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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…

By JOHN ANTCZAK Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Authorities in Los Angeles County say a woman and two dogs found dead on a path were struck by…

By KRISTEN GELINEAU Associated Press SYDNEY (AP) — There was a pivotal moment in Queen Pangke Tabora’s life that eclipsed all others: It was the…

By KRISTEN GELINEAU Associated Press SYDNEY (AP) — There was a pivotal moment in Queen Pangke Tabora’s life that eclipsed all others: It was the…

By ERIC TUCKER and FARNOUSH AMIRI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump hounded the Justice Department to pursue his false election fraud…

By ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON The Associated Press SURFSIDE, Fla. (AP) — People have compared the survival of a teenage boy in one of the deadliest…

By NICHOLAS RICCARDI Associated Press DENVER (AP) — A U.S. Senate candidate in Colorado, Joe O’Dea, is a rarity in the Republican Party as a…

By DEE-ANN DURBIN AP Business Writer DETROIT (AP) — High gas prices have Wallace Reid looking for a new career. Reid, who drives for Uber and Lyft…

BUENOS AIRES (AP) — An Argentinian judge has ruled that eight medical personnel involved in the care of soccer star Diego Maradona will face a…

By NICK PERRY Associated Press WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Police say a man wounded four people in a stabbing rampage in a New Zealand city…

By The Associated Press A Black former Tesla worker who said he was harassed and faced with “daily racist epithets,” including the “N-word,”…

By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — An associate of Rudy Giuliani who was convicted of campaign finance crimes at trial and later…

By CHRIS JACKSON, LEAH WILLINGHAM and BRUCE SCHREINER Associated Press LOGAN, W.Va. (AP) — A Vietnam-era helicopter showcased in action movies…

By GRANT PECK Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — Legal officials say ousted Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi has been transferred from a secret…

By GARY D. ROBERTSON Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Legislation that would have authorized sports betting across all of North Carolina has…

PANAMA CITY (AP) — Panama’s security minister says the number of migrants crossing the dangerous Darien Gap has grown substantially. Juan…

By ZEKE MILLER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration has started shipping testing kits for monkeypox to commercial…

By MICHAEL BALSAMO Associated Press MINEOLA, N.Y. (AP) — More than five decades after Diane Cusick’s lifeless body was discovered in the parking…

By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN Associated Press ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — The federal government has a responsibility to Native American tribes, Alaska…

By JAKE BLEIBERG Associated Press DALLAS (AP) — The Uvalde school district’s police chief has been put on leave following allegations that he…

By HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea’s military leaders have discussed assigning additional duties to…

By MATTHEW DALY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Facing stubbornly high gas prices that average about $5 a gallon nationwide, President Joe Biden…

By ALAN FRAM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The country has long endured a numbing succession of mass shootings at schools, places of worship…

By AMY FORLITI Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Federal prosecutors are asking a judge to give former Minneapolis Officer Derek Chauvin a…

By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — “MJ,” the hit-filled Broadway musical about the King of Pop, got a huge bump at the box…

PACIFIC GROVE, Calif. (AP) — A swimmer has been seriously injured in a shark attack on the central California coast. The attack occurred at…

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — A federal lawsuit is challenging a decades-old Missouri law that limits the extent to which volunteers can provide…

ATLANTA (AP) — Police say nearly $100,000 in cash was taken in a weekend burglary at the Atlanta home of former NBA player Vince Carter. Police…

By MOGOMOTSI MAGOME Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has received the final chapter of a report on an…

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — The family of a man who died in custody after being shot with a stun gun has filed a federal lawsuit against the city of…

By JIM SALTER Associated Press An attorney working as a senior investigator for the U.S. House committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection will…

By KEVIN McGILL Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The owner of seven Louisiana nursing homes whose residents suffered in squalid conditions after…

By FRANK JORDANS Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — The head of the European Space Agency says Russia’s invasion of Ukraine highlights the need…

By TERRY SPENCER Associated Press FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — The final phase of jury selection in the penalty trial of Florida school shooter…

By JULIE CARR SMYTH Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — This week’s gripping testimony to Congress about threats to local election officials…