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By ALAN FRAM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Democratic Sen. Kyrsten Sinema’s views remained a mystery Monday as party leaders eyed votes…

GERING, Neb. (AP) — A wildfire that has forced evacuations and destroyed some homes in the Nebraska Panhandle grew to about 25 square miles, but…

By TODD RICHMOND Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Conservatives online are raising questions about a Wisconsin municipality’s mobile…

By DAVID PITT Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — An Iowa-based youth basketball league has agreed to settle a class-action lawsuit filed by…

By MATTHEW BARAKAT Associated Press ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) — A Dutch woman has been sentenced to three years in prison for donating several hundred…

By ELLIOT SPAGAT Associated Press SAN DIEGO (AP) — The Supreme Court has certified its month-old ruling allowing the Biden administration to end a…

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — West Virginia cities and counties have reached a $400 million tentative settlement with three major U.S. drug…

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — A New Mexico jury has convicted a man in the 2016 death of an Albuquerque girl who was strangled, dismembered and set on…

JERUSALEM (AP) — The Palestinian Health Ministry says at least one Palestinian has been killed and another wounded during an Israeli military raid…

By SARA CLINE Associated Press BATON ROUGE (AP) — For weeks, access to abortion in Louisiana has been flickering — with the state’s three…

MADRID (AP) — Spain has approved a new set of energy-saving measures that includes prohibiting air conditioning to be set lower than 27 degrees…

By SONNY FIGUEROA Associated Press GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — A prize-winning Guatemalan journalist jailed on alleged money laundering charges that…

By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A Texas man convicted of storming the U.S. Capitol with a holstered handgun, helmet and…

By AL-HADJI KUDRA MALIRO Associated Press BENI, Congo (AP) — Police have dispersed about 100 demonstrators in Congo’s eastern town of Beni. The…

HUDSON, Wis. (AP) — A 52-year-old Minnesota man was charged Monday with killing a teenager and stabbing four other people in a dispute that…

The Associated Press Benchmark U.S. crude oil for September delivery fell $4.73 to $93.89 a barrel Monday. Brent crude for October delivery fell…

GOLDSBORO, N.C. (AP) — Authorities say three North Carolina sheriff’s deputies were shot and wounded while trying to serve involuntary commitment…

By SETH BORENSTEIN AP Science Writer Experts are ignoring the worst possible climate change catastrophic scenarios, including collapse of society or…

DALLAS (AP) — A man who evaded arrest for over 12 years after being accused of fatally shooting his two teen daughters in a taxi parked near a…

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Authorities investigating the apparent drowning death of a senator in Paraguay say signs point to an accidental fall…

By ROB MAADDI AP Pro Football Writer When two separate Texas grand juries declined to indict Deshaun Watson on criminal complaints stemming from…

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poles are marking the 78th anniversary of the Warsaw Uprising, a doomed revolt against Nazi German forces during World War…

By JIM VERTUNO Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The parents of a Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting victim live with a complex form of…

By JOSH BOAK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden will soon be signing into law a major bill to revive the U.S. computer chip…

By EMILY ROSE Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — An Israeli government’s investigation into the use of powerful eavesdropping technology by…

By JOEY CAPPELLETTI Associated Press/Report for America LANSING, Mich. (AP) — A judge has blocked enforcement of a 1931 Michigan ban on abortion.…

By RUSS BYNUM Associated Press SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — A small enclave of slave descendants on the Georgia coast has settled a lawsuit that claimed…

By STEVE LeBLANC Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — A Massachusetts bill aimed at recasting the state’s gun laws in the wake of last month’s…

By REBECCA REYNOLDS Associated Press LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Another round of rainstorms are hitting flooded Kentucky mountain communities. The rain…

By JIM HEINTZ Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — Since Brittney Griner last appeared in her trial for cannabis possession, the question of her fate has…

By JEFFREY COLLINS Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A trial is starting in South Carolina where lawyers for several death row prisoners are…

By The Associated Press This week’s new entertainment releases include new music from Calvin Harris and a host of his musical friends, the…

By ASHRAF KHALIL Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Department of Housing and Urban Development is providing $2.8 billion in fresh funding for…

By JOSH BOAK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Five weeks ago, senior Biden administration aides gathered for their regular Thursday morning…

By DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — In soccer-mad England, which sees itself as the home of the world’s game, women and girls finally…

By EDGAR H. CLEMENTE Associated Press TAPACHULA, Mexico (AP) — An alleged migrant smuggler has been killed by police near the Mexico-Guatemala…

