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By MARK SHERMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Curbing abortion rights and expanding the right to be armed in public are long-sought goals of…

JOSHUA TREE NATIONAL PARK, Calif. (AP) — A popular hiking trail to an oasis in Joshua Tree National Park has been temporarily closed so bighorn…

By THOMAS BEAUMONT and JILL COLVIN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The public hearings of the House committee investigating the insurrection pose…

By BRENDAN FARRINGTON Associated Press TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Three Florida police officers are charged with manslaughter in the death of a man…

By FARNOUSH AMIRI and LISA MASCARO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The son of Ruth Whitfield, an 86-year-old woman killed when a gunman opened…

By LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer The widow and son of the man who wrote the 1983 article that inspired the original “Top Gun” are suing Paramount…

By LORNE COOK Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen says Poland will get no money from an EU pandemic…

By HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Oprah Winfrey has chosen 19-year-old Leila Mottley’s “Nightcrawling,” a debut novel…

By MARK PRATT Associated Press A musician who wants to make classical music more accessible to more diverse performers and audience members has been…

By SETH BORENSTEIN AP Science Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — A meteorologist who oversaw warnings and forecasts during one of the busiest spurts of…

BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s foreign minister is cutting short a three-country foreign trip after testing positive for COVID-19 in Pakistan. Annalena…

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — The Bank of Jamaica is preparing to issue a nationwide digital currency for the first time following recent approval…

DERMOTT, Ark. (AP) — Five people were killed and five others injured after a large truck collided with a van belonging to a school serving disabled…

By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis has announced the first appointments under his newly reformed Vatican…

By CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press ABUJA. Nigeria (AP) — Thirty-eight persons have been confirmed dead after the attack on a church in southwestern…

UVALDE, Texas (AP) — Xavier Lopez had a smile that lit up the room. His mother, Felicha Martinez, told the Washington Post that 10-year-old Xavier…

MOSCOW (AP) — Imprisoned Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny has lost an appeal contesting the decision by penitentiary officials to label him…

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Aerospace and defense company Raytheon Technologies says it plans to establish a global headquarters in Arlington, Virginia.…

By ROB HARRIS AP Sports Writer ST. ALBANS, England (AP) — Graeme McDowell accepts it is “incredibly polarizing” to join the Saudi-funded…

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Sweden’s justice minister has narrowly survived a no confidence vote in parliament over surging crime. Tuesday’s…

By MICHELLE L. PRICE Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Two of New York’s longest-serving members of Congress have turned from allies to rivals…

MADRID (AP) — Spanish media report that former King Juan Carlos has postponed a second visit home since he established residence abroad after his…

By CIARÁN GILES Associated Press MADRID (AP) — Bars and restaurants in Spain will be obliged to offer “doggybags” free of charge to clients to…

By JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press GENEVA (AP) — Investigators commissioned by the U.N.’s top human rights body say tensions between Palestinians…

By SYLVIA HUI Associated Press LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Boris Johnson may have survived a no-confidence vote, but his grip on power is…

By PAUL WISEMAN AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The World Bank has sharply downgraded its outlook for the global economy, pointing to…

By THALIA BEATY and GLENN GAMBOA Associated Press Gun control and gun violence intervention advocates hope the mass shootings in Uvalde, Texas, and…

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — A theater in Ukraine’s capital has reopened over for the first time since Russian forces invaded the country, and tickets…

By ERIC TUCKER Associated Press ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) — An American woman who prosecutors say led an all-female battalion of Islamic State militants…

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Emergency services used a sonar-equipped boat Tuesday in the hunt for the wreckage of a small airplane that crashed…

By BEN FOX Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A looming Supreme Court decision on abortion, an increase of migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border and…

BERLIN (AP) — Police say two people have been fatally shot at a supermarket in central Germany. There were few immediate details of the incident…

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Danish authorities have charged a 30-year-old British seaman with negligent manslaughter over a fatal cargo ship…

By COLLEEN BARRY Associated Press MILAN (AP) — Italian agents have confiscated 4.3 tons of cocaine with a street value of nearly a quarter-billion…

