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By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate easily approved Michael Barr to be the Federal Reserve’s top banking…

By PHILIP MARCELO Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — A state senator in Rhode Island who was suspended from TikTok after posting a video in which she…

By MICHAEL LIEDTKE AP Technology Writer SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Netflix has picked Microsoft to help deliver the commercials in a cheaper version of…

By KEVIN FREKING Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration and Democrats are warning of dire consequences if Congress fails to…

By MIKE SCHNEIDER Associated Press ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — The University of Central Florida has removed anti-racist statements from departmental…

By ALAN FRAM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Sen. Joe Manchin is roiling budget talks with Democratic leaders anew. The West Virginia Democrat…

ROME (AP) — The stability of Italian Premier Mario Draghi’s coalition government is at risk because 5-Star lawmakers say they will not…

WHITEWOOD, Va. (AP) — Authorities say flooding in a remote corner of southwest Virginia has damaged more than 100 homes but there are no confirmed…

By DEMETRIS NELLAS Associated Press ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Authorities in Greece say two members of a helicopter crew battling a forest fire on the…

By MEG KINNARD Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Attorneys for Sen. Lindsey Graham say he wasn’t trying to interfere in Georgia’s 2020…

By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN Associated Press ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — U.S. wildlife managers are being sued over their new management rule for the…

By JAMES ANDERSON Associated Press DENVER (AP) — A wealthy dentist accused of killing his wife during an African safari and later collecting nearly…

BALTIMORE (AP) — Baltimore police have identified a 15-year-old boy seen in a dashboard video as a person of interest in last week’s deadly…

By LARRY NEUMEISTER and TOM HAYS Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A former CIA software engineer was convicted on Wednesday of federal charges…

By BASSEM MROUE Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — The leader of Lebanon’s militant Hezbollah group has threatened Israel with military escalation if…

By MAURICIO SAVARESE and DIANE JEANTET Associated Press SAO PAULO (AP) — Under tight security and wearing a bulletproof vest, former Brazilian…

By LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer In “Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris,” a middle-aged woman of very limited means in post-World War II London dreams of…

BRYSON CITY, N.C. (AP) — A Florida man who aspires to be a commercial pilot showed his skills when he landed a single-engine aircraft on a…

YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK, Calif. (AP) — A wildfire that threatened a grove of California’s giant sequoias in Yosemite National Park was burning…

By AMY BETH HANSON Associated Press HELENA, Mont. (AP) — The commission that oversees the Montana State Library has rejected a proposed new logo…

By ED WHITE Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — Detroit has agreed to pay $7.5 million to settle a lawsuit by a man who claimed police switched bullets…

By COLLEEN SLEVIN Associated Press DENVER (AP) — Colorado officials say the former elections manager for a county clerk indicted on charges of…

By KEN MILLER Associated Press People who believe they are descendants of Tulsa Race Massacre victims can now provide genetic material to help…

By SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Republican candidate for governor in Wisconsin endorsed by Donald Trump won’t rule out…

By ANDREW WELSH-HUGGINS and JULIE CARR SMYTH Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A man has been charged in Ohio with raping a 10-year-old girl…

DECATUR, Ga. (AP) — A prosecutor says a woman has been charged with murder in the death of her 6-year-old son outside Atlanta more than 23 years…

By ISABEL DEBRE Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Backed into a corner by the West, Iran is ramping up uranium enrichment,…

By MICHAEL WARREN and FARNOUSH AMIRI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Civil rights leader and trailblazing educator Mary McLeod Bethune has…

By BOBBY CAINA CALVAN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Soaring demand for the monkeypox vaccine caused the appointment system to crash in New York…

By PAUL WISEMAN AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Inflation’s relentless surge didn’t merely persist in June. It accelerated. For…

A court in Russia has ruled to remand a prominent opposition politician in custody pending an investigation and trial over his public criticism of…

By The Associated Press The euro is hovering close to parity with the dollar, falling to its lowest level in 20 years and even briefly touching a…

By MIKE SCHNEIDER Associated Press ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Sentencing for a former Florida tax collector whose arrest led to a probe of U.S. Rep. Matt…

ROME (AP) — Italy’s agriculture minister warned Parliament on Wednesday that a third of Italy’s agricultural production was at risk because of…

CHICAGO (AP) — R. Kelly has been returned to the federal jail in downtown Chicago ahead of his trial on child pornography and…

BERLIN (AP) — Russian energy company Gazprom appeared to cast doubt on the prospects of quickly restoring the flow of natural gas to full capacity…

By LARRY LAGE and MIKE HOUSEHOLDER Associated Press ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) — The University of Michigan has named Santa Ono as its new president.…

By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN Associated Press A Maryland man who shoved a police officer with a lacrosse stick attached to a Confederate battle flag during…

By MARK PRATT Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — A family’s beloved pet cat that’s been dodging airport personnel, airline employees, and…