By HANNAH SCHOENBAUM Associated Press/Report for America RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — The North Carolina State Board of Elections has unanimously voted to…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Tropical Storm Frank continues to weaken well off Mexico’s Pacific coast after reaching hurricane strength over the weekend.…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United Nations chief is warning that “humanity is just one misunderstanding, one…

DEATH VALLEY NATIONAL PARK, Calif. (AP) — Some roads in and out of Death Valley National Park have been closed after they were inundated over the…

MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Newly elected President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. says the Philippines has no plan to rejoin the International Criminal…

By JOHN FLESHER, CHRISTINA LARSON and PATRICK WHITTLE Associated Press GLEN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) — Concealed behind trees near Lake Michigan, two…

ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan’s military says an army helicopter flying in a rescue and relief mission in the country’s flood-stricken southwest…

By KATE BRUMBACK Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham is challenging a subpoena to testify before a special grand jury…

AITKIN, Minn. (AP) — A trial in Minnesota is expected to decide whether a woman’s human rights were violated when a pharmacist denied her request…

By JAMES MacPHERSON Associated Press BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — Authorities say a man who was serving life sentences for killing four people at a North…

By BASSEM MROUE Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanese officials and a U.S. envoy say Lebanon and Israel are getting closer to reaching a deal in…

BOSTON (AP) — Massachusetts lawmakers have reached a deal on a bill that would legalize betting on professional and collegiate sports, joining more…

By AYA BATRAWY Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A veteran of Kuwait’s national oil company has taken over as secretary general…

HOLDENVILLE, Okla. (AP) — Officials say a corrections officer has died after being attacked by an inmate at an Oklahoma prison. The attack on…

By KIMBERLY PALMER of NerdWallet With high inflation and economic uncertainty, it’s easy to feel stressed out about money. But financial experts…

By NOAH BERGER and CHRISTOPHER WEBER Associated Press YREKA, Calif. (AP) — At least two people have died from a raging California blaze that was…

By BABACAR DIONE Associated Press DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Senegal’s ruling coalition says it has won 30 of 46 departments in Sunday’s legislative…

By VESELIN TOSHKOV Associated Press SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) — Bulgarian President Rumen Radev has appointed a caretaker government until Oct. 2 early…

BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union’s top court says maritime authorities cannot impound ships involved in search-and-rescue work just because…

By MOGOMOTSI MAGOME Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — More than 80 men suspected of the gang rapes of eight women and armed robbery of a video…

By ROB MAADDI AP Pro Football Writer Cleveland Browns quarterback Deshaun Watson was suspended for six games Monday after being accused by two dozen…

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran has arrested several members of the Baha’i faith on spying charges, the latest sign of a tightening…

By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press ROME (AP) — The Vatican says Pope Francis will travel next month to Kazakhstan. It’s possible that he…

CAIRO (AP) — Libyan authorities say at least nine people were killed and 76 were injured after a fuel tanker truck caught fire and exploded. The…

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Kuwait says it has formed a new government to defuse a protracted political feud that has blocked economic…

By MEG KINNARD Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Joe Cunningham has chosen a civil litigator who flew combat missions in Iraq to be his…

By ZEN SOO Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — Chinese e-commerce firm Alibaba said Monday that it would strive to maintain its listing status both…

By MILA KOUMPILOVA and MATT BARNUM of Chalkbeat, and COLLIN BINKLEY of The Associated Press Chalkbeat and Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — On a…

By LLAZAR SEMINI Associated Press Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez has said the Western Balkans are an integral part of the European Union,…

LONDON (AP) — A British court on Monday refused to block a hospital from ending life-support treatment for a 12-year-old boy who has suffered…

BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Serbia’s new parliament has convened for its first session, some four months after an election that reaffirmed the…

By SAMYA KULLAB and QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA Associated Press BAGHDAD (AP) — Thousands of Shiites gathered in Baghdad for a counter-rally called by…

By DAVID PITT Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The U.S. Department of Agriculture is proposing new regulations that would force food…

By MATTHEW DALY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House is making more than $1 billion available to states to address flooding and…

CAIRO (AP) — Sudan says it has detected the country’s first case of the monkeypox virus in the conflict-wrecked Darfur region. The Health…

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — A Chinese state-owned company is negotiating to buy a forestry plantation with a…

PARIS (AP) — French firefighters say a weekend wildfire in the southern Gard region that injured four firefighters has now been contained.…

By BASSEM MROUE Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — It’s been two years since his 3-year-old daughter, Alexandra, was killed in a massive explosion at…

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — The Australian Parliament is considering a bill that would lift a 25-year-old ban on two…