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By QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA and SAMYA KULLAB Associated Press BAGHDAD (AP) — An influential Shiite cleric announced Monday that he would resign from…

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Students in Ohio’s largest school district were returning to classrooms after members of the union representing teachers…

By ALAN FRAM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — In the waning moments of Democrats’ four-decade hold on the House, I saw a gesture that seems…

By THALIA BEATY Associated Press ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) — The head of one of the country’s most storied nonprofits, United Way Worldwide, will…

By JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — A Chinese think tank has issued a rare public disagreement with the ruling Communist Party’s…

By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — The Russian military says it will launch sweeping military drills in the country’s east…

By SAMY MAGDY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — Sixteen rights groups have urged Yemen’s Houthi rebels to end their years-long siege of the…

By NASSER KARIMI and JON GAMBRELL Associated Press TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran’s president is warning that any roadmap to restore Tehran’s…

STOCKHOLM (AP) — An employee of an animal park in southwestern Sweden has been gored to death by an eland. The park’s owner said the man, a…

By MUNIR AHMED Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — Disaster officials say nearly a half million people in Pakistan are crowded into camps after…

MOSCOW (AP) — Russia’s top security agency has identified a second Ukrainian who it alleges was involved in the killing of the daughter of a…

AMSTERDAM (AP) — Train services have ground to a near standstill around Amsterdam as the latest in a series of strikes by railway workers hits the…

TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Palau’s vice president and her eight-member delegation have been quarantined in Taiwan after two of them tested positive…

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Two Dutch soldiers wounded in a downtown Indianapolis shooting that killed another member of their commando unit could soon…

By JOSEPH KRAUSS and JALAL BWAITEL Associated Press TUBAS, West Bank (AP) — At least 85 Palestinians have been killed in the West Bank this year as…

By JADE LE DELEY Associated Press PARIS (AP) — The woman was crumpled on the floor of a mangled Mercedes, unconscious and struggling to breathe.…

By MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — NASA called off the launch of its mighty new moon rocket on its debut flight with…

By JAKE STARR Associated Press SOUTH WILLIAMSPORT, Pa. (AP) — For a week and a half at the Little League World Series, no team came close to…

By GILLIAN FLACCUS Associated Press PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — An employee who was killed in a shooting at a Safeway supermarket in Bend, Oregon,…

JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — A strong and shallow undersea earthquake has shaken western Indonesia, but no damage was immediately reported. Witnesses…

By STEVE PEOPLES, HOLLY RAMER and THOMAS BEAUMONT Associated Press CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — As the sun set in Wyoming, U.S. Rep. Liz Cheney described…

By ED WHITE and JOEY CAPPELLETTI Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — A 19-year-old man suspected of randomly killing three people on Detroit streets…

By JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — Asian stocks were mixed Tuesday after Wall Street fell following last week’s Federal…

LIMA, Peru (AP) — A Peruvian judge has ordered President Pedro Castillo’s sister-in-law to be held in prison up to 2.5 years while she is…

TROY, Ala. (AP) — There’s now a historic marker at the one-story brick house in Alabama where the late civil rights leader and Georgia…

SAN ANTONIO (AP) — Texas Democratic gubernatorial nominee Beto O’Rourke said Sunday that he had cleared his campaign schedule after receiving…

By ANDREW DALTON AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — The horror film “The Invitation” needed just $7 million to finish at the top of the…

ATLANTA (AP) — A federal jury in Atlanta has awarded $100 million to a panhandler who fell and broke his neck after a police officer shocked him…

By DUSAN STOJANOVIC Associated Press BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Opposition parties in Serbia and international rights groups have denounced a decision…

CHICAGO (AP) — The Environmental Protection Agency has lifted a federal rule for fuel sales in four states in response to a fire last week at an…

WEST WINDSOR, Vt. (AP) — Kenyan cyclist Sule Kangangi has died in a crash during a gravel race in Vermont. Kangangi was competing in the Vermont…

By MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — NASA’s new moon rocket remained on track to blast off on a crucial test flight…

HOUSTON (AP) — A man evicted from a Houston apartment building shot five other tenants — killing three of them — Sunday morning after setting…

BERLIN (AP) — German police say a girl who was on vacation from Italy with her parents has died after a stone statue fell on her at a hotel in…

ROME (AP) — Italian authorities scrambled on Sunday to relieve overcrowding in shelters after scores of boats carrying a total of about 1,000…

By BARBARA ORTUTAY AP Technology Writer SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Twitter at its best is a tool to get a message out quickly, efficiently and directly,…

By MARÍA TERESA HERNÁNDEZ Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — Under a white tent on the street outside Our Lady of the Angels on a recent Sunday,…

BEIRUT (AP) — Satellite imagery showed widespread destruction at a giant military facility in western Syria targeted in a recent Israeli airstrike.…

LONDON (AP) — The annual Notting Hill Carnival has returned to the streets of London for the first time since 2019. More than 1 million people are…

By WAYNE PARRY Associated Press LACEY TOWNSHIP, N.J. (AP) — Denise Vaccaro bought her home on the Jersey Shore over 20 years ago, charmed by the…

By HOLLY RAMER Associated Press CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — As a former ski resort executive, New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu knows something about…

By KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Firebrand lawmaker Lee Jae-myung has been elected to lead South Korea’s main…

By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer NEW YORK (AP) — For one day, movie tickets will be just $3 in the vast majority of American theaters as part of a…

By ASHOK SHARMA Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — Two high-rise apartment towers in India have been leveled to the ground in a controlled…

By ANDREA ROSA and FRANCES D’EMILIO Associated Press L’AQUILA, Italy (AP) — Making a pilgrimage in an Italian mountain town, Pope…

ISTANBUL (AP) — Turkey’s state-run news agency says Greek surface-to-air missiles locked on to Turkish F-16 fighter jets carrying out a…

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The death toll from an accident when a truck drove off a dike and slammed into a community barbecue in a village…

By ZARAR KHAN Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — Deaths from widespread flooding in Pakistan topped 1,000 since mid-June, officials said Sunday, as…

By CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Adenekan Ayomide had been attending the University of Abuja for two years when the…

By JONATHAN LANDRUM Jr. AP Entertainment Writer Taylor Swift took home the top prize at the 2022 MTV Video Music Awards on Sunday before she closed…