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CLARENCE, N.Y. (AP) — A 2,554-pound pumpkin grown in upstate New York has set a new U.S. record for the heaviest. The Buffalo News reports that…

TIRANA, Albania (AP) — Albanian authorities have denied that the country’s police system was hacked after local media reported that data on…

By The Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Ringo Starr has tested positive for COVID-19, forcing the former Beatle to cancel several scheduled…

By EDITH M. LEDERER and SETH BORENSTEIN Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is warning that the world is…

By MATTHEW BROWN Associated Press BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — A Montana judge has struck down as unconstitutional three laws that restricted voting,…

By ANNE M. PETERSON AP Sports Writer An independent investigation into the scandals that erupted in the National Women’s Soccer League last…

By ED WHITE Associated Press JACKSON, Mich. (AP) — Jury selection is underway in a third trial connected to a 2020 anti-government plot to kidnap…

By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — A Russian court on Monday set Oct. 25 as the date for American basketball star Brittney…

COLUMBUS, Miss. (AP) — Forty years after Mississippi University for Women started enrolling men, its president says the school should consider…

By The Associated Press Here’s a collection curated by The Associated Press’ entertainment journalists of what’s arriving on TV, streaming…

By JIM SALTER Associated Press Planned Parenthood officials have announced plans for a mobile abortion clinic, a 37-foot RV that will stay in…

ST. PETERSBURG, Russia (AP) — Valery Mitko, a renowned Russian polar scientist has died while being under house arrest on charges of treason. He…

By FAZEL RAHMAN FAIZI Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — A tally compiled by The Associated Press shows that last week’s suicide bombing at a…

By FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. government has imposed sanctions on the head of Bosnia’s autonomous Bosniak-Croat…

THESSALONIKI, Greece (AP) — Police in Greece say a 41-year-old Tunisian man has been arrested for alleged disorderly behavior on a commercial…

By DAN GELSTON AP Sports Writer CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — Philadelphia 76ers coach Doc Rivers took his players to Charleston, South Carolina, as a…

By MICHAEL BALSAMO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Interior Department has launched a set of new policies that would require thousands…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court is siding with a Russian oil company in a dispute with Ukraine worth millions, a win for the company as Russia…

By JIM GOMEZ Associated Press MANILA, Philippines (AP) — A trip by Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. to Singapore over the weekend to watch…

by SABINE NIKSIC Associated Press SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) — Bosnia’s long-entrenched sectarian parties are poised to be the overall…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court says it won’t review the conviction of former coal CEO Don Blankenship, who was convicted of conspiring to…

By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Apple Music is about to cross a huge milestone, offering its eye-and-ear-popping 100…

By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Andrew Lloyd Webber is saying goodbye to his last remaining show on Broadway and welcoming…

By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer Sacheen Littlefeather, the actor and activist who declined Marlon Brando’s 1973 Academy Award for “The Godfather”…

By KIRSTEN GRIESHABER and JOVANA GEC Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — The leaders of Hungary, Austria and Serbia have met in Budapest to find…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court said Monday it will hear two cases seeking to hold social media companies financially responsible for terrorist…

HERMANTOWN, Minn. (AP) — Federal investigators hope to determine what caused a single-engine plane to crash into a house in northern Minnesota,…

By LORNE COOK Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union and Israel have held high-level talks for the first time in a decade. The…

By LINDSAY WHITEHURST, ALANNA DURKIN RICHER and MICHAEL KUNZELMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A trial that started this week in Washington,…

By MONIKA SCISLOWSKA Associated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s foreign minister has signed an official note to Germany requesting some…

BANGKOK (AP) — Heavy rain in northern, northeastern and central Thailand has worsened severe flooding in many parts of the country, as authorities…

By SYLVIA HUI Associated Press LONDON (AP) — King Charles III and his wife Camilla, the queen consort, have visited Scotland in their first joint…

By BARRY HATTON Associated Press LISBON, Portugal (AP) — Clergy sexual abuse cases are casting a pall over the Catholic Church in Portugal. They…

By OMAR FARUK Associated Press MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — Officials and witnesses say at least 12 people are dead after extremist fighters targeted…

By MICHELLE CHAPMAN and KEN SWEET AP Business Writer The long list of celebrities promoting cryptocurrencies just got shorter. Kim Kardashian is…

By THOMAS ADAMSON AP Fashion Writer PARIS (AP) — It was as much art fair as fashion show for designer Stella McCartney, who put on an art-infused…

