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KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — The wife of jailed Malaysian ex-Prime Minister Najib Razak has sought to remove the judge set to deliver a verdict in…

BEKASI, Indonesia (AP) — A truck transporting iron on the outskirts of Indonesia’s capital has crashed at a bus stop in front of a school and…

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Toyota is investing 730 billion yen ($5.6 billion) in Japan and the U.S. to boost production of…

By HOWARD FENDRICH AP Tennis Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Past U.S. Open champions Venus Williams, Naomi Osaka and Emma Raducanu all have lost in…

BERLIN (AP) — Russia’s Gazprom has halted the flow of natural gas through a major pipeline from Russia to Europe, a stoppage that it announced in…

By RIAZ KHAN Associated Press CHARSADDA, Pakistan (AP) — Rubina Bibi was cooking food for her family in her mudbrick home in her village in…

BEIJING (AP) — A survey shows Chinese manufacturing contracted in August amid weak export and consumer demand. That adds to downward pressure on…

By VANESSA GERA Associated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — In the Latvian capital of Riga, an obelisk that soared high above a park to commemorate the…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s Defense Ministry has made a budget request for next year without specifying the costs of…

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Asian shares were mostly lower Thursday, tracking the broad slide on Wall Street, as investors…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The independent U.N. expert on sexual orientation and gender identity says enormous…

By FADLAN SYAM and NINIEK KARMINI Associated Press NUSA DUA, Indonesia (AP) — Environment officials from the Group of 20 leading rich and…

By DEREK GATOPOULOS Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — A team of international nuclear inspectors was heading Wednesday to the Zaporizhzhia…

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — The Solomon Islands has asked countries to not send naval vessels to the South Pacific…

By DAVID BAUDER AP Media Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Young people are following the news but aren’t too happy with what they’re seeing.…

By KATHLEEN RONAYNE Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Discounted prices, car-share programs and at least one million more public charging…

By ERIC TUCKER, JILL COLVIN and MICHAEL BALSAMO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department says classified documents were “likely…

By MIKE STOBBE AP Medical Writer NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. life expectancy dropped for the second consecutive year in 2021, falling by nearly a year…

By CATHY BUSSEWITZ AP Energy Writer NEW YORK (AP) — As winter nears, European nations, desperate to replace the natural gas they once bought from…

By JOEY CAPPELLETTI and SARA BURNETT Associated Press LANSING, Mich. (AP) — A Michigan elections board on Wednesday rejected an abortion rights…

By KIRSTEN GRIESHABER and PATRICK QUINN Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Mikhail Gorbachev, the last leader of the Soviet Union and for many the man…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s Prime Minister Fumio Kishida says his ruling party will cut ties with the Unification…

By KEN RITTER Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — A Las Vegas police report compiled a decade after a woman first made a 2009 rape complaint against…

OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Police say a school shooting in east Oakland that wounded a 13-year-old boy and left another youngster in custody wasn’t…

By JIM HEINTZ Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — Mikhail Gorbachev, the last leader of the Soviet Union, has died at 91. He waged a losing battle to…

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Indianapolis police arrested a man Tuesday in connection with a shooting over the weekend that left one Dutch soldier dead and…

By JERRY BEACH Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Timmy Trumpet was all set to horn in on this most notable season for the New York Mets. The…

By BEN FINLEY Associated Press NORFOLK, Va. (AP) — A judge in Virginia has dismissed a lawsuit that sought to declare two books as obscene for…

By ADAM BEAM Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California could soon become the seventh state to make sure people won’t lose their…

By MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — NASA will try again Saturday to launch its new moon rocket on a test flight, after…

By JIM HEINTZ Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — Before Mikhail Gorbachev came along, the Soviet Union seemed an immovable superpower in perpetual…

By TERRY SPENCER Associated Press FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Testimony at his penalty trial showed that Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz went…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. political chief is warning that failure to resolve Libya’s political crisis…

By DAVID PITT Associated Press The northwest Iowa city of Sheldon planned to make the opening of a time capsule among the centerpiece events of its…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Relatives of some of Mexico’s over 100,000 missing people are demanding authorities find their sons, daughters, fathers…

By NICHOLAS PAPHITIS Associated Press ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greece has struck a complex deal for the eventual return from a U.S. billionaire’s…

By MICHAEL R. BLOOD Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — California is about to send the nation a powerful message on the future of nuclear power…

DETROIT (AP) — In a story published Aug. 30, 2022, about the shootings of four people in Detroit, The Associated Press, relying on information from…

By DAVID SHARP Associated Press PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Maine’s highest court is breathing new life into a $1 billion transmission line project…

By LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer VENICE, Italy (AP) — At the Venice International Film Festival, virtual reality is only a small part of the…

By TOM DAVIES and ARLEIGH RODGERS Associated Press INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Indiana abortion clinic operators filed a lawsuit Tuesday seeking to block…

By JOHN RABY Associated Press CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — The energy startup SPARKZ says it will locate an electric battery factory in northern West…

By JIM HEINTZ Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — Mikhail Gorbachev, who set out to revitalize the Soviet Union but ended up unleashing forces that led…

STATESBORO, Ga. (AP) — A jury is deliberating whether a man who fatally shot a teenage girl on a Georgia highway is guilty of murder or was…

By FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A House oversight subcommittee wants regulators and industry leaders to explain what they are…

By LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department will no longer allow its political appointees to go to fundraisers…

By The Associated Press A rundown of notable films coming out this fall, which range from Disney+’s “Pinocchio” adaptation to Ana de Armas…

By JESSE BEDAYN Associated Press/Report for America DENVER (AP) — A Colorado police department says a minor was shot and killed while filming a…

By JOSHUA GOODMAN Associated Press MIAMI (AP) — A Los Angeles attorney detained in Venezuela is pleading for help from the Biden administration,…

By MICHAEL RUBINKAM Associated Press A federal appeals court has ruled that Pennsylvania may not keep a cache of weapons seized from the parents of a…

By KEVIN McGILL Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The future of a new authority tasked with developing and enforcing nationwide horseracing rules…

By JIM SALTER Associated Press The Missouri Supreme Court has reprimanded St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner for mistakes made in the 2018…

By COLLEEN SLEVIN Associated Press DENVER (AP) — A prison psychologist and a psychiatrist say a mentally ill man charged with killing three people…

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…