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BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s highest court has backed a far-right party’s complaint against comments by former Chancellor Angela Merkel that the…

By SAMUEL PETREQUIN Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union is launching legal action against the U.K. in response to unilateral moves…

By JIM HEINTZ Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — Russia’s showpiece investment gathering begins Wednesday, and organizers are telling foreign…

By SAMY MAGDY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — Egypt, Israel and the European Union have signed a deal to increase liquified natural gas sales to EU…

By The Associated Press The European Central Bank has vowed to come up with a new, unspecified market backstop that could be used to buffer some…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The British government vowed Wednesday to organize more flights to deport asylum-seekers from around…

BEIJING (AP) — Heavy rain in China has claimed six lives this week and forced the evacuation of some 200,000 people. Five people died in…

GENEVA (AP) — Twenty-five people have been treated for burns after walking on hot coal in northern Switzerland, according to police. Emergency…

GENEVA (AP) — Switzerland has reopened its airspace after a brief closure for safety reasons because of an unspecified “technical malfunction.”…

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Seven earthquakes struck off Iran’s southern Kish Island on Wednesday, rattling Dubai and other areas across…

By CARA ANNA Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — A new study has found that Facebook has failed to catch Islamic State group and al-Shabab…

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — A campaign strategist says the previous Australian government’s stance against a more…

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Asian shares advanced Thursday after the Federal Reserve raised its key interest rate by…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japan and Australia’s defense ministers have vowed to step up their ties to support democratic…

NEW DELHI (AP) — U.S. media giant Walt Disney and India’s Reliance Industries have won the broadcasting rights for the Indian Premier League for…

By COLLIN BINKLEY Associated Press Ask a man about gender equality, and you’re likely to hear the U.S. has made great strides in the 50 years since…

By CARLA K. JOHNSON AP Medical Writer The number and rate of U.S. abortions increased from 2017 to 2020 after a long decline, according to figures…

By MATTHEW BROWN and LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — Devastating floodwaters that wiped out miles of roads and hundreds…

By CLAIRE RUSH Associated Press/Report for America PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Oregon health officials say the impacts of climate change, including more…

MEXICO CITYit (AP) — The second tropical storm of the eastern Pacific season is forecast to become a hurricane Wednesday off southern Mexico,…

By STEFANIE DAZIO and CHRISTOPHER WEBER Associated Press EL MONTE, Calif. (AP) — Officials have identified the two police officers who were killed…

By BRIAN SLODYSKO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump notched a significant victory in South Carolina, where his preferred candidate…

By DEEPA BHARATH and PETER SMITH Associated Press ANAHEIM, California (AP) — Bart Barber is a staunch Southern Baptist conservative who would…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — The second tropical storm of the eastern Pacific season has formed off southern Mexico, though forecasters say it is unlikely to…

CHICAGO (AP) — Charges of official misconduct and aggravated battery have been filed against a white former Chicago police officer captured on…

YOUNTVILLE, Calif. (AP) — California officials have agreed to pay $51 million to settle lawsuits against the state stemming from a shooting at a…

By FABIANO MAISONNAVE Associated Press ATALAIA DO NORTE, Brazil (AP) — Brazil’s federal police said Tuesday they arrested a second suspect in…

CHICAGO (AP) — Frank Schwindel’s eephus pitch last weekend attracted the attention of Stephen Colbert. The Chicago Cubs first baseman made his…

By MORGAN LEE Associated Press SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — Votes in a New Mexico community are at risk of not counting after a Republican-led commission…

By ADAM BEAM Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Democrats are moving quickly to make sure abortions are a constitutional right in…

By JEFFREY COLLINS Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A prosecutor in South Carolina has decided not to charge two police officers in the fatal…

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — The Center for Biological Diversity has sued the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, accusing it of not protecting an…

By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Prosecutors have urged a federal judge to convict a Confederate flag-toting man and his son…

CHINO HILLS, Calif. (AP) — A man accused of torturing, raping and disfiguring a woman who was held captive in his Southern California home for six…

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A federal appeals court has ruled that a North Carolina charter school violated female students’ constitutional rights by…

By JANIE McCAULEY AP Sports Writer SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — When Splash Brothers Stephen Curry and Klay Thompson and emotional, do-everything teammate…

By BRUCE SCHREINER Associated Press FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Kentucky’s Republican attorney general has gone to court over the state’s new…

By NICHOLAS PAPHITIS Associated Press ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis is seeking to reassure his compatriots over…

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Puerto Rico’s governor has signed a measure suspending taxes on gasoline and diesel for 45 days amid the worldwide…