ISLAMABAD (AP) — A defense lawyer says a Pakistani court has accepted former Prime Minister Imran Khan’s apology in a contempt case stemming from…

By VANESSA GERA Associated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — A spokesman for Poland’s communist-era government in the 1980s who masterminded state…

By ROBERT BADENDIECK and MEHMET GUZEL Associated Press ISTANBUL (AP) — Vladimir Putin’s military draft “changed everything” for the tens of…

By JUSTIN SPIKE Associated Press BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Theaters and other cultural institutions in Hungary are reeling from exponentially…

By The Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has responded publicly to the biggest…

By JAN M. OLSEN Associated Press COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Sweden’s navy says it has sent a vessel capable of “advanced diving missions”…

By STEPHEN WHYNO and JOHN WAWROW AP Hockey Writers Johnny Gaudreau leaving Calgary for Columbus headlined a busy offseason of player movement around…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press BIRMINGHAM, England (AP) — Britain has sent a Royal Navy ship to patrol the North Sea, as Western allies try to…

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian forces scored more gains in their counteroffensive across at least two fronts…

By MUNIR AHMED Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — The United Nations humanitarian agency is warning that 5.7 million flood survivors in Pakistan…

By OMAR FARUK Associated Press MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — Somali authorities say a top leader of the al-Shabab extremist group has been killed in a…

By SAM MEDNICK and ARSENE KABORE Associated Press OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso (AP) — Burkina Faso’s new junta leader Capt. Ibrahim Traore says…

SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) — Bulgaria’s central election commission says the center-right GERB party of ex-premier Boyko Borissov appears to be the…

By EMRAH GUREL and SUZAN FRASER Associated Press CELIKHAN, Turkey (AP) — Tobacco growers in southeast Turkey’s Celikhan district are feeling…

By MATT O’BRIEN AP Technology Writer Twitter wants a Delaware court to order Elon Musk to buy the social media service for $44 billion, as he…

By PIETRO DE CRISTOFARO and LAURA UNGAR Associated Press LEIPZIG, Germany (AP) — Swedish scientist Svante Paabo has won this year’s Nobel Prize…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s Prime Minister Fumio Kishida says he will humbly listen to people’s “harsh voices”…

PITTSBURGH (AP) — A spectator at Sunday’s game between the Pittsburgh Steelers and New York Jets has died following a fall at Acrisure Stadium.…

By TIA GOLDENBERG Associated Press TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Palestinian officials say the Israeli military has killed two Palestinians in the…

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Asian shares rose Tuesday, encouraged by a rally in U.S. shares after some weak economic data…

By AGOES BASOEKI and EDNA TARIGAN Associated Press MALANG, Indonesia (AP) — An Indonesian police chief and nine elite officers were removed from…

By LAURAN NEERGAARD AP Medical Writer Doctors have a message for vaccine-weary Americans: Don’t skip your flu shot this fall — and seniors,…

By DAVID McHUGH AP Business Writer Europe is facing unprecedented risks to its energy supply this winter. That’s the word Monday from the…

By JAMIE STENGLE Associated Press DALLAS (AP) — A prosecutor says he plans to present DNA evidence linking a man accused of killing 22 elderly…

By MICHAEL BIESECKER, SARAH EL DEEB and BEATRICE DUPUY Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — When the bulk cargo ship Laodicea docked in Lebanon last…

By ROBERT BUMSTED and BOBBY CAINA CALVAN Associated Press SANIBEL ISLAND, Fla. (AP) — There was no time to waste. As Hurricane Ian lashed southwest…

By BOBBY CAINA CALVAN and REBECCA SANTANA Associated Press FORT MYERS, Fla. (AP) — Days after the skies cleared and the winds died down in Florida,…

By KIM CHANDLER, MARK SHERMAN and GARY FIELDS Associated Press MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Congressional districts that a federal court panel said were…

By KIM CHANDLER, MARK SHERMAN and GARY FIELDS Associated Press MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — The invisible line dividing two of Alabama’s…

By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER, MICHAEL KUNZELMAN and LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The founder of the Oath Keepers extremist…

By JESSICA GRESKO and MARK SHERMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court began its new term Monday with a new justice on the bench,…

By SEUNG MIN KIM, DARLENE SUPERVILLE and DANICA COTO Associated Press PONCE, Puerto Rico (AP) — President Joe Biden promises to “rebuild it…

By FERNANDO LLANO Associated Press MAZATLAN, Mexico (AP) — Hurricane Orlene has made landfall on Mexico’s Pacific coast near the tourist town of…