By TOM KRISHER AP Auto Writer DETROIT (AP) — Federal investigators say Goodyear knew that some of its recreational vehicle tires could fail and…

By DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Boris Johnson survived a confidence vote Monday night but saw his authority…

PARIS (AP) — Health workers protested on Tuesday around France to demand more hiring and better salaries in public hospitals. Years of cost cuts…

By KELVIN CHAN AP Business Writer LONDON (AP) — Forget rummaging through the junk drawer. Soon, Europeans will only need to reach for one cable to…

MILAN (AP) — Authorities in the northwestern Italian port city of Genoa are executing arrest warrants on 14 Pakistani citizens linked to a man who…

By CARLA K. JOHNSON AP Medical Writer Some cancer patients can safely skip radiation or chemotherapy after surgery. That’s according to two new…

By JOSEPH WILSON Associated Press BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Spain’s National Court says that a Spanish judge will travel to Israel to seek…

By BASSEM MROUE Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — The U.S.-backed and Kurdish-led forces in northern Syria say they will turn to the government in…

By LEAH WILLINGHAM Associated Press CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — The U.S. Treasury Department is sending more than half a billion dollars to expand…

By ED DAVEY Associated Press The trade group representing the cruise ship industry unsuccessfully pushed international authorities to water down new…

BERLIN (AP) — German prosecutors said Tuesday they are investigating three employees of rail company Deutsche Bahn on suspicion of negligent…

BERLIN (AP) — A Catholic diocese in Germany says a former priest has been convicted in a church trial of sexually abusing a minor over several…

By DAVID RISING and SOPHENG CHEANG Associated Press PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — Cambodian and Chinese officials will break ground this week on the…

By NICK PERRY Associated Press WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — The United States won a legal battle on Tuesday to seize a Russian-owned superyacht…

By FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Wide-ranging bipartisan legislation unveiled Tuesday would regulate cryptocurrencies and other…

By ACHMAD IBRAHIM and EDNA TARIGAN Associated Press JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — A middle-rank Indonesian army officer is being stripped of his…

By SAMUEL PETREQUIN Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — Environmental groups have started legal action against the European Commission to challenge…

By AMY TAXIN, CHRIS MEGERIAN and JOSHUA GOODMAN Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris says the Biden…

By NINIEK KARMINI Associated Press JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has visited an eastern Indonesia area with…

By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Vatican has long defended its World War II-era pope, Pius XII, against criticism that…

BANGKOK (AP) — Human Rights Watch says 59 ethnic Rohingya left on a Thai island after a dangerous boat journey from Bangladesh should be given the…

By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer BANGKOK (AP) — Shares were mostly higher in Asia on Wednesday after U.S. stocks rallied on heavy buying of…

By MARY CLARE JALONICK and MICHAEL BALSAMO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The House panel investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S.…

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Nobuyuki Idei, who led Japan’s Sony from 1998 through 2005 and steered its growth in the digital…

By KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — The United States and its Asian allies flew dozens of fighter jets over waters…

By JANIE HAR Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — San Francisco residents voted overwhelmingly to recall progressive District Attorney Chesa…

By DON THOMPSON Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California’s Democratic attorney general advanced to the November general election and…

By MORGAN LEE Associated Press SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — Mark Ronchetti has won the Republican primary for governor to challenge incumbent Democratic…

By MICHAEL R. BLOOD AP Political Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Democratic U.S. Rep. Karen Bass and billionaire developer Rick Caruso breezed past a…

By MICHAEL R. BLOOD AP Political Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — U.S. House battles took shape in heavily Democratic California that could tip the…

By THOMAS BEAUMONT Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A retired Navy admiral, Democrat Mike Franken, will challenge Republican Sen. Chuck…

By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER Associated Press More than 800 people across the U.S. have been charged in the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol, which left…

By FARNOUSH AMIRI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Nearly a year since its inception, the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the…

SINGAPORE (AP) — Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong has promoted his finance minister as his deputy as part of a succession plan. His office…

By JOHN LEICESTER and HANNA ARHIROVA Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia on Tuesday claimed to have taken control of 97% of one of the two…