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By JOHN O’CONNOR Associated Press SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Officials are pledging to reinforce security on Chicago Transit Authority trains…

By DÉBORA ÁLVARES Associated Press BRASILIA, BRAZIL (AP) — Brazil’s Federal Police have arrested three more suspects in a case arising from…

BALTIMORE (AP) — One of the police officers who faced charges in the 2015 deadly arrest of Freddie Gray has been promoted from lieutenant to…

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — An Oklahoma City man fatally shot his three young children then shot and killed himself early Saturday, according to police. A…

By CHRIS MEGERIAN and ZEKE MILLER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden tested negative for COVID-19 on Saturday but will continue…

By GILLIAN FLACCUS Associated Press A wildfire burning in a remote area just south of the Oregon border appears to have caused the deaths of tens of…

ISLAMABAD (AP) — The Taliban say a bomb went off in a minority Shiite neighborhood in the Afghan capital, killing at least two people and wounding…

By MORGAN LEE Associated Press SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — Native American artists, political leaders and storytellers are the final arbiters of taste…

By REGINA GARCIA CANO Associated Press SAN JUAN DE COLON, Venezuela (AP) — Official cross-border trade between Venezuela and Colombia has been…

By FRANCES D’EMILIO Associated Press ROME (AP) — A trunk with its lid left open. A wooden dishware closet, its shelves caved in. Three-legged…

DAYTON, Ohio (AP) — Four people have been fatally shot in an Ohio neighborhood, and authorities say they are searching for a 39-year-old man who is…

By ANDREA RODRÍGUEZ Associated Press HAVANA (AP) — A fire set off by a lightning strike at an oil storage facility raged uncontrolled in the Cuban…

By ALAN FRAM and FARNOUSH AMIRI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrats pushed their election-year economic bill toward Senate approval early…

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The head of Chad’s military government has met with the ruling emir of Qatar…

TEL AVIV (AP) — A friendly between Juventus and Atlético Madrid scheduled to be played in Tel Aviv has been canceled after an outbreak of fighting…

By SUSIE BLANN Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian forces began an assault Saturday on two key cities in the eastern Donetsk region and…

CAIRO (AP) — Sudan has accused neighboring Chad of a cross-border attack earlier this week that a top commander says killed at least 18 nomads in…

By JEFFREY COLLINS Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Some South Carolina lawmakers who oppose abortion are being cautious when it comes to…

By HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The Justice Department’s effort to block the merger of Penguin Random House and Simon…

By COLLEEN BARRY Associated Press CIVITANOVA MARCHE, Italy (AP) — Two marches have taken place through one of Italy’s Adriatic beach towns,…

By PETER DEJONG Associated Press AMSTERDAM (AP) — Hundreds of thousands of spectators are lining Amsterdam’s historic canals and bridges to…

SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) — Authorities in Bulgaria say a bus crash has killed four people and left at least eight injured. Local police said the bus…

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — The head of Amnesty International’s Ukraine chapter has resigned, saying the human rights organization shot down her…

PARIS (AP) — French environmentalists are working around the clock to try and feed a dangerously thin Beluga whale that has strayed into the Seine…

By RODNEY MUHUMUZA Associated Press KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — Ugandan authorities have suspended the work of a prominent LGBTQ rights group, calling…

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Voters in Kenya are choosing a successor to President Uhuru Kenyatta next week after his decade in power. The race is close…

By GRANT PECK and DAVID RISING Associated Press PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — Cambodia’s foreign minister says efforts by Myanmar’s neighbors to…

By JIM GOMEZ Associated Press MANILA, Philippines (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Saturday that China should not hold hostage…

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. Food and Agriculture Agency’s global food price index dropped for a fourth straight month in July, but was still…

By KATIE TAM Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — Chi Kee Sawmill & Timber is Hong Kong’s last operating sawmill. It has been processing wood in…

By HANNAH SCHOENBAUM Associated Press/Report for America RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A federal judge has ordered elections officials to place the North…

By HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea has called U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi “the worst destroyer of…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — U.N. experts say in a new report that Malian armed forces allegedly carried out an…

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. (AP) — Health officials say a central Illinois day care worker has monkeypox but that it has not spread to others at the center.…

WASHINGTON (AP) — ABC’s “This Week” — Sens. Chris Coons, D-Del., and Mike Rounds, R-S.D.; Bill Richardson, former U.S. ambassador to the…

By DAVE KOLPACK Associated Press MOORHEAD, Minn. (AP) — The owner of the sole abortion clinic in North Dakota has been busy getting a new location…

SAN ANGELO, Texas (AP) — A former West Texas police chief has been sentenced to 15 1/2 years in prison for bribery. Former San Angelo police chief…

DEATH VALLEY NATIONAL PARK, Calif. (AP) — Record rainfall Friday trigged flash floods at Death Valley National Park that swept away cars, closed…

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Police in New Mexico’s largest city are investigating whether the ambush shooting deaths of three Muslim men over…

AITKIN, Minn. (AP) — A jury has ruled that a central Minnesota pharmacist did not violate a woman’s rights when when he refused to provide her…

FORT COLLINS, Colo. (AP) — A former Colorado police officer who did not stop another officer from being rough with a 73-year-old woman with…

By MICHAEL BALSAMO and MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee says he plans to hold an…

By JANET McCONNAUGHEY Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Nearly a half-century after arson killed 32 people in a New Orleans gay bar, the City…

By DAVID PORTER Associated Press A New Jersey man who made up a story about a homeless veteran helping out his then-girlfriend and used the tale to…

SANDERSVILLE, Ga. (AP) — A new prosecutor has been assigned to consider retrying three former Georgia sheriff’s deputies accused of killing a man…

By FRANK BAJAK Associated Press Twitter says vulnerability in its software that exposed an undetermined number of owners of anonymous accounts to…

By DYLAN LOVAN Associated Press LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Louisville activists put in long hours on phones and in the streets, working tirelessly to…

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — A Rhode Island police department is seeking to fire a longtime officer after video showed him smashing a handcuffed…

BERKELEY, Calif. (AP) — Construction of student housing at the historic People’s Park in Berkeley, California, is on hold after an appellate…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — State police in north-central Mexico have killed 13 alleged gang members in a shootout the same day they captured four people…