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By MUNIR AHMED Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan’s former prime minister is accusing the current government of mismanaging the…

By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The trial of R. Kelly’s manager opened Tuesday on charges that he forced the cancellation of…

By TODD RICHMOND Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin Attorney General Josh Kaul has filed a lawsuit seeking to hold nearly 20 companies…

By MARCOS ALEMÁN Associated Press SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) — El Salvador’s congress has granted President Nayib Bukele another 30-day…

By KEN MILLER Associated Press OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A federal audit report sharply criticizes Oklahoma officials for a lack of oversight and…

LJUBLJANA, Slovenia (AP) — Authorities in Slovenia have scheduled a presidential election for Oct. 23 to choose a successor to the current centrist…

By FARNOUSH AMIRI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A ban on certain semi-automatic weapons is moving forward in the House. Democrats on the House…

By TOM DAVIES Associated Press INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Leaders of Indiana’s Republican-dominated Senate on Wednesday proposed banning abortion with…

By CURT ANDERSON Associated Press ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — Fewer manatee deaths have been recorded so far this year in Florida compared to the…

AKRON, Ohio (AP) — An attorney for Jayland Walker’s family has joined the NAACP in asking the U.S. Department of Justice to investigate his…

By STEFANIE DAZIO Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Federal authorities are offering a $5,000 reward for information about the man who allegedly…

By MENELAOS HADJICOSTIS Associated Press NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — The Greek Cypriot president of Cyprus has dismissed proposals put forward by the…

By JAKE BLEIBERG Associated Press UVALDE, Texas (AP) — Facing massive public pressure, Uvalde’s top school official has recommended the firing of…

By KATE BRUMBACK Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — A judge in New York has ordered Rudy Giuliani to appear next month before a special grand jury in…

DETROIT (AP) — The company that makes Can-Am Ryker motorcycles is warning people not to ride some of them because a handlebar bolt can break,…

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says plans to launch a new military offensive in northern Syria will continue to be on…

By SAM METZ Associated Press DELTA, Utah (AP) — The coal plant is closing. In this tiny Utah town surrounded by cattle, alfalfa fields and…

BY SAMY MAGDY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — Libya’s National Oil Corporation says it resumed oil exports, ending a monthslong hiatus. It says…

BERLIN (AP) — Europe is in an energy crisis, and it means countries will struggle to keep homes warm and industry humming this winter. That’s…

WALTERBORO, SC (AP) — The disbarred South Carolina attorney Alex Murdaugh has pleaded not guilty to murdering his wife and son. His defense lawyers…

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lanka’s prime minister has been elected president by lawmakers who opted for a seasoned, veteran leader to lead…

PARIS (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron says that a new spiral of violence between Israel and the Palestinians “can start at any moment.”…

By RAQUEL REDONDO and BARRY HATTON Associated Press MADRID (AP) — The death of a street cleaner during a heat wave in Madrid is driving a debate in…

By ALEX VEIGA AP Business Writer Sales of previously occupied U.S. homes slowed for the fifth consecutive month in June as higher mortgage rates and…

LONDON (AP) — Britain’s government has given the green light to a new nuclear power station that’s expected to generate enough low-carbon…

By QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA and RASHID YAHYA Associated Press DOHUK, Iraq (AP) — Iraqi Kurdish officials and Iraq’s military say at least eight…

By MIKE SCHNEIDER Associated Press Trump officials tried to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census in a move experts said would benefit…

By PAUL WISEMAN and MARÍA VERZA The Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States is putting pressure on Mexico over energy policies that…

By TERRY WALLACE Associated Press At least 16 homes have been destroyed and another five damaged as a two-day-old wildfire remained on the move near…

By MIKE ECKEL Associated Press SCHÖNAU AM KÖNIGSSEE, Germany (AP) — Hikers looking for rugged trails, soaring vistas and convivial evenings…

By GLENN GAMBOA AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Donations from Fidelity Charitable climbed 11% to a record $4.8 billion for the first half of…

By LEANNE ITALIE Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — For the uninitiated, outfitting a college dorm room can be a dizzying experience. Doing it at a…

By IVANA BZGANOVIC Associated Press BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Egypt and Serbia have agreed to boost political, economic and other cooperation as the…

By DAVID McHUGH AP Business Writer FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — Italy’s political turmoil is making life harder for the European Central Bank as…

CAIRO (AP) — Egypt has resumed hot air ballooning over the ancient city of Luxor following a two-day hiatus after two tourists were lightly injured…

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden says he’ll host leaders from across Africa for a summit in Washington in mid-December. The U.S.-Africa…

BERLIN (AP) — A court that was considering a case against Dieter Wedel, one of Germany’s best-known TV directors and scriptwriters, says that he…

By ALEX ROSENBERG of NerdWallet Medicare fraud is big business, and the COVID-19 pandemic has provided new opportunities for fraudsters. Fortunately,…

By SHEIKH SAALIQ Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — India’s top court has granted bail to a Muslim journalist more than three weeks after he was…

By KATIE TAM and ZEN SOO Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong’s annual book fair has kicked off with several publishers of political books…

By MILES BRANMAN Edmunds There are two key points within the life cycle of a vehicle: the introduction of a fully redesigned model and a significant…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Britain’s Conservative Party chose former Treasury chief Rishi Sunak and Foreign Secretary Liz…

By WILL WEISSERT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Reps. Elaine Luria and Adam Kinzinger, who will lead questioning in the closing summer hearing…

By CATHY BUSSEWITZ AP Energy Writer NEW YORK (AP) — When long-haul trucker Deb LaBree sets out on the road to deliver pharmaceuticals, she has…

By RAF CASERT Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union’s head office on Wednesday proposed that member states cut their gas use by 15%…

By SEUNG MIN KIM and MATTHEW DALY Associated Press SOMERSET, Mass. (AP) — President Joe Biden on Wednesday announced modest new steps to combat…

BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s highest court says it has thrown out complaints against a ban on the use of subcontractors in slaughterhouses that was…

LONDON (AP) — Inflation in the United Kingdom has accelerated to a new 40-year high, driven by rising food and fuel prices that are contributing to…

By RAHIM FAIEZ Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — The United Nations says in a new report that despite an overall improved security situation in…

By FABIANO MAISONNAVE RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Environmental criminals in the Brazilian Amazon destroyed public forests equal the size of El Salvador…

MULTAN, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistan’s police say they have arrested at least two people after a 21-year-old American woman reported that she was…

By THANASSIS STAVRAKIS and DEREK GATOPOULOS PALINI, Greece (AP) — Nearly 500 firefighters struggled to contain a large wildfire that threatened…

DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Syria says it is formally breaking diplomatic ties with Ukraine in response to a similar move by Kyiv.  Syria is a strong…

By DANICA KIRKA and JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Britain’s record-breaking heatwave has spurred calls for the government to speed…

By SUSIE BLANN Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian forces have damaged a bridge that is key to supplying Russian troops in southern…

By ILAN BEN ZION Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Installing an elevator doesn’t normally involve a 2,000-year plunge into an ancient…

By NICOLE WINFIELD and FRANCES D’EMILIO Associated Press ROME (AP) — Italian Premier Mario Draghi has won a confidence vote in the Senate,…

By FRANCES D’EMILIO Associated Press SERRASTRETTA, Italy (AP) — From a rustic, tiny synagogue she fashioned from her family’s ancestral…

By STAN CHOE and ALEX VEIGA AP Business Writers Wall Street tacked more onto its big gains from a day earlier Wednesday, as more profit reports roll…

By LORI HINNANT, CARA ANNA, VASILISA STEPANENKO and SARAH EL DEEB Associated Press NARVA, Estonia (AP) — For weeks Natalya Zadoyanova had lost…

By LORI HINNANT, CARA ANNA, VASILISA STEPANENKO and SARAH EL DEEB Associated Press NARVA, Estonia (AP) — For weeks Natalya Zadoyanova had lost…

By EBRAHIM NOROOZI Associated Press KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Hundreds of men, strung out on heroin, opium and meth, were strewn over the hillside…

TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — European Parliament Vice President Nicola Beer has met with Taiwan’s leader Tsai Ing-wen and called for China to open a…

By NICK PERRY Associated Press WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Micronesia has likely become the final nation in the world with a population of more…

By RUSS BYNUM Associated Press WALTERBORO, S.C. (AP) — Disbarred South Carolina attorney Alex Murdaugh has pleaded not guilty to fatally shooting…

By JAY COHEN AP Sports Writer CHICAGO (AP) — NASCAR has added its first street course to the Cup schedule with a planned 2023 race through downtown…

BEIJING (AP) — Four people have died in a gas explosion at a six-story residential building in the Chinese port city of Tianjin. State broadcaster…

By KEN RITTER and FELICIA FONSECA Associated Press BOULDER CITY, Nev. (AP) — A transformer exploded at Hoover Dam, producing a thick cloud of black…

By MATTHEW LEE and NOMAAN MERCHANT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s dismissal of senior officials is…

By JILL COLVIN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Former Vice President Mike Pence is becoming increasingly brazen in his willingness to counter…

By MARK STEVENSON Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — When fugitive 1980s Mexican drug lord Rafael Caro Quintero was arrested in Mexico last week,…