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BERLIN (AP) — The German government has unveiled a new package of climate measures to close the emissions gap in the transport and housing sectors…

ROME (AP) — Iran’s foreign minister, in an interview in Italy, says his country opposes Russia’s war against Ukraine. But Minister…

By AMANDA SEITZ Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Social media platforms including Facebook and TikTok are failing to stop hate and threats…

By MARK GILLISPIE Associated Press AKRON, Ohio (AP) — Hundreds of people filled a theater as family and friends shared their memories of Jayland…

By DEMETRIS NELLAS Associated Press ATHENS, Greece (AP) — A prominent Greek stage actor and director has been convicted of raping two men when they…

By HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korean prosecutors have raided the country’s main spy agency as part of an…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — A Tokyo court has ordered four former executives of the utility operating the tsunami-wrecked…

By MARIA GRAZIA MURRU Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian authorities say Russian missile strikes in the southern city of Mykolaiv have…

ROME (AP) — Pope Francis has named three women to serve as members of the Vatican office that vets bishop nominations. It’s the first time…

BERLIN (AP) — Austria’s far-right Freedom Party has chosen former lawmaker Walter Rosenkranz as its candidate to challenge liberal incumbent…

By SAM KEMMIS of NerdWallet Travel to Europe might be an attractive option to travelers looking for a budget vacation in 2022. In May 2022, airfare…

ISLAMABAD (AP) — The United Nations says unseasonal rain and flooding have killed at least 39 people — including nine children — in…

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — The bodies of a man and his three young children who vanished last week after leaving for a fishing trip were found along with…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press Writer LONDON (AP) — Two candidates have been knocked out of the race to replace British Prime Minister Boris…

By MICHAEL CANTU Edmunds If you’re in the market for a pickup truck, you might be considering a hybrid model with today’s sky-high gas prices.…

By KRUTIKA PATHI Associated Press COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lanka’s president, who fled on a military jet after angry protesters seized…

By OLEKSANDR STASHEVSKYI, HANNA ARHIROVA and MARIA GRAZIA MURRU Associated Press Kyiv, Ukraine (AP) — The Ukrainian foreign minister says grain…

By IGNATIUS SSUUNA Associated Press KIGALI, Rwanda (AP) — Genocide survivors in Rwanda welcomed the conviction of Laurent Bucyibaruta, the…

LONDON (AP) — Britain’s economy showed unexpectedly strong growth in May, with the three major components of production— manufacturing,…

GENEVA (AP) — The World Economic Forum reports that a cost-of-living crisis sparked in part by higher fuel and food prices is expected to hit women…

BEIJING (AP) — Flooding and extreme high temperatures have caused multiple deaths in eastern China as summer heat descends earlier than usual.…

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The Dutch government says a group of 181 Afghans has arrived in the Netherlands on a chartered flight from Pakistan.…

HOLLYWOOD, Fla. (AP) — A Florida woman interrupted an uninvited guest in her bathroom on Saturday night. Michelle Reynolds told WSVN that she went…

By AYSE WIETING, SUZAN FRASER and EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press ISTANBUL (AP) — U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres says Russian and…

By JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — China’s monthly trade surplus soared to a record $97.9 billion in June as exports picked up…

PAMPLONA, Spain (AP) — Six people have been treated for injuries but initial reports say there were no gorings in the second-last running of the…

BEIJING (AP) — The U.S. Navy has sailed a destroyer close to China-controlled islands in the South China Sea. Washington says it’s a patrol…

By KRISHAN FRANCIS and KRUTIKA PATHI Associated Press COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lanka’s president fled the country Wednesday, plunging a…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The race to succeed Prime Minister Boris Johnson is being called Britain’s most diverse…

By LAURIE KELLMAN Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — President Joe Biden’s dash through Israel and the occupied West Bank this week is…

By ILAN BEN ZION Associated Press HAIFA, Israel (AP) — Curators at an Israeli museum have discovered three previously unknown sketches by…

By WANJOHI KABUKURU Associated Press MOMBASA, Kenya (AP) — Countries on Africa’s east coast are increasingly turning to climate funding…

By JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — Asian stock markets rose Thursday despite a record-setting U.S. inflation report that pointed to…

By KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Health officials in South Korea are expanding booster shots to adults 50 and over as…

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lanka’s president, who had announced he would resign Wednesday, has fled the country after months of turmoil…

By STEFANIE DAZIO Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Police are seeking a lone gunman wanted for six robberies at Southern California 7-Eleven…

By MATTHEW BARAKAT and DENISE LAVOIE Associated Press FALLS CHURCH, Va. (AP) — A judge on Wednesday rejected a request from actress Amber Heard to…

By FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — With thousands of sanctions already imposed on Russia to flatten its economy, the U.S. and its…

By KATE BRUMBACK Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — The Georgia investigation into potential criminal interference in the 2020 election is heating up.…

By JOSH BOAK, JOSEF FEDERMAN and AAMER MADHANI Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — President Joe Biden has opened a Mideast visit by offering anxious…

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. inflation surged to a new four-decade high in June because of rising prices for…

SUVA, Fiji (AP) — U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris assured Pacific island leaders of more U.S. engagement after acknowledging the United States…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Hurricane Darby is losing strength while moving westward over the Pacific, falling from a powerful Category 4 storm to Category…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. Security Council say smore needs to be done to counter disinformation and…

NEW YORK (AP) — New York City residents are accustomed to warnings about all kinds of potential threats — severe weather, public health, mass…

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — The state of Oregon has slashed financial penalties it assigned a baker who refused to bake a wedding cake for a lesbian…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — California prosecutors say a man with a criminal history has been charged with assaulting a former Olympic volleyball player…

By AUDREY McAVOY Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — Guam’s attorney general says a 1990 law that prohibited virtually all abortion is invalid and…

By KRUTIKA PATHI Associated Press COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Before he fled Sri Lanka on Wednesday, President Gotabaya Rajapaksa was the last of six…

NEW YORK (AP) — New York City officials say a woman and a 7-year-old child were killed when the chartered boat capsized in the Hudson River. Nearby…

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Local officials in Haiti say dozens of people have died in four days of gang battles in a violent neighborhood of the…

By SEUNG MIN KIM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden hosted hundreds of lawmakers, their families and aides for the first…

By SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin’s bipartisan elections commission can’t agree on what guidance, if any, to…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Officials in Mexico City say four police officers were wounded when police engaged in a a shootout with more than a dozen gunmen…

BEAUMONT, Texas (AP) — A Houston man has been indicted on charges accusing him of trying to use a heavy-duty drone to drop forbidden items to…

By JUAN ZAMORANO Associated Press PANAMA CITY (AP) — Frustrated Panamanians have taken to the streets in protest for more than a week, building…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Brazil’s foreign minister says the country wants to buy as much diesel fuel as it can…

By JAMES POLLARD and MEG KINNARD Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A lawyer for disgraced South Carolina attorney Alex Murdaugh said Tuesday…

By OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Ann Shulgin, who together with her late husband Alexander Shulgin pioneered the use of…

By KEVIN McGILL Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Louisiana authorities have once again been blocked from enforcing a near total ban on abortion,…

By MANUEL RUEDA and JOSHUA GOODMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A veteran Afro-Colombian politician who studied in the Soviet Union and fled…

By LEAH WILLINGHAM Associated Press CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — Investigators say a helicopter crash that killed six people in West Virginia on June…

By MATT O’BRIEN Associated Press Twitter sued Tesla CEO Elon Musk on Tuesday, trying to force him to complete his $44 billion takeover of the…

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Federal prosecutors have charged a former eastern Indiana police officer with civil rights violations, alleging that he used…

By CALEB JONES Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — Hawaii Volcanoes National Park on the Big Island has been given new land in a deal that will…

By JANET McCONNAUGHEY Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Federal authorities say 1 million gallons of oil have been collected since April 2019 at…

By HALELUYA HADERO AP Business Writer Amazon will be offering discounts on a variety of items during its two-day Prime Day shopping event that began…