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By JAN M. OLSEN Associated Press. COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — NATO believes that damage to two natural gas pipelines in the Baltic Sea is the result…

By MIKE CORDER Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — A frail 87-year-old Rwandan accused of encouraging and bankrolling the country’s…

By STEPHEN McGRATH Associated Press SIGHISOARA, Romania (AP) — In a dingy basement, chinchillas bred to provide the fashion industry with their fur…

By JORDAN HORROBIN Associated Press TORONTO (AP) — When Aaron Judge’s American League record-tying 61st home run dropped into Toronto’s…

UVALDE, Texas (AP) — Police in Uvalde, Texas, say two people were killed and 10 others injured after a pickup truck crashed into two other…

CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Most judges sitting on Australia’s highest court will be women for the first time in the institution’s 121-year…

By TERRY SPENCER, ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON and TIM REYNOLDS Associated Press FORT MYERS, Fla. (AP) — Rescue crews piloted boats and waded through…

By JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — Asian stocks sank again Friday after German inflation spiked higher, British Prime Minister Liz…

By STEVE KARNOWSKI Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Keith Ellison gave up a safe seat in Congress to run for Minnesota attorney general, saying…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Some 200 environmental and land defense activists were killed around the world in 2021, including some 54 in Mexico, which…

By MARK STEVENSON Associated Press VICAM, Mexico (AP) — Mexico has become the deadliest place in the world for environmental and land defense…

By DAVID BILLER Associated Press SALVADOR, Brazil (AP) — The vast blanket of white sand overlooking Salvador is a place to escape rumbling traffic,…

By AMY FORLITI Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A Chinese billionaire, one of the richest people in the world, is heading to trial in…

By CARA ANNA Associated Press DOLLOW, Somalia (AP) — Blindness heightens the remaining senses. The thud of a toppling camel is more jarring, the…

By BOBBY CAINA CALVAN and ALINA HARTOUNIAN The Associated Press Hundreds of hospital patients were being evacuated from facilities across the Fort…

By JOEY CAPPELLETTI Associated Press/Report for America LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Michigan lawmakers approved legislation Wednesday that would allow…

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — The first civil suit alleging Portland police used excessive violence against a 2020 racial justice demonstrator started…

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus says Australia could have tough new data protection laws…

By IAN HARRISON Associated Press TORONTO (AP) — Aaron Judge had gone seven games since his last home run, 34 plate appearances of fans quieting to…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Friend or foe? Or both? On the streets of Tokyo and Beijing, the ties between Japan and China…

TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Water drained from Tampa Bay as Hurricane Ian approached Florida’s Gulf Coast, pushed away by powerful storm winds. Ian…

By JONATHAN LANDRUM Jr. and ANDREW DALTON AP Entertainment Writers LOS ANGELES (AP) — Coolio, the rapper who was among hip-hop’s biggest…

By CURT ANDERSON Associated Press ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — Hurricane Ian, one of the most powerful storms ever recorded in the U.S., swamped…

By JANET McCONNAUGHEY Associated Pres NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The Army Corps of Engineers says the Mississippi River is so low and slow that salt water…

By TERRY TANG Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — After a Willem de Kooning painting worth millions was brazenly stolen in 1985 from an Arizona museum,…

By HALELUYA HADERO AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Amazon says it’s raising its average starting pay for frontline workers from $18 to $19 a…

By BARBARA ORTUTAY AP Technology Writer With roosters crowing in the background as he speaks from the crowded refugee camp in Bangladesh that’s…

NEW YORK (AP) — Former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo is taking his biggest steps yet to return to the public eye, more than a year after resigning in…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Some 200 environmental and land defense activists were killed around the world in 2021, including some 54 in Mexico, which…

By WANJOHI KABUKURU Associated Press MOMBASA, Kenya (AP) — The auctioning of oil and gas blocks in Congo has stirred resistance and concern among…

By MARK STEVENSON Associated Press VICAM, Mexico (AP) — Mexico has become the deadliest place in the world for environmental and land defense…

KEY WEST, Fla. (AP) — Officials say four Cuban migrants swam to shore in the Florida Keys and three others were rescued from the ocean after their…

By DON THOMPSON Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A broadly smiling California Gov. Gavin Newsom joined about two dozen jubilant, cheering…

By ADAM BEAM Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Two new laws in California will let developers bypass local governments to build housing on…

By MICHAEL R. SISAK and MICHAEL BALSAMO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A bipartisan group of U.S. senators introduced legislation Wednesday to…

