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MEXICO CITY (AP) — Hurricane Blas is heading out to sea off Mexico’s southern Pacific coast, but Tropical Storm Celia formed off Central America.…

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — The Ukranian authorities have introduced a visa regime for Russian citizens. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Friday that…

By HARUKA NUGA Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — The head of the U.S. Marine Corps in the Pacific says his forces are committed to defending…

By CARA ANNA Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Tanzania’s government is accused of using violence against Maasai herders protesting efforts…

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A pilot crashed a small airplane into Lady Bird Lake in downtown Austin and was helped to shore by paddleboarders, officials…

ZEYNEP BILGINSOY and ABDULLAH AL-SHIHRI ISTANBUL (AP) — Turkey’s president says Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman will visit Ankara…

BEIJING (AP) — China is defending its tough “zero-COVID” policy after the U.S. ambassador said it is causing serious damage to the global…

JERUSALEM (AP) — A Palestinian reporter working for an Iranian news agency was briefly abducted, beaten and threatened by Palestinian gunmen. The…

By MIKE FEINSILBER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — For half a century, every major Washington scandal started with some form of this question:…

By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press ROME (AP) — One of Pope Francis’ proposed new cardinals has bowed out of accepting the honor because of his…

By CALVIN WOODWARD Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The wreckage of Watergate and Jan. 6 are a half-century apart yet rooted in the same ancient…

By SETH BORENSTEIN and CHRIS MEGERIAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Equating the oil and gas industry to Big Tobacco, United Nations…

By JUSTIN SPIKE Associated Press BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Hungary has placed price caps on fuel and some food and imposed special taxes on…

By JIM GOMEZ Associated Press MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Philippine security officials say two long-wanted Abu Sayyaf militant commanders accused…

By CIARÁN GILES Associated Press MADRID (AP) — Politicians and experts are meeting in Madrid to mark World Day to Combat Desertification and…

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australia’s new foreign minister has visited the Solomon Islands to assure the South…

By HUIZHONG WU Associated Press TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Angry bank customers who traveled to a city in central China to retrieve their savings from…

By KEN MORITSUGU Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — Hong Kong is preparing to introduce new middle school textbooks that will deny the Chinese…

By DAVID KEYTON, JOHN LEICESTER and EFREM LUKATSKY Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — The European Union’s executive arm recommended putting…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s Supreme Court has ruled that the government is not liable for the 2011 Fukushima nuclear…

By GERALD IMRAY Associated Press CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — South African President Cyril Ramaphosa could face criminal charges and is already…

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Hundreds of Malaysian lawyers have staged a protest to condemn the anti-graft agency’s probe of a senior judge who…

By OMER FAROOQ and ASHOK SHARMA Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — At least one person has been killed as angry young people in parts of India…

By FRANK JORDANS Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — A blanket of hot air stretching from the Mediterranean to the North Sea is bringing much of Western…

BANGKOK (AP) — Thailand is lifting a pre-arrival registration requirement for foreign visitors that was seen as onerous and a drag on the recovery…

TOKYO (AP) — Japanese low-cost carrier Zipair is changing the design on its tail from the letter “Z,” which resembles the symbol on Russian…

JERUSALEM (AP) — The Al Jazeera news network has published an image of the bullet that it says killed its veteran reporter Shireen Abu Akleh. She…

By PAOLO SANTALUCIA Associated Press BORETTO, Italy (AP) — Water is so low in large stretches of Italy’s largest river that local residents…

By DAMIAN J. TROISE and STAN CHOE AP Business Writers NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks ended another bumpy day mostly higher on Wall Street but still wound…

By JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press GENEVA (AP) — World Trade Organization members have reached a string of deals and commitments aimed to limit…

By JAY REEVES and KIM CHANDLER Associated Press VESTAVIA HILLS, Ala. (AP) — The 70-year-old visitor had previously attended some services at St.…

By DAVID RISING and KEN MORITSUGU Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — Beijing launched a new-generation aircraft carrier Friday, the first such ship to…

By MATTHEW BROWN and AMY BETH HANSON Associated Press RED LODGE, Mont. (AP) — As punishing floods tore through Yellowstone National Park and…

By AUDREY McAVOY Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — A Russian-owned superyacht seized by the United States has arrived in Honolulu Harbor flying an…

By ALAN SUDERMAN and BEN FOX Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Teachers unable to get paychecks. Tax and customs systems paralyzed. Health…

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australia’s new Prime Minister Anthony Albanese says he will take advice on whether to…

PANAMA CITY (AP) — A Panamanian judge has acquited 39 people charged in the Panama Papers case, including the key figures,  Jurgen Mossack and…

By KYLE HIGHTOWER AP Sports Writer BOSTON (AP) — The Golden State Warriors are NBA champions once again, topping the Boston Celtics 103-90 on…

By BRUCE SCHREINER Associated Press LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron has won former President Donald’s Trump’s…

UVALDE, Texas (AP) — The chairman of a special state House committee taking testimony on the Uvalde school shooting says it’s uncertain…

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli forces have shot dead three Palestinians and wounded at least eight others during a military operation in the occupied…

FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — A former North Texas police officer has been indicted on a murder count in the fatal shooting of a suspect after a…

By ZEKE MILLER and WILL WEISSERT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — In an abrupt change of course, the White House is now declining to comment on…

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden has signed a bill that will give around-the-clock security protection to the families of Supreme Court…

By RONALD BLUM AP Sports Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The 16 cities of the first World Cup spread across three nations were revealed, and FIFA President…

By DAVID KOENIG AP Airlines Writer Airlines are canceling more than 1,500 flights across the U.S. in one of the worst days yet in the summer travel…

CHICAGO (AP) — A white former Chicago police officer captured on video struggling with a Black woman who was walking her dog in along a Lake…

By WILSON RING Associated Press BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) — Vermont transportation officials say the long-awaited return of passenger rail service to…

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A 42-year-old Nebraska man has pleaded guilty to making several threats against an election official in Colorado. Federal…

By MARINA VILLENEUVE Associated Press ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — The final Democratic debate in the primary campaign for New York governor is over. The…

GULFPORT, Miss. (AP) — A Mississippi high school booster group has launched what a school safety group calls a “highly inappropriate”…

TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — A California man accused of breaking into thousands of Apple iCloud accounts and stealing private photos and videos of nude…

PARIS (AP) — French senators demanded Thursday that the state recognize responsibility and identify guilty parties behind the chaos that marred the…

BUENOS AIRES (AP) — Israel is praising Argentina for holding a Venezuelan plane that included Iranian crew, saying the flight shows Tehran is…

By JOSH FUNK Associated Press OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A bird flu outbreak in the U.S. that led to the deaths of more than 40 million chickens and…

By LEANNE ITALIE Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Ripley’s Believe It or Not! on Thursday denied claims that Kim Kardashian’s wearing…

LAREDO, Texas (AP) — A recount is underway in a Texas primary race between Democratic U.S. Rep. Henry Cuellar and progressive challenger Jessica…

OROFINO, Idaho (AP) — Interior Secretary Deb Haaland on Thursday announced $9 million for 40 projects in Idaho and seven other Western states for…

THIBODAUX, La. (AP) — A Louisiana contractor has been arrested on video voyeurism charges after a camera was found in a bathroom vent at a home…

By JEFF AMY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Gov. Brian Kemp is endorsing Mike Collins in Georgia’s 10th Congressional District runoff. Kemp is…

By JAY REEVES Associated Press BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — The families of two military veterans from Alabama who are missing in Ukraine have joined…

By STEPHEN GROVES Associated Press SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — Abortion providers in some places where the procedure could be banned if the U.S.…

By BRUCE SCHREINER Associated Press FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — The Kentucky’s Supreme Court has issued a sharply divided ruling against the…

By BEN FOX Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Employees accused of misconduct at the Department of Homeland Security could face more stringent…

By JOSH BOAK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden said Thursday the American people are “really, really down” after a…

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (AP) — Officials have voted to suspend the business permit of a Tennessee nightclub near the scene of a mass shooting where…

By WILL WEISSERT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden signed legislation Thursday meant to make shipping goods across oceans…

By MARY CLARE JALONICK, ERIC TUCKER and KEVIN FREKING Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The House committee investigating the Capitol insurrection…

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — A South Dakota judge has ruled there’s no basis to keep sealed documents related to a child pornography investigation of…