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By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and senior ministers have held inconclusive talks with energy…

By MARIA CHENG AP Medical Writer TORONTO (AP) — Canada arguably has the world’s most permissive euthanasia rules, but human rights advocates say…

ISLAMABAD (AP) — A bombing has killed a prominent Taliban cleric at his religious center in Kabul. The attack on Thursday marks the latest assault…

By PAUL WISEMAN AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The number of Americans who signed up for unemployment benefits rose last week to the highest…

SKOPJE, North Macedonia (AP) — North Macedonia’s police say 35 people have been injured when a truck carrying Syrian migrants believed to…

BANGKOK (AP) — An Australian academic who is being tried with ousted Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi on charges of violating the country’s…

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Prices at the wholesale level fell from June to July, the first month-to-month drop in…

BANGKOK (AP) — Immigration authorities say former Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, who last month fled anti-government protests in his…

By FRANCISCO SECO Associated Press ABOARD THE ASTRAL (AP) — A Spanish maritime rescue group and Italy’s coast guard have helped pull some 40…

CHICAGO (AP) — McDonald’s will begin reopening some of its restaurants in Ukraine in the coming months. The burger giant closed its Ukrainian…

By MARK SHERMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Recently retired Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer has become the honorary co-chairman of a…

SYDNEY (AP) — A second Australian state has banned public displays of Nazi symbols. New South Wales, the nation’s most populous state, on…

MANILA, Philippines (AP) — The Philippine president has threatened to fire top agricultural officials if an investigation shows they improperly…

By KELSEY SHEEHY NerdWallet Relying on your business to fund your retirement is a risky bet. A business failure, health issues or shifting market…

MADRID (AP) — Spain has brought 294 Afghan refugees via Pakistan to Spain. The mission brings to 3,900 the number of Afghans flown to Spain since…

RICHMOND, Ind. (AP) — An eastern Indiana police chief says an officer shot in the head during a traffic stop and search for possible narcotics…

By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press ROME (AP) — Pope Francis has met with a fourth group of transgender people who found shelter at a Rome church.…

NEW DELHI (AP) — The Indian capital has reintroduced public mask mandates as COVID-19 cases continue to rise across the country. The New Delhi…

By CARA ANNA Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Africa’s public health agency says the continent of 1.3 billion people still does not have a…

By JAN M. OLSEN Associated Press COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has called on Western nations to provide more…

By SIBI ARASU Associated Press BENGALURU, India (AP) — Landfills are releasing a significant amount of planet-warming methane into the atmosphere…

By FRANK JORDANS Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — German Chancellor Olaf Scholz says his government won’t leave citizens freezing or unable to pay…

By WANJOHI KABUKURU Associated Press MOMBASA, Kenya (AP) — Africa’s national parks, home to thousands of wildlife species such as lions,…

By ELENA BECATOROS Associated Press ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greek authorities say a search and rescue operation is ongoing for a second day for…

By FARES AKRAM Associated Press GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — The Palestinian death toll from last weekend’s fighting between Israel and Gaza…

By SUSIE BLANN Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Western nations have made more pledges to send arms to Ukraine as Britain’s Defense…

By DAVID KOENIG AP Business Writer DALLAS (AP) — Gasoline prices have dipped under $4 for the first time in more than five months — good news for…

By SYLVIE CORBET and VANESSA GERA Associated Press PARIS (AP) — Firefighters from across Europe struggled Thursday to contain a huge wildfire in…

LONDON (AP) — An alleged member of an Islamic State hostage-taking cell nicknamed “The Beatles” has been charged with terrorism offenses in…

By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer BANGKOK (AP) — Shares were mixed Friday in Asia after a muddled day on Wall Street, where benchmarks…

By The Associated Press The prisoners at the penal colony in St. Petersburg were expecting a visit by officials, thinking it would be some sort of…

By NASSER KARIMI and MEHDI FATTAHI Associated Press TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Some of the world’s most prized works of contemporary Western art have…

By IGNATIUS SSUUNA Associated Press KIGALI, Rwanda (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Thursday rebuked Rwandan authorities over…

By JEFF AMY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp is calling for tax breaks in the first major policy proposals of his reelection…

By SUDHIN THANAWALA Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Tens of thousands of Music Midtown festivalgoers are no longer going to descend on Atlanta’s…

SRINAGAR, India (AP) — Four Indian soldiers and two suspected militants have been killed after rebels stormed a military camp in disputed Kashmir.…

By MICHAEL R. BLOOD Associated Press LONE PINE, Calif. (AP) — The flames fade away. Firefighters extinguish the last embers. A final curl of smoke…

