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By BABA AHMED Associated Press BAMAKO, Mali (AP) — Two Red Cross employees have been killed in an ambush attack on their vehicle in western Mali.…

ST. LOUIS (AP) — Federal prosecutors say two current and one former St. Louis aldermen are facing charges accusing them of taking bribes and…

By MUNIR AHMED Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — A spokesman for the Pakistani Taliban says they have indefinitely extended a cease-fire with the…

By ZEKE MILLER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration said Thursday that children under 5 may be able to get their first…

By FATIMA HUSSEIN and TOM MURPHY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A stronger-than-expected economic recovery from the pandemic has pushed back…

By NICHOLAS K. GERANIOS and TED WARREN Associated Press RICHLAND, Wash. (AP) — Washington Gov. Jay Inslee, who has recently criticized the slow…

By MIKE STOBBE AP Medical Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Researchers are drawing attention to a rise in poisonings in children involving the sleep aid…

By The Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Gianandrea Noseda’s contract as music director of the National Symphony Orchestra has been extended by…

By TOM DAVIES Associated Press INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — A former Mike Pence aide seeking to oust Indiana’s Republican secretary of state is fending…

By BOB CHRISTIE Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — An Arizona woman accused of illegally collecting early ballots during the 2020 primary election has…

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The CMA Fest is prohibiting Confederate flag imagery at its four-day country music festival. The Country Music Association…

By LEANNE ITALIE AP Entertainment Writer After an explosive six-week libel trial followed by millions on social media and live TV, Johnny Depp and…

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is forecasting an average oxygen-depleted “dead zone” in the Gulf of…

NEW YORK (AP) — This year’s winner of the International Booker Prize, Geetanjali Shree’s novel “Tomb of Sand,” will be released in the U.S.…

By BOUBACAR DIALLO Associated Press CONAKRY, Guinea (AP) — Opposition leaders say one person was killed in Guinea’s capital during protests…

JERUSALEM (AP) — The director of the U.N.’s atomic watchdog has arrived in Israel and is set to hold talks with top officials. Thursday’s…

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Puerto Rico’s water and sewer company has been hit by a federal lawsuit demanding that it provide services to…

By FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Treasury Department is targeting yachts, aircrafts, the firms that manage them, Kremlin…

By FREIDA FRISARO Associated Press FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — The remains of a Florida teenager who went missing nearly 50 years ago have been…

By JAY REEVES and JAKE BLEIBERG Associated Press UVALDE, Texas (AP) — The commander overseeing police during a shooting at an elementary school in…

By SAMUEL PETREQUIN Associated Prses BRUSSELS (AP) — The head of the Russian Orthodox Church has been removed from the latest round of European…

GASTONIA, N.C. (AP) — Police in North Carolina say an 8-year-old boy took off in his mother’s SUV and drove for miles with an infant sibling in…

By BRUCE SCHREINER Associated Press LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Kentucky Democrat Charles Booker appears on camera with a noose around his neck to…

By MARC LEVY Associated Press HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — If Republican Doug Mastriano is elected governor of Pennsylvania, the state could become a…

By MICHAEL PHILLIS and SUMAN NAISHADHAM Associated Press ST. LOUIS (AP) — The Environmental Protection Agency has proposed handing more power to…

By STEPHEN GROVES and ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON Associated Press UVALDE, Texas (AP) — Bullet fragments lodged in the children’s arms and legs.…

By FARNOUSH AMIRI and MARC LEVY Associated Press HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Pennsylvania’s Republican nominee for governor, Doug Mastriano, has…

DAYTON, Ohio (AP) — A county jail inmate receiving treatment at an Ohio hospital shot and killed a security guard, pointed the weapon at others and…

KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) — Prosecutors say a police officer in Kansas who fatally shot a former police detective during a scuffle will not be charged…

UVALDE, Texas (AP) — One girl made other people smile. Another was a creative child who loved mermaids, unicorns and the color purple. A third…

By CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — The World Health Organization’s Africa office says the continent’s 54 countries…

By LAURAN NEERGAARD AP Medical Writer GAITHERSBURG, Md. (AP) — Americans may soon get a new COVID-19 vaccine option — shots made with a more…

Associated Press Amazon said Thursday it will shut down its digital Kindle bookstores in China and stop selling the device to retailers in the…

By LISA RATHKE Associated Press BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) — A Colorado man pleaded not guilty Thursday in federal court in Vermont to kidnapping a man…

By MARCOS ALEMAN and CHRISTOPHER SHERMAN Associated Press LA LIMONERA, El Salvador (AP) — Over the past 10 weeks, El Salvador’s security forces…

