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By DAVID SHARP Associated Press Facing a growing threat from China, the Navy envisions drone ships keeping an electronic eye on enemy forces across…

By INNA VARENYTSIA Associated Press ODESA, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has visited a Black Sea port to watch crews…

MADRID (AP) — Prosecutors in Spain said Friday they would ask a court to sentence Colombian pop star Shakira to eight years and two months in…

By HANNAH SCHOENBAUM Associated Press/Report for America RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Democrats have a good chance in North Carolina of picking up a Senate…

SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) — A court in Bosnia has sentenced a former top ruling party official to three years in prison for corruption. The…

By TERRY WALLACE Associated Press A fire chief says sunlight magnified by glass bottles in an open garbage can ignited paper trash, starting a…

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — An appeals court in Kyiv has reduced to 15 years the life sentence of a Russian soldier convicted in the first war crimes…

By ZEN SOO Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong officials say they will open an investigation into a concert accident in which a giant video…

By KAREEM CHEHAYEB Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — The U.N. refugee agency says Lebanese authorities need to stifle soaring violence and…

By COURTNEY BONNELL and COLLEEN BARRY AP Business Writers LONDON (AP) — Inflation in the European countries using the euro currency shot up to…

MOSCOW (AP) — Russian officials say a fire killed eight people in a Moscow hostel where bars on the windows prevented occupants from escaping. The…

By HUIZHONG WU Associated Press TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — The crisis sparked by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s potential visit to Taiwan misses a…

By SUSIE BLANN Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia and Ukraine accused each other Friday of shelling a prison in a separatist region of…

By FRANCESCA EBEL Associated Press TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — Tunisian voters have approved a referendum on a new constitution that gives more powers to…

By DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Izzy Short, 13, struggles to pick her favorite England player as she anticipates the team’s…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Britain’s next prime minister will take office amid turmoil: galloping inflation, a war in…

By MATTHEW LEE AP Diplomatic Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration likes to say Russia is isolated internationally because of its…

By TOM KRISHER AP Auto Writer DETROIT (AP) — The surprise deal by Senate Democrats on a slimmed-down bill to support families, boost infrastructure…

CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Wimbledon tennis finalist Nick Kyrgios’ court date to face a common assault charge has been postponed by three weeks.…

By SAM METZ Associated Press TONOPAH, Nev. (AP) — The resignation of a county elections clerk in a rural county in Nevada has opened a window into…

By SAM METZ Associated Press TONOPAH, Nev. (AP) — The Nye County Commission is used to dealing with all sorts of hot-button controversies. Water…

By JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER and BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — Bobby Edward Fort was 27 when he enlisted in the Coast Guard in 1994…

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — You bought a Mega Millions lottery ticket and have been dreaming of how you’ll spend $1.28 billion. Now it’s time to…

By JOHN RABY Associated Press CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — West Virginia lawmakers passed up the chance Friday to become the first state to approve new…

By DYLAN LOVAN, BRUCE SCHREINER and MATTHEW BROWN Associated Press JACKSON, Ky. (AP) — Trapped homeowners swam to safety and others were rescued by…

By SUSAN HAIGH and JULIE CARR SMYTH Associated Press HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Appearing bare-shouldered in a TV ad, Connecticut Democrat Dita…

NEW DELHI (AP) — India has expressed “deep concern” at Myanmar’s executions of four political prisoners, joining other nations in condemning…

UVALDE, Texas (AP) — Officials of the Texas school district where the nation’s deadliest classroom shooting in a decade happened have reinstated…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. Security Council has voted to extend its political mission in Libya, but at…

By JESSICA GRESKO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Two of the Supreme Court justices who disagree most often on the outcomes of cases say they…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The State Department has offered a $10 million reward for information about Russian interference in American elections, including…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Authorities in Mexico say at least 94 migrants had to bash their way out of a suffocating freight trailer abandoned on a highway…

By BETH HARRIS Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Actor Joe Manganiello got some big surprises when researchers for the PBS show “Finding Your…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — An autopsy report says a Los Angeles police officer died from injuries he received in a training accident but wasn’t beaten by…

By BECKY BOHRER Associated Press JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — A spokesperson for the Alaska State Troopers says there is no evidence that the fatal…

By MATTHEW DALY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — An unexpected deal reached by Senate Democrats would be the most ambitious action ever taken by…

By JESSICA DAMIANO The monarch butterfly was categorized by scientists last week as endangered. Populations of the iconic orange-and-black butterfly…

By AMY FORLITI and STEPHEN GROVES Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Three former Minneapolis police officers went before a federal judge during…

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…