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By JEAN-YVES KAMALE Associated Press KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said he was “concerned” about reports of the…

By MUNIR AHMED Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistani police have arrested a news director at a popular TV station in the southern port city…

By LYNN ELBER AP Television Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Alan Tudyk owes his teachers more than a few measly apples. As a student, he received sound…

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Sesame Place has announced the implementation of diversity and inclusion training for its employees following a $25 million…

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A Kansas man convicted of performing illegal autopsies has been fined more than $700,000 and is permanently banned from doing…

By BEN FINLEY Associated Press NORFOLK, Va. (AP) — A federal judge says a U.S. Army lieutenant can go to trial against police officers in Virginia…

NEW YORK (AP) — Drivers entering the heart of New York City would pay $9 to $23 under a plan aimed at reducing gridlock in the country’s most…

By MOGOMOTSI MAGOME Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — South African prosecutors have charged seven self-employed miners with the rapes of eight…

By DAVID BILLER Associated Press RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Police in Rio de Janeiro are seeking the arrest of six people accused of involvement in…

WAUKESHA, Wis. (AP) — One of two Wisconsin women who were sent to a state mental health facility after a 2014 stabbing attack on a sixth-grade…

By FARES AKRAM Associated Press KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza Strip (AP) — When Israeli bombs began falling last week, 22-year-old Duniana al-Amour ran into…

By DAVID KLEPPER Associated Press Research that analyzed social media posts finds that hateful references to gays, lesbians and other LGBTQ people…

By JAKE BLEIBERG, DAVE COLLINS and MICHAEL TARM Associated Press DALLAS (AP) — The nearly $50 million defamation verdict against Alex Jones for his…

By ANDREA RODRÍGUEZ Associated Press HAVANA (AP) — A deadly fire that consumed at least half of a large oil storage facility in western Cuba and…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Authorities made a series of arrests of drug cartel figures in western Mexico that set off destruction of vehicles and…

By SAMYA KULLAB Associated Press BAGHDAD (AP) — An influential Shiite cleric in Iraq whose supporters earlier this month stormed the parliament in…

By MARÍA VERZA Associated Press POXINDEJE, Mexico (AP) — A painter in orange overalls touches up the image of a hand holding a rifle while an…

BOSTON (AP) — A former Boston high school dean already in prison for shooting a student he recruited to deal drugs has pleaded guilty to a federal…

By CLARENCE ROY-MACAULAY Associated Press FREETOWN, Sierra Leone (AP) — Sierra Leone’s vice president says there have been fatalities amid…

By JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Former President Donald Trump showed up Wednesday for questioning under oath in New York’s…

By ISABEL DEBRE Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The Emirati judicial department and a lawyer say the United Arab Emirates has…

By AL-HADJI KUDRA MALIRO Associated Press BENI, Congo (AP) — Officials in eastern Congo say that at least five people, including two policemen,…

By ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department says an Iranian operative has been charged in a plot to murder former…

LONDON (AP) — The number of coronavirus deaths fell by 9% in the last week while new cases remained relatively stable, according to the latest…

By HOLLY RAMER Associated Press The New Hampshire Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers is denouncing comments by Gov. Chris Sununu and his…

PARIS (AP) — Firefighters were battling a wildfire in southwestern France on Wednesday in a region known for its pine forests that was ravaged by…

BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Commission says it’s winding up years of surveillance of Greek government spending. The move, on Aug. 20, will…

BEIJING (AP) — A Chinese court has rejected an appeal  from a woman seeking an apology and damages in a high-profile case from the country’s…

By AMIR VAHDAT Associated Press TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Houshang Ebtehaj, a distinguished Iranian poet whose small but influential body of work made…

By ARSENE KABORE Associated Press OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso (AP) — Burkina Faso’s army says that at least 15 soldiers were killed in the…

By FRANCES D’EMILIO Associated Press ROME (AP) — Italy’s far-right leader Giorgia Meloni, who is leading in opinion polls ahead of Sept. 25…

LONDON (AP) — Children ages 1-9 in London were made eligible for booster doses of a polio vaccine Wednesday after British health authorities…

By AHMED AL-HAJ Associated Press SANAA, Yemen (AP) — Yemeni officials say that infighting among pro-government forces has killed 35 troops in a…

MOSCOW (AP) — Russians are snapping up Western fashion and furniture this week as H&M and IKEA sell off the last of their inventory in Russia,…