MILFORD, Conn. (AP) — A Connecticut state trooper who killed a 19-year-old man while firing seven gunshots into the driver’s window of a stolen…

DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Syrian state TV says militants have attacked a civilian bus in eastern Syria, killing three people and wounding 21. The TV…

By MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A New York appeals court on Thursday upheld Harvey Weinstein’s rape conviction and 23-year…

By FREIDA FRISARO Assocaited Press MIAMI (AP) — A loggerhead turtle whose left fin was destroyed in a shark attack is rehabbing at Zoo…

By MOGOMOTSI MAGOME Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — A South African court is to rule on efforts to stop British oil giant Shell from…

NEW YORK (AP) — “This is Us” star Chrissy Metz is teaming with partner Bradley Collins on a children’s book about parenting and religious…

By DOUG FEINBERG AP Basketball Writer Brittney Griner can’t play with her WNBA colleagues. She can’t call them, either. But she can write. In one…

BOSTON (AP) — Two manholes exploded in downtown Boston on Thursday morning, shattering a window, forcing the evacuation of two buildings and…

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Authorities in Virginia say search teams have found the body of one of two women missing for days after a dozen people on…

By SALLY HO AND GARANCE BURKE Associated Press Child welfare officials in Oregon will stop using an algorithm to help decide which families are…

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — The European Commission chief says the disbursement of pandemic recovery funds to Poland depends on the government’s…

By ED WHITE Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — A judge has declined to put a former Detroit police chief on the Republican ballot for Michigan…

By OLEKSANDR STASHEVSKYI and NATACHA PISARENKO Associated Press POTASHNYA, Ukraine (AP) — In 100 days of war in Ukraine, countless lives have been…

By CAROLYN THOMPSON Associated Press BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — The white man charged with carrying out a racist mass shooting that killed 10 people at a…

By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — Since last week’s shooting in Uvalde, Texas, one Associated Press writer has, like so many…

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran’s health minister says the country has marked its first day after more than two years without a single COVID-19 death.…

BOSTON (AP) — The Boston subway system is experiencing service disruptions after a crash the night before that sent four employees of the…

By PAUL WISEMAN and MAE ANDERSON AP Business Writers WASHINGTON (AP) — 2022 is expected to be the best summer job market for teens in 15 years.…

By LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer Long before Quentin Tarantino and Roger Avary won an Oscar for co-writing “Pulp Fiction,” they were just a couple…

By BOBBY CAINA CALVAN and LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Michael Avenatti was sentenced Thursday to four years in prison for…

By BEN NUCKOLS Associated Press OXON HILL, Md. (AP) — A speller has been reinstated into the Scripps National Spelling Bee field after successfully…

PRAGUE (AP) — A massive fire in a nursing home for Alzheimer patients in the Czech Republic has left two people dead and injured more than 50…

By MATT OTT AP Business Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Fewer Americans applied for jobless aid last week with the number of Americans collecting…

By DEEPA BHARATH of The Associated Press and ADELLE BANKS of Religion News Service Associated Press About two years ago, when coronavirus cases began…

By LLAZAR SEMINI Associated Press TIRANA, Albania (AP) — An official funeral ceremony has been held in Albania for former President Bujar Nishani,…

By SEAN MURPHY, JILL BLEED and KATHLEEN FOODY Associated Press A gunman who killed his surgeon and three other people at a Tulsa medical office…

MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Philippine troops have killed a suspected militant and captured another after a brief gunbattle with rebels aligned with…

By EMILY WANG FUJIYAMA Associated Press SHANGHAI (AP) — Shanghai’s landmark old city garden has sprung back to life as residents took…

By JESSICA GRESKO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — John Hinckley Jr., who shot President Ronald Reagan in 1981, is saying thank you to the people…

Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The OPEC oil cartel and allied producing countries including Russia will raise production by 648,000 barrels per day…

BERLIN (AP) — German lawmakers say the country’s parliament will set up a commission of inquiry into last year’s evacuation mission from…

By NOHA ELHENNAWY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — The United Nations says that Yemen’s warring parties have agreed to renew a nationwide truce for…

By JOHN LEICESTER and ELENA BECATOROS Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian forces in the country’s east are locked in a grinding…

NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — Cypriot police say a 24 year-old Syrian man believed to be among 43 other Syrian migrants who reached Cyprus aboard two…

BERLIN (AP) — Authorities in Bavaria say they’re releasing all previously unpublished files on the attack at the 1972 Munich Olympics…