By BASSEM MROUE Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — A Swiss foundation says the families of some of the victims of Beirut’s deadly port blast have…

Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — A World Boxing Council championship belt belonging to former South African President Nelson Mandela has been…

By HALELUYA HADERO AP Business Writer Amazon has provided Ring doorbell footage to law enforcement 11 times this year without the user’s…

By ELLIOT SPAGAT Associated Press PIEDRAS NEGRAS, Mexico (AP) — Opaque waiting lists for asylum-seekers to enter the United States at the Mexico…

LJUBLJANA, Slovenia (AP) — Slovenian police say they have detained a Syrian man for illegally transporting migrants, as the country’s foreign…

By GLENN GAMBOA AP Business Writer Bill Gates, concerned about the “significant suffering” caused by global setbacks including the COVID-19…

LONDON (AP) — British rail workers will go on strike on July 27 over an ongoing pay dispute, a month after the country’s most disruptive railway…

By ASHOK SHARMA Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — Indian investigators have raided an Indian subsidiary of Chinese smartphone maker Oppo, accusing…

By CARLA K. JOHNSON AP Medical Writer The U.S. relaxed rules around the addiction treatment drug methadone during the pandemic, and researchers now…

By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — A former Boston police officer who was beaten more than 25 years ago by colleagues who…

BERLIN (AP) — The European Space Agency on Wednesday celebrated the first flight of its Vega-C rocket, which is designed to provide more bang for…

By ROB GILLIES Associated Press TORONTO (AP) — Canada’s central bank is raising its target interest rate by a full percentage point in an effort…

By JEFF AMY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock raised $17.2 million for his Senate reelection bid in 2020′s…

By DEMETRIS NELLAS Associated Press ATHENS, Greece (AP) — An arson attack on a suburban Athens building that houses the offices of a Greek radio…

By AAMER MADHANI and JOSH BOAK Associated Press TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — The White House says President Joe Biden will try to limit physical contact…

HORNELL, N.Y. (AP) — Authorities say three people have been arrested on hate crime charges of blanketing a small upstate New York city with white…

By RAF CASERT Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union’s executive has decried the rule of law situation in Poland and Hungary and…

By SAMUEL PETREQUIN AP Sports Writer French senators say the chaos outside the national stadium that marred the Champions League soccer final was due…

CAIRO (AP) — Egypt is raising the price of its widely used diesel and other fuels, in a move expected to further drive up prices of other goods and…

By HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Joy Harjo, who recently completed a three-year run as the country’s poet laureate, will have…

ROME (AP) — Hundreds of taxi drivers in Italy are protesting for a second day against the government’s plans to allow more competition. Since…

By HELENA ALVES and JOSEPH WILSON Associated Press LISBON, Portugal (AP) — A spate of wildfires is scorching parts of Europe, with firefighters…

By MOGOMOTSI MAGOME and SEBABATSO MOSAMO Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — South African police are patrolling the streets of Johannesburg’s…

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Prosecutors in Poland’s capital say a 31-year-old man is facing allegations of having posed a threat to the life and…

BERLIN (AP) — The German government has unveiled a new package of climate measures to close the emissions gap in the transport and housing sectors…

ROME (AP) — Iran’s foreign minister, in an interview in Italy, says his country opposes Russia’s war against Ukraine. But Minister…

By AMANDA SEITZ Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Social media platforms including Facebook and TikTok are failing to stop hate and threats…

By MARK GILLISPIE Associated Press AKRON, Ohio (AP) — Hundreds of people filled a theater as family and friends shared their memories of Jayland…

By DEMETRIS NELLAS Associated Press ATHENS, Greece (AP) — A prominent Greek stage actor and director has been convicted of raping two men when they…

By HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korean prosecutors have raided the country’s main spy agency as part of an…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — A Tokyo court has ordered four former executives of the utility operating the tsunami-wrecked…

By MARIA GRAZIA MURRU Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian authorities say Russian missile strikes in the southern city of Mykolaiv have…

ROME (AP) — Pope Francis has named three women to serve as members of the Vatican office that vets bishop nominations. It’s the first time…

BERLIN (AP) — Austria’s far-right Freedom Party has chosen former lawmaker Walter Rosenkranz as its candidate to challenge liberal incumbent…

By SAM KEMMIS of NerdWallet Travel to Europe might be an attractive option to travelers looking for a budget vacation in 2022. In May 2022, airfare…

ISLAMABAD (AP) — The United Nations says unseasonal rain and flooding have killed at least 39 people — including nine children — in…

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — The bodies of a man and his three young children who vanished last week after leaving for a fishing trip were found along with…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press Writer LONDON (AP) — Two candidates have been knocked out of the race to replace British Prime Minister Boris…

By MICHAEL CANTU Edmunds If you’re in the market for a pickup truck, you might be considering a hybrid model with today’s sky-high gas prices.…

By KRUTIKA PATHI Associated Press COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lanka’s president, who fled on a military jet after angry protesters seized…