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By MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — An Italian astronaut has teamed up with a Russian cosmonaut in a rare spacewalking…

By PAUL WISEMAN and GABRIELA SELSER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration dropped Nicaragua from a list of countries that can…

By SARA CLINE Associated Press BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Abortion clinics in Louisiana can continue operating under the latest order from a state…

By MICHELLE CHAPMAN AP Business Writer A new lunar rover is under development by Lockheed Martin and Goodyear as NASA gears up for a return to the…

By JOE REEDY AP Sports Writer With less than two months before its first regular season game, Prime Video’s crew for “Thursday Night Football”…

By HANNAH SCHOENBAUM Associated Press/Report for America RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina’s Democratic attorney general has declined to meet…

By JOHN HANNA AP Political Writer OLATHE, Kan. (AP) — A vote is looming in Kansas that could clear the way for the Legislature to more strictly…

By ADRIANA DE JESÚS SALAMÁN Associated Press SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — A Puerto Rico court “archived” a restraining order issued…

By NICHOLAS K. GERANIOS Associated Press SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — Patty Murray was first elected to the U.S. Senate from Washington state in 1992…

By SHEIKH SAALIQ Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — A woman who hails from a minority ethnic community was chosen Thursday as India’s new…

By JOSEPH WILSON Associated Press BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — The governments of Spain and Portugal have criticized a European Union plan to reduce the…

By SARAH RANKIN Associated Press RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Some federal lawmakers urged Google last month to limit the appearance of anti-abortion…

By KATHY McCORMACK Associated Press CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — Dartmouth College has named its first female president in its over 250-year history. Sian…

By SYLVIA HUI Associated Press LONDON (AP) — An independent inspection has found that Britain’s response to the increase in migrants crossing the…

By HALELUYA HADERO Amazon announced Thursday it will acquire the primary care organization One Medical in a deal valued roughly at $3.9 billion,…

By EMILY ROSE Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — A group of Ukrainian mental health professionals has spent the last two weeks in a special course…

By MATT OTT AP Business Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits last week rose to the highest level in…

EDMOND, Okla. (AP) — Authorities say a suburban Oklahoma City motorcycle police officer was killed when he was struck from behind while on patrol.…

By ASHRAF KHALIL Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Steve Bannon’s lawyer has opened his defense by asking the judge to rule that prosecutors had…

ROME (AP) — A top Vatican cardinal has endorsed calls for a fossil fuels nonproliferation treaty. Cardinal Michael Czerny is the Canadian Jesuit…

By MICHAEL GOLDBERG Associated Press/Report for America JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Health officials are grappling with how people staffing the new…

By MSTYSLAV CHERNOV Associated Press KHARKIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian shelling has pounded a densely populated area in Ukraine’s…

TIRANA, Albania (AP) — The Albanian government says most public websites are working again while an investigation to find the source of a…

By KEN SWEET, MICHAEL CASEY and ALEX VEIGA The Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Kyle Tomcak was looking for a home for his in-laws in the suburbs…

LONDON (AP) — The U.K. Supreme Court says will hold hearings in October on whether Scotland can call an independence referendum without the consent…

By SYLVIA HUI Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The BBC on Thursday apologized to the former nanny of Princes William and Harry over “false and…

By JESSICA GRESKO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — It’s going to be a “Beautiful Day” for the band U2 and four other artists when they…

By CHRISTINA LARSON AP Science Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The monarch butterfly fluttered a step closer to extinction Thursday, as scientists put the…

By JIM HEINTZ Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — The spokesperson for Russia’s Foreign Ministry says the United States has shown disrespect for…

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The Philadelphia 76ers are taking the first steps toward building a privately-funded sports and entertainment arena. The…

ISLAMABAD (AP) — The death toll from five weeks of monsoon rains and flash floods jumped to at least 282 in Pakistan on Thursday, officials said,…

By MARIA CHENG and GREGORY GONDWE Associated Press BLANTYRE, Malawi (AP) — As the World Health Organization announces the next step in its rollout…

By HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Michelle Obama will have a book out this fall, “The Light We Carry,” in which she reflects…

By DAVID McHUGH AP Business Writer FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — The European Central Bank has raised interest rates for the first time in 11 years by…

MADRID (AP) — Europe’s recent spate of wildfires is abating amid cooler temperatures. No outbreaks were reported Thursday in Portugal. And French…

