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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,…

By BETH HARRIS AP Sports Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Giancarlo Stanton homered into an especially sweet spot in his Dodger Stadium homecoming at the…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A Delta Air Lines flight from Atlanta blew two tires Tuesday while landing at Los Angeles International Airport but nobody on…

LAS CRUCES, N.M. (AP) — Anti-abortion activists from across the country have converged in southern New Mexico to protest relocation plans by the…

By KRISHAN FRANCIS Associated Press COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lankan lawmakers have elected the unpopular prime minister as their new…

By ADRIAN SAINZ Associated Press MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — A 15-year-old boy has been charged with murder in the death of a pastor and leader of the…

SEATTLE (AP) — An elections director in Washington state’s most populous county says her office is asking the sheriff’s office to investigate…

NEW YORK (AP) — A New York man working at a filming location for the TV series “Law & Order: Organized Crime” has been shot and killed.…

By NARDOS HAILE Associated Press A Sesame Street-themed amusement park has apologized and promised more training for its employees after a video…

BANGKOK (AP) — Amnesty International says Myanmar’s military has laid landmines that have killed and injured people in and around villages in…

By EDGAR H. CLEMENTE Associated Press TAPACHULA, Mexico (AP) — Three migrants and two Mexican citizens are dead and a dozen migrants are recovering…

TYLER, Texas (AP) — Officials say a former East Texas deputy pleaded guilty to a civil rights violation for punching a restrained detainee in the…

MARIETTA, Ga. (AP) — The rollout of a new logo for an Atlanta area elementary school has been paused after parents noted similarities between the…

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A worker at the San Francisco International Airport was stabbed Tuesday, and a suspect was in custody, police said. It was the…

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A Utah man pleaded guilty Tuesday to fatally shooting his mother and three siblings when he was a teenager in 2020. Colin…

By BOUAZZA BEN BOUAZZA Associated Press TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — The leader of Tunisia’s main opposition party has been freed after being questioned…

By MEG KINNARD Associated Press The U.S. Senate on Tuesday confirmed the nomination of South Carolina jurist Michelle Childs to sit on the federal…

GREENWOOD, Ind. (AP) — Authorities say a 20-year-old man who shot five people in a suburban Indianapolis shopping mall, killing three of them,…

By JAKE BLEIBERG and ACACIA CORONADO Associated Press UVALDE, Texas (AP) — Teachers and students at Robb Elementary School knew the safety…

By SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Elections officials from across the country meeting under heightened security were urged…

By ANDREW SELSKY Associated Press SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Oregonians will decide in November whether people wanting to purchase a gun will first have to…

By AUDREY McAVOY Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — The National Science Foundation says it will conduct a study to evaluate the environmental…

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — The Alabama Supreme Court has set an execution date for a mentally disturbed truck driver convicted of killing three men in…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — U.N. experts say the threat from Islamic State extremists and al-Qaida remains high in…

By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin said Tuesday it is the West’s own fault that the flow of…

By JEFF AMY and RUSS BYNUM Associated Press SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — Georgia officials are close to finalizing a deal with automaker Hyundai to build a…

By FARNOUSH AMIRI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Secret Service text messages from around the time of the attack on the U.S. Capitol were…

NORTH KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A Missouri police officer has died after being shot while trying to conduct a traffic stop. Authorities said Officer…

By JAMIE STENGLE and JAKE BLEIBERG On May 24, a gunman fatally shot 19 children and two teachers in two adjoining classrooms at Robb Elementary…

By KATE BRUMBACK Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — The Georgia prosecutor who’s investigating whether former President Donald Trump and others…

By STEVE KARNOWSKI Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The shooting of a young Black man whose family says he was experiencing a mental health…

By MICHAEL LIEDTKE AP Technology Writer SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Netflix shed almost 1 million subscribers during the spring amid tougher competition…

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Illinois’ governor has tested positive for COVID-19. Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s office made the announcement Tuesday…

By THANASSIS STAVRAKIS and DEREK GATOPOULOS Associated Press DRAFI, Greece (AP) — Hundreds of people have been evacuated from their homes as a…

By DON THOMPSON Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California parole officials have approved releasing a notorious former Mexican Mafia…

By ELLEN KNICKMEYER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate Foreign Relations Committee has given easy bipartisan approval to admitting…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — A very high number of heads of state and government — 157 — say they plan to…

By SETH BORENSTEIN AP Science Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — For most of the major carbon-polluting nations, promising to fight climate change is a lot…