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By IGNATIUS SSUUNA Associated Press KIGALI, Rwanda (AP) — The African nations of Gabon and Togo have been admitted into the Commonwealth group of…

By NICOLE WINFIELD and LUCA BRUNO Associated Press MILAN (AP) — The mayor of Milan has signed an ordinance turning off public decorative fountains…

KISSIMMEE, Fla. (AP) — Residents at a motel along a tourist strip not far from Walt Disney World that was used as the setting for the 2017 film…

By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Seven women who say Ghislaine Maxwell helped Jeffrey Epstein steal the innocence of their…

By JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — Megan Kau takes occasional weeklong hunting trips to the Hawaiian island of Lanai,…

By SAM METZ Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Mitt Romney isn’t up for reelection this year. But Trump-aligned Republicans hostile…

BOLINGBROOK, Ill. (AP) — One person has been killed and two others wounded in a shooting at an automotive interior products warehouse in suburban…

By SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin’s Democratic Gov. Tony Evers hopes to translate anger over the U.S. Supreme…

CHICAGO (AP) — A 5-month-old girl was shot to death while in the rear of a car in a neighborhood on Chicago’s South Side. The infant, who was…

SAN ANGELO, Texas (AP) — The last victim of the mass school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, is being laid to rest. A funeral is being held Saturday for…

By SEAN MURPHY Associated Press OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — U.S. Sen. James Lankford of Oklahoma testified as part of a civil case into an alleged sexual…

By KIRSTEN GRIESHABER Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — The mayor of Ukraine’s capital has warned that an imposter is posing as him and…

By MARK SHERMAN and JESSICA GRESKO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court’s sweeping rulings on guns and abortion sent an…

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — The European Union and Iran say they have agreed to resume negotiations in Vienna in the coming days over Tehran’s tattered…

By LAURAN NEERGAARD AP Medical Writer Pfizer announced Saturday that tweaking its COVID-19 vaccine to better target the omicron variant is safe and…

By ZEKE MILLER and DARLENE SUPERVILLE Associated Press MUNICH (AP) — President Joe Biden is out to sustain the global alliance punishing Russia for…

By DAVID SHARP Associated Press AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — Maine Attorney General Aaron Frey says religious schools seeking to take advantage of a state…

By WILL WEISSERT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden on Saturday signed the most sweeping gun violence bill in decades, a…

By ANNE D’INNOCENZIO and HALELUYA HADERO AP Business Writers The Supreme Court’s decision to end the nation’s constitutional…

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iranian media are reporting that a magnitude 5.6 earthquake has struck a southern Iranian province, killing at least one person…

By HOLLY MEYER Associated Press Churches across the U.S. are tackling the big question of how to address homelessness in their communities with a…

By ASHIFA KASSAM and TARIK EL-BARAKAH Associated Press MADRID (AP) — Moroccan state media are reporting that the number of people who were killed…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is resisting calls from his Conservative Party to change…

By BOB CHRISTIE and JONATHAN J. COOPER Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Police fired tear gas to disperse abortion rights backers demonstrating…

By QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA Associated Press BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraq’s caretaker Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi’s office says he has arrived in…

By LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Up to 40,000 Army National Guard soldiers across the country — or about 13% of the force…

By SAMY MAGDY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi of Egypt was holding talks with Qatar’s emir, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad…

By DAVID KEYTON and JOHN LEICESTER Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian forces were seeking to swallow up the last remaining Ukrainian…

By JULHAS ALAM Associated Press DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — Bangladesh’s Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has celebrated the opening of the country’s…

By JAN M. OLSEN Associated Press COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Denmark’s Queen Margrethe has opened a new museum that tells the story of the…

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — The heavily armed men appeared around the small farming village in Ethiopia’s Oromia region, frightening residents already…

JERUSALEM (AP) — Palestinian officials say a 16-year-old youth has been killed by Israeli gunfire in the occupied West Bank. The Israeli military…

By EBRAHIM NOROOZI Associated Press GAYAN, Afghanistan (AP) — Afghanistan’s deadly earthquake this week struck one of the poorest corners of a…

By AYA BATRAWY Associated Press Rising food costs. Soaring fuel bills. Wages that are not keeping pace. Inflation is plundering people’s…

By LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Up to 40,000 Army National Guard soldiers across the country — or about 13% of the force…

By STEVE PEOPLES and MIKE CATALINI Associated Press YARDLEY, Pa. (AP) — The shock quickly turned to sadness for Victoria Lowe. The 37-year-old…

By MARIA SANMINIATELLI and KARL RITTER Associated Press OSLO, Norway (AP) — A gunman opened fire in Oslo’s nightlife district early Saturday,…

By JOE McDONALD Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — The Chinese government says President Xi Jinping will participate in next week’s celebrations of…

By MAURICIO SAVARESE AP Sports Writer SAO PAULO (AP) — Former Brazil and Sao Paulo midfielder Richarlyson says he is bisexual. He is the first…

By BETH HARRIS Associated Press PASADENA, Calif. (AP) — Mishael Morgan of “The Young and the Restless” won as lead drama actress, becoming the…

By MICHAEL R. BLOOD AP Political Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Rep. David Valadao has advanced to a November runoff in a Democratic-tilting district in…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Donors have pledged about $160 million for the U.N. agency helping Palestinian refugees.…

By GISELA SALOMON and DÉBORA REY MIAMI (AP) — A former Argentine navy officer goes on trial Monday in Miami for his alleged role in a 1972…

By MICHAEL LIEDTKE AP Technology Writer SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — The fate of hard-nosed technology executive Ramesh “Sunny” Balwani is now in…

By ANNE M. PETERSON AP Sports Writer U.S. national soccer team star Megan Rapinoe expressed her anger Friday over the Supreme Court’s decision…

By DAVID FISCHER Associated Press The FBI raided a Florida art museum on Friday and seized more than two dozen paintings attributed to artist…

BATON ROUGE (AP) — Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards has tested positive for COVID-19. A news release from the governor’s office disclosed the…

By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A U.S. Army private from Kentucky has pleaded guilty to charges that he plotted to kill…

By SETH BORENSTEIN AP Science Writer NASA’s plan to explore a strange metal asteroid is on hold. The space agency was late delivering its own…

ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) — The judge in the Johnny Depp-Amber Heard defamation trial has made a jury’s multimillion-dollar award official. Judge…

By DAVID SHARP and PATRICK WHITTLE Associated Press PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Sen. Susan Collins was blasted Friday for the overturning of Roe v.…

By HALEY BARKER Religion News Service (RNS) — On Tuesday (June 21), the Je Khenpo, the senior Buddhist authority in Bhutan, began ordaining a group…

By LISA RATHKE Associated Press Congress passed a bill Friday that aims to keep up the expanded, pandemic-era distribution of free meals for all…

LOGAN, W.Va. (AP) — A federal agency investigating a helicopter crash in West Virginia this week says the flight during an annual reunion for…

By MARK PRATT Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — A Massachusetts couple whose prematurely-born baby girl died less than two weeks after she was…

By CLAIRE RUSH and ADAM BEAM Associated Press PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Democratic leaders across the nation vowed Friday to help women who travel to…