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MOSCOW (AP) — A court in Russia’s far east on Friday handed a rare acquittal to a feminist artist who was charged with disseminating…

SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) — Bulgaria’s defense minister says the country’s defense capabilities will not be seriously affected by Moscow’s…

By RAF CASERT and JUSTIN SPIKE Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union’s executive has intensified its legal standoff with Hungary by…

LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) — Jim Thorpe has been reinstated as the sole winner of the 1912 Olympic pentathlon and decathlon in Stockholm — nearly…

BEIRUT (AP) — The regional director at the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent says a truce that went into effect in April in…

By MARGARET STAFFORD and SUMMER BALLENTINE Associated Press KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Leaders in largely Democratic Kansas City, Missouri, don’t…

By ANGELA CHARLTON and BARBARA SURK Associated Press PARIS (AP) — The pilot of a Portuguese firefighting plane died when his plane crashed while on…

BERLIN (AP) — A German court has convicted a military officer who posed as a Syrian asylum-seeker aof plotting to attack prominent politicians. The…

By CIARÁN GILES Associated Press MADRID (AP) — Spain’s lower house of parliament has approved a historical memory law that declares illegal the…

By KIKO ROSARIO Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — Ousted Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi denied the accusations in an election fraud charge against…

By HANNA ARHIROVA Associated Press VINNYTSIA, Ukraine (AP) — Cruise missiles fired by Russian strategic bombers struck a southeastern Ukrainian…

By QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA Associated Press BAGHDAD (AP) — Tens of thousands of Iraqis are attending a mass prayer in Baghdad called for by an…

By JIM HEINTZ Associated Press KHIMKI, Russia (AP) — A lawyer for WNBA star Brittney Griner at her drug possession trial in Russia on Friday gave…

By AARON MORRISON Associated Press BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — Store associates are handing single carnations to customers as they enter the newly…

By AIJAZ HUSSAIN Associated Press SRINAGAR, India (AP) — The exiled Tibetan Buddhist spiritual leader the Dalai Lama has arrived in India’s…

SUVA, Fiji (AP) — Pacific island national leaders have declared a climate emergency and agreed to try to bring Kiribati back to the region’s main…

By JIM GOMEZ Associated Press MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Foreign peacekeepers credited with helping ease years of bloody fighting between…

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Toyota’s flagship model in Japan, the Crown, is going on sale around the world for the first…

By MUNIR AHMED Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — Officials say Pakistani forces in multiple raids have killed seven separatists in this week’s…

By DAMIAN J. TROISE and ALEX VEIGA AP Business Writers Wall Street capped a week of losses with a broad rally for stocks Friday, as investors…

By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer BANGKOK (AP) — Top financial officials from the Group of 20 leading rich and developing nations are meeting…

By AYA BATRAWY Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s reputation as a brazen leader who has…

By FRANK JORDANS Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — “It’s absolutely crazy to stick yourself to the road with superglue,” admits Lina…

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Papua New Guinea police have shot a young mother dead at a polling station in the…

By KRUTIKA PATHI, KRISHAN FRANCIS and BHARATHA MALLAWARACHI Associated Press COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lanka’s prime minister was sworn…

By MARC LEVY Associated Press HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — John Fetterman has been fundraising, advertising on TV and grabbing attention with snarky…

By DANIEL POLITI and DEBORA REY Associated Press BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Business leaders across Argentina are scrambling to deal with a…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. Security Council has unanimously approved a resolution that calls on all…

By FARNOUSH AMIRI and MARY CLARE JALONICK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The House has voted to restore abortion rights nationwide in…

QUITO, Ecuador (AP) — An earthquake of preliminary magnitude 5.7 has shaken Ecuador’s coast, and authorities say a teenager was electrocuted by a…

By ALAN FRAM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Sen. Joe Manchin has told Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer that he will oppose an economic…

By JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — China’s economy contracted in the three months ending in June compared with the previous…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — The assassination of former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has unearthed long-suspected,…

By JEFF AMY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia’s second-largest school district has approved a policy that lets some employees who aren’t…

By MORGAN LEE Associated Press SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — New Mexico’s governor says direct spending by production companies on films, TV series and…

By DAVID BAUDER AP Media Writer NEW YORK (AP) — It took only four paragraphs in a regional newspaper to ignite a media conflagration over abortion…

By MICHAEL BALSAMO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The NAACP is making a direct plea to Attorney General Merrick Garland for the Justice…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. special envoy for Colombia says that “there are good reasons for optimism”…

SURREY, British Columbia (AP) — Canadian authorities say a man acquitted in a terrorist bombing that killed 329 people aboard an Air India flight…

By TOM DAVIES and JULIE CARR SMYTH Associated Press INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — The lawyer for an Indiana doctor at the center of a political firestorm…

