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By GENE JOHNSON Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) — Amazon said Thursday it is providing $23 million to help minority-led organizations build or…

DAMACUS, Syria (AP) — A private company says the international airport in Syria’s capital of Damascus has resumed flights after nearly two weeks…

By NICOLE WINFIELD and ROB GILLIES Associated Press ROME (AP) — The Vatican has released the itinerary for Pope Francis’ July 24-30 visit to…

By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN and NOMAAN MERCHANT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The FBI says a U.S. Naval reservist charged with storming the U.S.…

By LOLITA C. BALDOR and MATTHEW LEE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States says it is sending another $450 million in military aid to…

WEST MEMPHIS, Ark. (AP) — An Arkansas judge won’t allow new genetic testing of crime scene evidence from the killing of three boys nearly 30…

By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — How does Rick Astley handle one of his songs being part of the biggest internet meme of all…

By MELISSA MURPHY AP Sports Writer NEW YORK (AP) — It’s the 50th anniversary of Title IX. Tennis great and champion for equality Billie Jean…

By JIM VERTUNO and JAMIE STENGLE Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Well before the sun came up Thursday, Jazmin Cazares sat on her sister’s…

Associated Press Amazon’s Alexa might soon replicate the voice of family members – even if they’re dead. The capability, unveiled at…

By MARCY GORDON AP Business Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal regulators have accused Harley-Davidson and Westinghouse of imposing illegal warranty…

By THOMAS ADAMSON AP Fashion Writer PARIS (AP) — He may have died in November, but Virgil Abloh lives on at Paris Fashion Week in a high-energy…

By DAVID A. LIEB and JIM SALTER Associated Press COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — The lawyer for the ex-wife of Missouri U.S. Senate candidate Eric Greitens…

WAUKESHA, Wis. (AP) — The second of two women who were sent to a state mental health facility after a 2014 stabbing attack on a sixth-grade…

By SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The former Wisconsin Supreme Court justice hired to investigate President Joe Biden’s…

By AARON BEARD AP Sports Writer The number of women competing at the highest level of college athletics continues to rise along with an increasing…

NEW YORK (AP) — A memoir by Chelsea Manning will come out this fall. The book is titled “README.txt,” and it’s scheduled for release Oct.…

LONDON (AP) — The European Medicines Agency says it is recommending the authorization of the coronavirus vaccine made by French pharmaceutical…

By COLLIN BINKLEY AP Education Writer The Biden administration proposed a dramatic overhaul of campus sexual assault rules on Thursday, acting to…

By ELLIOT SPAGAT Associated Press EAGLE PASS, Texas (AP) — The Border Patrol paroled more than 207,000 migrants who crossed from Mexico from August…

By ED WHITE Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — The state of Michigan has agreed to destroy more than 3 million dried blood spots taken from babies and…

BALTIMORE (AP) — A 17-year-old boy has pleaded guilty to first-degree murder in the fatal shooting of an Israeli man who was visiting Baltimore for…

By MATTHEW PERRONE AP Health Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal health officials on Thursday ordered Juul to pull its electronic cigarettes from the…

By JESSICA GRESKO and GARY D. ROBERTSON Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court is giving Republican legislative leaders in North…

By KIRSTEN GRIESHABER Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s foreign minister says the government has got more than 21,000 former local…

NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — Israel has dispatched two water-dropping aircraft to help battle a large wildfire that has scorched at least 10,000 acres of…

NEW YORK (AP) — The author of “Nomadland,” the basis for the Oscar-winning movie of the same name, is working on a book about abortion. Jessica…

BERLIN (AP) — Austria’s health minister says the country is scrapping a dormant coronavirus vaccine mandate, saying the measure risked polarizing…

PONTIAC, Mich. (AP) — A judge has postponed a murder trial until January in the case of a teenager accused of killing four fellow students and…

LONDON (AP) — British police on Thursday charged a man and a woman with conspiring to bring a child to the U.K. in order to harvest organs.…

By ISABEL DEBRE Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A sleek $156 million superyacht belonging to a sanctioned Russian oligarch and…

By ALICIA RANCILIO Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — James Burrows loves sitcoms, and he should. The 81-year-old has directed more than 1,000…

