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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The United Arab Emirates says it will grant visas to those holding tickets to the World Cup in neighboring…

By MOGOMOTSI MAGOME Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — South African president Cyril Ramaphosa faced a grilling by lawmakers in Parliament as…

By MICHAEL HILL, MAYSOON KHAN and BOBBY CAINA CALVAN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Amid the bright lights and electronic billboards of New…

By JONATHAN J. COOPER Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — An Arizona judge has ordered three Republicans to pay $75,000 in attorney fees for filing a…

By MIKE SCHNEIDER Associated Press The mayor of Memphis, Tennessee, says the 2020 census undercounted his city by almost 16,000 residents, leading…

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The Ohio Supreme Court has refused to hear an appeal of a $25 million judgment awarded to a business that successfully…

By PAUL J. WEBER Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The Associated Press and other news organizations are suing officials in Uvalde, Texas,…

By MICHAEL TARM AP Legal Affairs Writer CHICAGO (AP) — Prosecutors rested their case Tuesday at R. Kelly’s federal trial in Chicago after…

By GARY GERARD HAMILTON Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — R&B star Tank began contemplating his final album after considering pursuing other…

In a story published Feb. 1, 2022, about worshipers in Rhode Island facing eviction from the nation’s oldest synagogue, The Associated Press…

Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Angola’s opposition party has filed a complaint against the election victory of the ruling MPLA party in…

HAVANA (AP) — A son of revolutionary leader Ernesto “Che” Guevara and director of a center dedicated to studying him has died, Camilo Guevara…

By FRANCES D’EMILIO Associated Press ROME (AP) — Pope Francis has wrapped up two days of closed-door meetings with about 180 cardinals…

CANDO, N.D. (AP) — Sheriff’s deputies are investigating the deaths of four people found shot in a wheat field in rural northeast North Dakota…

By MATTHEW PERRONE AP Health Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The head of the Food and Drug Administration says a government review of prescription opioid…

By JOSH FUNK AP Business Writer OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — The auction of a high-tech portrait of Warren Buffett couldn’t come close to matching the…

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The U.S. Navy says Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard seized and later…

By COLLIN BINKLEY AP Education Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration says it will cancel any federal student loans used to attend the…

By DUSAN STOJANOVIC Associated Press PRAHOVO, Serbia (AP) — The worst drought in Europe in decades hasn’t only scorched farmland and hampered…

GAFFNEY, S.C. (AP) — A woman looking out the kitchen window of her South Carolina home was killed by an intoxicated neighbor shooting at targets in…

AMSTERDAM (AP) — Amsterdam has approved a plan to temporarily accommodate at least 1,000 migrants on a cruise ship moored in the Dutch capital’s…

By SAMYA KULLAB Associated Press BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraq’s long-running power struggle between rival Shiite camps devolved into bloody street…

By SCOTT McFETRIDGE Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — There is only so much farmland in the United States, so when Russia’s invasion of…

By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS and MICHAEL GOLDBERG Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Water has caused a crisis in Mississippi’s capital city.…

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Hazing charges against five former members of a now-expelled Virginia Commonwealth University fraternity in connection with a…

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The number of open jobs in the United States rose in July after three months of…

By ISAAC SCHARF Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — The independent commission investigating a deadly stampede at a religious festival in Israel last…

BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Serbia’s populist leader says a government decision to cancel the holding next month of a pan-European LGBTQ event will…

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Four school board members appointed by Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis in one of Florida’s most Democratic counties…

By ANGELA CHARLTON Associated Press PARIS (AP) — French officials say World Cup winner Paul Pogba has paid 100,000 euros ($100,000) to an organized…

By DAVID SHARP Associated Press PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Parents of children enrolled in Maine religious schools fought all the way to the U.S.…

MOSCOW (AP) — A Moscow court has handed a 15-day prison sentence to a 72-year-old liberal politician who drew parallels between Soviet dictator…

By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — Russian prosecutors at the trial of a former journalist asked the court Tuesday to hand him a…

BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s annual inflation rate rose to 7.9% in August, returning to its highest level in nearly half a century after it dipped in…

By LEANNE ITALIE Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — At 24, El Johnson has made up her mind that she won’t bear children, though she and her…

By KIRSTEN GRIESHABER Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — An American court has thrown out a lawsuit against a German museum foundation over a medieval…

By ELENA BECATOROS Associated Press ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greek authorities say they have picked up a group of 30 people from a wooden boat that…

BEIJING (AP) — China says a key congress of the ruling Communist Party at which leader Xi Jinping is expected to be granted a third five-year term…

BEIJING (AP) — China has placed millions of its citizens under lockdown following fresh outbreaks of COVID-19. The measures affected about half of…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — The defense ministers of Japan and Israel have shared concerns about growing global tensions from…

By HUIZHONG WU and JOE McDONALD Associated Press TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey has arrived in Taiwan for a visit focused on…

MONROE, Mich. (AP) — Severe storms that brought damaging winds, heavy rains and flash flooding to parts of the Midwest and the South were blamed…

By KELSEY SHEEHY of NerdWallet Money rules of thumb can be useful guardrails, helping you allocate spending and determine what’s affordable. They…

By FRANK JORDANS, BARBARA SURK and JAN M. OLSEN Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Chancellor Olaf Scholz says Germany is well-prepared to tackle a…

By CARA ANNA Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — The first ship carrying grain from Ukraine for people in the hungriest parts of the world has…

SYDNEY (AP) — An Australian man has been convicted of murdering his wife 40 years ago after a renewed police investigation that was triggered by a…

UTRECHT, Netherlands (AP) — Almost the entire Dutch railway network has been shut down as workers affected by soaring inflation and staff shortages…

By MUNIR AHMED Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — The United Nations and Pakistan have appealed for $160 million in emergency funds for nearly a…

By PAUL BYRNE Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine claimed to have destroyed bridges and ammunition depots and pounded command posts in a…

By LORNE COOK Associated Press PRAGUE (AP) — European Union nations are divided over whether to slap a broad visa ban on Russian citizens over the…

COTABATO, Philippines (AP) — Philippine police officials say suspected Muslim rebels have killed a town police chief and his driver and wounded…

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iranian state TV says an automobile crash in southwestern Iran has killed at least 16 people. The Tuesday crash happened as a…

By YURI KAGEYAMA Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Kazuo Inamori, founder of Japanese ceramics and electronics maker Kyocera who also became a…

By MARIA CHENG AP Medical Writer LONDON (AP) — The World Health Organization’s top director in the Western Pacific, Dr. Takeshi Kasai, has been…

By JOCELYN NOVECK Associated Press PARIS (AP) — An elegant dinner at the Ritz in Paris. A post-midnight drive past the city’s floodlit…

By DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Above all, there was shock. That’s the word people use over and over again when they remember…

By DEREK GATOPOULOS and ADAM PEMBLE Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Before taking a shot, Ukrainian sniper Andriy buries his face in a…

NABLUS, West Bank (AP) — The Israeli military says several Israelis were wounded overnight after they entered the Palestinian West Bank city of…

By JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — Asian stocks followed Wall Street lower Thursday after strong U.S. jobs data fueled expectations…

By KIM CHANDLER Associated Press MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — An anti-death penalty group says Alabama corrections officials apparently botched a…

By JEFFREY COLLINS and JAMES POLLARD Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — The South Carolina House has approved a bill that outlaws abortion…

By KRISHAN FRANCIS and BHARATHA MALLAWARACHI Associated Press COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lanka’s government plans to present an amended budget…