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By SALLY FRENCH of NerdWallet Car rental costs are up nearly 50% since 2019, compared to just a 7% increase in hotel prices and a 16% increase in…

By JOHNSON LAI Associated Press HUALIEN, Taiwan (AP) — Taiwan is staging military exercises to show its ability to resist Chinese pressure to…

CAIRO (AP) — Egypt’s central bank governor resigned as the country has struggled to address its economic woes. That’s according to a…

By DUSAN STOJANOVIC Associated Press BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Wartime rivals Serbia and Kosovo will hold high-level crisis talks which the European…

By FARAI MUTSAKA Associated Press HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — Officials in Zimbabwe say a  measles outbreak has killed 157 children, most of whom were…

LEH, India (AP) — The remains of an Indian army soldier have been found more than 38 years after he went missing on a glacier at the highest point…

By ISABEL DEBRE Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The chief executive of Dubai International Airport says the hub saw a surge in…

By KEN MORITSUGU Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — The world’s two biggest emitters of greenhouse gases are sparring on Twitter over climate…

LONDON (AP) — The British government says thousands of people who contracted HIV or hepatitis from transfusions of tainted blood in the 1970s and…

By BRIAN SLODYSKO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The nation’s leading abortion rights advocacy organization, Planned Parenthood, plans to…

By JOCELYN GECKER and DYLAN LOVAN CECILIA, Ky. (AP) — This year’s back-to-school season will restore a degree of pre-pandemic normalcy. But many…

By PAUL BYRNE Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — A spate of explosions and fires has turned Russian-occupied Crimea from a secure rear base into…

By ILAN BEN ZION and KIRSTEN GRIESHABER BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s chancellor says that he was “disgusted by the outrageous remarks” made by…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Britain’s inflation rate has risen to a new 40-year high of 10.1% in July as climbing food prices…

By JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — Asian stock markets followed Wall Street lower Thursday after the Federal Reserve said U.S.…

By YURI KAGEYAMA Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — A former Tokyo Olympic organizing committee board member and three people from a clothing company…

NEW DELHI (AP) — A court in India has appointed a committee to take over the running of the national Olympic committee and hold fresh elections…

By CIARÁN GILES and ILAN BEN ZION Associated Press MADRID (AP) — While vacationers might enjoy the Mediterranean Sea’s summer warmth,…

By HANNA ARHIROVA Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Residents who have fled the Russian-occupied city of Kherson say conditions in the Black…

By ISABEL DEBRE and MAGGIE HYDE Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — To Enas Taleb, the headline felt like a spiteful punch line.…

By JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — Factories in China’s southwest have shut down and a city imposed rolling blackouts after…

By MATTHEW BROWN Associated Press CODY, Wyo. (AP) — The rush to build wind farms to combat climate change is colliding with preservation of one of…

SYDNEY (AP) — Olympic sprinter Kimia Yousofi has arrived in Australia to start afresh just over a year after carrying the Afghan flag into the…

By JANET McCONNAUGHEY Associated Press Scientists and students embarking on a census of Georgia lake sturgeon have found three females with mature…

By KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea’s president said Wednesday his government has no plans to pursue its own…

SYDNEY (AP) — Scott Morrison said Wednesday that giving himself extra powers when he was Australia’s prime minister was necessary during the…

By SUMAN NAISHADHAM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Arizona and Nevada residents won’t face bans on watering their lawns or washing their…

By KATE BRUMBACK and LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Rudy Giuliani said Wednesday that he had “satisfied his obligation” after…

By LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A year after America’s tumultuous and deadly withdrawal from Afghanistan, assessments…

DAYTON, Ohio (AP) — Writer Wil Haygood, author of multiple books chronicling the lives of 20th-century Black Americans, has won a prestigious book…

By JUAN A. LOZANO and MICHAEL GRACZYK Associated Press HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) — Texas has executed a man who fatally stabbed a suburban Dallas real…

