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By SAM McNEIL Associated Press AL-FAKHEET, West Bank (AP) — After repeatedly rebuilding his home only to have it demolished by Israeli soldiers,…

By COLLEEN BARRY Associated Press MILAN (AP) — Italy’s firebrand former interior minister, Matteo Salvini, has put migration at the center of his…

By BABA AHMED Associated Press BAMAKO, Mali (AP) — Bamako, Mali’s bustling riverside capital of more than 2.5 million people, is on heightened…

By JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — Asian stock markets rose Friday ahead of an update on the health of the U.S. jobs market while…

By JOSH DUBOW AP Pro Football Writer Cliff Branch was the epitome of what Al Davis coveted in a receiver during his decades running the Raiders.…

By JIM HEINTZ Associated Press KHIMKI, Russia (AP) — A judge in Russia convicted American basketball star Brittney Griner of drug possession and…

By KRISHAN FRANCIS Associated Press COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — An international human rights group says Sri Lanka’s government is using emergency…

By DAVID RISING Associated Press PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi is stressing his country’s efforts to strengthen…

By KAREL JANICEK and JOVANA GEC Associated Press PRAGUE (AP) — Liudmyla Chudyjovych used to have a career as a lawyer in Ukraine and big plans for…

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Toyota’s profit fell nearly 18% from a year earlier in the April-June quarter as a semiconductor…

By JOHNSON LAI and HUIZHONG WU Associated Press KEELUNG, Taiwan (AP) — China says it has conducted “precision missile strikes” in the…

By HAVEN DALEY and CHRISTOPHER WEBER Associated Press KLAMATH RIVER, Calif. (AP) — California firefighters made gains against the state’s…

By NICK PERRY Associated Press WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — The government of the Solomon Islands is tightening its control over the nation’s…

By TERRY SPENCER Associated Press FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Roses brought to honor love on that Valentine’s Day in 2018 lay withered,…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.S. ambassador to the United Nations is heading to Africa, saying she is going to…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A suspect mistakenly released from a Los Angeles County jail where he was being held on suspicion of shooting Lady Gaga’s dog…

BEIJING (AP) — Police in southern China have arrested a 47-year-old man suspected of an attack that killed three people and injured six others at a…

By DARLENE SUPERVILLE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Jill Biden barnstormed the country during her debut year as first lady as if on a…

By JONATHAN MATTISE and KIMBERLEE KRUESI Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Andy Ogles, a far-right county mayor, won Tennessee’s crowded…

By LISA MASCARO AP Congressional Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) — At a dinner with the president of Finland shortly after Russia invaded Ukraine,…

By BOBBY CAINA CALVAN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Even in hindsight, Nichole Schmidt can’t be sure if anything could have been done to…

By THALIA BEATY Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The virtual cat hero from the new video game sensation “Stray” doesn’t just wind along…

By DAVID RISING Associated Press PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — The Association of Southeast Asian Nations is calling for calm in the Taiwan Strait,…

By AAMER MADHANI and EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Russia is dismissing a claim by U.S. officials that it’s working to…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The federal government is proposing tougher rules for when airlines must give passengers refunds for changing their travel plans.…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — The construction of facilities needed for a planned release of treated radioactive wastewater into…

By DANIEL POLITI Associated Press BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Argentina’s third economy minister in a month has been sworn in, and as his…

TOLAR, Texas (AP) — One firefighter has suffered burns and two others have been treated for heat exhaustion while fighting a new North Texas…

By BOB CHRISTIE Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Officials in an Arizona county are vowing to overhaul their election procedures after a shortage of…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Chrissy Teigen and her husband John Legend are expecting another child nearly two years after the couple suffered a pregnancy…

By KEN RITTER Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — A Las Vegas-based corporate owner of thousands of residential rental properties in several U.S.…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — A journalist was among four people killed inside a beer shop in central Mexico, the 13th media worker killed in the country this…

CENTRAL ISLIP, N.Y. (AP) — A former schoolteacher from suburban New York City has been sentenced to 30 months in prison for mailing dozens of…

HAMPSHIRE, Ill. (AP) — Illinois State Police say an eighth person has died from a fiery crash involving a wrong-way car on an interstate in…

By MICHAEL LIEDTKE and OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ Associated Press BERKELEY, Calif. (AP) — A group of protesters broke through an 8-foot chain fence erected…

By LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration has filed its first legal challenge to a state abortion ban since…

GONZALES, La. (AP) — A Louisiana judge has refused to set any bond for rapper Mystikal, who is accused of raping and choking a woman at his home…

