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By GEIR MOULSON Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — German natural gas importer Uniper says it’s in “final discussions” with the government on a…

NABLUS, West Bank (AP) — Palestinian security forces have exchanged fire with militants in the center of the West Bank’s second-largest city,…

By HUIZHONG WU Associated Press TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — A nighttime bus crash that killed 27 people in southwest China this week has set off a storm…

AMARILLO, Texas (AP) — A gunman shot three people, including two first responders, at the Tri-State Fair & Rodeo in Texas before he was shot…

By GLENN GAMBOA AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria will get some high-powered help this…

CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australian wildlife authorities are investigating the deaths of 14 young sperm whales that were found beached on an…

By LORNE COOK Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — Hungary’s justice minister is urging her European Union partners to be “tolerant” after…

By LORI HINNANT and VASILISA STEPANENKO Associated Press IZIUM, Ukraine (AP) — Izium, in far eastern Ukraine, was among the first cities taken by…

By DOUG FEINBERG AP Basketball Writer SYDNEY (AP) — Brittney Griner’s highly publicized legal woes in Russia and the country’s invasion…

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian-controlled regions of eastern and southern Ukraine announced plans Tuesday to start…

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Asian shares mostly rose Tuesday, after Wall Street closed higher on a late buying spree following…

By RODNEY MUHUMUZA Associated Press KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — Ugandan health authorities say a man who died this week has tested positive for the…

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — An unofficial tribunal organized by a group of media freedom organizations has declared Mexico, Sri Lanka and Syria…

By COLLEEN BARRY Associated Press MILAN (AP) — Giambarini Group’s plants in northern Italy must keep zinc baths that rustproof steel and iron…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Prime Minister Liz Truss has kicked off her first visit to the United States as Britain’s leader…

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australian iron ore miner Fortescue Metals Group has announced a $6.2 billion plan to…

By TRAVIS LOLLER Associated Press PADUCAH, Ky. (AP) — A Kentucky man who killed three students and wounded five more in a school shooting 25 years…

By KATHLEEN RONAYNE Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — In director Adam McKay’s “Don’t Look Up,” a 2021 satire about…

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Asian shares mostly declined Wednesday as investors looked ahead to a widely expected interest…

By STEVE PEOPLES and AARON M. KESSLER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrats are pumping an unprecedented amount of money into advertising…

By STEVE PEOPLES and AARON M. KESSLER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrats are pumping an unprecedented amount of money into advertising…

By MEG KINNARD Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris is visiting two historically Black colleges in South Carolina to…

By CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Nigeria’s anti-drug agency says it seized a record 1.8 tons of cocaine valued at $278…

By MARY CLARE JALONICK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — House Democrats are voting this week on changes to a 19th century law for certifying…

By JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The world’s problems seized the spotlight Tuesday as the U.N. General…

By DÁNICA COTO Associated Press CAYEY, Puerto Rico (AP) — Hurricane Fiona blasted the Turks and Caicos Islands on Tuesday as a Category 3 storm…

By DAN GELSTON AP Sports Writer PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Jalen Hurts threw for 333 yards and a touchdown and he ran for 57 yards and two more scores to…

By KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korean prosecutors have asked Interpol to issue a fugitive alert for the founder…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — A tropical storm that dumped heavy rain as it cut across Japan moved into the Pacific Ocean on…

By KIM CHANDLER Associated Press MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — A U.S. judge on Monday blocked Alabama from executing an inmate who says the state lost…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A former University of Southern California dean has pleaded guilty in a bribery case involving a powerful Los Angeles…

Developers and city officials are pushing back on family members’ expectations for a memorial for 98 people who died last year when a beachfront…

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A man who broke windows and security cameras at a Planned Parenthood clinic in southwestern Oregon because he opposed…

PECOS, Texas (AP) — A U.S. judge in West Texas has ruled unconstitutional a federal law banning those under felony indictments from buying guns.…

