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RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Virginia government failed to carry out numerous lessons from a 2018 snowstorm that caused highway gridlock, as exhibited by a…

BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s economy minister says German businesses and public institutions should heat their offices no higher than 19 degrees…

By OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — What takes four years to make and costs more than $20,000? A trash can in San Francisco.…

RICHLAND HILLS, Texas (AP) — Authorities say police in suburban Fort Worth, Texas, fatally shot a man who pointed a rifle at them. The shooting…

ARLINGTON, Va. (AP) — Authorities say more than a dozen people were injured after a vehicle crashed into a pub and restaurant in northern Virginia.…

By JONATHAN MATTISE Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A developer has unearthed human remains that could be two centuries old while digging…

By PREDRAG MILIC Associated Press CETINJE, Montenegro (AP) — Montenegro declared three days of national mourning Saturday, a day after 10 people,…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — A year after the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan, prominent Afghan rights activist Sima…

APPLETON, Wis. (AP) — Law enforcement authorities say police shot and killed a man in Appleton, Wisconsin, while investigating a domestic…

By BRIAN SLODYSKO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, the Arizona Democrat who single-handedly thwarted her party’s longtime…

By JAY REEVES Associated Press By her own telling, Mississippi authorities provided Carolyn Bryant Donham with preferential treatment rather than…

BERLIN (AP) — Authorities in Austria say three people have died when a van carrying 20 people believed to be migrants overturned after evading a…

By SAMY MAGDY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — Libyan authorities say they found at least 15 migrants dead in the desert on the borders with Sudan.…

Shipping companies are preparing to halt the transport of goods on the Rhine as water levels in Germany’s biggest river near a critically low…

By SUSIE BLANN Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia’s military pounded residential areas across Ukraine overnight, claiming gains, as…

By WILL WEISSERT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — In November 1979, a little over a week after student militants seized control of the U.S.…

By COLLEEN BARRY Associated Press MILAN (AP) — The leader of Italy’s Democratic Party is warning of the threats to European democracy posed…

By SARA CLINE AND CHRISTINA A. CASSIDY Associated Press BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — The need for Louisiana to replace its voting machines is not in…

By JENNIFER McDERMOTT and MARY KATHERINE WILDEMAN Associated Press PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — A major economic bill headed to the president has…

MADRID (AP) — Part of a temporary concert stage collapsed in strong wind Saturday at an outdoor music festival in eastern Spain, killing one person…

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Laboratory tests following a mass die-off of fish in the Oder River detected high levels of salinity but no mercury poisoning…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Thousands of U.K. train drivers have walked off the job in a 24-hour strike over jobs, pay and…

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Dutch financial prosecutors say they have detained a man suspected of involvement in “concealing criminal financial…

CAIRO (AP) — Egyptian authorities say a vehicle accident in the southern province of Minya killed at least nine people and injured 18. They say the…

By DEREK GATOPOULOS and HANNA ARHIROVA Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine’s health minister has accused Russian authorities of…

By CAROLYN THOMPSON and HILLEL ITALIE Associated Press MAYVILLE, N.Y. (AP) — “The Satanic Verses” author Salman Rushdie was taken off a…

By ANDREA ROSA and LUIGI NAVARRA Associated Press SIRMIONE Italy (AP) — Italy’s worst drought in decades has reduced Lake Garda, the…

By NASSER KARIMI and JON GAMBRELL Associated Press TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iranians reacted with praise and worry Saturday over the attack on novelist…

BANGKOK (AP) — The Chinese air force is sending fighter jets and bombers to Thailand for a joint exercise with the Thai military on Sunday. The…

By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN, STEFANIE DAZIO and JULIE WATSON Associated Press ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — In the six years since he resettled in the United…

By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The U.S. Justice Department has weighed in on a civil lawsuit against two conservative…

ORION TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) — A sheriff says a 48-year-old man has been charged with open murder in connection with a fatal assault at the General…

PERRIS, Calif. (AP) — A Southern California freeway has been closed and nearby homes are evacuated as a chemical reaction inside a railroad tank…

By REBECCA BOONE Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Idaho’s strict abortion bans will be allowed to take effect while legal challenges over…

By JOHN HANNA AP Political Writer TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas’ elections director says the state will go along with a request for a hand recount…

By JULIE WATSON Associated Press SAN DIEGO (AP) — A federal judge has sentenced a San Diego man to 18 years in prison for piloting a small vessel…

NEW YORK (AP) — More than 3.1 million viewers watched Fox Sports’ broadcast of Major League Baseball’s second “Field of Dreams” game, about…

WASHINGTON (AP) — ABC’s “This Week” — White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre; Gov. Larry Hogan, R-Md. __ NBC’s “Meet the…

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — A former Kentucky police detective intends to plead guilty to a civil rights charge stemming from the botched drug raid that…

NEW YORK (AP) — CNN legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin says he’s leaving the network, nearly two years after the Zoom incident that derailed his…

By ANNE D’INNOCENZIO AP Retail Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Peloton is laying off almost 800 employees and raising prices for some of its equipment…

VENTURA, Calif. (AP) — A man once briefly married to Britney Spears has been convicted of aggravated trespassing and battery at the pop…

By DAVID BAUDER AP Media Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Reporter Joshua Goodman traveled with his family to the Chautauqua Institution in western New York…

By KIM CHANDLER Associated Press MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — A federal jury awarded Republican Roy Moore $8.2 million in damages Friday after finding a…

BY SETH BORENSTEIN AP Science Writer Talk about hot nights, America got some for the history books last month. The continental United States in July…

By JAMES MacPHERSON Associated Press BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — The school board in North Dakota’s largest city decided to stop reciting the Pledge of…

Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — Nicaragua’s police are prohibiting a religious procession scheduled for Saturday in the capital, the latest…

By LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The FBI search of former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate sent reverberations…

By ANDREA RODRÍGUEZ and MANUEL RUEDA Associated Press HAVANA (AP) — Colombia’s new government and members of the nation’s last guerrilla…

By DAVID BAUDER AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Nashville-based musician Mary Gauthier has used songwriting to help her through the tough…

By LYNN ELBER AP Television Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Anne Heche remains on life support and under evaluation for organ donation after a car crash…

By BOB CHRISTIE Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Arizona officials say they will use shipping containers to close a 1,000-foot gap in the border…

By MUHAMMAD FAROOQ Associated Press KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistani authorities have revoked a broadcast permit for a private television station…

By KRISTIN M. HALL AP Entertainment Writer NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The family of country singer Naomi Judd filed an amended court petition Friday…

RICHMOND, Ind. (AP) — Two attempted murder charges and four other counts have been filed against the man accused of shooting an eastern Indiana…

PRAGUE (AP) — Oil shipments from Russia through a critical pipeline to Czechia have resumed after more than a week. Czechia became the last central…

By MATTHEW BARAKAT Associated Press FALLS CHURCH, Va. (AP) — A respected snake researcher who’d been making significant discoveries about the…

The Associated Press Benchmark U.S. crude oil for September delivery fell $2.25 to $92.09 a barrel Friday. Brent crude for October delivery fell…

MOSCOW (AP) — Russia’s gross domestic product contracted 4% in the second quarter of this year, the first full quarter since Russia sent…

By LISA MASCARO AP Congressional Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans in Congress are not only defending Donald Trump against the FBI search…

NEW YORK (AP) — Amazon-owned companies Ring and Hollywood studio MGM are partnering to create a TV show in the mold of “America’s Funniest Home…