By ALAN FRAM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans see inflation, taxes and immigration as Democratic weak spots worth attacking in the…

By BOB CHRISTIE Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Arizona voters relegated House Speaker Rusty Bowers to the history books after the conservative…

By GABE STERN Associated Press/Report for America RENO, Nev. (AP) — County commissioners in rural Nevada have appointed a new top election official…

By FRANKLIN BRICEÑO Associated Press LIMA, Peru (AP) — Peru’s prime minister has announced his resignation, adding to political uncertainty in…

By BOB CHRISTIE and CHRISTINA A. CASSIDY Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — The Trump-endorsed state lawmaker who won the GOP nomination for Arizona…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United Nations chief says he is appointing a fact-finding mission in response to…

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — The Oglala Sioux Tribe is requiring churches and missionaries to register with the tribe before entering the Pine Ridge…

By DOUG FERGUSON AP Golf Writer The dispute between the PGA Tour and the Saudi-funded LIV Golf series is now in the courts. Phil Mickelson and Bryson…

By BRIAN SLODYSKO and TOM DAVIES Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican U.S. Rep. Jackie Walorski has been killed in a car accident in her…

By ROB MAADDI AP Pro Football Writer The NFL is seeking an indefinite suspension of at least one year plus a fine in appealing a disciplinary…

OXFORD, Mich. (AP) — An attorney suing a Michigan school district following a mass shooting at its high school says an armed security officer told…

By ANDREW DeMILLO Associated Press LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — An Arkansas panel has blocked a recreational marijuana proposal from appearing on the…

By JOHN RABY Associated Press CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A federal judge has ruled that West Virginia’s Medicaid program must provide coverage for…

By TERRY SPENCER and FREIDA FRISARO Associated Press FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — A Girl Scout and avid reader. A trombone player who loved movies…

By JEFF AMY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia Republican Herschel Walker has accepted an invitation in his U.S. Senate race to debate…

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The remains of two children killed in the 1985 bombing of a Philadelphia home used as the headquarters of a Black radical group…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Dr. Meredith Grey will be cutting back her workload on “Grey’s Anatomy.” Series star Ellen Pompeo is set to appear in…

By RACHEL LA CORTE Associated Press OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — The two Republican members of Congress from Washington who drew interparty challenges due…

By MICHAEL BALSAMO Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The Justice Department has filed suit against Peter Navarro, claiming the former adviser to…

By STEPHEN GROVES Associated Press SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — A South Dakota government ethics board on Wednesday pressed forward in its…

By MICHAEL BIESECKER and HELEN WIEFFERING Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Environmental Protection Agency says it will conduct helicopter…

By STEVE PEOPLES AP National Politics Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Democrats displayed a newfound sense of optimism about the election-year political…

By MARGARET STAFFORD Associated Press Two Kansas state lawmakers who have faced legal troubles since they were elected have lost their primary races.…

By KEN MILLER Associated Press OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The Oklahoma Board of Pardon and Parole is recommending clemency for death row inmate James…

By ANDREW WELSH-HUGGINS Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The six officers who shot and killed an active shooter in Dayton 32 seconds after…

MILWAUKEE (AP) — A recent decision by a Wisconsin school district to ban pride flags and the use of pronouns in emails has released an avalanche of…

By DENISE LAVOIE AP Legal Affairs Writer RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — With the suspects now facing federal gun charges, a judge has dismissed state gun…

The Associated Press Benchmark U.S. crude oil for September delivery fell $3.76 to $90.66 a barrel Wednesday. Brent crude for October delivery fell…

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — A federal oversight board is ordering the United Mine Workers of America to pay more than $13 million in compensation to an…

By TRAVIS LOLLER Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A federal judge in Tennessee has extended a restraining order against 10 anti-abortion…

By MATTHEW LEE AP Diplomatic Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S.-China relations are teetering on a precipice after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s visit…

By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — A civil rights lawsuit accuses a suburban Boston police officer of pinning a Black man to…

MINEOLA, N.Y. (AP) — The driver in a hit-and-run crash that killed the father of rapper Nicki Minaj last year was sentenced Wednesday to a year in…

By RAHIM FAIEZ Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — A Taliban official says a gunbattle in Afghanistan’s capital of Kabul left at least five people…

By HOLLY RAMER Associated Press CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — A survivor of a crash that killed seven fellow members of a Marine motorcycle club…

GERING, Neb. (AP) — Fire crews made substantial headway in containing a western Nebraska wildfire that earlier destroyed some homes. Ben Bohall…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United Nations chief sharply criticized the “grotesque greed” of oil and gas…