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By JAY COHEN AP Sports Writer CHICAGO (AP) — Nneka Ogwumike says Brittney Griner is an American hero. Speaking ahead of the WNBA’s All-Star…

By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN Associated Press ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — The supervisor who was in charge of the Santa Fe National Forest when the federal…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Moody’s Investors Service has downgraded Mexican government debt from Baa1 to Baa2, citing concerns about debt servicing costs…

By MANUEL RUEDA and JOSHUA GOODMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A fashion designer whose accessories have been used by celebrities and…

WASHINGTON (AP) — ABC’s “This Week” — Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo; Rep. Adam Kinzinger, R-Ill.; Rahm Emanuel, U.S. ambassador to…

By AAMER MADHANI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden has spoken by phone with the sister of Paul Whelan, an American who has…

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — A Florida man has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for attempting to support the Islamic State terrorist group by…

By TERRY TANG Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Arizona’s governor has signed a law that restricts how the public can video police at a time…

By DON THOMPSON Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A California panel has denied parole for a follower of cult leader Charles Manson…

LINVILLE, N.C. (AP) — Authorities say a woman was killed and at least three people were injured when a van ferrying runners to a running race in…

By The Associated Press The Biden administration is nudging airlines to make it easier for families to sit together on planes at no extra charge. On…

By MICHAEL RUBINKAM Associated Press A state court has blocked Pennsylvania from participating in a regional carbon pricing program to combat climate…

By MAYSOON KHAN Associated Press / Report for America ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — A report by a law firm says former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo improperly…

BALTIMORE (AP) — A stunned family is grieving after a man wielding a baseball bat was fatally shot during a confrontation with people cleaning…

By BOB CHRISTIE Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — An attorney with the Arizona attorney general’s office says a 2021 state “personhood” law…

By MARK SHERMAN and PAUL WEBER WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration asked the Supreme Court on Friday to allow it to put in place guidance…

By MARGERY A. BECK Associated Press Two Iowa police officers are taking the unusual move of suing six people who participated in a 2020 protest in…

MARIETTA, Ga. (AP) — Suburban Atlanta police officers have shot and killed a man. Authorities say 26-year-old Estaban Ramirez pinned an officer…

By SAMANTHA HENDRICKSON Associated Press/Report for America COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A federal investigation is underway after feces were sent to…

WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal appeals court on Friday narrowed the range of documents House Democrats are entitled to in their years-long…

The Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) has opted to pull investments from five energy corporations, joining other faith-based groups in targeting…

By WAYNE PARRY Associated Press ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — Hoping to expand their appeal beyond the slot machine and buffet crowd, some casinos are…

By DENISE LAVOIE AP Legal Affairs Writer RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Court documents say a tipster who warned police in Richmond, Virginia, about a…

By The Associated Press Here’s a collection curated by The Associated Press’ entertainment journalists of what’s arriving on TV, streaming…

By STEVE KARNOWSKI Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Now that former Minneapolis police Officer Derek Chauvin has been sentenced to federal…

By ANDREW SELSKY Associated Press SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Backers of a proposed initiative in Oregon that would require people to secure permits to buy…

By PAT EATON-ROBB Associated Press Hundreds of protesters have demanded justice for a Black man who was seriously injured in the back of a police van…

By PAUL WISEMAN AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Inflation is raging. The stock market is tumbling and interest rates rising. American…

By KEVIN McGILL Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Louisiana authorities can now enforce the state’s ban on almost all abortions under a new…

By OUMAR ZOMBRE and SAM MEDNICK Associated Press OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso (AP) — Protesters in Burkina Faso demonstrated Friday against the return…

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran’s state-run news agency is reporting that authorities have detained two filmmakers over an appeal they…

Moscow is trolling both the U.S. and the U.K. by officially renaming the streets in front of their embassies for the two separatist regions of…

By LYNN ELBER AP Television Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Larry Storch, the rubber-faced comic whose long career in theater, movies and television was…

By WILL WEISSERT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. Border Patrol agents on horseback engaged in “unnecessary use of force” against…

