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YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK, Calif. (AP) — A famed grove of giant sequoias in Yosemite National Park survived its first wildfire in more than a century,…

By SETH BORENSTEIN AP Science Writer GREENBELT, Md. (AP) — A sparkling landscape of baby stars. A foamy blue and orange view of a dying star. Five…

By ACACIA CORONADO and PAUL J. WEBER Associated Press UVALDE, Texas (AP) — A new wave of anger swept through Uvalde on Tuesday over surveillance…

By SETH BORENSTEIN and DREW COSTLEY The Associated Press A new study published Tuesday calculates just how much climate-related loss richer countries…

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — An assistant attorney general in Iowa is suing the city of Des Moines and its police chief over his arrest during a June…

Associated Press LUANDA, Angola (AP) — Relatively low-key commemorations are taking place in Angola to mark the death of former longtime President…

By ZEKE MILLER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration is calling on people to exercise renewed caution about COVID-19,…

By NICHOLAS K. GERANIOS Associated Press SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — The Biden administration on Tuesday released two reports arguing that removing dams…

By JARI TANNER Associated Press HELSINKI (AP) — Latvia’s president says he supports a plan to reinstate national conscription for men, and for…

ROME (AP) — Pope Francis says he wouldn’t live in the Vatican or return to his native Argentina if and when he ever retires. Francis said in…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon said Tuesday that it killed a leader of the Islamic State group in Syria in a drone strike. U.S. Central Command…

BERLIN (AP) — The European Central Bank says its president, Christine Lagarde, was targeted in an attempted cyberattack but no information was…

by FABIANO MAISONNAVE RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon broke all records for a six month period during the first half of…

By MICHAEL BALSAMO and MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department has named the director of Oregon’s prison…

By FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Ukraine is getting an additional $1.7 billion in assistance from the U.S. government and the…

NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — A 500-year-old Orthodox icon that was looted from a church in the breakaway north of ethnically divided Cyprus has been…

MADRID (AP) — Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez has announced temporary taxes on banks and energy companies and promised a series of measures…

BOCA RATON, Fla. (AP) — A family fight over the home of a woman who moved into an assisted living facility left two people dead, and another…

NEW YORK (AP) — A former top Scientologist has a memoir coming out this fall. Mike Rinder’s “A Billion Years: My Escape From a Life in the…

MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. (AP) — A 3-year-old boy died after being left in a car outside a South Florida preschool where both his parents are staff…

LONDON (AP) — London’s Heathrow Airport is capping daily passenger numbers for the summer and telling airlines to stop selling tickets as it…

By KELSEY SHEEHY of NerdWallet The arrival of a new baby is all-consuming. You barely know what day it is, and mustering the energy and attention…

By KRISHAN FRANCIS and KRUTIKA PATHI Associated Press COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — The president of Sri Lanka fled the country early Wednesday,…

BRUSSELS (AP) — European Union nations have approved fresh aid for Ukraine as the country faces growing economic damage from Russia’s invasion.…

By DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Four-time Olympic champion Mo Farah says he was illegally brought to the U.K. as a young boy and…

PARIS (AP) — Lawyers for the only surviving attacker from the November 2015 terrorist massacre in Paris say their client has renounced his right to…

By ZEN SOO Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong’s leader is defending the city’s plan to implement health codes that would more…

By WILL WEISSERT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Democratic National Committee is launching a digital ad campaign to energize its voters…

BEIJING (AP) — China has filed a formal protest with Japan over the presence of the Taiwanese vice president at a memorial for assassinated former…

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Prosecutors in Poland’s capital questioned witnesses and gathered evidence Tuesday after a 31-year-old man allegedly…

By HUIZHONG WU Associated Press TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Financial regulators in central China’s Henan and Anhui provinces have promised to give…

By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin will visit Iran next week, the Kremlin said Tuesday, a day…

By WILL WEISSERT and ZEKE MILLER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Mexican President Andres Manuel López Obrador has agreed during meetings with…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Nominations in the race to replace British Prime Minister Boris Johnson have closed, with eight…

By HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The country’s next poet laureate, Ada Limón, has long thought of her work as a public…

By MARIA GRAZIA MURRU Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine’s military has reported destroying a Russian ammunition depot in southern…

