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By ERIC RISBERG and ANDREW SELSKY Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The mayor of San Francisco announced a state of emergency Thursday over the…

By DANIEL POLITI Associated Press BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Argentina’s government has announced the appointment of an economic “super…

By JIM VERTUNO Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A producer for conspiracy theorist Alex Jones’s media company tried to paint a sympathetic…

By COURTNEY WALSH Associated Press BIRMINGHAM, England (AP) — Olympic gold medalist Tom Daley protested intolerance toward the LGBTQ+ community at…

ANITA SNOW Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — The Biden administration on Thursday authorized completion of the Trump-funded U.S.-Mexico border wall…

By BARBARA ORTUTAY AP Technology Writer Meta Platforms says it will no longer pay U.S. news organizations to have their material appear in…

By SETH BORENSTEIN AP Science Writer Human-caused climate change made last week’s deadly heat wave in England and Wales at least 10 times more…

By ED WHITE Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — The Michigan Supreme Court says the state’s anti-discrimination law covers sexual orientation, a…

By JOSH BOAK and ZEKE MILLER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden and his administration went all out Thursday to play down a…

By TOM DAVIES and ARLEIGH RODGERS Associated Press INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Indiana’s Republican-dominated Senate rejected a push by conservative…

By ALI SWENSON Associated Press Arizona’s largest county is facing a repeat of #SharpieGate, the social media uproar that erupted after the…

By CHRISTOPHER WEBER Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Los Angeles County has dropped a plan to impose a universal indoor mask mandate this week…

By MICHAEL LIEDTKE AP Technology Writer BERKELEY, Calif. (AP) — Apple’s profit slipped during the past quarter, but the world’s largest…

By MATT SEDENSKY and CARLA K. JOHNSON Associated Press A deal on Capitol Hill that could cut prescription drug costs for millions of Medicare…

By JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press GENEVA (AP) — Israel, the United States and Britain have criticized an expert commissioned by the U.N. human…

By WILL WEISSERT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Barack Obama’s presidential portrait will be unveiled at the White House in a September…

By MICHAEL BALSAMO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Secret Service Director James Murray is delaying his retirement as the agency deals with an…

RIO VISTA, Calif. (AP) — California officials say four people have been killed and six were injured in a head-on crash between a sedan and an SUV…

By RUSS BYNUM Associated Press SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — A Georgia county has filed a lawsuit that seeks to force a company to sell it 4,000 acres on…

By MARK PRATT Associated Press Employees at a Trader Joe’s supermarket in Massachusetts on Thursday became the latest workers at a major company to…

ATLANTA (AP) — A group of voters on Thursday took their quest to get U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Green removed from the ballot to Georgia’s highest…

By KEVIN FREKING Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The House has passed a $280 billion package to boost the semiconductor industry and scientific…

BEIRUT (AP) — A Syrian cargo ship carrying what Ukraine says is grain stolen by Russia has docked in Lebanon. The Ukrainian Embassy in Beirut said…

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel’s foreign ministry says two Israeli tourists were killed and five were injured in a car accident in Egypt’s…

By MATTHEW PERRONE AP Health Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The country’s monkeypox outbreak can still be stopped, U.S. health officials said Thursday,…

By ASHRAF KHALIL Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The District of Columbia has requested National Guard assistance to help stem a “growing…

By MIKE STOBBE AP Medical Writer NEW YORK (AP) — For most of the six decades that monkeypox has been known to affect people, it was not known as a…

By SCOTT McFETRIDGE and CIARAN GILES Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — At over $1 billion, the Mega Millions jackpot is among the largest…

SEMINOLE, Okla. (AP) — Authorities say a man and a woman described as his girlfriend have been arrested for the death of a young child whose burned…

LONDON (AP) — The parents of a 12-year-old boy who was left in a comatose state after suffering brain damage have failed to persuade the U.K.…

By ZEN SOO Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — A falling video screen has struck and injured two dancers on stage as Cantopop band Mirror was…

By FRANCES D’EMILIO Associated Press ROME (AP) — Italy’s president is urging Italians to reinvigorate their democracy as the country…

By JEFF AMY Associated Press MARIETTA, Ga. (AP) — With new abortion restrictions clamping down in Georgia, Democrats hope their advocacy of…

By KEVIN McGILL Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Charges have been dropped against a Black north Louisiana man whose severe beating before he…

By TODD RICHMOND Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The parents of a teenager who was one of three people killed by a former Wisconsin police…

By MARK SCOLFORO Associated Press HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Pennsylvania’s Democratic governor is suing the Legislature over a package of proposed…

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — One of the nation’s biggest lottery prizes got a little bigger Thursday as the Mega Millions jackpot increased to an…

