National-World

By JOSEPH KRAUSS Associated Press Israel’s decision to absolve itself of responsibility for the shooting death of a veteran Al-Jazeera journalist…

By MUNIR AHMED Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan’s former Prime Minister Imran has appeared in court and refused to formally apologize…

By DENG MACHOL Associated Press JUBA, South Sudan (AP) — Frantic civilians are drowning as they flee a new eruption in fighting in South Sudan, and…

THESSALONIKI, Greece (AP) — Greek authorities say a search and rescue operation has failed to locate a large group of migrants on an islet on the…

By MARY CLARE JALONICK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Majority Leader Chuck Schumer says the Senate will vote on legislation to protect…

ST. LOUIS (AP) — St. Louis police shot and killed a 61-year-old Sudanese refugee when he reportedly lunged at an officer with a knife after a long…

By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The fictional character Roxie Hart has many awful attributes, she’s adulterous,…

By MARK PRATT Associated Press Finding out that shrinkflation, adorkable, subvariant and even pumpkin spice are now officially in the dictionary…

By JEFFREY COLLINS Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina senators rejected a ban on almost all abortions Thursday in a special…

By LORNE COOK Associated Press RAMSTEIN AIR BASE, Germany (AP) — NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg says Ukraine and its supporters face a…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s governing party says nearly half of its national lawmakers had ties to the Unification…

By SYLVIE CORBET Associated Press PARIS (AP) — A French police officer is in custody after shooting to death a driver who failed to obey an order…

By PATRICK WHITTLE Associated Press PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Some retailers are taking lobster off the menu after an assessment from an influential…

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The last time the Federal Reserve faced inflation as high as it is now, in the early…

By DAVID BAUDER AP Media Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Bernard Shaw, CNN’s chief anchor for two decades and a pioneering Black broadcast journalist best…

LANSING, Mich. (AP) — A special prosecutor in Michigan has been appointed to investigate whether the Republican candidate for attorney general and…

By JAN M. OLSEN Associated Press COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Four countries bordering Russia say they will take regional steps to limit people from…

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Former President Donald Trump is endorsing Ohio Republican Gov. Mike DeWine in his reelection bid after deciding against…

By TRACEE M. HERBAUGH Associated Press They’re known at school as the group of parents who orchestrate everything from Halloween parties to…

By FRANK JORDANS Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Europe has smashed previous temperature records this summer, with long periods of sunshine causing…

NEW YORK (AP) — Fiction by Nobel laureate Olga Tokarczuk and the book-length edition of the “1619 Project” are among the nominees for Kirkus…

MIAMI (AP) — The school board in Florida’s largest district won’t recognize October as Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer…

CAIRO (AP) — Egypt’s health authorities have detected the country’s first case of monkeypox in a 42-year-old man who frequently travels to…

By ASHOK SHARMA Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — India and China say their troops have begun pulling back from one of the key friction points on…

By DANICA KIRKA, JILL LAWLESS and SYLVIA HUI Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Queen Elizabeth II, Britain’s longest-reigning monarch and a symbol…

By FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal report says nursing homes and debt collectors are flouting a law that prohibits them…

By GARY GERARD HAMILTON Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The “Tamron Hall” show just premiered its fourth season, but it’s not a…

NEW YORK (AP) — One of the world’s most generous poetry awards is both consolidating and expanding. Officials of Canada’s Griffin Poetry Prize…

By MATT OTT AP Business Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The number of Americans filing for unemployment benefits last week fell to its lowest level since…

By TOM KRISHER AP Auto Writer WARREN, Mich. (AP) — Auto companies are rolling out more affordable electric vehicles that should widen their appeal…

By ADRIAN SAINZ Associated Press MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Two college campuses locked down. City buses stopped running. A baseball stadium halted a…

By KIRSTEN GRIESHABER Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Angela Merkel, who served as chancellor of Germany for 16 years, will release her political…

BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union says that one of its diplomats was briefly detained by Belarusian authorities earlier in the week. It has lodged…