By DAVID BAUDER AP Media Writer NEW YORK (AP) — ABC took home the crown as television’s top-rated network last week behind two games of the…

By ALAN FRAM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell announced his support Tuesday for his chamber’s…

By BOB CHRISTIE Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — The Arizona Supreme Court says state courts can keep juror identities secret even if they provide…

By MATT SEDENSKY AP National Writer COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — For tens of millions of Americans who see abortion as wrong, it’s gone this way for a…

ROUND LAKE BEACH, Ill. (AP) — Police say a north suburban Chicago man has been charged with three counts of first-degree murder in the drowning…

By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer NEW YORK (AP) — “Top Gun: Maverick” director Joseph Kosinski again had a plane in the air, only this time Chris…

By MIKE SCHNEIDER Associated Press A U.S. House committee has approved legislation that would put voluntary questions about sexual orientation and…

EATONTON, Ga. (AP) — A Georgia prisoner has been found guilty of murder in the killings of two guards during an escape from a prison bus five years…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A reality show inspired by Netflix’s hit series “Squid Game” is coming to the streaming service, but with less dire…

By JULIE WALKER and TED SHAFFREY Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — UPS has unveiled a battery-powered, four-wheeled cycle to more efficiently haul…

UNION GROVE, Wis. (AP) — Authorities say multiple people have been killed in a fiery head-on crash involving two semi-tractor trailers in…

Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — New York’s highest court has rejected former President Donald Trump’s last-ditch effort to avoid testifying in…

A Cuban man charged in a $4.2 million Medicare fraud scheme is being held as a flight risk after officials said he tried to flee the U.S. on a Jet…

By SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Republican Party is launching a nine-city “election integrity” tour hitting…

By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A former CIA software engineer charged with causing the biggest theft of classified…

MOSCOW (AP) — WNBA star Brittney Griner will remain in Russian custody through at least July 2, Russian state-run news agency Tass reported…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — A shootout between police and gunmen in central Mexico has left ten suspects dead and four wounded. Prosecutors in the State of…

DUNCANVILLE, Texas (AP) — Police have revealed the identity of the man with a handgun they fatally shot at a Dallas-area gymnasium where about 150…

By ANDREA RODRÍGUEZ Associated Press HAVANA (AP) — Hundreds of Baptists have been meeting at an open-air amphitheater in Havana on recent Sundays.…

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran appears to be readying for a space launch as satellite images showed a…

By MATT OTT AP Business Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Fisher-Price and U.S. product safety regulators are telling parents not to let their infants fall…

By TERESA M. WALKER AP Sports Writer KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Some of the giants of women’s basketball say if not for Title IX, doors would not…

By CURT ANDERSON Associated Press ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — A synagogue claims in a lawsuit that a new Florida law prohibiting abortion after 15…

By TOM KRISHER AP Auto Writer DETROIT (AP) — The government plans soon to release data on collisions involving vehicles with autonomous or…

By The The Associated Press Global superstars BTS said they are taking time to focus on solo projects, but the company behind the groundbreaking…

By HOWARD FENDRICH AP Tennis Writer The U.S. Open will allow tennis players from Russia and Belarus to compete this year despite the ongoing war in…

By KATHLEEN FOODY and CLAIRE SAVAGE Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — A dangerous heat wave hit much of the Midwest and South on Tuesday, with…

By DARLENE SUPERVILLE and JOSH BOAK Associated Press PHILADELPHIA (AP) — President Joe Biden has told the largest federation of labor unions that…

By MICHAEL HILL Associated Press Recently uncovered court documents from 1828 related to noted abolitionist Sojourner Truth will be on display after…

By FARAI MUTSAKA Associated Press HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — A Zimbabwean court on Tuesday convicted a journalist on charges of breaking the…

By JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press GENEVA (AP) — The World Health Organization will convene its emergency committee to determine if the monkeypox…

By BRITTANY PETERSON and JOHN FLESHER Associated Press PAGE, Ariz. (AP) — A key fish that has dwelt in the Colorado River since ancient times, and…

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — The City Council in Nebraska’s capital city has rescinded an anti-discrimination measure that extended protections to sexual…

By BASSEM MROUE Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Israel has escalated its years-long campaign of airstrikes in Syria with strikes five days ago that…

By FARAI MUTSAKA Associated Press HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — The discovery of the dismembered body of an opposition activist who had been missing is…

QUITO, Ecuador (AP) — Authorities in Ecuador have arrested the leader of a national Indigenous group, alleging that he was responsible for violence…