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UVALDE, Texas (AP) — A Texas lawmaker says a Uvalde police officer criticized over video of him checking his phone during the massacre at Robb…

By KEVIN FREKING Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Congress gave its ultimate final salute Thursday to Hershel W. “Woody” Williams, a 5-foot-6…

By MARLON GONZÁLEZ Associated Press TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) — Gunmen have killed a son of former Honduran President Porfirio Lobo and three…

WILSON, N.C. (AP) — Officials say the North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation and its insurers will pay $7.5 million to the estate of a North…

BOSTON (AP) — A Jewish advocacy group is calling on Iceland’s government to take action against a pro-Palestine website seeking to…

By AYSE WIETING and SUZAN FRASER Associated Press ISTANBUL (AP) — Hatice Cengiz, the fiancee of murdered Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi,…

By JAMES POLLARD Associated Press/Report for America COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — The mounting indictments and police investigations surrounding Alex…

By ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge says the criminal contempt trial of Steve Bannon can start as scheduled next week…

BALTIMORE (AP) — A 15-year-old was arrested on Thursday and charged as an adult in connection with the fatal shooting of a motorist during an…

By PREDRAG MILIC Associated Press PODGORICA, Montenegro (AP) — Senior European Union officials have praised small Montenegro for siding with the…

By ABDUL SATTAR Associated Press QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistani officials say insurgents disguised as security forces have abducted and killed…

By ALAN SUDERMAN Associated Press A new cybersecurity panel created by President Joe Biden says a computer vulnerability discovered last year in a…

By MICHAEL PHILLIS and SUMAN NAISHADHAM Associated Press Preston Brown knows the risk of wildfire that comes with living in the rural,…

By DAVE COLLINS Associated Press HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones was defiant and cited free speech rights during a deposition…

By ABDOULIE JOHN Associated Press MBOUR, Senegal (AP) — A Gambian court has sentenced a former spy chief and four others to death Wednesday after…

By STEVE KARNOWSKI Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A court ruling that struck down most of Minnesota’s restrictions on abortion as…

By TINASHE CHINGARANDE, ELIZABETH FLOOD, SPENCER FRIEDMAN and DANIEL LAWALL / Howard Center for Investigative Journalism Howard Center for…

By JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump and two of his children — Donald Jr. and Ivanka — are due, in the coming days,…

By MATTHEW PERRONE AP Health Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. officials say thousands more doses of the monkeypox vaccine could soon begin shipping…

PARIS (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron is warning his country’s people to prepare for a total cutoff of Russian natural gas by supporting…

BEAUMONT, Texas (AP) — A man has filed a lawsuit accusing a Texas police officer of using excessive force while restraining him in jail and…

GRUNDY, Va. (AP) — Rains that swiftly flooded a remote corner of southwest Virginia washed out roads, tore homes from their foundations and left…

By MATT OTT AP Business Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Average long-term U.S. mortgage rates were back up this week, just as the latest government data…

By ANITA SNOW and EUGENE GARCIA Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Long lines are back at food banks around the U.S. as working Americans overwhelmed…

COPENHAGEN (AP) — A 14-year-old girl died Thursday at a popular amusement park in northern Denmark, police said, reportedly when the rear part of a…

By KONSTANTIN TESTORIDES Associated Press SKOPJE, North Macedonia (AP) — North Macedonia got a boost from European Commission President Ursula von…

By FÉLIX MÁRQUEZ Associated Press SAN MARCOS ATEXQUILAPAN, Mexico (AP) — People in the Mexican mountain town of San Marcos Atexquilapan…

By DIANE JEANTET Associated Press RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Millions of Brazilians will get a hefty boost from a measure approved by Brazil’s…

By KELVIN CHAN AP Business Writer LONDON (AP) — Emirates Air has rejected a demand by London’s Heathrow Airport for airlines to cut the number of…

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Officials say police in Minneapolis fatally shot a man, ending an hourslong standoff at an apartment building that began with a…

By JARI TANNER Associated Press HELSINKI (AP) — Estonia’s president has asked Prime Minister Kaja Kallas to form a new government after she…

LONDON (AP) — The number of outbreaks of diseases that jumped from animals to humans in Africa has surged by more than 60% in the last decade, the…

By PAUL WISEMAN AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Inflation at the wholesale level climbed 11.3% in June compared with a year earlier, the…

WILTON MANORS, Fla. (AP) — A 10-year-old girl has died from injuries suffered in a hit-and-run-crash six months ago, when a driver tried to go…

VILNIUS, Lithuania (AP) — Lithuania’s prime minister says her country won’t try to reverse a decision by the European Union’s…