By ADAM BEAM Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A bill in the California Legislature to make social media companies liable for addicting…

By COSTAS KANTOURIS and DEMETRIS NELLAS Associated Press THESSALONIKI, Greece (AP) — Ahmet Mete, who was recognized by Turkey but not by Greece as…

GENEVA (AP) — About 25 million children worldwide have missed out on routine immunizations against common diseases like diptheria, largely because…

By MANUEL RUEDA Associated Press BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Colombian authorities say a mudslide has smashed into a rural elementary school in the…

By FARNOUSH AMIRI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Secret Service agents deleted text messages sent and received around the Jan. 6, 2021, attack…

By PAUL J. WEBER Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas Gov. Greg Abbott on Thursday again said he was initially misled about the police…

By RANDALL CHASE AP Business Writer DOVER, Del. (AP) — Twitter Inc.’s lawsuit to force billionaire Elon Musk to make good on his promise to buy…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — China is urging the U.N. Security Council to try to cut off the supply of small arms,…

By CALEB JONES Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — Hurricane Darby in the Pacific is expected to weaken over the next two days as it moves south of…

By JAY REEVES and ALLEN G. BREED Associated Press DURHAM, N.C. (AP) — The white woman who accused Black teenager Emmett Till of making improper…

By TOUSSAINT N’GOTTA Associated Press ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast (AP) — Ivory Coast President Alassane Ouattara met with his predecessors on…

VERNON, Texas (AP) — A man acquitted of murder because of insanity is back in custody two weeks after he escaped from a North Texas mental…

By GARY GERARD HAMILTON Associated Press New York (AP) — Giveon’s disappointment toward failed relationships has been on full display in his…

By AMY FORLITI and GEOFF MULVIHILL Associated Press The state of Texas is suing the federal government after the Biden administration said earlier…

By JANET McCONNAUGHEY Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Federal and Louisiana agencies say the owner of a closed fertilizer plant near Baton…

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The Federal Reserve’s inspector general concluded Thursday that financial trades…

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Parts of North Carolina’s largest city were overcome with a foul smell like rotten eggs after an environmental cleanup…

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Cocaine production in Colombia remained near record levels in 2021, according to estimates released by the White House,…

WAUKEGAN, Ill. (AP) — A suburban Chicago man accused in the drowning deaths of his three young children has pleaded not guilty to three counts of…

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Special investigators in Poland say they have found two mass graves containing the ashes of at least 8,000 Poles slain by the…

INGLEWOOD, Calif. (AP) — One million pills containing fentanyl were seized during a raid near Los Angeles this month in what the U.S. Drug…

By JILL COLVIN and JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Ivana Trump, a skier-turned-businesswoman who formed half of a publicity power…

Associated Press BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — U.S. officials on Thursday solicited outside help as they craft definitions of old growth and mature…

By KIMBERLEE KRUESI Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The abortion bans taking effect after the nation’s highest court overturned Roe…

NEW YORK (AP) — Hillary Rodham Clinton and her daughter, Chelsea, interview the likes of Kim Kardashian, Megan Thee Stallion and Gloria Steinem for…

By ED WHITE Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — A lawsuit has been filed in Michigan to try to disqualify a Republican candidate from the…

By STEPHEN GROVES Associated Press SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — Gov. Kristi Noem had pledged to “immediately” call a special legislative session to…

By KEVIN FREKING Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A bill that would provide grants, tax credits and other incentives for computer chip…

By COLLEEN SLEVIN Associated Press DENVER (AP) — An arrest warrant has been issued for a indicted Colorado clerk who has become a hero to election…

CHICAGO (AP) — A Chicago police officer who was facing possible dismissal after being accused of striking a woman and knocking out one of her teeth…

JEROME, Ariz. (AP) — Police in a old Arizona mining town that gets 1 million tourists annually are warning residents to stop yelling at visitors or…

By MATTHEW BROWN Associated Press BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — U.S. prosecutors suspect a Wyoming company of potentially concealing problems with a…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Khloe Kardashian and Tristan Thompson have conceived a sibling for their 4-year-old daughter via surrogate, but don’t…

By JEFFREY COLLINS Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — More than 13 months after disgraced South Carolina attorney Alex Murdaugh called 911 and…

By LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer Hannah Marks has been on sets for most of her life. Following in her mother’s footsteps, the Southern California…

EUGENE, Ore. (AP) — Oregon Ducks tight end Spencer Webb has died after falling and striking his head on rock slides at a popular swimming lake near…

By ANDREW DeMILLO and DAVID SHARP Associated Press PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Stark political divides are threatening to overshadow a meeting this week…

LAS CRUCES, N.M. (AP) — A New Mexico judge has cleared a former police officer of criminal charges after he was accused of killing a suspect with a…