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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…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican authorities say attackers have gunned down a mayor, his father and 16 others in the southern state of Guerrero. Later…

By GREG BEACHAM AP Sports Writer THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. (AP) — A protester who ran onto the field during the San Francisco 49ers’ home game…

By BOB CHRISTIE Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney on Wednesday said the Republican candidates for Arizona governor and…

By KRISTIN M. HALL AP Entertainment Writer NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Welcome to Lindeville, a fictional town for quirky small-town characters created…

By COLLEEN SLEVIN Associated Press DENVER (AP) — The Colorado baker who won a partial Supreme Court victory after refusing on religious grounds to…

By BARBARA ORTUTAY and TOM KRISHER Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A super app called X? A bot-free free speech haven? These are some of Elon…

By CHRISTOPHER WEBER Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Eric Weinberg, an executive producer and writer for the hit TV show “Scrubs” and many…

By THANASSIS STAVRAKIS Associated Press ATHENS, Greece (AP) — At least 15 people have died after two boats carrying migrants sank in Greek waters,…

By ELLEN KNICKMEYER Associated Press Debate over how to handle a North Korean ballistic missile launch over Japanese territory has again split an…

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A grim Mayor London Breed pledged for the second time in a year a serious crackdown on open air opioid drug sales and rampant…

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A family is demanding answers in the death of a migrant who authorities say was shot to death in rural west Texas by a man who…

By KEVIN McGILL Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A federal appeals court Wednesday ordered a lower court review of Biden administration…

By ALICIA RANCILIO Associated Press Hilary Swank has announced she’s pregnant with twins and says that revelation might explain some of her…

CHICAGO (AP) — A jury has convicted a man of first-degree murder in the 2016 slayings of six members of a Chicago family who were slaughtered in…

By HYUNG-JIN KIM and KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea flew 12 warplanes near its border with South Korea on…

By GABRIELA SELSER Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — Exiled Nicaraguan economist Javier Álvarez received terrible news this week: his wife,…

By MATT O’BRIEN AP Technology Writer Elon Musk’s monthslong tussle with Twitter took another twist this week after the Tesla billionaire…

BY DREW COSTLEY AP Science Writer Drought that stretched across three continents this summer — drying out large parts of Europe, the United States…

By ANNIE MA Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Democratic Sens. Dick Durbin and Tammy Duckworth are urging the Education Department to strengthen…

Associated Press RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Former Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has received two symbolic endorsements Wednesday ahead…

By KATHLEEN RONAYNE Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California water agencies that rely on the parched Colorado River said Wednesday…