By FRANCES D’EMILIO Associated Press ROME (AP) — Italian journalist Eugenio Scalfari has died at age 98. Scalfari helped revolutionize…

BERLIN (AP) — Local officials with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s party have met to consider calls to expel former Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder.…

By CAROLYN THOMPSON Associated Press BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — The names of the 10 Black people massacred by a white gunman were read aloud outside the…

The father of a deceased former choirboy filed a lawsuit against Cardinal George Pell and the Catholic Church in an Australian court on Thursday…

By REGINA GARCIA CANO Associated Press CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — The wails pierced the walls of the walk-in clinic tucked among rundown homes in…

By REGINA GARCIA CANO Associated Press CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Wails pierced the walls of the walk-in clinic tucked among rundown homes in the…

By FRANCES D’EMILIO Associated Press ROME (AP) — Italian Premier Mario Draghi offered to step down Thursday after a populist coalition…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida has blamed inadequate police protection for the death of…

By HELENA ALVES and JOSEPH WILSON Associated Press BEMPOSTA, Portugal (AP) — More than 3,000 firefighters are battling alongside ordinary…

By KELVIN CHAN AP Business Writer LONDON (AP) — Amazon has promised to treat third-party merchants on its website fairly as it seeks to resolve two…

By JOVANA GEC Associated Press BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Authorities in Serbia have detained 85 migrants near the border with Hungary where a clash…

By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer BANGKOK (AP) — U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen has urged leaders of major economies to work together…

BEIJING (AP) — High temperatures are prompting cites in eastern China to open former air raid shelters as a relief from the heat. Temperatures have…

By MARIA GRAZIA MURRU and HANNA ARHIROVA Associated Press VINNYTSIA, Ukraine (AP) — Russian missiles struck a city in central Ukraine on Thursday,…

By ANDI JATMIKO and NINIEK KARMINI Associated Press JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Australia’s top agriculture official has met with his Indonesian…

STOCKHOLM (AP) — A Swedish court has sentenced an Iranian citizen to life imprisonment after being convicted of murder and other war crimes during…

SUVA, Fiji (AP) — Solomon Islands Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare says his new country’s security pact with Beijing would not allow China to…

By RAF CASERT Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — European Union expects Russia’s war in Ukraine to wreak havoc with the economic recovery for the…

By DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — London’s Metropolitan Police Service has opened an investigation into four-time Olympic champion…

BERLIN (AP) — Deutsche Telekom says it is selling a majority stake in its German and Austrian cellphone tower business to American and Canadian…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Conservative lawmakers in Britain have knocked another contender out of the contest to replace Prime…

By MUNIR AHMED Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — The International Monetary Fund says it has reached a preliminary agreement on a $6 billion…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Actor Kevin Spacey pleaded not guilty on Thursday to charges of sexually assaulting three men a…

PAMPLONA, Spain (AP) — Bulls from Spain´s revered Miura ranch starred in a fast and uncomplicated final running of the bulls at this year’s…

BERLIN (AP) — Germany and Belgium are commemorating the deadly floods that hit the countries a year ago. High-profile memorials are planned…

By JADE LE DELEY Associated Press PARIS (AP) — France’s Bastille Day has been shaken by the war in Ukraine. France is celebrating its…

By JIM HEINTZ Associated Press KHIMKI, Russia (AP) — Brittney Griner’s drug possession trial resumed Thursday with the head of the Russian…

By MIKE CORDER Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court has called for an…

By LARRY LAGE AP Hockey Writer The Columbus Blue Jackets made the biggest splash in NHL free agency, stunning the league by landing Johnny Gaudreau…

By JIM HEINTZ and LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — A Russian arms dealer labeled the “Merchant of Death” who once inspired a…

By OLEKSANDR STASHEVSKYI and FRANK BAJAK Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Drone camera footage defines much of the public’s view of the…

By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer BANGKOK (AP) — Share prices were mixed in Asia on Friday after China reported its economy contracted by…

By JEFFREY COLLINS Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — The shooting deaths of South Carolina lawyer Alex Murdaugh’s wife and son started a…

By CHRISTOPHER WEBER and CARLA K. JOHNSON Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — New omicron variants are again driving hospital admissions and deaths…

By ROBERT JABLON Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — A California appeals court has ordered the unsealing of some documents in the criminal case…

By KRUTIKA PATHI and KRISHAN FRANCIS Associated Press COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Protesters have retreated from government buildings in Sri Lanka,…

By GARY FIELDS Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The House Jan. 6 committee’s investigation of the aftermath of the 2020 presidential election…

By BRIAN WITTE Associated Press ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — Former President Donald Trump and Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan aren’t waiting until 2024 to…

By AAMER MADHANI, JOSH BOAK, and CHRIS MEGERIAN Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — U.S. President Joe Biden and Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid…