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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…

By CARA ANNA Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Africa’s public health agency says the continent still does not have a single dose of the…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Beloved British actor Bernard Cribbins has died at the age of 93. His agent announced Cribbins’…

By DAVID KOENIG and MICHELLE CHAPMAN AP Business Writers JetBlue Airways has agreed to buy Spirit Airlines for $3.8 billion and create the nation’s…

LONDON (AP) — A British judge has jailed for life a man who killed his grandfather in the first crown court sentencing to be televised in Britain.…

By FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Dave Muffley thought he had it made when it came to a solid retirement. The Indiana man spent…

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Police say cars crashed into tires and other garbage piled on a highway in the northern Netherlands by radical…

By THOMAS ADAMSON and AYA BATRAWY Associated Press PARIS (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron is planning to welcome Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed…

AMSTERDAM (AP) — Automaker Stellantis has reported higher earnings in the first half of 2022 compared with last year, pointing to a nearly 50%…

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Japanese automaker Nissan says its profit in the last quarter plunged to less than half of what it…

By MUNIR AHMED Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — An Australian and a Canadian mountain climber died last week in northern Pakistan while attempting…

PRISTINA, Kosovo (AP) — Kosovo has signed a $236.7 million agreement with a U.S. government agency to support its energy sector, promote…

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — An Australian judge has ordered Samsung to pay $9.8 million in penalties for misleading…

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iranian state TV says the death toll in a landslide triggered by heavy rains in northwestern Tehran has reached six, with 14…

By SUSIE BLANN Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian forces launched a missile attack on the Kyiv area for the first time in weeks Thursday…

By BISWAJEET BANERJEE Associated Press LUCKNOW, India (AP) — Seven people, mostly farmers, were killed by lightning in a village in India’s…

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Asian shares were mostly higher on Friday following a broad rally on Wall Street, but Hong…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s push to obtain UNESCO World Heritage recognition for a former gold mine key to the…

By ANDREW MELDRUM and MOGOMOTSI MAGOME Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Russian, French and American leaders are crisscrossing Africa to win…

BRISBANE, Australia (AP) — Two Hall of Fame baseball players are leading a push to bring the sport that made them famous to India, Pakistan and the…

By WANJOHI KABUKURU Associated Press MAPUTO, Mozambique (AP) — Sections of a renowned peatland tropical forest in the Congo Basin that plays a…

By FARES AKRAM Associated Press GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — Gaza’s Hamas rulers have imposed a slew of new taxes on imported clothes and office…

By HUIZHONG WU Associated Press TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — A group of Japanese lawmakers including two former defense ministers has met with Taiwan’s…

By PHILIP MARCELO Associated Press BARRE, Mass. (AP) — One by one, items purportedly taken from Native Americans massacred at Wounded Knee Creek…

By NICK PERRY Associated Press WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — The family of a Tennessee pharmacist who died on her honeymoon in Fiji decided to…

By CLAIRE RUSH and GILLIAN FLACCUS Associated Press/Report for America PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Triple-digit heat was being investigated Thursday as…

By DAVE KOLPACK Associated Press FARGO, N.D. (AP) — A judge’s ruling that will delay the closing of North Dakota’s lone abortion clinic should…

By MICHAEL BIESECKER and HELEN WIEFFERING Associated Press LENORAH, Texas (AP) — To the naked eye, the Mako Compressor Station outside the dusty…

By MICHAEL BIESECKER and HELEN WIEFFERING Associated Press LENORAH, Texas (AP) — To the naked eye, the Mako Compressor Station outside the dusty…

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Jerome Powell delivered a tough message at the start of a news conference Wednesday:…

By LISA MASCARO AP Congressional Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) — What started as a $4 trillion effort during President Joe Biden’s first…

By HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has warned he’s ready to use his nuclear weapons in…

By COLLEEN SLEVIN Associated Press DENVER (AP) — A wealthy dentist accused of shooting and killing his wife in their cabin at the end of an African…

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A Baltimore family is suing a Sesame Street-themed amusement park for $25 million over claims of racial discrimination,…

MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay (AP) — Luis Suárez has confirmed that he has signed with Nacional in Montevideo, the club where Uruguay’s historic…

BAKU, Azerbaijan (AP) — Domenico Vicini has become the oldest player to win a Davis Cup match. He turns 51 in September. Vicini and doubles partner…

By TERRY WALLACE Associated Press The principal of the Texas school where the nation’s deadliest classroom shooting in a decade happened is…

HUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif. (AP) — The owner of an underwater oil pipeline that spilled some 25,000 gallons of crude into the ocean off Southern…

By ED DAVEY Associated Press A new report by says many of the world’s biggest banks are falling far short of aligning their practices with the…

LANSING, Mich. (AP) — A man who admitted to calling in a bomb threat at the Michigan Capitol has been sentenced Wednesday to one year in jail.…

ELLEN KNICKMEYER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A relative of slain Palestinian-American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh says the Biden…

By KIM CHANDLER Associated Press MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey says the state will proceed with plans to execute a man convicted of…

NICOLE WINFIELD and ROB GILLIES Associated Press QUEBEC CITY (AP) — The Canadian government made clear Wednesday that Pope Francis’ apology to…

By JEAN-YVES KAMALE Associated Press KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — Officials say four people demonstrating against the United Nations peacekeeping mission…