By MARIA CHENG AP Medical Writer LONDON (AP) — As the World Health Organization’s emergency committee convened Thursday to consider for the…

By EMILY ROSE Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has testified that he wasn’t to blame for the…

By CHRIS MEGERIAN and WILL WEISSERT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden abruptly canceled a trip to Pennsylvania, where he had…

By RAF CASERT Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union has imposed more sanctions on Russia over the war in Ukraine. The bloc’s 27…

By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer BANGKOK (AP) — Reports by the World Bank and other experts say army-ruled Myanmar’s economy remains…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The two candidates to become Britain’s next prime minister have begun a head-to-head battle for…

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran’s state TV says the country’s foreign ministry recalled its ambassador from Sweden after an Iranian…

BEIJING (AP) — A tornado blew through 11 villages in a farming region of eastern China, damaging homes, killing at least one person and injuring 25…

By JIM GOMEZ Associated Press MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Activists have opened a campaign in the Philippines to prevent a repeat of the abuses and…

HELSINKI (AP) — Wireless and fixed-network equipment maker Nokia has reported second-quarter profit above analyst expectations on strong demand for…

By ZEN SOO Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — China’s internet watchdog has fined ride-hailing firm Didi Global more than 8 billion yuan ($1.2…

By NICOLE WINFIELD and FRANCES D’EMILIO Associated Press ROME (AP) — Italy is headed for an early election after its president accepted…

BERLIN (AP) — The Buchenwald concentration camp memorial says that seven trees dedicated to the memory of victims of the Nazi camp in eastern…

By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Vatican Museums are home to some of the most magnificent artworks in the world, from…

By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Vatican Museums are home to some of the most magnificent artworks in the world, from…

By The Associated Press The message to U.S. lawmakers from Ukraine’s first lady, delivered amid stark and graphic images of civilian bloodshed,…

By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer BANGKOK (AP) — Asian shares were mostly higher on Friday after another day of gains on Wall Street amid a…

YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Japan has reported its trade deficit for the first half of this year totaled nearly 8 trillion yen,…

By KAREEM CHEHAYEB Associated Press BAR ELIAS, Lebanon (AP) — Sitting outside her tent in a camp in eastern Lebanon, a 30-year-old Syrian refugee…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — California Gov. Gavin Newsom is demanding an explanation from UCLA officials about their move to the Big Ten Conference. Newsom…

By BHARATHA MALLAWARACHI Associated Press COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Veteran politician Ranil Wickremesinghe has been sworn in as Sri Lanka’s new…

By STEPHEN WADE AP Sports Writer TOKYO (AP) — The Tokyo Olympics survived the COVID-19 postponement, soaring expenses and some public opposition. A…

By GEIR MOULSON Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Natural gas started flowing through a major pipeline from Russia to Europe on Thursday after a…

SAN DIEGO (AP) — The pop culture extravaganza that is Comic-Con International is back to its old extravagance. Stars, cosplayers and hordes of fans…

By VICTORIA MILKO AP Science Writer JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Thousands of cattle are covered in blisters from highly infectious foot-and-mouth…

By ZEN SOO Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — The oldest-ever male giant panda in captivity has died at age 35 after his health deteriorated. An An…

By CHRIS MEGERIAN and JILL COLVIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Matthew Pottinger was a journalist in China, concerned about the…

By MARY CLARE JALONICK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The House Jan. 6 committee is headed back to prime time for its eighth hearing —…

By LISA MASCARO, FARNOUSH AMIRI and ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Despite desperate pleas from aides, allies, a Republican…

By HANNAH FINGERHUT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A majority of Americans say Congress should pass a law guaranteeing access to legal abortion…

By ALAN FRAM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The right to use contraceptives would be enshrined in law under a measure that Democrats pushed…

By ZEN SOO Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — Baidu, a Chinese search engine and artificial intelligence firm, has unveiled its latest electric…

By STEVE KARNOWSKI Associated Press ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — A federal judge sentenced former Minneapolis police Officer Thomas Lane to 2 1/2 years…

By BETH HARRIS AP Sports Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Soccer player Megan Rapinoe admonished her fellow athletes for not doing enough to speak out and…

OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Truckers protesting a state labor law have effectively shut down cargo operations at the Port of Oakland, one of then…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The head of the U.N. body promoting development is warning that the COVID-19 pandemic,…