By COSTAS KANTOURIS Associated Press THESSALONIKI, Greece (AP) — A three-car pileup caused by a pack of wild boars in northern Greece killed two…

By ISABEL DEBRE Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran has arrested an internationally renowned filmmaker, several newspapers…

STOCKHOLM (AP) — The killing of a woman at an annual political event in Sweden earlier this month is now being investigated as an act of terror.…

By JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — Asian stock markets rose Wednesday as investors waited for U.S. inflation data some worry might…

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen and Japan’s finance minister have agreed to cooperate…

BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union is set to remove the final obstacles tp Croatia adopting the euro. It will enable the first expansion of the…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japanese bid their final goodbye to former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Tuesday as a family funeral…

PAMPLONA, Spain (AP) — One person has been gored and several people had very close shaves in the sixth running of the bulls at Pamplona’s San…

By FRANCESCA EBEL Associated Press KRAMATORSK, Ukraine (AP) — Burned-out cars and splintered trees smolder in the aftermath of a missile strike on…

By ISABEL DEBRE Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Mere years ago, fuel was cheaper than bottled water in the oil-rich United Arab…

By JIM GOMEZ Associated Press MANILA, Philippines (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken is renewing a call to China to comply with a 2016…

By LYNN ELBER AP Television Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — “Succession” received a leading 25 Emmy nominations Tuesday, but the satirical drama…

By STEFANIE DAZIO Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — After years of addiction, Matthew Hirsch was sober. He landed a stable job working overnight…

By ANDREA RODRÍGUEZ Associated Press HAVANA (AP) — A year ago, thousands of people filled Cuba’s streets and public squares in the country’s…

By AARON MORRISON Associated Press Michigan’s largest district court and bail reform advocates agreed Tuesday to settle a federal class-action…

By LISA MASCARO and FARNOUSH AMIRI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — In a heated, “unhinged” dispute, Donald Trump fought objections from his…

By FOSTER KLUG and MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Assassinated former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was perhaps the most divisive leader…

By HALELUYA HADERO AP Business Writer Amazon is heading into its annual Prime Day sales event on Tuesday much differently than how it entered the…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. Security Council has approved a resolution extending humanitarian aid…

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris will announce new investments in the Pacific and the…

By The Associated Press Japan’s longest-serving prime minister, Shinzo Abe was credited with instilling political and economic stability. However,…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Officials say “Yellowstone” actor Q’Orianka Kilcher has been charged with illegally collecting nearly $97,000 in…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. special envoy for Yemen says he plans to explore the possibility of a longer…

By TOUSSAINT N’GOTTA and BABA AHMED Associated Press ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast (AP) — Ivory Coast officials called on Mali to immediately release 49…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Prosecutors in western Mexico say they have located 23 sets of skeletal remains in a lakeside community known for its highly…

By BOB CHRISTIE Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — A federal judge is blocking a 2021 Arizona “personhood” law that gives all legal rights to…

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A Utah man is in custody after police say he admitted hanging a man and killing another man as part of a “purge” that he…

By MARK THIESSEN Associated Press ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — The U.S. government has agreed to a request from environmental groups to study…

By COLLEEN SLEVIN Associated Press DENVER (AP) — People have a right protected by the First Amendment to film police while they work, a Western…

LAS CRUCES, N.M. (AP) — A trial began Monday for a former police officer charged with murder in a man’s death during a 2020 struggle with…

FRISCO, Texas (AP) — Police in a Dallas suburb have concluded that heat stroke caused the death of former Dallas Cowboys running back Marion Barber…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Supporters of a one-year extension of humanitarian aid deliveries from Turkey to 4.1…

By PAUL J. WEBER Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas lawmakers investigating the Uvalde school massacre say it intends to show residents of…

By RANDALL CHASE Associated Press DOVER, Del. (AP) — A Superior Court judge has dismissed a lawsuit filed by Delaware’s Democratic attorney…

SAN DIEGO (AP) — A TikTok video showing dozens of San Diego beachgoers running and jumping out of the way of two fast-moving sea lions has…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Hurricane Darby has strengthened into a Category 4 storm while far out in the Pacific west of southern Mexico, with forecasters…

FAIRFAX, Va. (AP) — Lawyers for Johnny Depp are urging a Virginia judge to leave his $10 million defamation judgment intact after attorneys for his…