By HANNA ARHIROVA Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — The head of Ukraine’s atomic energy operator accused Russia on Thursday of trying to…

STOCKHOLM (AP) — A Swedish court has sentenced an 18-year-old man to life in prison for killing two teachers with an ax at a southern Swedish high…

CAIRO (AP) — Egypt’s prosecutors have charged four journalists from one of the country’s few remaining independent news outlets of spreading…

By EDITH M. LEDERER and FRANK JORDANS Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. General Assembly has approved veteran Austrian diplomat…

By MUNIR AHMED Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — The U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has arrived in Pakistan on a two-day solidarity visit…

By LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer VENICE, Italy (AP) — The 79th edition of the Venice International Film Festival is starting to wind down, but…

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — More than 1,000 people have been evacuated as firefighters battle a wildfire in southern Turkey for a second day running. The…

HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — The death toll from a fire at a karaoke parlor in southern Vietnam has climbed to 33, with police blaming some of the…

By MATTHEW LEE and KARL RITTER Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken paid an unannounced visit to Kyiv on…

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greek authorities say an earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.4 has struck off the western islands of Zakynthos and…

RAMSTEIN AIR BASE, Germany (AP) — U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin says President Joe Biden has approved additional military aid to Ukraine…

BEIJING (AP) — Chinese state media say a man has been found safe after he spent two days aloft in a hydrogen balloon, traveling about 320…

By NICK PERRY Associated Press WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Lawmakers in the Solomon Islands have voted to delay their nation’s general…

By JILL LAWLESS and SYLVIA HUI Associated Press LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Liz Truss says her Conservative government will cap domestic…

Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — A bomb has detonated outside of a Hezbollah-backed Lebanese minister’s home in the eastern Bekaa valley.…

BERLIN (AP) — A Swiss court has granted the operating company for the never-opened Nord Stream 2 pipeline, which was built to bring gas from Russia…

By LLAZAR SEMINI Associated Press TIRANA, Albania (AP) — The last staff of the Iranian Embassy in Tirana have left the building after they were…

JERUSALEM (AP) — Palestinian officials say Israeli forces shot and killed a Palestinian teen, who the military says hit a soldier with a hammer.…

BEIJING (AP) — Heavy rains are complicating earthquake recovery efforts in southwestern China, where the death toll from Monday’s disaster…

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Asian benchmarks rose Friday, cheered by gains on Wall Street as comments from the Federal Reserve…

CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australia’s Parliament has enshrined in law the government’s elevated target of reducing greenhouse gas emissions by…

By DAVID McHUGH AP Business Writer FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — The European Central Bank made its largest-ever interest rate increase Thursday,…

By MOGOMOTSI MAGOME and SEBABATSO MOSAMO Associated Press BELA-BELA, South Africa (AP) — South Africa is flying cheetahs to India and Mozambique as…

By JOHN ANTCZAK and BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — California avoided rolling outages during extreme heat, as operators of the…

By ADRIAN SAINZ Associated Press MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — The killing of jogger Eliza Fletcher has shocked the Memphis community and has led to a…

MARTHA IRVINE AP National Writer Oak Park, Ill. (AP) — In May, police got a tip and arrested student Keyon Robinson with a gun on his high school…

MARTHA IRVINE AP National Writer Oak Park, Ill. (AP) — Keyon Robinson was just a month away from graduating from high school when he took a loaded…

By ROB GILLIES and ROBERT BUMSTED Associated Press ROSTHERN, Saskatchewan (AP) — The last suspect in a horrific stabbing rampage that killed 10 and…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japan and India have agreed to expand military cooperation by holding more joint exercises and…

By BRIAN SLODYSKO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — In Orange County, California, the typical house sells for $1 million. That makes congresswoman…

By SEUNG MIN KIM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — In recent days, President Joe Biden has sharpened his attacks against Donald Trump and the…

By BRIAN INGANGA and JULIE WATSON Associated Press KAMPI ya SAMAKI, Kenya (AP) — Winnie Keben had felt blessed to be raising her children in her…