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By STEVE KARNOWSKI Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin is about to swap solitary confinement at…

By JONATHAN J. COOPER Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey has endorsed businesswoman Karrin Taylor Robson to be his successor.…

TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — A federal judge sentenced a former Trump supporter to three years of probation and a $7,000 fine for sending an email…

By KATE BRUMBACK Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — A judge says Georgia lawmakers appearing before a special grand jury in the investigation into…

By SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Wisconsin Supreme Court’s conservative majority ruled Thursday that a transgender…

CAIRO (AP) — Two leading human right groups are accusing Egyptian authorities of failing to conduct an impartial and transparent investigation into…

VILNIUS, Lithuania (AP) — Lithuania will present a combat drone to Ukraine that was donated by the Turkish manufacturer after a private…

By MATT OTT AP Business Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — More Americans applied for unemployment benefits last week and while layoffs remain low, it was…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Boris Johnson has resigned as Conservative Party leader after months of ethics scandals and a party…

By RAF CASERT Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union’s parliament has called for abortion safeguards to be enshrined in the EU’s…

By SYLVIA HUI Associated Press LONDON (AP) — A Conservative leadership contest will take place in coming weeks after British Prime Minister Boris…

Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — Eight people were killed and 44 injured in a car crash on Thursday near Egypt’s southern province of Aswan, the…

By CHINEDU ASADU and MAAMOUN YOUSSEF Associated Press ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — The Islamic State group has claimed responsibility for a prison attack…

BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union’s executive is warning that the continent is facing one of its toughest years when it comes to natural…

By HAL M. BUNDRICK of NerdWallet A movement is growing to shorten the workweek, but trade-offs and barriers should be considered. A four-day workweek…

By BHARATHA MALLAWARACHI Associated Press COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lanka’s Central Bank has raised key interest rates to 14.50% and 15.50%…

By ISABEL DEBRE Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The British Royal Navy has seized a sophisticated shipment of Iranian missiles…

By MUNIR AHMED Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — The military airlifted two Pakistani climbers, including the man who became the youngest to scale…

BEIJING (AP) — The United States is “the biggest threat to world peace, stability and development,” China said Thursday, continuing its…

ANTONIO CALANNI and NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press GENOA, Italy (AP) — Fifty-nine people are on trial in Italy for the 2018 collapse of Genoa’s…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Boris Johnson wanted to be like his hero Winston Churchill: a larger-than-life character who led…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration says it’ll spend nearly $1 billion to upgrade airports around the country. The Federal Aviation…

By ALAN FRAM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Democrats want to boost taxes on some high earners and use the money to extend the solvency…

By MARIA GRAZIA MURRU and OLEKSANDR STASHEVSKYI Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Foreign analysts say Russia may be temporarily easing its…

By FRANK JORDANS Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — German lawmakers on Thursday approved a major package of reforms aimed at boosting the production…

PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistani police say assailants have thrown a hand grenade at a police post in the country’s northwest, killing an…

By IRENE YAGÜE and JOSEPH WILSON Associated Press PAMPLONA, Spain (AP) — The first running of the bulls at Pamplona’s San Fermín festival in…

By HUIZHONG WU Associated Press TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — The Chinese capital has issued a mandate requiring people to show proof of COVID-19…

By JIM HEINTZ Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — American basketball star Brittney Griner pleaded guilty Thursday to drug possession charges on the…

By AMR NABIL and ISABEL DEBRE Associated Press MECCA, Saudi Arabia (AP) — It is a scene that stirs hope — and relief — for Muslims around the…

By DANICA KIRKA, JILL LAWLESS and SYLVIA HUI Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced his resignation Thursday after…

By ZEN SOO Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong is shelving a COVID-19 measure that has resulted in dozens of canceled flights in recent…

By CARA ANNA and VASILISA STEPANENKO Associated Press KHARKIV, Ukraine (AP) — Viktor Lazar shares his war-side balcony with a pair of opera glasses…