By MENELAOS HADJICOSTIS Associated Press NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — A European Union official says the bloc has asked Turkish Cypriot authorities in…

SITKA, Alaska (AP) — An Alaska family had given up hope of finding their blind, elderly golden retriever who wandered away from their home three…

YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK, Calif. (AP) — The largest grove of giant sequoias in Yosemite National Park was closed Friday and hundreds of people…

By LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration says the U.S. will send another $400 million in military equipment…

By RENATA BRITO and TARIK EL-BARAKAH Associated Press RABAT, Morocco (AP) — The European Commission has vowed to step up its work with Morocco to…

By JOSEPH KRAUSS Associated Press The family of a Palestinian-American reporter killed while covering an Israeli raid in the occupied West Bank has…

LONDON (AP) — The British government says veteran counterterrorism police officer Mark Rowley will be the new chief of London’s troubled…

By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — A deep dive into rock ‘n’ roll’s female pioneers like Chaka Khan, Pat Benatar, Mavis…

By BHARATHA MALLAWARACHI Associated Press COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Police have imposed a curfew in Sri Lanka’s capital a day before a planned…

By VESELIN TOSHKOV Associated Press SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) — A Bulgarian liberal party has failed to find a majority in parliament to form a…

By JEFF AMY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Stacey Abrams’ fundraising continues to accelerate. The Georgia Democrat’s campaign for governor…

By DANICA KIRKA and HANNA ARHIROVA Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson may have been shown the door in Britain,…

SRINAGAR, India (AP) — At least 13 people have died after sudden rains triggered flash floods during an annual Hindu pilgrimage to an icy Himalayan…

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Brazil’s federal police have arrested a fourth man possibly involved in the murder of British journalist Dom Phillips and…

By BOUAZZA BEN BOUAZZA Associated Press TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — Ons Jabeur is the first Arab woman to reach a Grand Slam tennis final and a star in…

By ANDREW SELSKY Associated Press SALEM, Ore. (AP) — In 2020, Black Lives Matter protesters were doused with tear gas, making them gasp for breath,…

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) — Fire department divers in Massachusetts have managed to retrieve a Chicago woman’s large diamond ring that fell into…

By FABIANO MAISONNAVE RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Every day billions of people depend on wild flora and fauna to obtain food, medicine and energy. But a…

By JEAN-YVES KAMALE Associated Press KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — Officials in Congo say rebels attacked a hospital and killed at least 13 people,…

By DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Prince Harry has won the first stage of a libel suit against the publisher of Britain’s Mail on…

By SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin’s conservative-controlled Supreme Court has ruled that absentee ballot drop boxes…

PARIS (AP) — Hundred of firefighters backed by water-dropping planes battled a large forest fire Friday in southeastern France that has forced the…

RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has received a call from Israel’s caretaker prime minister, Yair Lapid, the first…

LONDON (AP) — British police say they will not fine the two top leaders of the opposition Labour Party over a curry-and-beer meal with colleagues…

By FRANK JORDANS Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has pledged to help troubled energy giant Uniper after it asked the…

NEZUK, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) — Thousands of people joined a peace march through forests in eastern Bosnia in memory of the 1995 Srebrenica…

By BARRY HATTON Associated Press LISBON, Portugal (AP) — Former Angolan President José Eduardo dos Santos has died in a clinic in Barcelona,…

By MARINA VILLENEUVE and MAYSOON KHAN Associated Press ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — As missed warning signs pile up in investigations of mass killings, New…

By ODED BALILTY Associated Press MICHMORET, Israel (AP) — Over a dozen endangered sea turtles that were rescued after suffering major injuries in…

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — The leaders of Greece and Bulgaria have marked the completion of a new pipeline that will supply natural gas from Azerbaijan…

By The Associated Press A court in Moscow has sentenced a municipal council member to seven years in prison for his remarks opposing the war in…

By MARK SCOLFORO Associated Press A Pennsylvania 911 operator faces a rare charge of involuntary manslaughter for failing to send an ambulance to the…

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis is planning to restart his pilgrimages within Italy after a pandemic-induced lull and knee pain that has made…