBA star Brittney Griner is at her “absolute weakest moment in life right now” as she faces a hearing in Russia later this…

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkey’s state-run news agency says Ankara has appointed a new ambassador to Israel in the latest step between the two…

By JANELLE RETKA of The Seattle Times Amid national teacher shortages, community colleges are stepping in, launching teacher-training programs…

By JULIE CARR SMYTH Associated Press CARROLLTON, Ohio (AP) — With early voting less than three weeks away, Nicole Mickley was staring down a…

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Sweden’s domestic security agency says its preliminary investigation of leaks from two Russian gas pipelines in the…

By HERBERT MOYO Associated Press MASERU, Lesotho (AP) — Voters across the picturesque mountain kingdom of Lesotho are heading to the polls Friday…

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s top automaker Toyota says it has identified how to fix its 2023 model year bZ4X…

By KRISTIN M. HALL AP Entertainment Writer NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Loretta Lynn, the Grammy-winning country music icon who died Tuesday at 90,…

BERLIN (AP) — Germans are using too much gas now to avoid a potential energy shortage this winter. That’s the warning delivered Thursday by…

By ABDOULIE JOHN Associated Press BANJUL, Gambia (AP) — Gambia has launched an urgent door-to-door campaign to remove cough and cold syrups blamed…

By ROD McGUIRK Associcated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says it’s “hard to say” whether the…

By CIARÁN GILES Associated Press MADRID (AP) — The driver of a train that crashed in Spain in 2013, killing 80 people, has told a court he braked…

PARIS (AP) — Under the watchword “Every gesture counts,” France’s government is detailing an energy-saving drive to get the country…

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — The Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says Uganda next week will host a ministerial meeting on the outbreak…

PARIS (AP) — The French ski federation, mayors from mountain resorts and ski instructors have lashed out at the decision to award the 2029 Asian…

By FOSTER KLUG Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — A drumbeat of increasingly powerful North Korean missile launches has been met with a U.S. aircraft…

By The Associated Press The head of Ukraine’s human rights commission says Russian authorities detained hundreds of Ukrainians as they tried to…

By MARC LEVY and BRIAN SLODYSKO Associated Press HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — In his campaign for a crucial U.S. Senate seat, Democrat John Fetterman…

By JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press GENEVA (AP) — In a close diplomatic victory for China, the U.N.’s top human rights body has voted down a…

By AAMER MADHANI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is ready to celebrate a new $20 billion investment by IBM in New York with…

By HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea’s new conservative government says it will push to abolish a ministry on…

By LORNE COOK, KAREL JANICEK and SYLVIE CORBET Associated Press PRAGUE (AP) — The leaders of 44 European countries are meeting in what many say is…

By The Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran has published video footage showing two French citizens purportedly confessing to…

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — The Solomon Islands prime minister has assured Australia that he would not “endanger…

By TASSANEE VEJPONGSA and DAVID RISING Associated Press UTHAI SAWAN, Thailand (AP) — A former police officer facing a drug charge burst into a day…

BERLIN (AP) — A pilots strike at budget airline Eurowings has forced the German carrier to cancel hundreds of flights. The Lufthansa subsidiary…

By CARA ANNA Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Babies in Ethiopia’s embattled Tigray region are dying in their first month of life at four…

By DAVID KEYTON, JILL LAWLESS and MASHA “MACPHERSON Associated Press STOCKHOLM (AP) — French author Annie Ernaux, who has fearlessly mined…

By KRISHAN FRANCIS Associated Press COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lanka’s government has started debt restructuring discussions with China, an…

By ADAM SCHRECK Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian missiles hit apartment buildings in the southern Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhia on…

By THANASSIS STAVRAKIS and SRDJAN NEDELJKOVIC Associated Press KYTHIRA, Greece (AP) — Bodies floated amid splintered wreckage in the wind-tossed…

By The Associated Press The owner of a sports memorabilia auction house says he has offered $2 million to the fan who caught Aaron Judge’s…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated…

JERUSALEM (AP) — Former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been released from a Jerusalem hospital, his party said, a day after he was…

By The Associated Press Even as the Kremlin moved to absorb parts of Ukraine in a sharp escalation of the conflict, the Russian military suffered new…

SYDNEY (AP) — Australia’s largest city, Sydney, has been soaked by its wettest year on record with almost three months of expected above-average…

By STEFANIE DAZIO and OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The suspect in the kidnapping and killings of an 8-month-old baby,…

By JOE McDONALD AP Business Writers BEIJING (AP) — Asian shares followed Wall Street lower Friday ahead of U.S. jobs data investors hope will…

By ANITA SNOW Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Arizona voters this November will decide whether to allow students regardless of their immigration…

By LARRY NEUMEISTER and TOM HAYS Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Kevin Spacey is facing a jury in a New York City courtroom during a civil trial…

By DAVE COLLINS and PAT EATON-ROBB Associated Press WATERBURY, Conn. (AP) — A Connecticut jury has heard closing arguments in conspiracy theorist…

BEIJING (AP) — Sprawling Xinjiang is the latest Chinese region to be hit with sweeping COVID-19 travel restrictions, as China further ratchets up…

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — A police investigation of a cyberattack on an Australian telecommunications company in…

By GRANT PECK Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — A court in military-ruled Myanmar has sentenced a Japanese journalist to serve seven years prison…

By The Associated Press At least 66 clinics in 15 states have stopped providing abortions since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade,…

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The former chief security officer for Uber was convicted Wednesday of trying to cover up a 2016 data breach in which hackers…

By NICK PERRY Associated Press TŪROA SKI AREA, New Zealand (AP) — New Zealand’s Tūroa ski area is usually a white wonderland at this time of…

ATLANTA (AP) — A new report says a woman who claims Georgia Republican Senate nominee Herschel Walker paid for her 2009 abortion is the mother of…