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MUNICH (AP) — The beer is flowing at Munich’s world-famous Oktoberfest for the first time since 2019. With three knocks of a hammer and the…

MOSCOW (AP) — The security chiefs of Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan sat down for talks Saturday to stop fighting on the border between the two countries…

NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — Cyprus on Saturday hailed the full lifting of a U.S. arms embargo on the ethnically divided island nation as a milestone…

By JILL LAWLESS, DANICA KIRKA and MIKE CORDER Associated Press LONDON (AP) — All eight of Queen Elizabeth II’s grandchildren stood in silent…

By KELVIN CHAN AP Business Writer LONDON (AP) — Royal fans have poured into the heart of London to experience the flag-lined roads, pomp-filled…

By NICHOLAS RICCARDI Associated Press Spurred by conspiracy theories about the 2020 presidential election, activists around the country are using…

By BILL BARROW Associated Press DECATUR, Ga. (AP) — Stacey Abrams, Georgia Democrats’ nominee for governor, is launching an intensive effort…

By ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department asked a federal appeals court Friday to lift a judge’s order that…

WASHINGTON (AP) — A gold judicial collar made of glass beads that belonged to the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has sold at auction for more…

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Attorneys for Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz have asked for the judge in his murder case to remove herself two…

By SCOTT SONNER Associated Press RENO, Nev. (AP) — A Nevada judge has ordered a former deputy state attorney general accused of killing a…

YUCAIPA, Calif. (AP) — A woman who disappeared when a downpour in a recently burned area unleashed mudslides that tore through her Southern…

By JESSE BEDAYN Associated Press/Report for America DENVER (AP) — Cities from Anchorage to New Orleans are shuttering their pandemic-era hotels…

WASHINGTON (AP) — ABC’s “This Week” — New York City Mayor Eric Adams; Ukrainian Ambassador to the U.S. Oksana Markarova; El Paso, Texas,…

By ED WHITE Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — A judge has approved a fund for more than 1,000 people who said they were sexually assaulted by a…

LAFAYETTE, Colo. (AP) — Hundreds of people including police officers from across Colorado have paid tribute to a Denver area officer fatally shot…

By BECKY BOHRER, MARK THIESSEN and JOHN ANTCZAK Associated Press JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — Residents on Alaska’s vast and sparsely populated western…

NORFOLK, Va. (AP) — Police in Virginia are searching for a man found guilty earlier this week of conspiring to kill a college student who was a…

By ANDREW DeMILLO Associated Press A Texas judge has expanded her order blocking the state from investigating families of transgender youth who have…

By FABIOLA SÁNCHEZ Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s Independence Day parade had even more of a militaristic air this year coming…

By STEVE KARNOWSKI Associated Press EAGAN, Minn. (AP) — Democratic Gov. Tim Walz has rolled out a framework for fighting climate change that shows…

By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — “The Phantom of the Opera” — Broadway’s longest-running show — is scheduled to…

By JAMES POLLARD Associated Press/Report for America COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A lawsuit alleging the rampant sexual abuse of underage athletes at a…

KEY WEST, Fla. (AP) — The Southernmost Point marker in Key West, Florida, a landmark delineating the continental United States’ southernmost spot…

By STEVE DOUGLAS AP Sports Writer Queen Elizabeth II has been remembered and honored with touching tributes as the English Premier League resumed…

SEATTLE (AP) — Crews later this month will begin trying to recover the wreckage of a seaplane that crashed in Puget Sound off Whidbey Island in…

By JIM SALTER Associated Press LAKE OZARK, Mo. (AP) — Democratic Missouri U.S. Senate candidate Trudy Busch Valentine called for compassion for…

By DENISE LAVOIE AP Legal Affairs Writer RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A Virginia judge on Friday dismissed a lawsuit filed on behalf of 13 young people who…

By The Associated Press DENVER (AP) — A Colorado judge has partially granted a request by news organizations to release an amended autopsy report…

By SOPHIE AUSTIN Associated Press/ Report for America SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed a package of bills aimed at…

By ANDREW DeMILLO Associated Press LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Former White House press secretary Sarah Sanders, who is running for governor in…

By KEN MILLER Associated Press OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Prosecutors say an inmate who had just been booked into an Oklahoma jail got away from the…

NEW YORK (AP) — A mother charged with drowning her three children at New York’s Coney Island beach has been arraigned on murder charges. The…

By BOB CHRISTIE Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — The Republican leaders of the Arizona Legislature will not try to defend a new law limiting…

ELKHART, Ind. (AP) — Police say a staffer for Republican U.S. Rep. Jackie Walorski was trying to pass a flat-bed truck on a northern Indiana…

By WAYNE PARRY Associated Press ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — New Jersey’s casinos, horse tracks that offer sports betting and the online partners…

By ED WHITE Associated Press A judge has slashed nearly four years off the prison sentence of a star witness in the plot to kidnap Michigan’s…

By BOUBACAR DIALLO Associated Press CONAKRY, Guinea (AP) — Guinea’s justice minister says a trial date has been set nearly 13 years after a…

By HOLLY RAMER Associated Press CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — A New Hampshire lawmaker proposes extending the March deadline to close the state’s troubled…

By HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Novelist Gayl Jones is a fiction nominee for the National Book Award, the rare established name…

By CHRISTINA A. CASSIDY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Sensitive voting system passwords posted online. Copies of confidential voting software…

By REGINA GARCIA CANO Associated Press CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaidó has offered a broad accounting of…

By STEPHEN GROVES Associated Press SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem is showing no sign of fighting an action taken against…

By LEAH WILLINGHAM Associated Press CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — Republican Gov. Jim Justice has signed into law a ban on abortions at all stages of…

By DUSAN STOJANOVIC Associated Press BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Organizers of European LGBTQ events held in Belgrade this week have said they will…

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — A federal judge has ruled that a Louisville police officer violated a Black teenager’s constitutional rights during a 2018…

CHICAGO (AP) — Two Chicago police officers face felony charges for allegedly shooting and seriously wounding an unarmed man during a July shootout…

By MARGERY A. BECK Associated Press OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A Nebraska judge has rejected a lawsuit filed by two Omaha women who sought to have both…

SAND SPRINGS, Okla. (AP) — Three northeastern Oklahoma high school students were killed when the vehicle they were in crashed into a tree Thursday,…

By JOHN RABY Associated Press CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A Maryland company says it will build a natural gas power plant designed to capture…

DENVER (AP) — A Colorado man has been convicted of first-degree murder and other charges in the cold case slayings of two women whose bodies were…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. General Assembly has voted to allow Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy…

By BASSEM MROUE Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Palestinians have commemorated the 40th anniversary of the horrific killings in a refugee camp in…

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (AP) — A West Virginia school district’s directive to remove pride flags from classrooms is drawing complaints from students…

By ED WHITE Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — A judge has found key parts of Michigan’s newborn blood-testing program unconstitutional in a…

BERLIN (AP) — A town in central Germany has voted in favor of letting all swimmers bathe topless at its four municipal pools. German news agency…

By DREW COSTLEY AP Science Writer JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A boil-water advisory has been lifted for Mississippi’s capital, and the state will…