The Associated Press A former Russian state TV journalist who quit after making an on-air protest of Russia’s war in Ukraine has been fined 50,000…

LONDON (AP) — Russian regulators have fined chat service WhatsApp and Snapchat for failing to store Russian users’ data on local servers as part…

By LYNN ELBER AP Television Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Two documentaries detailing the punishing effects of Russia’s war on Ukraine will air on…

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison says he won’t appeal a ruling that struck down most of the state’s restrictions on…

By CAROLYN THOMPSON Associated Press ROCHESTER, N.Y. (AP) — A man who accosted U.S. Rep. Lee Zeldin on stage as the Republican campaigned for…

By ANDREW WELSH-HUGGINS Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A man accused of raping and impregnating a 9-year-old Ohio girl who traveled to…

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — A senior Ethiopian official says the government is ready for talks with rival forces from the country’s northern Tigray…

By ALAN FRAM and LISA MASCARO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden hailed a nascent Democratic package of climate, health care…

By VAGNER BARBOSA Associated Press BISSAU, Guinea-Bissau (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron wrapped up a three-country tour in Africa that saw…

ST. LOUIS (AP) — Parts of the St. Louis region that are recovering from record-setting rains earlier this week were under a flash flood warning…

By ROB GILLIES and NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press ST-ANNE-DE-BEAUPRÉ, Quebec (AP) — Pope Francis celebrated Mass on Thursday at Canada’s…

By JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — China’s leaders effectively acknowledged the struggling economy won’t hit its official 5.5%…

CAIRO (AP) — A leading human rights watchdog is urging Egyptian authorities to allow the family of a prominent activist serving a five-year…

SPARTA, Ga. (AP) — State investigators looking into the death of a Georgia woman who fell out of a patrol car after being arrested have concluded…

By DÁNICA COTO Associated Press SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Authorities say at least five Haitian migrants have drowned and 68 others have been…

By KEN SWEET AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — For more than a decade, US Bank pressured its employees to open fake accounts in their customers’…

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The International Criminal Court has unsealed an arrest warrant for a former government minister in Central African…

CHICAGO (AP) — U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin of Illinois says he has tested positive for COVID-19 and was in quarantine with what he described as minor…

By BARBARA ORTUTAY AP Technology Writer Facebook is letting violent hate speech slip through its controls in Kenya, according to a new report from…

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — The U.N. expert on migrants’ rights says that, while Poland has welcomed millions of Ukrainian refugees fleeing the…

BY JULIE WATSON Associated Press TIJUANA, Mexico (AP) — With its cheery unicorn printed case, Ana Morazan’s iPhone contains all that’s…

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — A crowd of staunch fans have braved wet winter weather in downtown Melbourne to watch an outdoor showing of an…

By JULIE WATSON Associated Press TIJUANA, Mexico (AP) — Tens of millions of people are being uprooted by natural disasters due to the impact of…

By MATT OTT AP Business Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Fewer Americans applied for jobless benefits last week, but the previous week’s number was…

By KEN SWEET AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The head of the nation’s financial watchdog is having second thoughts about using fines to deter…

By ROB GILLIES and DAVID CRARY Associated Press In his extensive papal travels, Pope Francis has never journeyed farther north than Iqaluit, capital…

VEVEY, Switzerland (AP) — Global food giant Nestle has reported higher sales in the first half of the year, even as it increased prices by 6.5% as…

VIENNA (AP) — Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer has welcomed Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban in Vienna for bilateral talks that focused on…

MADRID (AP) — Spain’s Socialist-led coalition government wants large energy companies and banks to pay a windfall tax, which officials hope will…

By CHRIS MEGERIAN, ZEKE MILLER and ELLEN KNICKMEYER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden and China’s Xi Jinping are exploring…

By JONATHAN LANDRUM Jr. AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Tyler Perry will receive an honorary AARP award for uplifting communities and…

By STEPHEN WHYNO AP Sports Writer Washington Commanders owner Dan Snyder testified for more than 10 hours Thursday before a congressional committee…

By MATTHEW PERRONE AP Health Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Altria reports its nearly $13 billion investment in troubled vaping company Juul is worth 95%…

By BRUCE SCHREINER, REBECCA REYNOLDS and TIMOTHY D. EASLEY Associated Press JACKSON, Ky. (AP) — Torrential rains unleashed devastating floods in…

MADRID (AP) — Spain’s government has a message for women who are uncomfortable about their bodies when they wear bathing costumes: Don’t be.…

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — The presidents of South Korea and Indonesia have agreed to boost their bilateral cooperation on supply chains, economic…