By MICHAEL TARM and DON BABWIN Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — R. Kelly kept an ugly side of his life hidden as he escaped poverty in Chicago and…

u SAN J0SE, Calif. (AP) — A California appeals court says a church that defied safety regulations during the COVID-19 pandemic by holding large…

By ANITA SNOW Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — An effort by Arizona Republican Gov. Doug Ducey to use shipping containers to close a 1,000-foot gap…

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — The day after Oregon Supreme Court Chief Justice Martha Walters fired all nine members of the state commission that oversees…

By MICHAEL TARM and DON BABWIN Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — A federal jury has been impaneled R. Kelly’s to decide multiple charges against…

FRESNO, Calif. (AP) — A former U.S. Congressman from central California was arrested Tuesday by federal agents on wire fraud, money laundering, and…

PONTIAC, Ill. (AP) — A central Illinois jury has found a man guilty of killing his wife, son and neighbor on Christmas Day 2019. The Livingston…

By JOHN HANNA, HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH and NICK RICCARDI Associated Press TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas’ decisive statewide vote in favor of…

NEW YORK (AP) — Two lawyers and two journalists are suing the CIA, saying the agency obtained copies of the contents of their electronic devices…

By STEVE KARNOWSKI Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Former Minneapolis police officer Thomas Lane, who was sentenced to 2 1/2 years for…

By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN Associated Press ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Two brothers from Mexico are facing federal charges after fleeing from U.S.…

By REBECCA BOONE Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Attorneys for a mother charged with conspiring to kill her children in Idaho and to steal…

By FRANK JORDANS Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has expressed no regret for the deadly attack by Palestinian…

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Federal investigators say a man who jumped to his death from a small airplane in North Carolina appeared to be upset over…

By ANDREW DeMILLO Associated Press LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — A federal appeals court has upheld Arkansas’ use of the sedative midazolam in its…

By KEN RITTER Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — Police say two airline ticket agents were hurt when a 33-year-old California man breached security…

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Airbnb says it’s rolling out new technology to spot and block people who try to use the short-term rental service to…

MILWAUKEE (AP) — A Rhode Island man vacationing in Milwaukee fell to his death after a drawbridge was raised while he was walking across it. The…

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — A New York judge has ruled in favor of former Gov. Andrew Cuomo and against a state ethics commission that wanted him to give…

MICHAEL GOLDBERG Associated Press/Report for America JACKSON, Miss (AP) — Civil rights advocates say in a federal lawsuit that police have…

By BOB CHRISTIE Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Republican Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey and backers of universal school vouchers are taking a victory…

By KATE BRUMBACK Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — A judge in Colorado on Tuesday ordered a legal adviser for former President Donald Trump’s…

By SETH BORENSTEIN AP Science Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Massive incentives for clean energy in the U.S. law signed Tuesday by President Joe Biden…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican authorities say an independent journalist found dead in northern Mexico was killed by a blow to the head. It was the…

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A Maryland-based lender deceived its loan customers by selling them insurance policies they didn’t ask for or know about…

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — A Pakistani doctor and former Mayo Clinic research coordinator has pleaded guilty to a terrorism charge, more than two years…

By DAVE KOLPACK Associated Press FARGO, N.D. (AP) — The school board in North Dakota’s largest city will reconsider its decision to stop reciting…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelinskyy is meeting with U.N. Secretary-General Antonio…

By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Federal authorities say they have busted an organized crime racket reminiscent of the…

By RUSS BYNUM Associated Press SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — The family of a Georgia woman killed by gunfire last year as sheriff’s deputies executed…

By KEVIN McGILL Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — New Orleans officials have formally asked a federal judge to end court-supervised oversight of…

By MARCY GORDON AP Business Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Amazon has complained to federal regulators that they’re hounding company founder Jeff…

By JOHN RABY Associated Press CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A Navy nuclear engineer and his wife have withdrawn their guilty pleas in a case involving…