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australia’s new government has dropped the 4-year-old prosecution of a lawyer over his…

By NASSER KARIMI Associated Press TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Tehran residents accustomed to seething at slow-moving traffic, sweltering in summer heat and…

By AYA BATRAWY Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A staggering 71 million more people around the world are experiencing poverty as…

YUMA, Ariz. (AP) — Prosecutors are seeking a one-year prison sentence for a school board member in southern Arizona for illegally collecting four…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — More than a dozen opposition parties are running in Sunday’s parliamentary elections, but they…

By HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — A South Korea activist says he launched more huge balloons carrying COVID-19 relief…

By MATTHEW BROWN and AMY BETH HANSON Associated Press BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — The Yellowstone National Park area’s weather forecast the…

By EVENS SANON and DÁNICA COTO Associated Press PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — A year has passed since President Jovenel Moïse was assassinated at…

SYDNEY (AP) — Floodwaters were receding in Sydney and its surrounding area Thursday as heavy rain threatened to inundate towns north of…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. Security Council  has delayed an expected vote on extending humanitarian aid…

By NINIEK KARMINI Associated Press JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Foreign ministers from the Group of 20 leading rich and developing nations are…

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The oldest Magellanic penguin at the San Francisco Zoo & Gardens — one of the oldest penguins living under human care…

By JOHN MARSHALL AP Sports Writer PHOENIX (AP) — They shared laughs, smiles, memories. There also were tears, fears, unease. Through the range of…

By WANJOHI KABUKURU Associated Press VANGA, Kenya (AP) — Artisanal fisheries on Kenya’s coast say climate change, overfishing by large foreign…

By STEVE KARNOWSKI Associated Press ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — A federal judge on Thursday sentenced Derek Chauvin to 21 years in prison for violating…

DETROIT (AP) — A Detroit police officer and a suspect have been fatally shot on the city’s west side. Detroit police Chief James White said the…

BRADLEY, W.Va. (AP) — Law enforcement officers shot and killed a man on a federal highway in West Virginia after they say he fled a vehicle crash…

SEATTLE (AP) — An inquest jury has determined that two Seattle police officers were justified in fatally shooting a mentally unstable, pregnant,…

JACKSON, Calif. (AP) — Favorable weather has helped the fight against a wildfire in California’s Gold Country that has forced evacuations in two…

By CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Families of hostages taken by gunmen who attacked a passenger train near Nigeria’s…

By MICHAEL TARM AP Legal Affairs Writer CHICAGO (AP) — Days after a rooftop gunman killed seven people at a parade, attention has turned to how the…

By MARK THIESSEN Associate Press ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Alaska wildlife officials have killed four black bears in a campground recently reserved…

By CLAIRE SAVAGE and HARM VENHUIZEN Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — Two of the victims of a July Fourth parade massacre in a Chicago suburb left…

CHICAGO (AP) — A federal judge Wednesday sentenced Jerry Harris, a former star of the Netflix documentary series “Cheer,” to 12 years in prison…

By JANET McCONNAUGHEY Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service says experts disagree strongly about whether…

SAN DIEGO (AP) — Federal officials say a 38-year-old California woman sentenced to a year in prison for embezzlement managed to avoid being held…

By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN Associated Press ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Virgin Galactic is partnering with a Boeing subsidiary to manufacture its next…

TYLER, Texas (AP) — A former East Texas chief deputy has pleaded guilty to violating a prisoner’s civil rights by using excessive force on…

By JEFF AMY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp says his main campaign committee raised $3.8 million in the two months ended…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Russia has agreed to continue humanitarian aid deliveries from Turkey to rebel-held…

CHICAGO (AP) — A grandson and nephew of Chicago’s two longest-serving mayors has been sentenced to four months in prison after being convicted of…

WASHINGTON (AP) — NASA said Wednesday that contact has been restored with its $32.7 million spacecraft headed to the moon to test out a lopsided…