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By RAHIM FAIEZ Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — The Taliban say at least eight people have been killed after a bomb hidden in a cart went off near…

LISBON, Portugal (AP) — Portugal’s weather service says the Iberian country recorded its hottest July on record last month. It said Friday…

By The Associated Press Here’s a collection curated by The Associated Press’ entertainment journalists of what’s arriving on TV, streaming…

WASHINGTON (AP) — A retired police lieutenant has been arrested after police say he fatally shot a fellow law enforcement officer Thursday during a…

By TOM KRISHER AP Auto Writer DETROIT (AP) — Two crashes involving Teslas apparently running on Autopilot are drawing scrutiny from federal…

ROME (AP) — The Vatican recorded a 3 million euro deficit last year, far less than the 33 million euros projected. But the Holy See said Friday…

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden will travel to eastern Kentucky on Monday to survey the damage from last week’s…

By IGNATIUS SSUUNA Associated Press KIGALI, Rwanda (AP) — Rwanda’s government is rejecting a report by United Nations experts saying they have…

By JIM VERTUNO Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A Texas jury on Friday ordered conspiracy theorist Alex Jones to pay $45.2 million in punitive…

By PATRICK WHITTLE Associated Press PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — John Rensenbrink has died at age 93 after a life in which he co-founded the Green Party…

By GILLIAN FLACCUS Associated Press PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A new map in Oregon that rated the wildfire risk of every tax lot in the state —…

The Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Grammy-winning country trio Lady A is postponing its tour this year as band member Charles Kelley…

By TERRY TANG The Associated Press BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) — Picture it: A vacant Beverly Hills bistro has been transformed into the set of a…

By DÉBORA ÁLVARES Associated Press BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — Jô Soares, one of Brazil’s most notable humorists and television stars, died in Sao…

WASHINGTON (AP) — A husband and wife from Wisconsin celebrating more than five decades of marriage were killed in a lightning strike outside the…

By MARGERY A. BECK Associated Press LAUREL, Neb. (AP) — Police on Friday arrested a man in the killings of four people in a small northeast…

By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press ROME (AP) — Pope Francis has met with a top official of the Russian Orthodox Church ahead of an expected…

By FARES AKRAM and JOSEPH KRAUSS Associated Press GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israel unleashed a wave of airstrikes Friday on Gaza, killing at…

BLOOMINGTON, Minn. (AP) — The Mall of America reopened Friday as police search for two people involved in a shooting inside the suburban…

By LUIS ANDRES HENAO Associated Press Click and gape at the Vatican’s Sistine Chapel ceiling up close. Click again and join thousands of pilgrims…

By ELENA BECATOROS Associated Press ATHENS, Greece (AP) — The head of Greece’s intelligence service and the general secretary of the prime…

By HALELUYA HADERO AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Amazon on Friday announced it has agreed to acquire the vacuum cleaner maker iRobot for…

BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union says the leaders of Serbia and Kosovo have agreed to meet in Brussels on Aug. 18 to discuss ways to end the…

By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — The Kremlin said Friday that it’s open to talking about a possible prisoner exchange…

By BARRY HATTON Associated Press LISBON, Portugal (AP) — The Catholic Church in Portugal says the archbishop of Lisbon has met with Pope Francis in…

Associated Press Elon Musk accused Twitter of fraud in a countersuit over his aborted $44 billion deal for the social media company, which he claimed…

By DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — A British judge on Friday rejected a request from the parents of a comatose boy to let them move…

By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer BANGKOK (AP) — Economies in the Asia-Pacific are forecast to hit the doldrums this year as decades-high…

By MIKE CORDER Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The leader of the Netherlands’ top agricultural lobby group says a first round of…

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The Federal Reserve sent a sobering message Wednesday after it announced its latest…

By QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA Associated Press BAGHDAD (AP) — Hundreds of thousands of Iraqis heeded the call of an influential Shiite cleric to gather in…

By RISHI LEKHI and SHONAL GANGULY Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — Indian police have detained dozens of lawmakers from the opposition Congress…

By FIRDIA LISNAWATI Associated Press Authorities in Indonesia arrested three foreigners for distributing cocaine on the Indonesian resort island of…

STOCKHOLM (AP) — Norwegian cruise ship operator Hurtigruten says one of its ships has run aground in a fjord off the Nordic country’s west…

By OMAR FARUK Associated Press MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — The al-Shabab extremist group has exploited Ethiopia’s internal turmoil to cross the…

BERLIN (AP) — Officials in Germany say fire accompanied by explosions at a police ammunition depot in a Berlin forest is contained. The head of the…

By JOSEPH WILSON and RENATA BRITO Associated Press BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — As a sex worker and adult film actor, Roc was relieved when he was among…

BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s health minister, an epidemiologist by training who has led the country’s fight against COVID-19 since December, has…

By DOUG FEINBERG AP Basketball Writer The NCAA earned praise last year when it agreed to pay referees at its men’s and women’s basketball…

By DAVID RISING and JIM GOMEZ Associated Press PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — Foreign ministers from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations…

By PAUL WISEMAN AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. employers added an astonishing 528,000 jobs last month despite flashing warning signs of…

By AMANDA BARROSO and LAUREN SCHWAHN of NerdWallet Credit bureau Equifax announced that a computer coding error resulted in the miscalculation of…

By ZEYNEP BILGINSOY and AYA BATRAWY Associated Press ISTANBUL (AP) — Three more ships carrying thousands of tons of corn have left Ukrainian ports.…

By ILAN BEN ZION and ISAAC SCHARF Associated Press TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — A long-lost painting by the British graffiti artist Banksy has…

By STAN CHOE, DAMIAN J. TROISE and ALEX VEIGA AP Business Writers NEW YORK (AP) — Stock indexes closed mostly lower Friday after a roller-coaster…

ASHOK SHARMA Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — India’s central bank has raised its key interest rate by a half percentage point to 5.4% in its…

By KEN RITTER Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — Records show a 54-year-old man jailed in the killing of one person and wounding of two others…

By FELICIA FONSECA Associated Press A New Mexico man who was driving drunk without a valid license barreled through a parade that celebrates Native…

By TASSANEE VEJPONGSA Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — Police and rescue workers say 14 people were killed and dozens badly injured when a fire…

By ELLEN KNICKMEYER, ZEKE MILLER and DAVID RISING Associate Press WASHINGTON (AP) — China cut off contacts with the United States on vital issues…

By AMANDA SEITZ Associated Press Washington (AP) — Reining in the soaring prices of insulin has thus far been elusive in Congress, although…

LIND, Wash. (AP) — A small town in Washington state that was evacuated due to a fast-moving fire was largely spared Friday, while in California…

By KEVIN FREKING Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — After more than a decade of mostly losing out, the Internal Revenue Service may finally get the…

By WILL WEISSERT and THOMAS BEAUMONT Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Democrats are poised to strip Iowa from leading off their…

By SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Republican hopes to reclaim a crucial governor’s seat in swing-state Wisconsin this year…

By JOSH BOAK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrats call it the “Inflation Reduction Act.” Republicans say it’s a “tax and…

By AMY TAXIN Associated Press U.S. immigration authorities are planning to issue photo ID cards to immigrants in deportation proceedings in a bid to…

By DAVID RISING Associated Press PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Friday that China’s military…

AURORA, Colo. (AP) — Police in a Colorado suburb say they’re looking for a man who doused two customers with gasoline at a fueling station after…

By JAY REEVES Associated Press Authorities in Alabama say a 12-year-old girl who was held captive for a week with the dismembered remains of her…

By AUDREY McAVOY Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — The Honolulu Board of Water Supply says it detected a small amount of a chemical naturally…