By MICHELLE CHAPMAN AP Business Writer Elon Musk has sold nearly $7 billion worth of shares in Tesla as the billionaire gets his finances in order…

By LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press RIGA, Latvia (AP) — The U.S. will conduct more military exercises with Baltic nations such as Latvia, and look…

KATE ASHFORD of NerdWallet At its current pace, Medicare’s Hospital Insurance trust fund will run out of money in 2028, according to the latest…

By SUSIE BLANN Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine said Wednesday that nine Russian warplanes were destroyed in a deadly string of…

By RONALD MONTOYA Edmunds As if buying a new car in today’s supply-constrained market wasn’t hard enough, this year, many shoppers are…

By KAREL JANICEK Associated Press PRAGUE (AP) — Slovakia’s economy minister says oil shipments from Russia through a critical pipeline to…

By KRUTIKA PATHI, SHEIKH SAALIQ and FRANK BAJAK Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — A cybersecurity firm informed a major Indian online insurance…

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Annual inflation in Denmark came at 8.7% last month — rising at the fastest pace since 1983 — while the figure in…

By KRISHAN FRANCIS Associated Press COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lanka’s justice minister has submitted a proposed constitutional amendment…

By The Associated Press Russian authorities have detained and charged a former state TV journalist who quit after staging an on-air protest against…

By GRAHAM DUNBAR AP Sports Writer GENEVA (AP) — Host nation Qatar is set to play in the opening game of its own World Cup tournament after all —…

By FARAI MUTSAKA Associated Press HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — A compelling art exhibit, “The Stars Are Bright,” has opened at the National Gallery…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The British children’s author and illustrator whose creations include “The Snowman” and…

By The Associated Press Russia and Ukraine have accused each other of shelling Europe’s largest nuclear power plant, stoking international…

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Toshiba has reported a 44% improvement in profit in the last quarter as the Japanese technology…

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — The semiconductor shortage is hitting another of the world’s automakers, despite demand for…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — As Britain swelters through a roasting summer, and braces for a cold financial reckoning in the…

HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong airline Cathay Pacific Airways says losses in the first half of the year narrowed as a relaxation in quarantine rules…

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greek authorities say a major search and rescue operation is under way east of the island of Karpathos after a boat…

By THOMAS ADAMSON Associated Press PARIS (AP) — A beluga whale that became a French celebrity after a wrong turn took it up the Seine River had to…

By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer BANGKOK (AP) — Shares advanced Thursday in Asia after benchmarks closed at three-month highs on Wall Street…

By MICHAEL BALSAMO, MICHAEL R. SISAK and MICHELLE L. PRICE Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Former President Donald Trump invoked his Fifth…

By JOCELYN NOVECK AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Serena Williams said it plainly: It isn’t really fair. A male athlete would never have to…

By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN, STEFANIE DAZIO and MARIAM FAM Associated Press ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — A fear of attacks that had rippled through Muslim…

By HOWARD FENDRICH AP Tennis Writer A couple of days before Serena Williams claimed the 22nd of her 23 Grand Slam singles titles at Wimbledon in…

By CARA ANNA Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Human rights groups are warning anxious Kenyans over “rising levels of false or misleading…

By AIJAZ HUSSAIN Associated Press SRINAGAR, India (AP) — For decades, India has tried to thwart Pakistan in a protracted dispute over Kashmir, the…

By CHRIS MEGERIAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden, whose elder son Beau died of cancer years after deploying to Iraq, signed…

By CHRISTINA LARSON and CHRIS MEGERIAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — After a moment when hopes dimmed that the United States could become an…

By KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Cleanup and recovery efforts have accelerated in South Korea’s greater capital…

By ANDREW DALTON Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — An institutional “culture of callousness” led Los Angeles County deputies and firefighters…

By BRIAN SLODYSKO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — After an uneven start, Donald Trump’s election-year tour of revenge succeeded in ousting…

By JOEY CAPPELLETTI and ED WHITE Associated Press GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) — A second trial is underway for two men accused of conspiring to kidnap…

By SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin’s most powerful Republican narrowly survived being targeted by Donald Trump in…

By MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Former President Donald Trump is expected to be questioned under oath in the coming days in…

By SUSAN HAIGH Associated Press HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Leora Levy, a first-time candidate who was endorsed by former President Donald Trump, has…