By KATE BRUMBACK Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — The Georgia State Election Board held a meeting Wednesday meant to reassure board members and the…

By DOUG FERGUSON AP Golf Writer Saudi-funded LIV Golf is denying a report that it was close to a U.S. television deal in which it would buy time to…

By KEN SWEET and JAY REEVES The Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Regions Bank for a second time in a decade was found charging illegal overdraft…

GREENVILLE, S.C. (AP) — Authorities say a man who sent threats and photos of a gun to an ex-girlfriend has been shot and killed by deputies who…

By JESSICA GRESKO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court says it will continue providing live audio broadcasts of arguments in cases.…

By KEN MILLER Associated Press An Oklahoma prosecutor who is recovering after being stabbed by his adult daughter is calling on state lawmakers for…

By SEAN MURPHY Associated Press Writer OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The University of Oklahoma Medical Center says it is ceasing some gender-affirming…

By DAVE COLLINS and PAT EATON-ROBB Associated Press WATERBURY, Conn. (AP) — After watching days of testimony that included the parents of slain…

By TODD RICHMOND Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A judge will let a Wisconsin man accused of killing six people and injuring dozens more when…

By AMANDA SEITZ Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — At-risk people who received a single dose of the monkeypox vaccine in U.S. efforts against the…

By DON BABWIN Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — A judge has set bail at $500,000 for the man suspected of climbing a fire escape at a Chicago police…

By FARNOUSH AMIRI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell says he believes his party now has a 50-50 shot of…

By KEN RITTER Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — A Las Vegas judge declined to consider blocking government access to a slain investigative…

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden sought out deceased Rep. Jackie Walorski on Wednesday during remarks at a hunger conference, saying…

SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) — Authorities have charged a California woman with killing a man by ramming her car into him after accusing him of trying to…

MCALLEN, Texas (AP) — Three people have been arrested and accused of trying to transport smuggled migrants into interior of the United States by…

NEW YORK (AP) — The man charged with fatally striking “Gone Girl” actor Lisa Banes with an electric scooter last year pleaded guilty to…

By TOM HAYS Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A federal judge in New York says she plans to order disgraced R&B superstar R. Kelly to pay more…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. Mideast envoy says Israel continued its defiance of a 2016 U.N. Security…

By DON THOMPSON Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California will add wine and liquor bottles to its recycling rebate program under a law…

By The Associated Press Russian President Vladimir Putin warns that he won’t hesitate to use nuclear weapons to ward off Ukraine’s…

By LOLITA C. BALDOR and MATTHEW LEE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. will provide an additional $1.1 billion in aid to Ukraine, with…

LARSI, Georgia (AP) — Long lines of Russian men who are trying to escape being called up to fight in Ukraine continue to clog highways out of the…

By AAMER MADHANI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is warning the oil and gas companies against increasing prices for…

By ADAM SCHRECK and HANNA ARHIROVA Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — An adviser to Ukraine’s president says his country is determined to…

By JUAN A. LOZANO Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — A Jewish death row inmate who was part of a gang of prisoners who fatally shot a police officer…

By ANDREW DeMILLO Associated Press LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — One person was fatally shot Wednesday morning at a Little Rock-area hospital, and…

By DAVID McHUGH AP Business Writer FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — German automaker Volkswagen is holding a share offering for a minority stake in its…

By ALEX DANIELS of The Chronicle of Philanthropy Chronicle of Philanthropy As the number of immigrants seeking court permission to avoid deportation…

TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — A New Jersey grand jury has indicted 14 corrections officers on charges stemming from what authorities said was a brutal…

By AMY TAXIN Associated Press REDONDO BEACH, Calif. (AP) — Elsa Morin gripped the football and launched a perfect spiral. Then the 17-year-old…

By MADDIE BURAKOFF AP Science Writer NEW YORK (AP) — A scientist who built a global COVID-19 website received this year’s Lasker award for…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Two people have been arrested in connection with the fatal shooting of rapper PnB Rock and Los Angeles police were searching…

NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — Some 15 Griffon vultures from Spain have been released into the wild in Cyprus to help revive the east Mediterranean…

By ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration should create a new position at the White House National Security…

By KAREEM CHEHAYEB Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanon will hike its fixed currency exchange rate against the U.S. dollar 25 years after…

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Authorities have publicly identified the 14-year-old killed in a shooting that also wounded four other teens as they walked…

By JAN M. OLSEN and PATRICK WHITTLE Associated Press COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Methane leaking from the damaged Nord Stream pipelines is likely to…