By AARON MORRISON Associated Press As a young man in Memphis, Tennessee, Robert Dabney Jr. wanted to blaze a path that could set his family up for a…

By SUZAN FRASER Associated Press ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkish media reports say Turkish authorities have detained five Iranian suspected of…

By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press ROME (AP) — One the most spectacular examples of ancient Roman baths, the Baths of Caracalla, has become more…

By MATT OTT AP Business Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Fewer Americans applied for jobless benefits last week as the U.S. job market remains robust…

By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer NEW YORK (AP) — After more than six decades of making bicycles soar, sending panicked swimmers to the shore and other…

LISBON, Portugal (AP) — Police in Portugal have found just over 8 metric tons (8.8 short tons) of cocaine concealed inside banana shipments from…

By MATTHEW DALY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House is launching a partnership with 11 East Coast governors to boost the growing…

By GRANT PECK Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — Myanmar’s military has confirmed that ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi has been moved to a prison…

By KRISHAN FRANCIS and BHARATHA MALLAWARACHI Associated Press COLOMB0, Sri Lanka (AP) — Senior Indian officials are in Sri Lanka for talks on how…

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese says he will meet President Emmanuel Macron…

PERRYVILLE, Ark. (AP) — A man being booked into a central Arkansas jail on drug charges pulled out a gun and fatally shot a guard before someone…

BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Andrea Fuentes prevented a tragedy at the swimming world championships with her quick reaction. The United States coach…

By YURI KAGEYAMA Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — An American executive who resigned from Toyota after being arrested in Japan in 2015 on suspicion of…

PARIS (AP) — The chief of airline alliance Air France-KLM says it will take weeks or months to get new security staff in place to lighten pressure…

By YURI KAGEYAMA Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — A Japanese High Court has rejected an appeal by a former brokerage manager alleging on-the-job…

By JOHN LEICESTER and DAVID KEYTON Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine says Russia’s military has captured two villages in eastern…

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Norway’s central bank has raised its key policy interest rate from 0.75%  to 1.25%. In a statement on Thursday,…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Polls are open for two special elections in England that could deliver a new blow to scandal-tainted…

By MARIA CHENG AP Medical Writer LONDON (AP) — The World Health Organization convenes its emergency committee Thursday to consider if the spiraling…

BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanon’s president has begun consultations with members of parliamentary blocs to name a new prime minister following last…

By KRISHAN FRANCIS and ELAINE KURTENBACH Associated Press COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lanka’s prime minister says the island nation’s…

By SAMUEL PETREQUIN and MIKE CORDER Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union agreed Thursday to put Ukraine on a path toward EU…

By KELVIN CHAN and MIKE CORDER Associated Press LONDON (AP) — After two years of pandemic restrictions, travel demand is back, but airlines and…

By IGNATIUS SSUUNA and WANJOHI KABUKURU Associated Press KIGALI, Rwanda (AP) — Leaders of Commonwealth nations are calling for increased climate…

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Firefighting crews were battling a wind-driven wildfire that has blackened swaths of pine forest near a popular resort in…

By NASSER KARIMI Associated Press TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — A court in Iran has ordered the United States government to pay over $4 billion to the…

By QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA Associated Press BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraq’s Parliament has sworn in new lawmakers, replacing 73 legislators who resigned…

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — A U.N. expert says military-ruled Myanmar’s promise of free and fair elections next year is “preposterous.”…

By STEPHEN WHYNO AP Hockey Writer Anson Carter remembers watching in high school as some of his friends abandoned hockey for being “too…

By DASHA LITVINOVA and HARRIET MORRIS Associated Press TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Estonian Prime Minister Kaja Kallas has told The Associated Press…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Okinawa is marking the 77th anniversary of the end of one of the bloodiest battles of World War II.…

By JOCELYN GECKER Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The first week of school was supposed to mark a triumphant return to classrooms at San…

By EBRAHIM NOROOZI Associated Press GAYAN, Afghanistan (AP) — Villagers rushed to bury the dead Thursday and dug by hand through the rubble of…

BEIJING (AP) — Chinese President Xi Jinping has opened a meeting of leaders of major developing countries by saying the world should oppose…