By AYA BATRAWY AP Business Writer UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Germany’s climate envoy says the country remains committed to phasing out coal as a…

By MARK THIESSEN Associted Press ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Authorities in Alaska were making contact Monday with some of the most remote villages in…

By PAUL J. WEBER Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A Texas sheriff on Monday opened an investigation into two flights of migrants sent to…

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. (AP) — An executive of a vegan food products company has been charged with felony battery and making a terroristic threat after…

By AUDREY McAVOY Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — A former Maui County official and the Honolulu businessman who paid him $2 million in bribes in…

NEW IBERIA, La. (AP) — Lucille Fremin Babineaux, mother of Louisiana’s first female governor and matriarch of a large family, is dead at age…

GOLDEN, Colo. (AP) — An 89-year-old woman has died after she was attacked by two pit bulls at a home west of Denver last week. Golden police say…

By JOHN FLESHER AP Environmental Writer TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) — Seven Midwestern states are teaming up to accelerate the development of…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Liz Truss is heading straight from the funeral of Queen Elizabeth II to the…

By ANDREW SELSKY Associated Press SALEM, Ore. (AP) — County clerks in Oregon are inundated with public records requests stemming from “the big…

By DAVID KOENIG AP Airlines Writer The federal government has turned down a request by a regional airline to hire pilots with half the flying…

By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Nikola Corp.’s top executive, testifying at the trial of the truckmaker’s founder,…

By TOM DAVIES Associated Press INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — A top state lawyer has derided arguments that Indiana’s new abortion ban violates the state…

By ELLEN KNICKMEYER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The United Nations says it has finally reached a yearslong pledging goal to raise money to…

By JIM SALTER Associated Press CLAYTON, Mo. (AP) — St. Louis-area prosecutors say a convicted murderer serving a life sentence for killing a man in…

By MATTHEW LEE AP Diplomatic Writer NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken met with the foreign ministers of Armenia and Azerbaijan…

By MALLIKA SEN Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — How high are the barriers to entry at the U.N. General Assembly? Less than 4 feet (1.2…

By ANDREW KATELL Associated Press A Russian mega-pop star’s criticism of President Vladimir Putin’s war in Ukraine has set off intense reactions…

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — The U.S. Department of Justice has opened an investigation into allegations of discrimination against Black officers by the…

By BRIAN WITTE Associated Press BALTIMORE (AP) — A Baltimore judge on Monday ordered the release of Adnan Syed after overturning Syed’s…

By CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Authorities in Nigeria say they are battling the worst flooding the West African nation has…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — France’s foreign minister is urging Iran to take the last offer on the table to revive…

NEW YORK (AP) — Video game producer Rockstar Games says early development footage from the next version of its popular title Grand Theft Auto was…

By ELLIOT SPAGAT Associated Press SAN DIEGO (AP) — U.S. authorities say the number of Venezuelans taken into custody at the U.S. border with Mexico…

By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Thirteen years after James Cameron plunged moviegoers into the cosmic world of “Avatar,” the lush,…

By AMY BETH HANSON Associated Press HELENA, Mont. (AP) — After months of defiance, Montana’s health department said Monday it will follow a…

By MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A NASA lander on Mars has captured the vibrations and sounds of four meteoroids…

By ALBERT AJI Associated Press DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — The World Health Organization says a plane carrying medical supplies to deal with the spread…

By TERRY SPENCER Associated Press FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — The judge overseeing the penalty trial of Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz has…

By DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — I couldn’t see the lone piper. But it didn’t matter. As the sounds of the Scottish lament,…

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel’s prime minister has vowed to begin production at a contested Mediterranean natural gas field “as soon as it is…

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The former Wisconsin Supreme Court justice who led a fruitless 14-month investigation into the state’s 2020 election…

By FABIOLA SÁNCHEZ and MARÍA VERZA Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — A magnitude 7.6 earthquake shook Mexico’s central Pacific coast on…