By STEVE PEOPLES AP National Politics Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump’s pick for governor in the swing state of Wisconsin easily defeated…

By MARIA CHENG AP Medical Writer TORONTO (AP) — Alan Nichols had a history of depression and other medical issues, but none were life-threatening.…

By KRUTIKA PATHI and BHUMIKA SARASWATI Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — As India’s economy grew, the hum of factories turned the sleepy, dusty…

By DIANE JEANTET, DÉBORA ÁLVARES and MAURICIO SAVARESE Associated Press SAO PAULO (AP) — Thousands of Brazilians flocked to a law school Thursday…

GRANGER, Ind. (AP) — The funeral for Indiana Republican U.S. Rep. Jackie Walorski will be held in her home state of Indiana, where she and three…

HILO, Hawaii (AP) — Social media model Courtney Clenney has been arrested in Hawaii on a charge of second-degree murder with a deadly weapon.…

By SCOTT SONNER Associated Press RENO, Nev. (AP) — A Nevada judge has dismissed Republican Joey Gilbert’s lawsuit seeking to overturn his loss to…

By MARGERY A. BECK Associated Press OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — The director of the FBI has strong words for supporters of former President Donald Trump who…

By JACQUES BILLEAUD Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Joe Arpaio, the 90-year-old former Arizona sheriff who was a once powerful figure in Republican…

SEATTLE (AP) — Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler has become the third congressperson who voted to impeach former President Donald Trump to be ousted in a…

By KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — In a striking speech before thousands of North Koreans, leader Kim Jong Un’s sister…

BATAVIA, N.Y. (AP) — The pastor of a New York church says he feels intimidated and harassed by Attorney General Letitia James after she wrote that…

The Associated Press The case of a Nebraska woman charged with helping her teenage daughter end her pregnancy after investigators obtained Facebook…

By BRUCE SCHREINER Associated Press The mysterious death of a high school athlete who spent days helping his fellow eastern Kentuckians clean up from…

By BABA AHMED Associated Press BAMAKO, Mali (AP) — Malian authorities have declared three days of national mourning to begin Thursday after a pair…

By GARY D. ROBERTSON Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — The campaign committee of North Carolina Attorney General Josh Stein plans to ask a…

BUENOS AIRES (AP) — Former Paraguayan president and current senator Fernando Lugo was is a medically induced coma after suffering a stroke. Doctors…

By KEITH RIDLER Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — U.S. officials won’t approve a natural gas pipeline from Idaho to Wyoming until additional…

By DAVID KOENIG AP Airlines Writer DALLAS (AP) — Air travelers are finally getting a break on fares. The government said Wednesday that the average…

TITUSVILLE, Fla. (AP) — A third candidate for public office has come to forward to say a sheriff on Florida’s Space Coast offered help in…

By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN Associated Press A Maryland man described by the FBI as a white supremacist has been sentenced to four months of incarceration…

By AHMED AL-HAJ Associated Press SANAA, Yemen (AP) — Heavy rains lashing Yemen’s capital of Sanaa, which dates back to ancient times, have…

By MATT O’BRIEN AP Technology Reporter Walt Disney Co. said Wednesday it is raising prices for streaming subscribers in the U.S. who want to…

By DANIEL NIEMANN and FRANK JORDANS Associated Press COLOGNE, Germany (AP) — German officials say water levels on the Rhine River could reach a…

By JAY COHEN AP Baseball Writer DYERSVILLE, Iowa (AP) — The second “Field of Dreams” game is Thursday night in the cornfields of eastern Iowa,…

By JIM MUSTIAN Associated Press CRYSTAL SPRINGS, Miss. (AP) — U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration Agent Harold Duane Poole was waiting with his…

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (AP) — An Iowa man faces two criminal charges accusing him of driving his vehicle through a group of abortion rights protestors…

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A federal lawsuit says the national governing body for fencing failed to protect a Tennessee teenager from sexual abuse…

SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) — Hundreds of Bulgarians have taken to the streets of the capital Sofia, voicing fears that the country’s caretaker…

The Associated Press Benchmark U.S. crude oil for September delivery rose $1.43 to $91.93 a barrel Wednesday. Brent crude for October delivery rose…

By JAMES MacPHERSON Associated Press BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — Former Miss America Cara Mund says her concern about the erosion of abortion rights…

By MARIA CHENG AP Medical Writer LONDON (AP) — Since May, nearly 90 countries have reported more than 31,000 cases of monkeypox. The World Health…

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — A Louisiana man sentenced to life in prison without parole in a 1979 double murder is being released after 42 years behind…